Roughstock's Week In Review: January 16 - January 21
By: Allen Jacobs
This week we started a new weekly series focusing on single reviews and now we’re closing out the week with a rundown of all the top new content featured on Roughstock this week. We hope you enjoy this feature which showcases everything that happened here this week. We hope you’ll come back every Saturday in the future to catch what you might have missed at Roughstock (and in country music) this week! Happy reading!
Top News Stories of the Week for January 16 – January 21, 2012
This week we also brought you breaking news about the brand new Dolly Parton co-owned water and snow theme park set to bring an attractive destination back to the Opryland resort area where the Opryland theme park once resided. We also shared with you this week’s chart news which featured Lady Antebellum’s Own The Night at number one, the revelation of Rascal Flatts’ upcoming album Changed release date and cover art, along with news about the Top New Artist ACM Award semi-finalists. Lady Antebellum also went Platinum while Jake Owen had to have surgery to repair a broken collarbone suffered in a snowboarding accident. Finally, we shared with you our debut of the new weekly roundup of recently released radio singles. The feature has 10 new/recent singles along with links to reviews, audio or video of the songs.
Carrie Underwood Joined by Steven Tyler for Super Bowl weekend CMT Crossroads event
Dolly Parton Partners With Gaylord To Open New Theme Park In Nashville
The Weekly Single Recap: Week of January 19, 2012
Rascal Flatts New Album Title and Cover Art Revealed
Country Album Chart News for January 18, 2012
Jake Owen Postpones Tour dates To Undergo Surgery
Lady Antebellum “Just A Kiss” Certified Double Platinum
ACM 2012 Top 8 New Artist Semi-Finalists Revealed
Top Music Videos For January 16 – January 21, 2012
This week we saw the release of a number of videos from top and new stars alike. First, 90s country star Neal McCoy returns with “A-OK” the lead single to his soon to-be-released project for Blaster/Warner Brothers records. Then we saw the release of the video for Ronnie Dunn’s third radio single, “Let The Cowboy Rock.” Newcomers JJ Lawhorn, Rich O’Toole and Jon Wolfe released new videos while Chris Young and Mallary Hope delivered live performances of new tunes. Bluegrass/traditionalist upstarts The Roys came blazing out of the gate in 2012 with “Trailblazer” while Eli Young Band and country icon Alan Jackson released videos for “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” and “So You Don’t Have To Love Me Anymore.” Josh Kelley’s sweet “Naleigh Moon” rounded out the week while Emily West’s “I Hate You, I Love You, I Hate You Again” video from last week continued to bring viewers. Check out each video in the links below:
Neal McCoy – “A-OK”
Ronnie Dunn – “Let The Cowboy Rock”
Alan Jackson “So You Don’t Have To Love Me Anymore”
JJ Lawhorn – “Sittin’ On A Tailgate”
Eli Young Band – “Even If It Breaks Your Heart”
Rich O’Toole – “Marijuana and Jalapenos”
Mallary Hope – “You Don’t Deserve Me”
Emily West – “I Hate You, I Love You, Again”
Top Audio Tracks for January 16 – January 21, 2012
This week’s new songs to listen to include our 2012 new artist to watch Dustin Lynch with “Cowboys and Angels, the special anti-bullying song from Matt Kennon called “You Had to Pick On Me,” the latest singles from Ira Dean, Mark Cooke, Steve Holy, newcomers Bryan Cole, Marlee Scott and country icons Rascal Flatts.
Rascal Flatts – “Banjo”
Matt Kennon – “You Had To Pick On Me”
Ira Dean – “Somethin’ ‘Bout A Sunday”
Mark Cooke – “Any Way The Wind Blows”
Bryan Cole – “Love Doesn’t Live Here”
Marlee Scott – Train Wreck (featuring Vince Gill)
Steve Holy – “Until The Rain Stops”
Dustin Lynch – “Cowboys and Angels”
Top Reviews for January 16 – January 21, 2012
This week is the first week with real new albums to share with y’all and it starts off with a bang with new albums from Tim McGraw and Kellie Pickler. These albums both earned rave reviews from our staff while two other recent releases, It All Happened In A Honky Tonk from Mark Cooke and Mark Wayne Glasmire from folk/country artist Mark Wayne Glasmire were featured as well.
Tim McGraw – Emotional Traffic
Mark Wayne Glasmire – Mark Wayne Glasmire
Jon Wolfe – It All Happened In A Honky Tonk
Bonus Reviews
Emily West – I Love You, I Hate You, Again EP
Contests for the week of January 16 – January 21
To round out this week’s content; we have our first two contests of the year. One for a copy of Jon Wolfe’s It All Happened In A Honky Tonk album and one for a copy of the fantastic soundtrack to the Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah film Joyful Noise, an album from WaterTower Music/Warner Brothers.
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