Tim Hensley Opry Audience Surprised by Kenny Chesney Visit
- Friday night’s Opry audience got a surprise when Kenny Chesney popped by to support his band member Tim Hensley, who has a new bluegrass album out. And the night before Clint Black made his own surprise appearance at Zanies Comedy Club in Nashville to rehearse for his part on Secret Talents of the Stars.
- If there’s one thing that Skip Ewing wants people to know about Skip Ewing, it’s:
I have made it my endeavor to be as good a person as I can become and that means to cultivate compassion in everything I do and that includes my writing. I enjoy and endeavor to keep that at the forefront of what we write and what we have to say because one of the things I believe is that when I have a listener care enough to listen, they should be able to trust what I have to say. It’s about hearts and not charts. Give me the opportunity to speak to people’s hearts. I can’t ask for any greater gift.
It’s about hearts and not charts. I like that. Read Jim Malec’s review of his recent duet with Reba McEntire, “Every Other Weekend.”
- Country Music Central kicked off a list of the “50 Greatest City, State, And Town Songs” with Brooks & Dunn’s “South of Santa Fe” and Elvis’ “Blue Hawaii.“
- Mesa, AZ will be the next site for Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar chain of country music-themed restaurants, which will feature an 80-foot guitar-shaped bar.
- Country Universe’s “100 Greatest Women” feature marches onward with Gretchen Wilson at No. 85.
- Geoffrey Chandler likes alt-country and he likes video games. In that spirit he’s combined the two and listed superpowers for several alt-country musicians and the setting you’d find them in during a video game like Mortal Kombat. For instance, you might find Steve Earle in the park on a beautiful sunny day in mid-April in NYC…right outside the clink and his powers would be: “Rainbows and puppies mode” where he and Allison Moorer ride in on a unicorn and make their opponent’s ears bleed telling you how much they love one another or “I just got out of jail mode” where he bludgeons opponents with a guitar covered in sharpened toothbrushes.
- Country Corner has the video premier for Josh Turner’s “Another Try,” and in other Josh Turner news, he’s been cast to play a friend of Billy Graham in a movie about the famous preacher’s younger years.
- Despite his affinity for the warmth in Josh Gracin’s voice, Jordan Stacey feels like Gracin is disconnected from most of the songs on We Weren’t Crazy with the exceptions of “Favorite State of Mind” and “Unbelievable (Ann Marie).”
- Austin American Statesman’s Dave Thomas has “The (almost) definitive chronology of Willie’s Fourth of July Picnics: From 1972 to 2008, here’s everything that was, wasn’t or might have been a true Picnic.”
- Brad Paisley and Gretchen Wilson share their thoughts on several aspects of the video-making process.
- April 22 marks the release of Hushabye Baby Lullaby Renditions of Country Music Favorites Volume 1–baby-friendly instrumental versions of songs made famous by country music singers. I guess you never can start too early.
- Test your Texas Country Artist knowledge with GAC’s Trivia Challenge.
- Kathy Mattea on her album Coal:
The idea for Coal took shape after the 2006 mining disaster in Sago, W. Va., in which a dozen miners died.
“That really affected me emotionally,” Mattea says. “When I was 9, there was another big (West Virginia) disaster where miners were killed,” the 1968 Farmington explosion that killed 78. “I think some part of me was reliving that, processing old emotions.”
- The Gobbler’s Knob is ecstatic about the new video for Kathleen Edward’s “Cheapest Key.”
- The Dixie Chicks and Toby Keith brought together by…Al Gore? They’re coming together for a commercial in an effort to prove that climate change is not a partisan issue.
- TravelTex.com has a pretty cool series of short Q&As with Texas artists about Texas. Some of them appear to be older questions, but interesting nonetheless, and you can find out what Jackson Taylor, Lee Ann Womack, Ray Benson, Drew Kennedy, and Charlie Robison’s favorite Texas albums are.
- Trent Tomlinson’s wedding woes: “There were thousands of dollars spent on flowers that didn’t make it to the church.”
