2009 IBMA Awards Winners; Women In Bluegrass; Plethora of New Videos
- BluegrassJournal.com posted a list of the winners from last night’s IBMA Awards where Dailey & Vincent, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Dan Tyminski, and Dale Ann Bradley were among the big award winners. And Peter Cooper has a recap of the awards show and performances. And The Bluegrass Blog has pictures. And…I got nothin’ else.
- This week marks the 17th anniversary of John Michael Montgomery’s debut single “Life’s a Dance.”
- Lorrie Carter Bennett, the granddaughter of Maybelle Carter and niece of June Carter Cash, is questioning the legitimacy of the means in which Virginia Tech acquired memorabilia belonging to her ancestors.
- Ronnie Milsap continued his protest against Capitol Records yesterday in an old-school police car, complete with bullhorn and speakers.
- Chet Flippo interviewed Kris Kristofferson on the topic of his new album and approach to songwriting.
- Kris Kristofferson on his friendship with Stephen Bruton:
“He was walking with a cane in the studio, but I was able to convince myself that he was getting better,” Kristofferson said. “It was a comfort to have him there. We’d looked death in the face together before, you know? Back in the early days, at a rough river up in Idaho where we were riding on these rubber rafts. I was drinking a beer and looked and saw Stephen’s head going down the river, and he had no idea how fast he was going. He looked at me with terror, and I jumped in with him, and the next thing you knew we were out in the river together, going with the flow because it was flowing too fast to go against it.”
- Friends of fiddler Amy Farris comment on what she meant to them in an obituary on The Los Angeles Times‘ website.
- Country California’s C.M. Wilcox on the recent release from Angela Easterling:
BlackTop Road is soaked in an intelligence and far-reaching historical sense that makes you suspect its origins couldn’t be entirely human, or at least that all of these songs and performances couldn’t have emanated from one young woman. Easterling, whose voice comes with nary a hint of twang, offers one possible explanation in the eerie “A.P. Carter’s Blues” [...]
- Jewly Hight commented on the rising profile of women in bluegrass music for Nashville Scene.
- The Boot’s Robyn Flans on last night’s All For the Hall benefit in Los Angeles:
But truly it was guest Michael McDonald who brought the whole event into focus when he ended the evening with ‘You Don’t Know Me’ by Cindy Walker, the songwriter who was spoken of prior to the performances as someone who needed to be preserved in the Country Music Hall of Fame and who had, herself, revered the organization. Michael blew the audience away with his rendition of her standard that reminded everyone why they were present.
- In an article for WHIRL magazine, Victoria Bradley interviews Taylor Swift and traces the star’s career through the eyes of her fans
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New videos from Music Fog:
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New videos from CMT:
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Even Yallwire has new music videos, except these are a little different — they’re full performances and interviews from the artists’ fan club parties that took place at the CMA Music Festival earlier this year. Each video runs about an hour.
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October 2, 2009 at 12:30 pm Permalink
The video for “White Liar” is awesome, and “Keep You” is fantastic as well. I like the video for “Cowboy Casanova”, it has sweet costumes, but I would have rather seen a bunch of guys pounding the guy to a pulp.
October 2, 2009 at 1:54 pm Permalink
I loved how CMT dished out a lot of music videos at once. It was very exciting.
Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire and Miranda Lambert’s videos were my three favorites!
I thought Sugarland, Billy Currington, and Michelle Branch’s videos were good.
Kenny and Keith were okay.
Tim McGraw was my least favorite.
October 2, 2009 at 2:06 pm Permalink
I agree with Dan, But my top 3 would be: Miranda lamberts, Sugarlands, and Reba’s.
October 2, 2009 at 3:51 pm Permalink
Love the new MirLam, Carrie, Reba, and Michelle Branch videos! =)
Sugarland’s was also pretty good
October 2, 2009 at 4:04 pm Permalink
Are we saying “MirLam” now? Is that a thing?
