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Miranda Lambert has finally cracked...the top ten.

July 23rd 2008 05:16

'Ran finally cracked the Top Ten on the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart with her current hit and third single from her current album, "Gunpowder & Lead". Surprisingly, this is not only Lambert's highest charting single to date but also the first single that Lambert has released that has made it into the top ten on the singles chart. With a platinum record in Kerosene and a gold record in the 2008 ACM Album of the Year, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, that is quite a feat to have those record sales with minimal radio support.

According to Lambert, "It was very shocking to me...It's the most controversial song I've put out so far and it gets to the top 10. I thought it would be (last single) 'Famous in a Small Town' or something not so threatening."

Well done Ms Lambert.

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Please write a sonnet for me, Steve Earle.

July 23rd 2008 04:35

I just picked up the new Sugarland album, Love On The Inside. I'll comment on the record at a later time when I've had the opportunity to soak it in. At this stage my only general comment is that there are a number of stand out tracks, including "The Last Country Song", but at the same time a number of the acoustic tracks bleed into each other, making for a seemingly dense record.

One track that I do adore is "Steve Earle". Unlike Taylor Swift's "Tim McGraw" or Jason Aldean's "Johnny Cash", this track is actually about Earle himself - odd, yes I know.

When I was in my final year of high school, studying Shakespeare's The Twelfth Night, my literature teacher suggested to the class that we seek a male in life that can write us a sonnet. Well, Sugarland took Ms Thompson's suggestion one step further. In a comedic fashion, Jennifer Nettles sings about her desire for Steve Earle to marry her, not for love, not for money, hell, not even for citizenship, but for him to write a song for her. Really, don't we all want that?

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The week ahead and Darius Rucker.

July 20th 2008 12:36

A big week this week. The new Sugarland album drops, Carrie Underwood's video for "Just A Dream" will hopefully surface and my Ernest Tubb collection is set to arrive.

On another note, I finally got around to listening to the new Darius Rucker (formerly of Hootie & the Blowfish fame) track and simply put: I was impressed. Rucker's “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It” is definitely connecting to the country audience, contemplating what might have been. It strikes me in a similar way that Trace Adkins' "You're Gonna Miss This" did.

Listen to the track here.

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Brad Paisley's dedication to habitual tardiness.

July 13th 2008 12:05

I was sitting on my couch this afternoon, sending an email to a lecturer and not really paying attention to the television in the background. Momentarily l looked up and saw that the CMC "Country Pick" of the week was Brad Paisley's new single, Waitin' On A Woman.

I put my laptop on the couch and turned my attention to the video, as Brad Paisley has never disappointed me with a music video (see Online, Alcohol etc). I was pleasantly surprised to see Andy Griffith play a major role in the video as the elder gentleman informing his younger counterpart (Paisley) that although he has spent the greater part of his life since 1952 waiting for his wife, he does not mind doing so.

Based on the title, one would expect a playful, if not slightly silly song about a woman's habitual tardiness. Instead, what Paisley delivers is a sweet and reflective ballad that does not fall short in any way what so ever.

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Country Chart Update

July 13th 2008 11:45

Thanks to CMT.com and Edward Norris...

Blake Shelton Hits No. 1 With "Home," Taylor Swift Keeps Top CD

Charts Show Paucity of New Music
July 12, 2008; Written by Edward Morris

A round of applause, please, for Blake Shelton as his version of Michael Bublé's "Home" scrambles this week into the No. 1 niche on Billboard's country songs chart. And speaking of home, Taylor Swift seems to have taken up permanent residence at the top of the albums chart. Her self-titled bundle of hits is still there in its 89th week.

Swift claims yet another distinction this week: "Should've Said No," the fifth single from her debut album, has just reached No. 10, the first time a solo female artist has scored such an achievement since Billboard launched its country albums charts in 1964.

All the new albums this week are re-packaged goods. Leading the parade is Playlist: The Very Best of Dolly Parton (No. 61), shadowed by other titles in the Playlist series: The Very Best of Willie Nelson (No. 63), The Very Best of Alabama (No. 68) and The Very Best of Lonestar (No. 75).

Re-entering are even more Playlist releases: The Very Best of Johnny Cash (No. 47), The Very Best of John Denver (No. 52), The Very Best of Waylon Jennings (No. 54) and The Very Best of Roy Orbison (No. 64). Whiskey Falls' self-titled album returns at No. 71.

There are only two new songs on the chart: Phil Stacey's "Old Glory" (No. 57) and the Road Hammers' cover of Del Reeves' 1965 smash, "Girl on the Billboard" (No. 60).

After Swift's, the remaining Top 5 albums, in descending order, are Toby Keith's 35 Biggest Hits, Carrie Underwood's Carnival Ride, Sugarland's Enjoy the Ride and Kenny Chesney's Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates.

Trailing Shelton in the songs category are Alan Jackson's "Good Time," Montgomery Gentry's "Back When I Knew It All" (last week's No. 1), Chesney's "Better as a Memory" and Brooks & Dunn's "Put a Girl in It."

Looks like we're in a musical drought.

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Patsy Cline "How Can I Face Tomorrow"

June 6th 2008 01:11

CMA Fan Fair is on right now...so how can I celebrate country music without celebrating the woman who turned me onto it?

Patsy Cline singing "How Can I Face Tomorrow" from a 1960 episode of Jubilee USA, introduced by Eddy Arnold.
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Living With Music: A Playlist by Dana Jennings

June 5th 2008 13:28

From the New York Times blog:

Living With Music: A Playlist by Dana Jennings
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Jessica Simpson's comin' on over to country.

May 28th 2008 13:43

Jessica Simpson’s new single Come On Over was sent to country radio yesterday. I guess one could call it a transition from disposable pop to mildly less disposable country music. The track is the rumored first single from her upcoming country record that is once again rumored to drop later in the ’08.

Simpson’s most recent pop record, A Public Affair , was both a critical and commercial flop to put in simply. On the other hand, I have a feeling that country radio and Nashville will welcome her with open arms and play lists, giving her the opportunity to return to the soaring vocals that she was once known for…before Newlyweds and Tony Romo

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