Wear Black For Johnny Cash; Fan Voting Open For ACM Awards; Kristofferson Demos Scheduled For May
- Wear black today for Johnny Cash, who was born this day 78 years ago. Also up on today’s birthday list are Trailer from Farce the Music and The 9513 favorite, Rodney Hayden. Happy birthday, guys.
- Fan voting for the ACM’s new artist awards is now open.
- iTunes sold its 10 billionth song, which happened to be “Guess Things Happen That Way” by Johnny Cash. The downloader, 71-year-old retired real estate broker Louie Sulcer, received a phone call from Steve Jobs and Rosanne Cash thanking him. In addition to the phone calls, Mr. Sulcer will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card.
- OMG, Ashley Monroe
- A new Kris Kristofferson album is scheduled for May 11, only this one isn’t full of new material. The record, Kris Kristofferson: Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends: The Publishing Demos 1968-1972, is exactly what its title suggests, a collection of demos recorded by Kristofferson early in his career. Chet Flippo has the details.
- Michael Martin Murphey may have taken his bluegrass idea as far as it can go with his second edition of Buckaroo Bluegrass, but The Austin Chronicle’s Jim Caligiuri says the album remains a winning ride.
- Tom T. Hall has no resentment for the current crop of country entertainers:
“Music is an art form,” he told a passel of programmers Thursday at the Country Radio Seminar. “It should not be done the way it used to be done. If we do it the way they used to do it, that’s copying.”
Not that T. is above getting crabby.
“I do resent,” he allowed, “the fact that they’re makin’ so much money!”
- The final date of Brooks & Dunn’s current tour will actually be a “Brooks & Dunn and friends” concert in Nashville with proceeds going to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
- CMA research found that the size of the lucrative CountryPhile and MusicPhile segments dropped from 70 percent in 2008 to 55 percent in 2009, which contributed to a 28 percent decline in total country fan spending on CDs, legal music downloads, and concerts. Tons of other results from the study are available on MusicRow.
- Alison Krauss and her manager of 23 years, Denise Stiff, decided to part ways.
- Apparently John Rich’s house emits enough light to annoy neighbors, so a few organized people decided it was time to make a statement by shining flashlights in his windows.
- That Nashville Sounds listed 10 acts that deserve to be the next Country Music Hall of Fame inductees.
- The Austin Chronicle’s Margaret Moser tackled the Jan Reid book Texas Tornado: The Times & Music of Doug Sahm:
Quibbles aside, Texas Tornado cuts a wide swath through Doug Sahm’s myth and mythos, leaving not destruction in its wake but the deep sense of loss for arguably the most versatile musician in the state’s history.
- Listen to the song “How Did I Get So Sloppy Drunk When I Was Drinking Neat” from The Texas Sapphires latest album, As He Wanders….
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February 26, 2010 at 11:40 am Permalink
I just got this in my inbox:
February 26, 2010 at 11:43 am Permalink
Per a Brad Paisley tweet Miranda Lambert & Carrie Underwood did a duet last night on the annual Sony/Nashville Dinner Cruise.:
http://twitpic.com/15d7b4
February 26, 2010 at 12:21 pm Permalink
That reminds me: NPR’s Fresh Air will be playing a collection of interviews with Johnny Cash and Rick Ruben today.
February 26, 2010 at 1:05 pm Permalink
Speaking of Johnny Cash, I heard on the news this morning that “Guess Things Happen That Way” has just been named the 10 billionth download from iTunes.
February 26, 2010 at 1:06 pm Permalink
OK, scratch the above comment. I should have read the News Roundup all the way through before commenting.
February 26, 2010 at 1:09 pm Permalink
Speaking of Johnny Cash, I heard on the news this morning that “Guess Things Happen That Way” has just been named the 10 billionth download from iTunes.
Me, I read it in the 3rd paragraph above.
Saw Denise at Fido yesterday and waved. I didn’t have the time nor the inclination to ask what the deal was, but that is far and away the biggest item in this roundup.
