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Your Take: How Far is Too Far?
On the heels of Sugarland’s live album release Live on the Inside, ChicagoPride.com recently published an interview with Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland, discussing the band’s affinity for cover songs.
CP: How do you keep continuity, musically, between your own songs and the covers–how do you make the covers your own?
JN: Well, there’s my voice—I’m the one [...] -
Your Take: Live vs. Recorded
Yesterday, CM Wilcox reviewed Steel Magnolia’s first single, “Keep On Loving You.” The duo is the newly crowned victor of the CMT show Can You Duet.
CM posed an interesting question on the very different aspects of an artist’s live performance versus his or her recorded performances on records and radio:
As past Nashville Star and American [...] -
Your Take: Cherry Picking
On Jim’s review of Reba McEntire’s latest album Keep On Loving You, commenters lamented that the record’s lack of consistency would probably drive them to buy individual cuts off the album instead of purchasing it as a whole. (For more on the modern miracle of buying individual songs from digital music stores such as iTunes, [...]
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Your Take: Act Naturally
In Wednesday’s News Roundup, Brody included a mention of a new Hank Williams biopic:
The life of Hank Williams first went to the big screen in 1964 with Your Cheatin’ Heart, but Nashville-based 821 Entertainment Group and Strike Entertainment have teamed up to create a new feature film. Strike Entertainment partner Marc Abraham will write the [...] -
Your Take: Music Award Moments
The Canadian Country Music Association announced its nominees for this year on Wednesday, which got me thinking about music awards shows and their potential for memorable (and infamous) musical moments.
Beyond the awards themselves, these shows offer viewers once-in-a-lifetime collaborations, historic legendary achievement awards, jokes from Vince Gill and questionable lapses of judgement (cough, cough, Faith [...] -
Your Take: Country’s City
In his News Roundup on Tuesday, Brody noted Craig Havighurst, author of Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City, posted an interesting response to the aliterative Tennessean article Is Country Crushing Nashville’s Creativity?, in which reporter Naomi Snyder talked with Music City musicians and academics to see if Nashville’s focus [...]
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Your Take: The Body Snatchers
The Body Snatchers, a collective group of alien seeds that turned their human victims into dust by taking over their bodies, may have been the imaginary musings of Colliers Magazine columnists and author Jack Finney, but what if it could happen for real?
Not in the aliens-destroying-humankind kind of way, of course; instead, what if you [...] -
Your Take: That Je Ne Sais Quoi
Craig Bickhardt, the author of blog Ninety Mile Wind, updated his site this week with a post titled “All the Spells,” about that elusive je ne sais quoi our favorite songs have about them. Bickhardt knows a thing or two about songwriting (his own tunes have been recorded by Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, B. B. [...]
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Your Take: Reinventions
One of my earliest memories of CMT is watching Shenandoah’s “Next to You, Next to Me” video at my grandparents’ house after faking (cough, cough) sick to get out of what I’m sure was a particularly grueling day of elementary school.
The band remains one of my favorites, due in no small part to lead singer [...] -
Your Take: Top States for Country Music
Country singers tour them, name check them and hail from them. But which of the fifty states that make up the USA can lay claim to the “most country” of them all?
Over at the Country Standard Time, writer Mike Sudhalter has been counting down a list of the top states for country music. Last week, [...]
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- todd: Miranda Lambert, Jamey Johnson, and Ashston Shepherd
- K: Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert, Darius Rucker, and Little Big Town. I'd love to hear Carrie ...
- Rick: Ashley Monroe, Sunny Sweeney, Elizabeth Cook, Megan Mullins, The Wrights, Amber Dotson, Lane Turner, Amy Dalley, Susan Haynes, The Jenkins, ...
- Jo Jo: Brooks & Dunn, Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire
- highwayman3: George Strait, Reba, and Lee Ann Womack, oh wait, that's already happening, too bad they aren't coming anywhere near driving ...
- Mayor JoBob: Or Alan Jackson, Rodney Crowell and Marty Stuart with guest appearance by Jimmy Buffett!
- JCH: Jamey Johnson, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert. No idea where the heck that came from.
- Mayor JoBob: Brad Paisley, David Ball and Highway 101!!!!!!
- Noeller: Jamey Johnson, Randy Houser, Eric Church and Zac Brown Band. It's the Bearded Saviours of Country Tour - would ...
- Sparkles: OMG - have you seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYENOUcaAsM I LOVE DOLLY!!!!
