Clay Walker And Jessica Craig Serenaded By Tracy Lawrence At Their Wedding
- Like The Gobblers Knob I have a habit of spending too much money on books, but unlike The Knob I haven’t stepped foot inside a library in years. He recently discovered that aside from books the library also has a nice collection of music that you can check out.
- Lyle Lovett has been scheduled to play at the Americana 2007 Honors and Awards show, on Nov. 1 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. He’ll also be receiving the inaugural Trailblazer Award.
The Americana Trailblazer Award seeks to honor those emboldened artists who create timeless musical capsules of individualistic style and purpose, according to the association. “A connoisseur and catalyst of fine music, Lyle Lovett embodies the term genre-bending.
- Rascal Flatts is on pace to have the largest sales week from a country act in 2007.
- More info on the Keith Urban motorcycle accident:
Urban said he was “out riding to an AA meeting, a time when my privacy is especially important to me, (when) I felt myself being pursued” by a photographer on another motorcycle.
“I sped up, and in an effort to elude an oncoming car which was making an illegal U-turn, saw no choice but to drop my bike,” the 39-year-old country singer said.
- Nashville star Chuck Wicks was asked by University of Tennessee coach Philip Fulmer to perform his latest single, “Stealing Cinderella”, at his daughter’s wedding. “Wicks immediately accepted the invitation to perform an acoustic version of the single at the reception this past Friday night.”
- Tracy Lawrence also played at a wedding this past weekend. He had the honor of performing for Clay Walker who married model Jessica Craig. They’ll be spending the next three weeks in Europe and Hawaii.
- Chip Frazier writes, “When you think of the great storyteller songwriters certain names come to mind. Names like, Guy Clark, Joe Ely, Robert Earl Keen, Townes Van Zandt, Kris Kristofferson, Jerry Jeff Walker and Chris Knight just to name a few. These people have one thing in common. They are all men. I have news for these gentlemen. The doors to the “old boys club” have been busted down and Mary Gauthier has just ordered a round for the house.”
- MySpace: Check out country-rock singer Jackson Taylor’s current single “Lonely” on his MySpace.
- Country Weekly has some great content this week from Brooks & Dunn. They talk about being open and honest with everything that they do. I find it amazing that they don’t even have any type of partnership contracts. That’s trust. In another article Joe Nichols talks about all the most precious things in his life and how they influenced Real Things.
- This day in history from The Country Music Hall of Fame calendar:
- Chris LeDoux born, 1948
- Elvis Presley’s first and only Grand Ole Opry performance, 1954. He performed Bill Monroe’s “Blue Moon of Kentucky”, worrying that he might offend Monroe with his hopped-up version of the waltz.
- Gene Autry died, 1998
- Billy Jo Shaver’s Everybody’s Brother received a Texas-sized five out of five rating from John Walker.
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October 2, 2007 at 9:40 am Permalink
The library rocks. I get tons of new music there. Some I then turn around and buy, some I quietly return to the shelf. It’s genius.
October 2, 2007 at 10:09 am Permalink
It’s also Groucho Marx’s birthday. Not country music-related, but a national holiday as far as I’m concerned.
October 2, 2007 at 10:35 am Permalink
While I’m not a fan of a lot of Urban’s music (though I don’t deny the talent) I do respect that he’s taking care of his problems (going to AA etc) and it annoys me that the world is so obsessed with celebrity status and up to the minute images of who they’re with and what they’re doing that it drives paparazzi photographers to endanger themselves, celebrities and others that are randomly caught in the mix for a shot because of how much the media will pay.
It sounds like he’s a classy guy. Dropping his bike to avoid an accident with an innocent (all-be-it dumb for making an illegal u-turn) party.
I may have to do a post on a topic like this…
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