MySpace Signs Country Artist; Johnny Cash Graphic Novel; Gary Floater Harnesses YouTube
- MySpace Records Artist Development signed its first country artist, KJ Testin (MySpace). (via Nashville Gab)
- Rosanne Cash will be the subject of the Americana Music Association’s Festival and Conference 2009 Keynote Interview.
- Mallary Hope’s “Love Lives On” is the iTunes free single of the week. (iTunes)
- Country Haiku:
Big Bad John has died
This is why we need OSHA
This mine is not safe - Abrams ComicArts will introduce Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness, a new comic book/graphic novel based on the life of Johnny Cash, in November.
- 20 Questions with Wayne Hancock
- Big D and Bubba from Nashville’s WSIX set Jake Owen’s brother up with a date. Talk about awkward.
- Former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach, and the second-season winner of Gone Country, is going country. (via ninebullets.net)
- Drawing 50 banjos.
- With Reba McEntire’s new “Keep On Loving You” perched atop the Billboard 200, country music claims the top spot for the third week in a row. Despite multiple appearance at the top of the country charts, this is only the second time McEntire has scored a No. 1 on Billboard’s main chart.
- Edd Hurt profiled Paul Burch, who plays at The Basement in Nashville tonight, for Nashville Scene and coincidentally, Music Fog posted video of Burch performing “Montreal.”
- Country California may or may not have the inside scoop on Shania Twain’s much anticipated announcement:
Five years after her collaboration with then-newcomer Billy Currington resulted in her last top ten single, Twain recently headed into the studio with up-and-comers Love & Theft, whose fresh-faced three-part harmony is sweeping the nation on the heels of their Tuesday album release, to remake the song as “Party for Four.” The move has Nashville insiders buzzing.
- New blog alert: Sounds Country
- Jacksonville’s country station WQIK is giving away a Wurlitzer jukebox, an autographed George Strait box set of Strait Out of the Box, and Strait’s catalog.
- The Gary Floater story made its way to YouTube!
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August 27, 2009 at 12:40 pm Permalink
Former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach, and the second-season winner of Gone Country, is going country. (via ninebullets.net)
If you just heard a loud pitched scream that was me.
August 27, 2009 at 1:06 pm Permalink
Unmentioned here but worth noting is the announcement of the new 10 Out Of Tenn. tour, which will include apparent The9513 fave Ashley Monroe, as well as the excellent Jedd Hughes and my supremely excellent pal and occasional co-writer (see the song “Bridge” at http://www.myspace.com/missywerner1) Sarah Siskind. For more details on the tour and the artists involved, check out http://www.10outoftenn.com .
August 27, 2009 at 2:25 pm Permalink
Gary Floater’s animated documentary looks awesome, even if it’s part of that dang tribute album. Where are parts 1 and 4? “Adios, you beautiful demon!”
August 27, 2009 at 3:57 pm Permalink
Congrats to Reba.
But I am a little confused about the new Billboard record for country albums … This is the first time 3 different albums were #1 on the Billboard 200 back to back? Because I am sure there lots of times when a country album held the top spot for 3 weeks. Garth Brooks probably held that place for months at a time, right? And I thought even Some Gave All was #1 for like 17 straight weeks … So this is a first because it’s 3 different albums by 3 different country artists debuting atop the all-genre chart? Still, I would have thought during the early 90s, with the introduction of SoundScan, country music would have already accomplished that feat. This probably sounds like a stupid question to the people in the know, but I am curious.
August 27, 2009 at 4:19 pm Permalink
Who said it’s a record?
August 27, 2009 at 4:22 pm Permalink
Oh, I see. Never mind.
August 27, 2009 at 5:26 pm Permalink
Jon, thanks for plugging the “10 From Tenn” tour. I don’t expect them to ever make it out to the west coast, but it would sure be nice if they did. If The 9513 ever sponsors another concert tour, I definitely think Ashley Monroe should be a part of it!
I think that new blog should actually be titled “Sounds Like Country, But It’s Not!” They definitely go for the Americana / Texas Regional style stuff like so many other blogs you folks offer links to. Yawn….
August 27, 2009 at 8:48 pm Permalink
Idk what you mean… in the article it says it happened earlier this year too (with Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, and Hannah Montana Soundtrack)
Its not a new record
August 27, 2009 at 8:50 pm Permalink
^ Oh wait not this article, I read a different one from Yahoo that I was thinkin’ of
Anyways, in the article I read it mentioned that it happened earlier this year w/ with Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, and Hannah Montana Soundtrack… so I doubt its a new thing
August 27, 2009 at 9:06 pm Permalink
Congrats to Reba!! :)
August 27, 2009 at 10:13 pm Permalink
Gold Digger from Glee is being previewed for free on I Tunes too. Much better than Mallory Hope.
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