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On the BBC Radio 2 Playlist for the week commencing Saturday 2nd September 2017
A Playlist:
Shania Twain - Singin' With My Eyes Closed added to the
"A" Playlist
B Playlist:
The Cadillac Three - American Slang
The Wandering Hearts - Devil
C Playlist:
Wildwood Kin - Taking A Hold
Jess & The Bandits - Sister
Austerity
What Austerity?
After a late rally Sasha McVeigh second studio EP/Album has been successfully funded
using the crowding platform Kickstarter with 158 backers
pledging $21,500 (£17,500) to help
bring this project to life
Her single 'When
I'm Over You' has gained over 500,000 streams and she’s now ready to
breakthrough to a mainstream level. “I
truly believe with this new record I can do that, or I can at the very least
give it my absolute best shot” she shares.
Plans were to begin
recording the record in August after returning to Nashville after completing her
fourth US tour performing on the main stage at various BIG country music
festivals alongside artists such as Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney and Miranda
Lambert. Headline shows also planned to perform some of these new songs to
build up the excitement for the release of this project. If the budget was
exceeded, Sasha’s producer and her will be able to record additional songs at
approximately $2,500 per song. Enough has been raised to record 10-12 songs for
a follow-up album.
HURRICANE
HARVEY Casualties
Hurricane
Harvey prevented Mark Chesnutt from traveling to overseas Millport Music Festival in U.K. due to the natural disaster in his
home state of Texas. Jess and the Bandits also had to postpone their September Tour after Texan lead singer Jess
Clemmons emotionally announced on Twitter that her parents home had received a significant
amount of damage in Houston and has had to return to help her family rebuild
their lives. Their tour dates have been rescheduled for February 2018 check
details at jessandthebandits.com
UK CHART NEWS
Official UK Top 100 Singles Chart (Week Ending 7 September 2017)
1 September 2017 -
7 September 2017
Taylor Swift had a stellar week, with her cumulative UK sales (including sales
equivalent streams) topping 10 million, and Look What You Made Me Do
– the introductory single from her upcoming (sixth) album, REPUTATION -
debuting at No.1.
Something of a
departure for 27-year-old Swift, featuring a fairly dark lyric and an
interpolation of Right Said Fred's I'm
Too Sexy - which was in the midst of a six-week run at its peak position of
No.2 exactly 26 years ago - Look What You Made Me Do is her 26th charted
single and her 10th to reach the Top 10 but the first to reach No.1. Exploding out of the box with sales of 65,415
copies (including 35,665 from streams + 29,750
pure sales), LWYMED topped both paid-for sales and streaming
charts for the week, and surpassed Swift's previous highest weekly sale of
62,786, all paid-for, as recorded by “I Knew You Were Trouble” as it climbed 8-7 in the final week of
2012.
The arrival of Look What You Made Me Do sparked
interest in Swift's catalogue, and her sales to midnight on Thursday (31
August) stood at 10,187,899.
Official UK Top 100 Albums Chart (Week Ending 7 September 2017)
1 September 2017 -
7 September 2017
Queens Of The Stone Age are kings of the chart for the first time, with their
seventh studio album, VILLAINS providing the Californian hard rock heroes with
their fifth straight Top 10 album, opening atop the list on sales of 32,056
copies, including 1,860 from sales-equivalent streams.
Elvis Presley's re-promotion of compilation The 50 Greatest Hits fell 2-6 (7,497 sales;
35 chart weeks)
Glen Campbell with ADIOS climbed 9-8
(5,280 sales; 11-week estimated total 94,800)
Southern rock trio
The Cadillac
Three with their third album, LEGACY,
debuted at No.16 (3,375 sales), building on the No.33 debut/peak (2,371 sales)
of their second album BURY ME IN MY BOOTS in August 2016.
John Denver with THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION
fell 11-25 (5,161 sales).
