Rosetta Tharpe Honored; Della Mae Plans Webcast of CD Release Party; Stream New Miranda Lambert Song

• Billy Barton, who wrote “A Dear John Letter,” passed away earlier this month at the age of 81.

• Loretta Lynn is out of the hospital and resting at home as she recovers from pneumonia. She plans to hit the road again on November 3.

• Rosetta Tharpe will be honored by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission with a marker outside her Philadelphia home.

• Documentary Give Me the Banjo will air November 4th on PBS.

• Vince Gill will be all over your television screen for the next three weeks or so.

• On Thursday at 8pm Eastern, Della Mae will play their new album in its entirety in addition to other songs on a webcast airing on ConcertWindow.com.

• Stream Miranda Lambert’s “Fastest Girl in Town” here.

• Les Paul, Alan Jackson, Manuel, and more will be added to the Music City Walk of Fame next month.

• The Jayhawks “worked the terrain of melancholy romance” at a recent show in suburban Philly.

• Here’s another edition of Quotable Country.

• Dale Watson discusses The Sun Sessions and the loss of Gene Kurtz with the Triggerman of Saving Country Music.

• Artist manager Paul Dill has penned a “music industry thriller” called Murder on Music Row.

• Eddie Stubbs is one of six 2012 inductees into the Country Radio Hall of Fame.

• Sarah Buxton and Jedd Hughes will collaborate on a record in the “very near future,” according to Buxton’s Twitter account.

• Charlie Sizemore added Paul Kramer on fiddle to the Charlie Sizemore Band. Kramer began his career with Special Consensus and has played with folks like Lorrie Morgan and Gary Allan.

• It was Country Day over on Farce the Music.

• Luckily for the spouses and significant others of bluegrass musicians, the typical grass groupie is “a male 55-70 who is mainly interested in getting you to help him through page 3 of some tablature of ‘Wheel Hoss’ he downloaded off the internet.”

• Check out Christmas Along the Crooked Road, a holiday CD recorded by bluegrass and old-time musicians from Southwest Virginia and Northwest North Carolina.

• Kristian Bush will play a solo show at Eddie’s Attic (Decatur, GA) on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.

• This week’s album releases:

Noam Pikelny – Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail

Vince Gill – Guitar Slinger

Toby Keith – Clancy’s TavernBad As Me

Tom Waits – Bad as Me

Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out – Prime Tyme

The Damn Quails – Down the Hatch

Stuart Duncan, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer, Yo-Yo Ma – The Goat Rodeo Sessions

Honeyhoney – Billy Jack

John Prine – The Singing Mailman Delivers

Ray Charles – The Complete Early Recordings 1949-1952