Comments on: Second Round of ACM Awards Performers Announced; Della Mae Selected for State Department’s American Music Abroad; Album Releases

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:44:27 +0000

Here’s a video from The Infamous Stringdusters – a live version of the first track on Silver Sky, written by me and their fiddle player, Jeremy Garrett: http://youtu.be/qqrhwkIrBQk .

By: Barry Mazor

Barry Mazor — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:36:52 +0000

Savannah Churchill, once fairly famous as an R&B singer, in the 40s and early 50s, had her career ended, effectively, when a drunk fell from a balcony and landed on top of her during a set; she never really recovered from the injuries. All things considered, I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often..

By: Matt M

Matt M — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:20:37 +0000

I once saw Dierks Bentley fall off of the stage at a concert. He tried to doing this knee slide thing down the runway that stuck out from the middle of the stage and ended up sliding off of the end of it.

By: luckyoldsun

luckyoldsun — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:47:31 +0000

Didn’t Mel McDaniel fall through a hole in a stage? It damn near killed him.

By: Donald

Donald — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:39:31 +0000

Iggy Pop. Edmonton. 1983, or thereabouts. Dancing/hopping on stage, singing- I’m guessing the vibrations from the sound system caused the sheets of plywood or whatever covered the stage to separate- his leg fell through a gap- huge swelling on the ankle. Carried on.

By: Sam G.

Sam G. — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:24:24 +0000

Concert calamities: I’ve seen plenty of people forget the words to the song, I’ve seen Joe Ely stumble over a speaker and almost take out the drum kit. Nothing will ever top Shane McGowan ending a song by throwing up on stage, though. Whatever that pink stuff he was drinking that day, he drank a LOT of it.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:59:25 +0000

I haven’t personally seen it happen, but Dierks Bentley has either fallen off the stage or fall onstage a handful of times – a YouTube search will pull up many amusing videos.

I wouldn’t necessarily call it a calamity, but I saw Miranda about a month ago. It was her first show since the death of her father-in-law. Naturally, “Over You” was omitted from the setlist, but she got about halfway through the first verse of “New Strings” and just broke down crying. It was heartwrenching. Then, once she got to “House That Built Me” she didn’t even try. She pointed her microphone toward the audience, and we sang the entire song while she wept.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:39:00 +0000

Enjoyed the article about the Woody Guthrie concert. My favorite few sentences:
“His home state of Oklahoma…has resisted formally acknowledging his cultural influence because of his liberal politics. Although Guthrie is by most measures the most celebrated musician ever to come out of the Sooner State, in recent years many have resisted public commemorations. In the 2008 presidential election, Oklahoma was the only state in the U.S. in which every county voted for the Republican ticket. As different speakers noted during the symposium that preceded the evening concert, even though Guthrie was championed by American socialists and communists in the 1930s and ’40s, he never joined their parties. “He was a ‘commonist,’” said national radio commentator, author and former Texas politician Jim Hightower.”

Rick’s Comment: Jim Hightower is an ultra leftist activist (kind of like Obama), so of course he’d consider Woody’s politics “common”. The social causes and political/labor movements Woody aligned himself with were all of the radical leftist variety. The fact Woody didn’t officially join the organizations means nothing in practical terms. Just pathetic…

The Della Mae article failed to mention they’ve been provided with a new song to sing at each concert abroad. The song is titled: “We Praise You Oh Dear Leader Obama, Our Light and Salvation”! (lol)

I’m glad Norah Jones likes those classic sassy attitude country songs from decades past. Although considereing the way she looks on the cover of her new album, I can’t imagine her having to fight for any straight man…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:56:14 +0000

Last year I went to a Miranda Lambert show and Justin Moore was one of the openers. At one point he got too close to the edge of the stage and fell off. His height (or lack thereof) made it especially funny because he completely disappeared into a crowd of people taller than him. After his set, the crew put glow in the dark tape around the edges so Miranda wouldn’t do the same thing.

By: nm

nm — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:12:25 +0000

My absolutely favorite concert calamity happened about 10 years ago, and I don’t think anything will ever top it. Rosie Flores was doing a show at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, NJ, and her band was going to back up Wanda Jackson as the headliner. She had this very young bass player, Chris Scruggs — the first time I had ever seen him. Well, Chris had a new upright bass, and then all of a sudden he didn’t. Instead, he had a nice bass neck, with strings hanging off it, and a bunch of pieces of wood around his feet on the stage. Consternation ensued.

The guy is such a trouper that he proceeded to pick up the electric bass that the opening act had left on stage, and play it bare-handed. And someone in the audience had a standup bass at home a few blocks away, and went to fetch it, and it was there by the time Wanda Jackson came out. And the bass that fell apart was later repaired. But still, I don’t think I’ll ever see anything like that again, not outside of a slapstick movie.