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  Shirley Eikhard, Songwriter of Bonnie Raitt’s ‘Something to Talk About,’ Dies at 67

  The Canadian artist also wrote for Cher, Emmylou Harris and Chet Atkins

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  Shirley Eikhard Dies: Songwriter For Grammy-Winning ‘Something To Talk About’ Was 67

  Shirley Eikhard, the songwriter behind Bonnie Raitt‘s Grammy-winning 1991 hit “Something to Talk About,” has died. She was 67 and died Thursday at Headwaters Health Care centre in Orangeville, Ontario from cancer complications. In addition to Raitt, Eikhard had songs covered by Cher, Emmylou Harris, Anne Murray, and Chet Atkins. Eikard wrote “Something to Talk […]

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  'Something to Talk About' songwriter Shirley Eikhard dies

  Shirley Eikhard, the singer-songwriter who supplied songs for Cher, Emmylou Harris, Anne Murray, Chet Atkins and found lasting fame penning Bonnie Raitt‘s Grammy-winning 1991 hit “Something to Talk About,” has died. Eikhard died Thursday at Headwaters Health Care Centre in Orangeville, Ontario, due to complications from cancer, said publicist Eric Alper. The blues-rock smash hit “Something to Talk About” was written in 1985 and Eikhard had offered it to Murray and other artists, who all declin

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  Peter Cooper, Celebrated Nashville Music Journalist, Singer and Country Hall of Fame Exec, Dies at 52

  Peter Cooper, one of the most preeminent journalists covering country music in the 21st century, a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter-producer in his own right, and most recently one of the foremost public faces of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, died Tuesday at age 52. A significant part of the Nashville music community had been […]

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  The Tennessean

  On 'Jubilation,' bluegrass veterans Appalachian Road Show revel in timeless sounds

  Virtuoso fiddle player Jim VanCleve and a band of veteran bluegrass artists have found that country and folk's root elements never go out of style.

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  ‘First Lady of Rock’ Linda Ronstadt on Sexism, Muppets, and the Mexican Border

  Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast; Getty“They all know me from The Muppet Show,” Linda Ronstadt cracks when I mention the twentysomethings in my house who represent just the latest generation of fans to discover the music she made that soundtracked so much of the 1970s and ’80s.Of course, Linda Ronstadt was a global superstar during the Golden Age of rock and roll—notably the first woman to headline arena tours, earning her the nickname “First Lady of Rock”—who went on to make

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  The 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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  Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Eagles, Many More In New ‘Western Edge’ Exhibit

  'Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock' surveys the rise of west coast artists in a new style of country music.

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  The Tennessean

  Daniel Tashian's 'Night After Night' simplifies his greatest inspirations

  The Grammy-winning Daniel Tashian works alongside guitarist Paul Kennerley to discover and advance his craftsmanship

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