Miranda Lambert, Kenny Chesney, Drew Kennedy Premiere New Videos; Tanya Tucker Sues Producer
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Miranda Lambert and friends Kellie Pickler, Laura Bell Bundy, and Hillary Scott take on their alter egos in her new video for “Only Prettier.”
- Tanya Tucker filed a lawsuit against Nashville producer Gregg A. Brown for more than $170,000. The lawsuit claims that Brown kept seven master recordings and 29 video recordings that belong to Tucker and left around $60,000 in production fees unpaid. On top of that, he reportedly ran up a $5,000 limousine bill and was involved in an accident while driving Tucker’s vehicle.
- With 7,965,000 radio spins, Tim McGraw earned Nielsen BDS’s Most Played Artist of the Decade Award for all genres.
- As part of its Honky-Tonk Friday series, Songs:Illinois highlighted the new song “Maiden Heart” from Canadian artist Kim Beggs. Her album Blue Bones was released on July 20.
- Nominees for the 2010 Inspirational Country Music Awards have been announced.
- At a concert on their recent tour, the members of Little Big Town decorated a little, white tent to resemble a church, which gave fans a chance to tie the knot at the band’s show and doubled as a promotion for its latest single, “Little White Church.” In an interview with Deborah Evans-Price, Little Big Town’s Kimberly Schlapman recalled one special couple:
“There were some special couples. One was a soldier and his wife who hadn’t been able to have a real wedding because every time they’d planned a ceremony, he had to go off to war.”
LBT’s new album, The Reason Why, is scheduled for an Aug. 24 release.
- A collection of Charlie Daniels‘ patriotic songs, titled Land That I Love, will be released on Aug. 10.
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Drew Kennedy premiered his debut video for the song “Room #27″ yesterday afternoon.
- Country California: Quotable Country – 08/01/10 Edition
- If the year ended today, Americana Roots’ Don Zelazny says his favorite album of 2010 would be Yellow Tag Mondays from The Farewell Drifters (MySpace), an Americana band that leans towards a bluegrass sound.
- Saving Country Music posted all the audio from a recent Lucky Tubb concert.
- Country Universe passed the halfway mark in its countdown of the 400 greatest singles of the nineties.
- Ronnie Dunn was sporting a new “accessory” at his gig with Kix Brooks on Sunday night:
Also along for the sunset ride: a set of mechanically bobbing longhorns and a giant new tattoo. Dunn revealed the latter (“COWBOY” in black block letters) on his forearm — a sorrowful compensation, he amusingly explained, for a decades-long lack of hat.
There’s no confirmation on whether the tattoo was real or not.
- Some of the staff at CMT narrowed Keith Urban‘s catalog down to ten of their favorites.
- Listen to three songs from Red Horse, the trio of singer-songwriters that includes Eliza Gilkyson, John Gorka and Lucy Kaplansky, on NPR.
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In a recent episode of the Texas Music Scene television series, host Ray Benson introduced the Tejas Brothers and its song “Boogie Woogie Mamacita.”
- On Aug. 10, Rosanne Cash will release a memoir, titled Composed, about “her recollections growing up as Johnny Cash’s eldest daughter and coming into her own as a performer, daughter, and mother.” She’ll be touring throughout the rest of the month in support of the book.
- Watch Trace Adkin‘s Unplugged performance over at CMT, which includes the Larry Graham song “One in a Million,” a tune he claims he has no business trying to sing.
- Jean Shepard is among the four honorees that will join the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in November.
Shepard, bon in Pauls Valley, was a pioneer for women in country music, starring in the first network country music show, “The Ozark Jubilee.” She also was the first female in country music to sell a million records, the first country music female to make a color television commercial and the first female singer to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry for 50 years.
She has recorded more than 35 albums and charted 44 hits including “The Dear John Letter” and “Many Happy Hangovers.”
- As part of it’s coverage of the Newport Folk Festival, NPR posted full sets from a wide-ranging list of artists that includes: Brandi Carlile, John Prine, Punch Brothers, Sam Bush, Sarah Jarosz, and many more.
- During the week of Aug. 9, the public television music series Live from the Artists Den will feature an hour with Dierks Bentley. Check your local listing for exact show time. (via email)
- When the Grand Ole Opry flooded back in May, video archives containing episodes of “Grand Ole Opry Live” and “Hee Haw” were submerged in water. Fortunately, they weren’t completely ruined. Specs Brothers, a New Jersey company specializing in restoration, has been working to recover the footage. (via That Nashville Sound)
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Kenny Chesney’s new video/highlight reel for “The Boys of Fall” is an epic eight minutes and 15 seconds long.
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August 3, 2010 at 10:55 am
Nice for Zach’n'Josh’n'em.
August 3, 2010 at 11:04 am
Great Miranda and Kenny music videos!
August 3, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Ehhhhhhhh. The new MirLam is a little underwhelming for me, but the Chesney isn’t too bad. I can definitely see American football folks really digging it.
August 3, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Mirandas is cute..but I was expecting A LOT more. Costumes and makeup ok..but where’s the action I was so hoping for? Darn it.
Kennys: As a former marching band member from high school through college and former ass’t band director, I spent many Friday nights at the football field. I love sports too so I was always into the games. When I saw that video, I cried. It hit my memories and heart.
