Special Guests Ray Benson and Redd Volkaert Joined Brad Paisley For Austin Concert
- Dierks Bentley and Darius Rucker opened for Brad Paisley when he rolled through Austin last Thursday, but it was Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson that joined Paisley for a duet on “Miles And Miles of Texas” and Austin guitar legend Redd Volkaert who dueled with him during the encore performance of “Let The Good Times Roll.”
- Spencer Leigh, author of Everyday: Getting Closer to Buddy Holly which will be published in March, suggests that had Holly not died in a plane crash he might have transformed country music along the lines of Willie Nelson. In response to that article, forum member JHD shared a humorous childhood story that involved listening to Holly on his trusty transistor, and Matt C. posted his own commentary on the legacy of Buddy Holly and what might have become of him had he lived.
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A mansion that belonged to Tammy Wynette in the early 1980s and was built for Roy Orbison in 1963 burned to the ground in Hendersonville, Tenn. last night.
Interesting trivia to note: “Orbison had three homes built for him, and all three homes have caught fire. In the first house fire two of Orbison’s sons died, and the second home that caught fire belonged to Johnny Cash at the time.”
- Pat Green talks about his songwriting process in an interview with The Tennessean‘s Peter Cooper.
What’s the first good song you wrote?
Well, I thought there was one on my first record. Then I went to see a Guy Clark show in Lubbock, where I was living, and wound up at a party after the show, swapping songs with him and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and four or five other guys. I played Guy what I thought was a good song, and then he played one called “The Randall Knife.” I was like, “Oh, well, mine’s not very good.” - Miranda Lambert is headed into the studio in February to work on her third album.
- Husband-and-wife team Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson swept all five categories they were nominated in at the Country Music Awards of Australia on Saturday night.
- Country Universe‘s Blake Boldt on Pat Green‘s new album, What I’m For:
Green continues to plow this middle ground to seduce new fans while suiting his devout followers. Produced by Music Row maven Dan Huff, What I’m For scrapes the bottom of the trough for tired concepts and warmed-over heartland rock.
- Hazel Smith mentions that Ashton Shepherd has ten new songs.
- The video for Pete Rock’s remixed version of Johnny Cash‘s “Folsom Prison Blues” is scheduled to go into heavy rotation on CMT tomorrow, but for now you can watch it on the CMT blog.
- This week’s edition of “Quotable Country” highlights a new comedy series titled “Three Chords From the Truth,” which reportedly skewers country music. It’s about a fictional music station overrun by vapid fame junkies, shameless marketers and cutthroat record execs.
- Pam Gadd has performed in the New Coon Creek Girls and the all-female band Wild Rose; toured with Patty Loveless and Porter Wagoner; penned songs recorded by country artist Terri Clark, as well as bluegrass artists Carl Jackson and John Starling, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, and The Rarely Herd; and recently released her third solo bluegrass album, Benefit Of Doubt. Read what she has to say about her career and new album on The Bluegrass Blog.
- Roy Blount Jr. recaps the DVD Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan: Cowboy Jack Clement’s Home Movies in the Oxford American:
I thought this was probably something that circulated privately among Nashville insiders, the kind of thing that people tell you about but don’t ever get around to sending you a copy of. But when, at my urging, Chuck did send me one, I saw that it was available to the public. You can go on amazon.com and rent it, video-on-demand, for $2.99. And for $17.99, you can buy a copy, to pull out whenever you get to feeling low and want to see Johnny Cash portraying something that only pigs can do.
It’s a side of Johnny Cash that I, for one, haven’t seen anywhere else. He’s wearing a pig snout—simple plastic affair held on by a rubber band—and he says:
“Snooky Larkins….”
I think that’s what he says, “Snooky Larkins.” I’ve played it over and over.
- Country Music Is Love dug up several unreleased Luke Bryan songs.
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January 26, 2009 at 12:33 pm
One of the comments on the Johnny Cash video: “You almost don’t notice it’s been remixed.” Come again? Did the original song feature someone someone beating a drum machine to death with a typewriter and I never noticed it? God help us if this is how the next generation of music fans gets introduced to Johnny Cash.
January 26, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Ha ha ha. “Someone beating a drum machine to death with a typewriter.” Genius! Genius, I tell you.
January 26, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Given that the next generation of music fans have made someone as talentless as Taylor Swift a star, I don’t hold out too much of them discovering Johnny Cash.
January 26, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Not many songs sound good next to The Randall Knife.
January 26, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Speaking of Taylor Swift, I picked up this tidbit at “AllAboutCountry.com” tonight:
“Taylor Swift makes her big-screen debut in two movies set for release in the coming months. On
February 27th, she’ll make a cameo in “The Jonas Brother’s 3D Concert Experience” and on April 10th, she’s in “Hannah Montana: The Movie”. (Rick’s snark: Taylor has targeted her core audience with these two films. Taylor should get a Disney Channel Show going right now!)
And:
“And then on March 20th, Taylor performs a sold-out show (71,000-seats) at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo.” (Rick’s snark: Damn! Somehow I was hoping Texans would be above all this foolishness. I guess pre-tweens, tweenypoppers, and teen girls are alike everywhere in the US when it comes to have a pop culture lemming mentality. Great….)
Although Kasey and Shane cleaned up at the Golden Guitar Awards the winner of “Best Female Country Artist” was Catherine Britt. Catherine won for “Little Wildflower”, her Brett Beavers produced Nashville swan song album she completed just before heading back home to Australia. I don’t much care for “Little Wildflower” but I’m glad it finally brought Catherine an award.
I really hope Ashton Shepherd has expanded the stylistic and subject matter range of her new songs as repetitive themes and styles were my only issue with “Sounds So Good”. I love Ashton’s voice and vocal style, but without great songs to sing she won’t get much further in her career. A great co-writer like Liz Rose would be welcomed here.
January 26, 2009 at 11:31 pm
I wondered when Taylor would start making movies. I just don’t get it, but I’m too old I guess.
January 27, 2009 at 4:28 am
Taylor has her own agenda. Like her album says, “She’s fearless”, not a nervous bone in her body. She doesn’t care that she can’t sing..she’s going to do what she’s going to do. I don’t like her music..but gotta give her credit for her “take on the world” attitude.