Gary Allan Releases Much-Anticipated Album; Dwight Yoakam Behind On Taxes; New Tammy Wynette Bio
- Aside from the Gary Allan record Get Off On The Pain, I’m not finding much in the way of new music releases today.
- David Cantwell cautions listeners against believing that the American albums represent the complete Johnny Cash, but also denounces the idea that they’re an inaccurate representation:
The potential pitfall, rather, as I’ve seen it, with Cash’s final, Rubin-esque recordings is not their necessarily partial presentation of a great artist but the tendency of some members of his audience, especially many young and new members who don’t know any better (but are wrong just the same), to mistake these concluding pieces for the whole. The American Recordings, even when taken together, explore incompletely Cash’s many sides.
- Paste‘s Andy Whitman declares the batch of tunes on American VI inferior to those on American V, but confesses that Cash “utterly owns the material.”
- Apparently Dwight Yoakam is behind on his taxes to the tune of $458,000. (via NashvilleGab)
- The Farce the Music interview with Drew Kennedy, in anticipation of Thursday’s release of his free live album Alone But Not Lonely, got off to a rocky start:
FTM: Alright Dean, so you were born in New Braunfels in the big state of Texas. Tell me about your upbringing there.
Dean: Actually, I grew up in Pennsylvania, and went to college in Virginia, which is where I started playing music… so New Braunfels didn’t play a very large role during my formative years. And it’s Drew, not Dean.
- Gary Allan shares insight into his new record in an interview with The Boot.
- Looking for a record that warrants your attention? Melodic Sunburst suggests the new Bexar County EP from Chris King. And it just so happens that three of the six songs can be streamed on his MySpace; look for “Downtown,” “Slow Down,” and his duet with with Jamie Wilson in “Parade.”
- Jonathan Yardley on the new biography Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen:
This is a truly empty, cliche-littered, bubble-headed book. I read it on a long plane trip, and there were times when I wished the plane would crash, just to put me out of my misery.
- Zac Brown Band will release a live DVD/2-CD set, Pass the Jar, on May 4.
- Juli Thanki on Justin Townes Earle‘s recent gig at the Birchmere:
He recently parted ways with longtime sideman Cory Younts — and at one point snapped at an audience member, “He was fired; let’s not talk about it” — but Earle’s current backup, fiddler Josh Hedley and bassist Bryn Davies, more than made up for Younts’s departure with sweet harmonies and high energy.
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March 9, 2010 at 7:59 pm
I totally agree with the reviewer on the Tammy Wynette bio being horribly written. It is a glorified research paper with “fact checks” and footnotes. It was oddly written as it made Tammy look like a horrible person. I read most of it and then when it got to the 10+ pages of the background history of her producer, I fast forward to the end. The writer came off as being very creepy with his letters to Tammy throughout the book. I felt like I was reading a tabloid, not a bio highlighting her life.
March 9, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Pretty slow news day when the highlights are Trailer’s fake interview and JTE getting snappy at an audience member! I wonder if JTE is feeling Odumbo’s pain? Hmm…
I think that Chris at Music Fog is trying to score a date with the brunette half of Madison Violet by featuring them so much. Maybe if Chris ended each sentence with eh? she might notice him! (lol)
March 10, 2010 at 7:17 pm
It’s a real interview Rick. Possibly not completely honest on the FTM side, but an authentic back and forth (by email) interview.
March 10, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Sorry Trailer, that opening had me thinking it was the “Fake News” approach being applied to an interview setting. Oops!
March 11, 2010 at 6:31 pm
I have no idea how good or bad the Wynette book is, but when the reviewer Yardley writes that “there were times I wished the plane would crash, just to put me out of my misery” he seems to be guilty of the same dopey writing that he accuses the author of.