Kristy Lee Cook To Deliver All Kinds of Crazy Early Next Month

Artist: Kristy Lee Cook
Album: All Kinds Of Crazy EP
Label: Broken Bow Records
Release Date: May 6, 2016

Kristy Lee Cook is set to release her first EP All Kinds Of Crazy on May 6, 2016 with Broken Bow Records. Cook is an authentic country girl whose passion for life, music, and love shine through in her music.

Cook was the seventh place finalist on the seventh season of American Idol. In 2005, Cook released her first album called Devoted. In June 2008, Cook signed to 19 Recordings and Arista Nashville. She released her post-Idol album, Why Wait, in September 2008. producing her first chart single, "15 Minutes of Shame", a Top 30 hit on the Billboard country charts.

1.Everything
2. Ruined
3.What We Got
4.All Kinds Of Crazy

Merle Haggard Tribute Album Planned for April 1 Release

Broken Bow Records announced the April 1st release of a star-studded tribute compilation honoring one of the greatest Country music icons of our time – Merle Haggard. The musical celebration, Working Man's Poet: A Tribute to Merle Haggard, features brand new covers of some of the living legend’s biggest hits, recorded by some of the hottest stars in Country music today. The album includes performances by: Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Garth Brooks, Luke Bryan, Kristy Lee Cook, Ben Haggard, Randy Houser, Toby Keith, Dustin Lynch, Joe Nichols, Jake Owen, Parmalee, Thompson Square and James Wesley.

Working Man's Poet: A Tribute to Merle Haggard
Official Track Listing:

1. Misery And Gin (performed by Randy Houser)
 2. Footlights (performed by Joe Nichols)
 3. Going Where The Lonely Go (performed by Jason Aldean)
 4. Today I Started Loving You Again (performed by Kristy Lee Cook)
 5. Carolyn (performed by Toby Keith)
 6. Pancho And Lefty (performed by Luke Bryan & Dierks Bentley)
 7. Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down (* performed by Garth Brooks)
 8. You Take Me For Granted (performed by Thompson Square)
 9. Mama Tried (performed by Ben Haggard)
 10. That’s The Way Love Goes (performed by Dustin Lynch)
 11. Make Up and Faded Blue Jeans (performed by Jake Owen)
 12. I’m A Lonesome Fugitive (performed by James Wesley)
 13. Workin’ Man Blues (performed by Parmalee)
 14. Are The Good Times Really Over (performed by Jason Aldean)
 15. Let’s Chase Each Other Around The Room (performed by Thompson Square)
 16. I Think I’ll Just Stay Here And Drink (performed by Dustin Lynch)
 17. The Fightin’ Side Of Me (performed by James Wesley)
 18. My Favorite Memory (performed by Joe Nichols)
 19. Ramblin’ Fever (performed by Randy Houser)
 20. Sing Me Back Home (performed by Ben Haggard)

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That Nashville Sound’s Top Ten Best Duets and Music Collaborations of 2013

This marks the last of three year-end lists that you’ll see from That Nashville Sound that included a Top 30 Album List and a Top 100 (and something) Song List. For this one, we’ll cover one that isn’t normally seen across the blogosphere. Count down with us the top ten duets and music collaborations in country music for 2013.

1. Will Hoge with Wade Bowen - "Another Song Nobody Will Hear"- Hoge and Bowen are songwriting legends, especially around the Lone Star State of Texas. They've just recently collaborated on a new track called "Another Song Nobody Will Hear" that is Hoge's most recent release on the Texas radio scene. For anyone that's found themselves at the mercy of having to create a piece of art that's not a vehicle for wealth development, but a personal validation, it's the perfect message.



2. Dean Brody with Lindi Ortega - "Bounty"- While most in the lower 48 states aren't going to know about Brody and this terrific album, Canadian country fans know him well. Brody has won nearly every available award up north and this makes his fourth release. "Bounty" is a terrific story told and sung with Lindi Ortega" about a man who saves his love from a predator and has to move to Mexico.

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3. Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison - "Leavin'" - She is carrying the torch for female honkytonk singers. He is the singer/songwriter with #1 records cut by the Dixie Chicks, George Strait, and Tim McGraw. Married and singing together, they have put together an incredible album that truly belongs in the echelon of Tammy and George. Together they are the first couple of Texas music, and, they have finally recorded together. Each song is a polaroid of life, none more stripped down and revealing than "Leavin." That song is a snapshot of the album, showing the ups and downs of married life can be truth and inspiration in songwriting.



4. Willie Nelson and Alison Krauss - "No Mas Amor"- Willie cut an entire album of duets with some of country and non-country music's best vocalists. But there were none better than the beautifully haunting and ethereal voice of Alison Krauss. Together, they sing about there not being any more love in Spanish. It's magic. And not the magic that happens when you sit on Willie's bus too long either.



