Rosanne Cash speaks to The Wall Street Journal

Rosanne Cash recently discussed her new album The List with The Wall Street Journal’s Christopher Farley. She spoke about her famous father, and admitted when asked that she doesn’t listen to country radio (sounds like my kind of gal). You can read the interview and view some exclusive live performances by clicking here.

The next step for Caitlin & Will

The latest news is that Caitlin & Will, winners of the first season of Can You Duet, appear to have been dropped by their record label, Columbia (along with Keith Anderson).
What went wrong? The label certainly doesn’t seem to have known what to do with the duo, whose excellent single ‘Even Now’ [...]

A swarm of new videos!

Head over to CMT’s website today, and there are 10 music videos that are premiering. Those would be “Southern Voice” by Tim McGraw, “I’m Alive” by Kenny Chesney & Dave Matthews, “White Liar” by Miranda Lambert, “Keep You” by Sugarland, “Consider Me Gone” by Reba McEntire, “That’s How Country Boys Roll” by Billy Currington, “Hit [...]

Americana Music Association celebrates 10th anniversary

The Wall Street Journal did an interesting piece this week on the Americana Music Festival in Nashville. You can read it by clicking here.

Some more ‘Mountain Soul II’ previews

Saguaro Road Records has released the following video clips featuring songs from the upcoming Patty Loveless album Mountain Soul II. Hope you enjoy them, and don’t forget to enter our Mountain Soul II CD giveaway contest.

Miranda’s “Revolutionary” EP

Okay, this is pretty cool. Most people already know that Miranda Lambert’s new album, Revolution, comes out in just a few weeks on September 29th. However, this is new: On September 8th (tomorrow), you can go to Best Buy and buy Dead Flowers, a small EP of a few songs:
“Dead Flowers”
“Take It Out on Me”
“I [...]

Breaking news: Brooks & Done

As reported today in The 9513 forums, Kix Brooks & Ronnie Dunn are calling it a day.
For more information, check out the Brooks & Dunn website or CMT.com.

Sampling a little Mountain Soul

Amazon has some preview clips from Patty Loveless’ upcoming Mountain Soul II album, which will be released on September 29th on Saguaro Road Records. She’s re-recorded quite a few songs that appeared on previous albums, such as “Handful of Dust”, “Half Over You”, “Big Chance”, “Blue Memories” and “Feelings of Love”, in addition to [...]

Another shot for Blaine Larsen

One of my favorite singers to come along in the past few years is Washington native Blaine Larsen.  In 2004, he released his first album on the small Giantslayer Records, under the wing of the label’s owners Tim Johnson and Rory Lee Feek, now of Joey + Rory fame.  The next year, the 19 year-old [...]

Download ‘Love’s Gonna Live Here’ for free

Amazon MP3 is offering Tanya Tucker’s latest single “Love’s Gonna Live Here” as a free digital download.
The song is the first single from Tanya’s upcoming My Turn CD and features Jim Lauderdale as a guest vocalist on this remake of the Buck Owens classic.  Read our review of the song.

Remembering Conway Twitty (September 1, 1933 – June 5, 1993)

Conway Twitty’s untimely death on June 5, 1993 was a devastating loss to country music. On the 16th anniversary of his passing, we’d like to take a look back and pay homage to the man who was known as “the best friend a song ever had”:

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Reba – ‘Strange’ Official Video Premiere

Reba McEntire’s first album for the Valory label will be released August 18.  The album, Keep On Loving You, features her current single. ‘Strange’, which is currently climbing the charts.  Here’s your first look at the music video:

The ‘Playlist’ feature

Last Thursday’s ”Playlist” feature on George Strait seems to have been well received, so we’ll be making more posts like this about other artists in the future. In addition, whenever possible, we’re going to publish the playlists we discuss in the iTunes store under “iMixes”, for anyone who wants to purchase all or some [...]

Brad Paisley ‘Playlist’ album

This topic came up a few weeks ago when we were discussing the Brad Paisley and Sara Evans duet “New Again”. Some of you were looking for the song as a digital download. We were able to find it on the new Brad Paisley “Playlist” collection, but it was only available in CD [...]

Special spotlight – 9 to 5: The Musical

Last week I had the opportunity to go to New York City to tour and visit, for the first time in my life. We did all the usual tourist things, but my favorite part? Going to see the brand new musical, 9 to 5. It was in the Marquis Theatre, right on Times Square, right [...]

Q&A with Tanya Tucker

esterday, The 9513 included in their news roundup a Q&A session with Tanya Tucker about her upcoming covers album, My Turn, which will be released on June 2nd on Saguaro Road Records. I just stumbled upon a more complete version of that interview. Particularly interesting was her revelation that she’s only partnering up [...]

Clint Black album sale

Four of Class of ‘89 member’s Clint Black’s albums are on sale at iTunes for $7.99. The featured albums are:
Killin’ Time (1989)
No Time to Kill (1993)
One Emotion (1994)
Nothin’ But The Taillights (1997)
One Emotion is my least favorite of these albums, but I highly recommend Killin’ Time (reviewed here earlier this month) and Nothin’ But [...]

Good riddance and don’t let the door hit you on the way out

a href=”http://new.music.yahoo.com/jessica-simpson/news/jessica-simpsons-country-career-hits-sour-note–12174859″>Jessica Simpson’s country music career appears to be on its death bed.

Classic Album Reissue: Dolly Parton – ‘9 to 5 and Odd Jobs’

ony Legacy has reissued Dolly Parton’s 1980 album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs.   The album first appeared on CD a decade ago, on Buddha Records, which at that time was handling classic album reissues for RCA and the other BMG labels.   This time around three bonus tracks are included, two of which are no [...]

Trace Adkins: ‘Till The Last Shot’s Fired’

I just wanted to let everyone know that the live performance of this song from Sunday night’s ACM awards is available for purchase at iTunes. They’re also offering a video, which I’m assuming is also from the same performance. It’s well worth purchasing, especially if you don’t already have the album.
Click here to access [...]