Pee Wee Moultrie Passes Away; Donna Ulisse and Lee Brice Have Tour Trouble; New Music Videos

• A previously unreleased John Denver song has been made into a new music video.

• For just half a million dollars, you can live in Roy Acuff’s house.

• Holly Williams has been in the studio writing and recording her upcoming third album.

• Bluegrass artists Donna Ulisse & The Poor Mountain Boys nearly rolled their truck en route to a show in Michigan on Friday night and their trailer came loose from their hitch. It totaled the trailer and took out Ulisse’s Martin guitar and her band member’s upright bass in the process. Everyone in the truck ended up safe and sound.

• Lee Brice also had tour trouble when he and his band had to make a hasty retreat from his tour bus when it caught fire on Saturday night.

• Etta James, the husky-voiced soulful rhythm and blues singer behind the huge hit “At Last” passed away from complications of leukemia at the age of 73.

• John Berry released his independent Christian album RealMan.RealLife.RealGod through his website beginning last Friday. The album will be released to digital outlets in the coming weeks.

• Country artist Clay Walker will be featured on the tonight’s episode of the reality romance series The Bachelor on ABC where he will play his current single, “Like We Never Said Goodbye.”

• Pee Wee Moultrie, an original accordion-playing member of Hank Williams’ Drifting Cowboys, passed away at the age of 89.

• Count American Idol Season 5 contender Ayla Brown as the next pop singer courting country music audiences.

• The lucrative Jim Reeves estate/royalty case looks to come to some conclusion with a trial starting this week.

• Deborah Evans Price did a story on Dierks Bentley and his Nashville history for Billboard.

• Luke Bryan and Eric Church will be headlining the free Freemont Street concerts during ACM Week in Las Vegas.

• Steven Tyler and Carrie Underwood will be filming a “very special” CMT Crossroads together during the Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam.

• Larry Butler, the producer behind many of Kenny Rogers’ biggest hits, passed away.

• Dailey and Vincent’s second Cracker Barrel release, The Gospel Side of Dailey & Vincent, debuted at #1 on the Bluegrass Sales Chart.
  

• American Idol Season Nine finalist Casey James will be making his Grand Ole Opry debut next weekend.

• Eric Church earned his first Number One hit with “Drink in My Hand.”

• R&B artist Anthony Hamilton will be cutting a country album soon.

• Country-ish rapper Colt Ford will be releasing his next album Declaration of Independence on May 1.

• Warner Nashville singer and One Tree Hill actress Jana Kramer set a record for radio stations adds across the country, gaining the most adds of a debut artist since the inception of the Country Aircheck/Mediabase chart.

• Former One Flew South singer/songwriter Eddie Bush has a brand new solo single that has been released off an upcoming solo album called “Broken Wheel.” Listen to it here.

• New music videos from the past week or so:

Neal McCoy – “A-Ok”

JJ Lawhorn – “Sittin’ on a Tailgate”

Ronnie Dunn – “Let the Cowboy Rock”

Lisa Matassa – “Me Time”

Butch Walker – “Synthesizers” 

The Roys – “Trailblazer”

Dustin Lynch – “Cowboys and Angels”

Casey Donahew Band – “Double Wide Dream”

Jason Cassidy – “What If”

Craig Campbell – “When I Get It”

Will Hoge – “Too Old to Die Young” (on Jimmy Kimmel Live)

Will Hoge – “Fool’s Gonna Fly” (on Jimmy Kimmel Live)

Honeyhoney – “I Don’t Mind”

Gloriana – “(Kissed You) Good Night”

Keith Urban – “You Gonna Fly”

Eli Young Band – “Even If It Breaks Your Heart”

Alan Jackson – “So You Don’t Have to Love Me Anymore”

Rich O’Toole – “Marijuana and Jalapenos”

Jana Kramer – “What I Love About Your Love” 

Chris E Thomas – “Workin’”

Doug Bruce – “Sweet”

Tracy Killeen – “Good Lies”

Harry Hookey – “Don’t You Ever Treat Me Like a Fool”

The Wolfe Brothers – “Wake Up”