Nashville Or Bust at the Onion AV Club
If you haven’t already been reading, Nathan Rabin, the head writer and hip/hop specialist over at the Onion AV Club, has been writing an ongoing feature about country music called Nashville Or Bust. Coming into the project with very little knowledge of the genre, he’s devoted a year to researching and writing about the history of some of it’s most important artists.
He’s covered many of the greats already, the one namers like Hank, Johnny, Willie, and Merle, as well as equally important, but perhaps lesser known performers like Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, and Billy Joe Shaver. It’s refreshing to read along as someone discovers a great artist for the first time, gives a fresh perspective on what made them so great in the first place, and, ultimately, shows you a thing or two that you might have missed.
New articles are posted every other Tuesday, with the next installment arriving September 1st. Here’s the introduction if you want to get caught up: http://www.avclub.com/articles/nashville-or-bust-introduction,24585/
