To look out upon the world today, you see wars raging, racial strife, people struggling, and a general sense of anger that many feel is unprecedented. What’s happening to us?! Though this is what is called “recent bias.” Sadly, the world has always been this way. Americans in particular look back on past slavery, a
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Okay, so before you go looking for the band in the title of this article, let us just say that “Elvis Nash and The Independents” is not some new group on the scene. Elvis Nash is a great country music songwriter, whose songs you can find on the Internet. The gist of this article is
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There’s a role we all play in our lives, even if we don’t realize we’re playing it. The fact is, most of us do realize we’re playing it. We may hate our jobs and just want to break into a spontaneous David Allan Coe session and tell our boss to take this job and shove
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If you’re a fan of old country music or the genre in general, you may be wondering why you’re reading about Internet bullying on a website that sells country music clothing. Well, the fact is that whether it’s a mega-star performer like Luke Combs or an amateur country music songwriter like Elvis Nash, these are
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Human history is bloody and wrought with atrocity, what most of us would call true evil. Though as you read that line, you may be asking yourself a question: “What ‘history’? It’s happening today!” And this is certainly true. We haven’t really changed much as humanity. We in the West, particularly America, constantly gripe about
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When it comes to American music, there is no other genre that represents the cultural roots of the nation quite like country music. The greats like Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Marty Robbins and many others helped pave the way for those hits you hear on country radio today while you’re driving to work.
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Have you heard of the excellent country music songwriter by the name of Elvis Nash? Well, you’re on his website right now, so take a few minutes and listen to some of his fantastic music on the homepage here. Nashville California is a fan site, more than anything, for true fans of country music. But
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Born in 1943 and raised in South Philadelphia, James Joseph Croce, better known as Jim Croce, was one of America’s finest folk singer-songwriters. While technically not a country music songwriter, and someone you may not hear much of on country music hit radio, the fact is that Jim Croce’s music has a special place with
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Country music fans might love their country, but they don’t shrug off other genres of music. It’s widely known through a variety of marketing research that fans of radio country music also listen to other genres like rock (especially southern rock) and the blues. In fact, the blues play a crucial role in country music.
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When I write these pieces for Radio Country Hits, I might sometimes use a first-person pronoun or two, but rarely do I speak of myself, from my own point of view. But in an article about diversity in country music, specifically black people in country music, I have to say that some of my first
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