How Nashville Recording Artists Did in the Grammy Nominations
December 1st, 2011
The Grammy’s are of course weighted heavily toward pop, but Nashville does sneak in here and there, and last night’s nominations show on CBS was no exception. Nashville artists appearing on the show were Sugarland, Jason Aldean, who scored multiple noms in Country, and The Band Perry, nominated for the all-genre Best New Artist award.
Nashville’s Kings of Leon were nominated for Best Rock Album, “Come Around Sundown.” And one pop nom that might have gone little noticed as a Nashville connection was Best Pop Duo/Group Performance nomination of ”Dearest” – The Black Keys. The BKs have been recording in Nashville lately.
Country Nominations were: Read the rest of this entry »
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.
NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Jimmy Webb: The Quintessential Songwriter
July 23rd, 2010
I think a majority of songwriters — working in country or anywhere else — would agree that Jimmy Webb is one of the greatest songwriters in popular music in recent decades. If not possibly and arguably the greatest songwriter. Eight Grammys his first year? C’mon.
His new Just Across the River project is both a retrospective of his career and a return to recording, with some new material added. His last recording project was 2005’s Twilight of the Renegades.
more via CMT : News : NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Jimmy Webb: The Quintessential Songwriter.