Showing posts with label Valerie June. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valerie June. Show all posts
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That Nashville Sound Saturday Newsbytes - New Projects From Eric Church, Valerie June, David Olney & More
Nashville goes pretty dark at the end of December, but it looks like the big gears have started turning in earnest as we go into 2021 as there are a slew of new project and newsworthy events to report on this morning.
In keeping with his longtime commitment to put fans first, Church created the middle album, &, specifically for the Church Choir and will make it available exclusively to those fans and only as a vinyl record on Tuesday, April 20. The other two albums, Heart and Soul, will be available everywhere on Friday, April 16 and Friday, April 23, respectively. Pre-orders for all three albums begin next Friday, January 29.
Along with prioritizing his fans, just as important to Church is the constant desire to push the limits of his artistry, an effort that was on full display during the month-long creative process that went into the creation of this collection.
“I’ve always been intrigued when a song is born in a writer room – there is a magic that happens there,” shares Church of the unique process that went into making this project. “I wanted to put that in the studio form. So, every day, we would write a song in the morning and we would record the song that night. Doing it that way allowed for the songwriters to get involved in the studio process and the musicians to be involved in the creative process. You felt a little bit like you were secretly doing something that was special, and you knew it… You started going, ‘hmm, wait ’til the world finds out about this.’”
Recorded in Los Angeles and Miami, June collaborated with prolific producer Jack Splash to merge the influences of Femi Kuti, David Bowie producer Tony Visconti and the host of "eclectic" artists who contributed to the album, her follow-up to 2017's The Order of Time.
"With this record, it finally became clear why I have this dream of making music," June said in a statement. "It's not for earthly reasons of wanting to be awarded or to win anybody's love — it's because dreaming keeps me inquisitive and keeps me on that path of learning what I have to share with the world. When we allow ourselves to dream like we did when we were kids, it ignites the light that we all have within us and helps us to have a sort of magic about the way we live."
Almost one year to the day after his passing, folk artists David Olney will have his final album released posthumously. A new project called Whispers and Sighs is set for release on March 26 on Schoolkids Records.
- Lady Antebellum was invited to become the next members of the Grand Ole Opry.
- Hugely successful songwriter Hugh X Lewis passed away at the age of 90. He wrote numerous hit singles for other artists and starred on national TV, charting 15 titles on the country charts between 1964 and 1979.
- Dolly Parton's brother Randy Parton passed away from cancer at the age of 67. He charted a couple hits of his own back in the early 80's and frequently played bass for her on tour.
Sunday, September 10, 2017
That Nashville Sound Sunday Newsbytes - New Music Videos & Upcoming Releases
- Tracy Lawrence has set November 10, 2017 as the release date for one of the most ambitious and significant albums of his career. Good Ole Days celebrates the country legend’s indelible mark on country traditionalism with an album of 11 duets pairing a selection of his most iconic hits with some of country and rock’s contemporary superstars and newcomers. See a video about the project HERE. The collaborative collection includes guest appearances by Jason Aldean, Big & Rich, Luke Bryan, Luke Combs, Easton Corbin, Dustin Lynch, Tim McGraw, Justin Moore, Kellie Pickler and Chris Young. 3 Doors Down leader Brad Arnold makes his country music debut on the title track “Good Ole Days,” which is the second of the two original songs.
- On November 10th, Jeff Bates will be releasing an EP called Troublemaker.
- Blake Shelton released a new music video for the song "I'll Name The Dogs."
- Alison Krauss released a new music video for the track "Windy City."
- Whitney Rose released a new music video for her new song "Better To My Baby."
- Maggie Baugh released a new music video for "Catch Me."
- On the eve of Irma making landfall, it seems appropriate that Georgia-native Derek Hoke's next album is titled Bring the Flood. It comes out on Oct. 13 on Little Hollywood Records.
- Award-winning bluegrass artist Donna Ulisse has a new project out on Sept. 22 on Mountain Home Records called Breakin' Easy.
- Jack Ingram will be releasing a new song on Sept 19, a Next Waltz project with a cover of Jason Eady's "Why I Left Atlanta."
- Kelly Clarkson will return with her debut project for Atlantic Records on Friday, Oct. 27. The new album, Meaning Of Life, will feature songs including “Move You” and the album’s first single, “Love So Soft.”
- Valerie June and her top flight band stopped by Los Angeles' legendary public radio station KCRW on June 7th, 2017, for a live session on the their flagship Morning Becomes Eclectic program and released it into an live EP this week. Valerie June - Live at KCRW features eight songs from her critically acclaimed album The Order of Time (released earlier this year.)
