Weekly Chart Report (3/21/14)
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Chris Tomlin, Christy Nockels, Matt Redman and Crowder are a few of the artists included on the live project Passion: Take It All, which was recorded during Passion conferences in Atlanta and Houston earlier this year. The project will release April 29.
Accompanying the release of Passion: Take It All, Passion will embark on a Spring 2014 Global Tour, making stops in Abu Dhabi, Hyderabad, Delhi, Manila, Singapore, and Honolulu.
The Grammy Block Party has been set for Tuesday, May 13 at Owen Bradley Park near the Music Row roundabout. The event will run from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. The Grammy Block party is not open to the public, and is an invitation-only event for members of the Recording Academy and their guests.
The event’s performer lineup will be revealed March 28.
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The March 2014 installment of ASCAP‘s “We Create Music” showcase series was held Wednesday, March 19 at Nashville’s The Basement. Republic Nashville artist RaeLynn, songwriter Dave Berg, and songwriter-artists Andy Albert, Joshua Fletcher, Brad Tursi, and Jamie Kent were featured during the show.
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum will celebrate a major milestone on Tuesday, April 15, the completion of the museum’s 210,000-square-foot expansion. The expansion will more than double its size with new archival, exhibit, education, retail and event spaces. The grand opening ceremony will feature special guests and musical performances, and is open to the public.
The event will begin at 1:15 p.m. CT on Tuesday, April 15 at the corner of 5th Ave. S. and Demonbreun Street. The event will feature the Honorable Karl Dean, Board Chairman Steve Turner, Museum Director Kyle Young, as well as guest performers and Country Music Hall of Fame members.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums since 1987. The museum has been assembling its nearly 2 million-item collection since 1967. Using its unrivaled collection and expertise, the museum seeks to engage visitors in the breadth and depth of the country music story, in the context of local and national history.
Merle Haggard will be honored with the Crystal Milestone Award at the upcoming 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, which will air live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 6 beginning at 8 p.m. live ET on CBS Television Network.
The award will salute Haggard for 50 years in Country music. He was the recipient of the ACM’s first Entertainer of the Year award in 1970. That win also marked the Academy’s first Triple Crown achievement; Haggard had already earned the titles of Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year award (1965) and the first of six Male Vocalist of the Year awards in 1966. Haggard has also received the ACM Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award and Poet’s award. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1994.
Past recipients of the Crystal Milestone Award include Jason Aldean, Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney, Gayle Holcomb, Jennifer Nettles and Taylor Swift.
Broken Bow Records will release Working Man’s Poet: A Tribute To Merle Haggard, which features new covers of some of Haggard’s biggest hits. Aldean, Brooks, Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Kristy Lee Cook, Ben Haggard, Randy Houser, Toby Keith, Dustin Lynch, Joe Nichols, Jake Owen, Parmalee, Thompson Square and James Wesley are included on the tribute album. The project will release in select stores and digitally on Tuesday, April 1.
WORKING MAN’S POET: A TRIBUTE TO MERLE HAGGARD
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Songwriter Earl “Peanutt” Montgomery and wife Charlene Montgomery will release The Legend of George Jones: His Life and Death, on Heritage Builder Publishing. The book will be available April 15, 2014.
Earl Montgomery wrote dozens of songs for Jones over the course of his career. The 300-page hardcover book includes numerous stories from the life and career of the Country legend.
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Garth Shaw, a former road manager for Kenny Rogers and indie music publisher (Singing Roadie Music Group), will launch a new monthly songwriters evening, Garth’s Night Out! at The Row Kitchen & Pub, beginning Thursday, March 20. The March 20 show will feature Wood Newton, Jimbeau Hinson, and Marc-Alan Barnette. Upcoming shows include Bobby Tomberlin and Steve Dorff on April 24, followed by Mark D. Sanders and AJ Masters on May 29.
After the first event, the free shows are scheduled for the last Thursday of every month.
Radney Foster is prepping the release of his first new album since 2009. Everything I Should Have Said will be available May 13 via his own Devil’s River Records with distribution by Think Indie. The revered songwriter will mark the release with a May 3 concert at The Franklin Theater near Nashville.
“I wanted the album to have a band feel, and to do that I knew we needed to get away from schedules and cell phones,” said Foster, who recorded at Dockside Studios in Louisiana. “When you’re sitting with the moss hanging from the trees and the bayou rolling by, you can’t help but have your songs slow down and get swampier.”
Co-producers Foster and Justin Tocket strove for a sonic difference from the first track, “Whose Heart You Wreck (Ode To The Muse),” which was recorded using found objects. “The drum kit was made up of trashcans, a piece of angle iron, and a big gear plate,” added Foster. “There were a lot of Tom Waits style atmospherics going on behind me, but I was playing a straight-up, double thumb style guitar blues, almost like Doc Watson would have done.”
Foster calls the album’s title track, “Everything I Should Have Said,” the emotional centerpiece of the record.
He will tour beginning April 4 in San Antonio, Texas, then venture overseas for a date in Scotland, before returning to the States for shows throughout the summer. Tour dates at radneyfoster.com.
Foster has written and produced songs for Randy Rogers, Jack Ingram, Kacey Musgraves, Wade Bowen, Josh Abbott, Pat Green, Cory Morrow and many others. His songs are regularly mined by superstar acts like Keith Urban (“Raining on Sunday,” “I’m In,”), Sara Evans (“Real Fine Place,” “Revival”) and the Dixie Chicks (“Godspeed”).