Marthia Sides has one of the most impressive voices, looks, and musical pedigrees on Music Row. What separates Marthia from her Row competition is not just her music and her style, which are impressive indeed, but it's her show-biz background. She's one of the few country singers who's lived the life of an off-Broadway performer in New York - not in downtown Nashville - and endured the Broadway auditions with thousands of other top talents. Marthia has done tons of TV and film work, and is a top-notch stylist and had many celebrity clients. She lived and worked in New York for six years before coming to Nashville, but her heart and soul has always been in the south. Marthia is truly a city, country, city type of girl.Music - it's not just for Nashville, anymore. No-sir-ee. For the past ten years, one of the biggest music festivals in the country has been hosted, just down the road from Music City, in Manchester, Tennessee. Bonnaroo has been an inspiration for several generations of music lovers in the beautiful Mid-TN town.
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It's now summer time and what's better in the summertime than a country music summer playlist?
Recently Apple announced the iCloud service that will offer up to 5gb of free storage of iTunes purchases and if you buy the $25 a year iCloud, it'll hold up to 25,000 songs (far more than the average person). The major labels and publishers swiftly agreed to upfront $$ and other stuff for one main reason: They see this as a way to monetize the illegal downloads or re-monetize the uploaded CDs from ones personal collection (which presumably would include the used music market of which labels get nothing). So in other words, they're getting paid for stolen stuff and then, later, for stuff bought once before. 
You can tell how much people like Randy Travis by simply looking at the guestlist of his new Anniversary Collection album of duets. Current country stars Jamey Johnson, Zac Brown Band, Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood, Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson, Josh Turner and James Otto join Randy for separate songs while legends like Kristofferson and Willie join him on another track as does John Anderson. One track, "Didn't We Shine," features George Jones, Lorrie Morgan, Ray Price, Connie Smith, Joe Stampley and Gene Watson, a regular cavalcade of stars on one track. Pop artists Don Henley, Shelby Lynne, Kristin Chenoweth and Eamonn McCrystal round out the seventeen track album which is a mix of new tunes and some of Randy's classic tunes like "Better Class Of Losers," "Forever And Ever, Amen" "He Walked On Water, " "Diggin' Up Bones," "Promises," "Is It Still Over" and "A Few Ole Country Boys."
What is with human nature's need to call somebody 'the next this' or 'this genre's answer for that?' It must be for some fake air of hipster humor or a person's attempt to dislike somebody because of what type of fan they may have for their fans. I mean, honestly, can't we let Scotty McCreery or Hunter Hayes get more than one song out to country radio and video channels before people are trying to call them 'the country answer to Justin Bieber?' I'm not immune to this either as I often compare new artists to established artists and have uttered 'may be called the country Justin Bieber' when referencing Hunter Hayes, but it wasn't because I actually thought that but because I knew some fool somewhere sees the talented and looks-younger-than-he-is nineteen year old and thinks just that.
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