Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival Taking Shape
- The 16th annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival is scheduled to take place April 1-5 in nine different Nashville area venues. Josh Turner, Vince Gill and Rodney Crowell are among the country singers already announced from the 350-plus songwriters on the lineup.
- As a young man Joe Ely accidentally got into the circus business and as a result was almost trampled by elephants. Since then he’s been in and out of honky tonks and concert halls across the world all the while writing flat-out cool songs. They’re timeless, James Dean Rebel Without A Cause cool. The DC-9 At Night music blog has a Q&A with The Flatlander.
Since our music blog is called DC-9 At Night, I have to ask what the future holds for the Flatlanders.
We’ve got a handful of songs done and I think there are some keepers in there. We’re just so slow, you know. Our total ambition between the three of us falls into the negative category. We really don’t care about timely putting out an album every so often. Kind of like baking a cake, we just do it when it gets done.
Very nice.
- My knowledge of mandolins is limited, but the two new releases from Washburn are looking sexy.
- Country superstars reactions to news of their nominations.
Brad Paisley (four nominations, including Video of the Year): “Any time you get William Shatner to do a makeout scene in your video with Jason Alexander’s mother from ‘Seinfeld,’ you should be up for Video of the Year!”
- Check out the confirmed track listing for George Strait’s upcoming Troubadour album. You can’t tell much from a song title, but at least Strait’s sound interesting.
- Taylor Swift is the latest star to join the bodybymilk.com free music program. The program “offers free music downloads as a way to encourage teens to drink 3 glasses of low-fat or fat-free milk everyday, and eat right to stay lean and healthy.” If you visit the site you can see a previous ad of Carrie Underwood — who notched her sixth consecutive No. 1 Billboard country single with “All American Girl” — sporting a milk mustache.
- Travis Tackett of BluegrassJournal.com added his input on Matt’s “Satellite Radio’s Opportunity” article.
While I agree that the XM-Sirius merger could be a win win situation for the music listeners, based purely on continuing the same strategy of multiple channels within a genre. IE:a bluegrass channel, a traditional country channel. etc.
That said I think one of the major downfalls of terrestrial radio that has rippled into the downfall of “music sales” is completely a product of media consolidation.
- Sleeveface made its way to Amazon.
- Kevin Fowler participated in a Q&A with the Houston Chronicle and revealed that “Long Line of Losers” was just recorded by Montgomery Gentry for their upcoming album.
- While out of town on a trip to CRS, reader Double-L left a bunch of sound bites from her radio show on her MySpace blog, including this doozy: What is a Birmingham?
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March 5, 2008 at 11:32 am Permalink
Long Line of Losers + Montgomery Gentry = Appropriate Song Title. What? They couldnt find a song called “Bear Killer & Baldie”??
March 5, 2008 at 1:59 pm Permalink
Take that Montgomery Gentry!
March 5, 2008 at 3:31 pm Permalink
Zing!
March 5, 2008 at 3:43 pm Permalink
Hey, I didnt say it was my best work. My lame comment is not near as rough as the review of their latest single from a couple of weeks back on this very site…
March 5, 2008 at 4:44 pm Permalink
Didn’t “Bear Killer and Baldy” come on after “BJ and the Bear”?
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