Rosa Lee Watson, Frank Dycus Pass Away; Ashley Monroe’s Like a Rose Due 12/18; New Music Videos

• Rosa Lee Watson passed away on Thursday, six months after Doc, her husband of more than 60 years.

• Songwriter Frank Dycus, whose credits include “I Don’t Need Your Rockin’ Chair” and “Unwound,” passed away on Friday. He was 72.

• Walter Hensley, the “Banjo Baron of Baltimore,” passed away on Saturday at the age of 76.

• Ashley Monroe’s next album, Like a Rose, will be released digitally on December 18. The physical release of the Vince Gill and Justin Niebank-produced record is January 22, 2013. (via press release)

• Flatt & Scruggs’ Foggy Mountain Banjo, Buck Owens’ recording of “Act Naturally,” Big Mama Thornton’s “Hound Dog,” and Ernest Stoneman’s “The Titanic” are among the Grammy Hall of Fame’s inductees for 2013.

• Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale are going to tour together.

• Jewly Hight interviewed Elizabeth Cook for CMT Edge.

• Hight also wrote a CMT Edge feature on Jason Isbell and new release Live from Alabama.

• Kelly Dearmore interviewed Mike Eli of the Eli Young Band.

• Attorney Steve Gordon weighs in on the internet radio royalties debate.

• Randy Fox of the Nashville Scene wrote a feature on Jerry Douglas and his album, Traveler.

• Freakwater announced their first 2013 tour dates.

• Stereogum posted an article on the “Mumford-ization” of pop music.

• Time for a new Quotable Country.

• A.P. Carter and Randy Travis made Country Universe’s 100 Greatest Men of Country Music countdown.

• Here’s a clip of Willie Nelson’s recent Letterman appearance.

• The Southern Folklife Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill is hosting a fiddle concert and symposium in January.

• Woody Guthrie and Shel Silverstein have songs on The A.V. Club’s playlist of songs about venereal disease.

• Tift Merritt is the American Songwriter Writer of the Week.

• Stream Alive at the Deep Blues Fest, a compilation that features Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, among other acts.

• Watch the teaser for Carrie Underwood’s “Two Black Cadillacs” video.

• Peter Cooper wrote a Tennessean feature on Sweethearts of the Rodeo.

• Actor Lucy Hale will release her debut country album next summer.

• Lee Brice will perform at the Sun Bowl on New Year’s Eve.

• Tara Nevins is set to tour the Southeast this winter.

• Recent music videos:

Matthew Mayfield – “Take What I Can Get”

SHEL – “Toyland”

Dara Maclean – “Had to be You”

Gloriana – “Can’t Shake You”

Lady Antebellum – “Holly Jolly Christmas”

Zac Brown Band – “Goodbye in Her Eyes”

Tay Barton – “Little Giants”

Red Roots – “Christian Country Girl”

Tamara Stewart – “Women in Song”

Autumn Hill – “Anything at All”

Kira Isabella – “Songs About You”

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – “Something for Nothing”