George Strait’s Next Album Drops May 14; Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum to Celebrate Dottie West; New Music Videos

• George Strait’s next album, Love is Everything, will be released May 14.

• Della Mae’s This World Oft Can Be will be released May 28 on Rounder Records. (via press release)

• The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is celebrating Dottie West this spring with multiple programs, including a film screening of Dottie West: Special Delivery and a panel discussion called Country Session: Remembering Dottie West featuring Steve Wariner, Jeannie Seely, Red Lane, and Shelly West. More information can be found here. 

• The Tennessean previewed Bela Fleck and keyboardist Chick Corea’s upcoming concert at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

• There’s a fantastic feature on Kacey Musgraves in The New York Times. Musgraves was also on NPR’s All Things Considered and featured on The 615.

• Check out Billboard’s cover story on The Band Perry.

• Ben Foster interviewed Tracy Lawrence about his upcoming album, Headlights, Taillights and Rodeos.

• Radio.com posted a video interview with Hunter Hayes.

• Wynonna Judd ships a new single to radio today called “Something You Can’t Live Without.” It’s co-written by her husband Cactus Moser and David Lee Murphy.

• Love & Theft covered Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s “Fishin’ in the Dark” for Yahoo’s Ram Country.

• April Verch Band’s next record, Bright Like Gold, drops April 2. Guests include Mac Wiseman, Bruce Molsky, and Sammy Shelor. (via email)

• Music City Roots announced its spring lineup.

• Chris Parton of CMT Edge takes a look back at Chris Knight’s “Framed.”

• Chely Wright and her partner are expecting twin boys this summer.

• The Grand Ole Opry and the National Women’s Survivors Convention will celebrate women cancer survivors August 24, when participants from the Nashville-based National Women’s Survivors Convention attend the evening’s Opry performance. The Opry will recognize the women throughout the evening with special performances and “survivor messages.”

• On April 30, Real Gone Music will release the Eddy Arnold compilation Complete Original #1 Hits and David Allan Coe’s Texas Moon. (via press release)

• Gloriana will perform “Can’t Shake You” on Hart of Dixie May 7.

• Brian T. Atkinson interviewed Jay Farrar (Son Volt) about the band’s new record, Honky Tonk.

• British banjo player Dan Walsh brought his five-string to India as part of a program to “create new musical fusions and at the risk of sounding too grandiose, perhaps bridge cultural divisions.” Read Walsh’s account of his trip here.

• Here’s an NPR piece on Arhoolie Records.

• The UNC Southern Folklife Collection posted a photo of Patsy Montana to their blog. The photo is part of the SFC’s “Visualizing American Roots Music” exhibit.

• The Nashville music industry is shifting away from Music Row, writes Jaquetta White of the Tennessean.

• C.M. Wilcox posted a new Quotable Country.

• Shovels & Rope’s “Birmingham” is the American Songwriter Lyric of the Week.

• Stream Josh Rouse’s new album, The Happiness Waltz, here.

• Ricky Skaggs will headline the inaugural Bluegrass on the Mountain Festival in Bell County, Kentucky this May.

• Henry Wagons interviewed Jeff Tweedy for FasterLouder.com.

• Genre-blending band Jeremy Porter & The Tucos are featured on WesternHerald.com.

• New music videos from the past week or so:

Austin Webb – “It’s All Good”

Mark Cooke – “Stay With Me Tonight”

SaraBeth – “Kickin’ and Screamin’”

JB and the Moonshine Band – “The Only Drug”

Taylor Swift – “22”

Chris King – “Still Haven’t Said” (Couch by Couchwest)

Gretchen Peters & Ben Glover – “Return of the Grievous Angel” (CXCW)

Rachel Brooke – “Farther Along” (CXCW)

Bonnie Whitmore – “Borderline” (CXCW)

Mustered Courage – “Cruel Alibis”

David Mayfield Parade – “Human Cannonball”