She has already admitted that her upcoming album, Speak Now, to be released on Oct. 25, is going to be full of songs that are kind of like open letters to the people in her life. She described the music as "things that I wanted to say in the moment ...
Fans are delighted with Jewel's latest album, Sweet and Wild, and the videos for "Stay Here Forever," "Satisfied" and "No Good in Goodbye." Through her "Posted" page at CMT.com, she took the time to answer their questions submitted via Twitter. Here's what she had to say.
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Martina McBride turned 44 Thursday (July 29). That is, in my opinion as a fellow 44-year-old, a great age to be. You are old enough to know better but young enough to have magazines wanting you in a bikini on their covers. And I know she's seems happy with the ...
I was a Black and Tan virgin yesterday (July 29). But now? After hearing Gaelic Storm sing their new "Raised on Black and Tans" last night in Chicago, I had to properly celebrate the tiny little Irish side of my heritage. So as the bartender poured me this pale ale ...
I know, I know. We should all accept who we are and what we look like and all that. But c'mon. Just for one minute, it's pretty fun to try to look like Carrie Underwood, especially on her wedding day. With this Hollywood Hair Virtual Makeover on InStyle.com, you can ...
: Blog Forum Wiki News at the speed of Bluegrass No One You Know to Mountain Fever posted by John Lawless on 07.29.10 9:13 pm Tags : Bluegrass At Large No One You Know Mountain Fever Records has signed No One You Know to the label , and will release their new album , Calm Before The Storm on August 31. The West Virginia band features Rachel Burge on mandolin , Don Anderson on bass , Ramie Bennett on banjo , Bruce Jones on resonator guitar , and Lance Gainer on guitar . All save Jones share in the vocal . duties The debut single from the CD , Looking for A Sign was released earlier this week via Airplay Direct where you can hear the track . online Here’s a taste of their sound from : YouTube Permalink Email This Post Print Top 0 Comments 0 Comments Leave a comment Comments are open and
When Clay Walker was singing on Lopez Tonight a couple of weeks ago, I was thinking that I could almost make a living out of loving him. I have felt that way since 1994, when I bought his If I Could Make a Living album. For 16 years I've been ...
LOL. Good one, Carrie Underwood. As if a few weeks off could ever do any harm to your flawless voice. Hahahaha. She told a crowd at the Grand Ole Opry on Tuesday (July 27) that she was kind of worried about getting back up on stage because her pipes might ...
I've been carrying Ana Egge's Road to My Love album around with me for a couple of months now. Her enticing voice draws me right into her songs, which are often soft-spoken and beautifully vivid. So whenever I just need to chill out, this is the album I've been reaching ...
If you think you know Michael Sarver (he finished 10th on season nine of American Idol) just as an oil rig worker, you may not know the whole story. He told USA Today that while many assumed he'd go country, he also has gospel and soul in his roots and ...
Since landing on the national country music scene in 1990 with the top five hit “Too Cold At Home,” Mark Chesnutt has gone on to garner four platinum albums, five gold albums, 14 number one singles and 23 Top 10 singles. His neo-traditionalist style of country music, along with others such as Randy Travis, Tracy [...]
Blog Forum Wiki News at the speed of Bluegrass The first 3D bluegrass video posted by John Lawless on 07.27.10 11:35 am Tags : Bluegrass At Large Well it’s the first one I’ve heard . about Brian Hilligoss a Chicago-based artist and producer director has decided to fight back against the way technology is squeezing out music in the entertainment world by using the latest technology . When his partner obtained a prototype 3D camera from Panasonic for evaluation , the idea for this new project was . born Hilligoss assembled a band from Chi-Town bluegrass pickers , and set out to produce a 3D video of Leave Your Heart at Home a song by Randy Albright that is included on Brian’s These Boots . CD My buddy Fred Blurton at Fred Blurton Productions and I have worked together in the video and film
, : Blog Forum Wiki News at the speed of Bluegrass Fleck , Meyer and Hussain on NPR posted by John Lawless on 07.27.10 8:58 am Tags : banjo Bass Bela Fleck Edgar Meyer NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts has a feature up that features an impromptu performance from Béla Fleck , Edgar Meyer and Zakir . Hussain This series of short concerts are shot and recorded in the offices of NPR Music , specifically at the desk of All Things Considered host Bob Boilen . Hence the . name Fleck , Meyer Hussain offer two pieces from their collaborative CD , The Melody of Rhythm Bubbles and Bahar You can watch hear download audio or video at . NPR.org Permalink Email This Post Print Top 0 Comments 0 Comments Leave a comment Comments are open and unmoderated for our registered users , only your first comment will
: Blog Forum Wiki News at the speed of Bluegrass The Starday Story emerges posted by Richard Thompson on 07.26.10 5:46 pm Tags : Bluegrass At Large Starday Slowly , but surely histories of record labels are . emerging Next in line is The Starday Story : The House That Country Music Built the recounting of the history of Starday Records , one of the most influential record labels of the 1950s and 1960s . Under the guiding hand of President Don Pierce , Starday was responsible for creating the largest bluegrass catalog throughout that . era Written by Nathan D . Gibson , a graduate student in the Folklore and Ethnomusicology department at Indiana University in Bloomington , with Don Pierce , this book traces the label’s origins in 1953 through to the 1968 Starday-King . merger For those
