Vince Gill Serenaded For His 50th Birthday And Dale Watson Schedules Tour To Promote Album

Brody Vercher | April 14th, 2007 Email Share

  • As I mentioned last night, I picked up a copy of the most recent People magazine for the article on Gary Allan, but it ended up having reviews of a couple of albums as well.
    • Tim McGraw’s Let It Go received three out of four stars.
      [read The 9513 review]
    • Angela Hacker’s debut garnered a measly one and a half out of four stars.
      [read The 9513 review]
    • Pam Tillis’s upcoming release, Rhinestoned, shined with three and a half out of four stars.
  • Alison Krauss’s dad called her in the middle of listening to her newest album and asked if it would get any better. Not that the CD is bad, but Alison says there is a lot of dying on it.

    “I think with really sad songs, sometimes they make people feel better,” she continued. “If the story is that bad, there was something really spectacular there before the bad thing happened. There was something great to lose.”

  • Still Is Still Moving scored and interview with the band 40 Points, the first group signed to Willie Nelson’s Pedernales Records. The guys talk about how they came up wth their name, what is was like growing up as the sons of Willie Nelson, and Hooters.
  • Something tells me that Vince Gill’s 50th birthday party was the place to be on Thursday night.

    Performing on a backyard stage sheltered by a large tent, Thom Schuyler kicked off the event with his affectionate homage to Music City composers, “16th Avenue.” Don Schlitz reprised his mythic “The Gambler.” Janis Ian rolled back the calendar to 1975 with “At Seventeen.” Rodney Crowell sang “‘Til I Gain Control Again.” The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Jeff Hanna favored the crowd with his rendition of Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Mr. Bojangles.”

  • Charlie Daniels on the Don Imus controversy:

    “I am very dead set against what Don Imus said,” Charlie said. “I think it’s terrible.”

    But, he added, the critics of the radio personality should cast a wider net. “While we’re at it, let’s get with the rappers, let’s get with the other people that say things like this with impunity,” he said. “If we’re gonna persecute one guy, let’s persecute ‘em all.”

  • Dale Watson will kick off a tour in May to help promote his newest album, From the Cradle to the Grave. Country Standard Time has a list of the May dates.
  • David Usborne has written the best article to date on the Cash’s house. A lot of the material appears to be pulled from various articles I have read, but it gathers everything in one place and introduces some stuff about the house I hadn’t read yet.
  1. Matt C.
    April 14, 2007 at 11:58 am Permalink

    Vince Gill got serenaded in more ways than one for his birthday. He was also out for dinner at a local Nashville resaturant and Amy Grant made it known that she would pay for the dinner of anyone who came up to sing him “Happy Birthday.” Via Jimmy Carter

  2. Linda Banks
    April 14, 2007 at 1:58 pm Permalink

    I thought the Nelson boys were so funny and irrelevant, and I like that. It was sweet to hear them talk about life on the road, learning to walk on the bus, and that they love their mom! I heard them with Harmonic Tribe, the reggae/punk/rock/island music, and have heard them play with Willie at the picnics. I think their album will be good with an infusion of rock and roll and blues and jazz and lots of percussion.

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