February 26, 2010 at 1:32 pm Permalink
Me, I read it in the 3rd paragraph above.
Did you really?? Apparently you missed my follow-up comment that appears just above yours.
February 26, 2010 at 1:40 pm Permalink
It wasn’t there when I went to write my post, dude. Chillax!
February 26, 2010 at 1:42 pm Permalink
Wow, I’m not up to speed on Ashley Monroe I guess, but she wrote Hank’s Cadillac when she was 17?? Take that Taylor Swift!
February 26, 2010 at 1:42 pm Permalink
…probably one of the funniest song title’s in the drinking-songs department of country music. sweet pick.
February 26, 2010 at 4:49 pm Permalink
LOL Absolutely love Joey and Rory! They are so real and down to earth. I’m voting them for sure!
February 26, 2010 at 6:13 pm Permalink
I’m wearing black today because Chairman Odumbo and his obedient Demoncraps in Congress plan to start jamming Obamacare down the throats of the American public starting next Monday. The “Reconciliation Process” can only legally be applied to pure budget related bills, but legality and propriety means nothing to a marxist Chicago thug idiot like Odumbo. When Bush threatened to get the Republicans to do a similar move the Demoncraps labelled it “the nuclear option” but now that Odumbo is trying this stunt its become a “parliamentary procedure”! That’s just freakin’ awesome…
I wonder how much of the decline in country music related spending is due purely to the major economic downturn that hit in the fall of 2008 and hasn’t really let up yet? Maybe Odumbo can cook up a “Country Music Industry Stimulus Bill” to get the industry back on track! I think its a combination of the economy and progressively crappier music pouring out of Nashville. Crikey.
If Denise Stiff had a son named Richard, would his nickname be….oh, never mind. (lol)
February 26, 2010 at 6:32 pm Permalink
Thanks for the Happy Birthday!
February 26, 2010 at 6:44 pm Permalink
I just love the fact that the 10 billionth downloader was a 71-year-old retiree, going completely against the typical demographic you’d expect from a music downloader. And he picked a killer song, too.
February 26, 2010 at 6:46 pm Permalink
Rick: Considering that the decline in country music spending start nigh on a decade ago, probably not a lot.
February 26, 2010 at 6:48 pm Permalink
@Sam G: “I just love the fact that the 10 billionth downloader was a 71-year-old retiree, going completely against the typical demographic you’d expect from a music downloader. And he picked a killer song, too.”
It would’ve been funnier if his download was Rascal Flatts or Taylor Swift though xD
February 26, 2010 at 7:58 pm Permalink
What the Republicans called “the nuclear option” in 2005 was abolishing the filibuster altogether; what they’re calling “the nuclear option” now is reconciliation, a perfectly ordinary parliamentary procedure used often over the last three decades to pass things like Bush’s enormous tax cuts for the wealthy.
Why do I argue with Rick? It’s like arguing with a 5-year-old, except the 5-year-old does less name-calling.
February 26, 2010 at 9:14 pm Permalink
Chris N. is exactly right on “the nuclear option.” Rick probably thinks the filibuster is written into the Constitution somewhere.
February 26, 2010 at 9:17 pm Permalink
Nicolas: Would have been funniest if his download had been Winning the War on Drugs or Fire Water Burn or something.
February 26, 2010 at 9:30 pm Permalink
Everyone loves a good Filibuster
February 26, 2010 at 9:53 pm Permalink
Or, you know, a good nuclear option……
February 28, 2010 at 8:39 am Permalink
Thanks for the Ashley Monroe link…ever since i’ve heard of her, I was smitten and amazed that she’s not up there. Such shame for such a talent. Keep giving us the good stuff and filter all the other sub-pars.
March 1, 2010 at 2:40 pm Permalink
$10,000 iTunes gift card?!?!? Wow!
March 1, 2010 at 4:39 pm Permalink
Yanno I know nobody cares about voting but I do. I knew who to vote for individual and duo but the group…well, who would you chose between Eli Young and Lost Trailers? I WILL NOT vote for Gloriana.
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