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HOT DISH: A Girl Named Taylor Swift

No two ways about it, Taylor Swift is a phenomenon. Not a week goes by that she doesn't make headlines about something. She's outsold everyone else's CDs and headlined a sold-out concert tour. She writes songs, sings 'em, sells 'em and is awarded for 'em.
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  • Rosanne Cash's List Doesn't Include Country Radio
    First George Jones. Now Rosanne Cash. Why are country's traditionalists ganging up on the progress country music has made? In an interview with the Wall Street Journal about her new album of essential country tunes, The List, Cash talked a bit about the state of country music today. When the interviewer asked, "How is the [...]
  • Top 10 Tracks I'm Digging Right Now
    I thought I'd seen everything, but then this weekend, I saw Dierks Bentley play a health club. Well, actually it was more like a sports complex on steroids. But there he was, right in front of the rock-climbing wall with basketball courts, elliptical machines and weight benches all around him. The crowd, though, was all [...]
  • Taylor Swift's Funniest SNL Moments
    When you sit down to watch Saturday Night Live with a group of people of all ages, you get a myriad of points of view. "My Monologue Song (La, La, La)" was my favorite part of the show but I thought I'd share my family's favorite bits of the night: Maddy, 14: The Firelight trailer. Because, [...]
  • Garth Brooks Paved the Way for Taylor Swift on SNL
    Taylor Swift is going to be both the host and the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this Saturday (Nov. 7). Is that even possible, for someone to perform country music AND be truly funny in the skits? Yes. And I know this because of Garth Brooks. He did the same double duty when he was [...]
  • CMA Songwriter Series Serenades Manhattan
    For years I've been curious about the CMA Songwriters Series in New York City and since it coincided with this trip, I caught the early show last night (Nov. 5) at Joe's Pub. The lineup was pretty remarkable: host Bob DiPiero, Jessi Alexander, Jon Randall and Mark D. Sanders. DiPiero opened with "Blue Clear Sky," [...]
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