Garth Brooks Steps Into Producer Role For Lifetime Movie
- Garth Brooks is in the process of developing a movie for Lifetime titled Unanswered Prayers, based off his hit song of the same name.
- Country California: What artists (old or new, obscure or mainstream) have you started paying attention to in 2009?
- More Texas and Oklahoma dates have been added to the New American Voices Tour.
- Watch Joey + Rory’s Unplugged at Studio 330 sessions.
- Have you ever found yourself wondering what Dale Watson might look like sprinting between bases at a softball game wearing jeans and military boots? Or pictured Hayes Carll ready to clobber a lobbed pitch? Those pictures and more — including Ray Benson and Randy Rogers — were uploaded to a Reckless Kelly Celebrity Softball Jam 2009 flickr page.
- Taylor Swift joined Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Toby Keith, Brooks & Dunn and Tim McGraw in the top five on Forbes’ list of the top-earning country stars. (via NashvilleGab)
- Jamey Johnson and Randy Houser are reuniting with their buddy Jerrod Niemann (MySpace) for “The Traler Park Revival Show” at the Ryman Auditorium on May 28. The show will be a fundraiser for the Opry Trust Fund.
- Alison Bonaguro produced a couple of videos featuring Jamey Johnson and Pat Green for Playboy.com. Each video includes a brief introduction from the artist and an acoustic cover of a song from an artist that influenced them. Johnson covered Waylon Jennings‘ “Dreaming My Dreams With You” and Green played Willie Nelson’s “I Gotta Get Drunk.” (Links go to the Playboy website, so you might want to avoid clicking if you’re at work.)
- Watch the video for “Guadalupe,” from the Gretchen Peters and Tom Russell album One to the Heart, One to the Head. (via Gretchen Peters’ Twitter)
- Here’s a quick congrats to the winners in all of our recent giveaways. We’ll be in touch with you shortly to collect your shipping information.
To start off, we’ve already notified the winners of the John Prine giveaway. Annie and Griffin won tickets to see John Prine in LA and Bakersfield. Look for a guest review of the LA show soon.
The lucky recipients of their very own Naked Willie are Stormy and Ryan.
And finally, the winners of Dale Watson’s latest, Truckin’ Sessions, Vol. 2, are PaulaW, Jordan Stacey, and Annie (again).
Congrats again, guys and gals. Hope y’all enjoy.
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April 23, 2009 at 10:34 am Permalink
Hope Garth does better with this than his Chris Gaines stint
April 23, 2009 at 10:42 am Permalink
Retire already Garth! You have done enough damage!
April 23, 2009 at 11:02 am Permalink
Thanks 9513!
April 23, 2009 at 11:12 am Permalink
I got to experience a live Joey + Rory unplugged set here in Los Angeles last night at a “listening venue” (ie enforced quiet during performances) and they rokced! (Well, not literally…) I was trying to figure out why this date was booked but the large number of Vanguard/Sugar Hill label folks in the audience answered that question. Rory told of how he was stationed here in Socal during his stint as a Marine at the El Toro air station in Orange Country and a pal of his from the Corp. he hadn’t seen in 16 years was in the audience. The set consisted of songs off of “The Life Of a Song”, “That’s Important to Me” off Joey’s album, and a bunch of Rory’s earlier songs and some killer new material. Rory has a fine singing voice and I hope he gets to sing lead on some of the songs on the next album! The set started with “Sweet Emmylou” and ended with “Buy Our CD” and there was not a weak song in the bunch. Well OK, Rory’s song about a recently widowed granny wearing Daisy Dukes and the song “Veterinarian Blues” about a male dog facing neutering surgery pushed the envelope a bit…(lol)
Wow, four entrants for the John Prine ticket contest and I didn’t win! And I was so looking forward to wearing a “NOBAMA” t-shirt covered with McCain-Palin campaign buttons…(lol)
Now wait a minute! What’s a soccer mom like Alison Bonaguro doing working for Playboy? What kind of message will that send to her daughter? tsk tsk….
April 23, 2009 at 11:52 am Permalink
THanks guys for the giveaway! I’m slowly building up my Dale Watson collection so this’ll help.
April 23, 2009 at 12:06 pm Permalink
I would have thought that “Somewhere Other Than the Night” would have made a better movie, but maybe the whole “nothin’ but her apron on” scene would be a little too non-Lifetime.
April 23, 2009 at 12:15 pm Permalink
Oh man, I like Garth, but I’m not looking forward to this movie. He hasn’t had any luck getting his movie ideas off the ground so far, so it’s possible we won’t actually have to be subjected to this one either. I suspect it would be a great subject for one of Juli’s future movie features though.
April 23, 2009 at 12:33 pm Permalink
Thank you 9513!
April 23, 2009 at 7:42 pm Permalink
Yay! I won!
April 23, 2009 at 8:51 pm Permalink
Actually Leeann, ‘Call Me Claus’ was very well recieved and did as well in the ratings on the repeats as the original airings. Garth was the executive produced and script consultant on the movie.
April 23, 2009 at 9:52 pm Permalink
Hmmm…I never saw that movie. Juli, will you write about it?
April 24, 2009 at 2:44 pm Permalink
Wasn’t Unanswered Prayers inspired by the late Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne”?
April 25, 2009 at 10:14 am Permalink
It actually was inspired by a chance meeting with an old high school girlfriend at a craft fair during a visit to his folks.
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