Dolly Parton's VERY BEST OF fell 78-89 (sales around 1,000 copies)
Official UK Country Album Top 20 (Week Ending 7 September 2017)
1 September 2017 -
7 September 2017
Glen Campbell with ADIOS held at #1 (12 weeks; #1 peak)
The Cadillac Three with LEGACY made a debut at #3
Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer with NOT DARK YET fell 2-3 (2 weeks; #2
peak)
Lady Antebellum with HEART BREAK held at #4 (12 weeks; #2 peak)
Old Dominion with HAPPY ENDINGS made a debut at #5
Nathan Carter with LIVIN' THE DREAM fell 3-6 (11 weeks; #2 peak)
Glen Campbell with GHOST ON THE CANVAS fell 5-7 (93 weeks; #1 peak)
Miranda Lambert with THE WEIGHT OF THESE WINGS fell 7-8 (31 weeks; #3
peak)
Nashville Cast with THE MUSIC OF NASHVILLE - SEASON 5 VOL 2 fell 6-9
(13 weeks; #3 peak)
Steve Earle & The Dukes with SO YOU WANNABE AN OUTLAW fell 8-10 (9
weeks; #2 peak)
Outside the top
10
Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real with NELSON/PROMISE OF THE REAL made a
debut at #14
Official Americana Albums Chart Top 40 (Week Ending 7 September 2017)
1 September 2017 -
7 September 2017
This Week/ Last
Week/ Title/ Artist
1 NEW A Deeper
Understanding War On Drugs #3
Official Top 100 Albums
2 1 Adios Glen Campbell [Tagged Country] #8
Official Top 100 Albums
3 NEW Legacy Cadillac Three #16 Official Top 100
Albums
4 NEW Beast Epic
Iron & Wine #60 Official Top 100 Albums
5 5 Life Love
Flesh Blood Imelda May [Tagged
Singer/Songwriter]
6 4 Acoustic
Classics 2 Richard Thompson [Tagged
Singer/Songwriter]
7 2 Turning Tides Wildwood Kin [Tagged Alt] #37 Official
Top 100 Albums
8 8 Crack-up Fleet Foxes [Tagged Alt]
9 7 A/B Kaleo [Tagged Alt]
10 NEW In The
Kingdom Of Dreams Ian Felice
Outside The Top 10
11 10 Cleopatra Lumineers [Tagged Alt]
12 6 Poor David's
Almanack David Rawlings [Tagged
Singer/Songwriter]
13 9 Something's
Changing Lucy Rose [Tagged Alt]
14 3 Not Dark Yet Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer
[Tagged Singer/Songwriter Folk/Rock]
16 NEW Sails Travelling Band
21 11 The Weight
Of These Wings Miranda Lambert
[Tagged Country]
25 NEW On My Page Courtney Marie Andrews
UK Country iTunes Chart September 3, 2017 21:00
Songs
1. Nashville Cast - Water Rising (feat
Hayden Panettiere) (#170 overall UK Singles chart)
2. Lady Antebellum - Need You Now (#346
overall UK Singles chart)
3. Taylor Swift - Love Story (#408 overall
UK Singles chart)
4. Johnny Cash - Hurt (#488 overall UK
Singles chart)
5. Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble
(#501 overall UK Singles chart)
6. Dolly Parton - Jolene (#509 overall UK
Singles chart)
7. Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me (#511
overall UK Singles chart)
8. Sam Hunt - Body Like A Back Road (#542
overall UK Singles chart)
9. Glen Campbell - Rhinestown Cowboy (#634
overall UK Singles chart)
10. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman (#671
overall UK Singles chart)
Of Note:
20. Shania Twain - Life's About To Get Good
(#981 overall UK Singles chart)
UK Country iTunes Chart September 3, 2017 21:00
Albums
1. Glen Campbell - Adios (#99 overall UK
Albums chart)
2. Nashville Cast - The Music of Nashville
(Original Soundtrack from Season 5), Vol.3 (#169 overall UK Albums chart)
3. Lady Antebellum - Heart Break (#199
overall UK Albums chart)
4. Taylor Swift - Fearless (#210 overall
UK Albums chart)
5. The Shires - My Universe (#235 overall
UK Albums chart)
6. Shania Twain - Greatest Hits (#237
overall UK Albums chart)
7. Various Artists - The Country Album
(#253 overall UK Albums chart)
8. Various Artists - Country 101 All Time
Greats (#293 overall UK Albums chart)
9. Taylor Swift - Red (#303 overall UK
Albums chart)
10. Dolly Parton - The Very Best Of (#315
overall UK Albums chart)
Of Note:
11. Various Artists - Classic Stax (#386
overall UK Albums chart)
14. The Cadillac Three - Legacy (#482
overall UK Albums chart) | LW #1
Debuts Fri
September 1, 2017
Stephanie Quayle - Love the Way You See Me #48 Debut
UK COUNTRY
ALBUM RELEASES
(28 Aug 2017) Alex
Ellis - A Feelin' Like This - EP
5 Tracks/ Time: 16:18 UK iTunes | #169 US Country iTunes Debut
(1 Sept 2017) Joan
Osborne - Songs of Bob Dylan (Womanly Hips Records)
13 Tracks/ Time: 52:37 Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
(1 Sept 2017) The
Grascals - Before Breakfast (Mountain Home)
12 Tracks/ Time: 36:44 Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
The bluegrass powerhouse steps out with a program of
12 numbers including Becky Buller's "Sleepin' with the Reaper," Webb
Pierce's "Pathway of Teardrops," the gospel classic "I've Been
Redeemed" and more, including "Clear Corn Liquor" highlighting
the tune "Whiskey Before Breakfast," lending the album its title.
