Hopes Of Record Executives Head To Nashville For Fourth Quarter
- In the New York Times Kelefa Senneh writes “It’s a yearly tradition: Summer ends, the fourth quarter looms (after a dismal first three), and the fragile hopes of record executives head south, to Nashville.” She then lists a few country artists who might be able to break out of the sales slump.
- The Sara Evans divorce got even uglier last week after her husband’s attorneys filed interrogatories asking Evans to answer questions about relationships and affairs she may have had. The documents ask her to admit to affairs with 11 people, including her band, Brad Arnold or other members Three Doors Down, Kenny Chesney, Richard Marx, and her former Dancing with the Stars partner Tony Dovolani.
Evans has previously alleged that there are nude photos of Schelske having sex with other women. The interrogatory asks Evans to admit, among other things, that the people in some of the nude photos cannot be identified and that she and Schelske, during their marriage, took nude photos of one another in the privacy of their bedroom.
The scheisse has officially hit the fan.
- Rafer Guzman wrote a blistering review of last Thursday’s Kenny Chesney/Sugarland/Pat Green concert. He says “During Pat Green’s short opening set there wasn’t a cowboy hat on stage, which was fitting: Like the acts that would follow him, Green has one eye, maybe both, on the rock world.” (via Take Country Back)
- Cowboy Jack Clement’s Top 10 songwriting tips
- Songwriter Craig Wiseman and Ronnie Dunn reveal the process behind writing “Believe”. In all it took about six months and before hearing the final version Wiseman didn’t think it’d do too well. YouTube won’t let me embed the actual video, but you can watch it here.
- HickoryWind writer Sean Moores says that even for fans of Lyle Lovett the man still remains somewhat of a mystery.
His persona is tough to figure out, and his music even tougher to pigeonhole. In the ’80s, along comes this long, tall Texan with the tumbleweed coiffure who’s being hailed as one of the next great things in country music (like Steve Earle, who had more conventional hair). But within a couple of albums he’s not making country music anymore. Not strictly, anyway. (Also like Mr. Earle). He’s spinning his own blend of country, folk, jazz blues and gospel that is seemingly without formula. Add a bit of western swing here, and a piece of Clifford Brown there. Throw in a Tammy Wynette cover, church it up a little and you’re getting closer to the mélange that makes Lovett such a singular artist. Add a bit of whimsy, and a big dollop of twisted humor and you’ve pretty much got it. But what have you got?
- The major labels can’t seem to get it right. Twang Nation calls our attention to a plan devised by Hollywood Records to use the internet and YouTube as a way to deceive fans into thinking that one of their signed artists was actually unsigned. Baron Lane refers to it as “calculated fraud.”
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September 12, 2007 at 2:06 pm Permalink
can somebody set a brother up with those sara evans nude photos? i’d give an appendage to see them.
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