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- Today Cracker Barrel released their fourth exclusive CD this year. The Last Stand features recordings from Alabama’s farewell tour in 2003.
- Last week Toby Keith joined Vince Gill and Reba McEntire as a member of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
- Later this week Little Jimmy Dickens will become one of the first ten members inducted into West Virginia Music Hall of Fame.
- The recently released Gram Parsons album — Gram Parsons Archives Vol. 1: Gram Parsons With the Flying Burrito Brothers: Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 — was found among the 16,000 hours of material in the Grateful Dead’s vault, and comes from two concerts in 1969 where the Burritos opened for the Dead.
- The Tim McGraw song that Taylor Swift had in mind when she was writing “Tim McGraw” is “Can’t Tell Me Nothin’”.
- Legend, genius, and icon get thrown around so much that Michael Corcoran argues their meaning is becoming devalued. In an effort to protect the sanctity of these words Corcoran put together a table to illustrate who deserves to be donned with the aforementioned glorifications. In case you were wondering, Willie Nelson is an icon; David Allan Coe is not; and Pat Green is so not an icon.
- Kevin at Country Universe had the brilliant idea to list a few songs he hates by artists he loves. Check it out and leave your own suggestions.
- Dierks Bentley displaced Kenny Chesney at the top of the charts with “Free & Easy (Down the Road I Go)”.
- Coming soon to a bookstore near you — Willie Nelson: An Epic Life, the 480 page, epic biography by Joe Nick Patoski. (via Still Is Still Moving)
- Not much is mentioned about the quality of Kareem Salama’s music in this New York Times article. Salama grew up in Oklahoma and considers himself a devout Muslim, which to some, puts him at a slight disadvantage in the country music genre. Listen to some of his songs on his website.
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November 13, 2007 at 10:38 am Permalink
Speaking of songs I hate by artists I love, this week’s #1, “Free and Easy,” is one of them.
November 13, 2007 at 10:50 am Permalink
What irks me more is songs I like by artists I hate. A lot of Sugarland songs fall in to that category. The songs are good but I can’t stand the singers!
November 13, 2007 at 11:29 am Permalink
haha, poor DAC, always the bridesmaid.
November 13, 2007 at 12:16 pm Permalink
Taylor Swift managed to pick about the only Tim McGraw song that doesn’t make sense with the song that she wrote. It just makes “Tim McGraw” seem even more inane.
November 13, 2007 at 2:59 pm Permalink
Good for Tater. He deserves more recognition than he gets.
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