MySpace Music Premiers Dierks Bentley’s ‘Feel That Fire’
- MySpace Music is premiering the new Dierks Bentley album Feel That Fire today — five days before its official release date. (via NashvilleGab)
- Hillary Scott insists that the new awards darlings, Lady Antebellum, were not behind the breakup of The Wreckers, despite Dave Haywood‘s notions to the contrary.
- Keith Urban scored a sponsorship from KC Masterpiece Barbecue Sauce and Kingsford Charcoal for his 2009 Escape Together tour.
- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have been confirmed as performers at the Grammys, marking the first trip and performance by Plant at the awards. “I’m looking forward to being in Los Angeles,” Plant said in a press release sent out yesterday, “but musically — and spiritually — I expect we’ll be somewhere halfway between the Mississippi Delta and the Clinch Mountains.” (via press release)
- Seattle Sound Magazine‘s Kim Ruehl live-blogged her first impressions of each track from the new Neko Case album Middle Cyclone, due out March 3.
- The SteelDrivers are headed to the studio in February to work on the followup to their 2008 self-titled debut.
- Troy Gentry had to celebrate the success of Montgomery Gentry‘s fifth No. 1 single “Roll with Me” without singing partner Eddie Montgomery at ASCAP and BMI parties this week due to inclement weather in Kentucky.
- Listen to the Band of Heathens cover Townes Van Zandt‘s “If I Needed You.”
- Inspired by a friend’s editing of a Simon & Garfunkel song because of subject matter — “making love” was changed to “making lunch” — Craig Shelburne changed the titles of numerous country songs to include the word “lunch.”
Shania Twain’s songs would be perfect for this: “(If You’re Not in It for Lunch) I’m Outta Here!” “You Win My Lunch,” “Lunch Gets Me Every Time” and “I’m Holdin’ on to Lunch (To Save My Life).”
- From the Country California satire department: Tim McGraw Hurls Tomahawk at Chattering Fan.
- Taylor Swift‘s new sundresses at Walmart will cost $14 and her first major headlining tour, complete with multiple costume changes and a fairy-tale castle, will kick off on April 23. Kellie Pickler will open all dates of the 50-city Taylor Swift Fearless Tour.
- With their self-titled sophomore album, Roughstock‘s Matt Bjorke feels like Audie Blaylock And Redline are following in the footsteps of Dailey & Vincent as musicians known from their work with other bands in the bluegrass genre who are capturing the attention of fans with their own work.
- Collin Raye‘s next album, Never Going Back, is scheduled for an April 28th release. (via press release)
- What’s your favorite country song about the farming life?
- The recent death of Billy Powell, the keyboardist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, spurred Chet Flippo to ponder the band’s legacy and history, which he says involves almost as many obituaries as albums.
- In a special to to the Highland Community News, Jules E. Beuck and Rose Botkin-Beuck reviewed a recent George Jones concert at the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino in Highland, Cali. (via ggcolumn)
Jones did not appear to be at his best. He alluded to having problems with his voice and in fact often sounded hoarse and had trouble hitting some notes. He also did not always seem in sync with the band.
Still, this did not matter to the small but loyal audience as they rewarded him with numerous standing ovations.
- BluegrassJournal.com gives the details on the Rhonda and Darrin Vincent produced gospel album from Nothin’ Fancy, Lord Bless This House.
- Listen in as Peter Babb reports on the growing legend of songwriter Blaze Foley, who died at 39 while trying to help an elderly friend. Babb notes that Foley was immortalized by Lucinda Williams in her song “Druken Angel.”
- UPDATE (11:54 a.m.): Asleep at the Wheel added a couple of new songs from the Willie and the Wheel album to their MySpace. Look for “Bring It On Down To My House” and “Corrine Corrina” in addition to “Hesitation Blues” and “Oh You Pretty Woman.”
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January 30, 2009 at 11:21 am
Amber Digby Alert! Amber will be hosting this Saturday night’s Ernest Tubb Record Shop Midnite Jamboree at midnight Nashville time. The show can be heard live on WSM online, or heard and seen through the Ernest Tubb Record Shop website.This is Amber’s second time hosting and hopefully she’ll sing songs off of “Passion, Pride, and What Might have Been”.
Favorite country song about farming life: Sarah Johns “Big Love In a Small Town”. We’ve got a diesel dually, twenty acres out in the boonies, smack dab in the midlle is a little house. Raisin’ beans and babies, what more could you want for once you’ve found, big love in a small town…..
January 30, 2009 at 11:50 am
Yehhhhhhhh Dierks.
January 30, 2009 at 11:59 am
Eddie Montgomery just lives a county over. We have ice an inch thick on the trees that have broken limbs and trees all over. Snow on top of the ice as well with snow predicted for Monday/Tuesday.
My backyard looks like a Tornado went through it. I’m going to need someone with a large truck and chainsaw once the ice melts to clear it out.
Over 600,000 residents in Ky are still without power. This is the biggest outage ever. Also shortages all over. There is no gas in my town due to people hogging for generators and gas trucks not able to get in. Food/water shortages too. I teach at the high school and school has been out all week. I am a very lucky person as my heat didn’t go out this time. Cable was out so I caught up on reading. I know we aren’t the only ones. From Oklahoma through West Virginia, it was bad. My parents in Indiana got 11 inches of snow. We would trade 11 inches of snow anyday..for all this ice.
