Blues Marker Erected In Honor Of Jimmie Rodgers And Faith Hill To Debut New Single On ACM Show Tonight
- Meridian, Mississippi unveiled a blues marker at the 54th Annual Jimmie Rodgers Festival. The marker was erected at the Singing Brakeman Park and is the 11th of an anticipated 100-plus blues markers planned for the state of Mississippi.
- Faith Hill will debut the first single, “Lost,” from her to-be-released album tonight at the ACM awards. The Hits is scheduled to be released later this year.
- Trace Adkins says that he doesn’t make his music for kids because they don’t listen to him.
When he’s putting a record together, he makes sure there’s at least two or three radio-ready tunes. The rest of the album, he says, is a free-for-all, a chance for him to create music as he sees fit, even if it violates a G-rating.
- Ryan Seacrest tried prying the truth from Kellie Pickler about rumors that she got a breast augmentation.
Ever since the show and your comments, all I hear about is my boobs. But you know me, Ryan, I like to be the center of attention, and right now me and the girls, we are pretty much getting a lot of attention. I like to keep it a mystery. Let the mystery live on because as soon as I say yes or no then no one is going to care anymore.”
Knowing what we know about Pickler and her love for Dolly Parton, as well as her refusal to deny the rumors, I think it’s safe to say that she did have an operation.
- Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert had a bet on who would sell the most albums during their first week. Lambert won, so Blake says he has to take his girlfriend on a three day vacation. GAC reports that Shelton did come out victorious in the singles department with “Don’t Make Me” closing in on the Top Ten on the country charts.
- Peter Cooper makes the case that artists nominated for an ACM award are a lot happier with the exposure they get from playing in front of a television audience than they are with the concern of winning any awards.
Aldean — who won for top new male vocalist at last year’s ACMs — is excited to play new single “Johnny Cash” on the show. But he’s not even hoping to win for best song, a prize that goes to the writers and to the artist, and best video.
“George Strait is in both of those categories, and I’d be kind of ticked off if we won and he didn’t,” said Aldean.
- Taylor Swift says she made it a point to be highlighted for everything but her age, she says she didn’t want to use it as a gimmick to get ahead. She also talks about nurturing her MySpace page and treating it like it was something important and not just a marketing tool.
- Karen Rappaport wrote in letting us know about a band that she represents, The BummKinn Band. They sing country music for kids. The lyrics are easy to understand, the instrumentation is fun, and they’ve created their own BummKinn personas. Most children can’t relate to the heavy subject material found in country music, so I think it’s great these guys are playing something that they can relate to. Have your kids check out their MySpace and let us know what they think.
- Also, if you live in or around Austin, head out to Waterloo Records at 5PM today for an in-store performance and singing from Bruce Robison for the release of his “It Came From San Antonio” EP release today.
- UPDATE: Wow, Brian Hofeldt from The Derailers is an extremely lucky man after surviving an atrocious wreck.. Palo Duro Records reports that while Brian was on his way home from Mother’s Day, a drunk driver unexpectedly swerved into his lane and “sent his car off a 15-foot low-water crossing bridge, resulting in a 30′ airborne flight before the vehicle tumbled several times to a stop.” Follow the link to see pictures.
- Josh Turner says that he wrote “Me and God” for himself, almost like a journal entry, and that he didn’t think it had any commercial value.
Turner wrote the song about five years ago. He played it for Stanley backstage at the Grand Ole Opry one night and asked him to sing on it. He said the veteran gave the song an added dimension.
”It’s a song about my relationship with God, but then you have this guy over here who just turned 80 and has such a history in the world of bluegrass and country and roots music and who also has a relationship with God,” Turner said.
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