Carrie Underwood To Present At 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards

Nominated for BEST ORIGINAL SONG MOTION PICTURE for "There's A Place For Us" for Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, Carrie Underwood attends the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA on Sunday, January 16, 2011. ++ FASHION TAGS ++ Carrie Underwood: Badgley Mischka

Carrie Underwood at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards.

Carrie Underwood will serve as a presenter on the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards, set to air this Sunday, Jan. 8 on NBC.

Hosted by Jimmy Fallon, the event will air live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California and will be available to view in more than 236 countries around the world.

Underwood previously attended The Golden Globes in 2011 as a nominee in the Best Original Song-Motion Picture category for the song “There’s A Place For Us,” co-written with Hillary Lindsey and David Hodges for Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

This year, Underwood joins a list of presenters including Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Kristen Bell, Annette Benning, Pierce Brosnan, Naomi Campbell, Jessica Chastain, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gal Gadot, Hugh Grant, John Hamm, Chris Hemsworth, Felicity Jones, John Legend, Ryan Reynolds, Sting, Emma Stone, Vince Vaughn, Carl Weathers, and Kristen Wig.

Old Crow Medicine Show To Release ‘Best Of’ With Bonus Tracks

screen-shot-2017-01-06-at-1-49-39-pmTwo-time Grammy Award winners and Grand Ole Opry members Old Crow Medicine Show are set to release a 14-track collection of their most memorable songs with two previously unreleased tracks, on Feb. 10.

Titled, Best Of, the tracks were selected from the band’s three albums released via Nettwerk – O.C.M.S. (2004), Big Iron World (2006), Tennessee Pusher (2008). Previously unreleased tracks “Black-Haired Québécoise” and “Heart Up In The Sky” were recorded for the band’s 2006 effort (full track listing below).

The album will be made available on vinyl, a format on which none of these songs are currently available. The gatefold-packaged 180 gram vinyl will include a 4-page lyric insert, plus a bonus red vinyl 7” including the two previously unreleased tracks (download card included).

Best Of is available to pre-order now.

Best Of Track Listing:

1. Wagon Wheel
2. Tell It To Me
3. Down Home Girl
4. Alabama High-Test
5. Big Time in the Jungle
6. CC Rider
7. Take ‘em Away
8. Humdinger
9. Fall On My Knees
10. My Good Gal
11. I Hear Them All
12. Caroline
13. Black-Haired Québécoise**
14. Heart Up in the Sky**

**previously unreleased

St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Shovels & Rope Set Ryman Performances

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St. Paul & The Broken Bones will play two shows at the Ryman Auditorium on February 16-17 in support of their sophomore release Sea Of Noise, which was released in September. The group made a splash with their debut CD Half The City in 2014 and went on to make appearances on CBS Saturday Morning, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Husband & wife duo Shovels & Rope will also play two nights at the Ryman Auditorium the following two days on February 18-19 in support of their album Little Seeds, which released October 7 on New West Records. The duo has appeared on Conan, Austin City Limits, PBS Bluegrass Underground, and The Late Show with David Letterman. The has played almost every major U.S. festival including Bonnaroo, Coachella, Lollapalooza, Newport Folk, Sasquatch, and Hangout.

 

The Mavericks Set New Course With ‘Brand New Day’

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The Mavericks will release their first independent studio album, Brand New Day, on their own label Mono Mundo Recordings/Thirty Tigers on March 31. Their last studio album, Mono, was released in 2015 via BMLG’s Valory Music Co. Last year, the group released the live album All Night Live Vol. 1 via its own Mono Mundo label.

After years on major labels, The Mavericks chose to set a new course last year by founding Mono Mundo and releasing their first live album, 2016’s All Night Live, Volume 1. with Thirty Tigers. The new album due out this Spring includes tracks like the tejano/bluegrass-inspired “Rolling Along”, the ‘60’s-flavored “Easy As It Seems,” the accordion-fueled shuffle “I Will Be Yours” and the beautiful “Goodnight Waltz.”

The band will celebrate the album with a special release show at the Ryman on March 31. Tickets for the show go on sale January 13th and can be purchased here.

