Hot Club of Cowtown to Release Bob Wills Tribute; Snoop Dogg Weighs In On Willie

Spin’s list of “The 40 Best Albums of 2010″ includes Jamey Johnson’s The Guitar Song at No. 5.

Of course it does.

I don’t have an issue with it, Kelly; I indicated that I found it predictable. Didn’t you? It’s exactly the kind of project presented in exactly the kind of way that would appeal to rock folks who don’t really like country music but think they know what it should be. And that’s not in any respect a criticism of Johnson or his album; it’s just an observation.

It funny how its predictable that quality albums will be deemed good.

@Stormy — Exactly. He makes it sound wrong for a publication to point out that quality albums are, in actuality, QUALITY ALBUMS.

Put ‘em in whatever order you want, but the 3 best quasi-mainstream Country albums of the year were Revolution, Guitar Song, and Up On The Ridge.

“Put ‘em in whatever order you want, but the 3 best quasi-mainstream Country albums of the year were Revolution, Guitar Song, and Up On The Ridge”

My reaction in reading this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_S5cXbXe-4

but seriously no they aren’t.

I can’t quite follow your question — are you trying to bait me because of my distaste for Taylor? ‘Cause I don’t have a huge problem with Speak Now. It’s, sadly, one of the best things I’ve listened to from the past couple months, along with Dean Brody’s Trail In Life.

On a completely different note, a bit of news: frequent IBMA Dobro Player of the Year Rob Ickes of Blue Highway has been named one of this year’s United States Artists Fellowship recipients, which comes with an unrestricted grant of $50,000. Deets here: http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/news/usa/pr_fellows_2010. Way to go, Rob!

@Stormy was it a fluke about Fearless too?

This where the real problem is with people like Stormy who try to present the idea as a fact when it isn’t by using werid like obviously.

Or both. There are always going to be the Slumdog Millionaires. There are always going to be the Crashes. And there are always going to be the Shawshank Redemptions.

Jamey Johnson is a Slumdog Millionaire.
Taylor Swift is a Crash.

What if I think ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ was last year’s ‘Crash’?

Its nice to see Elizabeth Cook and Jamey Johnson make that leftist toilet paper substitute known as Rolling Stone. Not that it really adds anything to their credibility as artists, but it might interest trendy hipster types in their music.

I’d be a lot more interested in that new Hot Club of Cowtown album of old Bob Wills tunes if Gurf Morlix had been producing it as he did on “Ghost Train”. Recording an album over a two day period is a bit of a rush job and could have bargain basement sound quality as a result. I’ll have to listen to samples before considering a purchase.

I looked at That Nashville Sound’s song list and was saddened to see Sunny Sweeney’s “From A Table Away” at a lowly # 59. That was enough for me to disregard the validity of the rest of the list as being grounded in sound musical taste. Well, that and the fact I haven’t ever heard over 90% of the songs listed and don’t care to…

He doesn’t when its good thats why he was shocked the Jamey got rewarded.

@Kelly Jon – Just by clicking on the link provided above, I was able to see that Rolling Stone has it in their annual list.

D’oh, now I have to *facepalm* myself.

So does that speak to the power of Speak Now in your mind?

@Stormy How do you manage to see “it’s predictable that…” and read it as “I’m shocked that…?”

Ashton Shepherd’s new song, Look It Up – Love it. I was smiling and toe tapping through the whole song.

Jon – It does. I’m not much of a fan of what I’ve personally from the record, but there’s little argument that Speak Now is an album that transcends simple boundaries in its overall statement, similar to the Johnson album.

@Kelly there’s little argument that Speak Now is an album that transcends simple boundaries in its overall statement

You skipped over the discussion of The9513′s review, didn’t you? ;-) But although I think there’s a degree of circularity involved, point taken.

@Stormy If the folks who made up Spin’s best of 2010 list liked country music, there’d be more than one or maybe two country albums on the list. QED.

@Stormy You can’t come up with a list of 10 country albums that you consider to be good this year?