Taylor Swift Dishes On Her Obession With a Certain Anatomy
- Taylor Swift explains her love for Grey’s Anatomy in her latest MySpace blog post, and announces that Fearless will be released with 13 songs.
- MySpace, in conjunction with the four major labels, launched their new music service today. It allows you to access and listen to a large portion of major artists’ catalogs for free. You’re also able to build an infinite number of playlists with up to 100 songs per list. And if you’d like to purchase a song, it’ll download through Amazon’s mp3 service without ever leaving MySpace, as long as you’re signed into both services. The labels, in turn, will take a stake in the revenue that’s brought in from advertising.
- Kellie Pickler added a few songs from her upcoming album to MySpace. Look for “Best Days of Your Life,” “Somebody to Love Me” and “Rocks Instead of Rice.” Plus you can listen to all of her previous material courtesy of the new MySpace Music deal. (via indulgedcountrymusic)
- A new musical, titled Conway Twitty. The Man, The Music, The Legend … The Musical, will debut in Nashville on Oct. 12.
- The Country Music Association announced that they’ll be giving the Country Music Hall of Fame $200,000 per year for the next five years, a total of $1 million, for their “Words & Music” program.
In the “Words & Music” program, students write lyrics in the classroom. Those lyrics are then given to professional songwriters, who finish the songs with melodies and chord structures, and then students visit the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum for a tour and a performance of their songs.
- In an interview with Chet Flippo, Patty Loveless talks about her new album, Sleepless Nights, the inspiration behind the songs that she chose to cover and her approach to the recording sessions.
- Toby Keith ranks number three on Forbe’s list of the world’s best paid music stars, right behind the Police and Beyonce, with $48 million in earnings between June 1, 2007 and June 1, 2008.
- For their latest episode, Nashville at Night’s Ashlie Kolb interviewed a new group that goes by the name of Telluride. The band derived their name from a Tim McGraw song that a fan submitted, which she felt characterized each of the different members.
- A new Johnny Cash documentary, Johnny Cash’s America, will air on Oct. 23 on the Biography Channel and include a never-before-released recitation about American history events titled “I Am the Nation.” A companion CD/DVD package will be available on Oct. 28.
- Watch the video premier of Blake Shelton’s “She Wouldn’t Be Gone” starring Miranda Lambert. Ok, it doesn’t really feature Miranda Lambert…or does it?
- The folks at Galleywinter are holding a Hurricane Ike benefit on Oct. 5 at George’s Bar in Waco, TX with fundraisers, raffle prizes and performances from a slew of artists, including Drew Kennedy, Owen Temple, Bo Cox, Kimberly Kelly, Modern Day Drifters and more.
- Craig Shelburne speculates as to who will be the next pop star to convert to country.
- NashvilleHype! republished the press release announcing all the exciting details of the new deluxe 40th anniversary 2-CD+DVD box set of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition, which will be available on Oct. 14.
- Randy Rogers recounts the roots of the Randy Rogers Band in a promotional video for Universal Music Nashville.
- Hickory Wind’s Brendan McKennedy rips the new Old Crow Medicine Show album, Tennessee Pusher, while PopMatters‘ Aarik Danielsen calls it one of the better releases of 2008. Falling in the middle is Paste’s Jeff Leven, who says the band is caught between the old-timey vibe of past albums and more conscious songwriting.
- Despite whatever camp you fall in, we still have winners to announce for the five copies of Tennessee Pusher from our Old Crow Medicine Show giveaway. So, without further ado, the winners are Frank, David McKinney, Ryan, President Dan and Ben. Congrats guys, I’ll be in touch with you all shortly to get your contact information. Even if you didn’t win this time, be sure to check out our current Randy Rogers Band giveaway, and stay tuned for future chances to win free music.
- A big thanks goes out to Country Weekly and Chris Neal for featuring The 9513 and Paul W. Dennis’ “Forgotten Artists” series in their latest issue. Visit this thread in the forums and scroll down to view a scanned copy of the feature. Congrats Paul!
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September 25, 2008 at 12:05 pm Permalink
Well since there’s news posted about two country blonds here’s a link to a third from the Miami Herald: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/697087.html
September 25, 2008 at 12:12 pm Permalink
Country Weekly is spreadin’ the love.
September 25, 2008 at 2:44 pm Permalink
I know, right. Chris was even nice enough to deem us “popular.”
September 25, 2008 at 3:44 pm Permalink
Telluride. Good band name.
September 25, 2008 at 4:03 pm Permalink
Sweet! I indirectly made the roundup! (My thread was linked for the CW article :D)
It’s the little things…
September 25, 2008 at 5:04 pm Permalink
Dammit! Forgot to tell you beforehand.
I’m going to try to start featuring more country blogs in that section. At this point there are at least six I look at every day without fail.
September 25, 2008 at 5:24 pm Permalink
I’ve never been much of a Conway Twitty fan as everything about him just seemed kind of phony. A show based upon the life and music of artists like Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, or Waylon Jennings would be far more interesting to me…
Since I didn’t win a copy of the OCMS CD, it’s good to know some reviewers don’t much care for it…(lol)
And in my continuing quest to prove to doubters here that Kellie Pickler is real country through and through, here is a sentence from Hazel Smith’s latest “Hot Dish” column from the CMT News section:
“Dolly Parton is still Kellie’s No. 1 idol. After Dolly, she just loves classic country music such as Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn. She doesn’t watch much TV but does enjoy the Discovery Channel’s Planet Earth, her chance to learn about the world.”
I guess Kellie is still trying to verify that Hungary is indeed a country in Eastern Europe…..
September 25, 2008 at 5:46 pm Permalink
It’s cool that she loves Dolly and all, but since her music is in no way comparable to Dolly, in style or quality, it doesn’t really matter who she says are her biggest influences.
September 25, 2008 at 5:46 pm Permalink
Love Kellie Pickler
September 25, 2008 at 7:45 pm Permalink
@Troy: Same here, and can’t w8 for her new album, it is going to be spectacular
October 1, 2008 at 6:04 pm Permalink
I listened and loved the whole album.
I love Kellie too, Troy.
‘Best Days of Your Life’ has a good chance of being a top 5 or better on the pop-country stations. haha
October 31, 2008 at 9:47 am Permalink
I found out that Taylor is performing some songs from “Fearless” on CMT Crossroads next Friday 11/7 at 9/8c. I can’t wait to watch!
October 31, 2008 at 9:59 am Permalink
When is ‘Nashville Star’ on?
October 31, 2008 at 10:07 am Permalink
You’d probably have better luck if you asked about a CMT show.
October 31, 2008 at 10:08 am Permalink
OK, when is that Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders show on?
October 31, 2008 at 10:39 am Permalink
That show is always on at my house.
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