Pre-Order Radney Foster CD and Preview Zac Brown Band’s ‘Toes’
- Radney Foster’s new album, Revival, is available for pre-order and the first 1,000 fans to do so will receive a free five-song EP. The new CD will be released on Sept. 1 and includes collaborations with Dierks Bentley and Darius Rucker.
- Congrats to Lanibug, Stormy and Nicole for picking up a copy of Ray Charles‘ Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volumes 1 & 2 in our latest giveaway. Keep an eye out for a couple of our upcoming giveaways, too. We’ll have a chance for you to win the new album from Charlie Robison and a few Keith Urban grilling packages from KC Masterpiece and Kingsford that I’d like to keep for myself.
- Travis Tritt’s father passed away on Monday at the age of 76.
- Ed Wank and Dave O’Brien from 97.1 Hank FM posted several video interviews, 14 to be exact, from CMA Music Fest with artists ranging from Jake Owen, Luke Bryan and Julianne Hough to Tracy Lawrence, Tanya Tucker and Charlie Daniels.
- Ryan from The Eye of The Hurricane recapped last weekend’s Sake of the Song Festival, which is hosted by Dickson Productions and the Randy Rogers Band.
- A Truer Sound rounded out yesterday’s Uncle Tupelo demo with two more: Live & Otherwise and Colorblind & Rhymeless.
- Tom Russell collaborated with Calexico for his upcoming album Blood and Candle Smoke, due out on Sept. 25. Listen to “Santa Ana Wind” and “Mississippi River Runnin’ Backwards” on MySpace.
- Tom Russell is also among the many contributors to a new Jimmie Rodgers book, Waiting For a Train: Jimmie Rodger’s America, planned to be released in July.
- This coming Tuesday, that cute trio of female pop-country singers will finally release their long-awaited, long-delayed debut EP which includes their latest single about sexy independent women with attitude. Country California has an exclusive sneak peek at the digital cover art.
- Paul from Groover’s Paradise wishes he could write a song as clever as Kris Kristofferson’s “The Taker.” Taker a listen.
- My Kind of Country: So what are your favorite songs about trying to “get over him/her?”
- Hank Williams, Jr. performed a song from his new album 127 Rose Avenue on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon the other night and afterward he hung around to trade verses with Fallon, who does a respectable job singing and appears genuinely pleased, on “Family Tradition.”
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Watch the sneak peek video for the Zac Brown Band’s upcoming video for “Toes.”
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June 18, 2009 at 11:27 am Permalink
Great stuff with all those interviews from Hank FM, thanks for the link.
So “Toes” is going to be the next single? How exactly are they going to get around the line “ass in the sand”? Aside from that, I think it’s a pretty good summer single choice, and much better “beach music” than Chesney has been trying to make. Hopefully they give that album a 4th single and go with “Free”.
June 18, 2009 at 11:30 am Permalink
I know Hollerin’ Ben hates it, but I too am a fan of “Toes”. It’s the song that first turned me onto ZBB. Charlie Robison was able to switch “ass” with “self” in “Hometown”, but I dont know if that works in this scenario…
June 18, 2009 at 11:34 am Permalink
Drew,
Zac Brown said in an interview with Billboard that there will be a 4th single before they move on to the next album.
June 18, 2009 at 11:44 am Permalink
As far as the CD give aways go here’s the previous results from June 12th “The Devil Makes Three” contest: “Update: The latest winners in our recurring music giveaways are Stormy, Lanibug and Ryan.” The odds of Stormy and Lanibug being winners two contests in a row is, well, very disappointing! (lol)
Favorite “Getting Over You” song: Merle Haggard’s “I Think I’m Gonna Live Forever” ’cause cryin’ ain’t on my list of things to do…
June 18, 2009 at 12:01 pm Permalink
Rick, you might be even more disappointed to learn that your name was dead last in the drawing. So Stormy or Lanibug, either of you want to choose lottery numbers for me?
June 18, 2009 at 12:27 pm Permalink
Brady, when you lose a contest your position in the list of losers just doesn’t seem to matter…(lol). Maybe Stormy and Lanibug have tapped into Hugo’s system on “Lost”!
June 18, 2009 at 12:38 pm Permalink
Fate obviously loves me best…..
June 18, 2009 at 12:40 pm Permalink
Stormy I was just thinking the same thing….
June 18, 2009 at 12:41 pm Permalink
If I enter the Charlie Robison cd give away and win it, y’all are going to kick my ass aren’t you?
June 18, 2009 at 12:43 pm Permalink
But then again before these, the last time I won any CD’s on here was my Willie CD’s, so it has been a while…I thought my 9513 love had died….
June 18, 2009 at 12:45 pm Permalink
You won Naked Willie too? OMG LANI, THIS IS JUST FREAKY!
June 18, 2009 at 12:47 pm Permalink
Actually, no I mean, the Willie Nelson box set, forever and a day ago….
June 18, 2009 at 12:50 pm Permalink
“But then again before these, the last time I won any CD’s on here was my Willie CD’s, so it has been a while…I thought my 9513 love had died….”
