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April 27, 2009 at 11:17 am Permalink
I have heard the new Steve Earle TVZ cover album, and I can say 100% that it isnt the best thing he has ever done and probably not in the top 4-5 albums of his, as far as i am concnered. Obviously, the songs on this album are well-written and many of Earle’s interpretations are really great, but as an entire work, this will not be an album that I go back to time and time again, as i do with may of his others…to me, its a TVZ record, not an Earle record.
April 27, 2009 at 11:17 am Permalink
Gotta say, as much as I like Carll’s version, it doesn’t even compare to Ray Wylie Hubbard’s take.
April 27, 2009 at 11:19 am Permalink
Kelly, I’ve heard four of the songs and would have to agree. It’s a nice tribute, but I’d rather just listen to a TVZ album.
April 27, 2009 at 11:36 am Permalink
Yeah Mike, I mean, I truly do like the entire album, but knowing that it was a covers disc kept me from connecting to it 100%, I think…not to take anything away from the overall vibe of the disc that I really did like, just not as much as I had hoped too, I guess.
April 27, 2009 at 11:44 am Permalink
I have to say a big YAHOO!!! that Ashley Monroe’s album will finally be released, even if it is digitally — and I might just have to buy it again….eventhough I already have it!!! One of my favorite albums in my collection.
April 27, 2009 at 1:09 pm Permalink
Nice to see the Lovell Sisters getting some props in the Old Settler’s piece. And I told y’all about the Travelin’ McCourys/Lee Bros. combination about a couple of months ago ;-).
April 27, 2009 at 1:39 pm Permalink
Thank $deity for Ashley’s album. Finally someone came to their senses.
April 27, 2009 at 4:47 pm Permalink
I’m confused? Ashley’s “Satisfied” album was available for legal download from a couple of legitimate sources a year or two back although it seemed like Ashley was never aware of that fact. Having it available again is nice for Ashley but it would be even better if some CD versions were also offered for her non-downloading fans. I’ll stick with my full bitrate advance copy CD scored long ago on fleabay, but I hope download sales do well. Also, they really need to include “I Don’t Want To” which was not a part of the original album.
I have some tribute albums (to Jimmie Rodgers, Randy Newman, etc) where Steve Earle has contributed tracks and they tend to be unlistenable. This TVZ tribute seems like he played it straight this time around, although I’d still never buy it…
I think Joey + Rory’s new video will do well on CMT but doing well at mainstream radio is a long shot. The song is as much an indictment of Top 40 country radio as it is big Nashville labels, so its sort of like biting the hand that feeds you. Hmmm…
April 27, 2009 at 5:06 pm Permalink
Ooo, Ooo I just saw at CMT.com’s blog that Kate and Kacey Coppola will be performing on a parking lot stage before Kenny Chesney’s concerts. Wow finally a reason I’d want to go to a Chesney concert! Well, to the parking lot before the concert anyway…
http://blog.cmt.com/2009-04-27/kate-kacey-invited-to-kenny-chesneys-tailgate-party/
And everyone’s favorite country music soccer mom Alison Bonaguro has listed her current Top 10 album tracks (not radio singles)!
Jason Aldean, “Keep the Girl”
Keith Urban, “My Heart is Open”
Dierks Bentley, “Better Believer”
Jake Owen, “Who Said Whiskey (Was Meant To Drink a Woman Away)”
Martina McBride, “Walk Away”
Rascal Flatts, “She’d Be California”
Eli Young Band, “Guinevere”
Miranda Lambert, “Dry Town”
Taylor Swift, “Hey Stephen”
http://blog.cmt.com/2009-04-27/top-ten-tracks-im-digging-right-now/#more-2447
Alison does more than just represent the AirHead Country loving soccer mom demographic, she is the embodiment of it! You go girl! (lol)
April 27, 2009 at 5:40 pm Permalink
I can never post in her blogs. For some reason when I hit submit comments the page reloads but my comments aren’t there. Others have this problem too. What a list of singles she has listed!
My top ten would be very very different :D
April 27, 2009 at 6:36 pm Permalink
Well for about 5 minutes I was able to post after saying I couldn’t post
April 27, 2009 at 8:04 pm Permalink
Here’s a singer Billy Don Burns that would scare the bejeeves out of the soccer moms
http://www.myspace.com/billydonburns
His official site is down this guy sings about the dark side of drug use in the “Dark Side of the spoon” with a line “He rides though the night down a lost highway through a hole he made in his vein to a plastic place where desperate dies on a dirty street called shame.”
And it his music gets better from there.
April 27, 2009 at 8:37 pm Permalink
Hey Merlefan46, don’t forget the Allison Moorer song “Dying Breed” from her Miss Fortune album! Better yet the Lonesome Bob Chaney version of that same song from “Things Change”. Allison and her husband at the time Butch Primm wrote that song and then later she headed off to become the current Mrs. Steve Earle. I wonder if there is a correlation? Hmm…
April 27, 2009 at 9:26 pm Permalink
I’ll have to check her out. Thanks for the tip.
April 27, 2009 at 9:35 pm Permalink
Wow what a song. Just the gritty stuff I like. Thanks!
April 27, 2009 at 9:53 pm Permalink
You know, at a certain point the whining about soccer moms starts to become indistinguishable from the whining of the adolescent offspring of same. I’m just sayin’.
April 28, 2009 at 11:27 am Permalink
Jon, it’s not like you to whine about what others are whining about…oh wait, nevermind.
April 28, 2009 at 3:39 pm Permalink
mmmmmmmm soccer moms
April 28, 2009 at 5:33 pm Permalink
Jon, I’m so glad you’re here. I used to be the only regular poster who constantly annoyed other people here. Thanks for sharing my burden! (lol)
April 28, 2009 at 11:06 pm Permalink
Mike – I liked Hubbard’s softer approach on “Drunken Poet’s Dream” too.
April 30, 2009 at 3:42 pm Permalink
Jon often offers insightful thoughts and agree or disagree, he makes a fine “devil’s advocate”.
Rick, on the other hand, has three topics at most:
1. Bad ol’ Airhead Top 40 Country radio
2. that devil Obama
3. good-looking female country artists
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