: Blog Forum Wiki News at the speed of Bluegrass Rural Rhythm signs Rodney Dillard posted by Brance on 07.26.10 12:12 pm Rural Rhythm Records recently added Rodney Dillard The Dillard Band to their roster of artists . The band’s new CD , I Wish Life Was Like Mayberry will be released on the Rural Rhythm label this September 9 28 2010 Rodney has a long history in bluegrass music . From my home state of Missouri , he was part of the legendary family band , The Dillards , who made many appearances on The Andy Griffith Show as the Darling . family In 2009, The Dillards were inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame . My wife and I had the privilege of sharing a table with Rodney and his family at the Special Awards Luncheon where the induction ceremony took place , and you
: Blog Forum Wiki News at the speed of Bluegrass Bartley Brothers Hit The Road posted by John Lawless on 07.26.10 8:00 am Tags : Bartley Brothers Rural Rhythm Records has announced August 24 as the release date for the debut album from The Bartley Brothers Hit The Road The record will feature 8 new songs by guitarist Rick Bartley , whose material you have heard on recent projects from Junior Sisk and J.D . Crowe the New . South Brother Shayne is on mandolin , Josh Hymer on banjo and Jayd Raines on bass . All four band members sing and their sound is hard hitting and . traditional The title track has been out as a single to bluegrass radio since April , so you may have already heard it over the airwaves . If not , here’s just a . taste Hit The Road : Pre-orders are available now from Amazon
: Blog Forum Wiki News at the speed of Bluegrass Flying High Tim Davis and Matt Hiser posted by John Lawless on 07.23.10 3:39 pm Tags : banjo mandolin Matt Hiser Ron Stewart Tim Davis Wyatt Rice Banjo picker Tim Davis and mandolinist Matt Hiser have collaborated on a new album of bluegrass instrumentals called Flying High Other than the title cut , written by Hiser , it’s a set of tunes that should be familiar to bluegrass listeners , though not all from the traditional canon . They have solid versions of favorites like Earl Scruggs’ John Henry , Sally Ann and Pike County Breakdown to Don Reno’s Follow The Leader and Bill Monroe’s Kentucky Mandolin They also offer their take on David Grisman’s E.M.D and Tony Rice’s Manzanita among the 10 tracks , with Wyatt Rice on guitar and Ron Stewart
: Blog Forum Wiki News at the speed of Bluegrass Gangstagrass nominated for Emmy posted by Brance on 07.23.10 10:56 am Tags : gangstagrass The hip-hop bluegrass mashup known as Gangstagrass has been nominated for an Emmy The Gangstagrass track Long Hard Times To Come serves as the theme song to the FX series Justified The track has been nominated for an Emmy in the category Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music Emmy winners will be announced on August 29, 2010, so we won’t know until then if the unique blend of hip-hop and bluegrass will take home the prize . Similar to other awards programs , there are five finalists in each . category Rench and Tone-Z , the principle musical forces behind , were not expecting such . recognition I am excited that Justified is getting recognized with
: Blog Forum Wiki News at the speed of Bluegrass Chatnam County Line at Country Standard Time posted by John Lawless on 07.22.10 3:34 pm Tags : Chatham County Line Country Standard Time uses the recent release of their latest CD , Wildwood as the springboard for a lengthy piece about alt-bluegrass road warriors Chatham County Line The article by Brian Baker , conducted largely as an interview with Chatham County Line guitarist vocalist Dave Wilson , starts with recognition that they have drums on the new . record Before bluegrass purists hyperventilate over this turn of events , it should be noted that CCL Wilson on guitar , Chandler Holt on banjo , upright bassist Greg Reading and multi-instrumentalist John Teer have no designs on rewriting the bluegrass rule book . In road dates around
: Blog Forum Wiki News at the speed of Bluegrass Fairview Avenue posted by John Lawless on 07.21.10 5:24 pm Tags : Fairview Avenue Pete Wernick Oddly enough , summer is the slow season for bluegrass news each year . All the bands are touring like crazy , but unless someone jumps ship , there isn’t as much new information to . share So we plan to use this next little while to try and get caught up on all the new CDs that have come over the transom since the hot weather hit . And so we begin Fairview Avenue is new young band from New York state who write and record original music written within the group . They consist of Tony Califano on mandolin , Liz Hopkins on bass , Scott Hopkins on banjo and Morrie Safford on guitar . All four sing , write and help arrange the . music Their debut ,
: Blog Forum Wiki News at the speed of Bluegrass Major Award for Nu-Blu posted by John Lawless on 07.21.10 3:41 pm Tags : Nu-Blu We wrote back in April about Nu-Blu the terrific bluegrass band from North Carolina , when their most recent CD , Nights was released . They had been caught in the crossfire when Pinecastle Records closed in February , and ended up releasing the album . themselves Now Nu-Blu can claim the title of Country Band of the Year as announced at the 3rd Annual Carolina Music Awards Show this past Sunday in . Raleigh The Carolina Music Awards functions like a regional People’s Choice Awards , with members of the listening public nominating and voting for the winners each year . Awards are given in rock , country , hip-hop and R B plus categories for DJs , models and
: Blog Forum Wiki News at the speed of Bluegrass Barry Bales video contest posted by John Lawless on 07.21.10 10:09 am Tags : Barry Bales Bass Have Bass Will Travel That’s the name of a clever YouTube video created by AKUS bass man Barry Bales , and of the video contest we are running on The Bluegrass Blog in conjunction with the recent release of his AcuTab bass instructional DVD The contest promises to be a great deal of fun , and offers the opportunity for a number of bass players to win some valuable prizes . Six finalists will each receive an autographed copy of Barry’s DVD , A Solid Foundation to Acoustic Bass and a set of D’Addario HH610 Helicore bass . strings The first place winner will reap a bounty of upright wonderfulness . In addition to their finalist prizes , they will also