Carrie Underwood’s Holiday Variety Show; New Releases; Stream Del McCoury Band, Tim McGraw
- Carrie Underwood signed for a one-time variety special on Fox tentatively titled Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special.
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New releases for the week of October 13, 2009 include:
- Stream the Del McCoury Band’s forthcoming album Family Circle (Oct. 27) in its entirety on The Bluegrass Blog.
- Listen to “Hillbilly Bone,” Blake Shelton’s new single featuring Trace Adkins.
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Music Fog videos:
- Stream Tim McGraw’s new album Southern Voice in its entirety at AOL Music.
- Billboard.com has a one-minute clip of “Mama’s Song,” a new track from Carrie Underwood’s album Play On (Nov. 3).
- Tomorrow night marks the debut of “Music City Roots: Live From The Loveless Cafe,” the first non-Orpy live show on WSM-AM in fifty years.
- In memory of Rusty Wier, listen to “Cobey’s Song” at Groover’s Paradise.
- Watch Robert Earl Keen in Studio 1A with Jay Trachtenberg. | Grab an mp3 of “The Rose Hotel” here.
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October 13, 2009 at 11:03 am Permalink
You can download that Underwood song on itunes. It has more of a country feel. I enjoy this sound on her far better then Cowboy Casanova.
October 13, 2009 at 11:07 am Permalink
i cant imagine how awesome it would be to get to eat some of those Loveless Cafe bisucuits with jam and fried chicken while watching live music…
October 13, 2009 at 11:40 am Permalink
Student tickets are only five bucks for those Music City Roots tickets… I’ll definitely be looking into that.
October 13, 2009 at 11:43 am Permalink
Opry Alert! Tonight’s Opry performers will include Wade Bowen, The Steeldrivers, Jamie O’Neal, Eric Church & Justin Moore.
Schedule Link: http://www.opry.com/TicketsAndInformation/ThisWeek.aspx
Listen In at 7 PM Nashville Time: http://www.wsmonline.com/
I’m looking forward to listening to the new live concerts from the Loveless Cafe on WSM on Wednesday nights. It sounds like they will be featuring many performers that rarely or never make it to the Opry stage. I’d love to hear Elizabeth Cook, The Wrights, Ashley Monroe, and Sunny Sweeney featured at some point among other worthy artists.
October 13, 2009 at 12:26 pm Permalink
I’m glad for Wade Bowen. In the podcast interview he and I did about this time last year, he made it clear to me (on and off mic) that he truly respects the traditions of the Opry and it’s role in the history of country music (even if his own music leans a bit to the “rock side” of the aisle:-)…
October 13, 2009 at 1:06 pm Permalink
The full song of “Mama’s Song” is also on youtube. It is very good indeed.
October 13, 2009 at 1:39 pm Permalink
You can also download all of Carolyn Mark’s new album on I-Tunes. Its funnier and more biting than Cowboy Cassanova
October 13, 2009 at 1:40 pm Permalink
Carrie Underwood – Interview – “Mama’s Song”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpRZ_HdlsS0&
October 13, 2009 at 2:21 pm Permalink
Thanks Dan, just listened to the Youtube version. Darn, Darn it! I loved the snippet of “Mama’s Song” on billboard.com and thought yes this is so beautiful, just guitar and Carrie’s pure voice. Then the youtube long version has Mark Bright’s big production sound midway through to ruin it. It’s still a beautiful song but for me it did not need the big production and the singers singing “Don’t you worry” in the background..that took away from the emotional, realism of the song.
Sighhhhhhhhhhhh…..
October 13, 2009 at 3:36 pm Permalink
The Roots series at Loveless looks great – Emmylou this week, Mike Farris and Sam Bush the next, and then further alon, people like Scott Miller, Angela Easterling and Shawn Camp. Thank goodness for the internet – these folks will never come to my neck of the great white north!
October 13, 2009 at 4:27 pm Permalink
Rick’s Random Tidbits:
Over at CMT.com Alison Bonaguro has a blog about enjoying music being potentially good for you! Here’s my favorite part:
“He also discovered that when people listened to music they didn’t particularly enjoy, the blood vessels began to close up. And the study also warns that listening to the same song over and over diminished the good effects on the body.”
Wow, this means that AirHead Country Top 40 radio stations might have to start airing health warnings akin to what’s on cigarette packs! “Warning: The surgeon general has determined that repeated exposure to pop-rock crap masquerading as country music can constrict your blood vessels and lower your I.Q.!” I had no idea how insidious that mediocre mainstream country crap really is! Thank goodness I kicked the habit and swore it off long ago…(lol)
October 13, 2009 at 5:16 pm Permalink
That’s funny Rick. Maybe the Industry is trying to kill everyone off. I think they have already done their job on lowering the IQ of the listeners part.