- Blackbird Presents Records and CMT have combined forces and have announced the broadcast premiere and CD/DVD release of The Life & Songs Of Kris Kristofferson. The broadcast, concert film and music release features a collection of legendary singers, songwriters, and rising superstars who came together for a once-in-a-lifetime concert event taping in Nashville, Tennessee at the Bridgestone Arena to celebrate the songs of music icon Kris Kristofferson. CMT will premiere the 90-minute broadcast on Friday, October 27 at 10 PM ET/PT, and Blackbird Presents Records will release the full-length concert film as a CD/DVD combo, which is available for immediate preorder at http://songsofkristofferson.com and http://pledgemusic.com/projects/songsofkristofferson. The Life & Songs Of Kris Kristofferson features captivating performances, in-depth interviews, and compelling behind-the-scenes footage with Kris Kristofferson, Jessi Alexander, Lady Antebellum, Dierks Bentley, Ryan Bingham, Rosanne Cash, Eric Church, Jessi Colter, Rodney Crowell, Larry Gatlin, Emmylou Harris, Jack Ingram, Shooter Jennings, Jamey Johnson, Alison Krauss, Martina McBride, The Travelin' McCourys, Reba McEntire, Buddy Miller, Willie Nelson, Jennifer Nettles, Jon Randall, Darius Rucker, Hank Williams Jr. and Lee Ann Womack.
- Calico the Band, the California Americana country group led by the female duo of Manda Mosher and Kirsten Proffit, premiered their Western-themed music video for "Cold Cold Love," the latest single from the band's forthcoming album Under Blue Skies. Click here to watch the video that was filmed just outside of Joshua Tree, a Southern California location which has a "mystical cosmic country connection that is inspiration for us," says the band. -
Sunday, July 16, 2017
That Nashville Sound Sunday Newsbytes
- Valerie June does a beautiful job of combining R&B, bluegrass, country, blues and folk in her new music video for "Got Soul."
- If you missed The Dixie Chicks in concert this past year, you can head to the movie theaters to watch it. DCX MMXVI — In Concert will play in select movie theaters for one night only on August 7.
- The always-intriguing Brandy Clark released a new previously-unreleased song called "You're Drunk" that you can listen to here.
- Kevin John Coyne shares his love of Terri Clark's new podcast over at Country Universe- complete with a link to listen to a couple of them including ones Clark does with Suzy Bogguss, Pam Tillis, Reba McEntire and Wade Hayes.
- Sammy Kershaw has three different album projects in the way. First up is a Louisiana "swamp pop"album out later this year with a country and gospel album planned in early 2018. On the first album: “I’ve been listening to them since I was a boy,” Kershaw says, citing artists such as Eddy Raven, Willie Tee, TK Hulin and more, “so I just thought I would like to do a tribute album to those guys and get those guys on the album with me.”
- Union Station's Dan Tyminski has signed with Universal Records and has an album coming out in the fall. “I ended up getting to write with the young man Jesse Frasure — he’s on fire right now. When we first started to sit down to write, he had a take on where the music should go that was so fun and so daring. He wasn’t afraid to go anywhere — way outside of the box that I had found myself trying to write in. And we hit it off and started writing more music. Before we knew it, we had acquired a few songs that we really liked, “Southern Gothic” being one of them.”
- Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen recorded and made a music video for Guy Clark's "Rita Ballou" at Bruce Robison's The Next Waltz's Country Bunker studio in Lockhart, Texas.
- Toby Keith's new The Bus Songs album, out September 8th, features 12 of Keith's more unorthodox songs, all of which were written – as the title suggests – with that special mentality that only the back of a tour bus can provide.
- Searing instrumentalist Johnny Lang will release his first new album in four years. Signs comes out on September 8 on Concord Records. “A lot of my earlier influences have been coming to the surface, like Robert Johnson, and Howlin’ Wolf,” he reports. “I have been appreciating how raw and unrefined that stuff is. I had an itch to emulate some of that and I think it shows in the songs. Still, I let the writing be what it was and that was sometimes not necessarily the blues.”
Thursday, December 8, 2016
Sunny Sweeney To Release Trophy In March With Four Lori McKenna Co-Writes
Album: Trophy
Label: Thirty Tigers
Release date: March 10, 2017
2017 is shaping up to have some serious releases from some ladies with some serious singer-songwriter chops. Following up on previous album announcements from the likes of Jeannie Sealy, Natalie Hemby, Valerie June, Whitney Rose, Alison Krauss, LeAnn Rimes and Whiney Rose, critically-acclaimed artist Sunny Sweeney announced that she will release her fourth album Trophy on March 10th via Thirty Tigers. Trophy promises to feature "the young troubadour’s most serious set of songs, a new side of Sunny Sweeney. Rootsy and real, Trophy showcases Sweeney's maturation as a songwriter and as an artist growing into her own."
