Toby Keith’s New Album Due in November; Stream Holy Ghost Tent Revival; Download Free Charlie Peacock Sampler
- Trace Adkins and Kristin Chenoweth will once again host the American Country Awards, which will be held in Vegas this December.
- Toby Keith will release a new album, Hope on the Rocks, November 13.
- From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: “Has country singer hero Randy Travis fallen?”
- NoiseTrade is offering a Charlie Peacock sampler for download.
- If you’ve got several thousand dollars lying around and absolutely nothing better to spend it on, you can own Elvis’ underpants.
- Jewly Hight interviewed Gretchen Peters for the Nashville Scene.
- Here’s an interview with Joe Bussard, the founder of Fonotone Records and a man with an extensive collection of 78s.
- Check out this week’s Quotable Country.
- NPR posted a feature and several shots from Henry Horenstein’s photography book, Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music.
- Paste premiered the Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s take on “C.C. Rider.”
- Stream roots rock band Holy Ghost Tent Revival’s new album, Sweat Like the Old Days.
- Tim McGraw wrapped up Operation HomeFront, which found him presenting 25 mortgage-free houses (one at each tour stop) to veterans.
- Carrie Underwood’s Blown Away Tour, which kicks off in mid-September, will feature “very dramatic costumes” and a duet with Hunter Hayes.
- On September 5, Luke Bryan will appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
- A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to raise funds for the documentary Making History with the Pioneers of Bluegrass Music, which features footage and interviews of Jimmy Martin, Kenny Baker, and more.
- American Songwriter gives Americana singer-songwriter Ed Romanoff’s self-titled debut an impressive 4 ½ stars.
- Taylor Swift talks with Rolling Stone about her new record, which will include a “U2-style epic,” an acoustic duet with Ed Sheeran, and a “dubstep-inspired bass breakdown.”
- Jana Kramer’s “Why You Wanna” has gone gold.
- Wynonna has resumed touring after her husband’s serious motorcycle accident.
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August 29, 2012 at 10:17 am
Pleased for Jana Kramer – really like that song :)
August 29, 2012 at 2:08 pm
Talk about low-rent trash.
Whoever made the decision to auction off Elvis’s stained, unwashed underwear to perverts and fetishists must really be hard-up for cash.
August 29, 2012 at 2:17 pm
Don’t worry; it’s really Orion’s underwear..
August 29, 2012 at 8:13 pm
Music City Roots Alert! Kathy Mattea is featured tonight along with a bunch of artists I’ve never heard of (the usual). I’m looking forward to hearing Kathy and hope her set is not all from “Coal”.
Link: http://musiccityroots.com/
August 29, 2012 at 10:27 pm
Ms. Mattea has a new one on the way out; you’ll no doubt hear some of that..
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