SOURCE, the nonprofit organization of executive women in the Nashville music industry will honor Joyce Jackson, Peggy Lamb, Pat McCoy, Sandy Neese, Margaret Parker, and the late Marion Keisker MacInnes with its 2009 Foundation Awards. The 7th annual awards dinner will be held Thursday, July 30 at the Musician’s Hall of Fame and Museum.
Jackson’s career included time at Jim Reeves Enterprises, Floyd Cramer and Ernest Tubb Record Shop. Lamb’s experience includes Music City News and Sony/Acuff Rose Music. McCoy worked in television production, for AFM Local 257, and she continues to work with her husband, Charlie, at Charlie McCoy Enterprises. Neese worked with the Charlie Daniels Band and at Polygram/Mercury Records. Parker was a veteran employee of WSM and Gaylord Entertainment, and Keisker MacInnes served as office manager at Sun Records where she was the first to meet Elvis Presley, who had come to record a song for his mother in 1953.
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/by LB CantrellSony ATV Signs Stegall
/by LB CantrellStegall is also the co-producer of The Foundation from the Zac Brown Band. The band’s debut single, “Chicken Fried,” spent two weeks at the top of the charts, giving Stegall his third No. 1 for the year. Currently, Stegall is in the studio with a new group, The Harters, and working on the followup to Clay Walker’s 2007’s album, Fall.
Pedal Steel Guitarist Bill Johnson Dies
/by LB CantrellWilliam Donald “Bill” Johnson, acclaimed pedal steel guitarist for artists including Red Sovine, George Jones and Marty Robbins, died March 17 in Tallassee, Alabama. In addition to his steel playing, Johnson made his mark as a songwriter, most notably with “A Wound Time Can’t Erase,” which was recorded by over 150 artists, including Jack Greene, Johnny Cash, Stonewall Jackson and Ricky Skaggs. Funeral services were held Saturday (3/21), in Camp Hill, Alabama.
SOURCE Names 2009 Honorees
/by LB CantrellSOURCE, the nonprofit organization of executive women in the Nashville music industry will honor Joyce Jackson, Peggy Lamb, Pat McCoy, Sandy Neese, Margaret Parker, and the late Marion Keisker MacInnes with its 2009 Foundation Awards. The 7th annual awards dinner will be held Thursday, July 30 at the Musician’s Hall of Fame and Museum.
Jackson’s career included time at Jim Reeves Enterprises, Floyd Cramer and Ernest Tubb Record Shop. Lamb’s experience includes Music City News and Sony/Acuff Rose Music. McCoy worked in television production, for AFM Local 257, and she continues to work with her husband, Charlie, at Charlie McCoy Enterprises. Neese worked with the Charlie Daniels Band and at Polygram/Mercury Records. Parker was a veteran employee of WSM and Gaylord Entertainment, and Keisker MacInnes served as office manager at Sun Records where she was the first to meet Elvis Presley, who had come to record a song for his mother in 1953.
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/by LB CantrellJennings Meets Johnson at Crossroads
/by LB CantrellCountry outlaws Shooter Jennings and Jamey Johnson came together at Nashville’s Rocketown recently to shoot an episode of CMT Crossroads. The duo’s rowdy performance, which was taped before a live audience, will premier Monday, March 23 at 9:00 PM/CT on CMT. The episode features Jennings and Johnson collaborating on Johnson’s “High Cost of Living,” “Between Jennings and Jones” and his recent Grammy-nominated single, “In Color.” They also sang duets on Shooters’ “God Bless Alabama” and on a cover of his dad Waylon Jennings’ song, “Don’t You Think This Outlaw Bit’s Done Got Out Of Hand.” CMT Crossroads, pairs country music stars with artists from other genres to play together, swap stories, and share their common love of music.
Shooter Jennings accompanies Jamey Johnson on CMT Crossroads. Photo: Rick Diamond
No Depression Adopts Community Model
/by bossrossAlden and Blackstock will continue to publish twice-annual “bookazines” and No Depression has joined with Sasquatch Festival creator Adam Zacks to promote the first No Depression Festival, set for July 11, 2009 at Marymoor Park, outside Seattle, WA. No Depression ceased print publication in May 2008.
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/by LB CantrellIndustry Veteran Joe Boyland Dies
/by LB CantrellNashville music industry veteran Joe Boyland passed away earlier this week at Nashville’s Vanderbilt Medical Center after suffering a heart attack. He was 61. Boyland moved to Nashville in 1980 and worked with Judds manager Woody Bowles before founding Hit List Music in 1986. He subsequently worked with a host of artists including Celine Dion, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Johnny Van Zant, Devonsquare, Robert Plant and Laura Branigan. Songs from his Hit List catalog were recorded by a wide range of artists including Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Billy Squier and Peter Wolf. Boyland also managed Bad Company for a few years in the mid-‘90s. Most recently, through his Nashville-based company, Big Street Entertainment, he produced the debut album for southern rockers Swampdawamp.