Purported Bob Dylan Poem Is Actually A Hank Snow Song
- Christie’s announced yesterday that a poem written by Bob Dylan when he was 16 would be up for auction, however a reader alerted Reuters that the lyrics matched “Little Buddy,” a song previously recorded by Hank Snow. Christie’s response:
“This still remains among the earliest known handwritten lyrics of Bob Dylan and Christie’s is pleased to offer them in our Pop Culture auction on June 23.”
- Dualtone Records is hosting a lyrics contest that ties in with the release of Guy Clark’s new album, Somedays the Song Writes You, on September 22. The winner will receive a trip to Nashville, hotel accomodations and a co-writing session with Clark.
- Officials ruled the recent death of George Strait’s brother, John “Buddy” Strait, accidental. They concluded that he died of methadone toxicity and heart disease.
- Alt-512 Music Musings provided audio to the second installment of the Mean Eyed Cat Songwriter Night, hosted by Lew Card of the Gunhands and featuring Betty Soo, Jenny Parrott (of Shotgun Party), Joey Thompson (of the Archibalds) and Jubal Lee Young.
- Also on Alt-512 is audio from a recent Jason Eady & The Wayward Apostles show at Momo’s.
- The video for Justin Moore’s “Small Town USA” is one of the iTunes free downloads this week. (iTunes)
- Rumor has it that Jennifer Love Hewitt plans to release a country album.
- A panel of Gary Burr, Chris DuBois and Rusty Gaston discussed the relevance of hard times on country songwriting in an interview with Randy Rudder.
Can a song that deals realistically with serious issues turn listeners off?
Burr: Some people want to be taken out of their current circumstances when they listen to music. So when times are bad like they are now, people want to hear songs and stories that take them out of that. Maybe that’s why songs about their current circumstances might be the last thing they want to hear.
- Dehlia Low’s Anya Hinkle shared her thoughts on the final weekend of recording for the band’s new album Tellico and her reactions on hearing the rough mixes for the first time.
- This week’s edition of Country Quizzin’ is all about country chart trivia.
- Emerson Drive’s Brad Mates and Dale Wallace are scheduled to return to The Porter Wagoner Memorial Artists & Anglers Fishing Tournament on June 9, along with Bobby Bare, Mel Tillis, Jeff Cook, Jon Randall and Trent Wilmon. Newcomers this year include Little Jimmy Dickens, Eric Church, Dean Brody, Sammy Kershaw, Mica Roberts and Daryl Singletary.
- Keith Urban and Steve Martin will perform on tonight’s season finale of American Idol.
- Melodic Sunburst’s Carolyn Dixon reviewed Better Times Will Come, the new album from Diana Jones, for her first article on Country California.
Better Times Will Come is a composite portrait of America’s citizens. The album’s characters (both real and based on real-life persons) include a female Iraq War veteran, lonely foster children, a potential murderess, struggling mothers and their offspring, and a trapped miner. Full of pride, rage, and loneliness, the protagonists are given distinct voices. Jones’ character portrayals are not limited to the lemonade-selling, happy-go-lucky, hell-raising caricatures that inhabit some contemporary county compositions. This isn’t Rodney Atkins’ America; it is infinitely more compelling.
- Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Sam Bush, David Grisman and Tim O’Brien are a handful of artists who contributed to to the new album The Road Home – A Tribute To Butch Baldassari.
- For all our Austin readers, the New American Voices Tour with Drew Kennedy and Rodney Hayden hits Patsy’s Cowgirl Cafe this Friday (May 22).
- NPR’s Fresh Air host Terry Gross has an interview with John Doe about his interest in country music along with a few performances.
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May 20, 2009 at 11:28 am Permalink
I wonder how many pop stars/actors/reality show stars, etc. will make country albums before the trend gets cold and they all go back to writing children’s books?
May 20, 2009 at 1:41 pm Permalink
What’s all stuff going back and forth about Hewitt’s grandmother being a 3rd cousin to Patsy Cline?
