What The Hell Does Too Country Mean?
- Sunny Sweeney stirred up a hornet’s nest over at the semi-new CMT blog yesterday when she asked the proverbial question, “What the hell does too country mean?“ Ok, those aren’t her exact words, but they might as well have been.
- Lori McKenna talks about growing as a person and an artist, and not ever wanting to peak.
- Billy Bob Thorton the musician released his fourth album in six years, Beautiful Door.
Thornton and songwriting partner/guitarist Brad Davis of Commerce, in Northeast Texas, put it together over the course of a year and a half, churning out about 30 songs, the last 12 of which made the final cut. The result is a mood setter that balances pacifying enunciation with no-holds-barred imagery. It melds the genres of his previous efforts — roots, country, blues, rock, hillbilly and folk — into accomplished Americana-lite.
The article also mentions that Thorton is creeped out by antique furniture and has a fear of certain types of silverware.
- Jason Isbell talks about his bass player puking out the side of their Econoline as they’re rolling down the street and a falcon hitting their van. NPR has a piece on the recently soloed artist, too.
- Here’s a quick PSA to all our music loving friends with large mp3 collections on their computers: “A newly-uncovered worm called W32.Deletemusic does exactly what its name implies–it goes through a PC and deletes all MP3 files in sight.“
- A British woman had all of her music playing devices confiscated after neighbors complained that she constantly blasted Dolly Parton music.
But neighbour Joanne Kempston said her life had been made a “living hell”. One one day alone she had noted down that the song “D.I.V.O.R.C.E” was played no fewer than 20 times.
- The Willie Nelson Project: Thomas Mariott reworked some of Willie Nelson’s songs to fit his five piece electric jazz group. (via Still Is Still Moving)
- John Goodspeed says “If you like traditional country with a bit of a contemporary edge, you’ll love this one [If It Ain't One Thing It's Another - Jeff Griffith].” It’ll be released later this year.
- France loves American country music, the real kind. (via This Is Texas Music)
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