Hank Williams Biopic; Darius Rucker Hits Platinum; Gill, Yoakam, & Harris Head Hall Fundraiser
- The life of Hank Williams first went to the big screen in 1964 with Your Cheatin’ Heart, but Nashville-based 821 Entertainment Group and Strike Entertainment have teamed up to create a new feature film. Strike Entertainment partner Marc Abraham will write the script using Colin Escott’s book Hank Williams: The Biography as a resource. Escott will be an associate producer.
- Country Haiku:
Love’s the only house
Big enough for all the pain
Must be a big house - On Oct. 13, Lightning Rod Records will release a live album and bonus DVD from James McMurtry documenting his first tour to Europe.
- Both Lady Antebellum and Josh Turner introduced new singles to radio this week, however, they’ve taken different approaches to releasing that music to the public. “Need You Now,” the lead single from Lady Antebellum’s forthcoming sophomore album is already available at iTunes and can be streamed on MySpace while Josh Turner’s new single “Why Don’t We Just Dance,” also the debut single from his next album, won’t be available for streaming until Aug. 19 and will go on sale six days later. Visit MusicRow for the scoop on other new music releases.
- The Bluegrass Blog dishes on a new fishing compilation, Fishing Music II, and posted a video for “Little Miss Cutthroat.”
- First Brooks & Dunn split, now Country California reports that peanut butter and jelly are parting ways. If this keeps up, Barbie and Ken will be getting a divorce before too long.
- Texas Music Matters posted an audio interview with Steve Earle in Studio 1a. I’m still listening to the whole thing, but there’s a sweet acoustic version of “Pancho & Lefty” within the first five minutes.
- Darius Rucker‘s first country album, Learn to Live, was certified platinum.
- Vince Gill, Dwight Yoakam and Emmylou Harris will participate in a guitar pull in Los Angeles as part of the Country Music Hall of Fame’s All for the Hall fundraiser in Oct.
- Farce the Music received an exclusive shot of Trent Tomlinson sans bandana.
- Songs like “The Keeper of the Stars” and “Don’t Take Her She’s All I Got” are among the Tracy Byrd hits listed in Country Universe’s latest feature on ’90s artists.
- Dierks Bentley and Jim Beavers celebrated the success of their song “Sideways” at a No. 1 party on Tuesday.
- Michelle Branch on her new country solo album, due out this fall:
She recalls telling her label, Warner Bros. Nashville, “‘If I sound like I’m trying too hard to make a country record, this is not going to be believable to anybody.’
“I said, ‘Let’s just make the record, and it’s going to sound country because that’s the instrumentation I’m in love with and I’m writing with people here in Nashville. Let’s not overthink it.’”
- Dolly Parton has a new video out for “Change It,” from her Broadyway musical 9 to 5.
- Rounder Records will reissue a Ralph Stanley album with Charlie Sizemore on guitar on Sept. 22. Titled Can’t You Hear the Mountains Calling, the 12-track album was originally released in 1985 on cassette tape under the name Sixteen Years.
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August 12, 2009 at 11:03 am
I heard it was because of peanut butter’s torrid affair with chocolate. I don’t blame jelly for leaving.
August 12, 2009 at 11:07 am
I heard it was because they generally chose to house themselves in seperate containes, except when being eaten together…i knew they were a sham!
August 12, 2009 at 11:14 am
Barbie and Ken have been separated for a few years now…
August 12, 2009 at 11:18 am
I’m quite excited for Michelle’s debut country record =)
August 12, 2009 at 11:27 am
So the tickets for that CMHOF guitar pull here in Los Angeles are only $ 750! Wow, what a bargain! (lol) Guess I won’t be attending that show….
Trailer’s Trent Tomlinson picture is classic! I always suspected somethig like that…
Michelle Branch is smart to not change her style in an attempt to be “more country”. Especially with Top 40 mainstream country music becoming less and less country every day why should she?
August 12, 2009 at 12:34 pm
OM-frickin’-G, that new Lady Antebellum single is exactly the song all those MOR country stars (as they were called at the time) were trying to record back when emulating Air Supply was the goal. “Need You Now” got lost on its way to 1982, and somehow ended up here.
Despite this, I cannot deny that I’m seriously digging it. I have a new favorite song.
August 12, 2009 at 3:12 pm
BREAKING NEWS- Suffering from a respiratory infection, country recording artist Tracy Lawrence was hospitalized yesterday in Nashville. The physicians have diagnosed him with early signs of pneumonia for which he is currently receiving treatment.
August 12, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Jelly deserves better anyway. Loved that. I still think Jim and the Devil was the best, though.
Also, I’m with Joe. Seriously digging the Lady A. song.
August 12, 2009 at 4:04 pm
I love that PB&J piece at Country California.
August 12, 2009 at 7:24 pm
First Brooks & Dunn split, now Country California reports that peanut butter and jelly are parting ways. If this keeps up, Barbie and Ken will be getting a divorce before too long.
Oh Brody, I don’t know how to break this to you:
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb2004/nf20040217_1253_db042.htm
August 12, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Note to self: make sarcasm a little more obvious.
August 12, 2009 at 8:16 pm
You don’t want to spoil ALL my fun, do ya?
August 12, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Stormy said: “You don’t want to spoil ALL my fun, do ya?”.
Well Brody may not, but I do! I’m gonna confiscate all of your Bap Kennedy CDs! (lol)
As for the new Lady Antebellum single, its a nice pop song from a talented power-pop band which is perfect for Top 40 country radio! Its not country, but at least its not bad…
August 12, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Three cds is only about 1% of my cd collection. Good thing I got those when I did though, because they are like gold now.
August 13, 2009 at 3:30 pm
“Change It” was released from a “Broadyway” play? Is this where the Verchers stage all their musical productions? :-)