AUGUSTA - The Maine Academy of Country Music will present the sixth annual Maine's Hillbilly Heaven Induction Ceremony and Award Show Sunday, Sept. 20, at American Legion Post 205 on Eastern Avenue. Doors will open at noon, with the ceremony/awards presentation and country music entertainment beginning at 1 p.m.
Stella Parton didn't aspire to be a working musician like her sister, iconic country music singer/songwriter Dolly Parton. Stella's plan was to be a missionary. But she married and had a child at a young age, then found that her husband's psychological problems left him unable to work. So when the opportunity came for a gig at the old Hillbilly Heaven nightclub, in Lorton, Va., she took it, to support her son.
AUGUSTA - The Maine Academy of Country Music will hold its fifth annual Hillbilly Heaven induction ceremony and award show Sunday, Sept. 28, at American Legion Post 205. Maine Hillbilly Heaven 2008 inductees are Jimmy Morse, Maurice Fournier, Donald Roy Doane, Gus Fiore, and Eddie and Joyce Gibson.
By NICK CHURCHOUSE and MURRAY HILLS --------------------
With WSCP's country identity now relegated to Hillbilly Heaven, choices for local listeners are few with the corporate country of perennial ratings champ B104-but deserving of the moniker BS104 for reflecting a nationwide trend to homogenize musical styles into one bland, faceless mess-as the only game in town. Utica-Rome's WFRG-FM 1043 (Big Frog 104) has strong reception, but the playlist is drenched in the same Kenny Chesney-Rascal Flatts swill that BS-104 dishes out. For those who cherish true country talent, it's downright depressing to think that local radio waves will be devoid of Buck Owens, Charley Pride and Tammy Wynette. Rock'n'roll and blues fans can find their genre's pioneers and heroes from the days of recording on vinyl, so there's no reason classic country, done with con...
Sept. 24: AUGUSTA, the third annual Award Show and Hillbilly Heaven Induction Ceremonies will be held at 2 p.m. at the American Legion Hall, Route 17, Eastern Avenue. $10/$8 485-0650 Sept. 24, Oct. 1, 8: BRIDGTON, an open mic will be held every Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. at Cafe DeCarlo. 647-4596
Hillbilly heaven Although Jerry Garcia died in 1995, for the past several years there has been a steady flow of CDs - and one movie, Grateful Dawg - documenting his partnership with mandolin magician David Grisman.
David "Pappy Dave Stone" Pinkston, 90, who Waylon Jennings called "the man with the smile in his voice", departed for Hillbilly Heaven on February 18, 2004. Pappy, the founder of full time country music radio, was born in Post, Texas on Nov. 11, 1913. He married Violet Marie Martin in 1933. The couple moved to Lubbock, Texas in 1946 and Pappy went to work for KSEL radio station as a bookkeeper. He became a DJ the next year when the host of the Western Roundup Show, who hated country and western music, walked out. Within two years, the Western Roundup had become the station's most popular show, and Pappy had moved up to station manager. In 1953, he and Leroy Elmore, a friend who was a real estate investor, got together and decided to put a new station on the air in Lubbock. That station,...
At churches, we prayed. At fire stations, we laid wreaths. At football stadiums, hands and baseball caps over hearts, we lifted our voices in song and familiar chants of "USA!" - our patriotism renewed once more as we allowed ourselves to go back in time, to the planes and the towers and the panic and the despair, to the memories that scar us still. On Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the nation's worst terror attack, Americans remembered - in our own ways, all across the land - a day that is simply impossible to forget.
...., at a honky-tonk that bills itself as "Hillbilly Heaven," a five-piece country band played gospel a...
SAN BENITO, Texas -- Freddy Fender, the "Bebop Kid" of the Texas- Mexico border who later turned his twangy tenor into the smash country ballad "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," died Saturday. He was 69. Fender, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in early 2006, died at noon at his Corpus Christi home with his family at his bedside, said Ron Rogers, a family spokesman.
... the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven," he said. Fender was born in 1937 in San B...
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