2013-08-08

Tri-Son News

Biggest Little News Sheet In Country Music (Since 1963) • August 2013 Issue

Loudilla and Kay Johnson • P.O. Box 40328 • Nashville, TN 37204 •  Ph. 615-371-9596

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Alabama will release their highly anticipated new album, Alabama & Friends Aug. 27 through Show Dog-Universal Music. The project is a tribute album featuring some of country music’s hottest stars, including Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney , Eli Young Band, Florida Georgia Line, Jamey Johnson. Toby Keith, Rascal Flatts, and Trisha Yearwood. The 11-song collection will also feature the band’s first new tracks in over 10 years: “All American” (written by Trey Bruce) and ”That’s How I Was Raised” (written by Charley Stefl, Tony Ramey, Skip Sasser and Trent Tomlinson). The  group teams again with legendary producer Harold Shedd.  Alabama added a second show (Nov. 4) at the Ryman Auditorium as part of their Back To The Bowery Tour, after the first night sold out in 30 minutes.

The Zac Brown Band returns to Nashville Sept. 27-28.  The two-day Southern Ground Music & Food Festival  will be held at Riverfront Park downtown. Kenny Chesney will join  other guests including John Fogerty and Jason Mraz on ZBB‘s “Super Set”  9/27.  Additional artists will be announced soon.

News Briefs: Keith Urban will return  to the judge’s chair for season No. 13 of American Idol.••• Hillary Scott (Lady Antebellum) and husband, Chris Tyrell welcomed their first child on July 22. Daughter, Eisele Kaye Tyrrell, weighed in at 7 pounds, 13 ounces! •••  Garth Brooks is a new grandfather. Brook’s middle daughter August Brooks and her high school sweetheart Chance Michael Russell celebrated the birth of their daughter, Karalynn, on July 23.••• Randy Travis was discharged from Baylor Heart in Plano, Tex. last week and has relocated to a physical therapy facility. Official updates on his condition will be made available at www.randytravis.com.••• Checo Records artist, Cerrito has won a new crowd of fans with his unique twist, blending traditional country music with a Spanish flair. He is currently in the studio recording a new album, to be released in Spring 2014. ••• Show Dog-Universal recording artist Krystal Keith is in the midst of her first promotional tour, visiting top country stations across the country through August. ••• The Band Perry hs signed with Red Light Management. •••  Jim Ed Brown will celebrate 50 years at the Grand Ole Opry on Aug. 10. Join the celebration at the Midnite Jamboree, located at the Ernest Tubb Record Shop on Music Valley Drive in Nashville.  Reception begins at 11PM. The show starts at Midnight. Free Admission.

Willie Nelson will release a new album, To All the Girls, on Sept. 20. The album features Nelson performing with various ladies, including Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Miranda Lambert, Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Wynonna Judd, Alison Krauss, Norah Jones, Shelby Lynne, Emmylou Harris, and Carrie Underwood. Underwood accompanies Nelson on “You Were Always On My Mind,” which earned him a Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1982.

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Bandit Records will release George Jones – Amazing Grace on Sept. 10, two days before what would have been Jones’ 82nd birthday. Jones, a partner in Bandit Records, recorded the gospel songs with producer Billy Sherrill in 2002 with the exception of one track, “Great Judgment Morning,” which was produced by Brian Ahern in 1994. Jones was reverential in his approach to singing sacred songs and didn’t believe vocal theatrics should be involved. His eloquent and moving rendition of “Amazing Grace” was used during the video/bio segment of his Kennedy Center Honors induction in 2008 and resulted in hundreds of calls asking for the recording.

Kenny Chesney has announced that he is taking a year off from touring in 2014. “I love touring more than anyone in the world,”  he told The Hollywood Reporter.  ”I love the band, the crew, the whole team — and it’s weird to not be looking at next year’s stage design, but I shouldn’t make albums to service the tour. So I’m going to put the music first, dial it back and do the strangest thing in the world: not hit the road next summer. Chesney is reaching career heights this summer as his 42-stop stadium tour plays for an estimated 1.25 million people. He also recently expanded his business portfolio to include a rum line, called Blue Chair Bay, inspired by the Virgin Islands.But music remains his core interest, and coming off of his most personal effort yet, this 13th studio album is one Chesney wants to take his time with. “You get to a point when you’ve made a lot of albums and you need to challenge yourself, to really make the record the focus, to ask yourself what you want to say … and not just cut songs because they fit what people expect,” he says. “It’s a lot harder to find those songs than  you’d think, and writing takes time — to think, to live, to be.”

Alan Jackson will perform at Nashville’s Station Inn on Aug. 27. The show will feature the players from Jackson’s upcoming The Bluegrass Album, set for release Sept. 24. Jackson wrote eight of the fourteen songs on the album, which will be released on ACR (Alan’s Country Records)/EMI Records Nashville and is produced by Keith Stegall and Jackson’s nephew, Adam Wright. Tickets for the Station Inn performance are  $25 and may be reserved onsite and in person at the venue beginning at 1:00pm on Aug. 26 (day before the show); tickets will be limited to four per purchaser, and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. People reserving tickets must be present at the Station Inn the night of the show when doors open at 7:00pm – cash payment and a photo ID must be presented at that time, and all members of the ticket purchaser’s party must be present for admission.

Music City Roots: Live From The Loveless Cafe will premiere its inaugural 13-week season of hour long shows on Nashville Public Television Sept. 13. The first airing will begin at 7 p.m. CT. The series will then air on several public television stations around the country, distributed by American Public Television.

Life Notes: Julian Franklin “Curly” Lewis (88), legendary fiddler died July 14 in Tulsa, Okla.. Long associated with Johnnie Lee Wills, Bob Wills, Hank Thompson, Leon McAuliffe and others, Lewis was one of only three sidemen to be honored with a star on Caine’s Walk of Fame in Tulsa. Capping a nearly 80-year career, Lreid last played publicly in February, at his induction into the National Fiddlers Hall of Fame at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in Tulsa. A public memorial service was held at Cain’s Ballroom on Aug. 3. Survivors include his wife, Edith Lewis; five children, Jerry Sturdy, Judy Bivens, Donnie Lewis, Cynthia Hackathorn and Steve Lewis; two sisters; and one brother.••• Betty Sue Lynn (64), eldest daughter of Loretta & O.V. “Mooney” Lynn, died July 29 at her home in Waverly, Tenn, from complications of emphysema  She is survived by two daughters, Lynn Markworth and Audrey Dryer, and five grandchildren.

EVENTS Calendar 2013:

• Sept.21-22 – Country Night Gstaad, Switzerland’

• Sept. 26 – International Bluegrass Music Awards, Raleigh, NC

• Oct. 4-6 – Independent Music Fest, Nashville, TN

Events and more are listed on our LINKS page!  www.ifco.org/

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