Dale Watson Doing His Part To Save Town Lake
- Dale Watson recorded a few radio spots and took part in a song written by Bill Oliver titled “Save Town Lake - Taking Our Stand”. The radio spots and song were recorded for SaveTownLake.org, whose mission is to “protect and preserve Austin’s most precious resource: Town Lake and the Town Lake Corridor.” You can listen to the song and find out more about the Save Town Lake cause by visiting their website. (via This Is Texas Music)
- Lucinda Williams will be performing five of her eight studio albums in September for audiences in Los Angeles and New York. She’ll play five dates in each city and start the first night of each five day set off with World Without Tears, and then play Essence, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Sweet Old World and Lucinda Williams on subsequent nights.
- Inspired by Johnny Cash and the punk band The Clash, British rocker Billy Bragg has renamed himself Johnny Clash for his new charity single. Proceeds from the song, “Old Clash Fight Song”, will go towards Bragg’s Jail Doors organization. “The charity aims to reduce re-offending among British prisoners by offering an outlet through taking up music lessons.”
- Another man who has ties to The Clash, Joe Ely, will receive the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award for Performing from the Americana Music Association. The presentation will be made Nov. 1 at the Ryman Auditorium during the 6th Annual Americana Music Association’s Honors and Awards Show.
- Tara Dooley lists a few country lyrics containing pick-up lines and asks the question: How do cowboys pick up girls with lyrics like these?
- Early Saturday morning Mindy McCready was arrested and charged with two misdemeanors–battery and resisting arrest. No details are given, but one commenter wrote “She was arrested for domestic violence against her mother.” UPDATE: McCready is considering filing charges against Sheriff’s deputy for what she calls brutality.
- Jonathan Perry has a nice article on James Hand.
The old-fashioned songs Hand writes and sings — about heartache, hard luck, and hard-won redemption — certainly sound as if they were written before he was born. They’re all his, but you’d swear you can hear Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, and George Jones knocking around the lonely barrooms and locked back doors inside Hand’s mournful music. And it costs. “Every time I get up there to sing, part of me doesn’t come back,” he says. “If you don’t do that, you’re nothing but a charade.”
Hand gravitates towards the “dark side of things” and says that ninety percent of what he writes about he has suffered first hand.
- In their quest to list the Best Love Songs Ever EW.com only has a place for one country song out of the first 25. That distinction belongs to Shania Twain for “You’re Still the One”. Let’s hope they make more room for country music in the next 25.
- ABC has announced the three judges for the new “Six Degrees of Martina McBride” show that is set to air on July 30. They include Ray Benson, Miranda Lambert, and Beverly Keel (writer for The Tennessean). I still don’t know what the show is about.
- Once upon a time Johnny Cash sang a song titled “Starkville City Jail”. The song was based on true events about a time he was arrested in Starkville, and more than forty years later he is set to receive a ceremonial pardon at the Johnny Cash Flower Pickin’ Festival.
- A much younger, smiling Willie Nelson.
- In an interview with EW.com Kellie Pickler epitomizes the definition of spunk, but also shows she has a sensitive side as well.
One thing I’ve seen some fans say about you on message boards is that you’ve gotten too glamorous now.
Too glamorous? I’m wearing jeans with holes in them! Ask anyone in this building. Glamorous? Phhhfft. I mean, tell that person thank you, that’s a compliment, because I’ve never been called that before. Usually it’s like, ”Are you sure you’re not a man?” Because I belch and fart like a man, better than any of ‘em.
- Brush up on your history of one of the greatest steel guitar players to ever grace music of any kind–Jimmy Day.
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