Upcoming Bill Anderson Project Features Jamey Johnson Duet & Co-Writes With Buddy Cannon, Erin Enderlin & More

Artist: Bill Anderson
Album: Anderson
Label: TWI Records
Release date: September 14, 2018

Country Music Hall of Famer Whisperin’ Bill Anderson is readying the release of his 72nd album, Anderson, available on Sept. 14.  The 11-song project was produced by Anderson, Thomm Jutz and Peter Cooper, recorded and mixed by Jutz at TJ Tunes with assistant engineer Andy Kern and mastered by Alex Mccullough at True East Mastering. The Grand Ole Opry veteran co-wrote each of the additional tracks with venerable songwriters including John Paul White, Buddy Cannon, Paul Overstreet, Erin Enderlin and more.

“You might think after my having released 71 albums during my career that I’d be tempted to yawn my way through the release of album No. 72,” expressed Anderson. “Well, that’s not the case at all. I’m looking forward to this one as much as any record I’ve ever put out. I know I’ve never enjoyed the recording process more than working here with Thomm Jutz and Peter Cooper. They had the vision…I just tried to follow their lead and bring their ideas to life. I only hope that as folks listen, they’ll feel we succeeded.”

1. Old Things New (Buddy Cannon/ Paul Overstreet/ Bill Anderson)
2. Everybody Wants To Be Twenty-One (Jamey Johnson/ Bill Anderson)
3. Dixie Everywhere I Go (Bill Anderson)
4. Dead To You (John Paul White/ Bill Anderson)
5. Something To Believe In (Bill Anderson)
6. Watchin’ It Rain(Dave Gibson/ Bill Anderson)
7. That’s What Made Me Love You(Orion Lore/ Bill Anderson)
8. Practice Leaving Town(Bobby Tomberlin/ Lance Miller/ Bill Anderson)
9. The Only Bible(Tim Rushlow/ Bill Anderson)
10. Waffle House Christmas (Erin Enderlin/ Alex Kline/ Bill Anderson)
11. Thankful (Bill Anderson)

Peter Cooper To Release Depot Light: Songs of Eric Taylor On 11/13

Artist: Peter Cooper
Album: Depot Light: Songs of Eric Taylor
Label: Red Beet Records
Release date: Nov. 13, 2015

Former The Tennessean music senior writer turned Country Music Hall of Fame writer/curator Peter Cooper will utilize someone else's words as inspiration for a brand new album in November with a project called Depot Light: Songs of Eric Taylor.

Named one of Nashville’s “10 Most Interesting People” by Nashville Arts & Entertainment magazine, Cooper is also a session player, a producer who has worked with Todd Snider, Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Fayssoux Starling McLean, and others, a professor of country music at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, and a senior music writer at Nashville’s daily paper, The Tennessean.

Eric Taylor and his songs have been on the music scene since the early 1970s, when he was an integral part of a Houston songwriting scene that included Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, and Guy Clark. Taylor is one of the most influential songwriters to ever come out of Texas. Over the years, as his reputation and song catalogue have grown, he has had a profound effect on the evolution and development of such well-known Texas artists as Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen, and others. "Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s," says Earle. "He's the real deal."

Sierra Hull To Release Weighted Mind In January 2016

Artist: Sierra Hull
Album: Weighted Mind
Label: Rounder
Release date: Jan. 29, 2016

Sierra Hull, the singer and mandolinist and former child prodigy who signed with Rounder at age 13, and distinguished herself by becoming the first bluegrass musician to receive a Presidential Scholarship to the prestigious Berklee College of Music, has announced the release of her first new album in five years.  Weighted Mind will be released on January 29, 2016.
 
15-time Grammy winner Béla Fleck produced the recording, which features eleven compelling new compositions written or co-written by Hull, and one traditional tune for which she and Fleck provided a new arrangement. Alison Krauss, Abigail Washburn, and Rhiannon Giddens add harmonies on the project.

Veteran music scribe and fellow musician Peter Cooper writes, “Hull’s bluegrass roots inform and inspire this soundscape, but bluegrass does not define or limit Weighted Mind. This is not bluegrass music, or chamber music, or pop music. This is original music, from a virtuoso who tells the truth and speaks from herself.”

Mentor Alison Krauss proclaimed, “Sierra is a remarkably talented, beautiful human being. Success could not come to a more worthy person.”  Béla Fleck concurs: “Sierra and (her longtime musical partner) Ethan (Jodziewicz) proved themselves to be powerful artists, with extremely high standards. I am so glad to have ended up being a part of this project.”