Roots, Toots n' Hoots
Jeffrey Remz | May 7, 2012
Lady Antebellum, Darius Rucker and Thompson Square were in the Boston area on Saturday night for a sold-out show. While not able to make it to judge for myself, I found the review by Scott McLennan in the Boston Globe most enlightening.
McLennan makes the argument - it's not a difficult [...]
Continue reading "Looking back with Lady Antebellum"
Jeffrey Remz | May 4, 2012
Eric Church bucked convention this week and got a lot of grief for it.
Church went off about reality TV shows and the idea of using it as a forum for finding new talent. He specifically chided Blake Shelton for getting involved. Shelton, of course is part of the panel on The Voice along with Cee [...]
Continue reading "Eric Church tells it like (some of it) is"
Jeffrey Remz | April 27, 2012
Marty Stuart is country's renaissance man. He's held that title pretty much without challenge for years. The guy may have left home in Philadelphia, Miss. at the ripe young age of 13 to go on the road with Lester Flatt, and he's enjoyed a pretty darn good career.
Stuart [...]
Continue reading "Country's renaissance man strikes yet again"
Jeffrey Remz | April 19, 2012
One of the greatest voice in rock and other genres, Levon Helm enjoyed different periods of success in his career from being the voice of The Band to his own solo efforts later in life.
I can't say that I grew up with The Band and Helm. They were a bit before my time when they started [...]
Continue reading "RIP Levon Helm"
Jeffrey Remz | April 18, 2012
Like many music fans out there, the memories I have of Dick Clark are more from my childhood than his later activities, which were far less influential on me.
Clark, who died Wednesday at 82, was definitely a go-getter, who seemed to really have a love of music. What I didn't [...]
Continue reading "RIP Dick Clark"
Jeffrey Remz | April 5, 2012
We haven't heard much from Ashton Kutcher since Sunday night fortunately, but that doesn't mean he's off the hook. At least not with Justin Moore.
The singer, who tweeted on Sunday that Kutcher's ultra-lame act on Sunday at the Academy of Country Music Awards gig was the work [...]
Continue reading "Calling out Kutcher"
Jeffrey Remz | April 4, 2012
One of the lowest points of Sunday's Academy of Country Music awards show as the performance or lack thereof by Ashton Kutcher. Call the actor's appearance hokey, embarrassing, insulting.
Kutcher strode on stage wearing a red jacket a la Manuel style and black pants and shirt [...]
Continue reading "Great job, Ashton Kutcher (not)"
Jeffrey Remz | April 3, 2012
Martina McBride may be a great singer - I liked her from the get go when she was doing harder country - but Martina stay away from wedding planning. That idea of yours to have a live wedding on Sunday at the Academy of Country Music awards while you and Train's Pat Monahan sang Marry Me was [...]
Continue reading "Martina McBride, the wedding planner :*("
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When people ask, "How did you get into country music?" I tell them my version of the truth. "I grew up in eastern Long Island (NY)." Now, for the uninitiated, that used to be farm country. So, of course, it'd be natural for a farm kind of boy to love country, right? Isn't it obvious?
Yeah, right.
I think of my love of country music as an interest that got out of control. It started for me in the late 1980's with folks like Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakam, Lyle Lovett and Nanci Griffith and mushroomed from there to learning about artists from the past to the up-and-coming. Eventually, that led to learning about bluegrass and later Americana/rootsy music.
With "free time" on my hand as a reporter at the Salem, Massschusetts Evening News, in 1993, I started Country Standard Time magazine, which was distributed in record stores and live music clubs throughout the U.S. We're now only on the web covering everything from major label to true independent artists. My posts will cover the facets of what countrystandardtime.com is about, which means all kinds of country, bluegrass and roots/Americana music.
Feel free to email me directly with your thoughts at
countryst@aol.com. Thanks a lot for reading.
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