As far as Carrie’s “Mama’s Song” goes…hearing it once was enough for me. The melody of the song sounds awfully familiar, and it really isn’t even about her Mama anyway, so much as it is about the singer finding the right man from what I gathered. But I’ll let each listener interpret the song how he or she wants. In the meantime, I’ll stick to Kristy Lee Cook’s “Like My Mother Does” for a good mother-daughter song. I guess I just enjoy and prefer the way she delivers and inteprets a song, and her voice and style. But it’s all a personal choice anyway. And I don’t want my blood vessels closing up either… :)
October 13, 2009 at 5:42 pm Permalink
I haven’t heard Carrie’s new song, but I plan to do that soon
However, Blake Shelton/Trace Adkins new song is quite a disappointment
October 13, 2009 at 5:48 pm Permalink
Phil, speaking of Kristy Lee Cook, she’s landed herself a cable channel TV gig! Here’s the details:
http://www.nashvillegab.com/2009/10/kristy-lee-cook-got-herself-a-job.html
I’m sure every guy watching that show would like to have Kristy along as a hunting buddy…(lol)
October 13, 2009 at 6:02 pm Permalink
Kristy Lee Cooks “Like my Momma Does”, is so awesome. She really does deliver that song. I wish she would record Faithfully, She sang in on Idol, then at a concert I saw in Oregon. WOW, she is so much better. And I saw the show. It is great, but I hope she don’t give up singing.
October 13, 2009 at 7:04 pm Permalink
i cant imagine how awesome it would be to get to eat some of those Loveless Cafe bisucuits with jam and fried chicken while watching live music…
I know, right? When I die, I want to go to the Loveless Cafe.
October 13, 2009 at 7:11 pm Permalink
Thanks for the link to the interview, Texasvet!
October 13, 2009 at 7:13 pm Permalink
Rick…I was mad that Arista marketed Kristy the way they did to the wrong audience in my opinion (to Carrie’s fans and to the AI audience exclusively), and gave her almost zero promotion for her album and single, and timed everything so poorly. It’s pretty obvious they were rushing everything (recording her album in 4 days while she had a sinus infection?) so they could make a quick buck and drop her at the end of last year if things didn’t work out. Why Arista signed her and then marketed her as if she was Carrie Underwood Lite (just compare the videos of “Before He Cheats” and “15 Minutes Of Shame” and see if you notice any similarities) and gave her so little promotion still leaves me scratching my head since they already had Carrie Underwood on their label. It makes absolutely no sense to me. She has so much more to offer as an artist than “15 Minutes Of Shame”…and they never gave her a chance to show it. Maybe American Idol wasn’t the best venue for her to show off her talent either, but nowadays female Country singers don’t have much of a chance at success unless they go on some Reality TV show and bring in their own (and already established) fanbase (which basically does nothing more than set up a popularity and comparison contest between all of the female Country artists and their fanbases). So you can’t fault her for trying to go that route (or maybe some will…). I don’t think anybody will ever let her performance of 8 Days A Week go though.
Anyway, I haven’t watched the hunting show because I don’t get that channel (thanks for mentioning it Rick), but Kristy did mention to her fans she is planning on moving to Nashville part time and is writing and recording songs and shopping for labels, and possibly working on another Reality TV show…but I have no clue if that’s true or even what it would be about. I just hope another label gives her a chance to show who she truly is as an artist (or wants to be as an artist), because Arista sure didn’t give her one. Anyway, now I’m starting to sound like I know Kristy personally, which I don’t. And I don’t want to make it sound like I’m trying to give her promotion…but her case is a very good example of exactly what I see as being wrong with the industry as a whole today. It’s more about creating artists and giving them a role to play and copying someone else’s success, than it is about letting artists create themselves and choose their own path they wish to take. Which in turn, makes everyone sound and look the same. I’m sure others could add to it. Nevertheless, I’m sure a lot of guys would like to have Kristy along as a hunting buddy like you said. lol
October 17, 2009 at 11:55 pm Permalink
Billboard.com now has up the 1 minute clip of Carrie Underwood’s song, “Temporary Home.”
Carrie has sung another winner and she proves to us once again why she is one of country’s biggest stars.
October 20, 2009 at 9:14 am Permalink
The full version of “Temporary Home” can now be heard on youtube.
October 20, 2009 at 9:55 am Permalink
Dan,
I posted the TH youtube link at the forum.
October 20, 2009 at 1:09 pm Permalink
th interview with Carrie, behind the music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCSweSm41i8&feature=player_embedded
October 25, 2009 at 12:34 pm Permalink
“Undo It” now has its 1-minute preview on Billboard.com from Carrie Underwood. This will be her last song preview until the release of her album on Nov. 3rd.
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