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On the BBC Radio 2 Playlist for
the week commencing Saturday 12th
August 2017
B Playlist:
Glen Campbell - Tracks from Adios added
to the "B" Playlist
The Cadillac Three - American Slang added to
the "B" Playlist
C Playlist:
Wildwood Kin - Taking A Hold added to
the "C" Playlist
OUT
Glen Campbell - Just Like Always removed
from the "B" Playlist
UK CHART NEWS
Official UK Top
100 Singles Chart (Week Ending 17 August 2017)
11 August 2017 - 17 August 2017
All seven of Calvin
Harris' previous No.1 hits debuted in pole position but "Feels"
(guest collaborators Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry and Big Sean) has taken a
more leisurely route to the summit, and only now achieved chart-topping status,
advancing 3-1 (39,569 sales,
including 24,298 from sales-equivalent streams) some seven weeks after debuting
at No.21. It is the first time sales of the No.1 single have been below 40,000
since Kid Rock's All Summer Long sold
37,111 copies on its only week at No.1 nine years ago last week.
Glen Campbell with "Wichita Lineman" was new on the
chart at #98
Official UK Top
100 Albums Chart
(Week Ending 17 August 2017)
11 August 2017 - 17 August 2017
Returning to pole position after an absence of three
weeks, Ed Sheeran's ÷ started its fifth run atop the chart (16,071 units; 8,784
pure sales; 7,287 streaming units) and is No.1 for the 15th time in its 23-week
chart career.
Eight weeks after becoming his first ever Top 10
studio album at the 64th attempt, country legend Glen Campbell's farewell album ADIOS
sprinted 13-2 (9,657 sales;
8-week estimated total 72,200), following his death from Alzheimer's Disease at
the age of 81 on Tuesday (August 8). Adios was recorded in 2012/3 after his
diagnosis, and following his final tour, and is Campbell's 15th Top 75 album
and his third to make the Top 10, following 1971's Greatest Hits (No.8) and the
1976 chart-topper 20 Golden Greats. With only 429 of its sales coming from
streams, it topped the paid-for sales chart.
John Denver, rebounded 10-6 (5,607 sales) in its 17th frame. with his posthumous 2011 set THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION, which peaked
three weeks ago at No.5.
Dolly Parton with THE VERY
BEST OF (Sony BMG) re-entered the chart at #75 (peak #8; 35 chart weeks) with estimated sales of 1,000 copies
sold
Official UK
Country Album Top 20 (Week Ending 17 August 2017)
11 August 2017 - 17 August 2017
Glen Campbell with ADIOS held at #1 (9 weeks; #1 peak)
Lady Antebellum with HEART BREAK held at #2 (9 weeks; #2
peak)
Nathan Carter with LIVIN' THE DREAM rose 9-3 (8 weeks;
#3 peak)
Nashville Cast with THE MUSIC OF NASHVILLE - SEASON 5 VOL
2 held at #4 (10 weeks; #3 peak)
Steve Earle & The Dukes with SO YOU WANNABE AN OUTLAW held at #5
(8 weeks; #2 peak)
Nashville Cast with THE MUSIC OF NASHVILLE - SEASON 5 VOL
1 held at #6 (19 weeks; #4 peak)
The Shires with MY UNIVERSE fell 3-7 (25 weeks; #1
peak)
Chris Stapleton with FROM A ROOM Vol 1 fell 7-8 (14 weeks;
#1 peak)
Zac Brown Band with WELCOME HOME fell 8-9 (13 weeks; #1
peak)
Alison Krauss with WINDY CITY held at #10 (23 weeks; #1 peak)
Outside the top 10
Willie Nelson with GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD fell 11-12 (15
weeks; #2 peak)
Brett Eldredge with BRETT ELDREDGE made a debut at #13
Glen Campbell with GHOST ON THE CANVAS re-entered at #14
Official
Americana Albums Chart Top 40 (Week Ending 17 August 2017)
11 August 2017 - 17 August 2017
