Willie Nelson Appointed 2009 Texas State Musician
- The Texas Commission on the Arts appointed Willie Nelson as the 2009 Texas State Musician.
- If any of you Kenny Chesney fans are looking to add “Out Last Night” to your collection, you’ll have to pony up the money for Greatest Hits II, even if you already own all the other songs. Or you could download the video on iTunes, but judging from comments, most people would rather buy the song.
- Watch video of Jamey Johnson pulling a prank on his record label rep. (via Twitter)
- Toby Keith’s youngest daughter, Krystal, plans to start work on her own album next year.
- Farce the Music posted a few honest/parody album covers from Neko Case, Charlie Robison, Peter Cooper and more.
- The Austin Chronicle’s Earache blog has a couple of videos from Steve Earle’s in-store gig at Waterloo Records earlier this week.
- Miss Leslie reduced the cost of CDs at her live shows to the affordable price of $5.
- For this week’s Nashville Skyline column, Chet Flippo lists a few albums he’s been enjoying lately.
- A special Memorial Day extension of Kix Brooks‘ weekly radio show “American Country Countdown” will air over the weekend to honor all service men and women, and in particular, one young woman he met in Iraq last year who was later killed when her vehicle struck an explosive device.
- The Boot has the exclusive video premier of Billy Ray Cyrus‘ “Thrill Billy,” complete with gratuitous shots of girls in bikinis.
- Music Fog has video of Walt Wilkins performing “Trains I Missed” — one of the best songs on his most recent album.
- The Tennessean’s Peter Cooper profiled Sarah Siskind (which Jon alluded to in the comments yesterday), who has had two songs cut by Alison Krauss (”Goodbye Is All We Have” and “Simple Love”), and has a new album, Say It Louder, due out next week. Thirty Tigers allowed us to share one of the songs from her album with our readers. Download “Falling” Stars” here.
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May 22, 2009 at 4:45 pm Permalink
So, that Jamey Johnson video. That was pretty incredible.
May 22, 2009 at 6:12 pm Permalink
That Jamey Johnson prank on the hapless label rep is classic. The fear in the rep’s eyes when Jamey gets a little rough in his radio interview is classic.
If Toby Keith’s daughter signs with Show Dog, we will likely never hear of her again….
The Miss Leslie website had this interesting tidbit listed over to the side under Upcoming Shows:
“May 24 2009, 4:00P-5:00 PM CST – Radio Show
Love and War in Texas with Brennen Leigh OPENING for Eleven Hundred Springs LIVE ON KHYI – Plano, Texas”
I will be tuning in to listen and its just a shame the online feed from the radio station has extremely poor sound quality! Its lower fidelity than a cheap AM portable radio…
Link: http://www.khyi.com/
Chet Flippo’s list of albums contains a couple of surprises. I’m glad he likes the Holly Williams CD as her voice does have the attributes Chet describes, and I just wish it contained stronger material overall. Felicity Urquhart is an Aussie country artist who loves to come to Nashville to co-write songs for her albums and its nice Chet likes her latest. Felicity is not a big country star down under but keeps trying her best. Kasey Chambers fans will recognize the name of Kasey’s band’s lead guitarist Glen Hannah who is now Felicity’s fiance after a very long courtship.
May 22, 2009 at 6:57 pm Permalink
Opry Alert! Friday night’s Opry (tonight) will include Caitlin & Will, Rhonda Vincent, and Tracy Byrd as notable guests. The Saturday Night Opry will include DALE WATSON (!) and Emily West. It will be good to hear some Ameripolitan truckin’ songs on the Opry for a nice change of pace….
May 22, 2009 at 7:15 pm Permalink
“Bluegrass Summer Nights at the Ryman” begin June 25th and run weekly through July 31st. Here are the details:
Link: http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1612058/doyle-lawson-ricky-skaggs-performing-during-ryman-bluegrass-series.jhtml
Hey Jon, are you going to be part of any of the groups performing this season?
May 24, 2009 at 6:15 pm Permalink
Miss Leslie with Brennen Leigh put on a fine show on Sunday afternnon on KHYI radio and 1100 Springs did their usual fine job as well. Turns out the 1100 Springs guys host their own show on that station on Wednesday nights from 7-10 PM. Its just a shame the audio feed is such low fidelity, but I think they may still be trying to accomodate dial-up internet users. That’s a shame because they play an interesting mix of what they term “hard country” music…
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