New Johnny Cash Photos; Strait Is Sick; New Mary Chapin Carpenter Album Coming and New Music Videos
- To celebrate what would have been his 80th birthday this past weekend, TIME released a bunch of previously unreleased Johnny Cash photographs.
- David Allan Coe and Hank Williams III are collaborating on a new music project.
- George Strait had to cancel a concert two songs into a show in Kansas City.
- Take a listen to the new single “Good Girl” by Carrie Underwood. What do you think?
- Whether you like her music or not, you have to love Taylor Swift’s moxie. She has a new date to the ACM Awards.
- National Traditional Country Music Hall of Fame inductee and fiddle player Fred Voelker passed away at 100.
- Country music radio is smaller and leaner after sobering last few years.
- Tracy Lawrence was named an Honorary Operation Troop Aid Board Member.
- The Huffington Post highlighted the new Kenny Loggins-helmed trio Blue Sky Riders.
- Mary Chapin Carpenter has a brand new album called “Ashes and Roses” coming out in June.
- Paul Thorn’s What the Hell is Going On? is due May 8th. It’s a collection of cover and obscure cover songs.
- After sitting next to Lady Gaga at the Grammy Awards, Miranda Lambert has taken to covering her song on concert dates (with video).
- Emily and Jamie uncovered some early Miranda Lambert music over at Twin Love.
- LeAnn Rimes is being considered as a judge for The X Factor.
- Crystal Shawanda has released a brand new single called “Closer” to country radio and it’s climbing the Canadian country charts already. Here’s an intimate live performance of the new song.
- Bill Anderson and Clint Black walked away from a vehicle accident in Ireland.
- Thompson Square’s Shawna Thompson lost her father after a lengthy illness.
- Billy Strange, a longtime singer/songwriter and session guitarist and member of the Musicians Hall of Fame, passed away at the age of 81. In addition to producing Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Were Made for Walking,” he was a musician and singer on numerous TV shows early in his career, including ‘The Sons of the Pioneers’ and ‘The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show.’
- “Me and Emily” songstress Rachel Proctor has unveiled a new groovy little number called “Lovebird.”
- “Americana May Be Country, But Country is Rarely Americana.”
- Two new Janis Joplin albums and some unreleased material will see the light of day.
- It stretches the borders of roots-oriented music, but it’s still worth pointing out this fun music video for Island’s new single “Hallways.”
- Former Brooks and Dunn member Kix Brooks has released the first solo single “New To This Town” off of his upcoming album. Take a listen below:
- New music videos from the last couple of weeks:
- Ira Dean – “Somethin’ Bout A Sunday”
- Keith Urban – “For You”
- Rascal Flatts – “Banjo”
- Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers – “Me and Paul Revere”
- Pat Green – “All Just To Get To You”
- Josh Thompson – “Comin’ Around”
- Marty Stuart — “Tear the Woodpile Down”
- Luke Bryan – “Suntan City”
- Thompson Square – “Glass”
- John Maison – “Fast Enough”
- Jessie James – “When You Say My Name”
- Sugar & the Hi Lows – “See It For Yourself”
- Dierks Bentley – “When You Gonna Come Around”
- The Dirt Daubers – “Get Outta My Way”
- Beccy Cole – “Waitress”
- Morgan Evans – “Live Each Day”
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February 27, 2012 at 11:22 am
saw Dierks Bentley and Karen Fairchild perform “When You Gonna Come Around” at The Ryman on February 2nd. It was very good. One of many highlights that night.
February 27, 2012 at 1:39 pm
I was thrilled to hear about that new Mary Chapin Carpenter album. I love her. I will definitely be buying it.
As for the new Carrie Underwood song, I unashamedly love it.
February 27, 2012 at 1:56 pm
The description of country music as “static” in that “Americana vs country” essay is amazingly but not unusually under-informed and misleading.
February 27, 2012 at 2:36 pm
That whole essay was amazing, and not in a good way.
February 27, 2012 at 4:19 pm
I can’t figure out how I feel about the Carrie Underwood song. I didn’t hate it on first listen, but I’ve found that it’s wormed its way into my head on regular intervals since it was released. It’s nothing really new or groundbreaking and the subject matter is very much “Cowboy Casanova” rehashed. I foresee a very fast burn rate for it, but I also won’t turn off the radio when it comes on – at least not for the first few weeks it’s out. ;)
February 27, 2012 at 4:24 pm
Yesterday, in honor of Johnny Cash’s birthday, LA’s Album Oriented Classic Rock station FM 100.3 “The Sound” played the first side on vinyl of “Live At Folsom Prison”. I was washing my car in the driveway at the time thinking, man no one makes music like that any more! I just wish they would have spun side 2 as well. Its sad but I’m more likely to hear a vintage Cash song on “the Sound” than LA’s lone Top 40 AirHead Country radio station. Tsk, tsk.
If LeAnn Rimes becomes a judge on “X Factor”, will anyone be able to understand what she is saying? Hmm…
I think Hank III should be collaborating with both David Allan Coe and Billy Joe Shaver! The resulting music might not be very good, but I’m sure they would all have one hell of a time! (lol)
Thanks for the link to the Beccy Cole Aussie video. Morgan Evans is considered sort of a new, younger Keith Urban down under, so he’s one to keep an eye on.
February 27, 2012 at 7:21 pm
“I think Hank III should be collaborating with both David Allan Coe and Billy Joe Shaver!… they would all have one hell of a time!”
That is, unless someone said something that Shaver took the wrong way or took offense to or interpreted as disrespectful. You definitely wouldn’t want to offend Shaver, because he has a tendency to “pop off.” Especially not in Texas, ’cause if he pops off there, it’s legal.
February 27, 2012 at 11:46 pm
I hate to agree with Jon, but I found the article on Americna to be amazing, although I perhaps should say amazingly pointless and meandering. I’d call it a waste of paper, except these are modern times, so I’ll substitute “waste of digital space”
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