The Americana Music Association announced the nominees for the trade organization’s 2009 Honors and Awards ceremony today at its annual celebration at BMI Nashville. The show, in its eighth year, will be held Thursday, September 17 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. I’ve attended the conference and showcase for the last three years and [...]
Chris Rock turns his always insightful eye on the music industry in the Current Rolling Stone – Chris Rock: Music kind of sucks. Nobody’s into being a musician. Everybody’s getting their mogul on. You’ve been so infiltrated by this corporate mentality that all the time you’d spend getting great songs together, you’re busy doing nine [...]
This is just brief rundown on events here in Nashville at the Americana Music Association conference. I will add more detail next week. Meeting Barbara Lamb, Sunny Sweeney, Chip Taylor, Kendal Carson, Gurf Morlix , Stacy Earle and Janet Reno! The Halloween tribute to the memory of Porter Wagoner with Mark Ferris, Rodney Crowell, Jim [...]
How stupid do the major labels think their customers are? The Wall Street Journal‘s front page detailed a plan to deceive customers by passing off a signed talent, a 24-year-old singer and guitarist named Marié Digby, as a DIY YouTube using amateur cover-artist trying to get a deal. Are the labels so bereft of ideas [...]
That’s right, right there between Keith Urban and Sugarland. Proof that there’s still room for great country music performed by legendary geezers that appeals to popular taste. You listening Nashville? By way of StillIsStillMoving.com and the9513.com.
An update in fun doings in Austin. What: Guitartown/conqueroo SXSW week kickoff party & showcase When: Wednesday, March 14, 12 noon until 9 p.m. Where: Mother Egan’s Irish Pub, 715 W. 6th St. 11:45-12:10 Randy Weeks 12:25-12:50 Ed Pettersen 1:05-1:30 Michelle Shocked 1:45-2:10 Scrappy Jud Newcomb 2:25-2:50 Walter Tragert 3:05-3:30 Tom Freund 3:45-4:10 Jon Dee [...]
Typically I could care less about the Grammy’s. I mean COME ON! Hootie & the Blowfish, Milli Vanilli and Culture Club! Yeesh! But because because of a flash of musical perception, odds, or whatever…they sometimes get it right. This year the folks at the Grammys have a couple of winners..if they actually win that is. [...]
There a great article on Sugar Hills Records CEO, and recipient of the 2006 Jack Emerson Lifetime Achievement Award, Barry Poss in today’s Wall Street Journnal. poss does a great job describing his vision in championing artists “with one foot planted firmly in the traditional world, but were young enough to be exposed to pop music [...]