Kristofferson In Austin This Weekend And Last Of The Breed Is Back For Another Round
- Austin 360 details the connections that were made to bring Kris Kristofferson to Austin this weekend for the Road to Austin concert. Basically it started 17 years ago when a guitar player by the name of Stephen Bruton met up with Kristofferson, who asked him to play in his band.
- Shania Twain says she’s in very serious songwriting mode at the moment, but fans shouldn’t expect an album out of her this year. If anything, it will be sometime in 2008.
“We haven’t even decided where we’re to go record it yet…We’re putting some demos together. I’m working really hard on the lyrics. I want to be as true to myself as possible, well completely true to myself with the lyrics. It takes a lot of thought.”
- Nelson, Haggard, and Price announced another show for their Last of the Breed tour. On September 7 the trio will be preforming at York Fair Grandstand in York, PA.
- Steve Circeo at Texas Music Times was furious and sickened the first time he heard Jack Ingram’s cover of “Lips of an Angel,” even to the point of going on “a tirade about how Nashville corrupts our great Texas artists” despite not having an audience. After coming to his senses he realized the importance of Ingram reaching out to a mainstream crowd to build a bigger fan base.
Is he less of an artist for it? No, although it may seem so temporarily, because art often takes a backseat to the green stuff that runs our world. Why do you think Guy Clark did TV commercials for Taco Cabana? Even artists need to get paid.
- Christopher Gray gives a neat little summary of four recent albums from women in one paragraph. Miranda Lambert and Elizabeth Cook received 3 1/2 stars while Gretchen Wilson earned 3.
Cook and Lambert probably both owe Gretchen Wilson a shot of whiskey, and the original “Redneck Woman” sounds like she could use one on surprisingly pensive third album One of the Boys.
- GAC will be the only station rebroadcasting the ACM Awards. Tune in on June 6th to catch an encore presentation of the ceremony.
- Two recent John Rich produced albums, John Anderson’s Easy Money and Gretchen Wilson’s One of the Boys, get the full analysis from Michael McCall at Nashville Scene.
Easy Money
On the energized stompers, Anderson greases the rhythms with funky chords and backbeats, putting his fingerprint on the self-referential country-can-rock theme that Rich has emphasized in his collaborations with Wilson, Jason Aldean, Cowboy Troy, Big & Rich and others.One of the Boys
The title may sound like another chapter in the continuing musical biography of Nashville’s leading redneck woman. But that’s misleading. Even the title track contradicts that idea: in it, Wilson implies that while she can hold her liquor, shoot pool and cuss as well any guy, she nonetheless has “this little girl inside of me” that still needs to be acknowledged, both by her and by men. - The Stanley Brothers: The Definitive Collection (1947-1966) earns four stars from The Austin Chronicle.
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May 19, 2007 at 8:12 pm Permalink
“Steve Circeo at Texas Music Times was furious and sickened the first time he heard Jack Ingram’s cover of “Lips of an Angel,” even to the point of going on “a tirade about how Nashville corrupts our great Texas artists” despite not having an audience.”
I was happy to read this. I’ve got Jack Ingram on a couple “collection” CDs and he’s always seemed to be a true Texas singer, in the sense of Pat Green and the Robisons. When I first saw the “Lips of an Angle Video” I damn near puked. I crossed Ingram right off my list of artists to give a serious listen to one day soon. I was going to see the Paisley show with him on the bill but anybody who sells out that easily isn’t worth my time.
Big career mistake for serious listeners. Some of these guys will do ANYTHING to get an audience.
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