5. Dierks Bentley and Kacey Musgraves - "Bourbon in Kentucky"- Dierks released this single to radio off of his yet-to-be-announced album next spring. And despite having the current "it" girl when it comes to singing and songwriting, it stalled high on the charts, unfortunately. They both deliver a great performance on vocals and the songwriting chops on this one are as strong as they are classic. This could go down as one of 2013's more underrated radio singles.



6. Justin Moore and Miranda Lambert - "Old Habits" While too much of Moore's Off the Beaten Path album talks about hanging out on dirt roads off the beaten path, this piano driven duet with Miranda Lambert is a shining star on the album. Lambert's powerhouse twangy vocals are allowed to be the focus through the production and the lyrics about longing over a lost love will resonate forever.



7. Neal McCoy and Trace Adkins - "Roll On Mississippi"- This year, Neal McCoy released a much-too-under-the-radar dedication album to Charley Pride and this was certainly a highlight. If you missed it, check out this live and heartfelt performance that they did together on the Grand Ole Opry stage.



8. Dwight Yoakam and Michelle Branch - "Long Goodbye" - This was originally supposed to be on a Michelle Branch album, but Dwight Yoakam released it on his album this past year. According to Branch, "One of my favorite artists is Dwight Yoakam. When I was in the studio in Nashville, we met and I told him it would be a dream come true if he sang on my record. Next thing you know, he was in the studio singing "Long Goodbye" with me. I couldn't imagine this song without his voice on it. This song was meant to be the follow up single to "Sooner Or Later" (off the album that never was, Everything Comes and Goes.)"



9. Randy Houser and Kristy Lee Cook- "Wherever Love Goes" - It turns out that Mississippi soul and American Idol pipes make a pretty good match. This duet from these two label-mates was the best track off of Houser's album this year and they trade powerhouse vocals on this terrific universal love-themed song.



10. Gord Bamford and Joe Diffie- "Country Junkie"- In a year in which Jason Aldean "paid tribute" to Joe Diffie with a rap song of all things, Canadian country star Gord Bamford does it the right way: Getting his legendary hero into the recording studio and putting together a honkytonk driven song. THAT'S that right way to honor Diffie and Bamford makes it sound like they had one hell of a good time.
 

Randy Houser To Release How Country Feels In Late January

Randy Houser soulful country pipes will hit the store shelves on January 22 when his brand new album named after his current radio hit, "How Country Feels," will be released by Stoney Creek Records.

Houser has written seven of the new tracks and one of the tracks, "Wherever Love Goes," will be a duet with his label-mate Kristy Lee Cook. The title track is the soulful singer's fastest-climbing song to date.

"The first time I heard [the song] go, 'hair down, hair down,' I was like, 'Bam! I've got to have that.' I thought it was a hit," Randy tells The Boot. "I loved it; it was hip and cool. It's very relatable, too, because everybody who listens to country music is not in the country. One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural."

How Country Feels Track Listing:
1. "Runnin' Outta Moonlight"
2. "Growin' Younger"
3. "Top of the World"
4. "The Singer"
5. "Power of a Song"
6. "Absolutely Nothing"
7. "Wherever Love Goes" (with Kristy Lee Cook)
8. "Like a Cowboy"
9. "How Country Feels"
10. "Along for the Ride"
11. "Sunshine on the Line"
12. "Goodnight Kiss"
13. "Let's Not Let It"
14. "Shine"
15. "Route 3 Box 250 D"

New Music Video From American Idol Alum Kristy Lee Cook- "Airborne Ranger Infantry"

American Idol Alumni Kristy Lee Cook Signs With Broken Bow Records

Season 7 American Idol alumni and hunting-lover, Kristy Lee Cook tweeted the good news yesterday:

“Guess what !!???? I got a record deal with Broken Bow records!!!!!!”

Broken Bow records is a country indie, but is home to Jason Aldean, currently a huge country radio star.

Maybe not congratulating the newly-signed Idol, is PETA. The controversial animal rights organization recently released a public statement criticizing Kristy Lee’s new hunting/reality show, Goin’ Country with Kristy Lee airing on the Versus cable channel.

PETA released the following statement:

“Instead of angering thousands of would-be fans by killing helpless animals on camera in attempt to get her ‘15 Minutes of Shame,’ Kristy Lee Cook’s fame crusade would be better served by following in the footsteps of fellow Idol alum-turned-country-stars Carrie Underwood and Kellie Pickler—as well as Simon Cowell—all of whom have used their fame and talent to speak up for animals.”
Tough gal Kristy Lee fired back:

“Given that hunters have done more for American wildlife conservation than any other group in history, I make no apology for being one,” Cook told FOX411.com. “Indeed, I join the ranks of millions of American hunters who celebrate our outdoor heritage and who conserve millions of acres of wild lands. These same people support more than 600,000 jobs across the country and provide a critical voice to encourage more investment in American conservation.”

“I’m a big time organic person, and the meat we get from shooting something is as organic as it comes. If I don’t take the meat home to my family then we give it to orphanages or homeless shelters,” she said. The meat is going somewhere and it is great because I get to feed all these people. Whether you like hunting or not, I know I get to help people eat.”