First Round of Nominees Announced for 2009 CMT Music Awards
- Nominees for the first round of the 2009 CMT Music Awards have been announced. Voting is underway and will last until May 11.
- George Strait’s 58-year-old brother, John “Buddy” Strait, Jr., was found dead in a hotel room on Friday.
- Billy Bob Thorton’s band The Boxmasters canceled the last two dates of its Canadian tour with Willie Nelson after one of the band members and several of the crew (conveniently?) caught the flu.
- Arkansas Senator Steve Bryles has directed money to the town of Dyess to help build a Johnny Cash museum. The city officials hope that the museum will help bolster their economy.
- This week in 1959, George Jones‘ “White Lightning” was the #1 country song. (YouTube)
- California’s Coachella and Stagecoach festivals couldn’t be more different, yet pop music critic George Varga says each is a booming success.
- Two years ago Jennifer Adan dropped out of her creative writing program at San Francisco State University to pursue her songwriting passion and recently scored her first No. 1 when Blake Shelton took “She Wouldn’t Be Gone” to the top of the charts. Elizabeth Pfeffer wrote about Adan for the San Mateo County Times.
- Kris Kristofferson and Toby Keith both withdrew from Provinces of Night, a movie they were scheduled to appear in.
- Scott Miller is giving away the song “Appalachian Refugee” on his website. It’s the closing track to his new album, For Crying Out Loud.
- Country California broke the satirical news last week that Jessica Simpson is “on loan” to a local Hardee’s and that Dave Haywood, the guitarist for Lady Antebellum, is going solo.
- The Gobblers Knob Kelly Dearmore wants everyone to check out Ronnie Fauss, whose EP, New Songs For the Old Frontier: Volume One, is currently being streamed at his website.
- According to Farce the Music, not many country fans think Taylor Swift has a great voice, but find out who does.
- Watch video of Jason Eady performing “Waiting to Shine” from the Music Fog showcase at SXSW. Jamie Wilson from The Gougers provided harmony vocals. Good stuff.
- By the way, don’t forget to leave a comment to enter our contest for John Prine tickets with special guest Josh Ritter.
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April 13, 2009 at 12:54 pm Permalink
A buddy put me on to this for you Dale Watson fans: http://www.jackassworld.com/videos/1595953/237273
April 13, 2009 at 1:47 pm Permalink
Well, SW, that clip does a bit of foreshadowing for a future podcast episode…maybe.
April 13, 2009 at 1:51 pm Permalink
What happened to George’s brother!? That’s so sad! Thinking of you and yours George. God Bless.
April 13, 2009 at 2:17 pm Permalink
Why do people make a big deal out of Taylor not being able to sing that well? I mean most good artists hit a bum note here and there and its what I like about a lot of albums — not overly produced. Granted, Swift’s album is polished, but I just wonder why everyone is so obsessed with vocals all of a sudden when legends like Bob Dylan have less than stellar voices.
Give the girl credit, she writes her own stuff. So what if its aimed at a younger crowd and sounds like pop, at least she’s being original.
Note: I am not at all comparing Taylor Swift to Dylan since they are different on SO many levels, just using his voice as an example of how not all artists need a good voice.
April 13, 2009 at 2:37 pm Permalink
Brittany, there’s a difference between having a good voice and being a good singer. To use your Dylan example, almost everyone would agree that his voice is so-so at best, but he has a lot of fans as a singer for the way he uses phrasing, timing, etc. to convey meaning and emotion.
April 13, 2009 at 2:42 pm Permalink
Bob Dylan can stay on pitch.
Taylor Swift cannot.
Next.
April 13, 2009 at 3:05 pm Permalink
Eh, well, actually he can’t, always. And I speak as one who loves his singing.
April 13, 2009 at 4:11 pm Permalink
Please dont throw the kitchen sink at me, but I cant stand to listen to Bob Dylan. (Or Taylor Swift or Jennifer Nettles).
April 13, 2009 at 4:20 pm Permalink
Speaking of Taylor Swift, on my way to work today I saw a new billboard for a Los Angeles pop radio station KIIS FM and of the artists featured Taylor’s image was the largest. It figures….
Gosh the ACM Awards hype ended just in time for the CMT Awards hype to begin. Lucky us…
Off Topic: Last week Julianne Fluff made yet another public pronouncement (like last fall) that she will skip a season of “Dancing With The Stars” to concentrate on her music career so she can be taken seriously. It was because Julianne was fan voted “The ACM New Female Vocalist” that she feels she owes a debt of gratitude to her country music fans. Now what Julianne doesn’t seem to grasp is that her DWTS fans are the one’s who voted for her ACM award, and by skipping a season of DTWS she will deny them watching her do the very thing they love most about her! Sheesh….
April 13, 2009 at 5:04 pm Permalink
Hey, Paula, I’m not Emgee. I’m perfectly happy to let people have different tastes than I do.
April 13, 2009 at 5:29 pm Permalink
so we are gonna have another carrie fans vs taylor fans at the cmt awards , should be fun to see who gets the female video and video od the year, taylor fans won last time but carrie fans are on a roll this year and pretty pissed off for last year cmt awards.
April 13, 2009 at 6:22 pm Permalink
^^^I must have fallen asleep for that one. In a nutshell, what happened to piss off Carrie followers at the CMTs last year?
April 13, 2009 at 7:00 pm Permalink
Brittany: Bob writes some of his own stuff too. And I am not forseeing a day when about half the celebs in Hollywood star as Taylor Swift in an advant garde biopic.
April 13, 2009 at 10:00 pm Permalink
@kim… taylor beat carrie
April 13, 2009 at 10:17 pm Permalink
Well, shoot, if you’re going to have a Bob Dylan-Taylor Swift shootout over songwriting, she’s going to lose that one big time. But so is almost everyone else, so I don’t know what that’s supposed to prove.
April 14, 2009 at 4:51 am Permalink
So, Tear drops on my guitar is not superior to Forever Young? Really…
April 14, 2009 at 5:37 am Permalink
What I find is there are a lot of “Love Carrie and Love Taylor” fans. If one of their “loves” is nominated by themselves (Hence ACM’s EOTY), they all form a united powerful front for one. BUT when they go head to head, that’s when the division begins. Sure there are staunch Carrie fans and Taylor fans but I’d say a 1/3 love both. It’s that 1/3 that makes the voting difference.
April 14, 2009 at 7:27 am Permalink
Thanks for the replies guys.
NM, I see what you are saying and I agree.
I know Dylan writes his own stuff and I didn’t intend to compare the two beyond their voices both being non-stellar at times.
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