Reba McEntire Passes Dolly Parton to Hold Most Top 10s by a Female Artist
- Reba McEntire’s duet with Brooks & Dunn on “Cowgirls Don’t Cry” helped her earn her 56th Top 10 on Billboard’s single chart. She now holds more Top 10 hits than any female artist.
- The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum announced Monday that it was launching a $1.1 million fundraising campaign to keep instruments that belonged to Bill Monroe and Maybelle Carter.
- Billy Powell, a longtime keyboard player for Lynyrd Skynyrd who survived the band’s 1977 plane crash, passed away at his Orange Park condo last night.
- The Bluegrass Blog on the new self-titled Audie Blaylock and Redline album from Rural Rhythm Records:
Audie manages to record music that sounds as though he hasn’t heard a lick of bluegrass later than the mid-1960s. Both in the song choice and the presentation, this record could pass as a “long lost master” from an earlier era.
- Jamey Johnson mixes standards like George Jones’ “He Stopped Loving Her Today” and Patsy Cline’s “Crazy” and not-so-standard songs like Waylon Jennings’ “Belle of the Ball” in his list of music you should hear for Amazon. (via NashvilleGab)
- Watch the first episode of the new series “On the Road With Jamey Johson.”
- Test your knowledge of important women in country music with this week’s edition of “Country Quizzin’” at Country Universe.
- Austin360.com’s Michael Corcoran is calling for a Cliché-o-Meter repairman after listening to Pat Green’s What I’m For album.
Besides a re-recording of Green’s signature tune “Carry On” — which sounds a bit like a life raft here — I count only three truly good songs on the CD: first single “Let Me,” a pop ballad that Green follows through on beautifully, the acoustic guitar-strumming “In This World” and the starkly introspective “In the Middle of the Night.”
- Further down in the same article, Joe Gross has a four-star review of Undone: A Musicfest Tribute to Robert Earl Keen.
- In keeping with the Keen topic, he’s wrapping up the recording of his 11th studio album — the first in four years — and the 20th anniversary of “The Road Goes on Forever” is being celebrated with the February release of a book titled The Road Goes on Forever and the Music Never Ends. John Goodspeed, who writes for the San Antonio Express-News, notes that more touching to Keen, however, is the previously mentioned tribute album. Several of the artists who appeared on the album provided insight into what they were feeling while recording.
- Kathy Coleman provides background info to Dale Watson’s album Every Song I Write Is For You in her review for About.com:
On September 15, 2000, Terri Lynn Hebert was driving to Houston. Just outside of Austin, she somehow lost control of her vehicle. She went off the road, overcompensated, and flipped. She wasn’t wearing a seat belt, and died at the scene. Her fiance, Dale Watson, lost his mind. Quite literally, in his own words, he lived like a zombie, a bleak version of the film “Groundhog Day,” living that same day, the day after her death, with every waking. For three months he suffered, until a suicide attempt landed him in a hospital, and then in intense therapy to get him through his post-traumatic shock. Finally, he recorded these songs to help, and released it initially only to hardcore fans.
- As part of his efforts to raise awareness for the genocide in Darfur, Big Kenny will host an invitation-only screening of the documentary Bearing Light: A Journey to Sudan and a short musical performance on Thursday at the CMHoF.
- The Bluegrass Blog has details on the new Dailey & Vincent album, Brothers From Different Mothers, and even though it hasn’t been released, the duo plans to record a third album consisting of only a capella performed songs.
- Listen to Sing:Chapter 1, the new album from Wynonna Judd available February 3.
- There are people in the world who were born to tell stories, and one of those people is Drew Kennedy. In the latest edition of Galleywinter’s “Off the Cuff” feature, Kennedy explains why and how he knows the weather watches him.
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January 28, 2009 at 11:54 am Permalink
Here’s some news for you Texas music lovers from the depths of the Americana radio format basement:
“Here are Americana’s Most-Added Albums This Week:
1. Willie Nelson And Asleep At The Wheel/Willie And The Wheel (23 Adds)
2. Gurf Morlix/Last Exit To Happyland (22 Adds)”.
I just figured you’d enjoy that somehow….
Over at CMT.com Alison Bonaguro had this to say in her review of a Jamey Johnson concert:
“His between-song banter was full of thick Alabama twang and a lot of swearing. Like when he was introducing a new song, “Nothing Is Better Than You,” he said “Here’s how this is gonna work. We’re gonna play you a new song, and if you hate it, don’t say a f**king word.”
Uhoh, It sounds like Jamey wants to join Hank III and Shooter Jennings as being “Outlaws” know by having on stage potty mouths. There are far classier ways to do it fellas….
January 28, 2009 at 12:23 pm Permalink
Did Alison have anything to say about the actual music? I’m sure she must think it can’t possibly be worthwhile because it doesn’t get as much radio airplay as masterpieces by Kenny Chesney and Rascal Flatts.
January 28, 2009 at 2:15 pm Permalink
I will let you know about the music this weekend, as I am seeing on Friday night in Columbus…
January 28, 2009 at 3:56 pm Permalink
as per the Watson, I think Dale’s gone on record saying that though they were serious, they weren’t engaged at the time, and he didn’t want her family to have the wrong idea.
January 28, 2009 at 4:20 pm Permalink
Alison actually did talk about the music and she gave a generally positive outlook about how Jamey is trying to bring back the outlaw style of Waylon. That last comment in Rick’s post was made by him, not Alison, just for clarification, lol.
January 28, 2009 at 7:32 pm Permalink
Alison is that shocked by an f bomb from a musician? I can’t remember the last concert I went to without an f bomb from the artist.
January 28, 2009 at 8:46 pm Permalink
That Drew Kennedy tribute to his recently deceased friend Blaine Martin is really touching. It’s just too bad he didn’t include a picture of that big leather coat that is such an integral part of the tale. Good stuff.
January 29, 2009 at 9:02 am Permalink
the f bomb is nothing new. i saw waylon jennings in owensboro, ky. in 1990 and he dropped at least 3 f bombs and a really effective g-d from the stage. so it’s tradition. :)
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