Brody Vercher | September 8th, 2009 Email Share
- Trace Adkins is scheduled to perform the national anthem at this year’s ceremony honoring the passengers who died on United Airlines Flight 93 in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.
- Best Buy has an exclusive EP from Miranda Lambert today that includes “Dead Flowers” and three bonus tracks from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend that were offered by different retailers. If you don’t want to pony up the $1.99 for the EP, you can pre-order Revolution and get the EP free. (via My Kind of Country)
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New releases for the week of September 8, 2009 include:
- Rosanne Cash created a tumblelog to share things, aside from music, that her family passed down to her. She even posted a pretty sweet version of “Long Black Veil” featuring Jeff Tweedy that will appear on her forthcoming album, The List.
- Meet Paul Mawhinney, the owner of the world’s largest music collection.
- Listen to “Something That I Do” from Robert Earl Keen’s forthcoming album, The Rose Hotel.
- Roger Miller, Willie Nelson and Hank Williams all placed songs in American Songwriter’s list of top 10 drinking songs: Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, #1.
- ASCAP will present J.D. Souther with the Golden Note Award on October 19.
- Jerrod Niemann posted eight tracks to MySpace from his forthcoming album Judge Jerrod & The Hung Jury.
- In an interview with The Austin Chronicle’s Jim Caligiuri, Radney Foster comments on the possibility of doing more shows with Bill Lloyd.
We’ve been writing consistently for the first time in 20 years. We’ve written about five or six new songs. We’re both on the road for a while now, but I’m sure we’ll write some more this fall and see what happens.
- Four years after Jimmy Martin’s passing, his children are still arguing over the terms of his will despite his request that they not. And in other Jimmy Martin news, the Tom Piazza biography True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass: Jimmy Martin will be released in paperback on Sept. 18.
- Listen to the new bombastic One Flew South song “2 Drunk 2 Say Goodbye” on the group’s MySpace. (via That Nashville Sound)
- Elvis Costello and his band of Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Mike Compton, Jim Lauderdale, Dennis Crouch, and Jeff Taylor played nearly three hours of all country, blues, and bluegrass last Tuesday at Bass Concert Hall in Austin.
- If you’re a fan of Hank III’s classic country sound, ninebullets.net says you should check out Joey Allcorn.
- Country Haiku:
On the road again
Just can’t wait to get out there
My weed’s on the bus
- Download Miss Leslie’s new single, “Turn Around,” for free on her website.
- Joe Nichols forthcoming album, Old Things New, was pushed back by four weeks to Oct. 27.
- Who is country’s sexiest man? What about its most beautiful woman?
- The Music Fog crew filmed Mac McAnally performing “Blame It On New Orleans” before his show in Falls Church, VA last week.
- Music Fog also has video of Bonnie Bishop performing “Brent Rollins,” a song based on a guy who gave her money and advice when she needed it most.
- Dixie Whiskey band member Jon Decious explained how he got Dean Dillon to sing on the band’s self-titled debut.
I’m actually a farmhand at Tenorado Ranch, which is Dean’s farm. Crazy story, if you can indulge me. The day I started working for Dean, cleaning out the barn, when I stumbled across this demo tape. I begrudgingly put it back because I know how some folks get about worktape demos. Well, ’bout 2 weeks later, curiosity killed my cat, and I took it home and listened to it. Fell in love with this tune called, “Some Days It Takes All Night”. A week later I asked if we could cut it as a duet and he said, “Hell yeah! Let’s fire it up!”. That’s the short story of how it went down.
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- In light of yesterday’s holiday, Twang Nation listed ten working songs.
- Patsi Bale Cox answered questions about her new book, The Garth Factor: The Career Behind Country’s Big Boom, for The Boot.
- Austin Music Source’s Michael Corcoran says the new Cross Canadian Ragweed album, Happiness and All The Other Things, is the band’s best since its self-titled major label debut.
- The Del McCoury Band will release its new album, Family Circle, on Oct. 27.
- Jesse Dayton commented on his collaborations with Rob Zombie.
- In the latest batch of Country Weekly album reviews to make their way online, Chris Neal calls Twang one of the most diverse and satisfying albums of George Strait’s career
- Todd Snider, My Morning Jacket, and Kris Kristofferson are a few of the artists who pay tribute to Shel Silverstein on the new Bobby Bare-produced album Turnable, Twistable Man.
“I know he would have loved the album. Shel didn’t like modern country, new country at all. His favorite singer was Ernest Tubb, if that gives you any indication, so we kept asking ourselves if Shel would like what we were doing. I think he would.”
- Watch the new video for Dierks Bentley’s song “I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes.”
- Barry Mazor on the new Ralph Stanley book, Man of Constant Sorrow: The Life and Times of a Music Legend:
This late-in-life memoir is a classic— remarkably frank, detailed, revealing, and from time to time it rises to the level of plainspoken poetry. The master of old time singing and clawhammer banjo pulls no punches [...] He settles a few scores, shares his inner thoughts on matters social, political and spiritual, and tells his tale in a flowing, engaging style that’s no doubt also a credit to Virginia journalist Dean.
