Nashville Earning Less Than Stellar Reviews After First Show
- The Chicago Tribune doesn’t have anything good to say about Fox’s new reality show, Nashville, which premiered on Friday night:
The show, which follows the career of aspiring singers on the Nashville music scene, seems suspiciously timed to promote the career of one of the guys on the show, a good-looking country crooner named Chuck Wicks.
An unseen narrator guides viewers through the links between the rest of the cast members. Among them, for no real reason, is a non-musician rich kid who’s there to stir things up among the women on the show. Oh, even better — there’s an element of “The Bachelor” thrown in as well! Yecch.
It all seems painfully staged and contrived, but take heart: Given that this is a show on Fox’s failure-prone Friday nights, I can’t imagine “Nashville” clogging up the nation’s airwaves for very long.
- The reality show doesn’t fare much better in The Tennessean’s review, either. Beverly Keel compares the show to Laguna Beach and says that “raging hormones” are the focus of the show instead of “impressive harmonies.”
- Miranda Lambert will share the stage with Sheryl Crow, Avril Lavigne and Fiona Apple at the first annual GirlFrenzy. I have no idea what that is, but I’m surprised to see Miranda on the bill.
- Another article on the Hank Williams exhibit has a little more details about what you’ll find if you visit.
Among the items never or rarely seen by the public until now are Williams family scrapbooks and correspondence; and awards, instruments and costumes belonging to Hank Williams and Hank Williams Jr., including some of the latter’s first toddler-size stage costumes designed by Nudie the Rodeo Tailor.
If nothing else, the toddler-size Nudie suits would be worth it on their own.
- You know that album Kenny Chesney put out last week–Just Who I Am: Poets and Pirates? Country Hound is reporting that every track from the album charted with five of the tracks in the top 50.
- From the blog that brought you the three stages of Steve Earle, The Gobblers Knob brings you more Earle goodness in the form of a video. After writing the stages of Steve Earle he was invited to meet the singer and view a performance in an intimate setting.
- Billboard magazine chose Reba McEntire as the first recipient of their “Woman of the Year” award.
- Brad Turcotte says the decision to sell Compadre Records to Mathew Knowles was made so that his artists could compete with mainstream country music. Trent Willmon and Billy Joe Shaver are their two country artists at the moment. “Turcotte and Knowles see Willmon as the artist who’ll give Compadre Records a competitive edge in the country music industry.” I’ve heard Willmon’s name bouncing around for a few years, but his career never seems to progress.
- The smear campaign against Sammy Kershaw for lieutenant governor has now begun. Seems like valid criticism, though.
- Hootie and the Blowfish singer Darius Rucker is working on his foray into country music. Instead of taking the Bon Jovi route he wants to make something that he calls “country country,” as in “too country” for radio. You can expect to hear something in early 2008.
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September 17, 2007 at 10:45 am Permalink
I am not surprised at all that Lambert was added to the roster for “Girlfrenzy.” It sounds like a feminist party to start with, so what would be better than an attractive blonde (who just so happens to carry a gun) singing about being a crazy ex-girlfriend, soaking her ex-lover in kerosene, and waiting for her abusive lover with a shotgun? Plus, I think having her on the roster of performers adds a whole new dimension to the crowd it is going to attract. It’s a marketing tactic.
September 17, 2007 at 10:59 am Permalink
Those are some cold, hard facts about Kershaw. I wonder how much longer Morgan is going to stick around.
September 17, 2007 at 1:41 pm Permalink
I don’t see how it can be both a smear campaign and valid criticism. Isn’t a smear campaign usually something that’s ruining a good name with lies/innuendo?
September 17, 2007 at 1:49 pm Permalink
I was under the impression that a smear campaign is propaganda spread for the sole purpose of ruining an opponent’s reputation, whether it’s true or not.
September 17, 2007 at 3:09 pm Permalink
I think you’re right in your definition, though I don’t see how it can be both a smear campaign and valid criticism. That’s the part I don’t get about the original post. Is it for the sole purpose of ruining Kershaw’s reputation, or is it a legitimate question about his capabilities to run a budget as lieutenant governor? Personally, I lean toward the latter. If I recall correctly, Kershaw and Morgan were pretty potent tabloid fodder, so going the personal life route would be something of a smear campaign, but this seems completely above the belt.
September 17, 2007 at 3:29 pm Permalink
I like Morgan and Kershaw, and their music. However, seeing his level of financial instability or just his instability in general, I don’t see Morgan sticking around too long given the average life expectancy of the typical celebrity marriage nowadays.
September 17, 2007 at 4:03 pm Permalink
Oh, I dunno. They’ve been together for six years now, which is about five and a half years longer than anyone expected.
September 17, 2007 at 4:34 pm Permalink
The length or brevity of their relationship has nothing to do with celebrity marriages or anything about Sammy Kershaw. It has everything to do with Lorrie Morgan.
September 17, 2007 at 4:42 pm Permalink
Expect the Rucker album to be really excellent. He has some seriously country roots. Yes, I know that sounds rediculous.
September 17, 2007 at 4:52 pm Permalink
Touché.
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