Bluegrass Leads Week’s New Releases
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New releases for the week of May 5, 2009 include:
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Bobby Duncan – Faith, Hope and Everything Else
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Bourbon Crow – Long Way To the Bottom
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David Davis & The Warrior River Boys – Two Dimes & A Nickel
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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – Lonely Street
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The Gibson Brothers – Ring the Bell
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- The A Truer Sound blogger shared mp3s of a few of his favorite songs from his record collection: “Private John Q” and “My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died” from Roger Miller and Vern Gosdin’s “Mother Country Music” and “The Chokin’ Kind.”
- McCoury Music will release a new box set on May 12 titled Celebrating 50 Years of Del McCoury.
- Even though the uptempo Joey + Rory song “Cheater, Cheater” only made it to No. 30 on the country charts, Craig Shelburne says the song remains a fan favorite in their live show — especially the “white trash ho” line.
- Bob Dylan says Billy Joe Shaver and David Allan Coe became his favorite guys in the outlaw genre.
- Ninety Mile Wind’s Craig Bickhardt wonders where all the compelling song titles have gone.
If I write a 500 page book called “Headache”, will you want to read it? That’s how I feel when I see a song called “Love” (see the latest Sugarland CD). On the same CD we find “Keep You” and another called “Very Last Country Song”. Glancing at the latest Rascal Flatts CD I see the first two cuts are “Take Me There” and “Here”. My first thought is why weren’t they able to find a song called “Everywhere” to round out a trilogy?
- In an interview with Michael Kosser for American Songwriter, Darius Rucker talks about his transition from Hootie & the Blowfish to mainstream country and what that meant for his songwriting.
- And in another interview for American Songwriter, this time with Craig Shelburne, Dierks Bentley talks about his early years in Nashville, working for TNN and bumming tickets to the Grand Ole Opry, signing his publishing deal and recent collaborations with Rodney Crowell and Patty Griffin.
- Dehlia Low vocalist and fiddler Anya Hinkle shared the particulars behind the band and the making of their new album, Tellico.
- Filming for a new RFD-TV series titled Tru-Country will take place on May 29 in Hamilton, TX. Heather Myles (MySpace) is producing the series and describes it as “Austin City Limits for hardcore country music.” A different artist will be presented each week from the following roster: Jake Hooker, Amber Digby, Justin Trevino, Heather Myles, Dallas Wayne, Darrell McCall, Miss Leslie, Bobby Flores, Leona Williams and James Hand. (via Miss Leslie)
- The Bluegrass Blog on the new Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver album Lonely Street:
The material is drawn from some of today’s top songwriters, with a number of classics thrown into the mix. New songs included came from Carl Jackson, Buddy Cannon, Mark Simos and Chris Stuart. Lawson also covers songs from Marty Robbins and Porter Wagoner, in addition to the title song which was a hit in the late 1950s and the 1960s for Andy Williams and Patsy Cline, performed here as a vocal trio throughout.
- Congrats to Kelly Dearmore for hitting the two year mark on The Gobblers Knob. He has a couple of changes in store for the coming week, but until then, check out his introduction to, and concert review of, the Dallas-based band The King Bucks (MySpace).
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May 5, 2009 at 11:42 am Permalink
That Joey + Rory interview from CMT is a hoot. Now that I’ve met them in person I like them even more since they are such truly friendly down home people. I gave Joey a CD-R of Aussie cowgirl / bush ballad music by Anita Ree which I think she will enjoy. Since so few people came to their LA concert I would count LA’s FM country station among those who didn’t spin “Cheater Cheater”. (I don’t listen so I don’t know for sure though…) On a related note the original version of “Cheater Cheater” as recorded by BOMSHEL is available for download purchase!
Oh great, another RFD TV music show I’d love to see in addition to Marty Stuart’s variety show that isn’t available on my cable system! Aarrgghh! Since Heather Myles is now signed to the Heart of Texas label, its not surprising her show will feature a lot of her label mates. Hey, where’s Kimberly Murray on that list? I’m glad to seee Miss Leslie has been included. Man, that will be my kind of show…
May 5, 2009 at 12:10 pm Permalink
On a more contemporary note, Trace Adkins will release “All I Ask For Anymore” as next single. I’m sort of surprised they take advantage of the momentum built for “Til’ The Last Shot’s Fired”. I assume we won’t get to see it as a single now.
May 5, 2009 at 12:11 pm Permalink
surprised they didn’t take advantage, that is.
May 5, 2009 at 12:39 pm Permalink
Amazon has a couple country tunes available for free download this week. “Mama” by Holly Williams is a rare song about mothers that doesn’t sound completely cloying and sappy (as least judging by the preview), and “In My Time Of Dyin’” by the Lovell Sisters reminds me of the Duhks’ “Ol’ Cook Pot.” And even if you’re not into zydeco and reggae, the freebies from Buckwheat Zydeco and Ziggy Marley (with Paul Simon) sound pretty fun.
May 5, 2009 at 3:29 pm Permalink
Thanks for the tip, Sam. “Mama” is my favorite song off of Holly’s new album and everyone who reads our posts should go download it immediately!!!! Its too bad this song wasn’t Holly’s current single rather than “Keep The Change”. Oh well….
May 5, 2009 at 4:08 pm Permalink
Rick,
It is her Single now.
May 5, 2009 at 4:19 pm Permalink
Congrats to Dolly Parton who scored a Tony nomination for Best Original Score. Her reaction to the nomination is here:
http://broadwayworld.com/videoplay.cfm?colid=52348
May 5, 2009 at 5:25 pm Permalink
I highly recommend the Bobby Duncan CD being released today. He is a young star with endless potential. This CD was produced by the legendary Walt Wilkins so if you like his laid back easy to listen to style, this record is for you!
May 5, 2009 at 6:22 pm Permalink
Matt, thanks for the info! After I posted my comment I dropped by Roughstock and read about this in your free downloads article. I still expect Top 40 country radio to ignore Holly and “Mama”, but it won’t be because of the song being weak. Maybe they should release this to Americana radio as well where a song’s merit still counts for something. I’m glad they are switching singles and wish Lyric Street would have pulled Sarah Buxton’s “Space” early and substituted “There You Go” instead. Each non-established artist gets only so many radio single releases that don’t take before they get axed, and Sarah may have reached her limit.
May 5, 2009 at 7:10 pm Permalink
I refreshed my downloads today on Emusic. I made a beeline to David Davis and the Warrior Boys, The Gibson Brothers, Wayne Hancock and Dale Watson’s new cds.
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