This Week/ Last Week/ Title/ Artist
1 1 Adios Glen
Campbell [Tagged Country] #2 Official Top 100 Albums
2 2 Life Love Flesh Blood Imelda May [Tagged Singer/Songwriter]
3 4 Crack-up Fleet
Foxes [Tagged Alt]
4 3 A/B Kaleo
5 NEW Party Of One George Thorogood [Tagged Blues]
6 NEW Proud Disturber Of The Peace William The Conqueror [Tagged Alt/
Indie Rock]
7 5 Cleopatra Lumineers
[Tagged Alt]
8 6 Pure Comedy Father John Misty [Tagged Alt]
9 11 Semper Femina Laura Marling [Tagged Singer/Songwriter]
10 9 The Nashville Sound Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit [Tagged Rock]
Outside The Top 10
11 7 Something's Changing Lucy Rose
12 10 12 So You Wannabe An Outlaw Steve Earle & The Dukes [Tagged Country]
26 8 NEW America Juanita
Stein [Tagged Americana]
UK Country iTunes Chart August 14, 2017 08:00
Songs
1. Glen
Campbell - Wichita Lineman (#55 overall UK Singles chart)
2. Glen
Campbell - Rhinestown Cowboy (#64 overall UK Singles chart)
3. Glen
Campbell - Galveston (#117 overall UK Singles chart)
4. Glen
Campbell - By The Time I Get To Phenix (#162 overall UK Singles chart)
5. Lonestar -
Amazed (#201 overall UK Singles chart)
6. Johnny Cash
- Hurt (#253 overall UK Singles chart)
7. Glen
Campbell - Gentle On My Mind (#289 overall UK Singles chart)
8. Glen
Campbell - Adios (#320 overall UK Singles chart)
9. Dolly Parton
- Islands In The Stream (#336 overall UK Singles chart)
10. Nashville
Cast - Tennis Shoes (feat. Lennon & Maisy) (#358 overall UK Singles
chart)
Of Note:
11. John Denver
- Take Me Home, Country Roads (#372 overall UK Singles chart)
12. Shania
Twain - Life's About To Get Good (#385 overall UK Singles chart)
14. Nashville
Cast - Saved (feat. Lennon & Maisy) (#535 overall UK Singles chart)
20. Kelsea
Ballerini - Unapologetically (#546 overall UK Singles chart)
UK Country
iTunes Chart
August 14, 2017 08:00
Albums
1. Glen
Campbell - Adios (#10 overall UK Albums chart)
2. Glen
Campbell - 20 Greatest Hits (#41 overall UK Albums chart)
3. John Denver
- The Ultimate Collection (#84 overall UK Albums chart)
4. Glen
Campbell's - Twenty Golden Greats (#95 overall UK Albums chart)
5. The Shires
- My Universe (#126 overall UK Albums chart)
6. Various
Artists - The Country Album (#127 overall UK Albums chart)
7. Glen
Campbell - Glost On The Canvas (#151 overall UK Albums chart)
8. Lady
Antebellum - Heart Break (#178 overall UK Albums chart)
9. Nashville
Cast - The Music of Nashville (Original Soundtrack from Season 5),
Vol.3 (#181 overall UK Albums chart)
10. Glen
Campbell - Rhinestone Cowbloy - The Best Of (#208 overall UK Albums chart)
Of Note:
13. Nathan
Carter - Livin' the Dream
105. Lindsay
Ell - The Project
Debuts Fri 11 Aug 2017
Lindsay Ell - The Project Debut #7 (#99 overall UK
Albums chart) then #8 (#125)
Shane Owens - Walking On the Waves Debut #36
Will Hoge - Anchors (tagged Folk-Rock) Debut #9
Singer-Songwriters (#245 overall UK Albums chart), then #338
UK COUNTRY
ALBUM RELEASES
(7 Aug 2017) Lars
Pluto and The Reavers - The Remote Sessions (Lars Pluto) UK
UK iTunes Debut UK iTunes Country Albums #14
Lars Pluto from Georgia has lived in Devon for 6 years
met a English girl in New York City
Band Members; drums - Spencer Lingwood, bass - JJ
King, pedal steel, guitars - Jeff Mead
(11 August 2017) Nashville
Cast - Season 5 Vol 3 (Big Machine Records)
17 Tracks/ Time: 1:00:02 Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
The 17-track album will include "Good Rain Or
Jesus," "Clockwork," "Stand Up," and many more songs
from the show.
