Archive for September, 2011
Warner/Chappell Signing News
Who’s the newest writer on the Warner/Chappell roster?
Category: Artist, Featured, Publishing
Country Johnny Mathis Passes
‘Country’ Johnny Mathis, not to be confused with the pop singer, passed away at his home September 27 at the age of 80.
Rascal Flatts To Join The Grand Ole Opry
Tuesday night (9/27), Opry member Vince Gill invited Rascal Flatts to join the Grand Ole Opry. Gill surprised to group on stage with the invitation, after they’d finished performing “Bless The Broken Road.” Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney, members of Rascal Flatts, will be inducted Saturday, Oct. 8. The induction will take [...]
DISClaimer Single Reviews (9/28/11)
[Subscriber-only] This week at the Convention Center, it’s round-the-clock picking and singing at the IBMA World of Bluegrass confab. Among the week’s highlights are the presentation of the IBMA Awards at the Ryman Auditorium on Thursday evening. The discs in this week’s column all belong to nominees. [...]
Bobby Karl Works IBMA Week
[Subscriber-only] Chapter 375—Boy, I sure hope what I witnessed on Tuesday afternoon (9/27) is the beginning of a new IBMA tradition.
iTunes Crowd Continues To Swell
NPD’s latest research reports one in four U.S. Internet users now use iTunes—almost 51 million people—and an increase of 3% since last year. Music remains the primary activity of iTunes users, although app downloads is also seeing growth. 54% of iTunes users downloaded or listened to music this year and 28% downloaded a free app [...]
Category: Featured, Organizations, Weekend
Walk The West, Cactus Brothers Leader Dies At Age 48
Paul Kirby, who co-founded the Nashville rock band Walk the West and also led the country-rocking Cactus Brothers, has died of cardiac arrest at age 48.
Industry Toasts Moore’s No. 1 “If Heaven…”
BMI and ASCAP teamed up at CMA headquarters to honor the songwriting team behind Justin Moore’s No. 1 “If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away.”
Category: Artist, Featured, Publishing
Bluegrass Blooms In Downtown Nashville
The IBMA World of Bluegrass is this week and MusicRow critic Robert K. Oermann picks the best showcases and events.
Category: Artist, Featured, Organizations
Armiger Launches Deluxe Package With Opry Performance
Katie Armiger finally got to stand in country music’s inner circle [...]
Promoting #Hashtag Happiness
Twitter is becoming a favored source for entertainment industry news and promotion, however the volume of tweets is reaching tsunami proportions. One way to fine tune the tweet-flow, is by using hashtags, a word preceded by the poundsign, i.e. #mynews. Hypebot.com recently wrote about some of the favorite tags its readers are using to parse [...]
Category: Featured
Honky Tonk TV Acquired
Weekly country music news and entertainment television show Honky Tonk TV has been acquired by Phoenix-based Morgans Media Group…
Category: Featured
Johnnie Wright Passes
[Updated with arrangements] Country singer Johnnie Wright died this morning (9/27) at age 97 following a lengthy illness. He is known as a solo artist, as husband of female pioneer Kitty Wells, and as part of the duo Johnnie & Jack.
peermusic Adds Creative Manager
The music publisher has added a key new member to its team.
Category: Featured, Publishing
NBN SoundLand: Day 4
After late nights with Next Big Nashville’s SoundLand on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, I spent the rest of the weekend dragging. I guess there’s always a price for pursuing good times.