August 3, 2010 at 2:07 pm
I love Kenny’s video. It brought back some memories for sure. I wish there would have been less NFL and college and more high school though, except for the great interviews with Manning, Favre, and Joe Willie.
August 3, 2010 at 3:41 pm
I remember buying Kim Begg’s first CD when it was released. I’m glad she’s still making more music. I have to see her show one of these days!
August 3, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Love Kenny’s new video it takes me back to high school boy I feel old.
August 3, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Oh how I love Bear Bryant!
August 3, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Love the new Miranda video, ’tis fantastic! =)
August 3, 2010 at 5:20 pm
The new Miranda video fell flat for me. With that song and Miranda’s attitude I expected a lot more excitement. That was “cute”….. which was disappointing for me.
August 3, 2010 at 5:35 pm
I’ve never heard of Kim Beggs before, but that’s a nice song for a freebie download. Talk about a mellow and understated approach, crikey! I think Kim’s still thawing out from the last Yukon winter.
Love the Texas Music Scene feature on The Tejas Brothers. Sounds like they wisely found a better guitar player since they recorded their fine self-titled album. Its hard to top a good Tex-Mex accordion player with that mariachi touch!
I think “Red” Horse is the perfect name for that trio of gals, and especially since its featured on NPR.
Jeannie Shepherd was only 19 years old when she recorded “Dear John Letter” with Ferlin Husky as part of the early Bakersfield Sound movement. It seems being exposed to Rose Maddox had an influence on young Jean at the time.
Is it permissible around here to say I don’t give a flying sh*t about Kenny Cheesy, Miranda Lambert, their music, their music videos, or football? I didn’t think so…
August 3, 2010 at 7:29 pm
To those leaving negative comments, it’s okay, it’s your opinion, but don’t ruin it for the rest of us and go listen to what you like!
August 3, 2010 at 7:30 pm
I didn’t know that Charlie Daniels’ odes to lynching qualify as patriotic songs.
August 3, 2010 at 8:45 pm
I saw Kennys video this morning and I loved it.
August 3, 2010 at 10:31 pm
I didn’t know that Charlie Daniels’ odes to lynching qualify as patriotic songs.
Do you have specific titles in mind, or is this just a general slam?
August 3, 2010 at 11:13 pm
Thank goodness Charlie is offering us another chance to once again ponder the subtle geopolitical understanding contained in thoughtful numbers like “This Ain’t No Rag, It’s A Flag.”
August 3, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Do you have specific titles in mind, or is this just a general slam?
I bought Daniels’ CD “Simple Man” when it came out. As I recall, the title song and the “Rednecks” song both fit that category. It’s been 20 years and I threw the disc out, so I can’t quote the lyrics.
Btw, I like Haggard, Hank Jr., Toby Keith and “Sweet Home Alabama,” so I am open-minded about music and politics. (And I like Charlie on the GEICO commercial.)
August 3, 2010 at 11:16 pm
It seems like Kenny Chesney is getting a bit self-indulgent. I thought it was unnecessary that “The Boys of Fall” had a three-minute long instrumental ending. And now an eight-minute video? Just try to hold my interest that long.
August 4, 2010 at 12:17 am
Is it weird that Charlie Daniels’ odes to lynching is what first attracted me to him? Of course, since then it has allowed me to check out all of his music to find he is one of the most underrated artists of his generation.
August 4, 2010 at 7:14 am
Well, I’m not very likely to go out of my way to listen to, much less buy, an album of patriotic songs from Charile; although I like him and a fair amount of his music, we have pretty different definitions of patriotism and pretty different politics in general. And after a lyrics review, I can see where you could say that “Simple Man” (though not “Rednecks”) is an ode to lynching, though I think “vigilantism” would have been a much better word; the former has a nearly inescapable historic connection to racism that the latter doesn’t, and I don’t see anything in the song that suggests such a component.
August 4, 2010 at 8:05 am
God Bless Charlie Daniels. I am surprised there would even be a mention on this website of an album that would hint at patriotism.
Lambert continues to to be the anti-Barbie spokesperson. Gotta love her grit. Just hope she doesn’t become an overblown product of her self-revelation.
August 4, 2010 at 8:08 am
By the way, I like the Chesney video, just not Chesney in it. Him being in this type of video is like Jamey Johnson’s appearance as the preacher in Lambert’s “White Liar” video. Just doesn’t quite fit if you know what I mean.
August 4, 2010 at 8:19 am
Gosh, Waynoe, after you’re surprised that folks defy your expectations a few dozen times, maybe you ought to think about altering your expectations.
August 4, 2010 at 9:58 am
Waynoe: Do me a favor and watch Go Dragons for me.
August 4, 2010 at 10:00 am
A “relevant” expectation? You mean what I like or believe in should be altered to fit current trends and/or situations? In other words, if no one can score in the game, change the way scoring is done?
You probably believe in moral equivalency as well.
August 4, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Loved the Miranda video! Fun to see the outfits and the girls all together having a ball.
Kenny’s video was o.k. The lack of Coach Bobby Bowden was unacceptable!! He has been a mainstay for college football for 30 plus years.
August 7, 2010 at 5:59 am
To Miranda Lambert vid: fine but still.. sigh
August 9, 2010 at 8:13 pm
No Bobby Bowden in the Boys of Fall video.No more of my money in Kenny’s pocket!