Alison Krauss to Release Classics Project on Capitol in February

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Alison Krauss has recorded a new solo project of classics for Capitol Records, Windy City, which is due out Feb. 17. The CD is her debut effort for Capitol, and her first project separate from her band Union Station since 2007’s Raising Sand. The 10-song collection was produced by Buddy Cannon, and features the album’s lead track, “Losing You,” which is out now and is available as an instant download to fans who preorder the new album.

Krauss first became inspired to record the collection of standards when she went into the studio with Cannon to record her lines on Hank Cochran’s “Make The World Go Away” for Jamey Johnson’s 2012 album Living For A Song. The two selected well-known classics like “Gentle On My Mind,” and “You Don’t Know Me,” along with more obscure tracks such as “Poison Love,” a B-side track on a Bill Monroe single released in 1951 and “River In The Rain,” penned by Roger Miller for his 1985 Broadway musical Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The collection has a melancholy thread that runs through it, but exudes strength thanks to Krauss’ delivery.

“It’s almost like you didn’t know it was sad,” Alison says, “because it doesn’t sound weak. It doesn’t have a pitiful part to it, where so many sad songs do. But these don’t. And I love that about it. I love that there’s strength underneath there. That whatever those stories are, they didn’t destroy. That that person made it right through it. I love that.”

The new CD also includes a track written by Cannon himself, “Dream of Me,”  that features Cannon on backing vocals along with his daughter Melonie Cannon. Others lending backing vocals to the tracks include Jamey Johnson, Dan Tyminski, Teddy Gentry, and Hank Williams Jr.

Windy City Track Listings:

  1. Losing You – Written by Pierre Havet, Jean Renard and Carl Sigman. Originally recorded by Brenda Lee for her 1963 album Let Me Sing.
  2. It’s Goodbye And So Long To You (background vocals by Dan Tyminski and Hank Williams Jr.) – Written by Raymond Couture and Harold J. Breau in 1952. Originally recorded by The Osborne Brothers with Mac Wiseman, it appears on their 1979 collection The Essential Bluegrass Album.
  3. Windy City (background vocals by Suzanne Cox and Jamey Johnson) – Written by Pete Goble and Bobby Osborne. Originally recorded by The Osborne Brothers for their 1972 albumBobby and Sonny.
  4. I Never Cared For You (background vocals by Suzanne Cox and Sidney Cox) – Written and originally recorded by Willie Nelson in 1964 as a single for Monument Records.
  5. River In The Rain – Written by Roger Miller for the 1985 Broadway musical Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
  6. Dream Of Me (background vocals by Buddy Cannon and Melonie Cannon) – Written by Buddy Cannon, Jimmy Darrell & Raleigh Squires.  Was a top 10 single on Vern Gosdin’s 1981 album Today My World Slipped Away.  Alison originally heard the song performed live by Jim & Jesse McReynold’s in the early 80’s.
  7. Gentle On My Mind (background vocals by Teddy Gentry and Suzanne Cox) – Written and recorded by John Hartford for his 1967 album Earthwords & Music. It was popularized by Glen Campbell as the title track of his GRAMMY Award-winning 1967 Capitol Records album.
  8. All Alone Am I – Originally written by Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis for the film The Island of the Brave, the song was later given English lyrics by Arthur Altman and popularized by Brenda Lee as the title track of her 1962 album.
  9. Poison Love (background vocals by Dan Tyminski and Jamey Johnson) – Written by Elmer Laird. Originally recorded by Bill Monroe as the b-side to his “On the Old Kentucky Shore” single released in 1951.
  10. You Don’t Know Me – Written by Cindy Walker & Eddy Arnold. Originally recorded by Arnold in 1955 as a single, it was later popularized by Ray Charles on his 1962 album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.

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DISClaimer: Three Promising Newcomers Earn DISCovery Honor

Pictured (clockwise from top left): Ben McPeak, Dylan Jakobsen, Midland

Pictured (clockwise from top left): Ben McPeak, Dylan Jakobsen, Midland

Happy New Year.

