New Hank Williams Songs? Really! Lyrics From His Notebooks To Be In New Album
August 6th, 2011
Wow! It’s hard to imagine a new Hank Williams Album so many years after he physically left this earth. But it’s coming, with an all-star cast of artists and co-writers who have set his long-stored lyrics to music. Here’s CMT’s take on it:
A new album inspired by lyrics contained in Hank Williams’ notebooks, which held many of his previously unheard compositions, will be released on Oct. 4. Alan Jackson, Bob Dylan and Norah Jones are among the 13 superstars who have set Williams’ lyrics to music for the album. The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams will be released by Egyptian Records Dylan’s label imprint, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s CMF Records and Columbia Records.
more via CMT : News : Hank Williams’ Notebooks Inspire New Album.
Trace Adkins Tells How Songwriters Get the Job Done
August 3rd, 2011
In a recent interview with CMT, Trace Adkins related how he and a couple of songwriter friends came up with some nice work on his recent album.
One song on the new album, “Days Like This,” is a tune he wrote with his friends Kenny Beard and Casey Beathard early one morning while they were having coffee on the back deck of Adkins’s cabin.
“The morning news was on in the background, but we were just looking out over the vista,” Adkins recalled. “Someone said,”What are we gonna write about,” and I said,”Not this bad news. Not on a day like this.” And I went over and turned the news off. Forty-five minutes later, we had a song. It’s nice when it’s not a chore.”
more via CMT : News : Trace Adkins Is on the Right Side of the Dirt.
CMT Love Note for Brad Paisley’s New Album Well Deserved
May 21st, 2011
Allison Bonaguro writes in a CMT blog a total love note for Brad Paisley’s new album expected out Monday, May 23. We totally agree, not because our publishing partner ParMusic Group published one of the songs (Toothbrush), but because the album has such a fantastic array of music. Here’s CMT blog post to speak for itself.
Every once in a while, an album brings me so much joy that I cant get enough of it. Brad Paisleys new one, This Is Country Music, to be released Monday May 23, is such an album. From the first note to the last, its everything country should be.
Paisley rhymes “corsage” with “garage” just as effortlessly as he sings a duet with Carrie Underwood that will hit so many couples so close to home. And when all that happens, I want to know everything about the album. So I turn to the liner notes and see if I have what I call Liner-Note Love — when Im as crazy about the words that go into the little piece of paper inside the CD as I am about the words in the songs.
more via CMT : News : OFFSTAGE: Liner-Note Love for Brad Paisley.
Carrie Underwood and Clint Eastwood to be on New Brad Paisley Album
March 7th, 2011
CMT reports another duet by Underwood & Paisley will be featured on the new Paisley album set to release in late April. And Clint Eastwood will do what? Whistle?
Quite a motley crew, isn’t it? But in a good way. Hearing about the guest stars on Brad Paisley’s upcoming album definitely kind of piques your curiosity. I mean, it’s obvious Carrie Underwood will sound fabulous singing with Paisley because we’ve heard bits and pieces of them harmonizing on the CMA Awards before. So their duet, “Remind Me,” on Paisley’s next album is kind of a sure thing. But the Eastwood one is a little tougher to imagine. It’s an instrumental track called “Eastwood,” and Eastwood is the whistler. In real life, Eastwood is apparently nothing like the tense, brooding characters he tends to portray in films. In fact, Paisley has used the words “jovial” and “lighthearted” to describe him.
via CMT : News : OFFSTAGE: Carrie Underwood and Clint Eastwood Join Brad Paisley.
Country Music Grammy Fallout: Nashville and Lady A Rule the World
February 18th, 2011
CMT’s Chet Flippo has a great take on Nashville music not only outperforming on the Grammys but the total music world…
The Grammy Awards’ big fallout continues to be that Lady Antebellum — and by extension, country music — now become the elephant in music’s living room, just as Taylor Swift and, before her, Garth Brooks were in recent years.
It’s not that Nashville is being unduly rewarded because of its power, as my friend Jim Farber suggested in his New York Daily News column…
more via CMT : News : NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Grammy Fallout: Nashville and Lady A Rule the World.