Sony Music Entertainment Photo Archives, ICON Collectibles has just released some new Johnny Cash prints for the summer, ICON is offering Cash fans a 20% discount on all Johnny Cash framed and unframed fine art prints (including limited editions) when fans use promo code ICON6PAK at checkout. Offer ends July 31st. Check out the new prints now at the ICON website.
Wayne Hancock has Summer tour dates posted. Hancock will be taking his Texas honky-tonk around the West Coast, back down to Texas and then back up the East Coast. Opening the show will be Joe Buck.
83 year-old country-pop singer Ferlin Husky is in Tennessee hospital in critical condition with an accelerated heart rate and possible pneumonia. Husky topped the charts from the 50’s to the 70’s under various names, including Terry Preston and Simon Crum, a comic alter ego. (via the 9513.com)
Chet Nashville Chet Flippo draws comparisons to the death last week of Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Hank Williams. Flippo posits that Williams’ death at the age of 29 in the back seat of his Cadillac on New Years Eve 1953 might have been preferable to the drawn-out publicized deterioration of Elvis and Jackson.
A while back I posted that New West records would be releasing The Fine Print, “a 12-track album of previously unreleased and rare songsâ€by the Drive By Truckers on September 1st. The album will feature “four covers including “Rebels†by Tom Petty and “Like A Rolling Stone†by Bob Dylan which provided Shonna Tucker with her first ever lead vocal performance on a DBT recording.†Many of the original recordings are from the Dirty South era. The Look for a review of The Fine Print soon,but in the mean time check out the cover below painted by their long time cover artistWes Freed.
