Chris Thile Wins MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant”; Stream New Darrell Scott & Tim O’Brien Album; New Releases
- Chris Thile is one of the 2012 winners of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” Thile is considering using the $500,000 grant to fund “a chamber music project for a bluegrass quintet.”
- Blake Boldt interviewed Gretchen Peters.
- Darrell Scott and Tim O’Brien’s live album, We’re Usually a Lot Better Than This, is streaming at American Songwriter.
- Zac Brown Band, Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, and Brad Paisley have been added to the lineup of performers at this year’s CMA Awards.
- This month’s free Trail Mix from Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine includes songs by The Steel Wheels, The Infamous Stringdusters, and more.
- Rosie Flores and her work with Janis Martin were featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition.
- Jason Isbell’s “Alabama Pines” is the American Songwriter Lyric of the Week.
- Stream Lindi Ortega’s new album here.
- Kelly Dearmore interviewed Ryan Bingham for the Dallas Observer.
- Coming out November 6: three-disc set Ultimate Creedence Clearwater Revival: Greatest Hits and All-Time Classics.
- Peter Cooper’s most recent Tennessean column profiles guitarist Guthrie Trapp.
- CMT Edge posted Angel Snow’s “Holiday” video.
- Taylor Swift is Glamour’s November cover girl. Read excerpts from her interview here.
- Here’s this week’s edition of Quotable Country.
- Jamey Johnson and Alison Krauss will sing “Make the World Go Away,” from Johnson’s Hank Cochran tribute record, on Letterman October 11.
- The Alabama Shakes have a new video.
- CMT’s Calvin Gilbert interviewed Jerry Douglas about his fantastic album, Traveler.
- Listen to NPR’s Mississippi Blues Project mix, featuring songs by Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, and more.
- This year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass schedule was revealed. Country California posted a guide listing some of the highlights.
- Jake Owen spoke with WSOC 103.7 about his new EP and his impending fatherhood.
- The compact disc turned 30 this week. What’s the first CD you ever bought?
- This week’s album releases:
Hank Williams – The Lost Concerts
Tift Merritt – Traveling Alone
Willie Nelson – The Classic Christmas Album
StompTown Revival – StompTown Revival
Rayna Gellert – Old Light: Songs from My Childhood & Other Gone Worlds
Charlie Peacock – No Man’s Land
Blake Shelton – Cheers, It’s Christmas
Jerrod Niemann – Free the Music
Garth Hudson – Garth Hudson Presents Chest Fever: A Canadian Tribute to The Band
Van Morrison – Born to Sing: No Plan B
Lindi Ortega – Cigarettes & Truckstops
The Kingston Springs – The Kingston Springs
- A couple books:
Kenny Rogers – Luck or Something Like It: A Memoir
Jason Howard – A Few Honest Words: The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music
- And a DVD:
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October 2, 2012 at 7:09 pm
Congratulations to Chris Thile.
The Iris Dement album is great.
October 2, 2012 at 8:55 pm
First CD purchased? I came to CDs late, although I was selling them as the first shipments hit retail in Canada, mid-to late-83? The first I bought waited until I bought a new stereo after my 3rd year of teaching- imagine, delaying a purchase until you can afford it? So, summer of 1990. I bought a stack of four or five, but the only one that remains in my brain is Jeffrey Hatcher & the Big Beat’s “Cross Our Hearts” featuring songs he would continue to perform with The Blue Shadows. I think I’ll take it off the shelf again tonight. Thanks for making me think.
October 2, 2012 at 10:09 pm
The very first CD I purchased was Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band by the Beatles. The mastering on it was terrible so I didn’t listen to it again, eventually trading it in. Many years later, it was remastered again and the sound was vastly improved.
Country CDs were fairly scarce during the early years – I don’t remember the first one I bought but it was something current like Alabama, Ronnie Milsap or Crystal Gayle since the older country didn’t begin to be available on CD until the 1990s
October 2, 2012 at 10:48 pm
I can remember the first LP I ever bought (Led Zeppelin IV), but can’t say for certain what my first CD purchase was. Might be Robert Cray’s Bad Influence in early 1988. Was getting big into him at the time and I would guess 4 of my first ten CD’s were by him. Wasn’t much of a straight country fan back then, although I think I bought Hank Williams 40 Greatest Hits before the ’80′s ran out.
October 3, 2012 at 4:40 am
My first CD is embarrassing but I can’t say I bought it since my mom bought it for me. It was Spice World by the Spice Girls. First country CD would be Dixie Chicks On Top of the World and Martina McBride’s Martina.
That Gretchen Peters interview is great, it made me want to give Hello Cruel World another listen and now it’s set to be my next purchase.
October 3, 2012 at 9:14 am
Summer of 1989. Killing Time Clint Black.
October 3, 2012 at 12:05 pm
The first CDs I ever got were birthday presents. The ones I remember most are Rodney Crowell’s “Diamonds and Dirt” and Dwight Yoakam’s “Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room.”
October 3, 2012 at 12:25 pm
The first CD I ever bought was Shania Twain’s Come On Over. Don’t laugh.
October 3, 2012 at 12:58 pm
I believe my first CD was The Beach Boys’ Greatest Hits, Vol. 1. My first country one was Ten Strait Hits.
October 3, 2012 at 4:24 pm
Dolly’s “White Limozeen” was the very first CD I ever bought – Here in Canada, before Walmart etc. lowered the CD prices, CDs averaged 20 bucks…A lot of money for a kid in ’89 who thought Dolly was the coolest chick ever. I still buy any CD she puts out – some great, some not so much, but “White Limozeen” is still one of my favorites…Why’d ya Come In Here Lookin like That, Yellow Roses, He’s Alive… what a great CD!
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