Loretta Lynn Earns Lifetime Achievement Award; TIME & Billboard Lists; Toby Keith Performs at Nobel Peace Concert
- Loretta Lynn, Harold Bradley, and Walter Miller will be among those honored by the Recording Academy during Grammy week. Lynn will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award and both Bradley and Miller will earn Trustees Awards.
- Country California’s C.M. Wilcox compared and contrasted the best of the decade lists that ran here and Country Universe.
- It took TIME magazine 50 lists to categorize everything in 2009, from the top awkward stories to the top scandals. Brad Paisley’s American Saturday Night took the top spot on the list for albums while Miranda Lambert came in at number six for Revolution and earned another spot on the top songs list for “White Liar,” which came in at number seven. Through her affiliation with Kanye West, Taylor Swift was mentioned in the number two most awkward story and number five on the list of apologies.
- Even more country stars inhabit Billboard’s Best of the 2000s and Best of 2009 lists. Be sure to check out the country specific lists if you’re not interested in the other genres.
- So Taylor Swift got rid of her curls…
- My Kind of Country’s Razor X shared a list of his top albums of the year.
- The new Crazy Heart movie starring Jeff Bridges almost didn’t get made, and then almost didn’t see a release. Now that it’s been picked up by Fox Searchlight, it’ll see a staggered release starting next Wednesday, followed by more cities on Christmas day, and even more Jan. 8.
- Sounds Country talked to Steve Berg, the bass player for Eleven Hundred Springs, about five records that inspire him.
- Jimmy Buffet passed the “tiki torch” to the Zac Brown Band during the recent taping of CMT’s Crossroads. The actual episode doesn’t air until March 19.
- Carrie Underwood on choosing songs for her first album:
I know what I like to listen to on the radio. I know what I like to sing along to in the car. So any time I heard a song for the first album, I’d put it in the context of, Okay, would I turn the channel? Would I listen to this whole song or would I skip to the next one? It was really important to me because all I knew was how to be a consumer. I didn’t know how to be an artist.
She’s also announced a slew of dates for her spring tour.
- Adam Steffey, who has been getting a lot of praise for his 2009 album, talked to The Bluegrass Blog about The Boxcars, a new group that includes himself, Ron Stewart, Keith Garrett, Harold Nixon and John Bowman.
- The Austin Chronicle’s Margaret Moser rated the new Dolly Parton box set, Dolly, four stars.
- Trisha Yearwood is scheduled to host the 2009 “Christmas at Belmont” performance at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center, which will be broadcast on PBS Dec. 23. (via NashvilleGab)
- Toby Keith says he won’t apologize for supporting U.S. war efforts. Hours later, he played the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.
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December 11, 2009 at 11:58 am Permalink
Toby supports the troops NOT the war, as he has always said.
December 11, 2009 at 12:47 pm Permalink
Looking forward to Crazy Heart. Luckily, it will be in Dallas soon!
December 11, 2009 at 12:51 pm Permalink
wow, taylor swift looks like an adult now. I approve of the new look.
December 11, 2009 at 3:35 pm Permalink
I was very curious when I first heard about the ZBB/Buffet Crossroads taping, and will have to wait to see it for myself. To me, it furthers a myth of what ZBB is, and I don’t see them as that laid-back Island-style music. I see them more as a southern-rock-with-Country-influences act, a la Lynyrd Skynyrd. The bottom line, I suppose, is that it’s all good music – regardless of labels.
December 11, 2009 at 6:18 pm Permalink
Its nice to see Loretta Lynn earn a well deserved honor, but I hope its not due to Jack White and “Van Lear Rose”.
Wow, a Time Magazine politically correct, leftist “conventional wisdom” mindset applied to music! That Obamavoter rag isn’t worthy to line my bird cage with let alone waste time reading….
Taylor Swift’s hair is naturally wavy so I don’t expect it to stay straight for long. Maybe she’s using those hair straightening products from that Texas company whose radical Palestinian owner wants to run for Governor on the Democrat ticket! I hope he gets the nomination!!!!!! Let’s see that leftist embrace of socially divisive “diversity”, and “multi-culturalism” put into direct action in Texas politics!
I really don’t grasp what Razor X finds so amazing about “Mountain Soul II”. I find that album to be very lackluster in comparison to the original. Hmm…
So the Tejas Brothers open for 1100 Springs in Texas huh? I wish they’d do that up here in Los Angeles some day when the ‘Springs” pass through. I think more Latinos live in the L.A. area than all of Texas, so it should be a great fit! (lol)
I love Carrie Underwood’s comment: “It was really important to me because all I knew was how to be a consumer. I didn’t know how to be an artist.” I mean has anything really changed here that I missed? Crikey!
December 11, 2009 at 8:27 pm Permalink
I really don’t grasp what Razor X finds so amazing about “Mountain Soul II”. I find that album to be very lackluster in comparison to the original. Hmm…
So you’ve said. I don’t really grasp how someone can repeatedly complain about “Airhead Top 40 Country Radio”, and then in the next breath reveal that he doesn’t like, among others, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Rodney Crowell, and Gary Allan. Nor do I understand how that same person can complain about Mountain Soul II while embracing music from the likes of Carter’s Chord, Jypsi, and Bomshel — um, excuse me, make that BOMSHEL. But that’s just me.
December 11, 2009 at 9:04 pm Permalink
It’s not just Razor, Rick…I think he expains himself quite well in his own review of Mountain Soul II, and in many of his subsequent comments on the album.
And here is mine, written for Country Universe:
http://www.countryuniverse.net/2009/09/30/patty-loveless-mountain-soul-ii/
I am proud to join Razor in the chorus of praise for this fine album, and this extraordinary artist.
There are others as well, shall we go on?
But all the critical acclaim in the world does not trump personal taste, and you are certainly entitled to yours. But Razor is certainly not alone in his very high regard for this latest Loveles/Gordy masterpiece.
December 11, 2009 at 9:10 pm Permalink
Excellent list by the way, Razor.
December 11, 2009 at 9:21 pm Permalink
Mark Sanford lied, got busted going to Argentina to buck his mistress, used public funds to do it, got ditched by his wife, and the best news he’s had all year is that only 9 of the charges against him might be impeachable offenses. HOW DOES HE NOT TOP THE MOST EMBARRASSING LISTS?!?!?!
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