Frank Liddell to Produce Lee Ann Womack’s New Record; Whitey Morgan & The 78s to Record Live Album; New Releases

• Lee Ann Womack’s husband, Frank Liddell, will produce her new album, which will be released some time in 2012.

• The newest Quotable Country features Mac McAnally, Caitlin Rose, Jimmy Wayne, and more.

• Barry Mazor had a talk with Guy Clark and Verlon Thompson for a feature in the Wall Street Journal. Speaking of Clark, he’s an American Songwriter Role Model.

• On November 25, Whitey Morgan & The 78′s will record a live album at the Machine Shop in their hometown of Flint, Michigan.

• Check out Tim O’Brien’s Mountain Stage performance.

• Rob Lowe will host the CMT Artists of the Year special, set to air on December 13. We secretly hope that he’ll do it as Chris Traeger, his air-banjo-playing Parks & Recreation character.

• Buck Green of Bluegrass Today wrote a post all about Clifton Clowers, the guy from “Wolverton Mountain” who’s mighty handy with a gun and a knife. The real-life Clowers was Green’s grandfather.

• The Gospel Side of Dailey & Vincent, a new project from (surprise!) Dailey & Vincent, will be available at Cracker Barrel restaurants starting January 9. It’ll include songs like “Daddy Sang Bass.”

• Thompson Square’s “I Got You” is Amazon’s Song of the Day, which means you can download it for 89 cents.

• Toby Keith and Stephen Colbert sang the national anthem together.

• It was completely natural for Lionel Richie to record his upcoming country album, he says in this article.

• Noam Pikelny’s new album, Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail, was #27 on the Billboard Heat Seekers Chart.

• In Miranda Lambert news, she was the subject of features in the Tennessean and Paste. In the latter, she offered up her thoughts on “All Kinds of Kinds:” I used to think that people with tattoos and mohawks were weird, but then I ended up with a tattoo myself, and my bass player, who was an awesome guy, had a mohawk. I’ve learned to love being out there and meeting different kinds of people, even if they’re outside my comfort zone; I might not have said that five years ago, but now I do now.

• Don Williams was honored on Sunday night as he received an ASCAP Golden Note award and sang a couple of his hits.

• Cody Canada sat down for a Q&A with Nancy Dunham of American Songwriter.

• Peter Cooper does some thinking about the CMA Awards.

• John Rich recently held a YMCA benefit concert at his home.

• Album releases:

Carter Family – Greatest Hits 1927-1934

Joe Nichols – It’s All Good

Rascal Flatts – The Best of Rascal Flatts Live

Les Brown Jr. & Neal McCoy – Music of Your Life with Les Brown Jr. and His Band of Renown, Starring Neal McCoy and Special Guests Charley Pride and Janie Fricke

Laura Veirs – Tumble Bee (folk songs for children)

Tennessee Ernie Ford and The Billy Liebert Band – On the Air, Volume One and Volume Two

Mandolin Orange — Haste Make | Hard Hearted Stranger

Josh Gracin – Redemption