Date Set For Last Of The Breed Album And Big & Rich Spoof
- Last of the Breed, a two disc set featuring Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Ray Price will be released on March 20th by Lost Highway Records. It was recorded in Nashville and Fred Foster produced the album, which includes 20 newly recorded classics and two new songs. If you live in the Austin area, don’t forget to get your tickets for the March 16th concert, they go on sale tomorrow.
- Tennessean.com has a brief article about Grand Ole Opry stars Little Jimmy Dickens and Bill Anderson paying homage to Big & Rich. They are now touring as Little & Po’.
Jimmy recently saw Big & Rich’s John Rich at the Ryman and told him, “You think you are so hot. Me and Anderson have got Little & Po’ and we’re going to run you out of business,” Bill says. “John thought it was the funniest thing he ever heard.”
- We mentioned before that Carrie Underwood and Tony Romo were dating, but Carrie Underwood has confirmed they are not dating.
- Miranda Lambert’s second album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, will be released May 1st.
- Kellie Pickler co-hosted The View yesterday morning and was surprised with a gold album in honor of the RIAA Gold certification of her debut album, Small Town Girl.
- Martina McBride’s ninth album, Waking Up Laughing, will be released on April 3. Her 2007 tour starts April 12 in Kansas City, with Little Big Town and Rodney Atkins as the opening acts.
- Taylor Swift and singer/actor Tyler Hilton got together for the video of her second single, “Teardrops On My Guitar”. The video was shot at a high school in Nashville.
“I found out he was a fan of my music and he came to my show,” she said. “I met him in the ‘meet and greet’ line, and we became friends. He came onstage with me at the show, and I asked him in front of the crowd, ‘Do you want to be in my video?’ and he said, ‘Yeah!’”
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January 19, 2007 at 4:19 pm Permalink
It seems like we’ve been waiting forever for a release date for the new Miranda album. First it was “late 2006,” then “January 2007″, now May 1st.
I am a huge Miranda fan — Kerosene was a stunning debut and one of my favorite albums of 2005 — but I really think that her career has been mismanaged thus far. I hope she doesn’t become an indirect casualty of the ill-fated Sony-BMG merger. The label’s marketing force has never been fully behind her and lately her career has been neglected with executive changes at Sony and BMG and the ensuing legal battle. Strike one was failing to release the Miranda’s recut version of “New Strings” as a single, instead sending radio the album version that complements the album material nicely but really doesn’t stand out as well as the updated version. “New Strings” was sent to radio just as the merger blew up so I’m not suprised.
Strike two was whatever happened to delay the release of this new album 6 months. The delay is frankly unacceptable and had it been anticipated I would think that Sony would have wanted to release another single from Kerosene, a very deep CD.
Strike three was releasing Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, a weak album preview that’s really just a rip-off of Kerosene, and doing so in the worst possible way. Crazy-Ex has been at radio since late November but was not officially released as a single until a couple of weeks ago. Now Sony has to decide whether to hang on to this weak cut for another 4.5 months until the album release or put out a second single from CXG before the album hits stores.
January 19, 2007 at 4:26 pm Permalink
I feel your frustration. Sony needs to take a step back and look at their company. It seems like anything with their name attached to it these days goes downhill fast, and their PR department is horribly managed. However, I’m afraid that they’re satisfied with mediocrity and won’t take the steps necessary to turn their company around and achieve greatness like some of their competitors.
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