Professional Bull Rider Justin McBride Ventures Into Country Music
- Only six days left until we announce the winners for the Big State Festival contest, so if you haven’t entered yet head over to the contest page and leave us a comment. While you’re at it, check out some of the contests on the Big State Festival website. I particularly like the one titled “The Song Goes On Forever.” They have some verses to a song up and you have to write your own four lines to continue the song.
- The American Roots Festival will be honoring the Carter Family on October 13th in Oregon.
The Evening Program, A Carter Family Celebration will feature Stories and songs from the rich Carter Family history, performed by John Carter Cash and his wife, Laura Cash. Other family members will also be performing at the celebration.
- Rick Monroe and Nashville Noir have teamed up to experiment with a new way of releasing albums digitally. They’ll make a different song from his new album, Get Loud Get Lit, available for purchase and download each month. You can hear his current song, “Ace of Spades”, on his MySpace.
- Two men were stabbed during a confrontation after a Brad Paisley concert in Palm Beach on Saturday night. A spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office said that the two men were “very impaired” and were unable to identify their attackers.
- Justin McBride becomes Chris LeDoux 2.0. I think it’s probably unfair to compare them, but it is interesting that McBride is trying his hand at country music. Also from the same blog entry that I swiped the McBride link from, Country Mike says that Kevin Fowler is the latest artist to be corrupted by Nashville.
- Roseanne Cash says that the day after Bob Dylan appeared on her dad’s show she walked into school with “a new mandate of confidence and coolness.”
The entire country, or at least my entire generation, was buzzing. It was a certifiable, seminal musical event. My new mandate was justified thusly: the English teacher who had told my entire class, right in front of me — only to pretend that he had forgotten that I was there — that none of my dad’s work was worth listening to, save perhaps “Folsom Prison Blues”; the boy who had said my dad couldn’t sing and could barely talk; the nuns who had made nasty comments about my dad’s profession and attendant personal catastrophes … they could all kiss my ass. They could at least back off. No one was cooler than my dad, well, no one but Bob Dylan. But even Bob Dylan thought no one was cooler than my dad.
The magical moment of which she speaks was released on DVD last week on The Johnny Cash Show.
- Woot! The Texas Sapphires are scheduled to release a new album on October 16th. Roadhouse Gems Live was recorded at John T. Floores Country Store in Helotes, TX and includes some new songs as well as fan favorites. MySpace: The Texas Sapphires
- Billboard is reporting that Reba McEntire is on pace to grab her first career No. 1 on The Billboard 200 with her album Reba Duets. In related news, she leads both Kanye West and 50 Cent who saw a decrease of about 76% in their album sales from last week.
- CMT Insider has an interview with the Rascal Flatts guys, while Matt from The Lost Highway reviews their new album and gives it three-and-a-half stars.
- Put your iPod on shuffle mode, take note of the first five songs that are played and head over to Country Universe to post the list.
- It’s hard to find an artist that makes more artistically compelling music videos than Dwight Yoakam, and the Fred Durst-directed video for “Close Up the Honky Tonks” doesn’t disappoint: watch the video at the end of Matt’s review of the single. Nothing says lonely like salted tomatoes for dinner.
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September 25, 2007 at 12:27 pm Permalink
Rick Monroe’s Ace of Spades is good, but if you want a nice twangy cover of that song, I gotta pimp for Rhode Island’s own Brimstone Assembly:
http://www.myspace.com/thebrimstoneassembly
September 25, 2007 at 4:39 pm Permalink
McBride is a class act and a great rider. He would be a welcome addition to the country music society.
September 26, 2007 at 8:29 am Permalink
Man Timmy, they weren’t kidding when they labeled themselves “garage.” That’s some heavy stuff.
Pierce – My dad follows the PBR almost religiously and talks about McBride a lot, I’ll have to see if he knows about this. I wonder if it’s a serious career thing that he’s thinking about, or just something to say he did it.
March 27, 2008 at 8:10 pm Permalink
yes McBrbe is one of the great riderds that i have seen ride. and i do think that he will go a long way just like Lane Frost
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