Little Jimmy Dickens Celebrates 90; Shania Twain Announces Engagement; Country Music Hall of Fame Plans Expansion
- Little Jimmy Dickens turned 90 on Sunday.
- Shania Twain is engaged, and has been for a couple of months now, to Frédéric Thiébaud. She announced the engagement on her website this morning.
- Farce the Music Parody Album Covers: A Country Christmas 2010
- Craig Havighurst has an article on NPR about the songwriting system in Nashville and the cycle a song generally takes from the creation to final cut. In one of the more interesting parts, he notes that a song on an album that sells a million copies would generate about $100,000, which would then be split between the songwriters and publishers. Radio hits generate even more — a lot more. It sounds like a sweet gig, but Havighurst says the system is under pressure:
Shorter radio playlists and the collapse in CD sales have made lucrative hits scarcer than ever. The city’s top songwriting association estimates there are only about a quarter as many staff writers on Music Row today as there were a decade ago.
- Plans to expand the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum were recently okayed.
- NPR: Joey+Rory on Mountain Stage | Punch Brothers on Mountain Stage
- Country Universe is counting down the best singles of 2010: Part 1: #40-#31 | Part 2: #30-#21
- Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt have a collaborative tour planned for early next year.
- If you haven’t read Pierce’s Garth Brooks recap, check it out here, and if that’s not enough, there’s plenty more: CMT’s Edward Morris | The Tennessean‘s Dave Paulson | Nashville Cream | Billboard‘s Deborah Evans Price | GAC’s Tom Roland
- The staff at Galleywinter compiled a list of their favorite albums, songs, discoveries, live acts and more from the past year.
- Country California: Quotable Country – 12/19/10 Edition
- Easton Corbin on familial support:
My dad watches the charts more than I do. I mean, he’ll call me up and tell me where it’s at on the charts. He doesn’t know how to get on the computer, but my stepmom does, and he does it through her. He has no idea how to run the computer. It’s funny, we were No. 4 at one time, and we kind of dropped back to five, and he called me and said, “Son, I just want to let you know you were No. 4, but it looks like you’re No. 5 now. I wonder if somebody made a mistake on that chart or something. You might need to point it out to somebody.” And I said, “Dad, don’t worry. They know what they’re doing. Trust me.”
- Rascal Flatts collaborated with Justin Bieber on a song that’ll be on his next album. In other Flatts news, the trio plans to host its first-ever Flatts Fest, a multi-artist music festival, in July.
- My Kind of Country: J.R. Journey’s Top 10 Singles and Tracks of 2010
- Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers have a new gospel album, Hymns From The Hills, scheduled for release on Feb. 1.
- NPR’s 50 favorite albums of the year include Carolina Chocolate Drops‘ Genuine Negro Jig and Jamey Johnson‘s The Guitar Song.
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December 21, 2010 at 11:52 am
I just knew it was a matter of time that Justin Bieber would rear his head at country radio. If his duet with Rascal Flatts, then that duet with Taylor Swift couldn’t very far away either. I’d have the Perry brothers sing a duet together than Justin Bieber trying to sing which he can’t very much.
And this Flatts-Fest will probably consist of your average everyday pop country artists: Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Kelly Clarkson, you know those people who are knocking on country radio’s door who don’t have much to do with country music than to be hangers on to everything.
December 21, 2010 at 11:54 am
*If his duet with Rascal Flatts is any consideration.
December 21, 2010 at 12:01 pm
At the Birchmere here in the DC area, a ticket for “An Acoustic Evening with John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett” costs $122! That better be a darn good show.
December 21, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Brody, thanks for the Jason Eady video- love that new track. It’s an interesting contradiction to Paisley’s current single, “This Is Country Music.”
December 21, 2010 at 12:44 pm
I know I’ve read this young man Easton Corbin has a wife. Has anyone ever seen her or heard him talk of her. Is this another Billy Ray Cyrus situation where his label wanted him to keep Tish a secret?? He is coming to our city for a concert and if thats the case and was left up to me he can sang to empty seats.
December 21, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Joe’s album is great; I’m really proud to have a song I wrote with Tim Stafford on there.
December 21, 2010 at 1:33 pm
PT: You don’t hear much about Joe Nichols’ wife either so Easton might not be alone in him talking about his wife that much. There might be a few females in country music in which the same thing is happening (wives not sharing about their husbands)
December 21, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Lewis, you maybe right about the females,but Joe has his wife on red carpets and they sat on front row at this year’s ACM Awards and he talks about her on twitter to the fans. Infact I’ve heard him say she and Miranda Lambert came from the same area in Texas and same back grounds. She is out on the road with Joe quite abit. I’m not saying Easton needs keep his wife out there all the time, but seems strange to me we never see her. We know he is cute and these young girls buy the tickets!!
December 21, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Or maybe he wants to keep his private life private.
December 21, 2010 at 3:12 pm
PT, if you visit the link in the roundup, the interviewer specifically asks about his wife.
December 21, 2010 at 3:31 pm
“Joe’s album is great; I’m really proud to have a song I wrote with Tim Stafford on there.”
Way to pat yourself on the back.
December 21, 2010 at 4:12 pm
@ Jon – Congratulations!
@ Chickett – If I had a song on there I’d say so too. (In fact, if it’d been me I’d probably have YELLED it in ALL CAPS, but Jon apparently has more restraint than I do).
You know, for all the folks who like to say “well, you dont know what you’re talking about unless you’ve actually done it.” Well, Jon has done it.
December 21, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Way to pat yourself on the back.
Thanks! If it had been mentioned in the press release, I wouldn’t have had to do it myself ;-).
December 21, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Thanks Brody!!
December 21, 2010 at 6:56 pm
Wow, how did a band I like as much as the Tejas Brothers wind up on that Galleywinter Best of 2010 list? Oh, its because they aren’t Red Dirt in the slightest way and yet squeaked in somehow due to musical integrity and a great live show! Whew, I thought I was slipping…
So J.R. Journey ranks Sunny Sweeney’s “From A Table Away” as his # 1 song of 2010! I must say those writers over at “My Kind Of Country” do get it right now and again. (lol) Sunny has posted a link to a video of a live, acoustic version of “Stayin’s Worse Than Leaving” on her Facebook music page, so I wonder if that will be the next single? darn, I was hoping for “Drink Myself Single”. Oh well.
Link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sunny-Sweeney/18777289296#!/pages/Sunny-Sweeney/18777289296?v=app_5179614317
Trailer’s Christmas parody album covers makes the Grinch in me rejoice! Rating: A solid 4.5 “Hoots”.
December 21, 2010 at 10:04 pm
I’m with Paula. I’d yell it from the rooftops too.
December 22, 2010 at 12:10 pm
I love the Carolin Chocolate Drops album. It’s really cool that they’re on the NPR list. I just wish they would make it over my way on their tour- they seem like they would be an amazing group to see live.
December 22, 2010 at 12:17 pm
You’re surely right about that, Alison. You have to see the Chocolate Drops to fully appreciate them–not least because there’s dancing, playing the bones, and other vaudeville involved. But also because the full range of their instrumental and vocal chops gets put on display (still) more than in the studio. So I hope you get your wish,. We had a full show here in Nashville a few weeks back.
December 28, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Rascal Flatts collaborated with Justin Bieber
Isn’t that illegal under the Genevia Convention?