In the Land of Radio, Country Music is King

Brody Vercher | December 18th, 2007 Email Share

When it comes to radio, country music stations rule the roost, but that could be changing. News/talk stations are up by nearly 500 in the past ten years, whereas country stations have lost about 450 in that same time period. As of October this year there were 2,054 country stations and 2,026 news/talk stations.
Toby Keith provided some commentary about what each of the songs on his Classic Christmas album mean to him and what he tried to accomplish in the studio.
The seven staff members of AboutCountry put together their top ten lists of country albums this year.
Among the all-star cast of the upcoming comedy Four Christmases are two country music artists–Tim McGraw and Dwight Yoakam. McGraw will play a bullying sibling to Vince Vaughn while Yoakam plays the overly zealous partner of Vaughn’s mother-in-law.
You can watch the new Garth Brooks/Huey Lewis video, “Workin’ For a Livin’”, in the GAC video section.
John C. Reilly has carried his guitar with him to wherever he’s been shooting a movie, so he was happy to be able to take his hobby and make it a part of his work for the movie Walk Hard. Getting the songs just right was the product of several songwriters and a long process.

“There was a lot of debate about how funny the songs should be,” Apatow said. “We wanted the songs to be good and to feel like he had all these hit records. But we wanted them to be also weird and wrong. It was a trick — writing a good bad song.”
Country Universe author Kevin introduced numbers 50-41 from his countdown of The Fifty Best Singles of 2007 yesterday. Good stuff.
Edward Morris says it’s “a sorry damn world when a man can bend his ear all day long to country radio and still not hear one single song about the great democratic sport of adultery.” Read through his brief list of a few cheating songs to see what song he dubs as the greatest adultery song of all time.
Cracker Barrel plans to release new music from Ricky Skaggs and Kenny Rogers in 2008.
Trace Adkins feels that one of the advantages that he has on Celebrity Apprentice is that expectations for him are pretty low. He also freely admits that he doesn’t know what a metrosexual is, but knows that he is not one.

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