January 30, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Well, listening to Dierks’ new album and reading about Neko Case’s makes me super-excited to buy them both! Dierks’ album as great energy, while Neko’s sounds just weird enough for me.
Also on album releases, according to the SHeDAISY widget on Lyric Street’s website, SHeDAISY’s new album comes out Feb. 10th. Weird, huh?
January 30, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Vicki.. Wish you and your state the best!
January 30, 2009 at 1:01 pm
So John Rich/WB have given up on “Another You” and instead shipped “Shuttin’ Detroit Down” to country radio and in the tradition of classic country songs, the song speaks to and about the working man. Also the melody is traditional minded and country, not masked country-pop.
January 30, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Favorite farming song… probably “The Rain Came Down,” though I do really like “Cafe on the Corner.”
January 30, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Matt,
I noticed that also. As much as I sometimes despite JR, I think it was the right move and I actually appreciate the song.
January 30, 2009 at 1:16 pm
As much as I sometimes despise John Rich, that should say.
January 30, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Zach,
It’s the song that will sell because there’s truth to it and it’s not seemingly manufactured just to stir emotions in people.
January 30, 2009 at 1:43 pm
One good farming song that comes to mind is “Five Generations of Rock County Wilsons,” which was written by John Scott Sherrill, and there’s good versions by John Anderson and Tim Hensley. It captures the heartbreak of the end of a family farm about as well as anything I’ve heard. Another good one is “Thirty Years of Farming,” by Fred Eaglesmith, that some bluegrassers have covered.
January 30, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Actually, Doug Supernaw’s version of “Five Generations” is superior, in my opinion.
January 30, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Agree with Jim. Supernaw’s version is great.
January 30, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I’m pretty disappointed in the new Dierks Bentley record. I was expecting more from an album that took two years to create.
January 30, 2009 at 4:30 pm
I’m not liking Dierks album.
January 30, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Can somebody tell me what kind of plug-ins or other software I need to make MySpace work? Everybody says it’s such a great resource for listening to music, especially from lesser-known artists, but I can never get that player section of the MySpace pages that have the songs to show up, no matter what browser I use.
January 30, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Drew, I believe you have to have Java scripting enabled and some “internet security/firewall” programs may disable it. I use the Firefox web browser and have no problems when my Java script options are enabled. If you don’t already use Firefox its worth the free download as its less prone to security issues than Internet Explorer.
January 30, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Actually, the MySpace player will play fine without JavaScript, but you need to have the Flash plugin installed. You can get it over on the Adobe site. I don’t know why you’d be having problems if you can watch YouTube videos, though.
January 30, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Thanks for the info Brady.
Brody wrote: “I’m pretty disappointed in the new Dierks Bentley record. I was expecting more from an album that took two years to create.”
I’ve been hugely disappointed in dang near everything Dierks has done since “Don’t Leave Me In Love”. He started on top of a true country mountain and fell off into a commercial chasm to garner big success when he signed with a major label. Can’t say I blame him though. Also, being married may have taken some of the edge off….
January 30, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Oh no here comes Rick’s rant on Brett Beavers…
January 30, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Nope, I left Brett out this time. Brett and Carrie Underwood should work together so I only have to bag on them once per thread! (lol)
Gloriana, the latest “Little Big Town” clone group, will be the opening act at all of Taylor Swift’s headlining shows she has booked thus far this year! Talk about a coup for a new group trying to get established, well at least with screamin’ tweeny’s that is. I would surmise Taylor has a “crush” on one of the “cute boys” in the band and wants to spend her time on the road with her new “Romeo”. Can a “prom date” be far behind? Well, it worked for Chuck Wicks and Julianne Hough….
January 30, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Neko mentions filling her new barn with all the pianos she could get for free and using them to create a piano orchestra for her album on her EPK.
My favorite farming song is James House’s Hard Times for an Honest Man.
January 30, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Other fun Middle Cyclone fact:
Don’t Forget Me is a Henry Neilsson cover.
January 30, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Rick,
Gloriana is a band that is backed by Matt Serletic, the producer/manager of Matchbox 20. I think he’s got more than enough credibility to get their band the 15-20 minute open slot on her tour.
January 31, 2009 at 10:03 am
I’m feeling a bit lukewarm with DB’s upcoming project. I always loved his slow/melodic songs, but it seems like this one’s full of up-tempo, have fun while I got the music going type. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but it seems that he’s missing his mark a bit… :( BUT…it’s just a first listen, when the album comes out Tues, I’ll bear myself an open/fresh mind.
January 31, 2009 at 9:32 pm
If anyone is interested, it seems Bentley’s new album (along with a bonus track that is quite good) has also been added to Rhapsody a couple days early.
I dont think Dierks’ new album is great, but I also dont think it’s bad. It’s a solid, mainstream country album that shows some really good songwriting (I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes, Better Believer) and some very generic songs that were included for no other reason than they make for decent live songs (Sideways, Here She Comes).
I dont think Dierks is ever gonna live up to the creative hype or the greatness of his first two albums (Dont Leave Me In Love, his debut, self-titled album), but I also think he is a very good mainstream Country artist. By that I mean, is he ever gonna be mistaken for Jamey Johnson or Chris Knight? Nope, but compared to the Chesney’s and Adkins of the mainstream country world he is pretty damn good.