Twain, Chesney, Bentley headline Stagecoach
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Twain, Chesney, Bentley headline Stagecoach

Monday, November 14, 2016 – Shania Twain, Dierks Bentley and Kenny Chesney will headline the Stagecoach Festival in late April in Indio, Cal.

Bentley will close out the opening night of the three-day festival on April 28. Other playing that day include Cole Swindell, Randy Houser, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jon Pardi, Maddie & Tae, 38 Special, Elle King, The Zombies, Rhiannon Giddens, Randy Rogers Band, Son Volt, William Michael Morgan, Justin Townes Earle, Anderson East, John Moreland, Dylan Scott, Ryan Hurd, The Blasters, Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors, The Cactus Blossoms and Quiet Life.

Twain, who has been working on a new album for several years, tops the bill on April 29. Willie Nelson and Family, Brett Eldredge, Kip Moore, Maren Morris, Dan + Shay, Jamey Johnson, Margo Price, Tucker Beathard, Nikki Lane, Robert Ellis, Bobby Bones and the Raging Idiots, Brent Cobb, Steve Moakler, Tommy James and the Shondells, John Doe, Traveller, Jonathan Tyler, Brooke Eden, The Walcotts, Ruston Kelly, Aaron Less Tasjan, Black Pistol Fire and Waddie Mitchell also will play.

Chesney closes out the festival on April 30. Thomas Rhett, Tyler Farr, Travis Tritt, Cyndi Lauper, Cam, Los Lobos, The Cadillac Three, Wynonna & The Big Noise, Cowboy Junkies, The Long Ryders, Terry Allen, Steep Canyon Rangers, Cody Johnson, Luke Combs, Kiefer Sutherland, LANco, Levin Hummon, Courtney Cole, The Sadies, Day Layus and The Hillbenders playing The Who's "Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry" also join the show that day.

Tickets go on sale Nov. 18 and are priced between $299 and $1,199.


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When listening to Shania Twain's first album in five years, the listener is faced with making the big decision - blue or green disc. Green supposedly contains 19 country songs. With red, you get the pop version of those same exact songs recorded (international fans get a blue album with Asian sounds). Twain may be generous with the amount of material here, but the overall effect is one of too much music and not enough quality. Yes, there are some country touches and instrumentation, but if you ...
Like a good many country artists in the HNC phase of country, success seems to breed a situation where artists turn their backs on the very genre which spawned them. After the massive success of "The Woman In Me," Shania Twain has strayed very far from country in what is essentially a pop album. Few of the 16 songs are country: the first single, the catchy, uptempo "Love Gets Me Every Time" with its killer three fiddle attack, "You're Still The One," "Honey, I'm Home," (a lousy job blues song, ...


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