Archive for December, 2011
Enter The Brad Paisley Diary Of A Player Giveaway
Enter now to win the Brad Paisley Diary of a Player Giveaway! One (1) grand prize winner will receive a Signed Brad Paisley Prize Pack, which includes a signed copy of Diary of a Player and two signed CDs (Hits Alive and This Is Country Music)! Ten (10) runner-up winners will receive a copy of [...]
Video: Adam Faucett, “I Don’t Need You to Love Me Anymore”
Adam Faucett isn’t looking for love in all the wrong places, or anywhere else. Check out the Arkansas song-slinger with the awe-inspiring facial hair sing a new song, “I Don’t Need You to Love Me Anymore,” on the Front Porch of Carl’s Country Club.
Song Premiere: Keller Williams, “I Am Elvis”
“My imagination stays on vacation and I like to go there when I have the time, which is all the time,” sings one-man-jam-band Keller Williams on “I Am Elvis,” a tune from his 17th, most bottom-heavy album, Bass, out December 13. Get a look inside Williams’ mind below, and visit his website for a chance [...]
U.S. Department of State’s American Music Abroad Initiative Now Accepting Applications
Washington, DC, Office Of The Spokesperson Using music as a means to engage audiences worldwide, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced on December 8 that the American Music Abroad program is now accepting applications for the 2012-2013 season. Musicians interested in applying for this international exchange program, which consists [...]
The Story Behind The Song: “God Gave Me You”
(Songwriter Dave Barnes) “God Gave Me You” Written by: Dave Barnes Recorded by: Blake Shelton Peak Chart Position: No. 1 Billboard Country When and where did you write the song? I wrote the song at home in Nashville. I had the lyric idea on a visit to London, but to another melody. I’d had the [...]
Video Premiere: Brown Bird, “Cast No Shadow”
Check out the brand spanking new live video of “Cast No Shadow” from Providence, Rhode Island folk duo Brown Bird. The band, who are heavily influenced by Eastern European folk music, just released the acclaimed Salt For Salt on on Supply & Demand Records. According to Brown Bird, “‘Cast No Shadow’ is lyrically a fictionalized [...]
Ryan Adams And Jessica Lea Mayfield At Carnegie Hall
“Last time I was here it was raining, it ain’t raining anymore,” Ryan Adams proudly sang to a sold out crowd at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday night. The line opens Adams’ latest work, Ashes & Fire, and live, “Dirty Rain” felt like a cleansing, a newfound statement of purpose. The song showcased Adams’ still-startling vocal [...]
Great Quotations: Lou Reed
“I think this thing [Reed's much-derided album with Metallica, Lulu] needs a champion. This is for people who are literate. This isn’t ‘I cry in my beer cos you f—-ed him and ran your truck through my bar. You can write 30 of those and move to Nashville. These words — every time I see [...]
Nathan Salsburg: A Kentucky Folklorist Turns To His Own Story
Back Home In Bogenbrook by Nathan Salsburg There aren’t any words on the seven original songs on Nathan Salsburg’s debut album, Affirmed. But the album still tells the life story its author, who was born in Pennsylvania, grew up in Kentucky, and worked in New York as a folklorist for the Alan Lomax Archive before [...]
Jamey Johnson, Elizabeth Cook Guest On Chuck Mead’s Back At The Quonset Hut
On February 28, Nashville stalwart Chuck Mead (BR549) will release Back At The Quonset Hut, his take on twelve classic country songs, via Ramseur Records. The album was recorded with the aid of Nashville’s finest old school session musicians — Harold Bradley, Hargus “Pig” Robbins, Bob Moore and Buddy Spicher — and special guests Jamey [...]
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