Country Music News Round-Up: Mark Wehner Passes & Taylor Swift Covers Alan Jackson

• Nashville lost a singer/songwriter and a good music aficionado with the passing of Mark Wehner this past week. Wehner created/produced the weekly Americana Tonight showcase series in Nashville, one of the nation’s most respected vehicles for presenting live Americana performance to the industry. Mark was also an Americana artist himself with two highly touted releases, including That’s The Way That It Goes (Hayden’s Ferry Records.) and Wait ... I Wasn't Finished. Peter Cooper did a feature on him just a week or two ago as he entered hospice.
• Bucky Covington (pictured) signed to a new label. 
• The black and white shadows are stunni ng on the new Little Big Town music video for “Shut Up Train.”
• Jack Ingram unveiled a brand new track he wrote with Chris Knight called “Stained Glass Window.”  Watch him play it live for you HERE
• Taylor Swift covered Alan Jackson’s iconic “Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning) during her concert on this past 9/11 ten year anniversary weekend.
• George Jones and Elizabeth Cook are going to be guest stars on the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim feature Squidbillies.
• Don Williams is going to be honored at the 49^th Annual ASCAP Country Music Awards with the ASCAP Golden Note Award- they’re highest honor.