The Flying Burrito Brothers News

Over the Fourth of July weekend at the Dakota, Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal performed several tunes from Cash's forthcoming "The List" , which Rosanne says she fashioned from a list of 100 essential country songs that her father, Johnny, gave to her when she was a teenager.

HuffPost Video Premiere : Third Eye Blind "Don't Believe A Word," plus The Jayhawks, Genesis, and Peanuts 1960's Collection "I wanted to create a video that actually represented Third Eye Blind," says Stephan Jenkins, lead singer and songwriter for the group .

While critics give The Jayhawks credit for helping invent alt-country, co-founder Mark Olson is quick to downplay the band's contributions to the rustic blend of rock and country that blossomed in the 1980s and '90s. "If people credit us with it, I think it was more that we happened to be working along the same lines" as other groups, Olson says.

Jay Farrar writes songs that are deceptively potent. His command of clear yet casual melodies that float along in an uncluttered sea of clean instrumentation could slip right through your ears on first listen.

Background/ Composition: Bentall comes from some fine musical pedigree and uses this DNA to his advantage.

Friday night's middle act at Chingawassa Days is not your Mama's rock band - or is it? Influenced by his mother's "hippie" ways, the co-founder of rock band, "the co-dependents" , Wade Crump grew up in Texas, listening to songs by the Flying Burrito Brothers, Commander Cody, ZZ Top, Willie Nelson, and Jon Prine.

East Tennessee-based quintet Wolf Creek will bring their eclectic blend of electric bluegrass, alt.

"Sin City," a Flying Burrito Brothers song picked as No. 9 in Thursday's list of Top 10 Las Vegas-themed tunes, was written about Los Angeles.

On May 19th, HBO will unleash the original soundtrack for their hit series, TRUE BLOOD .

Vern Gosdin, whose voice ranks with the most expressive instruments in country music history, died Tuesday night at a Nashville hospital at age 74.

Five years ago, it didn't look like Lucero was going to make it. As noted in the beginning of Dreaming in America , Aaron Goldman's 2005 documentary about the Memphis quartet, they were a "band without a label and without a single royalty after 20,000 albums sold.

You've been waiting, "True Blood" fans. The second season of HBO's award-winning vampire saga will make its debut on June 14.

Nathan Rabin is writing a two part series on the musical legacy of Graham Parsons here's a bit form Part I from the Onion's AV Club: Parsona TMs family fortune ensured that while his contemporaries struggled commercially, he had plenty of moneya 'to buy the heroin, cocaine, morphine, and alcohol that led to his death at 26.

Researchers in London found that music by country singer Kenny Rogers was more effective at reducing cognitive impairments in stroke victims than any other music tested, Wired reports .

Researchers in London found that music by country singer Kenny Rogers was more effective at reducing cognitive impairments in stroke victims than any other music tested, Wired reports .

Delbert McClinton politely invokes the ineffable when it comes to describing the Texas singer, songwriter and all-around protean figure Doug Sahm, who died in 1999.

Chris Darrow - Chris Darrow/Under My Own Disguise Chris Darrow's name is footnote to a late-'60s/early '70s, So-Cal psychedelic country scene that birthed the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and the Flying Burrito ...

Along with frequent collaborator Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman was the key figure in the development of country-rock, virtually defining the genre through his seminal work with the Byrds and the Flying Burrito ...

SOURCE: JamBase By: Dennis Cook Launching out with all the strummy, harmonized vigor you could want, Light Poles And Pines taps into the shimmering, vaguely off-kilter rock of R.E.M. and early 10,000 Maniacs ...

Bob Proehl, owner of No Radio Records, recently published his first book, 'The Gilded Palace of Sin' an analysis of the Flying Burrito Brothers' 1969 album.