May 20, 2009 at 5:18 pm Permalink
I might be interested in seeing the cover artwork of JLH’s “country album”, but that would be the extent of my interest…
That Dualtone / Guy Clark contest sounds very similar to the one Katie Armiger’s label held recently. Copycats! (lol)
Mica Roberts is the only gal listed above for the fishing tournament. With her Show Dog label career on the back burner maybe she plans on doing some networking during the event, or maybe she actually likes to fish! Crikey, mate….
So Diana Jones has recently had her songs recorded by the likes of Joan Baez and Tom Russell eh? Being a right wing extremist myself, that information does not exactly motivate me to ever want to hear her music. The CD should have one of those little Obama circular hopey/changey symbols glued on to help attract the right people.
I went to Dehlia Low’s MySpace from a 9513 link yesterday and their songs put me to sleep. I’m all for preserving the sound and style of old time mountain string band music, but listening gets tiresome really quickly. Like the Carolina Chocolate Drops they need a Blu Cantrell song to liven things up now and then.
May 20, 2009 at 5:19 pm Permalink
35 dollars for a chance to write with Guy Clark…hmmm…I might would pay that.
May 20, 2009 at 6:33 pm Permalink
Jamey Johnson was flashing some rare smiles at his Gold Album Party for “That Lonesome Song”. My favorite shot is with Luke Lewis sporting a fake glue on beard. The drink they should have been serving is XXX moonshine fresh from the still…
Link: http://musiccitytv.com/2009/05/20/jamey-johnson-has-star-studded-gold-record-party/
May 20, 2009 at 6:36 pm Permalink
I saw several people at Jamey’s gold party sporting fake goatees. It’s a little creepy on a woman.
May 20, 2009 at 6:48 pm Permalink
It’s typical of Dylan that he was jotting down Hank Snow lyrics, probably to sing them; he idolized him. It’s typical of a lot of people who follow Dylan, on the other hand, that they wouldn’t recognize that “poem” for what it was!
May 20, 2009 at 7:08 pm Permalink
Goatees (fake or real) look creepy on anyone, whatever their gender.
May 20, 2009 at 7:17 pm Permalink
This still remains among the earliest known handwritten lyrics of Bob Dylan and Christie’s is pleased to offer them in our Pop Culture auction on June 23.”
Now those are words of someone who knows how to grasp a straw…
May 20, 2009 at 7:43 pm Permalink
“I went to Dehlia Low’s MySpace from a 9513 link yesterday and their songs put me to sleep. I’m all for preserving the sound and style of old time mountain string band music, but listening gets tiresome really quickly.”
In the first place, Dehlia Low’s music doesn’t “preserve the sound and style of old time mountain string band music,” and in the second, listening doesn’t get tiresome at all to some folks.
May 20, 2009 at 7:46 pm Permalink
“Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Sam Bush, David Grisman and Tim O’Brien are a handful of artists who contributed to to the new album The Road Home – A Tribute To Butch Baldassari.”
That should read “AMONG a handful,” and it’s actually a fairly big one – 20 cuts, to be exact. Looks to me like some are reissues of previously recorded stuff, but I know for a fact there are some new ones, as I played on one. Butch was a great musician and a real class act; I miss him every day. Here’s a direct link to the project: http://www.soundartrecordings.com/TheRoadHome.shtml .
May 20, 2009 at 9:16 pm Permalink
Goatees (fake or real) look creepy on anyone, whatever their gender.
Ouch!
May 21, 2009 at 1:49 am Permalink
Jamey Johnson’s “Gold Record” party got a really nice write-up at CMT and it includes pictures of the women and even Jamey’s daughter wearing the fake goatees! Chris N. was right, it is scary…(lol)
Link: http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1611858/jamey-johnson-celebrates-his-proudest-moment-at-gold-party.jhtml
Jon, I think that band should actually be named “Dehlia’s Lullaby” since their music can cause narcolepsy…
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