Fallen Tree Split Bobby Bare’s House in Two; Everyone Okay

Brody Vercher | February 4th, 2008 Email Share

The wife of Bobby Bare suffered two cracked vertebrae when a tree fell on their house, slicing it in half. She was watching TV when the tree hit. Luckily she was able to crawl from under the tree and call 911.
The new Hayes Carll album is due out April 8th and will be titled Trouble In Mind. UTAlrightGuy posted a track listing at Galleywinter.
Loretta Lynna owns her own zip code and the post office actually rents from her.
Taylor Swift–the girl who has made a career from writing songs about ex-flames–has a new dating philosophy. ”When I find someone who fascinates me as much as my career,” she says, conspiratorially, ”I’m gonna go for it.”
If you haven’t been by CMT.com in the past few days you mght want to check it out. They got a spiffy redesign.
Nashville songwriter Lorna Flowers is battling cancer. To help fund Flowers’ medical treatment, Barbara Cloyd, host the Bluebird Cafe’s Open Mic, has set up an e-Bay auction for a thirty-minute meeting with Chris Oglesby.

Would you like to meet with Chris Oglesby who is widely revered as one of the best song-men on Music Row? Play your songs for the man whose writer management company is part of by 19 Entertainment, the company that produces American Idol? Get feedback from the publisher who gave Craig Wiseman his first staff-writing deal? Ask questions of the writer manager who can set his clients up to write with Carrie Underwood? (via NashvilleHype)
Watch the exclusive online premier of first music video for Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles, “Stop and Think It Over”.
Even while he was with Drive-By Truckers Jason Isbell was writing songs for his solo project. His part in the band kept him fairly busy, so he was working on the project for three and a half to four years before he was finally ready to put something out. He’s hoping to have another album out by the end of the year.
Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats” became the first country track to reach RIAA certified double-platinum as a digital single.
In a Q&A with Mark Lowry, Ray Benson says his fiddler, Jason Roberts, has pegged the part of Bob Wills in the musical A Ride With Bob. He says that even Wills’ relatives “say that’s how it was.” (via Still Is Still Moving)
Free mp3s from Palo Duro artists: “Why You Been Gone So Long” – Eleven Hundred Springs, “Really Never Loved Her Anyway” – Trent Summar & The New Row Mob, “Wrapped” – Walt Wilkins, and “White Trash Paradise” – Darryl Lee Rush.

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