Subject: Loretta Lynn

• The Lost Charlie Louvin Interview

  July 27, 2007

• Loretta Lynn

  June 4, 2009

• He Done It

  His song dares to challenge the Nashville money machine. Somehow, though, songwriter Larry Cordle has gotten away with Murder.

  September 28, 2000

• A Special Case

  Neko Case has yet to make the Opry, but her reputation as a new country pioneer is grand.

  August 23, 2001

• Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

  Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM. Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic Furr smells

  December 23, 2008

• Neko Case & Her Boyfriends

  March 9, 2000

• Backwash

  July 19, 2001

• Backwash

  September 26, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  April 17, 2003

• Drink of the Week

  April 29, 2004

• New Kids on the Block, Boz Scaggs, Loretta Lynn shows announced

  A number of shows were announced this week, including New Kids on the Block (Wednesday, July 15, Fiddler's Green), Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald (Monday, July 6, Paramount Theatre), Loretta Lynn (Wednesday, June 10, Paramount Theatre) and Reggae on the Rocks featuring Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Fishbone, the English Beat, Israel Vibration, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Steel Pulse (Saturday, August 29, Red Rocks). For a complete rundown of the shows going on sale this weekend -- including this

  March 31, 2009

• Jessica Lea Mayfield

  Saturday, February 28, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

  February 26, 2009

• Tift Merritt

  Wednesday, February 9, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

  February 3, 2005

• The Grass Is Greener

  While stretching the boundaries of old-timey bluegrass, Yonder Mountain String Band has reached a peak.

  September 27, 2001

• Westword Music Showcase 2005

  June 23, 2005

• Americana Pie

  Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

  December 30, 2004

• Neko Case

  The Tigers Have Spoken (Anti)

  November 18, 2004

• The Show(case) Must Go On!

  June 19, 2003

• Backwash

  Radio waves: Clear Channel clears the air about independent promoters.

  April 17, 2003

• Still Scorching

  Jason Ringenberg embraces his title as alt country's architect.

  September 5, 2002

• Kelly's Heroes

  Kelly Hogan takes great songs by great artists and makes them her own.

  November 15, 2001

• For Love of Country

  Now part of Denver Joe's "family," Dick and Lois Meis have strummed, plucked and picked their way across five decades of Western music.

  August 9, 2001

• At the Helm

  A throat cancer survivor, the Band's Levon Helm can't sing anymore -- but the beat goes on.

  May 31, 2001

• On the Case

  Neko Case aims to shake up the world of country music.

  August 20, 1998

• Foggy Notion

  May 1, 1997

• How the West Was Ween

  Gene and Dean Ween take on country music and live to tell the tale.

  October 17, 1996

• SO FINE

  THE MOST MEMORABLE ALBUMS OF 1994.

  December 28, 1994

• Wake-Up Call: Same old song

  Governor Bill Ritter took a break from his budget-busting business last week to pop by the Paramount Theater, where he presented Loretta Lynn with a plaque commemorating her induction into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame. The Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame? Yeah, I hadn't heard of it, either, until I read the caption under the photo of Ritter grippin' and grinnin' with Loretta. The Ski Hall of Fame, yes. The Tourism Hall of Fame, sure. But the Country Music Hall of Fame?

  June 19, 2009

• God bless the USA... and Cracker Barrel

  June 25, 2009