Garth Brooks

It's been way too long since Garth Brooks sent a new song to country radio stations . Just more than five years when he released " Midnight Sun " in 2008. So I'd say the world is very, very ready for new music .
Brooks publican industry publication Country AIRCHECK all about when and if new stuff will be part of the 2014 comeback. He just sent his duet with his wife Trisha Yearwood " The Call " to radio, so he talked about why that song is so special two heavens .
"It's about that point in a relationship when you make the decision Whether what you have is worth fighting for , or is it just Easier to call it ' friends ' and live life from there , " Brooks said. " Everybody goes through this , Miss Yearwood and I were in the middle of it in 2002-03 . " The version playing on the radio now is just Brooks and Yearwood . Intentionally . There's no big band behind them .
"We tried cutting this song with a full band but kept going back to the Wynn performance where it's just like two people talking to each other . The echo -type piece in this is something I have not seen since ' Mockingbird ' with James Taylor and Carly Simon , "he said. "I love how unique this song sounds and when you bring it down to just two voices and a guitar , the conversation happens . "

Brandy Clark - 12 Stories 2013

12 Stories, Brandy’s debut album as an artist, is full of diverse characters. There’s the woman in first single “Stripes” who fantasizes about killing her cheating husband, but doesn’t want to be caught dead in an orange jumpsuit. There’s another who asks Jesus for help, but plays the lottery just in case in “Pray to Jesus.” And there’s the bored housewife in “Get High” who escapes daily drudgery by rolling joints at the kitchen table.

“I get my inspiration from real people who are just surviving their life and getting through their day. That’s who I write songs for,” explains Brandy. “I want to write songs for somebody who is working at a bank—if that person could write a song, what they would write. That’s my goal.”

Prior to 12 Stories, Brandy achieved that goal by penning songs for other artists. Reba McEntire and Kenny Rogers have both recorded her songs. Darius Rucker, Sheryl Crow and Kacey Musgraves have Brandy compositions on their new albums. And The Band Perry gave Brandy her first No. 1 single with “Better Dig Two,” followed shortly after by another No. 1 in “Mama’s Broken Heart,” cut by Miranda Lambert.

Kristy

After a year based in the United States, Kristy Cox is returning to Australia for a special show at the 2014 Tamworth Country Music Festival to showcase tracks from her forthcoming album Living For The Moment .

The album is due for world-wide release on February 18 through US bluegrass label Pisgah Ridge and is described as "a perfect representation of where this talented singer/songwriter is in her personal and professional life".

First single from the album – One Heartbreak Away – hit the airwaves earlier this month.

Kristy's career has been going from strength to strength since the release of her debut album From My Eyes in 2006. She has had a string of top 10 hits on country radio and country music television and has been recognised as a rising star of Australian country.

In her career so far, she has been a Star Maker finalist and APRA Professional Development Award finalist and her subsequent albums – Breaking New Ground (2010) and Miles And Timezones (2012) have all earned her praise for her songwriting capabilities.

Signing to Pisgah Ridge (an imprint of Mountain Home) in the US was a huge coup for the songstress and saw her move to the States for most of 2013 to work on the new album. She also signed an exclusive songwriting contract with Asheville Forest Music.

Picking One Heartbreak Away as the first single from the new album was an easy decision, Kristy said: "It's a great up-tempo bluegrass track about a relationship that's worth keeping, but that some things need to change. The song is a great reflection of where the album heads musically and how it expands on the bluegrass influences of my previous projects."

The album is a mixture of self-penned and chosen material and is an apt representation of where Kristy is heading musically, according to a spokesman for the artist.

Steffen Jakobsen

                                                          Steffen Jakobsen

 

My Beginning

My Beginning ble innspilt i 2009 og var opprinnelig bare i salg på Steffen Jakobsens hjemmeside, men på grunn av stor etterspørsel i forbindelse med deltakelsen i Idol 2013 (over 280 000 har så langt sett Steffens audition på YouTube!) slippes albumet på nytt. Her får vi oppleve countryfavorittens dype stemme gjennom 16 låter, inkludert 4 bonusspor.
http://www.platekompaniet.no/Musikk.aspx/CD/Steffen_Jakobsen/My_Beginning/?id=CL109

 

Steffen Jakobsen

Six String Love Affair

22 år gamle Steffen Jakobsen fra Grimstad tok Norge med storm da han deltok i 2013-utgaven av Idol. Etter å ha reutgitt sitt selvutgitte debutalbum My Beginning (2009) på nytt grunnet stor etterspørsel, følger unggutten med den dype stemmen opp med sin andre countryplate.

Six String Love Affair ble innspilt i Lydmuren Studio i Greåker med Thomas Siqveland som produsent. Første smakebit fra albumet var singlen "What She Wants", skrevet av Hanne Sørvåg , Kim Bergseth og Steffen Jakobsen 

http://www.platekompaniet.no/Musikk.aspx/CD/?id=SJCD01 

 

 

1.                                              EDDY ARNOLD     

Richard Edward "Eddy" Arnold (May 15, 1918 - May 8, 2008) was an American country music singer who Performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound (country / popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and Scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only two George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry (beginning 1943) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (beginning 1966), Arnold RANKED 22nd on Country Music Television's 2003 list of "The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music." He co-wrote the country and pop standard "You Do not Know Me".
He recorded about 100 albums mean I

