Little Jimmy Dickens Returns to the Opry and Jamey Johnson Shuttin’ Nashville Down
- Little Jimmy Dickens is scheduled to host Opry segments on Friday and Saturday. It’ll be his first time back to the stage since undergoing surgery to stop bleeding on his brain in January.
- Craig Shelburne revisits twelve ladies, with distinctive personalities and clever songs, of the 90s who helped pave the way for the women of today.
- While John Rich is singing about shutting Detroit down, Jamey Johnson will be shuttin’ Nashville down. He’s set to perform a free show next Wednesday (3/4) outside the Nashville Convention Center. They’ll even have free food and drinks! Sounds like my kinda show. (via multiple reader emails)
- Musicians On Call has a benefit auction that features a few country related items, including a package for four at the Grand Ole Opry with accomodations, LeAnn Rimes signed memorabilia, an autographed guitar from Alabama’s Farewell Tour, signed guitars from multiple artists, and lots more.
- Nashville at Nite caught up with Joey + Rory to talk about their first ACM nomination, what it’s like to run a restaurant while busy with their music careers, and…BOMSHEL!!!
- Take a listen to Neko Case‘s new album Middle Cyclone on NPR before its release next week. (via No Depression)
- In the obvious, but totally sad column comes a review of a show by Three Girls, without their Buddy.
- Ye Olde Gobbler’s Knob reviewed a Band of Heathens show at Hank’s and has got you covered if you’re curious about the upcoming Sarah Borges and The Broken Singles album. Lots of media included.
- The Academy of Country Music announced winners of the radio awards.
- Vince Gill‘s songwriting words of wisdom: “Great songs are just great songs.”
- Kevin at Country Universe dug up an interesting quote by Harlan Howard on the need to repeat certain titles a number of times throughout a song to make it memorable.
- Chris Neal’s latest round of album reviews include The Mickeys, Mark Olson & Gary Louris, Amy Dalley, and Dierks Bentley.
- Dan Tacket reviews the latest offering from Dry Branch Fire Squad over at BluegrassJournal.com.
- For the final week in Februrary, the topic of Dan Milliken’s quiz is “14 country artists from non-Southern states.”
- Reba McEntire and Red Steagall will play a benefit concert for a local wrestling coach in Hoffman Estates, IL on March 21 to help pay his medical expenses due to AVM. (via reader J.R. Journey)
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February 25, 2009 at 11:16 am
At Jimmy Dickens age with those types of health problems, he likely won’t be around much longer. Time waits fo no one…
As for Craig Shelburne’s “90′s Ladies” list, he does list gals who had the biggest commercial impact and who charted the direction of mainstream country. Personally I am only a big fan of Mary Chapin Carpenter’s early albums and don’t much care about the other artists touted, shocking as that may be to all you Reba and Trisha fans. My favorite female artists of the 90′s include Kim Richey, Mandy Barnett, and Jann Browne so I’m on a different wavelength.
I’m sure the gals of BOMSHEL appreciate the mention! (Or maybe not after the review here of “Fight Like A Girl”.)
It’s nice to see cowboy artist extraordinaire Red Steagall get a mention here. Red is one of the best storytellers alive and his live shows are spellbinding. Red is mostly known for helping Reba get her start in the business, but he is an amazing artist in his own right.
February 25, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Yay for Little Jimmy :-)
February 25, 2009 at 4:31 pm
How could you guys miss the biggest news story of all, that Miley Cyrus is set to invade the country charts with her version of “The Climb” off the Hannah Montana Movie soundtrack?
Link: http://blog.cmt.com/2009-02-24/the-other-cyrus-on-country-radio/#more-2149
Will the ‘tweener overthrow of Top 40 country radio started by Taylor Swift be completed by Miley? Can you imagine the snark wars that will rage on blogs across the land between the Miley vs. Taylor fan groups? Pity the poor screeching teenie that is a huge fan of both artists as cognitive dissonace sets in. Oh, the humanity….(lol)
PS – With Taylor Swift crossing over into the pop realm its only fair that the Jonas Brothers invade the country charts as well….