Trace Adkins Will Return To ‘Apprentice’ For Finale
- Trace Adkins is scheduled to make a return to Celebrity Apprentice as a special guest on Sunday.
- Blame it on the economy: The inaugural Camp Nashville has been postponed until 2010.
- In honor of Mother’s Day, Country Universe’s Dan Milliken put together a special quiz about Mama songs.
- When you score an interview with Barry Mazor about his new book, Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America’s Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century, you’ve earned the right to talk a little smack. Good job, Aunt B.
- Country California’s C.M. Wilcox urges you to check out Hands Up!, the 2004 album by the now defunct band Two Dollar Pistol (MySpace).
- Watch the new video for Luke Bryan’s “Do I.”
- Twangville’s Todd Mathis on the new Steve Earle album Townes: “So, you ask, how does he do? Well, honestly I’d have to say he does a good job. Not great, but good. … I prefer to hear these songs sung by Townes, but, Steve would be my second pick.”
- Brad Paisley told A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor that the name Jasper, which he and Kimberly Williams-Paisley named their son, came from a dream.
- My Kind of Country’s Occasional Hope reviewed the new Tommy Webb album Heartland.
- Shayne Hollinger, the Program/Music Director for Manadatory FM, shared 10 new songs he really wants you to hear.
- Even if you don’t personally know any of today’s country stars, you can have them greet your missed calls with a voicemail message. (via CMT Blog)
- According to a press release, the attendance at the two-day Stagecoach country music festival exceeded 100,000.
- Compass Records plans to re-release two Kevin Welch CDs this summer: Millionaire on June 2 and Beneath My Wheels on June 30.
- Farce the music picks on Chuck Wicks with a career trajectory graph and hilarious song lyrics.
- By the way, The Marty Stuart Show has a YouTube channel. (via Country California)
- You know who is enthusiastic for Bob Wills? Merle Haggard. Of course you already knew that, but it doesn’t hurt to reiterate it, which Nathan Rabin does in week 10 of his Nashville or Bust column while revealing his own enthusiasm for Wills’ music.
Listening to Bob Wills for the very first time, I was blown away. It was a revelatory experience. Wills’ music was radically different from my narrow conception of country music. It was black. It was white. It was country. It was jazz. It was blues. It was pop in the very best sense. It was hillbilly. It was sophisticated. It contained multitudes. Wills was a one-man musical melting pot, the very embodiment of American musical democracy.
- Twangville’s Mayer Danzig says Buddy & Julie Miller’s “Chalk” is the most heartbreaking song this year.
- Two-time and current International Bluegrass Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year Dale Ann Bradley is set to release her new album Don’t Turn Your Back on May 19.
- Music Fog posted video of Eilen Jewell performing “Rain Roll In” off of her recent album Sea of Tears.
- Kate & Kacey Coppola are scheduled to make their Grand Ole Opry debut on Friday, May 8. (via press release)
- Here’s a cool deal. If you make an online contribution, any amount, to the Capital Area Food Bank or Mobile Loaves and Fishes, Owen Temple will send you a free mp3 download of his new album Dollars and Dimes before it’s release date of June 9. And if your contribution is more than $12 he’ll send you a signed copy of the CD. It looks like the full album is currently streaming on his website, too.
- My Kind of Country: What songs or artists would you recommend to your inebriated friends? Or, what do you listen to when you’re drinking?
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Watch this video taken by Drew L. Wilson of Mark O’Connor playing “Milk Cow Blues” at his induction into the National Fiddler’s Hall of Fame. Be sure to stick around for pay day towards the latter half.
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May 6, 2009 at 12:36 pm Permalink
The Asylum Street Spankers have to rank up their for drunk listens. And I would imagine that a bottle and a half of Jack goes a long way towards making Taylor Swift sound good.
May 6, 2009 at 2:32 pm Permalink
I’m a fan of both those Kevin Welch CDs (particularly Millionare, recorded with The Danes), so I hope the re-release gets them out to a larger audience.
It’s very disconcerting to see Mark O’Connor looking old. Still amazing to behold, but I remember him having a real baby face from his Warner Brothers records.
