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- Country duo Adam and Shannon Wright are scheduled to release a new self-titled album on January 29. One of the songs on the album, “True Love is a Golden Ring”, was co-written by Alan Jackson and Roger Murrah. Coincidentally, Jackson is also Adam’s uncle.
- I’ve linked to the story about The Inspiring Rise of Brandon Rhyder before, but I just realized that there’s also a new song at the 18:05 mark in the podcast. So if you’re like me and didn’t listen the first time, go check it out. It’s called “Finger to the Bones”.
- A not too shabby review of David N. Meyer’s autobiography of Gram Parsons.
- Brooks & Dunn are taking their tour to Australia for the first time in their careers.
- Todd Snider says his favorite cover of one of his songs is Jerry Jeff Walker’s version of “Alright Guy” — which you might recognize as the title cut from Gary Allan’s 2001 release.
- PopMatters reviews the Time Life live release of Legends of the Grand Ole Opry: Porter Wagoner.
- I usually read sites through their RSS feed, so it was a nice surprise to click through and see that Americana Roots has a spiffy redesign. Feel free to ignore me if this is old news to you.
- Young Hollywood recorded an interview with Ryan Bingham shortly after the release of Mescalito.
- On the subject of Bingham, Brad from Galleywinter says that of all the music that was released this year Mescalito impacted him the most. Check out the other albums and artists that made his list o’ ten. Good stuff.
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November 29, 2007 at 9:48 am Permalink
If anyone here hasn’t heard the Wrights, I’ll urge you to do so posthaste. The only thing wrong with their forthcoming EP is that it’s an EP and not an LP.
November 29, 2007 at 9:54 am Permalink
Better an EP chock-full of quality than an LP with filler.
November 29, 2007 at 10:04 am Permalink
They played a part in that Janet Reno project, Song of America. Their rendition of “Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning” didn’t come close to touching Alan Jackson’s version. I liked the way they sounded together, though, so I’ll have to check out their EP.
November 29, 2007 at 3:30 pm Permalink
The music up on The Wrights’ Myspace page right now is wonderful stuff. First listen, knock my socks off kind of stuff (although more tracks are up on their site – snippets at least http://www.thewrightsmusic.com/thewrights.html. “Rewind” is just killing me, man.
November 29, 2007 at 9:40 pm Permalink
I noticed your comment got zapped by our spam filter, Peter. Sorry about that, but don’t feel bad; Adonis, Hippocrates, Odysseus, and Constantine got filtered, too.
December 2, 2007 at 1:14 am Permalink
The Wrights “Down This Road” was my favorite country album released in 2005 and I’ve listened to my CD more times than I listen to most in my collection. Shannon has one of the purest female country voices I’ve ever heard and writes great songs to boot. Mainstream crap country radio completely ignored their first single, the title cut from the CD, and I have to admit the music video concept for that song was one of the most annoying ever recorded. Having them walking constantly in and out of the room from different directions was just plain dumb and distracting.
Even though they opened most of Uncle Alan’s concerts in 2005, the total lack of radio airplay and a video that was only aired a couple of times doomed them to their current state of obscurity. Its a good thing they are on Alan’s private label or they never would be releasing a second album, EP or otherwise.
Fortunately Alan had Adam and Shannon join him at the Ryman for one song on the “Precious Memories” DVD concert, so at least I can see them perform when I feel like it. Although The Wrights used to perform on the Opry now and then, its been ages since their last appearance. I’m hoping the release of the new EP will motivate them to get back to the Opry stage. Shannon’s live vocal performances are often weak because she plays a big acoustic guitar that dwarfs her tiny frame. She should ditch the guitar and just concentrate on using her voice to its full potential…….
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