Trophy is the follow-up to Provoked (one of That Nashville Sound's Top 20 Albums of 2014), which offered a glimpse into where Sweeney was headed. Billboard, Rolling Stone Country, No Depression, The Washington Post and Elle are just a handful of the outlets that supported Sweeney's direction. NPR’s All Things Considered said, “Sunny Sweeney has all the right stuff for country stardom - a Texas pedigree, a heart-melting voice, stunning looks and the ability to seem both tough and vulnerable”. On Concrete, her 2011 major label release, Sweeney became the first female artist to reach the Top 10 on the country radio charts in over a decade.
From the press release:
"Sweeney has never been afraid to write about personal experiences, her unapologetic honesty and revealing vulnerability shows her as an artist who is equally as tough as she is tender. On Trophy it's clear that she's in a positive place, however the variety of songs on the album take listeners on an emotional rollercoaster. On the gorgeous “Grow Old With Me” and “Nothing Wrong With Texas”, Sweeney taps into the themes of love and sense of place. A highlight of the album, “Bottle By My Bed” is a heart-wrenching song expressing the sadness and frustration of not having a child. Though she didn’t set out to, Sweeney co-wrote the majority of Trophy with female writers, including four songs with Grammy Award-winning songwriter Lori McKenna. Her resulting songs capture the feminine experience with a combination of nuance, humor and accuracy only possible from the perspective of Sweeney and her collaborators. Trophy was produced by Grammy-nominated engineer/producer Dave Brainard (Brandy Clark's 12 Stories)."
Sunday, November 13, 2016
Valerie June To Release The Order of Time In January
Album: The Order of Time
Label: Concord Music Group
Release date: January 27, 2017
You may know Valerie June as the siren in red who accompanied Eric Church at his stunning performance of "Like Jesus Does" at the 48th Annual ACM Awards in 2013. I'd encourage you to get to know better with her next release.
The Americana artist will release her follow-up to 2013’s breakout LP, Pushin’ Against a Stone on January 27th, 2017 (Concord Records). The now-Memphis-bred Brooklyn-born songwriter "weaves electric blues, African rhythms, cosmic atmospherics and delicate soul into an inventive and wholly original rumination on love, family, struggle and the passing of time."
Produced by Matt Marinelli, The Order of Time includes twelve original songs all written by June and features appearances from June’s family, her father, Emerson Hockett and brothers, Patrick and Jason Hockett.
June has developed what The Independent’s Andy Gill describes as “the most strikingly individual delivery I’ve heard in ages.” Percolating somewhere between Dolly Parton and Billie Holiday, June’s is a stop-you-dead-in-your-tracks voice, the kind that grips your imagination and paints her Southern portraits in vivid detail.
Many of those portraits are drawn from Tennessee, where June grew up between the small towns of Humboldt and Jackson. She moved to Memphis after finishing high school and considered attending art school, but ultimately settled on singing in a band. The clash of creative egos proved to be more draining than inspiring, though, and she quickly made the leap to solo artist.
The Order of Time track listing:
1. Long Lonely Road
2 Love You Once Made
3 Shake Down
4 If And
5 Man Done Wrong
6 The Front Door
7 Astral Plane
8 Just In Time
9 With You
10 Slip Slide On By
11 Two Hearts
12 Got Soul
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Several New Music Videos From Up & Coming New Artists (Along With A Couple Of Veterans)
Old Dominion - "Break Up with Him"
Shakey Graves - "Dearly Departed"
Bros Landreth - "I Am the Fool"
Del Barber - "Big Smoke"
Sam Outlaw - "Kind to Me"
Belles & Whistles - "Mary Had a Little Boy"
Natalie Stovall & The Drive - "Mary Did You Know"
Angaleena Presley - "Merry Christmas From The Fam"
Frankie Ballard - "Run Rudolph Run"
Charlie Worsham - "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"
Tracy Lawrence - "Cold Beer"
Kelsea Ballerini - "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
Valerie June - "Workin' Woman Blues"
Terri Clark - "Longer"
Crowder - "Come As You Are"
Jeremy Starkel - "Burn"
Eileen Carey - "Bottle Your Crazy Up"
Johnny Marr - "Dynamo"
The Cheaters - "She Got a Way"
O'Shea - "Here I Am"
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
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