Miranda Lambert: Budding Urban Bow Hunter
- The latest edition of Field & Stream includes a short Q&A highlighting Miranda Lambert as a reader of the magazine. She enjoys hunting and recently got into bow hunting when Blake Shelton bought her a bow. Here’s a humorous excerpt:
New Pastime: Scaring urbanites. “I bring my bow on the road and practice a lot. I have a block and set it up out by the buses and shoot. Last year I set up in an alley in downtown Chicago. I got some strange looks.”
- In light of Florida changing their state song Chris Gray of the Houston Press takes a look at other state songs and makes a few suggestions for Texas — if they were to ever consider dropping “Texas, Our Texas” in favor of something less dated.
- Dwight Yoakam remembers the conversation he had with Buck Owens four days prior to his passing.
- Random fact about Ray Benson from the Asleep at the Wheel MySpace: “It would take 641,620 Ray Bensons, laying head to toe, to span the 800 “Miles and Miles of Texas” between El Paso and Galveston.” Somebody has way too much time on their hands.
- Spade Cooley — grandfather of Drive-By Truckers co-founder Mike Cooley — acted as a stunt double for Roy Rogers in the ’40s and according to legend he beat Bob Wills in a “Battle of the Bands,” claiming the title King of Western Swing. But, his fame wouldn’t last long. Find out how he brutally murdered his own career.
- Introducing the world’s greatest music collection! 3 million records, 300,000 compact discs, more than 6 million song titles and it’s all for sale. What’s included?
Every genre of American music is represented: rock; jazz; country; R&B; blues; new age; Broadway and Hollywood; bluegrass; folk; children’s; comedy; Christmas, and more. No other collection in the world – publicly or privately held – even comes close.
- The latest Clint Black single “Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)” [read The 9513 review] will be released via a digital EP on March 4th. Other tracks include “The Strong One,” a duet with his wife on “You Still Get Me” and the iTunes version will include a cover of the 1969 Harry Nilsson pop hit “Everybody’s Talkin’.” Or you can wait until May 27 when all the songs will be included on his new album.
- This Is Texas Music reviewed Pat Green’s new book, Dance Halls & Dreamers, and calls it “a splendid book that belongs on the coffee tables and bookshelves of all Texas music fans and photography buffs.”
- Keeping with the dance hall theme, Craig Shelburne wrote a great piece on John T. Floore’s Country Store.
- No Depression contributor Roy Kasten celebrates the magazine.
No Depression was stubbornly out of touch with everything, and especially whatever the industry of cool and cash–the one that devours the young and spits them back out in kaleidoscopic regurgitations–says we should care about. Alden and Blackstock followed their instincts and covered the music they cared about, not the music that would sell advertising or widen their demographic.
- Bob Cherry is gushing over Secrets, the forthcoming album from 16 year-old Sierra Hull, dubbing her a bluegrass prodigy in the same mold as Ricky Skaggs and Alison Krauss.
- Spinner has a quasi entertaining video explaining the history of alt-country in one minute.
- After recent mix-ups with artist crediting on collaborations “Find Out Who Your Friends Are,” and “Shiftwork,” MCA has declined to allow the Reba/Kenny Chesney “Every other Weekend” (which appears on the Duets album) to be released to radio. The label hasn’t issued an official comment other than to cite a “conflict of interest.” Reba still plans to release the song, however; a new version features co-writer Skip Ewing. Ewing has previously charted three Top 10 singles as an artist, and has penned numerous hits as a songwriter, including “I Believe” (Diamond Rio).
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February 21, 2008 at 12:14 pm Permalink
God Bless No Depression.
For all you chesney & flatts fans, this song’s for you….
For fear the hearts of men are failing,
For these are latter days we know
The Great Depression now is spreading,
God’s word declared it would be so
I’m going where there’s no depression,
To the lovely land that’s free from care
I’ll leave this world of toil and trouble,
My home’s in Heaven, I’m going there
In that bright land, there’ll be no hunger,
No orphan children crying for bread,
No weeping widows, toil or struggle,
No shrouds, no coffins, and no death
This dark hour of midnight nearing
And tribulation time will come
The storms will hurl in midnight fear
And sweep lost millions to their doom
eat your heart out hitmen of music row…
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