Tim McGraw And Faith Hill’s Mansion Burgarlized and Jason Michael Carroll Has Strong First Week
Before we get to the news I want to wish everyone a Happy Valentine’s Day! Does anybody have special plans for later tonight?
- The Lucinda Williams album, West, which I reviewed yesterday has been getting some rave reviews from people not named Brody. Jim Kiest calls it “gorgeous, country rock gone to heaven,” while Cricket from Hard-core Troubadours wrote an in depth praise of the album, but then says she can’t exactly recommend it. She explains by saying the album was therapy to her and that her response was completely personal.
- An article that reached the homepage of Digg explains that the Dixie Chicks’ five Grammys are sparking a little debate among country radio broadcasters.
Country broadcasters said Monday that the group’s five Grammys show how out of touch the Recording Academy is from the average country fan.
Most of everything I’ve read has been praise for the Dixie Chicks. I personally thought the album was good, but not deserving of five Grammys. Like Bill Simmons, I felt like it was a political statement more than anything else. I also feel like some of these same country broadcasters are a little out of touch themselves with what real country fans want.
- Memo to the fans: “Crazy-Ex Girlfriend” was not the first single off of Miranda Lambert’s upcoming album, it was just a follow-up to her CMA performance. The real first single is “Famous In A Small Town”. Miranda explains:
“To tell you the truth, I was confused too. There are a lot of changes going on at the label so it was a little shaky but as far as I know everything is pretty final.”
- Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s mansion in Los Angeles was burglarized over the weekend. An unspecified amount of money was stolen. Fortunately no one was home at the time since the singers split their time between their houses in Nashville and Los Angeles.
- Country Nation reports that “Jason Michael Carroll racked up strong first-week sales with his new album, Waitin’ in the Country. The disc sold in excess of 50-thousand units. Good enough for a No. 1 debut on the new top country albums chart.” You all know that we can attribute such strong sales to my review of his album on The 9513. [/sarcasm]
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February 14, 2007 at 10:50 am Permalink
About the Grammys, I agree that they shouldn’t have won all the awards for every category they were nominated for. And Willie’s “The songs of Cindy Walker: You Don’t Know Me” should have won for best country album. Come one, one legend singing another legend’s tunes. It is such a great album.
But here was the best I read in the blogosphere about the DC’s wins:
CHICKS RULE, NASHVILLE DROOLS:
Last night, the Dixie Chicks swept the Grammies, winning the coveted award in every category in which they were nominated. Speaking out against the war and the president as country-music stars proved to be an incredibly tricky move, as country-music stations boycotted the Chicks’ music, Nashville all but disowned the trio, and fans throughout the country chucked, spit on, and crushed their Dixie Chicks CDs. But unlike so many pandering celebs, the Chicks didn’t go to rehab, equivocate about their meaning, apologize “if they offended anyone,” or in any way compromise their integrity. The Chicks stood by their political beliefs in a hostile country-music environment, and even made an album responding to the criticism, which was as bold and brash as true fans always knew the Chicks to be. It’s nice to see them getting rewarded now.
–Sacha Zimmerman
February 14, 2007 at 12:37 pm Permalink
The Miranda situation is unacceptable and speaks volumes about what a mess Sony is right now. Several promising new artists lost their deals in the botched Sony-BMG merger (Susan Haynes, Jamey Johnson, etc.) and life is not much better for the other young talents that are tied to this incompetent label. For a young artist a deal on one of about a dozen different indy labels has to be preferable to a contract with Sony right now.
February 14, 2007 at 1:05 pm Permalink
Linda - while it might be nice for some to see them being rewarded now, I just hope the voters chose them on their musical talent alone and not as some larger political agenda. I’m not saying that’s why they won all the awards, but I think there was some better musical talent in a couple of the categories that they were awarded for.
Matt - I think Sony’s overall brand has been diminishing for a while now and situations like this will only help speed up its deterioration. I’ve never heard of Susan Haynes, but I’m a fan of Jamey Johnson and it’s a shame that his career isn’t progressing more smoothly.
February 14, 2007 at 2:26 pm Permalink
Heh, speaking of Sony, I tried emailing them a few weeks back and the address they had listed on their site wasn’t even valid. Their server bounced my email right back to me.
February 15, 2007 at 10:58 am Permalink
I believe that Susan Haynes only released one single, a great remake of Maria McKee’s “Drinking in My Sunday Dress.” She recorded a full length album but was dropped before it was released to stores. It an still be downloaded on iTunes or other digital music stores. Susan’s a lot older than most new artists hitting the streets nowadays (36ish?) so she’s probably done.
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