(11 August 2017) Lindsay
Ell - The Project (Stoney Creek Records)
12 Tracks/ Time: 40:44 Amazon
UK -
UK iTunes - Amazon.com
UK Country iTunes Album Debut #7 (#99 overall UK
Albums chart) then #8 (#125) | #1 US Country iTunes Debut
The Project, produced by celebrated Grammy-winner
Kristian Bush (of Sugarland), follows their acclaimed collaboration on Ell’s
debut EP Worth The Wait.
The album features current single “Waiting
On You” which Rolling Stone Country applauds “is a showcase not only
for the Canadian’s gifts as a singer but also as a guitarist.” Ell wrote nine
of the 12 tracks. Other songs include “Champagne,” “Criminal” and “Always Kiss
The Girl.”
(11 Aug 2017) Will
Hoge - Anchors (Edlo/Thirty Tigers)
11 Tracks/ Time: 38:42 Folk Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Hoge’s 11th studio album (self-produced) includes
singles “Little Bit Of Rust,” and “Baby’s Eyes,” plus “17,” “The Reckoning,”
“Cold Night In Santa Fe” and “This Ain’t An Original Sin.”
UK Singer-Songwriters iTunes Album Debut #9 (#245
overall UK Albums chart), then #338
(11 Aug 2017) Shane
Owens - Walking On the Waves (Sharpe Music) IRE
(11 Aug 2017) Casee
Allen - Double You (EP; Casee Allen)
7 Tracks/ Time: 21:42 Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
#31 US iTunes debut
(11 Aug 2017) Alex
Williams - Better Than Myself (Big Machine Records)
12 Tracks/ Time: 48:53 Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com #29 US iTunes Debut
Williams debut was produced by Julian Raymond
(Jennifer Nettles, Justin Moore, Glen Campbell), its basic tracks recorded live
on the studio floor in two days. He wrote or co-wrote all 12 songs, with titles
including “Old Tattoo,” “Freak Flag” and “Hellbent Hallelujah.”
(11 Aug 2017) Kenna
Danielle - Like a Tumbleweed (EP; Kenna Danielle Music)
5 Tracks/ Time: 21:34 Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com #50 US iTunes Debut
(11 Aug 2017) Chase
Fouraker - Songs About a Girl (EP; The Nash Group)
4 Tracks/ Time:
13:04 Country/Pop Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com #59 US iTunes Debut
(11 Aug 2017) Ben
Gallaher - Ben Gallaher (EP)
5 Tracks/ Time: 17:33 Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com #60 US iTunes Debut
(11 Aug 2017) Hymn
River Suite - Hundred Proof (Hymn River Suite)
10 Tracks/ Time: 37:50 Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
(11 August 2017) Lee
Roy Parnell - Midnight Believer (BFD)
10 Tracks/ Time: 48:18
Amazon
UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
11 years after his last project, Lee Roy Parnell is
back with a new project that will be released in August titled Midnight
Believer. That last album saw the Texas Heritage Songwriter’s Hall of Fame
member stretching his reach past the traditional country genre, touching on
blues and southern roots in his music.
(11 Aug 2017) Steve
Azar & The Kings Men - Down at the Liquor Store (Ride Records)
13 Tracks/ Time: 48:42 Blues/ Country Amazon UK
- UK iTunes – Amazon.com
His debut album Waitin’ On Joe was released in 2001.
