Billboard Ranks Top 25 Country Artists; New Releases; Marty Stuart Honors Jimmie Rodgers
- Using data from radio airplay and album sales, Billboard ranked the top 25 country artists of the past 25 years.
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New releases for the week of June 8, 2010 include:
- Marty Stuart was on hand to help unveil the first marker on the Mississippi Country Music Trail last Tuesday (June 1) and to pay tribute to the marker’s honoree, Jimmie Rodgers. The next marker will honor Stuart.
- Singer-songwriter Drew Kennedy is sending out postcards from the road to anyone who wants one. He’s also emailing fans a couple of bonus songs (“Goodbye” and “Baytown”) that were recorded during the making of his live album. All you have to do to get both (songs and postcard, that is) is leave a tip in his digital tip jar, any amount you choose. While you’re visiting his site, check out the behind-the-scenes footage from his upcoming video for “Room #27.”
- Songwriter and producer Buddy Cannon underwent surgery last Tuesday to clear a blocked artery, and was back home on Wednesday recovering.
- Listen to the new Randy Rogers Band single “Too Late For Goodbye.”
- Legendary honky tonk Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge turns 50 this year and to celebrate, Kris Kristofferson, Terri Clark, and other yet to be announced performers will play at the Ryman on Nov. 7.
- The recent Brooks & Dunn tribute brought in $1 million for the ACM charity Lifting Lives.
- Asleep at the Wheel‘s followup to last year’s excellent Willie and the Wheel album is due out on July 20. The album, titled It’s A Good Day, features Texas Playboys vocalist Leon Rausch, one of the band’s primary influences right behind Bob Wills.
- Country California: Quotable Country – 06/07/10 Edition
- The Earles, McCourys, Shavers and more on Mountain Stage. Oh, my!
- Dierks Bentley interviews: Los Angeles Times | The Boston Globe | Associated Press
- More Dierks Bentley: Performance of “Fiddlin’ Around” on FoxBusiness | Streams of “Draw Me A Map,” “Faillin’ For You,” and “Bad Angel” on EW.com’s Music Mix
- Ninebullets.net digs the new live album from Wade Bowen.
- Bucky Covington on American Idol: (via Country California)
That show takes a bunch of armatures and puts them on the biggest TV show in America, and that can work one of two ways for you. I’ve seen it make people look like complete idiots; well, actually it shows the world that these people are complete idiots. And then there’s some people where you’re like ‘where have these people been hiding?’
- Toby Keith‘s seventh annual Toby Keith & Friends Golf Classic raised nearly $600,000 for children battling cancer.
- Elizabeth Cook on ‘World Cafe: Next’
- The latest edition of American Songwriter‘s Sessions features an interview with Cadillac Sky, a video of the band performing “Hangman,” and mp3′s for “Human Cannonball,” “Hypocrite,” and “Trapped Under The Ice,” all of which appear on the band’s new album Letters In The Deep.
- The 9513′s Karlie Justus has a new gig reporting to FOX 103 WFXD on the latest news in country music. Check out her first episode on The Music Row Insider.
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- Update: The new Jamey Johnson single “Macon” is available for download on iTunes.
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June 8, 2010 at 11:16 am
Tonight’s Opry is the annual “Fan Fair Special” show and will feature The Band Perry, Josh Turner, Trisha Yearwood, a few oldie Legends, and Carrie Underwood having the entire final half hour segment to herself! NorthTexasVet should be happy about that! I’ll be listening until Carrie starts her caterwalling…
That new Asleep At The Wheel project sounds interesting, but how does Leon sound these days? Maybe they should have invited Jake Hooker and Tony Booth to join in the project. Hmm…
Texas based fans of Western Swing might want to head over to Synder later this week as they will have daily concerts from Wednesday the 9th through Saturday the 12th. Details can be found at:
Snyder’s Website: http://www.snyderchamber.org
Is that Bucky Covington quote verbatim? I think he meant “amateurs” rather than “armatures” which are usually only found inside electric motors…
June 8, 2010 at 11:56 am
Whoa. Congratulations to Karlie and “The 9-5-1-3.”
June 8, 2010 at 12:05 pm
If you like bluegrass at all, don’t let the hoopla surrounding Dierks’ very excellent album distract you so much that you ignore Junior Sisk’s.
Buddy Cannon is indeed “back at his daily activities,” which include maintaining one of the funniest personal pages on Facebook.
June 8, 2010 at 12:38 pm
I love Junior Sisk!
June 8, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Already picked up the new Dierks and looking forward to getting the new Cadillac Sky if I can find it anywhere around here!
June 8, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Sarah Buxton fans will enjoy a new interview posted over at Country Standard Time where Sarah talks about The Buxton Hughes Band.
Link: http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/article.asp?xid=1110
I’m shocked the NineBullets folks would love a new album from Wade Bowen! That’s about as unexpected as Bill Clinton chasing every cute skirt he encounters…
Congratulations to Karlie on her new gig! I’d highly recommend Karlie take some basic courses in meteorology so she can set her sights on becoming a big bucks “weather babe” on her local TV news broadcast! Go Karlie! (lol)
June 8, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Congratulations Karlie! That is amazing.
June 8, 2010 at 6:37 pm
For anyone interested in Dierks’ new album, it’s $6.99 at Best Buy- $3 cheaper than on Amazon MP3 or iTunes AND you get the physical CD!
June 8, 2010 at 6:49 pm
It’s $7.99 ($1 more) on Amazon for the digital album and digital booklet. But cheaper for the physical product is cool.
June 8, 2010 at 7:05 pm
The new Bentley album is really fantastic.
June 8, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Jewel’s new album is pure awesomeness <3 I'm thrilled that it's finally here at last! =)
June 8, 2010 at 7:39 pm
How does it compare to Pieces of You and Spirit?
June 9, 2010 at 12:20 am
I’ve never listened to those albums, because I haven’t followed her career prior to her country crossover
June 9, 2010 at 4:58 am
I didn’t think much of Jewel’s new one after the first listen, but I suppose it could grow on me. “Pieces Of You” and “Spirit” weren’t my type of music, but as far as I could tell, “Sweet And Wild” didn’t have the lyrical edge and skill Jewel showed on those albums.
June 9, 2010 at 2:49 pm
I think Sweet and Wild is a step above Perfectly Clear, which is my opinion an already fantastic album
The only drawback I noticed was that she re-used a couple lines, which I don’t -really- have a problem with because they’re good lines… but when I hear the line “The light bulbs buzz” in “Fading,” I can’t help but think of that line used in “Stronger Woman”
June 9, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Julia C H – thanks so much! It’s been a blast so far. Follow along on Twitter @The9513 – the radio station has tweeted out the audio, so hopefully folks can follow along that way.
June 10, 2010 at 12:22 am
Will do. Looking forward to it.
June 11, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Can’t wait to see the site review Dierks new album. I was hesitant about the whole bluegrass idea, but it turned into a fantastic project. Great album through and through… the worst song is easily the lead single, so I really don’t know why they chose that one, but whatever, I’m sure with all the huge names involved in this it will get the recognition it deserves regardless.
June 11, 2010 at 6:38 pm
And I just realized I missed Matt C. and Rick’s kind words as well – thanks guys, I really appreciate it. It’s a fun gig, and Fox 103 has been great to work with.