Vern Gosdin Preparing Career Retrospective–40 Years of the Voice

Brody Vercher | September 2nd, 2008 Email Share

  • VGM Records plans to release a four-CD career retrospective of Vern Gosdin in November. Titled 40 Years of the Voice, the set will feature 101 songs, including 14 previously unreleased tracks.
  • Famed comedian and actor Steve Martin recorded an album of serious banjo tunes produced by John McCuen (of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band fame?), however no release date has been set. Martin is on vacation in Greece, but The Bluegrass Blog contacted McCuen, who shared some thoughts on working with Martin in the studio.

    Another song required that Steve count it off. Steve was setting the tempo right from the first beat for a big chord from all. Steve went ‘One, Two, Three, Four’ and started playing. I had to stop them and say ‘We need the last number to be silent, so it starts clean Steve, got it?’

    Steve said, ‘OK. Here we go.. One, Two, Four’ and started playing except everyone was laughing. We started and counted right the next time.”

  • John Law torches Jessica Simpson in his review of her concert at the Avalon Ballroom last Wednesday.

    It’s too bad Simpson can’t deliver a concert worthy of her new record. Frankly, it’s hard to take her seriously when she declares how much she loves “Destiny” Springfield, and then performs a version of “Son of a Preacher Man” so devoid of soul, Dusty would disown it.

    (via Country California, who dubbed it recommended reading)

  • Willie Nelson wrote a western novel with Mike Blakely titled A Tale Out of Luck about a retired Texas Ranger. NashvilleHype! found several character parallels with Lonesome Dove, but says they don’t detract from the story, and claims it is excellent in every way.
  • A new quasi-western movie, The Last Rites Of Ransom Pride, is bringing Dwight Yoakam and Kris Kristofferson together in the same cast as bad guys and is described as Sam Peckinpah meets Quentin Tarantino. In another article, The Aspen Times‘ Stewart Oksenhorn digs to the roots of Yoakam’s acting and country music beginnings.
  • Cindy Watts relays the story of Jimmy Wayne’s violent childhood.

    “I’ll never forget it,” says Wayne of the night of the shooting. “I didn’t want to load the gun, but (my stepfather) was very mean. He had shot up my brother’s home the night before and took me with him. He tried to shoot me, too. We were sitting in the car and he held this gun to my head and pulled the trigger. When he did, I moved his hand and he shot a hole inside the car. That was the lifestyle we lived as long as I can remember.”

  • Check out the forums for a recap of the Corb Lund and Chris Knight concert at Gruene Hall on Friday night.
  • Capitol Nashville will re-release Little Big Town’s third album, A Place to Land, on Oct. 14 with four additional songs and new artwork.
  • Later this month Chuck Wicks is participating in a couple of in-store Wal-Mart signings in conjunction with Dr. Pepper. So if you’re a Wicks fan, mark your calendars for Sept. 15 and 25. He’ll be in Jonesboro, AR and Manchester, NH on those respective dates at 12 noon. (via email)
  • The Lost Trailers‘ Stoke Nielson on their new album:

    “Every single one of us went into massive debt,” Nielson said. “But it was the weirdest feeling; we didn’t worry about it. We ate our ramen noodles and we made the record of our lives. I don’t know how many times you get that chance to just put it all on the table. That’s what we did with this album. There was never any doubt in any of our minds this was going to happen.”

  • The Texas Music Matters song of the day is a live in-studio recording of Bruce Robison’s “Larosse.” The original can be found on his brand new album, The New World, released today.
  1. Trailer
    September 2, 2008 at 12:00 pm Permalink

    So, are Chuck Wicks fans called Wickheads?

  2. Jessica
    September 2, 2008 at 12:26 pm Permalink

    Sweet…so glad to hear Vern Gosdin & the box set. :)

  3. Chris N.
    September 2, 2008 at 12:37 pm Permalink

    Is a collection of information about Chuck Wicks a “Wicksipedia”?

  4. Matt B.
    September 2, 2008 at 12:41 pm Permalink

    Brody,

    Quick correction: John McEuen not McCuen.

    (I’m here to help)

  5. Kelly
    September 2, 2008 at 12:42 pm Permalink

    Trailer, I think they’re called Ch-icks…

  6. Matt B.
    September 2, 2008 at 12:43 pm Permalink

    “The New World” is a mighty fine album!

  7. John Maglite
    September 2, 2008 at 12:56 pm Permalink

    A possible (important) addition: Jerry Reed passed away yesterday.

  8. Matt B.
    September 2, 2008 at 1:04 pm Permalink

    Wow, Jerry Reed’s gone. Sad news indeed.

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