May 6, 2009 at 3:34 pm Permalink
Aunt B’s smack talk made me laugh. She did a good job on the interview, too; a little short, but it was informative.
Despite liking “Red, White and Pink Slip Blues” to an extent, that Owen Temple album makes it and “Shuttin’ Detroit Down” look like commercialized, exploitative junk food. Everyone needs to go give it a listen. Receiving a digital copy almost immediately and an autographed physical copy before the release all for $12 to help out a charity sounds like a pretty sweet deal, too.
May 6, 2009 at 3:45 pm Permalink
It was short because I did the interview before I read the book and I didn’t want to insult him by pretending like I had read it. But he very nicely offered to answer more questions once I’ve gotten through it.
May 6, 2009 at 3:57 pm Permalink
Oh right, I remember reading that now, but it was 1am.
May 6, 2009 at 4:37 pm Permalink
Wow, talk about country music news overlaod! Sheesh! (lol)
I was listening live to APHC last Saturday and was disappointed that the show from the Ryman featured Brad Paisley as his music bores me to tears. At least regular guest Sam Bush livened things up a bit. Oh well…
I’ll be listening in for Kate & Kacey Coppola’s Opry debut as they are fine performers live. I really don’t expect Top 40 country radio to pay them any more attention than BOMSHEL, which is a shame.
Its nice to read that Nathan Rabin has been bitten by the Bob Wills western swing bug. Once that music sinks in and gets under your skin you’re a goner. On the subject of western swing the new Hot Club of Cowtown CD was released in Europe this week but won’t be available stateside for months! Dern it!
May 6, 2009 at 4:38 pm Permalink
I have to be honest and say that I have never liked Luke Bryan. I think his music is silly, immature and frat boyish- like Kenny Chesney the without sand. But a friend asked me to listen to his new song” Do I” on his My Space page. I think this is his best song to date! The song itself is a C+ song at best, and a little over produced. But I feel him for the first time. I believe him. I see him as an adult with problems, who is trying to understand and grow. All of that is conveyed by a vocal, that while it shows his vocal limits, is real, a little raw, and honest. Behind all the marketing there is a real man there. This song is proof of it. Now let’s see what the next song brings. If he finds a song that will match his vocal ability and he can really get into, he might have a new fan.
May 6, 2009 at 7:39 pm Permalink
Rick’s Random Tidbits: Wednesday night May 13th is an official country music conflict night here in Los Angeles. Chuck Mead will be performing that night at The Mint Club on Pico while Steve Earle will be doing a free promo show across town at Amoeba Records on Sunset. I’m choosing Chuck Mead’s show because I prefer his music, but if Hollerin’ Ben made Steve’s free show it would be nice to see a review here at The 9513.
May 6, 2009 at 8:31 pm Permalink
Wow, that’s a lot of links today …
The Chuck Wicks lyrics at Farce the Music are hilarious.
May 6, 2009 at 9:28 pm Permalink
Well, I just had to go listen to the celebrity “voice mail” things, and I gotta say, I think the Keith Anderson ones were pretty cute. The rest of ‘em were just kinda robotic.
May 7, 2009 at 9:22 am Permalink
Really really like the Luke Bryan song. Agree with Craig somewhat. Sometimes you just need fun songs you know. Not all songs have to be serious wordy masterpieces. Nothing wrong with a good mix.
May 7, 2009 at 10:37 am Permalink
I wish there was a voicemail message on there from (say) Bryan White, or John Michael Montgomery. I’d use it with ironic intent, of course; neither has had a bona fide hit in years.
Garth Brooks would qualify, except that he’s a bit too much of a legend; too much name recognition in the general market for my purposes.
Lila McCann might suffice, but I’d prefer a male voice.
May 7, 2009 at 10:42 am Permalink
…or maybe I can just have a friend pretend to be an obscure country star.
“Hi, I’m [fake name], [instrument] of [fake band], and my friend can’t come to the phone right now, but if you leave a message after the tone, he’ll get right back to ‘ya.”
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