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Prince
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Sunday Selections: May 8, 2016
It’s going down this week, and Keith Urban is the one yelling, “Timber,” with Pitbull.
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Sunday Selections: May 1, 2016
Merle Haggard passed away on April 6th, and it has taken just about 20 days for people to try to politicize his death.
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Sunday Selections: April 24, 2016
Another week, another music legend gone.
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Whitney Houston: 1963-2012
On the eve of the Grammy Awards, music lost one of its greatest voices, as Whitney Houston died at age 48.
Her only tangential connection to country was a big one. Her cover of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” is one of the most successful singles in history, spending 14 weeks at #1 and pushing its parent album, The Bodyguard soundtrack, to sales of 44 million worldwide.