Grammy Awards Recognize Americana Roots Music
- The Recording Academy announced that it has changed the name of the Grammy Awards “Folk Field” to the “American Roots Music Field,” which will include the Best Traditional Blues Album, Best Contemporary Blues Album and Best Bluegrass Album categories. (via Music Fog)
- Lee Ann Womack replaced Julianne Hough (out with laryingitis) as the opening act on Saturday night for the debut concert at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium. She was followed by Blake Shelton, Reba McEntire and headliner George Strait, who McEntire noted she had not shared a stage with since opening for Conway Twitty.
- Peter Cooper compares Alan Jackson to Taylor Swift and Loretta Lynn in a profile of the songwriter’s career. Jackson celebrates his 20th anniversary with Arista Records this month.
- Kenny Chesney is scheduled to close this year’s CMA Music Fest.
- Despite tighter profit margins, Dierks Bentley and Keith Urban, among other artists, feel it’s important to tour abroad for long-term success.
Cash, Campbell, Parton, Pride, the Bellamy Brothers, Don Williams and others who regularly toured internationally in their heydays continued selling records and concert tickets abroad long after their hot streaks ended in the U.S.
- Rounder Records will release a new James Hand record, Shadow in the Ground, on September 8.
- James Sullivan published a brief profile on the life, and tragic ending, of Opry regular and Hee Haw banjo picker David “Stringbean” Akeman.
- The first two acts signed to the new Republic Nashville label are Sunny Sweeney and a new duo called Fast Ryde.
- The Washington Post’s David Malitz says Todd Snider’s punchlines at the Birchmere on Friday night were likely funnier than the ones you’d hear at the local stand-up club, especially during the centerpiece of the set: “an extended, side-splitting monologue about Snider’s high school years and how he transitioned from a football-playing jock to a pot-smoking burnout.”
- Watch Eric Brace and Last Train Home with Peter Cooper perform “My Sally.”
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June 8, 2009 at 11:04 am Permalink
Julianne Hough…what a joke! I’m glad she didnt show up for the concert. LeAnn Womack was 1000 times better than she ever would have been. She’ll certainly never get a chance to play in front of that many people again. Better rethink that decision to quit Dancing.
June 8, 2009 at 12:26 pm Permalink
Lee Ann Womack replacing Julianne Fluff must have delighted the real country music fans in the audience. That would have been my reaction anyway.
I don’t know which as more foolhardy, Stringbean keeping so much cash at home or the fact strangers knew about it…
Sunny Sweeney will hopefully get her next album out pronto now that she is on the new “Republic Nashville” label. Scott Borchetta lives in and for the Top 40 mainstream country realm, so by signing Sunny she was a fish out of water on the Big Machine roster. Go Sunny!
Its no wonder Todd Snider is so popular with liberal Democrats, they are all just a big fraternity of active and ex-pot smoker burn outs! (lol)
June 8, 2009 at 2:00 pm Permalink
I love the childish way of editing singer’s names so instead of Hough its Fluff XD [/end sarcasm]
PS: I would, too, prefer seeing Womack over Hough though <3 “Call Me Crazy” was such a great album
June 8, 2009 at 2:39 pm Permalink
“I love the childish way of editing singer’s names so instead of Hough its Fluff ”
Childish? Seemed like he was just having some fun, Nicolass
June 8, 2009 at 2:40 pm Permalink
Thank God Sunny got a new label! Best of luck to her!
When can we stop caring about Julianne? She probably caught the laryingitis from someone at the Footloose auditions.
60,000+ people were at the Cowboys Stadium opening. Went over really well. 1.5 billion dollar complex aka Jerryworld is open and ready for football season, and oh the irony in the fact that the Cowboys don’t get to start the season at home! Ha! The first game played in Jerryworld will be against the NY Giants week 2! And we ‘boys fans thought LAST season was embarrassing…We are really in for it now.
June 8, 2009 at 2:53 pm Permalink
JD: “Seemed like he was just having some fun, Nicolass”
But still… it seems childish lol
June 8, 2009 at 3:46 pm Permalink
Name-calling like a child pretty much guarantees your argument won’t be taken seriously by people who don’t already agree with you.
June 8, 2009 at 3:55 pm Permalink
anyone else think that “Fast Ryde” is gonna suck?
and yes, JW I know I’m not supposed to make fun of a band until I hear their music.
June 8, 2009 at 4:05 pm Permalink
I thought the same thing, Jim C. I went to check out their MySpace and all they have is a single photo. They already remind me of the Icy Hot Stuntaz.
June 8, 2009 at 8:36 pm Permalink
This roundup contains my testing ground for whether or not someone really knows their country. If they know who David Akeman is, they know their stuff. I’ve used this for a long time. Cool piece on the man too.
June 8, 2009 at 9:11 pm Permalink
Nearly all of the information in the piece on Stringbean comes directly from Robert K Oermann’s book titled, Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain, Tales of Romance and Tragedy.
Good book by the way!
June 9, 2009 at 2:25 am Permalink
I wish Brad Paisley would come to Australia…
June 9, 2009 at 2:57 pm Permalink
Lost in that Grammy announcement news…the Polka category is now toast :(
June 9, 2009 at 3:35 pm Permalink
wow Brady the Stuntaz are my favorite new band!
;-)
June 9, 2009 at 5:19 pm Permalink
“Lost in that Grammy announcement news…the Polka category is now toast :(”
Sad, but not surprising, since one guy apparently has a lock on the award until he dies, which most likely will be quite a few years hence. My bet is that the number of people voting in the category was immeasurably tiny, since it was in its own field and voters had to give up one of their 9 slots just to get a lick in on the polka trophy.
June 10, 2009 at 2:28 pm Permalink
Jimmy Sturr is the guy you’re talking about, Jon; here in Canada, our polka king Walter Ostanek has been an occasional (three times?) winner and perennial nominee.
It’s unfortunate but understandable I suppose; still, no polka, no “Streets Of Bakersfield” LOL
June 10, 2009 at 3:06 pm Permalink
Yeah, Sturr’s won something like 18 out of 24 – though not, sad to say, with the one for which I wrote liner notes ;-).
June 30, 2009 at 1:01 pm Permalink
For those who were curious about Fast Ryde (mentioned above as Sunny Sweeney’s label mates), here is their first single “That Thang”: (thanks to the Pulse Music Board)
http://bigmachinerecords.com/filesSite/FastRyde_ThatThang.wma
And yes, it is fairly bad.
June 30, 2009 at 1:05 pm Permalink
We got an email about that Fast Ryde song, but it came with a disclaimer and I was kinda scared to click on it lest I have a mental breakdown and not meet any of my deadlines today.
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