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JD Souther, a singer-songwriter who penned hits for the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, dies at 78
- John David “JD” Souther, a prolific songwriter and musician who helped shape the country-rock sound that took root in Southern California in the 1970s with his collaborations with the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, has died at the age of 78. When he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013, Souther was described as “a principal architect of the Southern California sound and a major influence on a generation of songwriters.”
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J.D. Souther, Singer-Songwriter Behind Eagles Classics, Dead at 78
Souther co-wrote Eagles hits “New Kid in Town” and “Heartache Tonight,” as well as Linda Ronstadt’s “Faithless Love”
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The Bonkers Tale of the Stolen Flying Burrito Brothers Suit — And How It Was Finally Found
Gone missing years before the death of Gram Parsons, one of the four iconic outfits worn on the cover of the Burritos' The Gilded Palace of Sin, and unknowingly bought by Elton John, resurfaces
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Marty Stuart: “It started with my Clarence White Telecaster. That old guitar is kinda like an invisible band member. It has a tone of its own”
The country legend on channeling the Byrds’ guitar tones, how YouTube helps him cope with the loss of Johnny Cash and finding the amp he’d been searching for all his life
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Marty Stuart Is Country Music’s Psychedelic Historian
The Country Music Hall of Famer on paying homage with his Byrds-heavy new album, why he chose pills and pot over LSD, and Travis Tritt's Bud Light controversy
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Business People: Housing Fund founder Warren Hanson to retire
OF NOTE Greater Minnesota Housing Fund, a St. Paul-based provider of financing for affordable housing, announced that President, CEO and Founder Warren Hanson is retiring from organization. The board of directors is leading the process to find Hanson’s successor. ARCHITECTURE/ENGINEERING Barr Engineering, a Bloomington-based national provider of engineering consulting services to industry, ...
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The Best Music Books of 2022
If you want to know the feeling of constantly failing… well, yes, you can read any number of musicians’ memoirs about their early years, but you can also try to keep up with the vast number of music books released every year. It’s like trying to keep up with multiple TV series at the same […]
- EntertainmentThe Tennessean
Country Music Hall of Fame books a ticket to Los Angeles in new country-rock exhibit
The new Country Music Hall of Fame exhibit "Western Edge" features items from Dwight Yoakum, Flying Burrito Brothers, the Eagles and more.
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Inside the Country Hall of Fame’s California Country-Rock Exhibit: From Gram Parsons to Dwight Yoakam and Lone Justice
California is in the house, and will be for the next three years, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. A major exhibition, “Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock,” has just opened and will run through 2025. The must-see walk-through traces a history of roots music in […]
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‘In all manner of things, we were creative’: the Byrds reflect on music and fashion
As a new book explores the band’s influence on 60s fashion and beyond, its surviving members look back on the trends they pioneered
- EntertainmentVariety
The Byrds Look Through Their Back Pages in Stunning New Photo Book (EXCLUSIVE)
Anyone who clicked on this article knows that the Byrds are one of the greatest and most influential rock groups of all time: They weren’t only influenced by the Beatles, they influenced them; they showed the world that Bob Dylan songs could rock; and via their own songs like “Eight Miles High,” “So You Wanna […]
