Blake Shelton & Charlie Daniels Among New Albums; Rosanne Cash Releases Memoir
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New releases for the week of August 10, 2010 include:
- Zac Brown Band‘s next album, You Get What You Give, isn’t set to release until Sept. 21, but the first single, “As She’s Walking Away,” was made available for download today and features Alan Jackson (Amazon | iTunes). The band also has several pre-order bundles available on its website.
- Galleywinter is hosting a contest for 10 lucky winners to receive tickets to a preview party for the new Randy Rogers Band album, Burning the Day.
- Rosanne Cash‘s memoir, Composed, was released today and Amazon has a special playlist of her songs along with notes written by Cash about each title. (More: Check out Juli Thanki’s review of the book here on The 9513.)
“Seven Year Ache” (1981)
Seven Year Ache This song began as a long poem, three or four pages long, and I distilled it down into the song it became. I wrote it when Rickie Lee Jones first album was out, and it was really influential for me. I was thinking that I didn’t know any country songs about being on the streets, or street life, and I wanted to write one. This was my attempt. - The Washington Post, The Tennessean, and The Huffington Post published interviews with Rosanne Cash about her new book.
- In exchange for your email address, Randy Houser is providing previews to the songs from his next album, They Call Me Cadillac. This week’s sneak peeks include: “Lowdown and Lonesome,” “They Call Me Cadillac,” and “Addicted.”
- The Ralph Berrier, Jr. book If Trouble Don’t Kill Me: A Family’s Story of Brotherhood, War, and Bluegrass was released today.
- At 6:30 ET this evening an acoustic set from Chris Young will be streamed live for anyone who wants to watch.
- Bill Friskics-Warren on the new Blake Shelton EP:
A nod to the ’70s heyday of Waylon and Willie, when Outlaws were more complex than macho cartoons, Shelton’s latest “six pak” harks back to a time when Nashville rebels could be rowdy and real at the same time.
- Blake Shelton will be chatting with ESPN today at 1 p.m. ET.
- There was a time in the ’80s when Buddy Miller didn’t play at all, but starting tonight and continuing each Tuesday in August, he’ll perform at the Country Music Hall of Fame as its Artist in Residence.
- Toby Keith and the Dixie Chicks might have drawn more attention, but Michael McCall says Charlie Daniels has been the most politically outspoken country star of the last decade.
- The bluegrass band Hot Rize (MySpace) hasn’t toured in more than 10 years, but later this month Bryan Sutton will join original band members Pete Wernick, Tim O’Brien, and Nick Forster for a reunion tour.
- Houston Press’ Chris Gray and William Michael Smith co-authored an in-depth article about the traditional country music scene in Houston, and mentioned that Mike Stinson (Houston transplant by way of Los Angeles) just cut a new song:
Besides Stinson’s brand-new song “Died and Gone to Houston,” other recent entries in this burgeoning, but hardly brand-new, genre include “What Would Houston Do?” by Baltimore musician Arty Hill and “Neon River” by Jubal Lee, son of “Seven Bridges Road” songwriter Steve Young.
Stinson just recorded a demo of the song, and is thinking of giving it to Gene Watson, who has had six No. 1s and more than 20 country Top 10s since breaking out with 1975′s “Love in the Hot Afternoon.”
- Twang Nation will be hosting the first-ever Twang Nation Jamboree on Aug. 25 in San Francisco.
- Beginning tonight, Butch Hancock will repeat a feat he pulled off 20 years ago at the Cactus Cafe: five straight nights of performances without repeating a song. The reason for the special performance is the changing of the guard at the Cactus Cafe, which will be handed over to public radio station KUT next week.
- Country Universe is giving away five copies of the new Marty Stuart record, Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions.
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August 10, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Always a pleasure to read guys like Bill F-W and Michael.
August 10, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Opry Alert! Tonight’s Opry will include 80′s flashback bands Restless Heart and The Desert Rose Band. Jerrod Niemann will also be guesting to sing “Old School New Again” for an audience that truly appreciates the sentiment. I sure wish they’d ditch the “Opry Legends” on Tuesday nights and reserve them for Friday and Saturday nights only, but that ain’t gonna happen.
Schedule Link: http://www.opry.com/shows/ThisWeek.html
Great, a Hot Rize reunion tour and the closest they get to LA is Berkeley! Dang…
I applaud Butch Hancock’s “Cactus Cafe” marathon no-repeats gig approach. It’s just a shame they didn’t pick a Texas artist worth hearing that much of! Wayne Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmour, or Dale Watson would have been far superior choices (among many others for that matter…).
The “Twang Nation Jamboree” sounds like one of LA’s typical free Sunday afternoon “Grand Ole Echo” Americana shows (which have taken a break for the month of August) except for the samll admission charge. Good luck! Every local music “scene” has to start somewhere!
August 10, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Bit of advice: Buy Rosanne Cash’s memoir. It is excellent! She has such an enjoyable writing style, and her descriptions of her life and career experiences make for very absorbing reading material.
August 10, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Is anyone else impressed with Zac Brown Band’s new single? It really exceeded my expectations.
August 10, 2010 at 8:35 pm
I agree Marco – really liking it. Although, feeling sort of old now that Alan Jackson is considered the wise old sage a la Andy Griffith in “Waitin’ on a Woman.”
August 10, 2010 at 8:45 pm
My local radio station was playing a different Zac Brown Band song, and it was pretty mediocre and several steps back from “Free” and “Highway 20 Ride.” Glad to hear it was just an album cut and not a single.
August 11, 2010 at 9:06 am
The ZBB is quite a dichotomy within modern country music. While they do not have the pop overtones of Lady A, nor the “I wanna be accepted in MTV-Hollywood” desire like Sugarland, nor the southern rock guitar riff head-bangin’ Aldean infusions, they appear to be both popular and critically accepted.
Their appearance is not MTV-trash, their lyrics are fairly sedate yet have some deep meanings, and they seem to be good ole’ boys, not because they are trying to be, but because that is actually who they are. Now isn’t THAT a novel approach for much of these, “Well, like I just like want to like be like country like” wannabes?
And their playing style is a welcome relief. I mean you can actually hear a fiddle and not just s token reference either!
It will be interesting to see how far this ride goes and the roads they will travel. I am not so sure but what this act may be a bellwether for the future. At least in part.
August 11, 2010 at 9:08 am
Pardon my syntax. I meant to hit the preview instead of submit button. So beneath me you know.
August 11, 2010 at 9:33 am
How is that a dichotomy?
August 11, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Five straight nights without repeating a song? That sounds really interesting and would probably be really great to see. I’m excited for the Roseanne Cash book but I doubt she wrote it, there must be a ghostwriter somewhere in there. I’ll read all her interviews when I find the time.
August 12, 2010 at 9:09 am
Stormy,
I do not want to do your research so you can look up the word. The body of my comment explains what I perceive them to be when overlayed on the current regime of modern country music. Research it and come back to report on your findings. There will not be a test.
August 24, 2010 at 12:32 pm
thanks for the twang nation jamboree shout out kids! wish you could make it.