CMA Music Fest Attenadance Up; Shooter Jennings Engaged; Steer Tosses Jack Ingram
- Music City TV reports that attendance to CMA Music Fest was up seven percent over last year.
- Shooter Jennings asked his longtime girlfriend Drea de Matteo to marry him at his concert in Utica, N.Y. on Thursday.
- CMT published reviews of the nightly LP Field concerts at CMA Music Fest.
- Lucas Hendrickson recapped highlights of CMA Music Fest.
- Dolly Parton surprised hundreds of girl scouts recently when she appeared at an event to present the girls with a “Coat of Many Colors” patch.
- The New York Times‘ Craig Mark published an interview with Todd Snider in which he discussed past drug addictions and his new record, The Excitement Plan. (via Hickory Wind)
- The Los Angeles Times‘ Randy Lewis contrasts that Todd Snider record and the new Darryl Worley album, Sounds Like Life. (via Country California)
- Shania Twain took to her website to fill fans in on the past year of her life and apologize for the lack of new music.
- Tanya Tucker used CMA Music Fest as an opportunity to reconnect with friends and fans as she prepares the release of her new album, My Turn, on June 30. AP entertainment writer John Gerome notes:
Tucker may be one of the more colorful entertainers at the CMA booths. When one woman asked her whose autograph she would most like to have, Tucker replied: “Kevin Costner — on my country rear end.”
- Country Weekly’s Chris Neal turned in three-and-a-half star reviews on Dallas Wayne’s I’ll Take the Fifth, Tracy Lawrence’s The Rock and Kenny Chesney’s Greatest Hits II.
- Farce the Music introduces Gary Floater, who could very well serve as the blog’s house band/artist.
My next few minutes were a journey into destiny. My ears beheld the glory of Mr. Floater’s nuggets of wisdom. My days pre-Gary had a vast emptiness I didn’t even feel, an unknown longing that has now been satisfied.
- Jack Ingram confided to Hazel Smith that he’ll never attempt to ride another bull after a visit to the emergency room when he was thrown off a steer at a recent celebrity steer riding event.
- Sarah Jarosz sampled her cover of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” in an interview published on NPR.
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June 15, 2009 at 11:47 am Permalink
Gee, a rock critic likes Todd Snider and doesn’t like Darryl Worley. Imagine that.
June 15, 2009 at 1:12 pm Permalink
Don’t know if this has been reported yet:
The Return of Pickin’ and Grinnin’
http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/the_return_of_pickin_and_grinnin/C564/L564/
June 15, 2009 at 5:52 pm Permalink
Wow, thanks for the tip on Gary Floater! He’s a musical genius and that tribute album is just amazing!…(lol) He is the perfect mascot artist for “Farce The Music”. Oh by the way, he has a politically active cousin up in British Columbia named “Mr. Floatie” who has some environmentally responsible videos on YouTube!
Mr. Floatie video link: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&oi=video_result&ct=res&cd=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DW-NWbzB3ut0&ei=hc42SvTOOIW2swO099HWDg&rct=j&q=mr.+floatie&usg=AFQjCNE0ohXvemTfZNik1goXjsjFozqvbQ
Without Mutt Lange by her side, I think its only a matter of time until Shania will be apologizing to her fans for her new music…
ENOUGH with the Todd Snider links! Its gotten to the point I’d suspect kickback/payola money is involved! A little Hayes Carll or JTE news mixed in would be appreciated. Crikey! (lol)
June 15, 2009 at 6:11 pm Permalink
Rick,
Except, Snider just released an album and they didn’t.
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