Carrie Underwood Marries; New Releases List; Zac Brown Band Schedules New Album
- It’s official, Carrie Underwood is a married woman.
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New releases for the week of July 13, 2010 include:
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Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants – Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants
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Eliza Gilkyson, John Gorka, and Lucy Kaplansky – Red Horse
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Jerrod Niemann – Judge Jerrod and the Hung Jury
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Rusti Steel and the Star Tones – Gone with the Wind
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Senator Robert Byrd – Mountain Fiddler (Reissue)
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Various Artists – Southern Filibuster: A Tribute To Tut Taylor
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- The above release from Gary Bennett (of BR549 fame) is a four-song EP that serves as a precursor to a full-length album due out later this year. Two of the songs will be on the album, which leaves covers of “Hickory Wind” and “Long Black Veil” as bonus tracks exclusive to the EP.
- Sound engineer Bill Porter, whose work was an integral part of the Nashville Sound era, passed away last Wednesday at the age of 79.
- Josh Turner made a 10-year-old cancer patient’s wish come true.
- As of yesterday, the new Joey+Rory single, “This Song’s For You” (featuring Zac Brown Band), is streaming at the duo’s website.
- The next Zac Brown Band album, You Get What You Give, is due out on Sept. 21.
- Paste posted video of bluegrassy band Trampled By Turtles performing four songs from its recent release.
- The pop group Maroon 5 enlisted the help of Lady Antebellum for a track on its new album, Hands All Over. The album won’t be considered country, but lead singer Adam Levine says the country influences will be present.
- The Texas Music Chart presented Pat Green with the “Decade Award” at a recent concert for having the most Texas radio airplay in the past decade.
- Listen to Asleep at the Wheel perform “Truck Driver’s Blues” with 82-year-old former Texas Playboy vocalist Leon Rausch and Willie Nelson.
- The Boot’s list of of the top 10 catchy songs in country includes earworms from the likes of Carrie Underwood, Roger Miller, The Oak Ridge Boys, and more.
- Jimmy Carter posted numerous pictures from this past weekend’s Aquapalooza concert, which featured Brad Paisley as the headliner and drew more than 65,000 fans, doubling last year’s attendance.
- Paste listed the 10 best Willie Nelson songs.
- Emmylou Harris touched on her activism, new music, and early career in an interview published on Gibson’s Lifestyle blog.
- Rounder Records plans to release At Edwards Barn, a Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen career retrospective recorded live in 2009, on Sept. 21.
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Writing for Texas Music Magazine, Lynne Margolis profiled The Trishas, a quartet that includes Savannah Welch, Liz Foster, Kelley Mickwee and Jamie Wilson. Their recently recorded EP should be out by summer’s end. Here’s a video from Music Fog of the ladies performing “Trouble”:
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July 13, 2010 at 12:29 pm
I dig the new Joey + Rory w/ZBB. Cool tune – hope to add that one here real soon.
Stoked for a new ZBB album in the fall. Now, about making up those cancelled shows north of the border from summer ’09…….??!!
Lady A continues to dig themselves a hole in my world…..Maroon 5…..?? Really?? Sigh.
July 13, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Congratulations to Carrie Underwood!
Marriage and a hit career – she can handle it!
July 13, 2010 at 1:14 pm
After three full days of marriage (Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday), I hope Carrie Underwood can handle it. Let me know how things turn out at the end of Friday-her sixth full day of being married!
July 13, 2010 at 4:22 pm
I didn’t realise that Lonesome River Band were releasing a new record. A pleasant surprise to begin the morning I might add.
July 13, 2010 at 4:39 pm
WHOA! Thanx 4 the heads up on the Gary Bennett cd. I am a HUGE br549 fan and wondered what was going on with Mr Bennett. The two songs on his myspace are killer!!!
July 13, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Aww, how sweet of Josh Turner to do that, made me cry to read it =/
Love the new Joey + Rory single, can’t wait for the album, too!
July 13, 2010 at 6:36 pm
I couldn’t make it through Joey+Rory’s new single. When Zac Brown chimed in about greed on Wall Street (typical class warfare gibberish), and followed it with a nebulous anti-war sentiment, that was it! Zac, please feel free to plant your fat ass on a beach somewhere and smoke that big fat joint of yours but leave political thoughts to persons with functional brains! I’ve never cared for Zac’s music and now I know why! Damned Obamavoters. Noeller, you and Canada can have Zac all to yourselves for all I care…
Wow, Pat Green having the most Texas airplay over the last decade is very disappointing! On the other hand the general state of Red Dirt / Texas regional music makes that result seem not so unusual.
