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Wanda Jackson Finds Producer In Jack White; Dierks Bentley Plans Bluegrass Record
Jack White is scheduled to produce a forthcoming album for Wanda Jackson.
Trace Adkins is the new celebrity spokesperson for BC Headache Powder. The only other country artist the company has worked with in its 100-year history is Faron Young.
The title track to Jerry Lee Lewis‘ recent EP release, Mean Old Man, was written by Kris [...]Continue reading "Wanda Jackson Finds Producer In Jack White; Dierks Bentley Plans Bluegrass Record"
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New Label Imprint Includes Brad Paisley; Country Music Hall of Fame Redesigns; Full Album Concerts
Songwriter Chris DuBois, producer Frank Rogers, and Brad Paisley are launching a new Sony Nashville record label imprint called Sea Gayle Records. The label’s debut artist is Jerrod Niemann (MySpace). (via All About Country)
The Country Music Hall of Fame website got a makeover. (via Country Music Tattle Tale)
Nashville At Nite attended last week’s BMI Country [...] -
Friday Five: Songs About Airplanes
Hopping on a 747 is slightly less romantic than hitting the open road, but there are some decent country songs in which planes are featured. Here’s a few of ‘em, from my iPod to yours.
Honorable Mention: “If Love Was a Plane” – Brad Paisley
If love were actually a plane, Paisley says, most of us would [...] -
Vince Gill Surprised, Jack Ingram Probably Not So Much; ‘Wine, Women, & Song’ Heads to Atlanta Area
Pop & Hiss’ Ann Powers on Taylor Swift’s opening performance:
Swift started things out with a version of “Forever and Always” that was glitzy and high-concept — and off-tune, a consistent characteristic of Swift’s live outings that gave the lie to her one undeserved triumph, for best female vocalist. The prize should have gone to Carrie [...] -
2009 CMA Awards Predictions
Depending on your point of view, the Country Music Association may be the organization responsible for broadening the reach of country music and its artists throughout the nation and around the world, the organization responsible for transforming the genre into a musically homogeneous mass-market commodity, or both. Either way, there’s no denying that both the [...]
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The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (11-8-09)
Last.fm Top Artists
Apparently this group isn’t as crazy for Carrie as you’d think. Despite a brand new album, the best Carrie Underwood could manage was #4 with 25 listeners, behind Johnny Cash (28), Miranda Lambert (27) and Garth Brooks (26). That’s a dead guy, a slightly un-retired guy and a non-radio sweetheart whose new album [...] -
Kenny Chesney In 3D; Chris Hillman Records Live Album; Catch Radney Foster’s “Angel Flight”
Sony Pictures plans to bring Kenny Chesney to the big screen next April in a limited-release concert film, Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3-D.
Sugar Hill released a video from the release party for Sam Bush’s album Circles Around Me.
Brad Paisley on why he wears a hat:
It’s about the image, and it’s about the lifestyle and what [...] -
The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (11-1-09)
Last.fm Top Artists
Two familiar faces are tied for #1 this week, as George Strait and Miranda Lambert both have 24 listeners. Alan Jackson is one behind to end up at #3, and the group of artists at #4 with 21 listeners includes Taylor Swift, Patty Loveless, Keith Urban and Johnny Cash. For Swift and Urban, [...] -
Brad Paisley/Carrie Underwood Schedule Free Concert; Tom Russell’s Longevity; Stream Jason Eady
Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood are scheduled to perform a free concert in downtown Nashville on Nov. 10, one day before the CMA Awards.
Sounds Country commented on the new Bruce Robison single “Born to Roll,” which features Rodney Crowell and will be released on Robison’s next album From the Top. I can’t find a release [...] -
Garth Brooks Tickets Sold Out; Little Doug Sahm’s First Single; Country Music Displacing Rock n’ Roll
Sell Outs: The first 20 shows of Garth Brooks‘ gig at the Wynn Las Vegas resort sold out in less than five hours and four of Taylor Swift’s 2010 tour dates sold out in two minutes on Friday.
Next month marks 10 years since the passing of Doug Sahm. The folks at Texas Music Matters took [...]
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