Two Pete Seeger Albums Due in Sept.; Brad and Carrie to Host the CMA Awards Again; Seth Avett Remembers Doc Watson
- Coming out September 25: Pete Seeger albums A More Perfect Union and Pete Remembers Woody. The former is full of new material written with Lorre Wyatt and features guests like Emmylou Harris and Bruce Springsteen. The latter is a two-disc set celebrating Woody Guthrie with songs and anecdotes.
- Ben Foster did a fine interview with Emmylou Harris about her animal rescue work and upcoming musical projects. An excerpt: Rodney Crowell and I just finished a duet record, and it’s going to be coming out sometime early next year. It’s a duet record that we talked about probably since the first day we met, and sat down and sang old George Jones songs together. That’s going to be coming out, and I guess that’s the only thing I have definite. I know that there’s talk about re-releasing Wrecking Ball with extra tracks, and I will say that on October 24 at Marathon Music Works in Nashville, Daniel Lanois, Brian Blade, and Malcolm Burn and myself – the original musicians on Wrecking Ball, we’re actually going to perform Wrecking Ball, along with some other music.
- American Songwriter has the full Americana Music Festival schedule, which includes a Levon Helm tribute.
- Photographer Jim McGuire and Seth Avett share their memories of Doc Watson with Garden & Gun.
- In honor of Jerry Garcia’s 70th birthday yesterday, David Grisman announced the HD release of Garcia/Grisman, an alternate Garcia/Grisman featuring nine previously unreleased alternate takes, and Hi-Def Folk, a compilation of songs from projects produced by Grisman.
- CMT’s Craig Shelburne chats with Love and Theft.
- Paste premiered a new song from “eclectic folk collective” Holy Ghost Tent Revival.
- Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood will host the CMA Awards again this year.
- Check out a sample of Bob Dylan’s new song, “Early Roman Kings.”
- Dierks Bentley will host the ACM Honors ceremony September 24 at the Ryman.
- Mac Powell of Christian band Third Day will release his self-titled country debut on August 21.
- Lambchop covered the Squidbillies theme song; it’ll air on the August 5 episode.
- Eric Church celebrated his No. 1 single, “Springsteen,” and his platinum record, Chief.
- Toby Keith allegedly refused to sign a guitar that was going to be used in a fundraiser to benefit St. Jude Children’s Hospital.
- Steep Canyon Rangers were recently in the studio working on a new Steve Martin/Edie Brickell album.
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Bob Dylan // Brad Paisley // Brian Blade // Bruce Springsteen // Carrie Underwood // Daniel Lanois // David Grisman // Dierks Bentley // Doc Watson // Edie Brickell // Emmylou Harris // Eric Church // George Jones // Holy Ghost Tent Revival // Jerry Garcia // Lambchop // Levon Helm // Lorre Wyatt // Love and Theft // Mac Powell // Malcolm Burn // Pete Seeger // Rodney Crowell // Steep Canyon Rangers // Steve Martin // Third Day // Toby Keith // Woody Guthrie
Current Discussion
- BRUCE: Who the hell is "Pay Price"? Good grief.
- Luckyoldsun: Can't say I personally want to hear anything he's done since before the Watergate break-in--save for that duet album with ...
- Bruce: I can't access it for some reason. But I will tell you this. At 79 years of age, his voice ...
- Janice Brooks: I have the Jim Ed Brown single in rotation.
- Bruce: "People are more interesting than genres". Exactly!
- Jon: Imprecision or ambiguity might gentler terms than sloppiness, but yep, whatever you call it, there's a lot of it in ...
- Jon: "I seriously doubt that the statement “I think X” can reasonably be deemed to imply “I can’t conceive of anything ...
- Barry Mazor: Here's the current Americana chart. There are just a few--Emmylou, Rodney, Mr. Earle, Kris, Bobby Bare--who'd ever been on ...
- Barry Mazor: I think the history of radio formats is a lot sloppier than people like to make out, and here are ...
- Andrew: As the music director of a station that does play those classics right alongside the current top 40, I know ...
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August 2, 2012 at 12:56 pm
That Toby Keith thing just smells funny. With all his bravado and tough-guy image, his involvment with kids cancer research funding is very extensive and a major passion of his. His golf tournament has raised millions of dollars for the efforts. It doesn’t add up.
August 2, 2012 at 2:24 pm
Lots of good news today: two Pete Seeger albums (at his age, one would be unexpected), an update on the Rodney Crowell/Emmylou Harris album, and a new Dylan song.
August 2, 2012 at 11:34 pm
I’m glad Brad and Carrie are hosting the CMAs again this year. While the CMAs have become a borderline-painful experience, to be sure, they’ve at least become competent and entertaining enough as hosts that some Brad and Carrie fun can give us a little something to look forward to.
Thanks for the interview shout-out, as always, Juli. How exciting was that news about Wrecking Ball? And I’m beyond excited about the Crowell duet record.
August 2, 2012 at 11:45 pm
I envy you for being able to get so readily excited!
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