Subject: George Jones

• Daily Briefs: Kansas City, I love you, but you're bringing me down...

  ☃☃☃ HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND A WIENER-SHRINKINGLY FREEZING NEW YEAR!☃☃☃ This has been Daily Briefs with the Pitch inaccu-weather forecast. The pipes froze up in my house yesterday, but the projected temperatures for later in the week are up in the 20s. That's pretty good! As a measure of how far we've lowered our standards, I thought Garrison Keillor was pretty funny this weekend, with that ketchup commercial or Powdermilk Biscuits song, or jokes about English majors or whatever. I guess

  December 22, 2008

• Stomp Y'all's Feet for the Wilders!

  Someone's Got to Pay, last year's release from Betse, Nate, Phil and Ike has been named Best Alt-Country Album in the 8th Annual Independent Music Awards.   These awards are sponsored by the Musician's Atlas, the Coalition of Independent Music Stores and Purevolume.com and, according to the Web site, are voted on by such industry giants as George Jones, Roger Daltrey and Peter Gabriel. Other notable 2008 winners include: Jeff Healey, Mess of Blues, for Blues Album, Jamie Lidell, 

  January 21, 2009

• Bill Dees / Marlin Wallace & The Corillions

  August 1, 2002

• That 70s Show

  April 1, 2004

• George Jones

  June 22, 2006

• Depression

  Remembering the greatness of No Depression.

  March 13, 2008

• Rex Hobart's Chuck Wagon Dinner Show

  February 28, 2008

• Hangover Days

  February 14, 2008

• Rex Turns Ten

  A local retrospective reminds mamas not to let their babies grow up to be Misery Boys.

  December 6, 2007

• Lenexa's Mom Party

  July 12, 2007

• I Pity the Yule

  Separating heavenly holiday music from Hell’s noels.

  December 21, 2006

• Horn Dog

  February 16, 2006

• With a Side of Cowboy

  December 22, 2005

• Yo, Kansas City! It's time to rock the vote!

  August 4, 2005

• Various Artists

  Caught in the Webb: a Tribute to the Legendary Webb Pierce (Audium)

  January 31, 2002

• Misery Loves Company

  The honky-tonk life hasn't hurt Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys yet.

  February 24, 2005

• Americana Pie

  Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

  December 30, 2004

• Randy Travis

  Friday, October 15, at the Star Pavilion at Ameristar Casino.

  October 14, 2004

• George Jones

  Friday, June 4, at the Ameristar Casino.

  June 3, 2004

• The Last Outlaw

  Hank Williams III could save country music, but he's no savior.

  January 29, 2004

• Brooks and Dunn / Brad Paisley / Patty Loveless

  Red Dirt Road (Arista) / Mud on the Tires (Arista) / On Your Way Home (Epic)

  September 25, 2003

• Oldie but Goodie

  Porter Wagoner's still-potent voice puts the pow in Powhattan.

  August 14, 2003

• He's So Country

  Nashville never came knocking, but Arnie Johnson and the Midnight Special have been honky-tonkin’ since 1972.

  June 26, 2003

• George Jones

  Friday, June 13, at Ameristar Casino.

  June 12, 2003

• Merle Haggard

  Wednesday, April 23, at Ameristar Casino.

  April 17, 2003

• Various Artists

  The Songs of Hank Williams Jr.: A Bocephus Celebration (Warner Bros.)

  March 13, 2003

• Bringing on the Heartaches

  David Cantwell has country's Number.

  March 6, 2003

• Dwight Yoakam

  Reprise Please, Baby (Rhino)

  January 9, 2003

• Favorite Thing

  Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys hope everybody plays the Fool.

  September 26, 2002

• Various Artists

  Evangeline Made: A Tribute to Cajun Music (Vanguard)

  May 16, 2002

• High Lonesome

  Lonesome Bob pays tribute to his late son with his poignant new disc, Things Change.

  May 2, 2002

• George Jones / Ralph Stanley

  The Rock: Stone Cold Country 2001 (BMG/BNA) / Clinch Mountain Sweethearts (Rebel)

  December 6, 2001

• Feel His Pain

  Billy Bob has a simple plan: to sing about life and lovin' his wife.

  September 13, 2001

• The Last Dance

  Lee Ann Womack gives classic country Hope.

  May 10, 2001

• Red Meat

  Alameda County Line (Ranchero)

  March 22, 2001

• Various Artists

  The Gift: Music from the Motion Picture (Lakeshore)

  February 1, 2001

• Thrill Ride

  L.A. woman Eleni Mandell's new disc was well worth the Waits.

  November 16, 2000

• Loretta Lynn

  Still Country (Audium/Koch)

  October 12, 2000

• Night & Day Events

  Week of September 7, 2000

  September 7, 2000

• Concert Review: Kenny Chesney at Sprint Center, May 9, 2009

  PHOTOS AND REVIEW BY NICK SPACEK The last "young country" show I saw was about 10 years ago, and when Tracy Lawrence suggested that the crowd turn Sandstone into a roadhouse, five fistfights broke out pretty much immediately. Kenny Chesney's Sun City Carnival tour rolled through the Sprint Center Saturday night, and the venue went from arena to roadhouse. It was a rowdy crowd, but a respectful one. Country music fans know how to drink, though, and by the end of the show, I was standing in a pud

  May 11, 2009

• Blues Caller: Harvest the Blues benefit at B.B.'s, Nace Brothers tribute show

  This weekend, for the price of five cans of Beanee Weenees, three cans of hominy and two cans of peaches, you can see some of the finest blues bands in KC tomorrow at B.B.'s Lawnside BBQ.With proceeds going to Harvesters, the fifth annual Harvest the Blues benefit will feature Levee Town, Shannon & the Rhythm Kings, Sam and the Damned Band, Lonesome Hank & the Heartaches, Doghouse Daddies and Little Eva & the Works.Also bringing in the dollars for the Harvesters will be an auction fe

  June 18, 2009

• Strum & Twang: Yogurt, Aspartame, Lenny Kravitz and This Week's Top Country Singles

  ​Judging by the e-mail, some country fans don't cotton to my failure to cotton to everything on country radio. That's cool. You want Rascal Flatts, you can have them. Let me remind you, though, of the great unspoken understanding between reviewer and reader. No matter how high my horse may seem, my reviews, like all reviews, come stamped with an invisible parenthetical caveat: "In my opinion." I don't think I come down from Mount Sinai, either, but I'll bet you this much -- if Moses ever heard

  August 14, 2009

• Concert Review: Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women

  BY ROBERT FOLSOM I'm a girl watcher, I'm a girl watcher/Here comes one now. Or five. And they weren't girls. They were Dave Alvin's Guilty Women taking the stage to the tune of the O'Kaysions' "Girl Watcher" Friday night at the Folly Theater, just ahead of their bandleader. Scott SpychalskiClick for more pics of Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women. Alvin formed his all-female backing band in 2008 after the death of his close friend, West Coast singer-songwriter Chris Gaffney, who had been a memb

  August 24, 2009

• Concert Review: Old Crow Medicine Show at Liberty Hall

  Standing at the front of the stage before Old Crow Medicine Show went on, I counted the following: 3 banjos, 3 acoustic guitars, 3 fiddles, 1 electric guitar, 1 electric bass, 1 stand-up bass, 1 organ, and 1 drum kit. That's a lot of instrumentation. Specifically, that's a lot of stringed instrumentation, and it's those strings that hamstrung OCMS over the course of their two sets at Liberty Hall last night. Nick Spacek​ Thanks to the frantic playing Willie Watson exhibited, he broke some

  November 6, 2009