Wynonna Releases Debut Novel; New Album Releases; Steve Earle Schedules New Album & Novel
- Today marks the release of Wynonna Judd‘s debut novel (Amazon):
Restless Heart is your first novel. How much is autobiographical?
Enough to make it real. I’m living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. I’m telling my story through another voice. Writing this was different (from the memoir) because I could take liberties but also draw from my own experiences. She (main character Destiny Hart) has the same ambition and passion for music I did at that age. - Wynonna isn’t the only one. Sara Evans released the second installment of her novel, Softly and Tenderly, earlier this month and Steve Earle‘s debut, I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive, is due in May. Earle’s novel borrows its title from a Hank Williams song of the same name and tells the story of a doctor who is haunted by his former patient, Hank Williams. Earle will also use the title for his next album, which is scheduled for release in April.
Earle says the 11-track “I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive,” which takes its title from Hank Williams’ posthumous 1953 hit, is “inadvertently” more country-flavored than his albums have sounded in awhile [...]
- It’s a Wanda Jackson kind of day: The Tennessean Interview | New York Times Feature | Nashville Cream Interview | Paste Album Review | Pop & Hiss Album Review | USA Today Album Review | NPR Profile | And more…
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New releases for the week of January 25, 2010 include:
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The Band Perry celebrated its No. 1 song “If I Die Young” with a party yesterday.
- Actor/singer/songwriter Christian Kane on his live show:
“I needed to let people know right off the bat who we are,” says Kane, who refers to the bar he’s playing as his house in the song, and sings lines such as, “Everybody sings and drinks and laughs and gets high” and “Where the girls do the thing with the Mardis Gras beads, yeah, you know they’re gonna show ’em if they got ’em.”
“When you listen to that song, that’s the show you’re going to see if you go see us,” he says.
- Ninebullets.net describes Mic Harrison and the High Score as “a rawer, more rocking and less sober version of Robert Earl Keen.”
- Farce the Music: Country Doppelgängers XI
- Scott Borchetta on the Steel Magnolia duo of Meghan Linsey and Joshua Scott Jones:
“[...] for them to have such unique individual voices that blended so well, I thought it was something really unique, that if they really got a grasp and a direction, then it could really be something special.”
- In an interview with Paul Zollo for American Songwriter, Loretta Lynn talks in detail about her songwriting and inspiration, and says she had six extra verses to “Coal Miner’s Daughter” that she threw away because Owen Bradley told her it was too long.
- The Sons of Bill album One Town Away is currently $5 on Amazon.
- Lost Highway Records released limited edition vinyls of its very first album, O Brother Where Art Thou, and Ryan Adams‘ Gold today to kick off its 10th anniversary celebration
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January 25, 2011 at 11:01 am
Don’t forget, O Brother became Lost Highway’s first album after it had already sold about a million for Mercury.
January 25, 2011 at 11:39 am
Trailer’s Doppelgangers earns a solid “5 Hoots” for the Shooter Jennings entry alone! (lol) Its right up there with Dwight Yoakam and Gollum among the classics. Has Yoda ever been used in one of the doppelganger features? Hmm…
I don’t use iTunes BUT Amos Lee does have the song “El Camino” available for a freebie download at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/El-Camino/dp/B004HRJ0H6/ref=sr_1_46?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1295976396&sr=1-46
Wanda Jackson did shows here in LA both Sunday and Monday nights but the after-market ticket prices were too steep. Well that and the fact the typical volume level in the El Rey Theater causes your ears to bleed and with Jack White leading the band it could have been even louder! Crikey! I must say I am curious to hear Wanda’s take on the naughty Andrews Sisters hit “Drinking Rum and Coca-cola” about working girls down Trinidad way in the 1940′s.
I’ll admit I can’t give Steel Magnolia a fair shake as their creation as a duo was just so contrived. Its like taking two American Idol finalists and putting them together for commercial purposes. Ugh. On the other hand Thompson Square was on the Opry last Saturday night and they slowed their current radio single down and totally twanged it up! Good stuff.
January 25, 2011 at 12:52 pm
I havent had a chance to see CK’s live show yet, but I’m loving the ‘House Rules’ album.
:-)
January 25, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Wynonna’s sister Ashley Judd has an autobiography coming out in the next few months too.
January 25, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Sorry..Scott Borchetta (brewshitta): Barf
January 25, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Steve Earle: Barf as well.
January 25, 2011 at 11:00 pm
W
Well, country artists whom you might even like– from Marty Stuart to Patty Loveless to Alan Jackson–recognize Steve Earle’s great talent.
January 26, 2011 at 10:45 am
Wynonna Judd on her debut novel: “She (main character Destiny Hart) has the same ambition and passion for music I did at that age.”
me: any time the judds do anything but music, it is just a complete turd.
January 26, 2011 at 10:49 am
Charlie Louvin has passed away – more later
January 26, 2011 at 11:09 am
I *think* Waynoe may have been barfing at SE’s politics…
January 26, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Peter,
Correct.
April 7, 2011 at 1:40 pm
I’ve spent the last three days listening to the album over and over. More albums should be recorded in 5 days like this one. Too many cooks, etc.