The title track went to #1 on CMT and featured Academy award-winning actor
Morgan Freeman. From the same album the hit single “I Don’t Have To Be Me, Til
Monday” received three Million-Air awards from BMI and is one of the top five
most played songs of the past decade on country radio.
In April of 2016, Steve became the first artist to
record a full-length studio album at the legendary Mississippi landmark, Club
Ebony. A long time in the making, and his first record in 5 years, Steve cut 13
new original tracks. The club, now belonging to the B.B. King Museum, was
turned into a recording studio capturing the rich history and vibe of the room
and in turn creating inspirational performances on the record. The album, Down
At The Liquor Store, was made with the participation of The Kings Men, a group
of musicians who backed B.B. King, Elvis Presley and other musical Kings.
(11 Aug 2017) Lara
Hope and the Ark-Tones - Love You to Life (Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones)
11 Tracks/ Time: 40:31 Blues/ Rock Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
- Bandcamp
BLUEGRASS NEWS
(8 Aug 2017) IB: International Bluegrass August 2017 Magazine:
Keynote Speaker Rhiannon Giddens, 2017 IBMA Awards Finalists, 2017 Hall of Fame
Inductees, 2017 Distinguished Achievement Awards Recipients, Full Lineup of the
Wide Open Main Stage -
(11 Aug 2017) Rural Rhythm Records artist Billy Droze reached #1 back-to-back weeks with his new single “Better
With Time” on the Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay Chart. Droze’s first single “Kentucky Blue” raced up
the Bluegrass charts reaching #1 in back-to-back weeks on the Bluegrass Today
Weekly Airplay Chart and reached #3 on Sirius XM’s Bluegrass Junction – Top
Tracks Monthly chart.
CANADIAN NEWS
(8 Aug 2017) NEW
MUSIC NICE HORSE "PONY UP"
It's the Zac Brown Band in miniskirts; the Runaways at
a hoedown; the Spice Girls on a whiskey bender. Girls just wanna have fun - and
Nice Horse are the best of the good-time girls.
Born and raised
on the Alberta prairies, Kaley Debra, Katie Marie, Brandi Caroline and Krista
Lee are ready to unleash a jacked-up, bushpartying bolt of energy on the
country music scene.
Longtime friends and musical allies, joining forces (as horses) seemed long overdue. One strong, smart, powerful girl on her own can start a spark - but four together can create an explosion.
Longtime friends and musical allies, joining forces (as horses) seemed long overdue. One strong, smart, powerful girl on her own can start a spark - but four together can create an explosion.
The single Pony Up is taken from their 4 track
EP A LITTLE UNSTABLE (Coalition
Music (Records) Inc.) available for digital download Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Spotify . The
>> video has aired on Keep It Country TV
(SKY 389/ Freesat 516)
NEWS
(8 Aug 2017) Sony
Music Nashville Signs Ben Gallaher
SONY MUSIC NASHVILLE has signed singer-songwriter Ben Gallaher to a long-term recording agreement. Gallaher released
his self-titled debut EP via Sony Music Nashville on August 11th. To celebrate
his EP release and label signing, GALLAHER was slated to perform at the
FLORA-BAMA on the Florida and Georgia state line for three consecutive nights
from Thurs Aug 10 – Sat Aug 12th.
(9 Aug 2017) Country Boy (You Got Your Feet In L.A.):
Reba McEntire, Chris Stapleton, Lady Antebellum and Wynonna Judd (also
appearing with Naomi Judd as The Judds) have been added to the lineup of All In For The
Gambler: Kenny Rogers' Farewell Concert Celebration set for Oct. 25
at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. They join the previously revealed lineup of
Rogers, Dolly Parton, Little Big Town, Alison Krauss, The Flaming Lips, Idina
Menzel, Jamey Johnson, and Elle King.
