Justin Moore Leads, Billy Currington, The Band Perry Enter Top 10
11 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Justin Moore Leads, Billy Currington, The Band Perry Enter Top 10
Valory Music Co. continues its strong presence at radio with Justin Moore‘s ‘Lettin’ the Night Roll’ topping the chart, and The Band Perry‘s ‘Chainsaw’ entering the top 10. And whomever is still working Craig Campbell‘s ‘Keep them Kisses Coming’ to radio is doing an amazing job, as the song bounces back yet again to its Read More
Album Review: Thanks for Listening – Colt Ford
11 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Album Review: Thanks for Listening – Colt Ford
Thanks for Listening – Colt Ford (Average Joes Entertainment, 2014) From the moment he decided to pursue a music career, Colt Ford has fought up uphill battle. He didn’t seem to have any of the prerequisites to achieve success in an intransigent genre which increasingly favored looks over substance. He didn’t have any save one: Read More
Single Review: ‘Cold One’ – Eric Church
11 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Single Review: ‘Cold One’ – Eric Church
Songwriters: Eric Church, Luke Hutton, Jeff Hyde I could get used to this. Amid what I started to fear would be an endless stream of meaning-free drinking songs, Eric Church‘s ‘Cold One,’ along with Dierks Bentley‘s ‘Drunk on a Plane,’ reminds us that there is another way. Expertly wielding the triple entendre, Church alternatively lets Read More
Album Review: Lazaretto – Jack White
11 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Album Review: Lazaretto – Jack White
Lazaretto – Jack White (Third Man/Columbia, 2014) Jack White took his time to create Lazaretto, his second solo studio album, amid working on projects with other artists on his own Third Man label. Often accused of too much eccentricity, White brings his psychedelic energy to Lazaretto, as he states on the title track “even God Read More
Get to Know…Lucy Hale
11 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Get to Know…Lucy Hale
If you’d like to get to know Lucy Hale a little bit better, this write-up by CMA’s Bob Doerschuk is a good place to start! Growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, Hale adored Faith Hill and Shania Twain, performed two Martina McBride songs during a talent competition at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch in Hurricane Mills and ultimately Read More
Ray Stevens Chronicles Rise of Nashville in Career Memoir
11 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Ray Stevens Chronicles Rise of Nashville in Career Memoir
As a country music and comedy pioneer, Ray Stevens watched Nashville transform from a small southern town to the epicenter of the music industry it is today. In his new memoir, Stevens chronicles both his and the city’s rise to fame. Read more in the press release: Fifty-two years ago when Harold Ray Ragsdale made Read More
Brett Eldredge Takes His ‘Beat’ to #1, Joe Nichols Says ‘Yeah’ to Top 10
11 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Brett Eldredge Takes His ‘Beat’ to #1, Joe Nichols Says ‘Yeah’ to Top 10
Brett Eldredge has to wait out a few other hits but he finally sees his catchy summer tune, ‘Beat of the Music,’ reach #1 on the Mediabase chart. Justin Moore moves to #2, and Jake Owen to #4. At the other end, Joe Nichols returns to the country music top 10 with ‘Yeah.’ Mediabase Read More
Tom Hiddleston to Portray Hank Williams in New Movie
11 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Tom Hiddleston to Portray Hank Williams in New Movie
Director Marc Abraham is preparing a new movie about the life, career, and untimely death of early country star Hank Williams. The film will be based on Colin Escott’s biography of the iconic singer and the production has secured the music catalogue via Sony ATV. British actor Tom Hiddleston has signed on to the project Read More