Rosanne Cash’s “The List” wins AMA’s Top Honor in Nashville
The singer/songwriter’s critically-praised album featuring tunes highlighted by her father was chosen last night as the Album of the Year by the Americana Music Association. Ryan Bingham took home Artist of the Year and Song of the Year for his song “The Weary Kind,” the theme song from Crazy Heart.
2010 Americana Honors and Awards recipients
- Album of the Year: The List Rosanne Cash
- Artist of the Year: Ryan Bingham
- Instrumentalist of the Year: Buddy Miller
- New / Emerging Artist: Hayes Carll
- Song of the Year: "The Weary Kind" by Ryan Bingham
(Written by Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett) - Duo / Group of the Year: The Avett Brothers
- Jack Emerson Lifetime Achievement Award for Executive: Luke Lewis
- Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist: Greg Leisz
- Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance: Wanda Jackson/li>
- Lifetime Achievement Award for Producer/Engineer: Brian Ahern
- Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriter: John Mellencamp
Merle Haggard Honored With and Humbled by Kennedy Center Honor’s Nomination
Country HOF member and music icon Merle Haggard will be honored as an Honoree by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He is getting the distinction for being one of the “most influential singer/songwriters in country music history.”
In an interview this week Merle said “All of the awards are special but this one comes from the American people…This is very special.”
James Otto Sidelined by illness
With his album scheduled to be released next Tuesday, Warner Brothers Nashville artist James Otto recently went into the hospital due to an abdominal illness, forcing him to cancel this weekend’s shows. He is expected to make a quick and full recovery.
Country Sales Down More than All other Genres in 2010
For the first time since sales started declining with the growth of digital single sales, country music albums have outpaced the decline felt in all other genres. Despite this news, country music’s massive collection of fourth quarter (Fall 2010) releases will undoubtedly change this news.
Songwriter/Artist Shawn Camp’s “Lost” album Unearthed by WMG Nashville President
After watching Shawn Camp perform in Nashville, new WMG President John Esposito found out that Camp had made an album in 1994 but had it shelved because it didn’t fit with what the label principals at Reprise Nashville thought was mainstream country music at the time.
Esposito was enthralled with the live set and said this upon discovering the unreleased album: “This stuff is magic,” Esposito says of first hearing the album. “There’s this sly, underlying sexiness to Shawn’s songwriting that I dig. I was trained to sign people who are magnificent and then to allow them show their magnificence. It shouldn’t be about trying to change what they do.”
The album has now been titled 1994 and it will be issued on September 28, 2010 a full 16 years after it was finished. Camp is a popular songwriter of such songs like “Two Pina Coladas,” “Would You Go With Me,” “River of Love,” “How Long Gone” and many other cuts, along with releasing bluegrass/Americana-centric solo records. Camp’s 1993 self-titled debut (“Fallin Never Felt So Good” is on this CD) will get re-issued as well.
Members of Trailer Choir and Carters Chord Get Married
Trailer Choir’s lead singer Mark “Butter” Fortney married Carter’s Chord’s Emily Robertson in a surprise ceremony in Nashville this past Monday. The couple first met touring with Toby Keith, who is one of the head honchos of their label Show Dog-Universal Records. Trailer Choir’s “Shakin’ That Tailgate” is out now while Carter’s Chord is working on their sophomore album.
Rosanne Cash Discusses Her Career, Her Book and her family in interview this week.
In an article with Billboard, Rosanne Cash discusses her career in the industry and how her daughter Chelsea Crowell is handling becoming an artist herself.
There was also this interesting tidbit in the conversation:
“The first marketing meeting I had about maybe my first or second record, they said in front of me that the image they wanted to create of me was one that was -- and I quote -- "f---able."
‘Satisfied’ Singer Signs New Label Deal
Once signed to Sony Music before the label merged with the RCA Label Group in Nashville, singer/songwriter Ashley Monroe has signed a new deal with Warner Brothers Records in Los Angeles.
Albums Reviewed This Week
Jamey Johnson – “The Guitar Song”
The SteelDrivers – “Reckless”
Richie Fields – “Down Memory Lane”
Winfield’s Locket – “Winfield’s Locket”
Jon Wolfe – “It All Happened In A Honky Tonk”
Singles Reviewed This Week
James Otto – “Soldiers & Jesus”
Frank Ortega – “My Old Man”
Blake Shelton – “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking”
Walker Hayes – “Pants”
Burns & Poe – “How Long Is Long Enough”
Ashley Gearing – “When You Think About Us”
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