Archive for August, 2011
Loretta Lynn Postpones Tour Dates
Though she recently returned to the concert stage with a Grand Ole Opry performance in Nashville, Loretta Lynn has been forced to cancel tour dates before the September 3rd show at her ranch in Hurricane Mills, TN.
Smoking Country Gets Fightin’ Hot
The Smokin’ Country Concert (8/5,6,7) in Bloomville, Ohio got a bit hotter than promoters imagined after rain, mud and a stuck bus contributed to a fistfight between Tracy Lawrence and promoter Elmer Cole Jr. who also owns Cole Farms, the concert site. According to the Advertiser-Tribune, “Seneca County Sheriff Bill Eckelberry said there was a [...]
Photos: Xtreme Muzik, Nichols, Gentry, Angels
Xtreme Music The Tour featuring Gretchen Wilson and Big & Rich • Joe Nichols video shoot • Montgomery Gentry USO tour • Stealing Angels hang with the White Sox
Shelton Remakes “Footloose” For Warner Soundtrack
Atlantic Records / Warner Music Nashville will release the movie soundtrack for the upcoming Paramount Pictures film, Footloose. Blake Shelton offers his take on the classic title song, while Victoria Justice and Hunter Hayes duet on the movie’s love theme, “Almost Paradise.” The other remakes of hits from the original soundtrack are “Holding Out For [...]
Album News: Luke Bryan, Kevin Fowler, McClymonts
Luke Bryan makes the media rounds for Tailgates & Tanlines • Kevin Fowler is Chippin’ Away • Aussie trio the McClymonts prepare for US release
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
CEMB Pipeline Project Shares Findings
Belmont University’s Pipeline project shared its findings with the entertainment industry last evening at a reception held at Regions Bank (8/8). The Pipeline project, an initiative of the Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business (CEMB), was created as a think tank. Some of the school’s best and brightest students were chosen to participate and [...]
Category: Exclusive, Featured, Organizations
Live On The Green Returns For Third Season
Live On the Green’s third season, presented by Lightning 100, will open Sept. 8 with a unique collaboration between Nashville-based artist K.S. Rhoads and the Nashville Symphony. The performance is the first in a free, six-week concert series taking place Thursday nights through Oct. 13 at Nashville’s Public Square Park downtown. The show kicks-off at [...]
Joey+Rory, Charlie Daniels Already Hearing Jingle Bells
It’s only August, but Joey + Rory, and Charlie Daniels are already in the holiday spirit. Joey+Rory are prepping the Oct. 11 release of A Farmhouse Christmas, featuring 10 new holiday songs, as well as the standards “Away In A Manger” and “Blue Christmas.” The Vanguard/Sugar Hill Records album also contains the Garth Brooks/Kent Blazy-penned [...]
Celebrating Writer/Publisher Highlights
AIMP Arrives; Tim Nichols Adds Another Million (Airs); Dallas Davidson Gets His 8th No. 1; Rascal Flatts Get Platinum and No. 1 Awards
Category: Awards, Featured, Organizations, Publishing
Take A Sniff Of Keith Urban
Four-time Grammy Award Winning artist Keith Urban is set to release his first fragrance for men, Phoenix by Keith Urban, in partnership with Boom LLC. Joining artists such as Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill, Urban’s fragrance launches worldwide in the fall and reflects his personal triumphs and spirit. The phoenix symbol resonates with [...]
Brett James Signs With Warner/Chappell/ Combustion
Warner/Chappell Music, together with its joint venture partner Combustion Music, announces a worldwide co-publishing agreement with Grammy-winning songwriter Brett James. Additionally, Warner/Chappell will co-publish a selection of his past works and establish a co-publishing venture with James’ boutique publishing company, Cornman Music. This venture enables James to sign songwriters to publishing deals with the company. [...]
Category: Artist, Featured, Publishing, Weekend
Industry Ink Tuesday (8/9)
News from Matt Gary, John Ettinger, Dan Hodges, Steve Wilkinson, ACM Honors tix, ASCAP Songwriters Workshop, and Cowboy Jack Clement
Category: Artist, Featured, Publishing
Dale Bobo Forms Music Direction Company
Music publishing veteran Dale Bobo has started Dale Bobo Music Direction, providing consultation, management, and creative propulsion to music publishers, songwriters and producers. The company’s inaugural client is hit songwriter/producer Jeff Stevens, who has written songs for George Strait, Tim McGraw and others including the recent Luke Bryan #1 single “Someone Else Calling You Baby” whom [...]
Category: Featured, Publishing, Weekend
Sherman Named RIAA Chairman and CEO
Cary Sherman has been named Chairman & CEO of the RIAA, effective September 1, 2011. He succeeds Mitch Bainwol, who resigned to become CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, as first tipped last week in MusicRow. Sherman has served as RIAA President since 2001, after joining the organization as General Counsel in 1997. Before [...]
Category: Featured, Organizations
Tennessee Two’s Marshall Grant Passes
Musician Marshall Grant, the final surviving member of Johnny Cash’s revered Tennessee Two, died yesterday, Aug. 7. Until the very end, the 83-year-old’s life was tied to the late icon. Grant collapsed Wednesday (8/3) following rehearsals for a Cash tribute concert in Jonesboro, Arkansas that was raising funds to restore the singer’s boyhood home. Grant [...]
