Walk the Line: Extended Cut DVD Scheduled for March
- 20th Century Fox scheduled the release of an extended edition of Walk the Line for March 25. Among the extra features is an additional 17 minutes of footage.
- Josh Turner’s “Firecracker” narrowly beat out LeAnn Rimes’ “Nothin’ Better to Do” in the fight for the top spot on Club Connections’ Top Ten Club And Dance Hits Of 2007.
- The Star of Texas Fair & Rodeo lineup includes Randy Rogers, Rodney Atkins, Gretchen Wilson, Willie Nelson, Tracy Lawrence, Miranda Lambert, George Jones, Clay Walker, Joe Nichols, Jason Aldean, and Kevin Fowler. Tickets go on sale this Friday, and depending on costs I’m anxious to catch a few of those shows myself.
- In the current issue of Shape magazine Carrie Underwood reveals thats she gained 20 pounds during her stint on American Idol, plus the magazine’s website has a few tunes that she supposedly “rocks out to.”
- Neither Merle Haggard or Del McCoury will come out and say that Haggard’s The Bluegrass Sessions is a bluegrass album. Haggard says he’ll leave it up to the people to decide. Aside from that, Bob Doerschuk has an interesting article about the song selection and recording process used for the album.
- John Walker says that Jason Eady & The Wayward Apostles’ Wild Eyed Serenade is roots based music at its best.
- Taylor Swift will be joining Rascal Flatts on tour in 2008 and will be releasing a studio sessions EP exclusively for iTunes. “Among the eight songs on the collection are live acoustic versions of ‘Our Song,’ ‘Teardrops on My Guitar,’ and ‘A Place in This World.’”
- Eric Church got married last week in a private ceremony at the Westglow Spa and Resort in his home state of North Carolina.
- Garth Brooks and Troy Aikman got their butts handed to them by the young patients at Cook Children’s Medical Center while playing video games. The two superstars were on hand to “unveil an updated therapeutic playroom for patients called the Zone Playroom.” After the video games Brooks turned to an old fashioned card game of Go Fish.
- In his Q&A with C. Eric Banister Russel Moore of IIIrd Tyme Out fame says that they’re looking to get back in the studio to record some new material and one of the songs that they’re looking at pretty heavily is an old Marty Robbins song. Unfortunately the song in question isn’t revealed, but yesterday Rounder Records released a compilation album titled Footprints: A IIIrd Tyme Out Collection that contains material from the five years the band spent with Rounder along with two previously unreleased songs.
- Kelly shared a link with a bunch of mp3 files from a Doug Sahm concert in Austin, TX in 1972 featuring Jerry Garcia and Leon Russell.
Goodawesome stuff. - Live version of Ryan Bingham performing “Don’t Wait For Me”. (via Galleywinter)
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January 16, 2008 at 12:58 pm Permalink
-Gosh Darn, that Kelly is generous!!
-Any Ryan Bingham Video is Good Video.
-Any C. Eric Bannister Interview/Article is worth clicking over!
-Jason Eady is poised to be 2008’s Adam Hood or Drew Kennedy style breakout artist. He gives Texas Music another soulful and eclectic sound without worrying about being a “Texas guy”.
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