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From the annual extravaganzas to the eccentric, your holiday music can be whatever you make it. Our picks: Jingle Jam: Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams lost the court case in which the estate of ...

Get ready for almost 2 ½ hours of (too much) fun. Telecaster master Bill Kirchen has been twanging his way through music he describes perfectly as “dieselbilly” for the better part of 50 years. That’s ...

Bill Kirchen has been called the King of Dieselbilly, the Titan of the Telecaster and the Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods. His music straddles several genres -- truck-driving music, Americana, country, ...