Dolly Parton

Karaoke as Aphrodisiac?

Karaoke can be a dangerous endeavor. What can you sing that won't make friends shun you? How can you go balls-out during your next performance? Each week in "Ask a Karaoke Host," RFT Music writer and professional karaoke host Allison Babka answers your burning questions about maximizing your melodio ... More >>

EDC 2012: Calvin Harris Plays CDs of Himself Singing

Dance music is fighting for its soul. The charts are filled with tracks (Rihanna, Flo Rida) that borrow from the ecstatic trance and pulsing grooves of electronic dance music. The last time pop was so infatuated with the dance floor was 1979, the year disco died. This time around fans are more sa ... More >>

Six Best Songs About Work For May Day

Today is May Day, also known as "International Worker's Day." To celebrate, kick your feet up and read our list of the six best songs about work. Feel free to let us know what your favorite working class songs are in our comments, just make sure the boss isn't looking. 6. Dolly Parton - "9 to 5" 9 ... More >>

Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers Author at Tonight's Noir at the Bar

Tonight's guest at Subterranean Books' Noir at the Bar reading series is of particular interest to us here at RFT Music: It's Benjamin Whitmer, who wrote Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers with Charlie Louvin before he died last year. It tells the story of the pioneering country music ... More >>

The Six Best Key Changes In Pop Music

The key change is an essential device in the pop canon. Play song, move chords and melody up a half step or so, continue in new key until otherwise noted. It's simple, really, and often effective, which is why it has been employed to the point of abuse. Here are the six best key changes in pop music ... More >>

Is Nothing Sacred? The godly union of Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah, sullied in Joyful Noise

The Bottle Rockets

Not So Loud: An Acoustic Evening With the Bottle Rockets
Bloodshot Records

Ellen the Felon: Meet Your RFT Showcase Main Stage Headliners

Ellen Cook​Ellen Cook is not one for conventions; her voicemail involves the phrase "jazz hands." The local singer's music is sweet and eccentric, and she brings a punk rock sensibility to most everything she does. In preparation for her set at the RFT Showcase on June 4th, we talked to her ab ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

The Dum Dum Girls' retro-pop perfection comes into clear focus on new EP

Revenge, On the Clock

Revenge, On the Clock

Photos: Rough Shop Holiday Extravaganza at the Focal Point, Saturday, December 11

On Friday and Saturday night, the Focal Point in Maplewood hosted Rough Shop's annual Holiday Extravaganza. Guest stars such as Steve Carosello, Toby Weiss, Chris Grabau, John Horton and Kate Eddens joined the band to sing holiday originals and cover favorites from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Dar ... More >>

Elizabeth Cook

7:30 p.m. Thursday, August 12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers

8 p.m. Friday, April 23. The Roberts Orpheum Theater, 416 North Ninth Street.

Homespun: Earthworms

Midnight at the Capricorn
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Homespun: Earthworms, Midnight at the Capricorn

In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer reviews the new album from Earthworms, Midnight at the Capricorn. He has this to say: Using dusty soul breaks, disco strings, heavy-metal guitars, symphonic backing tracks and even a Dolly Parton sample (as on "Circles") the members of Earthworms rhyme agai ... More >>

Holiday Jam Countdown '09: Exclusive Rough Shop MP3s

​Rough Shop is releasing a Christmas album, Just Because It Was Christmas. Recorded at Sawhorse Studios, the eleven-track CD is available on MP3 and in a nice digipak right here! Here are two original songs from the album, which will also include covers of tunes by Low, Paul Kelly and Dolly P ... More >>

Ahh, Branson. Dolly Parton, Baldknobbers, Yakov and Honest-to-Goodness Human Slaves

Photo: Jennifer SilverbergBranson at night is a scary place. Especially when you're there against your will.Branson, to put it mildly, is an unusual place. As I reported back in 2007, the southwestern Missouri town is something like a '50s fantasy camp. Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff keeps the Cold ... More >>

Vince Gill and Amy Grant

8 p.m. Friday, December 19. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.

Buzz Kill: The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting

'90s Hip-Hop Jam of the Week: Pras feat. ODB and Mya, "Ghetto Superstar"

Dolly Parton brings her pop-and-country-career-spanning "Backwoods Barbie" tour to the Fabulous Fox Theatre

Brad Paisley

7:30 p.m. Friday, August 15. Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights

Steely Dan at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, Monday, August 18

Beat Happenings

Music news you can use

Middlesex

Sarah Harmer

Tuesday, March 14, at 9 p.m. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City)

Jenny Lewis

Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)

Week of December 29, 2005

Stop Crying Your Heart Out

B-Sides sheepishly admits to liking Sheryl Crow, chats with sassy soul singer Bettye LaVette and introduces you to Emospace

Dolly Parton

Sunday, October 31; Savvis Center

Culture Clash

Expensive entrees and Bud Light hoisters just don't jibe at this Cajun cafe

Best Place to Drown Your Sorrows

Ardie and Tiny's

Karaoke Dokey

People reveal themselves, often in ways they don't intend, and the rest of us get to watch!

Make Merry

The other sopranos

Glorious Glut

Could '02' mean "Oh, too many records?"

Best Place to Buy Twangfest Duds

Pixie 9 Vintage

Blond Ambition

That titanic contradiction Dolly Parton is a whore, a saint, a poet and a preacher disguised as a dumb blond country girl

Just Like Candy

Jack and Meg White resist the spoils of success

Dolly Varden

Friday, May 3, Off Broadway

Balancing Act

Every family struggles with its abnormalities

List-omania

RFT music geeks pick the best recordings of 2001

Various Artists

Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture Songcatcher (Vanguard)

Rhonda Vincent

Friday, June 29; Chevy Music Hall (Steelville, Mo.)

Sheer Gaul!

Moulin Rouge thrusts forth a deliciously garish Paris

Dolly Parton

Little Sparrow (Sugar Hill)

SALLY TIMMS

Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos (Bloodshot)

Full Bore

The Cowboy Way