The Little Nashville Opry Burned Down; Music Fog Films Americana Festival; Jerry Lee Lewis Download
- The Little Nashville Opry in Nashville, Indiana burned down over the weekend.
- In celebration of the fall return of “Opry Country Classics,” Opry.com asked a few country artists to name their favorite country classics. (via Country Music Tattle Tale)
- At least one country music DJ is upset that his station received a prerecorded interview with Taylor Swift while the local pop station was granted a live interview. And in other Taylor Swift-radio-station-interview-news, a Tampa Bay DJ pressed the young starlet on the Kanye incident enough to make her walk away from the interview.
- With the latest Americana Roots Spotlight Podcast, Greg Geil highlights the San Antonio band Two Tons of Steel.
- BLEVE Records has decided to continue the promotion of the new Ronnie Milsap single featuring Trace Adkins, “My First Ride,” after receiving calls and emails from angry firefighters and police officers. The record label originally planned to discontinue support for the single when Capitol Records issued a cease and desist order.
- Country Haiku:
Poor old Kaw-Liga
Never got a kiss and plus
He’s inanimate - More videos from the Music Fog bus at the Americana Music Festival:
- Justin Townes Earle impressed at the Americana Music Festival, and CMT’s Chris Parton says you should check out Pete Molinari (MySpace) and Baskery (MySpace).
- Country Music Alive highlighted the new Cracker Barrel release from George Jones, A Collection of My Best Recollection, which includes ten of his greatest hits and two unreleased numbers — “Really Don’t Want to Know” and “Long Gone Daddy.”
- Lucinda Williams married her manager, Tom Overby, on stage after her concert on Friday.
- A Truer Sound has a Tom Russell, backed by Steve Young, bootleg from 1990 when he was touring in support of his then newly released album Poor Man’s Dream.
- John Fogerty and Terri Clark each earned four stars from Country Weekly for their latest albums, The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again and The Long Way Home.
- The Gobblers Knob’s Kelly Dearmore says the new album from Emmitt-Nershi Band is a fine example of roots with a groove.
- Brady Black, the fiddler for the Randy Rogers Band, plays an instrument that dates back to 1759.
- Actress Janine Turner, who some of you may recognize from Friday Night Lights, has a new country album with her 11-year old daughter titled Mockingbird Hill.
- NPR featured the new Ricky Skaggs solo project, Songs My Dad Loved.
- When presented with the idea of recording a second Mountain Soul project, Patty Loveless admits she was apprehensive, but eventually came around. Now that it’s out of the way, she muses that she may do something a little more bluesy, something with a rock edge.
- Remember “Mean Old Man,” that new Jerry Lee Lewis song from a few weeks back? You can download it for free on Amazon. (via That Nashville Sound)
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September 21, 2009 at 5:12 pm Permalink
When I think of Janine Turner I think of her role as pilot Maggie O’Connell from “Northern Exposure”. She was also the lead in the USA series geared towards women “Strong Medicine” that I never watched. I don’t know about her singing, but I do like her because she’s a Republican! Go Maggie!, er I mean Go Janine!
Those “Classic Country” song choices by the artists they asked cover some great songs. To me the strangest choices are Craig Morgan choosing Charlie Rich’s “Behind Closed Doors”, Bucky Covington choosing Earl Thomas Conley’s “Holding Her and Loving You” (although I really like that song), and David Nail choosing Glen Campbell’s “Country Boy – You’ve Got Your Feet in L.A.”. Hey David, that’s just whacked-out man…
Gosh, so patty Loveless wants to do something wit a “rock edge” eh? I can hardly wait! (lol)
September 21, 2009 at 5:14 pm Permalink
I about cried when I read about the dear Little Nashville Opry centered in beautiful Brown County, Indiana. Many good nights of country was performed there. I hope they salvaged some of it and will rebuild.
Twitter was fired up Sunday night about the Taylor snub to a country station but live interview with a pop station. I don’t get why people were upset. Taylor, Big Machine, are pushing for genre domination. She already has country and she was just making sure she grabbing more pop fans especially with the MTV award.
September 21, 2009 at 5:20 pm Permalink
Sorry..I should have written: She already has country and she was just grabbing more pop fans….”
September 21, 2009 at 5:42 pm Permalink
Rick’s Random TidBits: The fine folks over at Country Standard Time have posted an article about diminished attendance at this year’s Americana Conference last week in Nashville:
Link: http://www.countrystandardtime.com/news/newsitem.asp?xid=3279
I listened to a pre-recorded replay of the Americana Awards show on WSM last Friday Night and there were announcements from the stage that the whole Americana music scene was on the ascendancy! Hmm….
Grant Langston put on a great, free live concert at L.A.’s Grand Ole Echo Club yesterday to the few lucky folks in attendance. Once football season gets rolling the attendance at the Sunday afternoon concerts just plummets, so they mostly cease for the fall and winter months. Country Standard Time has a great interview with Grant and I really like the question about the state of L.A.’s country music scene, although Grant’s answer seems a bit abstract to me. Grant could have just said “The country music scene in L.A. just kinda sucks these days…” (lol)
Link: http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/column.asp?xid=329
November 2, 2009 at 11:12 am Permalink
are you building back for the nashville opry?
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