Authenticty Is The Deciding Factor In The Future Of Country Music
- John Goodspeed writes that the reason Miranda Lambert’s single “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” was pulled from radio was because “radio programmers couldn’t quite get their heads around a song about an angry, pistol-packing ex confronting her former boyfriend and his new babe.”
- The Austin Chronicle has a couple of book reviews. The first Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry, in which the reviewer says “Public Cowboy No. 1 is too deeply flawed to recommend.” And secondly, Doug Freeman calls To Live’s To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt insightful, bizarre, and invaluable, but also states that the book never quite reaches a “sufficient narrative stride.”
- The way Alan Jackson’s “A Woman’s Love” sounds is not the way Jackson intended for it to sound, but he followed Alison Krauss’s vision and came up with the version that just cracked the Top 5 on Billboard’s country chart.
- There’s more Joey Allcorn media from Take Country Back, this time in the form of a podcast. Allcorn participates in an audio interview on the very first episode of It Burns When I Pee, a podcast that will be highlighting lesser known/alt-country artists.
- Twang Nation posted a video of Johnny Cash’s last performance in July of 2003.
- CMA Music Festival is one big networking event for artists.
- Mak Kaylor, author of Confessions of a Session Singer: Scandalous Secrets of Success Behind the Mic, says the simple secret to Music Row success is “Be as kind to the receptionist as you are to the studio owner.”
- Chet Flippo’s wisdom says “The future of country music will be decided by the authenticity of the music itself.”
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June 1, 2007 at 9:53 pm Permalink
Chet Flippo is my hero. He must have some SERIOUS pictures of the head honchos at Viacom to keep his job with all that crazy talk about “authenticity.’
June 4, 2007 at 10:14 pm Permalink
He’s just keepin’ it real, dawg.
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