Alan Jackson’s “Good Time” Tops List of Country Dance Songs
- For the fifth consecutive year, a panel of more than 215 nightclubs and dance instructors throughout the country were surveyed to find the most requested and played country dance club songs of 2008. Country Music Is Love shared the results as announced by Marco Club Connection.
- For an article in the Los Angeles Chronicle, Tom Roland joined Kitty Wells at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to reflect on the impact that her success had in opening the music industry to women. (via Twang Nation)
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Here’s an interesting story from freelance writer Bobby McMahon: At the age of 17, Carlene Carter didn’t have enough money to buy her stepfather a present, so she wrote him a song titled “It Takes One To Know Me.” Johnny Cash and June Carter later recorded the song, but as McMahon explains, Carlene didn’t find out until they had passed away and John Carter Cash asked her to add vocals to the track. She didn’t think she’d ever sing with them, so it became a special song for her.
McMahon also notes that Carlene is currently working on a tribute album to her father, Carl Smith. (via ggcolumn)
- The video for Keith Urban’s “Sweet Thing” will debut on MySpace this Friday (Jan. 16), marking the first country music video debut for the social networking site.
- Nashville Scene published the results of their ninth annual year-end critics poll. Seventy-four voters (including Managing Editor Jim Malec and Podcast Host Kelly Dearmore) turned in ballots and the Scene explains that Jamey Johnson was as near unanimous for the top spot as a group of music writers is ever going to be. (Results)
- Watch the new video for Jamie O’Neal’s “Like A Woman.” (via That Nashville Sound)
- Steve Earle comments on his relationship with Townes Van Zandt and the tribute album he’s currently working on in an interview with Brian Braiker for Rolling Stone. (via Twang Nation)
- The Zac Brown Band added a new member.
- A new album titled A Stranger Here, scheduled for an April 7 release, finds Ramblin’ Jack Elliott interpreting country blues music from the Depression era of his birth.
- Aaron Tippin’s new album, In Overdrive, is a dedication to truckers. It’s scheduled for a Feb. 3 release.
- Country Weekly published a few internet-only outtakes from Chris Neal’s interview with Blake Shelton. He discusses the process for selecting singles, supporting Miranda’s desire to barrel race and Oklahomans’ innate sense of humor.
- Janson Media is releasing the one-hour documentary special The Gospel Music of Johnny Cash: A Story of Faith & Redemption, hosted by Dan Rather, to international television markets. (Watch the trailer)
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January 15, 2009 at 11:08 am Permalink
From the Nashville Scene critic’s poll article:
“The point is that Womack is working with the themes, vocabulary and sound that a traditional country audience uses, while Swift uses the materials of a pop-rock audience. Each audience deserves its own songs, and while there is no danger of the young pop-rock audience getting cut off from its supply of songs, there is a danger for the older country audience.”
Excellent point…a very good read. Thanks for the link.
January 15, 2009 at 11:33 am Permalink
My favorite from the Nashville Scene poll was this quote from Frank Kogan:
Taylor Swift is determined and tenuous and confident and wavering and incandescent, and the time is hers—and behind it all is a bomb of pain, and this pain has a name, and its name is “boys.”
January 15, 2009 at 11:50 am Permalink
OK, who voted Darius in Album?
January 15, 2009 at 11:53 am Permalink
Is anyone else puzzled by the sudden addition of an extra verse in Jamie O’Neal’s “Like A Woman” video? They put the new verse at the very beginning, and I don’t really like it… I hope the old version is what’s on her album.
January 15, 2009 at 12:09 pm Permalink
I just picked up Hayes Carll’s album and find it somewhat reminiscent of Bobby Bare Jr.’s “From the End of Your Leash.” Am I nuts?
January 15, 2009 at 12:54 pm Permalink
OK, who voted Darius in Album?
Alison Bonaguro?
January 15, 2009 at 1:18 pm Permalink
Who the hell voted Taylor in Female vocalist and album? I thought it was supposed to be for country music singers not Pop ones? Even the critics are blinded by her. Does her record company pay you guys off or something?
January 15, 2009 at 2:37 pm Permalink
Joey + Rory didn’t get much love on the list…nowhere on the album list, barely made it into the duo/group list.
But in other Joey + Rory news, I get to see them this Saturday in a hole in the wall outside of Raleigh. Yesss.
January 15, 2009 at 3:10 pm Permalink
Karlie, They were all-over my list (and I just added them to my ‘ones to watch’ list for 09). While the latter point might have been ‘cheating’ on my part, it probably guarantees one of the 8 profiled will ‘do well.’
January 15, 2009 at 3:19 pm Permalink
Wow, Roughstock is doing a “Ones to Watch in 2009″ series. How original!
January 15, 2009 at 4:05 pm Permalink
SW, you’re not nuts – Bare Jr. was the first person I thought of the minute I heard Caril.
January 15, 2009 at 5:33 pm Permalink
Jim,
Just so you know, I had that in the file and wasn’t stealing your idea. Also it’s hardly a new idea…
January 15, 2009 at 7:05 pm Permalink
Female Vocalists:
1. Lee Ann Womack
2. Patty Loveless
3. Miranda Lambert
4. Alison Krauss
5. Trisha Yearwood
6. Taylor Swift WTF????
7. Emmylou Harris
8. Jennifer Nettles
9. Kathy Mattea
10. Lucinda Williams
How anyone..ANYONE can vote for Taylor as a singer is beyond anyone. But to have her above Jennifer Nettles? Also, where is the top female vocalist for CMA’s? Is Carrie blacklisted from the poles?
January 15, 2009 at 7:47 pm Permalink
Great critics poll there. I’m surprised at how much of this music I’ve got on my ipod. If it weren’t for The 9513.com I wouldn’t have known about and come to like Hayes Carll, Jamey Johnson and Ashton Shepherd, among others. Thanks, guys. This blog rocks.
January 15, 2009 at 8:09 pm Permalink
Dito what KathyP said!
January 15, 2009 at 8:33 pm Permalink
Love the interview with Kitty Wells. At least Sunny Sweeney still sings Kitty’s signature hit when Sunny performs on the Grand Ole Opry.
The Nashville Scene poll results are cool for the most part. Love to see Ashton Shepherd recognized as the most talented newcomer. The question of whether pop chanteuse Taylor Swift is truly a “country artist” is addressed with real insight in the intro article and some of the voter/participant comments, but the answer stll remains “who knows?”.
January 16, 2009 at 1:07 am Permalink
Matt, I honestly don’t care. You could start writing “The Matt B. Minute” and I’d be fine with it. I just can’t believe you used the exact same title (save for the one word change).
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