Country Music News Round-Up- Songwriter Bill Morrissey Passes and Kenny Chesney Writes For ESPN

Ira Dean- Average Joe's Entertainment

• Folk singer/songwriter Bill Morrissey passed away in Georgia this last week.
• If only for the fantastic personal family recordings interspersed between every other song on her album, it’s worth picking up the new bluegrass album On The Brooklyn Road by Nell Robinson.  You can read my review on the album that I did for Engine 145 HERE.
• Lots of new music videos released in the last week- with Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood being the more recent with “Remind Me.” Other new videos include:
• Pistol Annies — “Hell On Heels”
• Ronnie Dunn — “Cost of Livin’”
• Billy Chernoff — “Circle of Grace”
• Billy Currington — “Love Done Gone”
• Steve Richard — “Love’s Gotta Go Somewhere”
• Steve Holy — “Love Don’t Run”
• Phil Vassar — “Let’s Get Together”
• Alan Jackson –- “Long Way To Go”
• Indian Rodeo —“If I Could Go Back”
• Brandon Rhyder with Radney Foster (Live) — “Lord I Hope This Day Is Good”
• Jack Ingram shared his foolproof way to break up fights at his shows this week on his Acoustic Motel series.
• With the Dixie Chicks’ Martie Maguire in attendance at her most recent concert, Taylor Swift covered the Chicks’ “Cowboy Take Me Away.” Check out the video HERE.
• Kenny Chesney has written a new theme song for ESPN.
• After $1,500 went missing after his recent concert, Bucky Covington has been accused of grand theft.
• 3^rd Place American Idol finisher Haley Reinhart has signed a record deal.
• Mick Buck, Curator Director at the Country Music Hall of Fame blogs a bit about what will be going into the new Chet Atkins exhibit at the museum.
• Average Joe’s Entertainment added to its growing roster when it signed former Trick Pony member Ira Dean this week. His song “Beer or Gasoline” is currently at radio.