Posts Tagged ‘album’

Review: Jamey Johnson’s new album, “The Guitar Song”

With his latest album, The Guitar Song, Jamey Johnson once again proves that honest, authentic country music is still alive and well. The double album is a breath of fresh air in the sea of slick, corporate “country” acts currently dominating the airwaves. The Guitar Song harks back to the...

September 1st, 2010 | Album Reviews, Music | Read More

Don’t miss Merle Haggard on Letterman

Legendary country artist and outlaw conspirator Merle Haggard will appear on The Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday, Aug. 31, at 11:30 p.m. Known for writing anthems like “Okie From Muskogee,” “The Fightin’ Side of Me” and “Mama Tried,” Haggard released his latest album, I Am What...

August 30th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Snag a copy of Trace Adkins’ new album

Trace Adkins, country music’s American badass, released his new album, Cowboy’s Back in Town, last week. He’s no stranger to charting No. 1 hits like “Ladies Love Country Boys” and “You’re Gonna Miss This,” so don’t pass up an opportunity to score...

August 23rd, 2010 | Contests | Read More

Little Big Town releases new album, The Reason Why

There are few albums that conjure up the image of fields of sharp green grass wafting in a summer breeze, high on a hill with a little white church in half-shadow, children playing beyond a ring of women in simple dresses, singing hymns while setting out Sunday lunch. Little Big Town’s latest effort...

August 23rd, 2010 | Album Reviews | Read More

Blake Shelton seizes both the albums and songs summits

For only the second time this year, Lady Antebellum have surrendered the top bunk on Billboard’s country album chart. The victor is Blake Shelton’s new EP, All About Tonight, which bumps Lady A’s usually triumphant Need You Now down to the No. 2 berth. Equally cool for Shelton, his...

August 23rd, 2010 | Features | Read More

Ty Herndon opens up about drug addiction, new album

Ty Herndon’s Country music career has seen its share of ups and downs, a fact the No. 1 hit singer and songwriter discusses frankly in the Aug. 16 issue of Country Weekly magazine, on stands now. With a new album titled Journey On released in June, Herndon reveals to Country Weekly that the subject...

August 13th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Get a sneak peek of Randy Houser’s sophomore album

Singer-songwriter Randy Houser — most known for his rabble-rousing “Boots On” single (and more importantly the head-banging baby video that went along with it) — is offering fans the opportunity to listen to his sophomore album, “They Call Me Cadillac,” weeks before it’s...

August 9th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Australia’s McClymonts make their American debut Aug. 17

Australian trio the McClymonts are making their American debut on Aug. 17 when they release their certified gold Australian album, “Chaos and Bright Lights,” in the United States. Recorded in Nashville, sisters Brooke, Mollie and Sam worked with record producer Adam Anders, who has also...

August 8th, 2010 | Interviews | Read More

Get ‘Stuck Like Glue’ with Sugarland’s new video

As Sugarland prepares to release its fourth studio album — The Incredible Machine, on Oct. 19 — the band unleashed its latest video, Stuck Like Glue. The video features Sugarland frontwoman Jennifer Nettles, along with sidekick Kristian Bush and Ryan McPartlin, aka Chuck‘s ”Captain...

August 6th, 2010 | Music | Read More

Reba to release second album off new record label Nov. 9

If at first you succeed, try, try again. Reba McEntire is releasing a second album with her new record label, The Valory Music Co., on Nov. 9. And why not? Reba’s first effort with the independent label, Keep On Loving You, sold more than 500,000 copies and yielded the mega-hit “Consider Me Gone,”...

July 20th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith among top-earning musicians, says Forbes

Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith are among the top-earning musicians of the last 12 months, according to the financial publication, Forbes. The list ranked musicians’ earnings from June 2009 to June 2010, factoring in album sales, touring, publishing royalties and endorsement deals, among other revenue...

July 20th, 2010 | Features | Read More

The Infamous Stringdusters Fly High

With fingers flying across acoustic strings and a sound blending the finest traditions of American bluegrasss with the aesthetic sensibilities of the contemporary music, the Infamous Stringdusters embody today’s young, hip bluegrass scene. And with the release of their third album, Things That Fly,...

July 19th, 2010 | Features, Interviews | Read More

Merle Haggard: Country Music Traditionalist, Internet Prophet

In April 2010, Merle Haggard’s latest album, I Am What I Am hit stores and radio stations around the nation. Amid the smooth, polished, heavily produced (some would say overly-produced) opus of much of the modern Nashville sound, I Am What I Am was like a revelation — a voice and sound that seemed...

July 16th, 2010 | Features, Interviews | Read More

Nashville Skyline: Lady Antebellum Carry Country Music These Days

One year ago, Taylor Swift was the best-selling recording artist in the world. Now, who is? Maybe Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga? It does not come as any great surprise that it’s Lady Antebellum. Their Need You Now is the best-selling album in all music genres in the world for the first half of this...

July 16th, 2010 | Artists | Read More

Charlie Daniels’ Real America

To the world at large, no musician epitomizes country music more than Charlie Daniels. His name is shorthand for epic fiddle playing. His albums are country music classics. Not only is “Devil Went Down to Georgia” one of the most widely recognized country music songs in the world, it is the...

July 16th, 2010 | Features, Interviews | Read More

Jerry Lee Lewis Album Features Tim McGraw, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson

Jerry Lee Lewis will be joined by duet partners Tim McGraw, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson on his upcoming album, Mean Old Man, due for a Sept. 7 release on Verve/Universal Music. In addition to a digital version, the album will be released as a standard edition with 10 tracks and a deluxe edition...

July 15th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Lone Wolf “The Devil and I”

Though I don’t eat meat, I do occasionally cook my girlfriend bacon and enjoy holding it over her head. (Not the bacon, but the gesture.) If we were to break up I’d probably exaggerate it a bit in the lyrical sense and sing—as Lone Wolf does in “This is War”—I slaughtered her a cow and I’m...

July 1st, 2010 | Album Reviews, Features | Read More

Get your hands on Sugarland’s fourth studio album in October!

While fans have to wait until Oct. 19 to get their hands on Sugarland’s fourth studio album — “The Incredible Machine” — the multi-Grammy award-winning Mercury Nashville country duo will unleash their debut single, “Stuck Like Glue,” on July 26. The entire album is...

June 28th, 2010 | News, Release Dates | Read More

Spotlight on Megan McCormick – “Honest Words”

Out of the wilds of Idaho and Alaska, Megan McCormick has settled in Nashville. Her fiery debut, Honest Words, hits you from the opener, “Shiver”, a down-and-dirty song of obsession and addiction, and never lets up. McCormick packs quite a punch with her gorgeous and powerful voice (somewhere between...

June 21st, 2010 | Features, Interviews | Read More

Lynyrd Skynyrd “Live From Freedom Hall” Roadrunner

Last year Lynyrd Skynyrd lost keyboardist and founding member Billy Powell, as well as bassist Ean Evans (formerly of Outlaws), who had joined the band after Leon Wilkenson died. This show was one of the last concerts to be recorded with the two of them. As this Skynyrd has proven many times, they...

June 21st, 2010 | Album Reviews, Features | Read More