(1 Sept 2017) Erin
Enderlin - Whiskeytown Crier (Blue Slate Records)
14 Tracks/ Time: 51:37 Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
US Country iTunes #103 Debut, climbed to No.44 | Sat 2
Sept #51, #45 | Mon 4 Sept #171 (#1270 all genres) | Tues 5 Sept: fell off top
200 Country & top 1500 all genres
She's written hits such as Alan Jackson's "Monday
Morning Church," Lee Ann Womack's "Last Call," and others for
Luke Bryan, Randy Travis, Terri Clark, Joey + Rory and many more. Enderlin is
set to release her upcoming album, Whiskeytown Crier on Friday, September 1.
When Enderlin writes a song, more is born than melody and rhyme. This concept
album was produced by Jamey Johnson and Jim “Moose” Brown and features country
music's most authentic artists Chris Stapleton, Randy Houser, Ricky Skaggs, Jon
Randall, and more.
(1 Sept 2017) Stephanie
Quayle - Love the Way You See Me (Rebel Engine Entertainment LLC) |
11 Tracks/ Time: 39:49 Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
#48 UK Country iTunes Album Debut
#64 US Country iTunes Debut, climbed to #39 | Tues
Sept 5: #174 (#1458 US all genes)
“This album is a blend of my songs that I’ve
co-written and songs that I’ve found and fallen in love with,” Quayle told PEOPLE. “There’s every emotion covered,
except super angry — I don’t really do angry.”
Quayle co-wrote six out of 11 songs on the album,
including "Selfish," "I've Got Your Six," and "Post
It."
“This music has changed me, and I have found what I
believe to be my place in Country music," Quayle noted. "I have never
been more comfortable in my voice and skin as I am today.”
(1 Sept 2017) Dixie
Chicks - DCX MMXVI (DVD) [2CD/DVD] Box set, CD+DVD
13-time Grammy winning global superstars Dixie Chicks
are releasing their highly anticipated live DVD DCX MMXVI on 1st September.
Dixie Chicks delivered their spectacularly successful MMXVII World Tour across
the globe last year, playing to hundreds of thousands of fans, with the
riveting live CD/DVD DCX MMXVI filmed in multiple locations throughout the US
and Canada.
(1 Sept 2017) Jason
Cassidy - Jason Cassidy (JC Music)
10 Tracks/ Time: 35:03 Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com | US Country iTunes #15 Debut
New Caney, Texas. In 2012, fans and industry alike,
named Jason as “One To Watch” as chosen by CMA Close-Up; and with 3 #1’s &
4 top 10’s (in Texas), 2 Billboard charting singles and a #1 CMT Pure 12 Pack
music video, it is easy to see what the noise is all about.
Jason’s 10 track album “717” (released May 19, 2015; Amazon) received rave reviews from critics and debuted at
#12 on the iTunes country chart and top 40 on Billboard country. The greatly
anticipated release of “717” followed a string of hits from recent album’s KEEP
IT COUNTRY and MY REDEMPTION (2011).
