Doug Supernaw Is A “Test Monkey” And Dolly Parton Honored With Songwriting Award
- Doug Supernaw was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after he claimed that he was the subject of a police conspiracy. Supernaw claims that he has proved it time and again and that it started when he was held in a “mentally retarded home for terrorists” and that he is just a “test monkey” to see if someone can play baseball and smoke marijuana at the same time.
- Tim McGraw’s Let It Go album debuted at number one on the Billboard Top 200 giving McGraw his fourth number one on the chart and his ninth on Top Country Albums. The 325,000 albums sold is still less than half of what Live Like You Were Dying sold during it’s first week at 766,000.
- Dolly Parton has been selected by the Songwriters Hall of Fame to be honored with this year’s Johnny Mercer Award.
The award is presented to a songwriter “whose body of work is of such high quality and impact, that it upholds the gold standard set by the legendary Johnny Mercer,” the organization said Tuesday in a statement.
- Alison Krauss and John Waite talk to Craig Shelburne about their version of the song “Missing You” and all the trouble they went through to get it recorded. Waite also tells Shelburne what he thinks about the music scene in Nashville.
- The Austin Chronicle has a lengthy article about Johnny Bush’s career based on his autobiography.
- The Kansas City Star had a lot of good things to say about Martina McBride in their review of her latest effort, Waking Up Laughing.
On “Waking Up Laughing,” McBride taps into a particularly potent mix of positive messages, and she matches these consistently outstanding songs with a seamless blend of acoustic instruments, gentle rhythms and soaring orchestrations that bank on subtlety and style.
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April 5, 2007 at 10:55 am Permalink
I have no idea what Alison Krauss is thinking by covering “Missing you” with John Waite. I saw the video the other night and thought it was laughably insipid and a waste of her exceptional talent. I guess she’s just chasing the money at this point.
April 5, 2007 at 4:48 pm Permalink
I don’t think I’ve heard either version, but judging from the interview it seemed like they were both genuinely excited to do it. I’ll have to take a listen to how it goes.
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