Ferlin Husky Hospitalized; Remains In Stable Condition
- According to Ferlin Husky’s record company, the 83 year-old country singer was admitted to a hospital on Friday due to congestive heart failure and pneumonia.
- Brad Paisley’s wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, gave birth to the couple’s second son on Friday.
- Deborah Evans Price has a Q&A with Tanya Tucker about her new album, a reality show she has in the works and her advice for Taylor Swift.
Why cover songs popularized by male artists?
I’ve always loved guys’ songs. When I’m cutting an album, songwriters pretty much know not to send me a female demo because I’m more attracted to male vocals and a male song. I’m not crazy about “poor little me” songs. My past pretty much speaks to the fact that I like strong men’s songs and I turn them into strong women’s songs. It seems to work for me. Women have the same needs, desires and pain as men do. - This week in 1949, George Morgan had the #1 song with “Candy Kisses” (YouTube). Find out the #1 song this week for each decade since then at My Kind of Country.
- Pat Green performed for a cheering crowd at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC on Saturday night. Despite the jovial mood, Dave McKenna says Green changed the lyrics to one of his songs to take a shot at the Dixie Chicks and slammed Garth Brooks for no apparent reason.
But the party ended on a nasty note. Green tried to slow things down during his encore with “In the Middle of the Night,” a ballad about loneliness and the only song in his repertoire that talks about the ugly side of drinking. A fan up front who must not have liked the buzz-kill message gave the singer a thumbs down gesture. That caused Green to stop singing and launch into a dirty rant.
“That came from a place that’s true to me!” shouted Green, who appeared genuinely hurt by the heckling. He then threw a $50 bill at his tormentor and asked him, with profanities, to leave.
- In an effort to improve program quality, and ultimately advertising dollars, at their radio stations nationwide, Clear Channel Radio will give managers the freedom to choose their content and talent. (via DC9 at Night)
- Emmylou Harris and Kinky Friedman signed on to campaign to allegedly save a Dallas elephant named Jenny from the zoo where she currently resides.
- Patrick Foster reviewed The Flatlanders‘ show at the Birchmere last week where the trio played mostly recent material.
- The Los Angeles Times‘ Randy Lewis interviewed Kris Kristofferson about his new album, Starlight and Stone, which is being produced by Don Was.
His long and close relationship with the Man in Black crops up in “Good Morning, John,” a song slated for the new album that he wrote in the ’70s shortly after Cash had come out of a rehab program to deal with his substance abuse. He asks Was to add voices echoing the various greetings he sings in each verse: “Good morning, John,” “You scared me, John,” “I know you, John” and “I love you, John.” That leads to an anecdote about an earlier attempt to record it with help from Willie Nelson, now the only other surviving Highwayman.
Nelson dutifully repeated after Kristofferson on the first three lines. “When I got to ‘I love you, John,’ I hear Willie sing, ‘He loves you, John.’ I broke up — I couldn’t finish the song. . . . But he wasn’t about to sing ‘I love you, John.’ “
- In other Johnny Cash news, there’s a new cryptic website titled Johnny Cash is Dead and His House Burned Down about a new song that was co-written by Cash.
- In an interview with Leonard Pierce for Decider, Hayes Carll muses that every once in a while he likes to ask for seven blond virgins to test the limits of his tour rider. (via Country California’s “Quotable Country”)
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April 20, 2009 at 11:33 am Permalink
That’s a great interview with Kris Kristofferson; I’m really looking forward to that new album.
The “Johnny Cash is Dead and His House Burned Down” site is a pretty cool way to build up anticipation for the song. Can’t wait to hear that — any collaboration b/w Cash and Larry Gatlin has to be good.
April 20, 2009 at 11:35 am Permalink
Hmmm…Todd Snider doesn’t dig Pat Green. I wondered why, but I suppose some of the answer may have been revealed now. Sounds like he had a strange night. I still don’t quite follow his justification for “Country Star though, since it still seems more hypocritical than satirical on his part.
