IBMA Award Winners Announced; Reba Won’t Return to Host 2013 ACM Awards; Mumford and Sons on Pace for 2012′s Biggest Debut Week
- The IBMA Awards were held yesterday. Congratulations to the winners:
- Billy Joe Shaver was profiled in the Evansville Courier & Press.
- Kacey Musgraves talks to American Songwriter about co-writing “Merry Go ‘Round.”
- Henry Carrigan reviewed Neil Young’s Waging Heavy Peace.
- Ann Powers on Mumford and Sons: Mumford and his band connect with a different lineage, an approach that honors music’s ability to unite and create an aura of ennoblement. It’s long proven powerful with audiences and highly problematic for certain music listeners I’d cautiously call elites — people like me, who write about music for a living, or others who’ve built lives around a particular rock ‘n’ roll code. That code values outsider personalities and transgressive acts over the far more common human quest to fit in with conventional society. It’s grounded in the real, powerful legacy of popular music as a forum for otherwise unheard voices: African-Americans through jazz, the blues and, later, hip-hop (and really, through most all pop music); rural people through country and early rockabilly; queer people through disco; misfits of various kinds through metal or punk. The idea that popular music should be oppositional is a powerful one and has made it a central conduit for viewpoints that might have otherwise never reached a large audience. But the fact is, plenty of people who aren’t rebels or freaks gain insight and sustenance from popular music, too. They even get it from rock ‘n’ roll.
- Speaking of Mumford and Sons, new album Babel is on track to sell 600,000 copies in its first week.
- Reba will not return to host the ACM Awards next April; she’s passed the torch to Blake Shelton.
- Music City has lost some of its rhythm with the loss of IBMA’s World of Bluegrass and other events, writes Peter Cooper.
- The Village Voice featured an article on The 78 Project.
- Kelly Dearmore spoke with Will Hoge for a Dallas Observer article.
- Del McCoury and Sam Bush will play several shows together this November.
- Jon Bream of the Star Tribune was unimpressed by Carrie Underwood’s concert: Yes, I know she’s scored 12 No. 1 country songs, an impressive total for someone who just released her fourth album. Yes, her voice can soar to the stratosphere and scare the crap out of any man who has done her wrong. But listening to her perform for 110 minutes Thursday night at Target Center convinced me that Underwood, at 29, is still just a strong voice who hasn’t learned how to infuse her songs with either conviction or personality.
- Here’s Underwood covering Coldplay on her upcoming VH1 special, which airs October 2.
- Jewly Hight profiled rootsy, neo-soul artist Chastity Brown for CMT Edge.
- Chet Flippo’s new Nashville Skyline column is all about Glen Campbell and the famous Wrecking Crew.
- Clint Black’s legal battle with ex-manager Charles Sussman continues.
- In this Bluegrass Today video, Claire Lynch talks about what’s on her musical horizon.
- Craig Shelburne wrote about bluegrass documentary The Porchlight Sessions for CMT Edge.
- Lynyrd Skynyrd will appear on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on October 1 (via press release).
- Farce the Music unveiled his first Hatin’ Rankings.
- Watch Dwight Yoakam’s recent visit to CBS This Morning.
- Ricky Skaggs was interviewed for an article in the Chicago Tribune.
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September 28, 2012 at 10:36 am
Too bad about Reba. I would have liked to see her back. Personally, I find her a good bit funnier than Blake.
September 28, 2012 at 3:34 pm
Oh Crap! Jon W. did win the songwriter award! There goes the Engine 145 neighborhood…(lol) Congratulations Jon! I listened to the first two hours of the IBMA awards show and then had to drive home to catch the TV debut of “The Last Resort” on ABC, so I missed Jon’s moment of glory. Oh well…
Gosh, has Taylor Swift tweeted about the new Mumford and Sons album? Where else could those sales figures coming from? Hmm.
Thanks for the Kacey Musgraves songwriter article link. Good stuff. If Kacey wants to survive financially in Nashville, she needs to keep getting songs on Miranda Lambert albums for as long as she can. Either that or join The Pistol Annies (my personal preference).
I want to see a concert that combines the talents of Del McCoury, Sam Bush, and Tim O’Brien! Well two out of three ain’t bad.
Opry Alert! Its a lackluster Opry weekend like most these days. The Friday Opry features Sarah Darling, Mark Wills, Larry Gatlin, Restless Heart, and top pick Craig Campbell. Saturday’s Opry features the aforementioned Craig Campbell, the Black Lillies, Jim Lauderdale, Jimmy Wayne, and top pick Rhonda Vincent. Grades: B+
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September 28, 2012 at 5:09 pm
Yes, congratulations to Jon!
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