That Nashville Sound Saturday Newsbytes: New Albums, New Record Deals, New Videos & More

With Country Radio Seminars in Nashville, news is coming out fast and furious about lots of your favorite artists.  Here's some headlines in bite-size form...

* Brandi Carlile has been named this year's Record Store Day Ambassador.  This years date of what will be a massive release of new releases on vinyl is April 18, 2020 and Carlile went on video to discuss what this means to her.

* Gary Allan has recently reassembled the band and producers behind his smash album Smoke Rings In The Dark, Tony Brown and Mark Wright, to record his first new music in years. Six 90's-country-inspired songs have already been tracked.

Several new music videos out including:

- Ashley McBryde - "First Thing I Reach For"
- RaeLynn - "Keep Up"
- Darrell Scott - "The Day After"
- Marc Broussard - "Baton Rouge"
- LeAnn Rimes - "Someone You Loved"

* Songwriter Gretchen Peters will pay homage to one of her songwriting heroes with the forthcoming album The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury out May 15th on Peters’ own Scarlet Letter Records. 

* Toby Keith, Chris Stapleton and more have contributed songs to Willie Nelson's next album. Nelson is releasing his 70th solo studio album, First Rose Of Spring, on Friday, April 24, which falls right before the legend’s 87th birthday on April 29. 

* Singer/songwriter Johnny Bulford (Lee Brice's "A Woman Like You" and Chris Young's "Flashlight") has released a fantastic new sentimental track dedicated to his grandfather called "Raised Me" that's definitely worth a listen. 

* On March 27th, Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real will release Naked Garden, a companion album to 2019’s Turn Off the News (Build a Garden) featuring previously unreleased tracks and alternate versions of songs from the same sessions. 

* Lauren Alaina will release a six-track EP entitled Getting Good, which releases March 6.

* Reba McEntire has resigned with her original music label. Reba made an appearance during the UMG Nashville CRS luncheon to announce returning to her former label home.

* Not to be undone, Tim McGraw did the same thing, moving back to Big Machine Records. McGraw’s return to Big Machine follows his recent exit from Sony Music Nashville.

That Nashville Sound Saturday Newsbytes: Clay Walker, Jason Michael Carroll, Brent Cobb & More

A couple of country music veterans have released new singles, a couple new projects are on the way and some interesting music videos were released... all in your Saturday Newsbytes here at That Nashville Sound today.

Jason Michael Carroll

- Clay Walker has released a new single called "Working On Me" after some time away from pushing radio single releases. You can listen to it HERE.

- Ditto for Jason Michael Carroll. The good guy is back with a good message with his brand new single "I Want You To Know" that you can listen to HERE.

- Michael Ray is following up his self-titled debut album with a new project due out June 1 on Atlantic Records/ Warner Music Nashville called Amos, named after his grandfather who gave him his appreciation of country music.

- Gretchen Peters is releasing a new project with a message on May 18th. Dancing with the Beast puts female characters at the forefront, from teenage girls to old women, and intentionally so. With the 2017 Women's March and #MeToo Movement as bookends to her writing, Peters knew that a feminist perspective would be the critical core of the record. “Those two events just put everything -- as so many things in 2017 -- in really stark relief,” she admits. “You can trace the feminist DNA in my songwriting back to 'Independence Day' and probably before. The thing that 2017 did is just put it front and center. It was very easy to kind of go to sleep for a while and just not think about that stuff because we were lulled into complacency for eight years.”

- And Brent Cobb is back with a fun animated video for his song "Mornin's Gonna Come" that you can watch below.

 

New 1/29 Compilation Release The Essential Gretchen Petersl To Have New Music As Well

Artist: Gretchen Peters
Album: The Essential Gretchen Peters
Label: Scarlet Letter Records
Release date: Jan. 29, 2016

Scheduled for release on January 29, 2016, The Essential Gretchen Peters is a double album which includes both a retrospective of Peters' best work chosen from a 20 year recording career, and rarities never before released. Disc One of The Essential Gretchen Peters features a handpicked selection of tracks from past releases, plus brand new recordings of two of Peters' best loved songs: "On A Bus To St. Cloud", and "When You Love Someone", here performed as a duet with co-writer Bryan Adams.

Disc Two contains rare tracks, many never before released, which illuminate Peters' songwriting and recording journey since 1996. The early work tape for her song "Five Minutes"; a live, full band version of "Woman On The Wheel"; an unreleased performance of the late Ben Bullington's song "Ring Around The Moon", performed by Peters and husband/coproducer/pianist Barry Walsh; and an unreleased work tape of "Blackbirds", sung as a duet with cowriter Ben Glover are just a few of the highlights on Disc Two. Liner notes are written by esteemed rock critic and Bruce Springsteen biographer Dave Marsh.

Disc One
1. Blackbirds (Gretchen Peters/Ben Glover) - from Blackbirds, 2015
2. The Aviator's Song - from Halcyon, 2004
3. The Secret of Life - from The Secret of Life, 1996
4. If Heaven - from Halcyon, 2004
5. When All You Got Is A Hammer - from Blackbirds, 2015
6. On A Bus To St. Cloud - previously unreleased, recorded 2015
7. The Matador - from Hello Cruel World, 2012
8. Sunday Morning (Up And Down My Street) - from Burnt Toast & Offerings, 2008
9. Guadalupe (with Tom Russell) (Tom Russell) - from One To The Heart, One To The Head, 2009
10. Hello Cruel World - from Hello Cruel World, 2012
11. When You Love Someone (with Bryan Adams) (Gretchen Peters/Bryan Adams/Michael Kamen) - previously unreleased, recorded 2015
12. Five Minutes - from Hello Cruel World, 2012
13. When You Are Old - from The Secret of Life, 1996

Disc Two
1. The Way You Move Me - Nashville demo, 2008
2. Ring Around The Moon (Ben Bullington) - unreleased, 2014
3. Pretty Things (Gretchen Peters/Ben Glover) - radio edit, 2015
4. The Cruel Mother (traditional) - Blackbirds bonus track, recorded 2011
5. Woman On The Wheel - recorded live at The Rutledge, Nashville, TN, 2012
6. When You Wish Upon A Star (Leigh Harline/Ned Washington) from Bandaged Together, 2009 used by permission
7. I Saw Your Light - Gretchen Peters bonus track, 2000
8. Love (John Lennon) - from And We All Shine On, a tribute to John Lennon, 2012 used by permission
9. The Chill Of An Early Fall (Gretchen Peters/Green Daniel) demo, 2004
10. Independence Day (acoustic version) - Blackbirds bonus track, recorded 2014
11. Wild Horses (with Matraca Berg & Suzy Bogguss) (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) Wine, Women & Song - The Sewanee Sessions, 2008
12. The Answer (Gretchen Peters/Lori McKenna) - work tape, 2011
13. Blackbirds (duet with Ben Glover) (Gretchen Peters/Ben Glover) - work tape, 2013
14. Five Minutes - work tape, 2011

New Music Video From Gretchen Peters- "Pretty Things"