Four the Record Goes Gold; Emmylou Harris Speaks at Warren Hellman’s Memorial; Hank Thompson Vinyl Reissue
- Emmylou Harris spoke and then performed at Warren Hellman’s memorial service. Give a listen.
- Taylor Swift has been offered the role of Eponine in a film adaptation of Les Miserables.
- If anyone’s looking to make a music-related field trip this winter, check out this cool feature, written by Terry Conway of the Philadelphia Inquirer, on Martin guitars and the C.F. Martin & Co. headquarters located in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
- Kelly Willis and husband Bruce Robison are collaborating on an album. “Mando Lines” interviewed Willis about the project and what it’s like working together: “We like playing together, we love making music together. We’ve sung on each other’s records for so long now that we really do have a sibling harmony working. We just know how the other one sings and we know how to match each other. It’s instinctual, we even know when the other one’s going to take a breath.”
- Randy Lewis of the Los Angeles Times wrote an article on the recent Charlie Louvin autobiography. Both book and article are worth a read.
- Peter Cooper still loves Charlie Louvin and the anecdotes he told, like the one about Little Jimmy Dickens putting a beating on Webb Pierce.
- Mac McAnally is the American Songwriter Writer of the Week.
- Sam Bush, Tim O’Brien, and Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town appear on Dierks Bentley’s upcoming album, Home.
- Katy Perry wrote a song for Jessie James that CMT’s Alison Bonaguro describes as “country through and through.” Listen to the demo here.
- Jay Farrar, Yim Yames, Anders Parker, and Will Johnson have recorded New Multitudes, an album derived from unpublished Woody Guthrie lyrics. The record is set to drop February 28.
- Edd Hurt of the Nashville Scene wrote a feature on the classic-leaning Mandy Barnett.
- Stetson Adkisson and Cia Cherryholmes will be releasing their first album together on January 15.
- Miranda Lambert’s Four the Record went gold faster than any of her previous albums.
- Sarah Jarosz: very young and very talented.
- Here’s a nifty read about Tracy Newman, a former television script writer who gave up that career to pursue folk music.
- On February 28, Real Gone Music is reissuing Hank Thompson’s 1959 album Songs for Rounders on 160-gram vinyl. It’s been remastered and Colin Escott has written new liner notes for the project.
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Bruce Robison // Charlie Louvin // Cia Cherryholmes // Dierks Bentley // Emmylou Harris // Hank Thompson // Karen Fairchild // Kelly Willis // Little Big Town // Little Jimmy Dickens // Mac McAnally // Mandy Barnett // Miranda Lambert // Sam Bush // Sarah Jarosz // Stetson Adkisson // Taylor Swift // Tim O'Brien // Tracy Newman // Warren Hellman // Webb Pierce // Woody Guthrie
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January 5, 2012 at 9:24 pm
It’s instinctual, we even know when the other one’s going to take a breath.”
Ms. Willis and Mr. Robison may indeed be deeply familiar with one another’s approach to singing, but knowing when the other one’s going to take a breath is setting the bar for “instinctual” might low.
January 6, 2012 at 8:34 am
That was a great interview with Kelly Willis. I love her facebook statuses/tweets too. She is funny. And, of course, I love her music and look forward to her album with Bruce.
January 6, 2012 at 10:23 pm
Katy Perry wrote a song that Alison Bonaguro says is “country through and through?” Oh gosh.
January 7, 2012 at 5:59 am
I’m not a big bluegrass fan but I am looking forward to hearing Cia Cherryholme apart from the family band
A Hank Thompson reissue on vinly ? Cool
I don’t doubt that Katy Perry could werite a really country song BUT I wouldn’t trust Alison Bonaguro to be able to judge whether or not a song is country
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