Sound Off On Carrie Underwood’s New Video For “Just A Dream”

Ryan Seacrest getting a Walk of Fame star kinda took the cool out of that, didn’t it?

I always thought Fly was over rated, especially compared to Home.

James Taylor doing country seems pretty natural to me. Now Glen Campbell covering pop/rock songs? not so much. Then again, I have always been a sucker for ‘cover’ songs and do feel that country music could ‘exploit’ some good songs from bands like Travis (”Driftwood” being one) and make them work.

will “the wailers” play on a tractor pulled trailer, among coconuts and bikini-beauties in that new chesney beach-video? that’ll be a sure bet for a nomination for best video at this year’s cma awards.

That damn Taylor swift add!

@Leeann: I don’t think it’s actually the Taylor Swift ad, I only said that because you referred to it as a strange chirping noise :P Let me know if you figure out what it really is, though.

@Funk: The stereotype that’s been created of him as having to add an island flavor to all of his music.

Leeann,

It was just the ‘voices’ in your head (a la Chris Young).

Hey,

Did anyone notice the Coppola Sisters/Big Machine Records released “You’re Not My Judge?” to iTunes?

I blogged about it @ roughstock (just click my name to go there).

Yeah, Matt, I first learned about it on Country California. I, personally, think it’s funny. I’ll go read your thoughts on it now though. I didn’t see Can You Duet, but I know Naomi can be cruel, though she comes off as trying to seem wise and all when she talks. I love the Judds music though

Matt B, I can’t comment on your site for some reason, but I agree with your assessment.

leeann, the site currently requires registration. My company is uber sensitive to spammers (they own a hip hop site that got deluged with it).

You know, Matt, I think you’re right. She was being pretty nasty to Wynona on the Oprah show when they were on it a few years ago. Before that, I just thought she was this nice, calm lady.:) After the show, I have no trouble she was probably pretty nasty on Can You Duet. I wish I hadn’t missed the show though, since I hear it was better than NS. The Coppolas seem much more talented than anyone on NS anyway.

I thought their song was amusing and I think it sounds good too. They have great family harmony and the production of the song was appealing to me.

Rick,

Check out Jason Matthews. He’s friends with Jeff and is quite opinionated about things. I will be posting an interview with him tomorrow. :)

Trailer, funny you should mention that; I actually have an album of my own called Squinting In The Country coming out on the same day. Maybe we can have ourselves a 50-Kanye rivalry.

Matt - “James Taylor doing country seems pretty natural to me. Now Glen Campbell covering pop/rock songs? not so much.”

Glen’s played on and recorded a lot of Pop songs in the past, why’s this any different?

Glen Campbell was a Beach Boy!

The Glen Campbell album is strong. Seriously. I’ve sampled its wares.

Dan, if I don’t outsell you, I’ll retire from my lucrative country music career.

watching that video does show me that he can cover those songs. It will be interesting.

I liked the Mother Truckers album, for sure, but it has some pretty stiff competition from Reckless Kelly and Alejandro Escovedo, I would think…

Chris N.: He also played on Pet Sounds.

Leeann: I saw Glen live about two years ago and didn’t hear much if any deterioration.

I saw Glen live just over a year ago and he sounded great. He can still play the guitar as well - the place went nuts when he played the William Tell Overture!
About the Beach Boys, I believe he filled in for Brian Wilson at some stage as well as playing on some of the albums. He played for Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Merle Haggard, the Monkees and many others whos names escape me.

Well Jim C., I believe it was you who put Jason & the Scorchers in the same sentance with Taylor Swift…i guess we should consider context, huh:-)

Jim C. I am equally amazed at the very same notion, just the other way around obviously. You made a jocular comment about me putting RK and Escovedo in the same sentence and my repsonse was merely a light-hearted reply to you explaining that I wasnt comparing the two (should’ve been obvious), and that since we were talking about putting “mismatched” artists in the same sentence, I simply pointed out that you had done that as well (knowing that you were also not comparing the two artists in your sentence, just as I wasnt comparing). Also, I put one of those silly little smiley faces (for example:-)) on my comment to suggest I was being light-hearted about my comment. You seem to be unable to catch that aspect of the comments even though you use the “smiley face” quite liberally yourself. For someone who made the initial comment responding to my comment, you are quite touchy…try decaf instead of “full-caff” in the am perhaps ;-)…

What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.

1) I said “I like the Chicks just fine.” How does that translate to anything close to “hate”? And how does a positive review of their last record become a “flip flop”?

2) Corcoran equated the Mother Truckers to the Dixie Chicks which I thought ridiculous on it’s face. One’s a loud rock band with a country edge, the other’s a country band with some bluegrass edges. So, I made an equally ridiculous comparison, the Scorchers and Taylor Swift. A loud rock band with a country edge and a airhead country artist.

3) I don’t understand anything that Kelly says and I obviously don’t get her sense of humor. Therefore, from now one when I see a comment from her I’ll skip over it. It’ll save everyone (read mostly me) the aggravation of having to go through this on a regular basis.

Hope that clears things up for y’all.

James Taylor recording country isn’t much of a stretch. Some of his early singles received airplay on country radio and there were some early of covers of his material by established country stars. George Hamilton IV had a minor hit in late 1969 with “Carolina In My Mind”.

Taylor has dabbled with Nashville for a long time - he wrote “Bartender’s Blues” with the idea of having George Jones record it, and he and Ricky Skaggs recorded a Christmas song together “New Star Shining” some years back