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Press Releases & News Hillbilly-Music.com Hillbilly-Music.com Announces Results of Fan Voting for 2008 Country Music Hall of Fame Hillbilly-Music.com Record Breaking 2008 - 7,000,000 Web Page Views; Affiliation with Ernest Tubb Record Shop Hillbilly-Music.com Announces Top Pages Visited By Fans for 2008 Hillbilly-Music.com Reaches Another Milestone - 5,000,000 Web Page Views; Issues The Lists for 2007 Hillbilly-Music.com Reaches 3,000,000 Web Page Milestone; The Lists for 2006 Hillbilly-Music.com Web Site Reaches 2,000,000 Page Views Hillbilly-Music.com Salutes the Fans for Milestones Reached in 2005; Top Pages Visited in 2005 Hillbilly Music Fans Make Their Voices Known for Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees Hillbilly-Music.com In the Spotlight in Country Music Magazine's 30th Anniversary Issue Hillbilly-Music.com Attends Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree Hillbilly-Music.com Attends the Grand Ole Opry Press Releases Nashville's Whisperin' Bill Anderson To Be Inducted Into America's Old Time Country Music Hall Of Fame In Iowa A Tradition of Traditional Music For 35 Years Grand Ole Opry Moves This Week's Shows To Other Nashville Venues Due To Flooding New 3-CD Box Set From Hank Williams' Mother's Best Recordings Due November 3rd On Time Life Ray Price Concert October 2 At Acuff Theatre In Nashville Canadian Country Music Week and Awards At-A-Glance Indiana Unversity Press Announces 'The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers' by Jocelyn R. Neal Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity CMA Announces Roy Clark, Barbara Mandrell, And Charlie Mccoy As Newest Members Of Country Music Hall Of Fame The Historic Hank Williams Box Set From Time Life The Unreleased Recordings Scheduled To Street October 28th WRAS / Gate City Radio Features Author Wayne Daniel Commentary on Country Music in World War II 42nd Annual Tennessee Valley Old-Time Fiddlers Convention Nowhwere But Texas 2 Shares Stories Of Texas Spirit and Texas Past, Including Big D Jamboree New Home for America's Largest Traditional Music Event National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2008 NEA National Heritage Fellowship Recipients, Including Mac Wiseman International Country Music Conference 25th Annual Gathering in Nashville May 22 - 24 Old Town School Of Folk Music Presents The 11th Annual Chicago Folk & Roots Festival 1st Annual Delfest Complete Line-Up Announced! May 23-25, Cumberland, Maryland Hank Williams Tribute featuring an award winning artist�Jake Penrod Book Results In Redemption For Once-Forgotten Fiddler And His World-Famous Song News & Events Solemn Old Judge Days slated for weekend Country singer Bill Phillips dies at 74 Benny Ketchum, Country Singer, Dies at 76 George Kent Passes Away at 75 Adeline J. Chroniak; Performed as Sally the Yodeling Cowgirl Arlene Johnson, Known as Yodeling Arlee, Died at 87 in 2007 Country Music Legend Johnny Carson Dies John Aylesworth dies at 81; co-creator of TV's 'Hee Haw' Fred Carter, Jr., Session Musician Dies at 76 Legendary Songwriter Hank Cochran Dies Lattie Moore, Father of Rock-A-Billy, Dies at 85 Jimmy Dean, Singer and Businessman, Dies at 81 Country singer Judy Lynn Kelly dies in Jeffersonville Indiana Jimmy (The Flying Cowboy) Kish Passes Away In Nashville at 84 Hoyt (Slim) Bryant / Dormont guitarist shook up the regional country music scene near Pittsburgh Hoot Borden; Bus Driver For Ernest Tubb, Willie Nelson and other stars Edgar A. (Bud) Moore Jr., Local Clearfield, Pennsylvania Popular Entertainer Shelby Lathouwers (Shelby Jean Davis), 1926-2010: Radio’s ‘Little Mountain Sweetheart’ Betty Soflin of the Soflin Sisters, Singers on KMA, KFNF and KFAB in 1940s and 1950s Glenn Osborn, Steel Guitarist, WIBW Kansas Roundup Hank Williams among 2010 Pulitzer winners William (Cub) McGee, Fiddler, Age 83 Rockabilly icon Dale Hawkins dead of cancer; Wrote 'Oh! Suzie Q' Tommy Riddle, Country Singer, Tidewater Jamboree Star Passes Away at 82 Billy Deaton, Longitme Booking Agent to Country Greats, Dies At 74 Country Music Hall Of Famer Carl Smith Dies At 82 Obituary: Big Bill Lister, Country Entertainer and Former Member of Drifting Cowboys Obituary: Mack Curtis, Country Musician For Elvis, Conway Twitty and George Jones Among Others Obituary: Riley Shepard Bob Bone: Professional fiddler was devoted to his family Kitty Wells' daughter