We’re starting 2017 the right way in DISClaimer, by showcasing artists who are new and promising. In a first for this column, we have a three-way tie for the DisCovery Award. Let me direct your attention to one of the most solid singers I’ve heard in a while, Ben McPeak. Next pay heed to a trio of hunks called Midland. Then lend the edgy Dylan Jakobsen your ears. All three are fine, fine listening experiences.

One theme of the day seemed to be weird band names — Australia’s Tornadoes, The Runaway Hamsters, The Easy Leaves — and that’s the most interesting thing about all three.

The Disc of the Day goes to veteran Billy Hardwick Jr. His “The Day Merle Haggard Died” is as country as it gets.

THE EASY LEAVES/Fresno
Writers: Sage Fifield; Producer: Brad Dollar; Publisher: none listed; Omega (track)
-The tempo slogs through sludge. The echo chamber is ten miles deep. The vocals are hillbilly nasal and way pitchy. It says here that it was recorded live.

BILLY HARDWICK JR./The Day Merle Haggard Died
Writers: Billy Hardwick Jr.; Publisher: Rusty Washboard, BMI; Producer: none listed
-Country to the core. It name-checks the Hag’s song titles as it tells the tale of a performer who yearns to be just like his idol. This veteran has always been considered “too country.” Which is fine with me.

THE RUNAWAY HAMSTERS/A Little Country
Writers: The Runaway Hamsters/Kent Wells; Producer: Kent Wells; Publisher: Way West/Creek Valley, BMI/ASCAP
– This acts consists of three sisters and a brother, all of whom are pre-teen. They sound exactly like little kids playing dress-up. Bouncy and bubblegummy.

MIDLAND/Drinkin’ Problem
Writers: Jess Carson/Cameron Duddy/Mark Wystrach/Shane McAnally/Josh Osborne; Producer: Shane McAnally, Dann Huff & Josh Osborne; Publisher: WB/Jess Carson/Warner-Tamerlane/Vaqueros Galacticos/Tropical Cowboy/Smack Hits/Kobalt/Songs of Black River/One Little Indian Creek, ASCAP/BMI/GMR; Big Machine 
-Airy and vaguely “western” sounding, with plenty of breezy steel and lightly twanging guitar work. Nicely understated vocal work on the gentle melody. Extremely promising.

 

GARY WEST/Right
Writer: Wynn Varble; Producer: Gary West; Publisher: none listed
-West’s new CD is a salute to The Man in Black, titled For the Love of Cash Volume 2. He offers his own take on standards like “Ring of Fire,” “Understand Your Man” and “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” mixed in with new tunes. This witty, tongue-in-cheek ditty is a catchy toe tapper with stuttering guitar and rumbled, Cash-like vocals. Also check out the equally catchy “I Ain’t Playin’ No Jason Aldean.”

JOSEPH WELZ/Save The Night
Writers: Joey Welz; Producer: Joey Welz; Publisher: Ursula, BMI
-His whispered vocal wobbles from note to note, seldom landing accurately. The cheesy, piano-and-saxophone production is a riot.

THE HAMMOND BROTHERS/Let It Rain On Me
Writers: Dale & Gale Hammond; Producers: Dale & Gale Hammond; Publishers: Vonger, no performance rights listed; Vonger (CDX)
– Pleasant and inoffensive, featuring good sibling harmony vocals. But I don’t know that I’d play it more than just this once.

AUSTRALIA’S TORNADOES/Cowboy For A Night
Writer: Darrell T. Ewing; Producers: Hillbilly Rick, Dave Goodger, Mark Borg; Publishers: none listed; BMI; HR (CDX)
– Basic neo rockabilly, with a rollicking piano, a honking sax and a jitterbug beat. There’s nothing special about the singing, but it gets the job done.

 

DYLAN JAKOBSEN/Silverado
Writer: Dylan Jakobsen; Producer: Dylan Jakobsen; Publishers: none listed, BMI; CB (CDX)
– I like the rasp in his voice and the powerful rhythm track. The lonesome lyric is sweet, too. This is very, very cool sounding. Who are you? Send more.

BEN McPEAK/Fix You Up
Writers: Hayslip/Wiseman/Akins; Producer: Billy Decker; Publisher: none listed; BMM (CDX)
– He’s gonna cure her heartache with a night on the town, followed by some smooching in the car. He sings with plenty of chesty oomph, and the track rocks nicely. Well done.