Jason has shared the stage with many other established
artists such as: Aaron Lewis, Tracy Byrd, Easton Corbin, Steve Wariner, The
Band Perry, Josh Thompson, Montgomery Gentry, Joe Nichols, Tracy Lawrence, Eli
Young Band, The Bellamy Brothers, Kevin Fowler, Aaron Watson, Mickey Gilley,
Johnny Lee, and many more. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK (84K Followers)
(1 Sept 2017) Jessica
Lynn - Look at Me That Way (EP; Daydreamer Records)
3 Tracks/ Time: 10:15 Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
(1 Sept 2017) David
Fanning - Dreamers (EP; MV2 Productions)
4 Tracks/ Time: 10:48 Pop Country Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
(1 Sept 2017) Magnolia
Vale - Sunburn (EP; 2017 Magnolia Vale)
5 Tracks/ Time: 15:46 Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
#199 US Country iTunes Debut, then climbed to #6 |
Sept 2: #9 | Sept 4: #105
Lebanon, Kentucky based country artists (sisters
Katelyn and Samantha Daugherty) Magnolia Vale. The first single was “Fool”. The
EP features a duet with Taylor Ray Holbrook. - FACEBOOK
(1 Sept 2017) Gretta
Ziller - Queen of Boomtown (Social Family Records (Australia) AUS
10 Tracks/ Time: 32:56 Amazon UK - UK iTunes - http://smarturl.it/GZ-QueenOfBoomtown
Interview at 1hr 18 Country Belles Show 103
AUSSIE NEWS
Country Tracks
Top 40 (Chart dated 2nd September 2017)
This Week/ Last Week/ Weeks/
Highest Position/ No. Weeks at HI/ Title/ Artist/ Album
1 1 8 1 (6 weeks) LET'S GO DRIVING - Ben Ransom (CRS #200 - T7)
2 6 5 1 (1 week) LAIDBACK COUNTRY - Tony Cook (CRS #199 - T13)/ Album:
Laidback Country
3 2 6 2 (2 weeks) JUDGMENT DAY - Christie Lamb (CRS #200 - T2)/ Album: Loaded
4 30 2 4 (1 week) BABY PLEASE - Paul Crowder Album: From The Heart (EP)
5 8 5 5 (1 week) THE PIANO - The Bobkatz Album: Single
6 19 4 6 (1 week) DRUNKS LIKE CHARLIE - Allan Caswell Album: Single
7 28 5 7 (1 week) THREE IN THE MORNING - Steve Sparrow (CRS #200 - T6)/ Album:
Paint Your Cactus Green
8 3 5 3 (1 week) GONNA OUTRUN A HEARTACHE - Ashie Noey (CRS #200 - T13)/ Album:
Single
9 31 2 9 (1 week) STACKS - Jayne Denham Album: Single
10 7 12 1 (4 weeks) THE WAY WE RIDE - Casey Barnes (CRS #199 - T5)
Gympie proud to support
female artists: Forty-six
female-fronted acts were set to take centre stage at this year’s Gympie Music
Muster (Website), representing nearly half of the event's
100-strong line-up. The Muster got underway on August 24th and run through to
and including Sunday (Aug 27) with thousands of fans trekking into the Amamoor
State Forest site just south of Gympie.
The first single from Australian Americana artist Melody Moko's debut album >> ”The Wreckage” Official
Music Video
Sunny Cowgirls fourth single >> REV IT UP from the album "Here We Go", written about
the world famous Deni Ute Muster.
NEXT SOMEBODY
MY BRAND NEW SINGLE ‘NEXT SOMEBODY’ IS AVAILABLE NOW WORLDWIDE!!!! iTunes: http://apple.co/2wdPE73 Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2vF7ZGG TAG your friends and SHARE to go into WIN a DOUBLE PASS to come party with me at Top Paddock Music Festival this New Years Eve!! Official Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys8qmctF3gA Directed by: Sebastian Beyrer Thanks to: NZ On Air Trelise Cooper HeadOverHeels Country Music Channel Creative Input: The Backroad Blog Hair/ Make Up: Jenny Harraway
Posted by Kaylee Bell on Thursday, 31 August 2017
CANADIAN NEWS
(28 Aug 2017) On Friday 8 September 2017, Drake Jensen will be at the British Library in London UK to attend the launch of the book “David
Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music ”.
Drake, along with his Husband/Manager Michael Morin, have been included
in the chapter on Country Music.
Jonathan Edwards, Jensen’s Producer, Guitarist, and longtime friend;
will also attend the event. Amazon.ca
(28 Aug 2017) NEW
MUSIC Genevieve Fisher "You Me We"
"You Me We" is Genevieve Fisher’s follow-up single
to her recent top 20 hit, "Take It On Home". Another feel good
uptempo song, "You Me We" has once again brought together Genevieve with
Nashville producer Jason Massey. Not only did Jason Massey produce Genevieve's
last hit single, but he has also been instrumental in laying the foundation for
Kelsea Ballerini's radio success, producing all 4 of her #1 U.S. hits. This
song was written by Jason Massey, Hannah Ellis and April Geesbreght. This was
recorded in Canada at Jukasa Studios in mid July 2017. This state of the art
recording facility is on the Indigenous area of Six Nations, located just
outside of Brantford Ontario.
(28 Aug 2017) NEW
MUSIC Charissa "I Got My Girls"
"Charissa" (pronounced: KA-RISS-SA) - is a 20
year old rising star from Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
Charissa is known for her powerful, distinctive voice
and dynamic performances. She began performing at a local coffee shop at the
age of 12. Now at 20, she continues to perform regularly captivating audiences
of all ages. Charissa is currently working on her first solo project, stay
tuned! I Got My Girls © is her debut
single.
