John Rich Is Producing Jewel’s Country Album And Brad Paisley Running On Backup Reserve Of Adrenaline
- Andrew Dansby encourages listeners hearing Jack Ingram for the first time to explore the artist’s back catalog of music. Ingram considers his newest album to be an extension of his past work, part of the trajectory that he would like is career to take.
- It seems like Big Kenny and John Rich have their hands in everything these days, usually with mixed results. With that said, The Tennessean reports that Jewel’s country album is being produced by John Rich.
“Her lyrics are unbelievably brilliant,” John says. “She is more of a country singer than she is a pop singer. She has all the breaks in her voice like Tammy Wynette; she has the emotion of Patsy Cline. I didn’t even realize how great she was until we got in there.”
- Kix Broooks talks about songwriting:
“This is what I came here to do,” he told Nashville’s WKRN. “I love touring with Brooks & Dunn. That’s as exciting as anything I’ve ever done, but for 10 years before I met Ronnie I wrote songs for a living, and your heart and soul never get away from that. Hopefully, as artists you try to keep digging in that well. That’s what makes the whole wheel turn.”
- Jonathan Hodges from Dry Land Fish left a comment the other day informing everyone that Dry Land Fish will be live on XM Channel 12 x-Country on Wednesday, April 4th at 7PM ET. For those of you interested and have XM radio, that’s today. Tune in and let us know how it goes.
- Scott O. Miller describes Eleven Hundred Springs as “straight up, no apologies country music.” I caught these guys for the first time during SXSW and immediately bought their album. I’ll be looking forward to their new disc that Miller says will be recorded this spring.
- As Brad Paisley adjusts to fatherhood he says he’s running on a backup reserve of adrenaline that he didn’t even know was there.
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April 4, 2007 at 7:22 am Permalink
John Rich and Jewel, now there’s a recipe for mediocrity.
April 4, 2007 at 7:25 am Permalink
I saw EHS in Dallas at the Old Monk pub last 4th of July and they are the real deal! Everyone should buy their stuff!
April 4, 2007 at 8:52 am Permalink
I tend to like Big Kenny a little more than John Rich, it seems like he just does his own thing without caring what people think where as Rich tries too hard to be cool. There’s a few of their songs that I think are wonderful, but then there is a ton of mediocre stuff as well.
April 4, 2007 at 11:25 am Permalink
I’m a John Rich fan. He’s one of the best songwriters in Nashville today and I think Big & Rich would be improved with less Big Kenny and more John Rich.
April 4, 2007 at 2:41 pm Permalink
Big and Rich are good songwriters in comparison to the legacy of country music (Hank, Cash, Kristofferson) or just in comparison to the tidal wave of manure coming out of Nashville (i.e sucks less)?
April 4, 2007 at 5:16 pm Permalink
John Rich is different than Hank, Cash and Kristofferson in that most of his best material has been recorded by other artists. They’re different kinds of talent. As for the general comparison of Golden Age songwriters vs. contemporary songwriters, I maintain that the biggest difference between then and now is in the quality of the artists, the kind of songs artists are choosing to record and the nature of the arrangements, not the quality of the songwriters. Rich may not be among the best writers in the history of the genre, but I think he could’ve held his own in the Golden Age and his songs have had quite a run on country radio over the past couple of years. For the most part, the “tide of manure coming out of Nashville” isn’t the fault of the songwriters.
April 4, 2007 at 9:11 pm Permalink
“For the most part, the “tide of manure coming out of Nashville” isn’t the fault of the songwriters.”
Truth there man, songwriters are the unsung heroes of a cold, heartless machine. My Uncle, Tony Lane, being one of those that toil far away from the limelights.
We’ll have to agree to disgree about John Rich though.
April 4, 2007 at 9:50 pm Permalink
Tony Lane is your uncle? Neat!
April 5, 2007 at 10:51 am Permalink
Yeah, he’s a hell of a guy and a great father to his two boys.
May 25, 2007 at 10:21 pm Permalink
john rich producing jewel? oh my god. i thought things were bad when the Poison dude was a judge on nashville star.
what’s next? the backstreet boys doing a record with Rascal Flatts? wait, or is Rascal Flatts the backstreet boys??
May 26, 2007 at 7:09 am Permalink
Or Nelly doing a song with Tim McGraw…oh wait.
May 26, 2007 at 7:22 pm Permalink
baron, you’re an ok dude in my book.
May 26, 2007 at 8:00 pm Permalink
I must admit, that was pretty funny. Personally, I tend to think that John Rich is just trying to get his feet wet with every option he can explore.
May 28, 2007 at 6:10 am Permalink
I think John Rich is proving he’s a better buisness man than he is a musician.
May 28, 2007 at 4:59 pm Permalink
just what Country needs. One more Businessman.
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