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	<title>Songwriting News from Nashville&#039;s ParamountSong &#187; Willie Nelson</title>
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		<title>Dumb Rules Eliminate Top Artists/Writers From Oscars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s unimaginable how the artists people really want to see and hear have been eliminated from the Academy Awards this year. If a major audience is any part of the show&#8217;s goals, then this is a major shot in the foot. As the LA Times puts it,
&#8220;The consolation for Elton John, Lady Gaga, Mary J. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Sigman: Songwriters Hall Of Fame Finds a Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most songwriters, even successful ones, toil alone or with a single collaborator. To call them unsung would be oxymoronic, but with a few exceptions they remain unknown to the lovers of their music. You think Barry Manilow wrote &#8220;I Write The Songs&#8221;? Think again: that tune was penned by former Beach Boy Bruce Johnston.
more via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kristofferson, Nelson and Foster honored at gala</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dale Franklin Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dolly Parton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and visionary record mogul Fred Foster were honored with the Leadership Music Dale Franklin Award Sunday night at a gala awards dinner heavily attended by Music Row players.
Foster was the first to sign artists, including Dolly Parton and Kristofferson, and his label, Monument Records, was home to other music greats, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Country Composer, Performer Hank Cochran Dies &#8211; ABC News</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lorretta Lynn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE , Tennessee Reuters &#8211; Hank Cochran, who wrote a cascade of country music hits, died on Thursday at his home near Nashville, according to his family. He was 74.The cause of death was pancreatic cancer, his family said.
Cochran gave Willie Nelson his first break in Nashville, persuading his employer, Pamper Music, to hire Nelson. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Chesnutt breaks out with Outlaw &#124; Entertainment &#124; Chron.com &#8211; Houston Chronicle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Chesnutt was a teenager in the 1970s when country music rebelled against its patriarchal past. The hickory-voiced country singer didn&#8217;t get his start until years after Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings had their breakthrough successes. But their music left an impression. One of Chesnutt&#8217;s three children is named Waylon Nelson.
More via Mark Chesnutt breaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nashville flood takes a heavy toll on the home of Country Music &#8211; Times Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 13:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What they&#8217;re saying in the UK about the Nashville floods:
As the floodwaters rose Buddy Messer ran around his wax museum removing the heads of America’s country music greats.
By the time the water was knee-deep Mr Messer had decapitated 70 stars including Willie Nelson, Taylor Swift, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Roy Acuff and Dolly [...]]]></description>
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