As someone who has won zero things from The9513, my heart bleeds.:)
June 18, 2009 at 12:50 pm Permalink
Oh good. I was beginning to fear we were supposed to be plotting to take over the world together or something. And that just sounds like a lot of work.
June 18, 2009 at 12:52 pm Permalink
Best getting over him/her song: I Got Mexico–Eddie Raven.
June 18, 2009 at 1:13 pm Permalink
Best getting over him/her song: “Your Tears Are Coming” … Tom Hambridge / Jeffrey Steele
June 18, 2009 at 2:13 pm Permalink
You woulda been a winner if you actually entered, Leeann ;)
In other news, Kellie Pickler, who first became famous because of calamari and is a self-professed lover of fishing has been named PETA’s sexiest vegetarian. Her profile picture on Twitter even featured her fishing and coincidentally changed after PETA’s announcement. It’s much more ghoulish now.
June 18, 2009 at 2:24 pm Permalink
I won swanky Willie braids from The 9513 one time. I’m going to have to be honest and say that I don’t wear them much… except for when I’m writing reviews for the site. Since Willie was voted Country Artist of the Year in The 9513’s First Annual Country Music Awards, I feel like I should keep him on my mind/head when I write for you guys.
June 18, 2009 at 3:10 pm Permalink
“In other news, Kellie Pickler, who first became famous because of calamari and is a self-professed lover of fishing has been named PETA’s sexiest vegetarian. Her profile picture on Twitter even featured her fishing and coincidentally changed after PETA’s announcement. It’s much more ghoulish now.”
You do know that vegetarians eat fish right?
June 18, 2009 at 3:16 pm Permalink
You do know who PETA is, right?
June 18, 2009 at 3:32 pm Permalink
Yeah, and if they have a problem with eating fish I don’t understand it
Vegetarians eating fish is normal – its the substitute for real meat
June 18, 2009 at 3:37 pm Permalink
Oh, dang it! I would have that kind of luck.:) Naw. Since I already bought the album, I figured it would be most ethical of me to let somebody else win.
June 18, 2009 at 3:43 pm Permalink
I guess you don’t know that fish are actually called sea kittens and PETA distributes despicable pamphlets to children telling them their daddies are killers.
June 18, 2009 at 3:48 pm Permalink
I’m sympathetic to vegetarians, as I’ve got more than one vegetarian friend, but PETA is entirely too extreme for me. Then again, I just don’t like extremism in any form.
June 18, 2009 at 4:18 pm Permalink
Leeann, winning things on The 9513 is a slippery slope. Two years ago I won a t-shirt, and just look where I ended up ;-)
June 18, 2009 at 4:22 pm Permalink
That’s back when she was known as “The Book Lady” around these parts.
June 18, 2009 at 4:38 pm Permalink
Juli,
You mean, the Washington Post?:)
No danger of that happening to me.
June 18, 2009 at 5:05 pm Permalink
That’s back when she was known as “The Book Lady” around these parts.
Whoa, and back when Jim was “our newest writer here at The 9513.”
June 18, 2009 at 5:15 pm Permalink
“Misty water colored memories/Of the way we were…”
June 18, 2009 at 6:47 pm Permalink
http://www.nashvillescene.com/2009-06-18/news/the-obama-spook-adventure/
From this weeks edition of the Nashville Scene. Check out the second headline, half way down.
June 18, 2009 at 7:54 pm Permalink
Idlewildsouth, I enjoyed the lead headline a whole lot more! (lol) My favorite John Rich article comment:
“Then there’s the affidavit by former bodyguard Robert Smith, who accuses Rich of general conflict-seeking, bullying and severe assholery.” Wow, what a surprise!
June 18, 2009 at 9:14 pm Permalink
While, offensive, that lead story was pretty funny.
June 18, 2009 at 9:28 pm Permalink
Whoa. That lead story was so crazy that I almost thought I was reading one of CMW’s Fake News Stories.
June 18, 2009 at 10:06 pm Permalink
It’s the Nashville Scene, honestly, sometimes I wonder with them.
June 19, 2009 at 1:03 am Permalink
A possible alternative to “ass in the sand” could be “relax in the sand”.
That said, I really don’t understand why it’s necessary to edit it in the first place in this instance.
June 19, 2009 at 1:08 am Permalink
By the way, I surely hope the Zac Brown Band select “Highway 20 Ride” as the final single from their self-titled album, rather than feel as though they have to pander further to “country” stereotypes with “A Different Kind of Fine”.
“Free” would be fine by me too as that’s surely a quality recording (basically the whole rest of the album would never resonate well on Country radio today, sadly, especially songs like “Mary”, “Sic ‘em on a Chicken” and “It’s Not OK”) but “Highway 20 Ride” is the closest to a classic on there.
June 19, 2009 at 8:15 am Permalink
Except for one, the radio stations in my area play Toby’s “boot in your ass” (Angry American) song in its entirety so I’ll be curious to see if they are hypocritical enough to censor “Toes.”
June 19, 2009 at 8:35 am Permalink
I’ll just go on record as saying that I can’t stand “Sic ‘Em on A Chicken.” I know it’s like dedicated to Zac’s now deceased dog and all, but…no.
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