- Humorous animated video with Hayes Carll going over Crystal Beach memories. The animated Carll looks a lot like Ryan Gosling.
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April 7, 2008 at 9:55 am Permalink
What an ironic typo; “Bad Paisley and Gretchen Wilson share their thoughts…”
April 7, 2008 at 10:03 am Permalink
Yea, that’s embarrassing. Got it fixed.
April 7, 2008 at 10:47 am Permalink
Hey, I just wanted to let you 9513 fans of The Wrights know they will be hosting the Ernest Tubb Record Shop Midnite Jamboree this coming Saturday night, April 12th. The hour long show starts around midnight Nashville time and can be heard via WSM online or through the ET Record Shop’s own website (if you use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser).
Here’s the blurb from The Wrights website:
“Saturday, April 12th: Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree
Location: Nashville, TN, Cost: Free
The Wrights are hosting the 1,392nd consecutive broadcast of the Midnite Jamboree.”
Link to the Midnite Jamboree website:
http://www.etrecordshop.com/mj.htm
Countrry Music Central’s list better have Hag’s “Okie From Muskogee” at # 1 or they’ll be on my fightin’ side! (lol)
So the U.N. sponsored propaganda campaign to blame natural solar caused climate cycles on “manmade greenhouse gases” (as U.N. shill scientists define them) has brought the Ditzy Twits and The Tobster together. How sweet. Excuse me as I feel a severe bout of nausea coming on…….
April 7, 2008 at 11:15 am Permalink
Rick-
I suppose you think the world is still flat too?
As for the name-calling, I figure a whole lot more Texans now feel as embarrassed as Natalie did back then. It sounds as if you’re not among them.
April 7, 2008 at 12:04 pm Permalink
Thanks Rick. I’m one of those “U.N. shill scientists.”
I don’t know where you are getting your information but contrary to what a small group of publicists claim, consensus has been reached and exceeded. Arguing against the effect of greenhouse gases puts you on the same side as anti-evolutionists. That’s fine and your choice, but know where you stand.
The whole greenhouse effect isn’t hard to understand if you want to get it. Pour some red Koolaid in a glass and hold it up to a light. As you look through that glass, it does look red, right? That happens because the non-red colors in the white light are getting absorbed. Add more Koolaid mix (not water) and the color darkens, right? Yes, obviously.
That is exactly what greenhouse gases do but in the same wavelength region as the lights that warm your “Freedom Fries” at McDs. When you add more greenhosue gas, or Koolaid mix, the air gets “darker.” It’s not a hard thing to undersand even if you can’t see it. Certain instruments can.
So, why is this “natural?” Or do you deny we are growing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere?
April 7, 2008 at 4:28 pm Permalink
i’ve always thought i’ve been underpaid, especially since i am a shill u.n. scientist. i plan on taking my pay upgrade and buying a black helicopter.
April 7, 2008 at 4:55 pm Permalink
That Hayes Carll thing is totally awesome.
I’m all for it.
April 7, 2008 at 5:16 pm Permalink
I normally don’t take time to watch random Youtube vids because shoot, there goes the whole day, but Hollerin Ben got me to push the button.
Really effective. It sent me to Rhapsody to check out Hayes Carll. Good marketing works and that is good marketing. I guess for me it was the way he described his audience. It made me trust he knew country. I particulary loved the offhanded way he said, “Down there, when they say ‘Play Freebird’ they just mean they wanna hear Freebird.”
Been there, heard that in the best country bar I know.
April 7, 2008 at 5:28 pm Permalink
I try not to post videos unless I’m really diggin’ them myself. Sometimes they’re simple live videos, but with new music or something, but I’m glad you guys checked out the Hayes Carll stuff.
He’s got a new album coming out tomorrow and from what I’ve heard it’s pretty fantastic.
April 8, 2008 at 12:58 am Permalink
Glad to hear that Texas musicians think the Austin City Limits Music Festival is worth seeing considering I bought tickets this year! Now I just have to wait for the lineup…
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