Mel Tillis Plans Book Release; Gregg Lohman, Kellie Pickler’s Drummer, Injured in Car Crash; Album Releases

• Mel Tillis has a book in the works for release later this year.

• Gregg Lohman, Kellie Pickler’s drummer, was hospitalized with serious injuries following a car accident in Kentucky on Saturday.

• T Bone Burnett shares his musical influences with Vulture.

• Hank Williams III has two records in the works.

• The New Yorker published a piece on Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale.

• There’s an article on Emmylou Harris in The Guardian.

• Stream new records from Son Volt, Old Man Markley, and Bow Thayer.   

• Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music, a collection edited by Diane Pecknold, will be released in June through Duke University Press.

• A hip-hop fan caught her first Jason Aldean show at Madison Square Garden.

• Here are a few videos from Teea Goans’ recent visit to WZTV. (warning: autoplay)

• Miranda Lambert’s new video for “Mama’s Broken Heart” premiered yesterday.

• Rolling Stone premiered Ashley Monroe’s new album.

• The American Songwriter Lyric of the Week is Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried.”

• The Lone Bellow played an NPR Tiny Desk Concert.

• Jewly Hight interviewed Holly Williams, who is part of CMT’s Next Women of Country campaign.

• On Sunday, CMT will briefly pause from airing My Big Redneck Vacation and Swamp Pawn to air the hour-long program Mindy McCready: Fallen Angel.

• Honeyhoney played a few for CMT’s Concrete Country.

• Time for another edition of Quotable Country.

• Trace Adkins’ next record, Love Will…, will be released on Show Dog-Universal this spring.

• Craig Hlavaty of the Houston Press reviewed Zac Brown Band’s recent show (which included a “Southern-stank” version of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”) at Reliant Stadium.

• There was a lengthy feature on Mary Gauthier in the Cape Cod Times.

• Stephen Deusner gives five stars to Alan Greenberg’s book Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson.

• An interview with Daniel Rodriguez of “indie-folk” band Elephant Revival, was posted on Jambands.com.

• Singer-songwriter Coles Whalen and Loren Ellis (lead guitarist for Easton Corbin) have collaborated “to create a catchy new album to help children learn math.”

• Peter Cooper wrote a feature on Ashley Monroe for the Tennessean.

• Dana Fuchs is a blues-rock force of nature, writes Hubert O’Hearn for AmericanBluesScene.com.

• This week’s album releases:

Ashley Monroe – Like a Rose

The Howlin’ Brothers – Howl

Bruce Molsky – If It Ain’t Here When I Get Back

Son Volt – Honky Tonk

Nakia – Drown in the Crimson Tide

Old Man Markley – Down Side Up

Poco – All Fired Up

Great Peacock – Great Peacock (EP)

Bow Thayer and Perfect Trainwreck – Eden

Caitlin Rose – The Stand-In

Luke Bryan – Spring Break…Here to Party

Shannon Whitworth – High Tide

Gurf Morlix – Gurf Morlix Finds the Present Tense

Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks – Ghost Ballads

The Danberrys – The Danberrys

Kevin Flynn & The Avondale Ramblers – The Broken Pavement of Avondale

Various Artists – The Sun Country Box: Country Music Recorded by Sam Phillips 1950-1959