April 20, 2009 at 12:12 pm Permalink
I’d love to see a direct quote of what Pat Green said about the Dixie Chicks (and Garth too, for that matter). A Chicks swipe seems odd, since Lloyd Maines produced Green’s early (some would say best) albums, and Natalie sang a duet with him on his first album. The Chicks also took Green out as an opening act at one time.
April 20, 2009 at 12:38 pm Permalink
Pat was signing Here We Go and he replaced the lyrics of “I gave up on Nashville a long time ago” with I gave up on the Dixie Chicks a long time ago”. I guess he did the same with with Garth Brooks on another verse.
April 20, 2009 at 2:32 pm Permalink
I always wondered what he did about that line. Here We Go is one of my favorite Pat Green songs, but the original line doesn’t really seem viable given the current state of his music. It also surprises me that a little heckling could throw him the way that it apparently did. I guess everybody has their own breaking point.
I thought the interview with Hayes Carll was well done, even in printed form he comes across as about the most laid back guy ever.
April 20, 2009 at 3:15 pm Permalink
That’s interesting about Clear Channel loosening the reins on some radio stations, but I wouldn’t expect much to change. When listener volume and ad sales don’t pick up immediately CC will like revert to the previous model and level of control.
I wish Ferlin Husky well. I doubt if he’s quite ready for his soul to ride on the wings of a dove….
April 20, 2009 at 4:07 pm Permalink
what is with Pat Green?
April 20, 2009 at 4:29 pm Permalink
Too funny to read about the Pat Green show…we’re actually getting ready to see him with Randy Houser in a couple of hours in Lexington, KY.
The Johnny Cash website is interesting. At first I thought it was going to be about the song that George Strait & Patty Loveless sing on George’s new album.
April 20, 2009 at 4:31 pm Permalink
Kim, I’ve heard that since Pt is a Texan he’s had to deal with crazy ex-girlfriends sending gunpowder and lead his way…
April 20, 2009 at 4:33 pm Permalink
Looks like the owner of the cryptic “Johnny Cash is Dead and His House Burned Down” web site/song appears to be Larry Gatlin: The quote that John Carter Cash references on http://www.johnnycashisdeadandhishouseburneddown.com seems to come from this page: http://www.sullivanshows.com/store/larry_biography.php (”You should be so lucky that he should ever pass your way.”)
Whatever. The whole thing seems a bit tacky to me.
April 20, 2009 at 5:31 pm Permalink
Off Topic: Why is it that some of the most popular so called “Modern Country” acts these days just don’t seem to care about real country music? In a fun write up at CMT.com News of a recent Sugarland concert here are some choice excerpts:
“Certainly, the pop-savvy Sugarland nodded to many other non-country acts in its 95-minute set, covering songs by the B-52’s, Madonna, R.E.M. and Kings of Leon, Nettles’ favorite rock band of late.” (I would surmise Kings of Leon is Jennifer’s favorite recent band period.) Or how about: “…and “Everyday America,” which had a reggae undercurrent before Nettles called audibles for Madonna’s “Into the Groove” and “Holiday” followed by the Emotions’ “Best of My Love.” Hey, where was the mirrored disco ball when Sugarland needed it?”. (Obviously back at the Disco Palace where Jennifer would feel quite at home…)
All of these pop rock interlopers and usurpers rising to the top of the “mainstream country music” scene are starting to piss me off!!!!….(lol)
Link: http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1609606/sugarland-tip-their-hat-to-pop-and-rock-at-minneapolis-concert.jhtml?rsspartner=rssYahoo
(PS – Gosh, I hope no one takes my 9513 rants seriously…)
April 20, 2009 at 7:29 pm Permalink
Country singers:
You aren’t going to sell any albums bashing Dixie Chicks in an Obama administration.
April 20, 2009 at 8:14 pm Permalink
I was at the second night Flatlanders show at the Birchmere in DC. It was one of the more enjoyable shows I’ve been to in awhile. You can tell these guys enjoy playing with each other. I also love listening to Jimmie Dale Gilmore sing.
April 20, 2009 at 9:24 pm Permalink
I like the Flatlanders too. I
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