                           Jesse Taylor

Jesse Taylor is a true American original. An authentic rodeo cowboy, Jesse’s passion for singing and songwriting has taken him to dive bars and honky-tonks throughout much of the West.
His poetic lyrics and haunting melodies capture the flavor of rodeo life with a soulful authenticity. His songs speak powerfully of the American West, of its timeless values and virtues. And they do so in ways that remind us all of the ups and downs in our own lives.
Jesse was born and raised in Arlington, Washington. With his Mom named after a Johnny Cash song and his Dad a team roper and songwriter, Jesse grew up with rodeo -- and music -- in his blood. He began roping at age 3, was given his first guitar at age 4 and rode his first bull at 14. He began writing songs at 16 and two years later went on the road in his pick-up truck with his dog, Sandy. At 22, Jesse recorded his first album, One Chance to Win, in his mother’s kitchen. It contains ten of his original songs.
Jesse spent the past 2 years working on the Hawaiian island of Lana’i. During the day, he led trail rides for resort guests and tended the horses. At night, he’d entertain guests with his singing at The Four Seasons Lodge at Ko’ele. He counts Chris LeDoux, George Strait, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra and Jimi Hendrix among his music influences.
Jesse recently recorded his first studio album, Out Here In The Country, at Blackbird Studio in Nashville. It is scheduled for release March 26, 2013. 2013 will see Jesse back on the road sharing his music. Through hard work and lean living, Jesse Taylor is living his dream.

1. Country-past and country-present of Melodifestivalen - Cookies n Beans and Abalone Dots relelase new albums almost at the same time. Abalone Dots have already presented their "Chocolate & Cigarettes" last week but as we didn't check it yet let's talk about the first girls.
   Though taking part in MF-2009 hasn't brought a big success to the band the album "Big, Borrow and Steal" released afterwards has entered Top-10. Swedish audience has praised these sweet ladies with original voices and they pay back with another album "Go Tell The World" to be out on May 2nd.
   The first single from it that was already premiered on the radio is "The First Step", very calm and kind example of European melancholic acoustic pop with very touching vocal line, you can still feel country-influences but not as much as you'd expect.

                                                      Jesse Jones
                                            Album - One Memory for the Road 2013

 

Music in Northeast Alabama Seems to be as fertile as the soil , as fresh as the air and as refreshing as water drawn from a cool mountain stream . Jesse Jones knows this all too well . Jones 's first recollection of Country music as a very young farm boy Was That of the voice of Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys coming from the old radio in the front room of a shotgun shack . Jones was drawn to the stories of the Country songs I heard at an early age . I Knew That I wanted to write songs like the one's I've heard on late night Radio stations like WSM in Nashville and WBAP in Fort Worth. Jones's musical interests Were not limited to the radio .... It was literally in his bloodline . His paternal grandmother 's family , The Wootten family from Sand Mountain, Alabama Were Well Known Sacred Harp singers and continue the tradition even today . Jones's ancestors Have Been Continuing the craft of "shape note" singing for more than 150 years . But Jones was drawn more and more to the honky tonk country sound THROUGHOUT his life . Artists like Darrell McCall, Tony Booth and Johnny Bush impacted his songwriting style in the late 1960 's Incorporating a Texas feel to the Already Folk / Gospel upbringing I had in the mountains of Northeast Alabama. In this 10 -song collection , Jones finds himself as the artist and songwriter . Although Jones has written much of this project , I have to pays homage other songwriters like Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry who are from the same farm soil as Jones himself . One For The Road Memory is nothing but hardcore honky tonk country from a songwriter from the school of Haggard, Jones and Putman . Turn it up , pop the top and enjoy fertile , fresh, cleansing power of Country traditionalism Jesse Jones -style.

 

                       The Davidson Hart Kingsbery band  


 Davidson Hart Kingsbery band formed in 2010 and shortly after,
they were invited to serve as house band for a series of undergrounThe d 2-step parties.
Playing marathon sets instilled the kind of locked-in musical teamwork that can take some bands years.
Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Seattle's Hart Kingsbery was born in Paris, Texas in 1979. His family moved around a lot before settling in Washington State,
raising Hart in a devout religious environment where he sang hymns in church,
did 15 years of bible camp and graduated from a religious college. A
fter a bad early divorce, he turned his back on the church,
accepting damnation as the payback for a life of barroom debauchery,
only to discover that the country songs he'd begun to write told stories of a different sort,that of the damnation of affairs of the heart.
 

                         Cody Widner

 

As you listen to "Drinkin' Doubles", the first song on Honky Tonk Heart, the sophomore album by Texas born Cody Widner, it is clear that traditional country music is alive and thriving in the Texas hill country and Widner is, no doubt, one of the main reasons why. This handsome cowboy with a voice reminiscent of one of his heroes; fellow Texan George Strait, definitely has what it takes to impact country music in a spectrum far broader than just the Texas hills he call home
According to a recent press release, it may not be only his singing and songwriting that is getting audiences excited, apparently, whenever the urge strikes him, he has been known to give away an autographed guitar during a performance. But it didn't take a free guitar to get my attention. The album features all the best attributes of classic country and this is likely what put Widner on the Country charts in, according to one source, a secure position "between Alan Jackson and Lee Ann Womack." His current chart climber is titled "When the Smoke Clears" but any one of the songs on this album is chart worthy.
"Feel Again" has Widner doing some great vocal harmony with someone who sounds like Lee Ann Womack , there is also plenty of wonderful, weepy fiddle. "Back in the Swing of Things" was one of the tracks that really stood out for me; in part, due to the great instrumentals. This particular track harkens back to the up-tempo, toe-tappin' songs that carried Bob Wills to fame and fortune and it looks like it could easily do it again for Widner


Widner says, "As far as music goes, I just keep it simple and keep it country, and that's it." Well, as far as I'm concerned, I think, in the case of Cody Widner, keeping it simple and country is right on target. If you are a fan of traditional country, look no further, Widner delivers with a splendid Honky Tonk Heart.

Albums:
2000 - SUMTHIN' COUNTRY
2004 - RIGHT WHERE I BELONG
2005 - HONKY TONK HEART