LifeNotes: ‘Hee Haw’ Producer Sam Lovullo Passes

candle lifenotes11Sam Lovullo, who produced the iconic country TV show Hee Haw for 25 years, died on Tuesday, Jan. 3, at age 88.

Hee Haw made television history by being continuously produced from 1969 to 1993. This was the longest run of any non-news program in U.S. broadcasting. Lovullo was also the show’s casting director, hiring a who’s-who of country comedians and musicians.

He was a native of New York State who attended UCLA in California as an accounting major in its school of business
administration. Lovullo’s goal was to work on Wall Street, but after graduation in 1954, he took a job in the accounting department of CBS television.

He rose through the ranks to become the financial administrator of such CBS shows as Lassie, The Judy Garland Show and the top-rated The Beverly Hillbillies. In 1967, he became the associate producer of The Jonathan Winters Show.

After that show ended in 1969, Lovullo and his Winters writers John Aylesworth and Frank Peppiatt joined forces to create Hee Haw. It ran on CBS from 1969 to 1971, then entered into an extremely successful phase as a syndicated series.

Lovullo hired established stars Minnie Pearl, Grandpa Jones, Stringbean, George Lindsey, Roni Stoneman, Archie Campbell and cohosts Roy Clark and Buck Owens as cast members. He also brought to fame such mainly unknown personalities as Junior Samples, Gordie Tapp, Lulu Roman, Gunilla Hutton, Gailard Sartain, Misty Rowe, Cathy Baker, Don Harron, Linda Thompson, Lisa Todd, Barbi Benton, The Hager Twins and Marianne Gordon.

In addition to producing Hee Haw, Lovullo was behind the spin-off series Hee Haw Honeys. His TV credits also include The Nashville Palace and Swing Out Sweet Land.

Although a resident of California, he did all of his Hee Haw television work in Nashville. He also served on the boards of the Nashville-based Country Music Association and Gospel Music Association.

For his international contributions to country music, Sam Lovullo was given the Jim Reeves Memorial Award by the Academy of Country Music in 1974.

Sam Lovullo chronicled his show-business experiences in his 1996 memoir Life in the Kornfield: My 25 Years at Hee Haw (co-written with Marc Elliot).

According to CMT.com, he passed away at his home in Encino, California. He is the father of Arizona Diamondbacks baseball manager Torey Lovullo. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

MusicRowPics: Bailey Bryan Releases Vertical Video For Debut Single

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Bailey Bryan

Bailey Bryan is on a mission to share her truest self with the world, and to encourage other young people to feel the freedom to do the same. Today (Jan. 5), the 18-year-old singer-songwriter revealed the video for her debut single “Own It.” The peppy musical confection aims to inspire listeners to accept their quirks and idiosyncrasies.

“I walked in with literally just a list of things about myself…things I liked, things I didn’t like, things I was trying to come to terms with,” Bryan says of the songwriting process. “Like, I wear Converse a lot, I don’t like to stay up too late. The song became about things I needed to hear, like, ‘I’m a beautiful mess,’ and ‘I don’t care what they say.’ It’s not always easy to live your life that way. So, that’s part of the reason I’m happy it’s my first single, because that’s what I get to sing over and over again, and a lot of times I’m singing it to myself.”

The just-released video for “Own It,” produced by Green Shoe Studios, captures her generation’s affinity for all things mobile and digital, and is infused with images of smartphones, chat messages, voice memos and more. The clip was shot vertically, and designed to be optimally viewed on mobile devices. Staying true to the song’s message, Bryan has encouraged fans to share their personal “own it” stories on social media, where she regularly shares her own day-to-day victories and struggles.

The Washington native has resided in Nashville for little more than a year, after moving to Music City with her mother, father, and younger brother. Though her family has returned to their home state, she calls them her biggest supporters.

“There is no way I could do this without them,” says Bryan.

Bryan has quickly assembled a team of professionals, inking a joint venture with 300 Entertainment and Warner Music Nashville, as well as working with The GreenRoom and Kompass Music Publishing.

