New Releases (April 12): Alison Krauss, Del McCoury, Jason Isbell and More
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Alison Krauss & Union Station – Paper Airplane
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Del McCoury Band & Preservation Hall Jazz Band – American Legacies
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Granger Smith – Poets & Prisoners
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Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – Here We Rest
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Larry Stone – Thistle & Salt
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Mark McKinney – Home
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The Train Wrecks – Saddle Up
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Willie Nelson & Ray Price – Willie & Ray (Vinyl)
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- Deborah Evans Price’s wrote a cover story on Brad Paisley and his new album for Billboard. Here’s his thoughts on the title track, “This Is Country Music:”
“The song itself is what inspired the album, which is the best way to have an album come about,” Paisley says as he sinks into an overstuffed chair at home on his 85-acre spread outside Nashville. ” ‘This Is Country Music’ is track one. It sets the tone. And from then on, all the songs on the album fill certain slots and paint the rest of the picture. It’s almost like that’s the opening credits, and then you have the rest of the movie to follow.”
- The new Del McCoury album is available for streaming on his website.
- Country California: Quotable Country – 04/10/11 Edition
- Juli Thanki interviewed Eric Gibson of The Gibson Brothers for DC Noise.
- 20 Questions with Gary Floater:
How much more unreleased material are you sitting on? Will we see a Tupac scenario where even years after your death there will be new Gary Floater material released?
Johnny Cash is still going strong and I heard he only died a few years ago. I’ve got songs stuffed in the walls and buried in the yard. I’d like to see ‘em try to find em all.
Sometimes I whisper my songs to old ladies at the grocery store for safekeeping. The only safe way to write a song is in the steam on the shower door. And in fact, thousands of my songs are unrecorded.
Also…I don’t know what you mean about a two-pack scenario…I usually buy a twelve-pack and when it’s gone it’s gone brother. No tears can bring those beers back to life, and I’ve tried.
- Sara Evans recently performed in Walmart’s Soudcheck studio.
- Jake Owen‘s single “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” is available for purchase on iTunes.
- Free Download: Max Stalling – “Fantasy Dinner”
- Farce the Music: Country Day April ’11
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April 12, 2011 at 10:51 am
I’ll add a link. Some of you may be interested in the story I had in the WS Journal this week about the Bristol Sessions (and some of yoiu may not be!):
http://thurly.net/19j5
April 12, 2011 at 10:55 am
Thanks to Cerulean.
Target will be offering an exclusive Deluxe Version of Paper Airplane with 3 exclusive studio tracks and 3 live tracks. It will be released on the same release date as the regular album, April 12.
http://www.target.com/Paper-Airplane-Deluxe-Only-Target/dp/B004QZL0O0/ref=sc_qi_detaillink
April 12, 2011 at 11:02 am
My pick of the litter this week would be the Del McCoury album hands down. I grew up with Pete Fountain records on the console interspersed with Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash, so I’ve always had a thing for Dixieland Jazz. I will have to check that one out and download the tracks that really grab me.
Opry Alert! Tonight’s Opry will feature Crystal Gayle, Gail Davies and her sonny boy Chris Scruggs, T.G. Sheppard, Holly Williams, James Wesley, and John Conlee and will be hosted by zanyboy Larry Gatlin! This show ranks a solid grade A!
Opry Link: http://www.opry.com/shows/ThisWeek.html
Trailer’s parody album covers score a solid “4 Hoots” today! Uncle Kracker and Justin Moore are my top choices. As for Wade Hayes, he has made some recent appearances on the Opry and toured with Randy Owen to support Randy’s failed Broken Bow label solo album. Like the old grey mare, Wade’s singing voice ain’t what it used to be…
April 12, 2011 at 11:37 am
American Legacies is delightful. I love it.
April 12, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Ooops! I listed the acts for the Thursday Night Classic Country Opry Show instead of tonight’s show Darn, and I was so hoping that early onset Alzheimer’s medication would work! Crikey, mate…
April 12, 2011 at 11:32 pm
Love the new Jason Isbell album
April 13, 2011 at 11:22 am
I know it’s only April, but I think Jason Isbell wins a Grammy for this record. It’s by far the best music I’ve heard in a long, long time.
April 15, 2011 at 2:24 am
The AKUS record is really, really good.
April 21, 2011 at 9:40 am
The Alison Krauss CD, Paper Airplane is the #1 country CD with 83,000 sold. Congratulations!
April 21, 2011 at 11:25 am
This “may” be a good indication that the sales numbers show how many are desperate for good music that is not primarily pop. I had to use “may” as when statements like these are made, “some” want statistics to back up statements.
Once again, ACUS does not disappoint.
April 21, 2011 at 11:48 am
It “may” be hilarious that anyone could listen to Paper Airplane and not hear the many pop influences in the music. And it “may” be nonsensical to characterize 83,000 buyers with respect to what other music they like or don’t like when you don’t know more than a handful of them at most. But it’s definitely silly to act as though pop influences are or have ever been foreign to country music.