- Watch Reba McEntire perform four songs from her recent album on AOL Music Sessions.
- In an interview with Country Music Pride, Dan Tyminski tells Lindsay Eanet the main thing on his plate at the moment is a new record with Alison Krauss and Union Station and although he doesn’t seek out a lot of new music, Tyminski sends props to the The SteelDrivers‘ Chris Stapelton.
- Preston Jones on Too Much Living, the recent solo debut from Danny Balis:
… Living is rich with the tear-in-your-beer, late-night-drunk and heartsick-bad-decision that country music aficionados lament has all but disappeared from view in Nashville. Produced by Paul Williams and Balis at Dallas’ Tomcast Studios, Too Much Living is 11 exquisite pieces of trad-country that cut to the bone.
If you dig Don Williams, you’ll dig Balis (MySpace | Amazon). Thanks to Kelly for bringing him to my attention a couple of weeks ago.
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September 8, 2009 at 11:07 am Permalink
I really like the new Ragweed disc, but I only think it’s their best since Soul Gravy. It is much better than the last 2 releases, and maybe better than the “purple album”, but no way in heck is it better than Soul Gravy…the pedal steel on “Kick in the Head” alone makes it better than Mission California.
September 8, 2009 at 11:26 am Permalink
I disagree… I’m not really a fan at all of Ragweed’s new album. Nothing comes close to stuff like “Cry Lonely”. It’s all just boring and muddled.
September 8, 2009 at 12:17 pm Permalink
Whoa…Danny Balis is amazing. I hear a bit of Marty Robbins in a few of the songs too.
September 8, 2009 at 12:49 pm Permalink
Todd Snider, My Morning Jacket, and Kris Kristofferson are a few of the artists who pay tribute to Shel Silverstein on the new Bobby Bare-produced album Turnable, Twistable Man.
“I know he would have loved the album. Shel didn’t like modern country, new country at all. His favorite singer was Ernest Tubb, if that gives you any indication, so we kept asking ourselves if Shel would like what we were doing. I think he would.”
Well then I guess its good that they got traditional country artists like My Morning Jacket then…..
September 8, 2009 at 12:54 pm Permalink
Grizzly Adam – Since you liked the Balis stuff so much, check out the stuff from the band he plays in full-time, The King Bucks. They are a practical Dallas/Ft. Worth all-star band of musicians…
September 8, 2009 at 1:14 pm Permalink
Todd Snider doing A Boy Named Sue, I would be interested to hear that.
September 8, 2009 at 1:16 pm Permalink
I can hear him doing it. He’s got that cheeky way about him that’ll work well for the song, especially since Todd talks in his songs here and there.
September 8, 2009 at 1:37 pm Permalink
Soul Gravy is outstanding, and I really liked Garage and Mission California. I’m having a hard time getting into the new one.
September 8, 2009 at 2:46 pm Permalink
The new Jason Eady is awesome. I picked it up over the weekend (someone put it out early) and it is really good. He tours often as well and puts on a great show.
Will be picking up the Mirada EP as well. I heard samples of everything on it and it sounds great as well.
September 8, 2009 at 6:12 pm Permalink
Gosh, Danny Balis sounded really interesting right up until that comment about being recommended by Kelly! Darn, and he seemed so promising…(lol)
This has to be one of the largest news summaries yet. My head is swimming there is so much going on here! Talk about an information overload! Sheesh…
September 8, 2009 at 7:44 pm Permalink
After being out a week, I had a lot to catch up on ;)
September 8, 2009 at 10:13 pm Permalink
Country Weekly’s Chris Neal gave Jace Everett’s new “Red Revelations” four stars, which beat out Sugarland’s new DVD/CD thingie and Love & Theft’s CD! Good going Chris!
I listened to most of the music links above and really liked the Rosanne Cash and Robert Earl Keen songs. Loved Miss Leslie’s new one which reminded me a bit of the excellent Dwight Yoakam song “Johnson’s Love”. Don’t care for Bonnie Bishop (she sounds “Texas Regional” if you know what I mean). Mac McAnally sounds a lot like Pat Donohue on “A Prairie Home Companion” and would be a perfect guest on that radio show! (Speaking of APHC, last Saturday they were live at the Minnesota State Fair and featured Mindy Smith even though Sunny Sweeney was performing at the fair during that time frame! Arrgghh!)
Rick’s Random Tidbits: Abraham Lincoln had his “Emancipation Proclamation” and FDR had “Fireside Chats”. Today our Dear Leader Kim Jong Obama took his “cult of personality” brain washing pitch directly to the school children of America! Yes today marked the first of many “Obama-nation Indoctrination” messages to be forthcoming soon in support of Obamacare. TV and radio news broadcasts (except FOX) and mainstream newspapers and news magazines have been working their “Obama-nation” magic on the adult population, but getting to the kids has been problematic. Well until now anyway…..
September 8, 2009 at 11:19 pm Permalink
I agree that Todd doing any one of a number of Shel Silverstein songs (The Winner would be my first choice) would be awesome. Its just if you opt to make a big stink about traditional country on an album you might want to put him a little further down the list. And write My Morning Jacket really, really small.
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