About I Got My Girls:
I Got My Girls © is a Country/Pop "Girls
Anthem" celebrating sisterhood and the bonds of female friendship
"It's Friday Night and the moon's just right, there's lipstick on my glass
I'm in my pearls".
AWARDS
Breaking News: The Nominations for the 51st Annual CMA Awards 2017 - BLOG
TV
(28 Aug 2017) Go behind the scenes of the Sunday Night Football opener with Carrie Underwood
The seven-time Grammy Award-winner looked radiant in a scarlet red dress with nude panel cutouts and rocked long, blonde locks. Instagram
— SNF on NBC (@SNFonNBC) 28 August 2017MUSIC NEWS
Walter Becker, co-founder and guitarist for the US band Steely Dan, has died aged 67 - BBC
No cause of death or other details were given.
Becker missed the band's July concerts to recover from
an unspecified condition, band mate Donald Fagen said at the time.
The jazz-rock group has sold more than 40 million albums and were inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
Donald Fagen wrote a tribute to his Steely Dan partner
Walter Becker: Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate
since we met as students at Bard College in 1967. We started writing nutty little tunes on an upright piano in a small
sitting room in the lobby of Ward Manor, a mouldering old mansion on the Hudson
River that the college used as a dorm.
We liked a lot of the same
things: jazz (from the twenties through the mid-sixties), W.C. Fields, the Marx
Brothers, science fiction, Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Berger, and Robert
Altman films come to mind. Also soul music and Chicago blues. Walter had a very
rough childhood – I’ll spare you the details. Luckily, he was smart as a whip,
an excellent guitarist and a great songwriter. He was cynical about human
nature, including his own, and hysterically funny. Like a lot of kids from
fractured families, he had the knack of creative mimicry, reading people’s
hidden psychology and transforming what he saw into bubbly, incisive art. He
used to write letters (never meant to be sent) in my wife Libby’s singular
voice that made the three of us collapse with laughter.
PRESS RELEASES
(28 Aug 2017) The
Americana Music Association announced that Jim Lauderdale and Buddy Miller will
return to host and musically direct, respectively, the 16th annual Americana
Honors & Awards ceremony. This year’s program will showcase a vibrant mix
of musical icons and electrifying newcomers that will make the list of
performers and presenters for the critically acclaimed program scheduled for
6:30 PM/CT Wednesday, September 13 at Nashville’s famed Ryman Auditorium
(30 Aug 2017) BMG
has announced it will release legendary rockabilly and country music pioneer Wanda Jackson’s autobiography Every
Night Is Saturday Night: A Country Girl’s Journey to the Rock & Roll Hall
of Fame on November 14, 2017. The iconic performer known as the “Queen of
Rockabilly” and the “First Lady of Rock & Roll” landed more than thirty
singles on the country and pop charts between 1954 and 1974. Featuring over
eighty photographs from her personal collection and a foreword by Elvis
Costello,Every Night is Saturday Night is the rockin’ great-grandmother’s
chance to finally share the story of her fascinating life and career in her own
words.
(1 Sept 2017) Relive
Eric Church’s Holdin’ My Own Tour: Over 100 Live Recordings Released In “61
Days In Church”
Selections from Every Holdin’ My Own 2017 Tour Stop were
released beginning through the end of the year exclusively to Apple Music:
Double Disk Collectible Box Set and Vinyl slated for Release Record Store Day
2018 - www.ericchurch.com
EB Media
ARTICLES
(3 Sept 2017) Country Music Mag.com Interview:
Ward Thomas – Carry Them Home:
Ward Thomas prove that there’s still magic in the country music business,
writes Steve Faragher. (first published March 2017)
INTERVIEWS
(28 Aug 2017) Sarah Darling:
Read what inspired Sarah Darling's latest album: Dream Country in a COWGIRL-exclusive interview with the country music sweetheart.
(30 Aug 2017) Erin Enderlin Talks New Jamey Johnson-Produced Album “Whiskeytown
Crier” at Saving
Country Music.com
BIRTHDAYS
Birthdays in the week ahead
SEPTEMBER
6 Joe Smyth
(Sawyer Brown) (1957), Buddy Miller
(1952), Mark Chesnutt (1963), Jeff Foxworthy (1958), David Alan Coe (1939), Mel McDaniel (1942), Michelle Poe (Burns & Roe)
7 Buddy Holly
- (1936), Angela Kaset (songwriter), Tim McKay (Pauper Kings)
8 Harlan Howard
- (1929), Jimmie Rodgers (1897), Patsy Cline (1932), Jake Owen (1981)
10 Rosie Flores (1950), Ashley Monroe (1986)
10 Rosie Flores (1950), Ashley Monroe (1986)
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