Subject: Alan Jackson (Musician)

• FULL HOUSE, FIVE-SONG STUD

  June 10, 1992

• HERE COMES TROUBLE

  HE'S TRASHED BILLY RAY CYRUS. AND HE WON'T WEAR A BLACK HAT. TRAVIS TRITT'S PUT THE "OUT THERE" BACK INTO "OUTLAW."

  August 11, 1993

• YOU DON'Y KNOW DIDDLEY

  BO CAME UP WITH THE BEAT, BUT HE DIDN'T GET THE BUCKS. NOW HE'S GOT A DREAM.

  February 2, 1994

• ODD COMBINATIONTHE IMPROBABLE STORY OF NITA'S HIDEAWAY, THE VALLEY'S NEWEST MODERN MUSIC VENUE

  August 31, 1995

• Best Alternative To Alternative Radio

  KNIX-FM 102.5 and KISS-FM 104.7 playing simultaneously

  September 20, 2001

• Josh Turner

  January 29, 2009

• Conner Cecil

  Conner
  (Old Dominion Records)

  March 19, 2009

• Country Thunder

  April 2, 2009

• Country Thunder 2009: Now With Layaway

  Perhaps recognizing that the tanking economy has hit the blue-collar sorts you'll find at a massive multi-day country music festival especially hard, Country Thunder is introducing an installment purchase plan. Or, as we like to call it, "layaway." Now on countrythunder.com you can get your tickets at the early bird price while choosing the option of making a down payment and coming back twice more to pay off the balance. "Everyday we hear more and more people worried about the economy and how

  December 9, 2008

• Top 10 Country Records of 2008

  By Michael McCall Photo by Michael Alan GoldbergTwo young blondes with toothy smiles and hard-core work ethics, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood, helped country expand its fan base in these years of shrinking music sales. Meanwhile, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley and George Strait kept filling arenas and at least maintaining their popularity on the road, if not with record sales. But as has often been the case, the best country music has little

  December 30, 2008

• You Asked For It: Conner Cecil

  Conner CecilConner(Old Dominion Records)There was a time when hearing a boyish and manicured voice like Conner Cecil's alongside a willowy pedal steel wasn't uncommon in country music. That time is long gone, though, and hearing Conner -- a Globe native whose voice matches his cherubic face -- on his debut EP, Conner, is a little strange. In a genre where banjo accompaniment is now usually the dominion of guys with pock-marked faces and gravelly voices or quirky songstresses, Conner is an odd d

  March 10, 2009

• Concert Calendar for This Weekend: Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Country Thunder, Tempe Music Fest, and Much More

  Art PerryLou Reed and Laurie Anderson are scheduled to perform on Sunday at the Chandler Center for the Arts. If you're the type who bitches how nothing ever goes on in Phoenix, please feel free to grab a nice steaming cup of STFU. We've been referencing all week long on this very blog about how huge this weekend's concert line-up is going to be, but "huge" doesn't even begin to describe it. As music editor Martin Cizmar noted, it's probably the biggest concentration of superstar musical talen

  April 2, 2009

• Country Thunder 2009: Where My 'Necks At?

  Watch out, another twisters a-comin! Damn, how I wish we were in that there V.I.P tent!I've spent the last year telling everyone who'll listen that Country Thunder is the premier music festival in Arizona. Whether you like country music or not, you should recognize that compared with any other festival in the state Country Thunder's acts are bigger, the crowd crazier, the part wilder. So it was that I made every effort to make the pilgrimage out to Canyon Moon Ranch in Florence Thursday afternoo

  April 4, 2009

• Alan Jackson Keeps It Old School at Country Thunder

  The annual Country Thunder festival at the dusty Canyon Moon Ranch just outside of Florence is country music's version of a cattle drive, where over four days some of the bigger names in country music are herded on stage to bleat their biggest hits, then lassoed off to make way for the next artist. Country fans get a lot of bang for their buck, beer flows like the Colorado River, and despite their reputation as a boozin' and brawlin' fanbase, country fans are all about the "let's get drunk and h

  April 5, 2009

• Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

  Ten reasons to tune in country radio in 2006

  January 4, 2007

• Recordings

  April 18, 1996

• Everybody Loves Rayman

  But when will the rest of the country world take notice?

  October 6, 2005

• Pic Hits for the week

  October 31, 1996

• Original Soul

  This time, it's personal: Our look back at an intimate year in music.

  January 1, 2004

• Alan Jackson

  The Arizona State Fair has "Gone Country"

  October 9, 2003

• Darryl Worley

  Have You Forgotten? (DreamWorks)

  May 22, 2003

• Critics VS 2002: Rebuilding From Ash

  2002 spent the year in a 9/11 hangover. Through the confusion, notable and amazing works still arose

  January 2, 2003

• Joe Nichols

  Country boy croons from the heart

  November 28, 2002

• Country Convert

  Darryl Worley arrives at country stardom near midlife, but his brand of traditionalism may have fresh legs

  November 14, 2002

• Dwight Yoakam

  Star-studded Country Thunder rolls into southeast Valley

  April 25, 2002

• Alan Jackson

  Drive (Arista)

  February 7, 2002

• Choo Choo Ch'boogie

  The Derailers get back on track with a major-label deal

  October 4, 2001

• Candy Cane Mutiny

  Consumers fight back! You have the power to make the ultimate Christmas album yourself. Use it!

  December 21, 2000

• DO LOOK BACK

  THE YEAR IN MUSIC: IT JUST DIDN'T GET MUCH BETTER (OR WORSE) THAN THIS

  December 29, 1994

• NUMBER ONE, WITH BULLETSCUT DOWN BY GUNFIRE LAST SPRING, SINGER TRACY LAWRENCE IS CLIMBING THE COUNTRY CHARTS AGAIN

  January 6, 1993

• Lucero Live: Why Country Music Needs Some Punk Blood

  I love discussing music with our new Music Editor, Martin. More often than not we basically agree on most things. But I could not disagree more with his review of the Lucero show last night at the Rhythm Room. The first of my complaints is when talking about how the crowd was reacting (or the fact that they were reacting) Martin seems to suggest that the crowed should not get as crazy as they did last night to anything with a peddle steel in it because "Those are the rules."  First, I highl

  May 13, 2009

• Local Musicians Play Dylan Tribute At Yucca Wednesday

  ​Turns out it's too hot for Bob Dylan in Phoenix -- the legendary singer-songwriter canceled his Tuesday show at Camelback Ranch -- but you've got another chance to get tangled up in Bob next Wednesday as Jim Bachmann (check out Jim playing an Alan Jackson cover for The Sun Sessions here) and the gang are getting together to do a night of Dylan covers at Yucca Tap Room on August 19. Hans Olson, Walt Richardson, Mark Zubia and other stalwarts of the Tempe scene are scheduled to play, some acous

  August 10, 2009

• When Tragedy and Politics Turn into Popular Music

  August 27, 2009

• In Search of Real Honky-Tonk at the Arizona State Fair

  October 22, 2009