Alan Jackson Recognized By ASCAP; New Releases; Stream Kenny Chesney; Elizabeth Cook Sessions
- During tonight’s ASCAP Country Music Awards Alan Jackson will be recognized with the organization’s Founder’s Award. In an interview with The Tennessean‘s Cindy Watts, Jackson talked about the honor, his oldest daughter leaving for college, and future plans: “He still wants to make a classic bluegrass record, is contemplating another gospel recording and thinks he might like to tackle an easy listening country project.”
- Alan Jackson also announced dates for a fall tour.
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New releases for the week of September 14, 2010 include:
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Bill Monroe – Bill Monroe and Friends/Bill Monroe and Stars of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame (2 for 1)
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Michelle Branch – Everything Comes And Goes
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Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Saints & Sinners
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Rodney Parker & 50 Peso Reward – The Apology: Part 1
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Various Artists – Now That’s What I Call Country: Volume 3
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- People.com is streaming the song “Reality” from Kenny Chesney‘s upcoming album, Hemingway’s Whiskey.
- Only one EP in Jo Dee Messina‘s trilogy of Unmistakable EPs has been released, but she told The Boston Globe‘s Sarah Rodman that she’s already begun work on a new album and is in the process of writing a memoir.
- The staff at CMT relayed their ten favorite Americana Music Festival moments.
- No Depression’s Grant Alden only stayed a song and a half into Charlie Louvin‘s set at the Americana Music Festival, but even that was probably too much:
He came on stage, small steps in tennis shoes, a baseball cap, glasses, a bright red shirt, a dark leather vest. George Burns, without the cigar.
I wondered why I was there a lot this last week, but Charlie Louvin onstage at the Rutledge that night made me feel acutely as if I had chosen badly. I mean especially not to be unkind, nor to judge the choices being made, but he had no voice left, and his (unlike Johnny Cash’s) is not a voice meant to growl. Nor does his repertoire suit that transition. He didn’t have much of that grand voice left a few years back.
- Michael McCall on Joey+Rory‘s Album Number Two: “[T]he funny songs are only the gravy on the duo’s meatiest strength, which is pulling heartstrings with sweetly stated truths set to acoustic-based arrangements recalling the front-porch sounds of the Judds.”
- Country California: Quotable Country – 09/13/10 Edition
- Jewly Hight recapped a live interview at the Americana Music Festival and Conference with author Marshall Chapman on the subject of her new book, They Came From Nashville, her role in the upcoming movie Country Strong, and her new album, Big Lonesome. Hight also covered sets from Jim Lauderdale and Shelby Lynne later in the evening.
- Country Universe’s Leeann Ward: What is the record label that you most admire and can count on to release your favorite music?
- Songs:Illinois highlighted the song “You Only Believe Me When I’m Lying” from Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers.
- American Songwriter‘s latest recording session features videos of Elizabeth Cook performing “El Camino” and “All The Time,” along with several mp3s and a brief Q&A.
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September 14, 2010 at 11:46 am
Don’t forget that the new Rodney Parker & 50 Peso Reward EP comes out today! I have it and it is awesome!
September 14, 2010 at 11:51 am
Amazon is offering a code today, in place of their Daily Deal, where you can get $3 off of any one of 35 choices of albums. The choices include the Robert Plant Rounder release, Jamey Johnson’s, James Otto’s, and Joey+Rory’s new albums. The code is “PICKDEAL”.
http://www.amazon.com/MP3-Deals/b/ref=amb_link_5858582_5?ie=UTF8&node=678551011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-2&pf_rd_r=1TY46A2CBJ8VP7TKX81T&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=482801551&pf_rd_i=163856011
I’ve been hoping Alan Jackson would do that bluegrass album someday. I wonder what an easy listening country album is exactly though?
September 14, 2010 at 11:59 am
A four star review of Jamey Johnson’s CD is in today’s USA Today.
[Editor's note: Review can be found here.]
September 14, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Thanks for all the updates!
September 14, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Hm, odds on the other two EPs of the Jo Dee Messina project ever seeing the light of day?
September 14, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Opry Alert! Tonight’s Opry will feature Emily West, Joe Diffie, Dailey & Vincent, and the “rarely on pitch gang” also known as Diamond Rio! Grade: B+
Opry Schedule: http://www.opry.com/shows/ThisWeek.html
Reminder: Elizabeth Cook will be at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in The People’s Republic of Santa Monica this coming Saturday night for any Los Angeles based readers that may be interested. I sure hope a decent sized audience shows up…
Link: http://www.mccabes.com/condata.html
September 14, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Just a heads up, but you can also stream the new Zac Brown Band album a week early on Rhapsody.
September 15, 2010 at 12:00 am
I wonder what an easy listening country album is exactly though?
I think you could apply that description to Freight Train well enough. And I don’t mean that as an insult.
September 15, 2010 at 12:03 am
I don’t think that’s what he’s meaning though, since he speaks of it as a future endeavor.
September 15, 2010 at 9:18 pm
I used to buy every Alan Jackson disc, but I have not bought this latest one and don’t expect to. There used to be a freshness and universality to his music– songs like “Here In the Real World” and “Chattahoochie” and “Don’t Rock the Jukebox”.
He started to go downhill when he sang about the nose hairs in his mustache, and his recent lyrics about being a simple, bologna-eating country boy whose interests are limited to surfing the Internet for old cars have struck me as provincial and vapid.
September 15, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Lucky,
You’re loss. The latest Jackson album is good.
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