[RecipesAndMore] country music news march 9

[kay dear]

Rascal Flatts Releasing New Songs on iTunes Prior to Album Release
Mon. March 09.2009 4:45 PM EDT

Rascal Flatts will release four songs on iTunes in advance of their new album, 
Unstoppable, due April 7 on Lyric Street Records. The single and video of
Here Comes Goodbye will be available on Tuesday (March 10), followed by 
Forever on March 17, Love Who You Love on March 24 and Things That Matter
on March 31. The band co-produced the album with Dann Huff.

Carrie Underwood Remakes Mötley Crüe Hit for American Idol
Mon. March 09.2009 3:43 PM EDT

Carrie Underwood has recorded a version of Mötley Crüe's Home Sweet Home for 
American Idol. Starting on Wednesday (March 11), the song will be played
when contestants are voted off the show and will be available as a digital 
single on iTunes on March 16. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Humane
Society of the United States (HSUS). I've always loved this song, and besides 
being very fitting for Idol, to me, the title is also very fitting with
animal rescue and finding animals their own homes, Underwood said. So we felt 
it was important to tie the release into an amazing animal charity like
the HSUS. Underwood won American Idol in 2005.

Steve Earle Releasing Townes Van Zandt Covers Album in May
Mon. March 09.2009 3:15 PM EDT

Steve Earle will release a covers album of Townes Van Zandt songs, Townes, on 
May 12 on New West Records. Selections include Pancho and Lefty, White
Freightliner Blues and No Place to Fall. Allison Moorer appears on Loretta 
and To Live Is to Fly, and Justin Townes Earle sings on Mr. Mudd and
Mr. Gold. In addition, the track Lungs was produced and mixed by the Dust 
Brothers' John King and features Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine/the
Nightwatchman/Street Sweeper on electric guitar. Townes will also be available 
as a deluxe two-CD set, as well as double limited edition 180 Gram Vinyl.
Earle met Van Zandt in 1972 at one of Earle's performances at the Old Quarter 
in Houston. Earle has been widely quoted as saying, Townes Van Zandt is
the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee 
table in my cowboy boots and say that. Van Zandt died in 1997.

Tanya Tucker Plans Album of Country Classics in June
Mon. March 09.2009 3:15 PM EDT

Tanya Tucker will release a new album of country cover songs, titled My Turn, 
on June 2 on Saguaro Road Records. The album was produced by Pete Anderson.
He also plays guitar on each track. Guests include the Grascals, Jim 
Lauderdale, Darren Vincent and Rhonda Vincent. I picked the songs my daddy 
always
wanted me to sing, Tucker said. This is really a tribute to him because he 
was with me throughout my entire career. He's now with God above, but I know
he's watching over me still and loving these songs and this record. Selections 
include Wine Me Up, Lovesick Blues, Love's Gonna Live Here, Crazy
Arms, After the Fire Is Gone, I Love You a Thousand Ways, Big Big Love, 
Walk Through This World With Me, Oh, Lonesome M

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[RecipesAndMore] country music news march 9

[kay scrimshaw]

Lonestar, Record Label Part Ways
Fri. March 09.2007 6:01 PM EST

Lonestar is no longer on the BNA Records roster, according to a spokesman for 
Sony BMG in Nashville. Mountains, the band's latest BNA CD, was released
Oct. 17, 2006. With disappointing sales, the CD is not currently ranked among 
the 75 titles on Billboard's country albums chart. Their most recent singles
include Mountains and Nothing to Prove. The band first BNA single, Tequila 
Talking, was released in 1995. They have reached No. 1 on Billboard's
country airplay chart nine times with No News, Come Cryin' to Me, Amazed, 
Smile, What About Now, Tell Her, I'm Already There, My Front Porch
Looking In and 2004's Mr. Mom.

George Strait Postpones Shows Due to Laryngitis
Fri. March 09.2007 6:01 PM EST

George Strait has postponed two concerts this weekend because of a severe case 
of laryngitis, according to his Web site. The shows at the Mohegan Sun Casino
in Uncasville, Conn., scheduled for Friday and Saturday (March 9-10) have been 
rescheduled for April 26-27. Ronnie Milsap will open the shows, which are
the only upcoming concerts on Strait's itinerary. Strait is nominated for eight 
Academy of Country Music (ACM) awards, which will be presented May 15 in
Las Vegas.

BMI Honors It Just Comes Natural Writers
Fri. March 09.2007 6:01 PM EST

Songwriters Jim Collins and Marv Green were honored Thursday afternoon (March 
8) at a BMI reception for the No. 1 hit, It Just Comes Natural, recorded
by George Strait. The song comes from Strait's album of the same name. His 
follow-up single is Wrapped. Strait did not attend the party but guests 
included
producer Tony Brown and manager Erv Woolsey. Collins' writing credits include 
Kenny Chesney's The Good Stuff. In addition, Green's writing credits include
Lonestar's Amazed.

Doyle Lawson  Quicksilver Lineup Changes
Fri. March 09.2007 6:01 PM EST

Three members of IBMA-award winning bluegrass band Doyle Lawson  Quicksilver 
are leaving. Terry Baucom (banjo) and Mike Hartgrove (fiddle) have been replaced
by Chris Warner and Alan Johnson, respectively. I don't like changes when they 
occur, but when they do, you just get on with life, Lawson says. I'm
really happy that I was able to find replacements this quickly. The good thing 
is that both of these players are really strong, quick studies. In addition,
Jamie Dailey (guitar, vocals) will exit at the end of 2007 to start a band with 
Darrin Vincent, a member of Ricky Skaggs  Kentucky Thunder. Doyle Lawson
 Quicksilver will release a new album, More Behind the Picture Than the Wall, 
on Rounder Records on March 27.

Darryl Worley to Sing Anthem at NASCAR Race in Las Vegas
Fri. March 09.2007 6:01 PM EST

Darryl Worley will sing the national anthem prior to the Busch series' Sam's 
Town 300 on Saturday (March 10) in Las Vegas. The race will be broadcast by
ABC at 2:30 p.m. ET. Worley will also be playing at Fremont Street Experience's 
Race Jam on Saturday night. In other news, Worley will serve as a judge,
along with actress/model Ali Landry and Kelli Finglass, director of the Dallas 
Cowboys Cheerleaders, on an upcoming episode of CMT's Karaoke-Dokey.


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