SPBGMA Nominees Announced; McGraw Goes Gold; Album Releases
- This year’s ACM nominees will be announced Thursday morning via “digital press conference.”
- Neil Young is recording a new album with Crazy Horse.
- Gretchen Peters recently appeared on Imus in the Morning. She played three songs from her upcoming record Hello Cruel World.
- Kay West of Nashville’s City Paper wrote an interesting feature on the businesswomen who “smashed the first cracks in Music Row’s glass ceiling.”
- Aaron Tippin has developed a line of nutritional products.
- Willie Nelson will play with the Nashville Symphony this June.
- Check out American Primitive guitarist Glenn Jones’ Tiny Desk Concert.
- Hank Williams III filmed a video with his dogs for Happy Tails Humane no-kill shelter.
- Rascal Flatts will receive the CRS Artist Humanitarian Award at next month’s Country Radio Seminar.
- Peter Cooper’s newest Tennessean column is about guitarist Pete Huttlinger, who’s returning to the stage after suffering from a stroke and heart failure.
- Here’s a new edition of Quotable Country that features Kathy Mattea, Taylor Swift, and others.
- Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, and others will contribute to an Occupy Wall Street album.
- Rhonda Vincent, Blue Highway, and the Gibson Brothers are a few of this year’s Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA) nominees. Here is the entire list of nominees.
- Tim McGraw’s “Felt Good on My Lips” has been certified gold.
- This week’s album releases:
Tim McGraw – Emotional Traffic
Janie Fricke – Country Side of Bluegrass
Martin Sexton – Fall Like Rain
Jody Miller – Complete Epic Hits
Various Artists – Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International
Tagged In This Article
Aaron Tippin // Bhi Bhiman // Blue Highway // Bob Dylan // Gibson Brothers // Glen Campbell // Glenn Jones // Gretchen Peters // Hank Williams III // Janie Fricke // Jody Miller // Kathy Mattea // Kellie Pickler // Lucinda Williams // Martin Sexton // Neil Young // Pete Huttlinger // Peter Cooper // Rascal Flatts // Rhonda Vincent // Taylor Swift // The Stellas // Willie Nelson
Current Discussion
- luckyoldsun: At the risk of seeming to be sucking up to the Great One--which I would absolutely never do--I had pretty ...
- Rick: For any of you lucky enough to hear the wonderful married couple "Tim and Nikki Bluhm" on Music City Roots ...
- Jon: First of all, "Dan," see the stuff up above the thumb? *That's* the review. The thumb isn't. ...
- Dan: Um, it's really not that hard to understand the review. Does the "thumbs down" at the end tell you anything?
- Jon: That's kind of an incoherent review. For one thing, I can't tell whether the song's being faintly praised or ...
- Jon: As far as I know...
- Rick: Holy Moly, that Bakersfield Sound exhibit at the CMHOF sounds, as Taylor Swift might say, totally awesome. Its nice to ...
- Jeremy Dylan: I'm assuming this will be your Australian TV debut Jon.
- bob: I have to agree with your thumbs down. Turner is not alone in selecting less than stellar material. I think ...
- bob: Congrats to the new Songwriters Hall of Fame members. I never got to see Seger or Lightfoot although I like ...
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January 24, 2012 at 12:51 pm
As much as I hate Neil Young and want to punch him right in his Neil Young face, I love the dude at the same time, especially when Crazy Horse is involved, and will probably be all over that release like a duck on a June bug.
January 24, 2012 at 3:58 pm
Good thing there are no laws against posting when you’re high on angel dust.
January 24, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Wow, I can’t wait to see what other leftist country and Americana artists contribute songs to the “Occupy Wall Street” album! They will all go immediately to the top of my music artist blacklist and stay there permanently! I can hardly wait….
January 24, 2012 at 5:00 pm
I see that Right Wing Ricky is alive and well…LOL!
January 24, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Yeah, I pretty much figured Ole Rick’s response to that news brief would be something like,
Crikey! (lol). Just pathetic. I hope I win a free CD.
January 24, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Now that’s funny.
January 24, 2012 at 8:56 pm
I’m with Rick on his one – the “Occupy” movement is a sham and a charade. I wouldn’t blackball any artist who appears on such a disc (people do have a right to be wrong, after all) but I would never donate a nickel to such a bogus cause
January 24, 2012 at 8:57 pm
I just received the new Jody Miller album. She was never a major star but she was a very talented performer and also very attractive
January 24, 2012 at 9:00 pm
The new Janie Fricke album is interesting – I guess you could call it lovey-dovey drivelgrass. She is still in good voice and the songs sound fine, although I prefer them in their original country settings
January 24, 2012 at 9:03 pm
The Glen Campbell LIVE IN JAPAN album was recorded in the mid-1970s when Glen was still at the peak of his powers. I look forward to its arrival
January 25, 2012 at 12:03 am
R–
“They will all go immediately to the top of my music artist blacklist and stay there permanently!”
PD–
“I’m with Rick on his one…I wouldn’t blackball any artist who appears on such a disc”
I was with Rick until I wasn’t with Rick.
January 25, 2012 at 3:46 am
Though I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere, I’m pretty sure the Janie Fricke collection is actually just a repackaged version of a 2004 album called Bluegrass Sessions. Weird to see it being promoted as something new, but I guess it’s a good thing if it gets more people listening. Good album.
January 25, 2012 at 7:39 am
I’ve had it sitting on my table for a couple weeks now, but keep forgetting to check it out. I will do it today though upon CMW’s recommendation.
January 25, 2012 at 7:49 am
CM’s correct.
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