Dolly Parton News

Steve Martin once joked that it’s impossible to play a sad song on a banjo...Pain songs usually sound wistful in acoustical bluegrass, but downright depressing in electrical country. Terre Hauteans may feel a bit wistful about The Grascals’ new album “Keep On Walkin’.” It’s not the lyrics of plaintive tunes like “Feeling Blue,” “Sad Wind Sighs” or even the tearjerker “Remembering.” Instead, it’s the knowledge that the album is a Grascals swansong for original fiddler

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United Way of the Bluegrass, the local sponsor, opened the program during children’s morning story hour at the Madison County Public Library. Moms, dads, boys and girls, along with some grandparents, cuddled up on blankets and cushions as Richmond Mayor Connie Lawson read “The Little Engine that Could,” Imagination Library’s first selection.

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n "The Love Guru," Mike Myers must come to love himself before he can love others. From the credits of this scattershot comedy sketch stretched and strained to movie length, Myers clearly loved himself to the point of narcissism going in. Besides starring, Myers is a producer and co-writer.

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Tim Jordan For the Times-Standard Article Launched: 07/24/2008 01:16:34 AM PDT Northern California experienced a massive dry lightning event in late June that both thrilled and alarmed the local population. The town folks were amazed by the hours of spectacular celestial fireworks that came with almost no rain.

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Two 14-week-old American bald eagles named by Disney star Miley Cyrus and her country singer father, Billy Ray Cyrus, will be released into the wild Thursday at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. The American Eagle Foundation has released more than 90 eagles from Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park in East Tennessee since the 1990s.

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After four decades of disappointments and obscurity in the music business, her perseverance is now paying off as, in her early 60s, she is at last getting the wider recognition and financial rewards that have long eluded her. In the last three years alone, she has released two new albums as well as some earlier work and has toured extensively worldwide, including an upcoming appearance at the Fuji Rock Festival.

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Over a four-decade career, Harris has established herself as one of country music's foremost interpreters with quite a maverick streak in her, covering everyone from the Louvin Brothers and Patsy Cline to Donna Summer and Jimi Hendrix. With All I Intended to Be , she returns to exploring other artists' canons after having written most of the material for her prior two albums, and the album's tone harks back to the acoustic and rootsier sound of Harris' earlier work.

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Country music legend Jack Greene is scheduled to perform at the Haynie Opry on Saturday, July 26...Tickets available at Noisy Neighbor music store in the Fairway Shopping Center in Lynden, Mojo Music in Bellingham, at the door an hour before the shows or by calling 366-3321.

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