That Nashville Sound Saturday Newsbytes: Terri Clark, Tom Petty, Garth Brooks, Loretta Lynn, Tony Jackson, Abby Anderson & More

We're playing catch-up this weekend with a new music video and a handful of new album introductions. TNS would love to hear from you- what's your favorite off of the list below?

- Tony Jackson has a new music video for his new song, "Ain't No App For That"

- Garth Brooks will release a new live album called Triple Live featuring 26 tracks assembled from shows on Brooks’ extensive world tour that began in 2014 including a cover of Ashley McBryde's phenomenal song, "Girl Going Nowhere."

- Morgan Evans will drop his new project Things That We Drink To on October 2. His full-length debut album will include a duet with his wife, Kelsea Ballerini, on a song he wrote for her called, “Dance with Me.”

- It's been far too long since Terri Clark released new music and the news that she's delivering a new album so the news that Raising the Bar is coming on September 14 is a welcome one. Track list is below:

1. Givin' Up Givin' a Damn

2. Cowboys in This Town

3. Weddings, Funerals, and Empty Hotel Bars

4. Young As We Are Tonight

5. Half a Bottle Down

6. Bloody Mary Morning

7. Watered Down Whiskey

8. As Long As There's a Bar

9. Right Where You Left Me

10. You Can Have This Town

11. The One That Got Away (feat. Drake White)

12. The Encore

13. Better Than I Was

 

- Abby Anderson's "Make Him Wait" is one of our favorite songs of the year and she's just announced it and four additional tracks will be on her debut EP, I'm Good, out September 7th.

 

- Following her stroke last year, Loretta Lynn postponed her project, Wouldn't It Be Great. The good news is that Lynn is feeling strong enough to set the release date for the project and it will be forthcoming on September 18 on Sony.

 

- John Carter Cash will be releasing We Must Believe in Magic on Reviver Records on September 9.

 

- Criminally under-publicized is a brand new tribute album to Roger Miller that came out yesterday featuring the likes of Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss, Brad Paisley, Rodney Crowell, Dwight Yoakam, Jamey Johnson, Loretta Lynn, Ronnie Dunn, Eric Church and more. Check out the details here.

 

- Nearly a year on from his death, Tom Petty fans are getting a special gift in the form of An American Treasure, a forthcoming 60-track boxed set of mostly previously unreleased studio and live material coming out September 28.



Tribute Album To Honor Roger Miller Recruits Brad Paisley, Eric Church, Kacey Musgraves, Willie Nelson, Dozens More

Artist: Multiple
Album: King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller
Label: BMG
Release date: August 31

King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller, out Aug. 31 via BMG, pays long overdue respects to one of American music's premier entertainers and songwriters. The two-disc collection contains new renditions of Miller's songs by Ringo Starr, Dolly Parton, Eric Church, Loretta Lynn, John Goodman and more than two dozen others, including Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard on one track. Produced by Miller's son, Dean Miller, and Colby Barnum Wright, 'King of the Road' offers a fresh look at the work of a creative giant who has been gone 26 years but whose genius continues to shape contemporary music in ways both overt and subtle.

Before Miller's premature death of cancer at age 56, the Country Music Hall of Famer had 31 Top 40 Billboard country hits (10 of which crossed over to the pop chart), including his signature songs "Dang Me" and "King of the Road." He held the record for most GRAMMY wins in a single night until Michael Jackson and 'Thriller' broke it in 1984. Miller wrote songs and voiced a character for Walt Disney's 1973 Robin Hood film. He also wrote the music and lyrics for the Tony-winning Big River, helping launch the career of actor John Goodman, who reprises the musical's "Guv'ment" on 'King of the Road.' As Dean Miller writes in liner notes accompanying 'King of the Road,' "Roger Miller was too gigantic to be contained by genres and definitions."

'King of the Road' includes versions of Miller's biggest '60s hits, like "Chug-A-Lug" (Asleep at the Wheel ft. Huey Lewis) and "England Swings" (Lyle Lovett), and lesser-known treasures from a catalog full of gems. As with Miller's own output, the album contains plenty of unexpected turns -- country superstar Eric Church's playful take on Robin Hood's "Oo De Lally," for instance, or Starr's selection of "Hey, Would You Hold It Down?," a song from Miller's long-out-of-print 1979 'Making a Name for Myself' album. By any standard of measurement, Miller was "one of the greatest songwriters that ever lived" -- even if he did say so himself. And he did, in the first of a handful of the album's live-performance interstitials that capture the spontaneous wit of a mind that operated at a breakneck pace.

The scope of material and performances on 'King of the Road' both capture Miller's personality and convey an astonishing legacy that's still felt today. "Roger Miller didn't have to say much," Dean writes in the liners. "You were simply drawn to him. He had a magnetic smile, and electric wit and a passion for life and music that transcended generations."

'King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller' Tracklist:
Disc One
Greatest Songwriter (Banter)
Chug-a-Lug - Asleep at the Wheel ft. Huey Lewis
Dang Me - Brad Paisley
Leavin's Not the Only Way to Go - The Stellas/Lennon and Maisy
Kansas City Star - Kacey Musgraves
World So Full of Love - Rodney Crowell
Old Friends (Banter)
Old Friends - Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard
Lock Stock and Teardrops - Mandy Barnett
You Oughta Be Here With Me - Alison Krauss ft. The Cox Family
The Crossing - Ronnie Dunn, The Blind Boys of Alabama
In the Summertime - The Earls of Leicester ft. Shawn Camp
Fiddle (Banter)
England Swings - Lyle Lovett
You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd - Various Artists
Half a Mind - Loretta Lynn
Invitation to the Blues - Shooter Jennings, Jessi Colter
It Only Hurts Me When I Cry (Live) - Dwight Yoakam

Disc Two
Hey, Would You Hold It Down? - Ringo Starr
Engine, Engine #9 - Emerson Hart ft. Jon Randall
When Two Worlds Collide - Flatt Lonesome
Oo De Lally - Eric Church
You Can't Do Me This Way and Get By With It - Dean Miller ft. The McCrary Sisters
Chicken S#$! (Banter)
Nothing Can Stop Me - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Husbands and Wives - Jamey Johnson ft. Emmylou Harris
I Believe in the Sunshine - Lily Meola
Guv'ment - John Goodman
Old Songwriters Never Die (Banter)
The Last Word in Lonesome Is Me - Dolly Parton ft. Alison Krauss
I'd Come Back to Me - Radney Foster ft. Tawnya Reynolds
Reincarnation - Cake
One Dying and a Burying - The Dead South
Do Wacka Do - Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
King of the Road - Various Artists