Most Played Single of the Decade Belongs to Tim McGraw; Johnny Cash’s ‘American VI’ Rumored For February
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- The most played single of the decade out of any musical genre belongs to Tim McGraw for “Something Like That.”
- Walt Wilkins almost-one-of-a-kind guitar (only Willie Nelson and Dan Rather have one like it) was stolen recently at the Saxon Pub in Austin and he needs your help getting it back.
- String Theory Media’s Craig Havighurst revisited and shared his insight into some of his favorite albums of the year.
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The Americana Music Association posted a list of the top 100 Americana albums of year with the top 10 listed below:
- Buddy & Julie Miller – Written In Chalk
- Steve Earle – Townes
- Slaid Cleaves – Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
- Flatlanders – Hills And Valleys
- Willie Nelson and Asleep At The Wheel – Willie and the Wheel
- Gourds – Haymaker!
- Tejas Brothers – Tejas Brothers
- Levon Helm – Electric Dirt
- Justin Townes Earle – Midnight At the Movies
- J.J.Cale – Roll On
The full list can be downloaded on the AMA’s website in the right hand column.
- Martina McBride designed a toilet seat with the title of her song “This One’s For the Girls” as part of a promotion for Charmin.
- In a brief interview with Austin Music Source’s Brian T. Atkinson, Hayes Carll described his new record, which he hopes to have completed before New Year’s Eve: “There’s a lot of flavor and color, and (it’s) all over the map – funny stuff, straight-up rock, more soulful things, real trucker country boogies.”
- And in a separate article, he explained the story behind and ramifications of writing the song “She Left Me For Jesus.”
‘I did get a lot of grief over it. But I was always of the mindset that if people didn’t get what I was trying to say, there wasn’t much hope for them and me anyway. So, it didn’t bother me too much. It did bother me when people thought I was anti-Semitic or anti-Christian because of the lyrics. I thought it was pretty clear that I wasn’t poking fun at the religion but at the redneck who had a problem with these things.
- Does Charlie Daniels play a mean fiddle?
- Texas Music Matters chose Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis‘ “Baby It’s Cold Outside” as the Christmas day song of the day.
- The Cherryholmes are scheduled to start the new year recording their fourth album.
- Rumor has it that a new posthumous release from Johnny Cash, American VI: Ain’t No Grave, will be released come February.
- Country Universe capped its countdown of the 201 greatest singles of the decade with the top 20.
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- Craig Shelburne listed a dozen of his favorite albums from the past decade.
- Gary Allan‘s new disc, Get Off On the Pain, will be released March 9.
- Chet Flippo shared Willie Nelson‘s inspiration behind the song “Pretty Paper” in last week’s Nashville Skyline column.
He was a man who had lost both his legs above the knee and — in those pre-miracle artificial limbs days — had his leg stumps covered with heavy leather padding and wore thick gloves to pull and slide and scoot his way up and down the sidewalk by the palms of his hands and on his stumps.
He sold pencils from a tin cup affixed to his back and also peddled paper and ribbons at Christmas time, as I recall.
- Jimmy Fallon‘s Christmas song: “Drunk On Christmas.”
- Farce the Music’s favorite songs of ’09.
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December 28, 2009 at 1:01 pm
I like Country Universe for the most part, but they really dropped the ball on this top singles of the decade list, especially the top end. “Long Time Gone” the number one? Are you insane? What’s so good about it? It has nice production and they can definitely sing, but the lyrics are average at best. Rascal Flatts #3? “Before He Cheats” in the top 5? Just atrocious for the top 5.
December 28, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I’m a little disappointed that the Gary Allan album will reportedly have only 10 tracks. I’ve gotten used to albums that are 12 or 13 tracks long.
December 28, 2009 at 1:33 pm
I’m glad some of Carrie’s strongest songs made this countdown of greatest singles of the decade. “So Small”, “I’ll Stand By You”, “Just A Dream”, “Jesus, Take the Wheel”, and “Before He Cheats” are wonderful songs that never get old. Carrie has been a giant force throughout this decade and will continue to go strong with this new decade coming upon us.
December 28, 2009 at 5:56 pm
I hope Jon W. reads the Graig Havighurst piece about their mutual pal Sarah Suskind. Sadly any review of her music that includes the lines “She’s my old friend and I love her dearly…” and “It’s got the bite and silk of Patty Griffin, the old world yearning of Gillian Welch, plus a sharp pop seductiveness.” isn’t working for me.
Its great to see the mighty fine Tejas Brothers album on the Americana Music Association’s Top 10 list even though it was released in September 2008! I guess everything’s kind of loosey-goosey in the Obamavoter dominated “Americana” establishment…
Wow, was Craig Shelburne told by Chet Flippo to “write about mainstream country artists that our readers have actually heard of for a change..”?. Hmm…
I appreciate Trailer’s song list over at “Farce The Music”. Trailer joins Kelly as a blogger who’s music tastes and mine have little if nothing in common! They let me know who to avoid! (lol)
Wow, the CU Top 20 includes 4 songs from the Ditzy Twits! That’s just freakin’ awesome….
Listening to as much of CCR’s song as I could bear made me suicidal and the Ryan Bingham song made me very weary! I do appreciate song titles that announce their intentions! I think my musical allergy to “Red Dirt/Texas Regional” stuff is getting more severe! YIKES!
December 28, 2009 at 8:01 pm
The most played single of the decade out of any musical genre belongs to Tim McGraw for “Something Like That.”
Why decade, why? What did I ever do to you?
December 28, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Stormy, that’s the exact same feeling I have about Obamavoters! Every day I ask myself “Why Obamavoters, why?” and have never found a rational nor reasonable explanation…
December 28, 2009 at 8:45 pm
I’m going to keep asking until I get an answer: Why is an “Obamavoter” worse than an “Obama voter”?
December 28, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Stormy, that’s the exact same feeling I have about Obamavoters! Every day I ask myself “Why Obamavoters, why?” and have never found a rational nor reasonable explanation…
What has this got to do with the price of potatoes? There are plenty of blogs devoted to politics, you know, when you feel the need to vent. Why do you keep bringing up this crap here?
December 28, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Rick: That’s an easy one–because the alternative was batpoo crazy.
December 28, 2009 at 10:05 pm
*hi-fives for the above three posters*
December 29, 2009 at 6:48 am
What interesting! Tanks for yuor work. Alessandro
December 29, 2009 at 7:11 am
I think that Tim McGraw song is among his weakest/most boring. It’s strange, to me, that it was the most played of the decade.
December 29, 2009 at 11:38 am
Folks, when ‘Rick’ makes his usual insulting comments, just ignore them. He’s indulging in the grand old tradition of throwing a big ol’ pile of poop on your doorstep (and then running away). Just ignore the shitstain, folks. The rain will take it.
December 29, 2009 at 4:46 pm
The Tejas Brothers CD was released in 2008 but the Americana Top 100 is base on radio spins for the year.
December 31, 2009 at 2:30 pm
If I may re: the Tim McGraw song….It clocks in at about 2:54; radio loves uptempo stuff under three minutes
June 5, 2010 at 11:26 pm
That track is really brilliant!