Leon Rausch’s voice ain’t what it used to be. Although I like the concept of the new Asleep At The Wheel album with Leon, the execution will not likely be up to snuff for me. It’s like my reaction to Willie’s recent “Country Music” album all over again, ie great concept but No Sale!
If that Trisha’s song is typical of their repertoire, then I think a more appropriate group name might be “The Moaning Mary’s”, or “The Dyin’ Debbie’s”, or “The Wailin’ Wendy’s”, or well, you get the point.
Gary Bennett’s a fine songwriter but has a somewhat weak voice that doesn’t stand up well to live concert abuse. On the BR5-49 live album “Coast To Coast” Gary’s voice starts out weak and goes downhill rapidly from there. Chuck Mead had the much stronger set of pipes in that group.
July 13, 2010 at 7:06 pm
LOL at Rick… or not.
July 13, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Jennys, Rick. Its the Wailin’ Jennys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4egb2gpIg4
July 13, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Thanks to The Boot, I have about 6 songs at once playing in my head. And I guess we see who the music of Lady Antebellum is influencing: emo pop bands.
I’m looking forward to new music from the Zac Brown Band too.
July 13, 2010 at 9:53 pm
@Rick – - thanks buddy!! Hard to believe, but even our “Conservative” government is more liberal than your Obama-voters, so we’ll gladly take Zac and the boys up north here. They’ll get along well with the Doc Boys, and Jo Hikk, too!! :)
July 13, 2010 at 10:00 pm
I’m trying to figure out whether Rick thinks there’s no greed on Wall Street or just that it’s wrong to point it out.
July 13, 2010 at 11:37 pm
My question is…when did Zac Brown even say this stuff? I’m not saying it didn’t happen…but I didn’t hear/see anything about it.
July 14, 2010 at 12:24 am
I don’t think it was an anti-war statement, at least not in the way you’re referring to, Rick. I mean, I think what we’re doing in Iraq and Afghanistan is the right thing to do, but that doesn’t make me happy about the fact that my brother’s spent the vast majority of the last 5 years over there. The point of that line is more about the heart of someone that wishes we didn’t have to do something, but is willing to do it anyway because it’s got to be done. And for the record, Zac Brown doesn’t sing the lead until the bridge, as far as I can tell. I’m pretty confident its Rory Feek singing the male part throughout the verses.
July 14, 2010 at 1:35 pm
^ Yeah, Joey + Rory trade off singing parts on the verses; Zac just does the bridge
July 14, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Zac does the bridge, and then J+R, Zac and the whole band do the final chorus.
July 14, 2010 at 6:21 pm
I was disappointed with the new Joey + Rory song. I really love those guys (even met them once), and I’ve been eager to hear some new music from them, but I thought that song sounded like a pandering attempt to gain radio airplay. It kills me to say that, because I have never leveled such accusations at Joey + Rory before. But they pull out all the stops – give shout-outs to the soldiers, mention raising hell, and sling mud at the “fat cats.” They even add an appearance from country’s current super group for good measure. I wish they had stuck with “That’s Important to Me” as the debut single instead.
July 14, 2010 at 8:18 pm
I can’t get their song to play from their Myspace, so I can’t comment on it now. I have no idea if its pandering, but the fact that they use ZBB makes sense since they’ve been touring together for awhile, which often turns into collaborations.
July 15, 2010 at 8:02 am
@Ben – - Lady A guested on the track???
July 15, 2010 at 7:28 pm
@Leeann Ward: Yeah, Rory and Zac Brown wrote this song together and they’ve been singing it together out on concert, so it makes sense to released the song w/ his name and vocals on it too
July 15, 2010 at 10:21 pm
Rick,
Better watch it! You will be severely upbraided for comments like that on this website. Quite funny though.
July 16, 2010 at 5:11 am
@Leeann Ward
Thanks for pointing that out. I didn’t realize that at first, but the collaboration does make more sense now that you mention that.
@Noeller
Check that – “ONE OF country’s current supergroups.” I guess the Zac Brown Band may be a short step behind Lady A, but they are quickly becoming one of country’s biggest attractions. I’m not a fan of theirs per se, but I can’t help but notice how hot they’ve been lately.
July 20, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Got the new Tim O’Brien and Lonesome river band cds. Some great music.
July 27, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Chuck IS a great singer. Not too good of a songwriter although he had a few Br5-49 songs that were amazing. I have to disagree with you about Gary’s vocals. Have you heard Gary’s first solo album “Human Condition”? If you listen to that or the clips from his new record on his myspce I think you’d take back your statement about his vocals. I’m a huge Br5-49 fan and love both he and Chuck but to say Gary had the weaker voice I’m not sure I agree. Listen to the way he belts out Hickory Wind on that first or second album they did.