Carrie Underwood Joins Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame; John Fogerty Thrills At Americana Music Festival
- Carrie Underwood and Ramona Reed, the only female singer to record a duet with Bob Wills, are two of the three honorees who will be inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame tonight.
- The sound is a little muddied, but Bruce Robison posted a live video of the new song “The New Me,” and he has another new song loaded in his MySpace player titled “Born to Roll” that’s a duet with Rodney Crowell.
- For the Record’s Mike Severson laments the mediocrity of today’s radio singles:
While on the stationary bike I saw five videos amongst promos and advertising. All currents and all on the charts at the moment (one may be considered a recurrent). As a fan of music and a radio listener I was incredibly disappointed. Besides each video bringing an element of over dramatization, the songs were below average radio fodder. Each single was from a major label, around mid-tempo, had unoriginal lyrics, overdone themes, and predictable melody. They also had a hooky chorus and in the end that’s all that really matters because they probably are testing well for radio stations. The lowest common denominator typically wins and real music lovers lose because Nashville will continue to release the songs that they think will test well for radio stations across the board.
- Thad Cockrell is releasing his first studio album in six years, To Be Loved, on Oct. 13.
- Drew Kennedy, one-half of the New American Voices tour, shared the lyrics and inspiration behind a song he wrote yesterday morning titled “The Test of Time.”
- Farce The Music parodied Taylor Swift’s “Teardrops On My Guitar” with the new song “Bloodstains On My Guitar.”
- Country California’s C.M. Wilcox doesn’t understand the danger of fan videos at concerts.
Are people going to piece together songs, albums, discographies from Youtube clips to avoid paying for music? If they’ve got that much free time and that little interest in supporting the artists, do you think you’ll convert them into music consumers by disallowing fan video at concerts? People who would rather resort to MacGyver tactics for poor recordings than pay $0.99 per song for quality wouldn’t have been your big consumers in the first place. People like that will find a way to get around any roadblock you lay in their path.
- Kevin Skinner won the current season of America’s Got Talent by singing mostly country music.
- The live concert video Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Ray Price: The Last of the Breed is now available on iTunes.
- Radney Foster on his new album, Revival:
“I know musically there are times when it’s certainly gospel flavored, and there are certainly gospel themes on the whole thing, and I would say there are even two or three gospel songs on it, but it’s not really a gospel record,” he says. “My hope would be that someone of no faith, Christian faith, Jewish faith, Muslim or anything in between would listen to it and say, ‘Oh, OK, I get it.’”
- Even though word of John Fogerty’s surprise set at the Americana Music Festival got out before it ocurred, Peter Cooper says it was still a thrill and likens having Buddy Miller in your band and not using him as a harmony singer to having Wayne Gretzsky on your hockey team and using him as a goalie.
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September 17, 2009 at 11:05 am Permalink
Congratulations Carrie! I know a lot of people that like to sing your songs. You’re very popular among the karaoke crowd.
September 17, 2009 at 11:43 am Permalink
Howdy, spammer!
September 17, 2009 at 12:04 pm Permalink
“You’re very popular among the karaoke crowd.”
Uh Oh! I bet that comment will generate some snarky comments! LOL!
September 17, 2009 at 12:08 pm Permalink
Are we sure that wasnt a snarky comment itself? perhaps we a rent giving Jay Mac enough credit here???
September 17, 2009 at 12:32 pm Permalink
I removed the link in his name to Chartbuster Karaoke…
September 17, 2009 at 1:16 pm Permalink
I always really like what Mike Severson has to say about the current state of mainstream country music. he just made an oversight in leaving out the word “mediocrity”.
That John Fogerty gig would have been awesome to attend. When I looked at the list of artists performing during this “Americana Week” in Nashville, I spotted more names I’d love to see perform live than on the Fan Fair roster! Its a shame so many truly talented country artists wind up stuck in the Americana basement (or is it a dungeon?) as the mainstream country scene has gone whole heartedly for pop-rock crap. Oh well…
September 17, 2009 at 4:07 pm Permalink
Congrats Kevin Skinner on winning AGT =)
September 17, 2009 at 4:36 pm Permalink
Nicolas, I’m conducting an experiment and I need your assistance! Go to Juli’s review of Willie & The Wheel’s “Hesitation Blues” and listen through the entire song (if you can make it) and then post comments about your reaction. Of the regulars here you are most representative of the typical “satisfied Top 40 country radio listener” and I want to read how you would respond to that song if it got slotted in between Taylor Swift and Gloriana on the country radio station you listen to! Please!
September 17, 2009 at 4:51 pm Permalink
Honestly, the girl gossip group in the high school office talk about “America’s Got Talent” religiously. We’re from Kentucky y’all so you might be surprised that we were all surprised that Kevin won it. His first song, was great but since then he’s been off key. So we figure because he’s a out of work chicken catcher that the bleeding hearts voted for him over people with real talent. Also, I wonder if he’ll have the where with all to know what to do with that prize money.
September 17, 2009 at 5:33 pm Permalink
Congrats to Carrie!
September 17, 2009 at 8:10 pm Permalink
Congrats to Carrie! I lknow alot of people that love youru songs, and you! And they are called GRAMMY VOTERS! :) Oh, and CMA and ACM voters as well. So don’t listen to the snarky cynics here, and just keep on doing your thing. Yoou are amazing!
September 17, 2009 at 8:19 pm Permalink
Here’s an article with pix from tonight’s OK Music HOF press conference:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=269&articleid=20090917_371_0_MUSKOG135527&allcom=1
September 18, 2009 at 8:47 am Permalink
You might want to rethink your logic A. Moran. Grammy voters do no love Carrie Underwood or others of her ilk. In one of the fe cases of the Grammies getting something right, Grammy voters, who tend to be not country fans, vote for more artistic endeavors. While Allison Krause and Robert Plant were ignored by country radio, the Grammies justly gave them best album.
September 18, 2009 at 8:57 am Permalink
“You might want to rethink your logic A. Moran. Grammy voters do no love Carrie Underwood or others of her ilk.”
I don’t know about that; she’s won three Grammys for “Best Female Country Vocal Performance,” and she also won the “Best New Artist” award in 2006. And unlike the country field categories, the latter award is one voted on by all Grammy voters.
September 18, 2009 at 9:28 am Permalink
Technically, Grammy voters can vote in any field category they like, although I think there may be a limit on the number of categories they can vote in.
September 18, 2009 at 9:39 am Permalink
“Technically, Grammy voters can vote in any field category they like, although I think there may be a limit on the number of categories they can vote in.”
Academy members can vote in the “general” field, and in up to 9 fields (”categories” are the individual awards within each field) out of more than 30.
September 18, 2009 at 12:48 pm Permalink
Carrie Underwood – Cowboy Casanova – LIVE – OK Music Hall of Fame Ceremony – 9-17-09:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A6t13sdH2w
September 18, 2009 at 1:27 pm Permalink
Hmmm, and I thought that Okalahoma Sucks T-Shirt was just about football….
Hee.
September 19, 2009 at 8:39 am Permalink
Jim just called Underwood Chart Buster Karaoke. How about Swift? The new face of country music perhaps? Hehehe.
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