Bryan recently visited the MusicRow offices, where she previewed tracks including “Own It” and “Deja Vu,” as well as “After All,” which she wrote at age 14.

Bryan is one of three artists nominated for the 2017 Grammy Artist of Tomorrow, with a ringing endorsement from Lady Antebellum member Hillary Scott. Fans can vote for the honor through Feb. 8.

Bailey Bryan with MusicRow owner/publisher Sherod Robertson

Bailey Bryan with MusicRow owner/publisher Sherod Robertson. Photo: Haley Crow

 

Bailey Bryan with MusicRow staff.

Bailey Bryan with MusicRow staff.

Rodney Crowell Announces New Album, Music Video, Tour Dates

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Rodney Crowell is set to release Close Ties on March 31, supported with a music video in addition to an upcoming tour and Grammy Museum conversation and performance.

The 10-song album (track listing below) will be released via New West Records, and is Crowell’s first in over three years, following his duets project with Emmylou HarrisThe Traveling Kind. Jordan Lehning and Kim Buie co-produced Close Ties, which features a duet with Sheryl Crow and a vocal collaboration with John Paul White and Crowell’s ex-wife Rosanne Cash. “It Ain’t Over Yet” is the first time Crowell and Cash have appeared on record together since 1988, “It’s Such A Small World,” which was Crowell’s first chart-topping song.

Rolling Stone Country premiered the video for Crowell’s collaboration with White and Cash, “It Ain’t Over Yet,” which also features legendary harmonica player Mickey Raphael.

Close Ties is a loose concept record that ranges from songs about Crowell’s childhood in Texas (“East Houston Blues”) to songs about arriving in Nashville as a young songwriter (“Nashville 1972”) to songs about friends (the anguished “Life Without Susanna”) and lovers lost (“Forgive Me Annabelle”).

“I have declared my loyalty to Americana. It’s a hard category for people to get their heads around, or at least the terminology is. But all the people who represent it – Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle and more recent stars like John Paul White and Jason Isbell – share a common thread, and that thread is poet,” says Crowell. “Whether they are actual poets or their music exemplifies a poetic sensibility, generally speaking, the Americana artist shuns commercial compromise in favor of a singular vision. Which resonates with me.”

Close Ties will be available on compact disc, LP, and is now available for digital pre-order.

The Americana Music Association and the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles have also announced An Evening With Rodney Crowell on Monday, Jan. 23. The conversation and performance will kickoff the 2017 Americana Series at the Museum’s 200-seat Clive Davis Theater and will be moderated by Scott Goldman, Vice President of the GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares. Crowell has also announced tour dates in advance and in support of Close Ties, kicking off February 14 in New Braunfels, Texas (Dates below with more to be announced).

Close Ties Track Listing:

1. East Houston Blues
2. Reckless
3. Life Without Susanna
4. It Ain’t Over Yet (featuring Rosanne Cash & John Paul White)
5. I Don’t Care Anymore
6. I’m Tied To Ya (featuring Sheryl Crow)
7. Forgive Me Annabelle
8. Forty Miles From Nowhere
9. Storm Warning
10. Nashville 1972

Rodney Crowell On Tour (More Dates To Be Announced):
February 14 – New Braunfels, TX @ Brauntex Theater
February 15 – Tomball, TX @ Main Street Crossing
February 16 – Tomball, TX @ Main Street Crossing
February 19-26 – The Cayamo Cruise
March 14 – Aspen, CO @ Wheeler Opera House
March 15 – Ft. Collins, CO @ The Armory
March 16 – Boulder, CO @ eTown
March 23 – Kansas City, MO @ Knuckleheads
March 24 – St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
March 25 – Chicago, IL @ City Winery
March 30 – New York, NY @ City Winery
March 31 – Sellersville, PA @ Sellersville Theater
April 1 – Washington, DC @ The Hamilton
April 7 – Austin, TX @ Paramount Theater (*Darrell K. Royal Homecoming Show)
May 7 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Lobero Theater
May 9 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Troubadour
May 10 – Berkeley, CA @ Freight & Salvage
May 13 – Olympia, WA @ Capitol Theater
September 16 – Bristol, TN @ Bristol Rhythm & Roots Festival