October 2, 2009 at 4:44 pm Permalink
Lambert’s and Underwood’s were brilliant. Speaking of Lambert, I can’t get over how great of an album Revolution is.
October 2, 2009 at 5:21 pm Permalink
Some good stuff in those last videos. Just watched Tracy Byrd and Tracy Lawrence and I’ll have to check out a few of the others.
October 2, 2009 at 5:25 pm Permalink
The fact that Jamey Johnson was in Miranda Lambert’s as the preacher makes it all that much more MirLam
October 2, 2009 at 5:46 pm Permalink
Miranda Lambert nicknames = ‘Ran or MirLam
Is there a problem with me referring to her as such as a fan?
October 2, 2009 at 6:32 pm Permalink
Jamey Johnson being in the Lambert video sold it for me. Loved it.
I’ll need to watch the others after work.
October 2, 2009 at 7:04 pm Permalink
Nicolas: Not unless you do it to her face.
October 2, 2009 at 7:27 pm Permalink
Thanks for the Amy Farris link to comments posted by those who knew her and honor her memory.
Music Fog sure gets a lot of cool artists to record those videos in their motor home. Its rare they feature a new video these days that I don’t find to be interesting in some way or another.
I’ll take a pass on all the new music videos at CMT, but I might watch the fan club videos for Josh Turner, Sara Evans, and the Two Tracy’s as their music will at least be identifiable as “country music” from a historical perspective.
October 2, 2009 at 7:48 pm Permalink
Trace Adkins might want to be careful. As time time goes on, the most conspicuous “no comment” is not Capitol’s, but his.
October 2, 2009 at 8:16 pm Permalink
“MirLam” is fine by me, I’m just trying to keep up with this stuff.
October 2, 2009 at 8:17 pm Permalink
Are we saying “MirLam” now? Is that a thing?
I like “RanBert” better.
October 2, 2009 at 8:38 pm Permalink
Was “Life’s A Dance” really such a groundbreaking record that its 17th anniversary warrants a blog entry from CMT?
October 2, 2009 at 8:44 pm Permalink
I prefer “LamMir” just for how it sounds…
October 2, 2009 at 9:38 pm Permalink
I kind of wondered the same thing, Razor X, though I like the song pretty well.
October 2, 2009 at 10:54 pm Permalink
Interesting show…
I found this article about country music… is it true?
http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2009/10/99-country-music.html
October 2, 2009 at 11:25 pm Permalink
I think you meant to post that link in the Buddy Jewell thread.
October 3, 2009 at 8:43 am Permalink
-I’m really bored of the fan nicknames. Just me, I know. And Razor – Reckon Scott Adams of Dilbert fame, might have a lawsuit case against “RanBert” :)
-Jamey Johnson is God, so seeing him do the Preacher role is fitting.
-Have always considered “Life’s A Dance” to be one of the most important songs in my development as a Country fan.
October 3, 2009 at 1:13 pm Permalink
I bagged a Lam Mir in 1947 when I was on a six month sabbatical touring the Archipelago. The steamboat chef boiled the Lam Mir meat until it was falling off the bone, and then served it in a white wine brine with hints of rosemary.
Of course, this was all well before the LamMir’s numbers were threatened by a human-to-tree-dwelling-bipedal-rodent strain of typhoid, and the Lam Mir was placed on the endangered species list.
October 3, 2009 at 5:53 pm Permalink
Listening to Miranda’s CD to right now. I absolutely love “The House that Built Me”. I think this is going to be another Album of the year winner for her. I was listening to David Nails CD too. Not bad for a first CD. One song skips and thought darn, store won’t take it back since I opened it so glad it’s on a song that’s so so.
AS for Videos: Carrie’s is Fantastic! Miranda’s is fun! I still don’t understand Sugarland’s video yet. I may get boo’d here but I really love Kenny’s song “I’m Alive”. It’s beautiful.
October 4, 2009 at 10:34 am Permalink
Definitely dig the Miranda Lambert video…Jamey Johnson being preacher man is telling and the best choice. Ms. Lambert has more of my respect and eye out now.
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