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- BMI is holding an invitation-only songwriters event that will feature four Texas writers/artists: Bill Carter, Monte Warden, Sunny Sweeney, and Bruce Robison.
“This is for A&R people, producers, people looking for songs, artists looking for songs and publishers who come to hear these writers to hook them up with their writers,” Williams said. “It’s a networking opportunity to hook these writers up with the other writers in town who want to get a little Texas in them.”
Frank Liddell of Carnival Music, a publishing company that’s the home of Bruce Robison, thinks that Austin and Nashville could benefit from being in business together.
- Taylor Swift made history yesterday by becoming the youngest artist to write and sing a number-one country single.
- Nashville based band Ned Van Go participated in a short Q&A with The Gobbler’s Knob, who’s got a couple of signed albums he’s giving away.
You guys are based in Nashville. Most people associate Music City with a more polished, slickly-produced version of country. What kind of “scene” is there for a band such as NVG in Nashville?
A great majority of the bands actively playing here are not the slick country acts you see on CMT. In fact, most of the younger acts don’t have anything to do with country.
- In an audio interview with About.com Trace Adkins mentions that he has the bulk of his next studio album finished and says that they’ll probably release one more single, “You’re Gonna Miss This”, from his recent hits album and then be done with that. Adkins also describes his time on Celebrity Apprentice as “an exercise in restraint.”
- Craig Shelburne put together a list of Greatest Hits albums released this year.
- Opponents of the Iraq war have accused Toby Keith of opportunism after revealing that he has been a life-long Democrat, while Tim Shipman stops shy of saying the same about Darryl Worley for his hit “I Just Came Back from a War”, about a soldier returning from Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder, after having released the pro-war song “Have You Forgotten”. Edward Morris from CMT Blog wonders where have all the pro-war songs gone now?
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December 11, 2007 at 12:04 pm Permalink
I’ll tell you where have all the pro-war songs gone. They have drifted away as market forces have shifted. The war is no longer a popular and there is a large backlash amassing. Not goo marketing conditions.
Most of the “pro-war” songs from Toby Keith and the like were less pro-war than pro-exploitation. Exploiting national fears and anger over 9-11, exploiting the illusion that somehow country music is the GOP’s very own soundtrack.
December 11, 2007 at 3:55 pm Permalink
I’ll agree with you, Baron, that those songs weren’t as pro-war as they’re made out to be. Any song that appeals to an emotion could be described as exploitive, though. I thought the article came across as smug and ill-conceived.
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