News Roundup: Vacation Edition

• Engine 145 is on vacation this week, but we’ll be back with new content next Monday. Until then, here are some things to read about, listen to, and discuss.

• There was a Ralph Stanley 78 rpm record released last Record Store Day. Are any of your favorite artists using one of these “alternatives to just putting out a boring old record”? Would you even want them to?

• Miranda Lambert has launched a new app for her “Fastest Girl in Town” video.

• Download Chris Knight’s new single, “In the Mean Time,” on his Facebook page. Knight’s Little Victories album will be released September 11.

• Peter Cooper talks with Radney Foster about new-old album Del Rio, TX Revisited: Unplugged and Lonesome.

• This new book about sad songs looks like a fun read: Adam Brent Houghtaling’s This Will End in Tears: The Miserablist Guide to Music. Here’s a recent NPR feature about it.

• Jonny Corndawg’s changing his name back to Jonny Fritz.

• Richard Thompson’s “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” is the American Songwriter Lyric of the Week.

• Check out the track listing for Jerrod Niemann’s next album, Free the Music, due out October 2.

• Here’s a new Quotable Country.

• On August 15, at 5 p.m. Central, you can watch the IBMA Award Nominee Announcement live at MusicCityRoots.com.

• What was the first song you bought? The one you want played at your funeral? Six Songs of Me is compiling mini-playlists to “uncover the music that matters most.”

• New and new-ish videos:

Willie Nelson – “A Horse Called Music”

Pert Near Sandstone – “Snake Charmer”

Kasey Chambers – “Barricades and Brickwalls” and “The Captain” (Live at the Birchmere)

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – “Devils Look Like Angels”

Justin Moore – “‘Til My Last Day” 

Reckless Kelly – “Weatherbeaten Soul”

Lydia Loveless – “Back on the Bottle”

Jason Aldean – “Take a Little Ride”