Oildale Studio Built By Buck Owens Is Closing Its Doors
- A recording studio built by Buck Owens that once served as his headquarters is shutting its doors. Rick Davis bought the legendary Oildale studio from Owens in 1992.
- The two police officers accused of holding a gun to the back of Steve Holy’s head were indicted this past Monday on one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which could land them up to twenty years in prison. One of the officers was also charged with one count of kidnapping.
- The lack of parking at SXSW last Thursday caused me to miss a couple of David Serby’s gigs that I really wanted to see, I guess I’ll have to settle for his new, thirteen-song record out in July.
- Kelly from The Gobbler’s Knob caught a bunch of great bands at SXSW on Saturday, but the main event for him was Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles.
- A new celebrity reality show contest, Secrets of the Stars, is set to premier on April 8th. Each week the celebrities will face-off to see who has the best hidden talent. Clink Black will be appearing to perform stand-up comedy and Star Trek actor George Takei will show off his country crooning talents. (via ggcolumn)
- Eleven questions with Dolly Parton.
- Shania Twain opened a hiking trail to mountain bikers, climbers, and hunters on her 61,000 acre tract of land in New Zealand last Thursday. The trail, along with huts and other facilities, fulfilled a pact with the government, which tightened controls on land sales to overseas buyers. They worried wealthy foreigners would buy up all the land and cut it off from allowing others to enjoy it.
- Luke Bryan welcomed his newest fishing buddy, Thomas Boyer Bryan, into the world yesterday morning.
- On April 4th, a one-day symposium will bring together authorities to take a look at the life, career, and history surrounding Patsy Cline.
By examining various factors in Patsy Cline’s story — the social and political climate, early musical influences, her role as a female pioneer in a male-dominated industry, and her musical accomplishments — the symposium will shed light on why this Virginian is so important and how her life’s journey is entwined with our history as a state and a nation.
One blogger wants to know what all the Patsy Cline fuss is about, he says “Patsy would have been a really good church alto.”
- Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, Keith Urban and Brooks & Dunn were added to the lineup for the 2008 CMT Music Awards.
- None of them are country, but the San Francisco Chronicle has five songs they’d consider to be first-ballot inductees to the Breakup Music Hall of Fame. For each song Peter Hartlaub lists the psycho breakup line and why it’s a classic. Country music is bound to have a ton of these, so what would be some of your first-ballot inductees from the country genre?
- Linda had a chance to sit down with Joe Nick Patoski, author of Willie Nelson: An Epic Life, before Willie’s concert at the Backyard in Austin last Friday. He talks about what you can expect from the book, which will be out on April 21st.
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March 19, 2008 at 10:33 am Permalink
I could have set there all day and talked with Joe Nick about Willie. That was such a treat — sitting backstage, at the BackYard, talking about Willie, while you’re waiting for Willie to show up. Classify those as good times. :)
March 19, 2008 at 10:42 am Permalink
That does sound like a cool experience. While you were talking with Joe did you learn anything about Willie that you hadn’t heard before?
I picked up Volume 5 of the “How To Be Texan” series from Texas Monthly the other day and there’s a really good Willie piece from Patoski in it. The same issue has some good stuff on Townes Van Zandt and Lyle Lovett, too.
March 19, 2008 at 11:14 am Permalink
I’m gonna blow everybody’s mind and pick “I Will Always Love You” for the Breakup Music Hall of Fame. I’m always shocked when people think that song is some kind of mushy devotional. It’s pretty damn dark:
“Bittersweet memories
That’s all I have, and all I’m taking with me
Goodbye, please don’t cry
‘Cause we both know that I’m not what you need”
March 19, 2008 at 11:47 am Permalink
Delia’s Gone by Johnny Cash. Now THAT’s breaking up.
March 19, 2008 at 1:08 pm Permalink
Gary Allan’s “Sorry” is a pretty good one, too, but it doesn’t really have any “psycho” lines in it.
March 19, 2008 at 4:54 pm Permalink
One of the best psycho break-up songs ever comes from the Nashville based piano playing singer/songwriter session man Steve Conn from his self titled debut CD. The song is titled “I’ve Got Your Dog” and is actually a bit chilling but the musical aspects are superb with Sonny Landreth on guitar laying down some great blues licks. I actually got online radio station KCUV in Denver to air this song and then later a guy called in and dedicated it to his recent ex-girlfriend who was listening and she called in to dedicate Patsy Cline’s “Crazy” back to him in return! (lol)
The second side of Tonio K’s 1979 folk rock debut “Life In The Foodchain” was just brimming with pyscho break-up songs as only Tonio could write them. One example being “How Come I Can’t See You In My Mirror?”. The blitzkreig sonic attack of “H-A-T-R-E-D” stirred Stereo Review writer Steve Simels to name this the best rock album ever at the time. The song included such lines as “Now all of a sudden the tables have turned, you have left me for somebody new! And now its hard to express the resentment I feel for the years that I wasted on you!” followed later by “I wish I could be mellow as say for instance Jackson Browne, but “Fountain of Sorrow” my ass mother &%$#@*@ I hope you wind up in the ground!”. I really think that Tonio had anger management issues……
March 19, 2008 at 8:33 pm Permalink
I’ve always liked “When It Comes To You” by John Anderson. It’s more before the break up, but I think a break up is inevitable there.
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