Ruby Wright dies at age 69 Shelby Singleton, famed producer, record executive and promoter, dies at 77 Obituary: Tennessee Smith, Original Member of Sunshine Boys Quartet Guitar, studio wizard Les Paul dies at 94 Obituaries: Margaret Johnson (Peggy Neville), Canadian Country Singer Early bluegrass musician and radio DJ Bill Reid dies Paul Hemphill, Author and Journalist Herman G. (Jiggs) Lemley, Former Steel Guitar Player for Hawkshaw Hawkins Country music stars remember Vern Gosdin's golden voice Funeral services pending for singing cowboy, Monte Hale Hal Durham, manager and announcer who revitalized 'Opry,' dies Jean Perron, Former WWVA Jamboree Performer, Passes Away at 70 Jimmy Stephens, New England Country Gentleman and Star of WWVA Jamboree, Died in 2006 Country discovery is reel find Obituary (2008): Rusty Gill Obituary: Carolyn DeZurik Gill Jimmy Boyd, Actor and Child Singer, Dies at 70 Grand Ole Opry great Hank Locklin dies at 91 Miss Avian, Country Music Entertainer, Wife of Uncle George Featherstone for 60 Years Passed Away at 79 Grand Ole Opry star Ernie Ashworth dies at age of 80 Buck Griffin Has Died Alma (Jerry) Whitman, Wife of Country Singer Slim Whitman; Married 67 Years Odey Crabtree, Radio and Television Country Star From West Virginia Dies at 72 Molly Bee dies at 69; country singer Russ Garner To Be Honored At Crawford Eagle Club Tony Booth Birthday Bash at the Thirsty Parrot in Monaville, TX Steel guitarist and Branson fixture Tom Brumley dies at 73 Ray Layman, 86, WIBW Entertainer in 1940s and 1950s; Part of Ray and Elda Duet Act Country music pioneer Clyde Joy dies at 92 Country music star Reg Lindsay dies Steel guitarist, writer, producer Walter Haynes dies at 80 Encore! Encore! Come Meet Country Music Legend, Hoyt (Slim) Bryant At Borders (on Rte 19) on January 19 From 1 to 3pm Danny Dill, Nashville Songwriter Hall of Fame (Detroit City, Long Black Veil, etc.); of Annie Lou and Danny; Former Member of Grand Ole Opry. Passed Away in October Christian singer-songwriter Ray Overholt dies at 84 Jack Reno, Famed singer, radio host dies at 72 Merle Haggard recovering after lung surgery at Memorial Hospital George (Rusty) Bertolero, of Popular Central California Country Group Sagebrush Serenaders, Passes Away at 92 Expressway to be named for Lee Mace, Founder of Ozark Opry 'Grand Ole Opry' member Charlie Walker dies at age 81 Musician, actor Jerry Reed dies at 71 Music Row loses its heartbeat after Buddy Harman dies Steel player behind Hank Sr. classics, Don Helms, dies at 81 Star singer, media man Chester Smith of Modesto Dies William E. (Cowboy Bill) Newcomb Passes Away at 95 Buster Jenkins Passes Away at 81 Goober Buchanan, Country Music Entertainer, Dies at 100 Walter David (D) Kilpatrick, Manager who gave new life to Grand Ole Opry in 1950s dies Moonshine Festival kicks off May 22 in Zanesville, Ohio Pride's sweet baritone prevails Music man to set market mood; Charley Pride's director highlights event for area farmers The Late Conway Twitty To Be Honored By 43rd Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards With Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award Gospel great Dottie Rambo dead at 74 Country music legend Eddy Arnold dies Jerry Wallace, who sang 1959 hit 'Primrose Lane,' dead at 79 Guido D'Amico, The Italian Cowboy Hee Haw�s Jim Hager dies Glenn Barber Passes Away at 73 Country legend Merle Haggard plans Modesto show Country music comedian Jim Nesbitt dies Carl Kramer; country musician; Country Boy Eddie show Thelma Holland, 84 / Musician was '40s radio pioneer Bill Bolick, Original Member of the Blue Sky Boys Dies at 90 Eddy Arnold's wife dies in Williamson hospital May H. Fulmer, of Miccolis Sisters, Passes Away Ozarks music legend Speedy Haworth passes away at age 85 Charley Ryan, Writer and Singer of 'Hot Rod Lincoln' Passes Away At 92 Country music singer Bobby Lord dies at 74 Folk legend Smoky Dawson dies Country Music Hall welcomes a new class: Ernest V. (Pop) Stoneman; Statler Brothers; Tom T. Hall; Emmy Lou Harris Cliff Japhet, Early Country Music Performer; Prolific Songwriter Country music manager Jack D. Johnson dies Bear Hug A U.S. Soldier for Memorial Day Grande dame of Country Fest dies Country Music Hall of Famer Ken Nelson dies Winifred Gleysteen of the Doring Sisters, Passes Away Sophia Germanich McElwaine, WLS 1930s Singing Star News From Past Years 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002