Chris Ethridge Passes Away; The Band Perry, Zac Brown Band & Kenny Chesney Join NBC Summer Concert Series; Album Releases
- Chris Ethridge (Flying Burrito Brothers) passed away yesterday due to complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 65.
- Watch Abigail Washburn’s TED talk about building international relations with the help of a banjo. A quote from the video: “I see the power of music to connect cultures. I see it when I stand on a stage at a bluegrass festival … and I bust out into a song in Chinese, and everybody’s eyes just pop wide open.”
- Brian T. Atkinson caught the memorial concert We Walk the Line: a Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash in Austin last Friday, which featured Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Jamey Johnson, and more.
- Here’s Ryan Adams’ iTunes Session.
- Our friends Bluegrass LA have joined forces with The LA Bluegrass Situation; the website has an event calendar, discussion board, and all kinds of info for SoCal grassers.
- Kenny Chesney, Zac Brown Band, and The Band Perry will all be taking part in NBC’s summer concert series.
- Check out Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three playing in a Rotterdam barbershop.
- Taylor Swift might play Joni Mitchell in a film adaptation of the book Girls Like Us.
- Roots rockers Lucero covered David Bowie’s “Modern Love” for The A.V. Club.
- Wade Bowen and the Josh Abbott Band will appear at Miranda Lambert’s Fifth Annual Cause for the Paws benefit concert, which will raise money for Lambert’s MuttNation charity.
- Time for a new edition of Quotable Country.
- Bernie, an upcoming movie starring Jack Black, will feature music from Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers, Dale Watson, and Heybale.
- Peter Cooper’s new Tennessean article features Phil Madeira, the man behind the new Mercyland: Hymns for the Rest of Us compilation, which includes songs from Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and others.
- Here’s “Land of Dreams,” an original Rosanne Cash song on which she’s joined by Los Lobos and Bebel Gilberto. The song is part of a campaign encouraging tourists to visit the U.S. It’s available as a free download at DiscoverAmerica.com.
- Warren Zevon’s “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” is American Songwriter’s Lyric of the Week.
- Todd Snider’s Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables was the subject of a piece that aired on Fresh Air from WHYY.
- While pitching in a high school baseball game, Scotty McCreery took a grounder to the throat. He was uninjured and stayed in the game.
- Here are a couple of recent Mountain Stage sets from Ruthie Foster and Bhi Bhiman.
- Ira Gitlin wrote a neat article for The Bluegrass Special called “Earl Scruggs: An End and a Beginning (Or, What Does a Banjo Player Have in Common with Homer and Sir Isaac Newton?)”
- Album releases:
Marty Stuart – Nashville, Vol. 1: Tear the Woodpile Down
Waco Brothers & Paul Burch – Great Chicago Fire
Josh Abbott Band – Small Town Family Dream
Freakwater – Feels Like the Third Time (vinyl reissue of 1993 album)
Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers – Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers (four disc box set)
Warren Haynes – Live at the Moody Theater
Various Artists – Mercyland: Hymns for the Rest of Us
O’Brien Party of 7 — Reincarnation: The Songs of Roger Miller
Tagged In This Article
Abigail Washburn // Bhi Bhiman // Buddy Miller // Carolina Chocolate Drops // Chris Ethridge // Dale Watson // Earl Scruggs // Emmylou Harris // Flying Burrito Brothers // Heybale // Ira Gitlin // Jamey Johnson // Johnny Cash // Joni Mitchell // Josh Abbott Band // Kenny Chesney // Kris Kristofferson // Los Lobos // Lucero // Miranda Lambert // Miss Leslie and Her Juke Jointers // Peter Cooper // Phil Madeira // Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three // Rosanne Cash // Ruthie Foster // Ryan Adams // Scotty McCreery // Taylor Swift // The Band Perry // Wade Bowen // Warren Zevon // Willie Nelson // Zac Brown Band
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- Jon: Well, that's just gibberish. When Nelson Eddy and Jeanette McDonald sang on the silver screen, they were the artists ...
- Barry Mazor: Thanks for straightening me out LuckyOlSunbody. "Given credit as the 'artist" by who? Take it up with the Screen Actors ...
- Luckyoldsun: Barry: As far as the comparison to movies: The person who's given credit as the "artist" of a movie is the director--not ...
- Jon: I've got to say, I think "Lots More Blues, Rags, and Hollers" was a better record.
- Janice Brooks: As for new releases, I love the new Don Rigsby and Mike Scott. Will also dig up a cut of ...
- Barry Mazor: Look, one sort of music reporting/reviewing I like to do best is reporting on live performance, the interaction with the ...
- nm: That's probably why I generally don't watch music on a screen in my home, except for films of live shows. ...
- Jon: If you are watching music on a screen in your home, you're not going out to a show, are you? ...
- nm: I don't think the problem with lip-synching (for me as a member of the audience at a live event) is ...
- Jon: I've played for some audiences I'd have liked to have sued!
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April 24, 2012 at 4:52 pm
“Taylor Swift might play Joni Mitchell in a film adaptation of the book Girls Like Us.”
They could have at least chosen someone who could sing. After the way she butchered Brenda Lee’s classic “I’m Sorry” I hate to think what she’ll do to Joni Mitchell’s songs.
April 24, 2012 at 8:25 pm
Alright, I’m a moron. Can anyone find the download link for the Rosanne song?
April 24, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Click Rosanne’s photo on the Discover America site to start the download. It’s the second picture from the left, in between the Detroit Auto Museum and Florida Keys photos.
April 24, 2012 at 10:11 pm
“Bernie, an upcoming movie starring Jack Black, will feature music from Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers, Dale Watson, and Heybale.” Now that sounds like my kind of soundtrack album! Crikey! I’ve never been much of a fan of Jack Black’s movies, well except for Shallow Hal anyway.
I like bluegrass and I live in LA, but the Hollywood centric “Bluegrass Situation” just doesn’t interest me due to high ticket prices and use of the Largo Coronet theater. Now if it was instead held in a dive with cheap admission, I’d be in like Flynn! Ed Helms is no Jedd Clampett by a long shot.
Abigail Washburn has a pretty unique concept of what sorts of things can “connect cultures”. I consider her singing in Chinese more along the lines of outlandish, or more likley foolish behavior. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should…
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April 25, 2012 at 8:56 am
That Rosanne Cash song is beautiful. I’ve listened to it on YouTube a lot, but I can’t find it on itunes or anywhere else. I would love to be able to put it on my ultimate roadtrip CD that I am compiling – anyone know where I can find a copy of the song for purchase?
April 25, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Juli- Thanky. The site didn’t load ‘like that’ yesterday, for me at least- must have had trouble crossing the border. All is good today and the song downloaded no probs.
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