Country hall inducts two
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has two new inductees: singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, left, and former industry executive Jim Foglesong. The two got awards Sunday after musical salutes from artists including Ray Price, Guy Clark, Vince Gill, Billy Joe Shaver, The Oak Ridge Boys, and Garth Brooks, reports The Associated Press.
Kristofferson, 68, who was a Rhodes scholar, has written hits such as “Help Me Make it Through the Night,” “Me and Bobby McGee” and “Sunday Morning Coming Down.” Foglesong, 82, was president of the Nashville divisions of ABC records, MCA and Capitol. He now teaches courses in the music business at Vanderbilt University.
Louise Mandrell has decided to end her long-running show. The AP says the country singer and younger sister of Barbara Mandrell has performed for eight years in her theater in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. She is selling the facility to David Fee and Jim Hedrick, who operate the Comedy Barn and Black Bear Jamboree Theaters nearby.
Mandrell, 50, will move to Nashville to spend time with her husband, who has been diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder. “I want to spend time together while he’s pain-free,” she said.
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An August folk music festival on the grounds of Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Parsippany, N.J., will pay tribute to one of its most famous former patients: Woody Guthrie.
Guthrie, whose best-known song was “This Land Is Your Land,” was a patient at Greystone in the 1950s.
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In crafting his latest album, Ringo Starr again reached out to other music stars, reports Billboard Online.
On “Choose Love,” the former Beatles drummer employs the talents of the Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde, Robert Randolph, Billy Preston and the loose-knit collective the Roundheads, which has assisted on a few of his recent projects. The album is due June 7.
“It takes a band – even more than it takes a village – to make music like this,” Starr says of working with producer/multi-instrumentalist Mark Hudson, guitarist Steve Dudas, guitarist Gary Burr and keyboardist/arranger Jim Cox – a.k.a. The Roundheads. “By now, we feel like we know each other’s minds, we know where we’re going.”
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Orlando Bloom has failed to fork over $760 for a restaurant bill – although the eatery is convinced it’s just an oversight. The “Lord of the Rings” hottie treated his sweetie Kate Bosworth to dinner at Casaro Amarelo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but his card didn’t go through. “There was a problem with our credit-card system that night. It wasn’t his fault,” the owner says, reports World Entertainment News Network. “He took our address. And although we’re sure it’s a complete misunderstanding and know he’s very busy, we’ve yet to hear from him.”
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