The Merle Haggard Movie And Kevin Fowler’s Rodeo Headlining Debut

Brody Vercher | February 2nd, 2007 Email Share

  • Merle Haggard has joined Willie Nelson in promoting the benefits of Biodiesel and will be performing at their National Biodiesel Conference & Expo. In an article from MySA.com Haggard also discusses his album with Jones, his tour with Willie & Ray, and a current autobiographical movie that he’s been working on with Robert Duvall.
  • Miranda gets a less than glowing review from the New York Times, asking if her career has progressed backwards.
  • Want to know how Kevin Fowler faired during his headlining debut at the San Antonio rodeo? John Goodspeed has you covered.

    After three songs, though, they settled into the saddle, and Fowler put the spurs to a memorable performance that had couples dancing in the aisles and thousands screaming lyrics to such songs as “Loose, Loud & Crazy” and “Beer, Bait and Ammo,” his redneck anthem most recently covered by Country Music Hall of Fame member George Jones.

  • If you find yourself without anything better to do on Valentine’s Day, you can catch Clint Black and his wife Lisa Hartman singing “When I Said I Do” on Dr. Phil.
  • Rodney Crowell thinks he sounds better as an artist today than he did when he put out his best selling album, and I concur. He says he developed as a songwriter before he developed as a recording artist.

    “I’m still out to create a listening experience,” he said. “I’m not giving up on that just because popular culture might not be interested. If I were a painter, I’d paint every day then put on a reception to show all my paintings. It doesn’t behoove me to try to capitalize on what popular culture is now. The people who buy my records aren’t into that. And I do have an audience.”

    via Country Nation

  1. Matt C.
    February 2, 2007 at 12:23 pm Permalink

    I’m a bit mystified by that Miranda review. Why is her career developing in reverse? Because she went from national television star to arena opener to club headliner? Miranda’s been performing club shows between arena gigs ever since she first started touring, so the New York show is nothing new. And she’s the only Nashville star alum to open an arena show for anyone, so I certainly don’t think that her career has downsized since finishing third on season one.

    Regarding the comments on her upcoming CD, I’ve heard the lead single Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and promos of a couple of other cuts, including “Famous in a Small Town” which is supposedly the next single. I’ve written before on this site about how unimpressive CXG is. Frankly, I only got a chance to listen to the other tracks once and have forgotten most of them. None of them stood out to me, but, with the exception of the title track, I remember that it took a couple of listens before the Kerosene album really sank in.

    I don’t understand the comment about Miranda possessing more vocal power than vocal control. In fact, after listening to Kerosene and seeing Miranda live, I’d say her greatest handicap is that she can’t belt out a song like Martina, Sara Evans or Carrie Underwood. From what I remember of her new album, most of the songs were structurally similar to cuts from Kerosene. Some songs, like “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” were loud, but I wouldn’t describe any as showcasing exceptional vocal power. Her live performances are a bit inconsistent but her pitch and tone were spot-on the night that I saw her.

  2. Brody Vercher
    February 2, 2007 at 4:48 pm Permalink

    I’ve only seen Miranda live once, and that was years ago when she opened for John Michael Montgomery at a Sea World concert, and about the only thing I remember from that concert was getting her autograph…which is now burried in my closet somewhere.

    I didn’t see Nashville Star when she was on it, and I didn’t listen to many of her songs from her first album so I don’t really have room to comment on her performance. I guess now I have a reason to go back and listen to it. The reviewer from the Times sounded like he just wanted to harp on her for something though.

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