(9 Aug 2017) John
Mayer paid a special tribute to Glen Campbell at a show in Nashville,
Tennessee on Tuesday night (8 Aug 2017) after learning of the music legend's
death. The singer-songwriter performed a surprise cover of the late legend's Gentle on My Mind for fans at the
Bridgestone Arena, including young country star Kelsea Ballerini.
He told the crowd, "I’m going to play this song
with more love than precision. And I play it because it’s my favourite song in
the world. Whether I play it right or wrong, I’d rather have played it."
Gentle on My Mind was a hit for Campbell in 1967,
earning him a Grammy for Best Country & Western Solo Vocal Performance.
Impressed Ballerini called the musical tribute
"tender and beautiful" in a Twitter post after the gig.
(11 Aug 2017) Macon His Way The Only Way He Knows How:
Broken Bow's Jason
Aldean raised more than $700,000 Friday (Aug 11) for Beverly
Knight Olson Children’s Hospital, Navicent Health at his second annual Concert
For The Kids in his Macon, GA hometown.
AWARDS
(9 Aug 2017) Wichita Linemen: Jim McBride, Walt Aldridge, Tim Nichols and the late Vern Gosdin will
be inducted into the Nashville
Songwriters Hall of Fame during the 47th Anniversary Nashville Songwriters
Hall of Fame Gala Oct. 23 at Nashville's Music City Center.
GOSDIN's "Chiseled In Stone" was the 1989
CMA Song Of The Year winner; ALDRIDGE penned 1982 ASCAP Country Song Of The
Year, "There's No Gettin' Over Me," and 1983 NSAI Song Of The Year,
"Holding Her And Loving You," among others. NICHOLS' many credits
include the highly-decorated "Live Like You Were Dying," which won
2004 awards for GRAMMY's Best Country Song, CMA Song Of The Year, ACM Song and
Single Of The Year, and Song Of The Year honors for both ASCAP and BMI in 2005.
MCBRIDE's 1993 smash, "Chattahoochie," picked up CMA Song Of The
Year, plus ASCAP and Songwriter Magazine awards.
(10 Aug 2017) Gospel Truth: Country artists receiving
nominations for the 48th Annual GMA Dove
Awards were Reba
McEntire ("Back To God" for
Bluegrass/Country/Roots Recorded Song of the Year) and Hillary Scott ("Thy Will" for Song Of The Year,
co-written with Bernie Herms and Emily Lynn Weisband). The Dove Awards will air
live from Nashville's Lipscomb University Oct. 22 on TBN.
More than forty years into her recording career, Reba
McEntire has managed to score another first. This was Reba's very first
nomination for a GMA Dove Award, Christian music's equivalent of a Grammy. The
Country-Music-Hall-of-Famer is up for Bluegrass/Country/Roots Recorded Song of
the Year for “Back to God.” Written by Randy Houser, the track was the lead
release from her gospel double album, Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope. You can find out
if Reba wins October 22, when the 48th annual show airs on TBN.
(13 Aug 2017) Carrie
Underwood, Sam Hunt Land 'Teen Choice Award' Wins
Capitol Nashville's Carrie Underwood and MCA Nashville's Sam Hunt were
among the winners at Sunday Night's (Aug 13) "Teen Choice Awards," which were broadcast on FOX-TV.
Carrie was the winner in the Choice Country Artist category, where her competition included
Hunt, Blake Shelton, Florida Georgia Line, Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Bryan.
Sam Hunt walked away with the honors for Choice Country Song for "Body
Like A Back Road" after beating out Thomas Rhett's "Craving You" featuring Maren
Morris; Blake Shelton's "Every Time
I Hear That Song;" Keith Urban's "The Fighter" featuring Underwood; Florida Georgia Line (FGL)'s
"GOD, Your Mama, And Me"
featuring Backstreet Boys; and Brett Young's "In Case You Didn't Know."
Blake Shelton got a mention as NBC-TV's
"The Voice" nabbed the Choice Reality TV Show category.
BABY NEWS
(12 Aug 2017) Thomas Rhett and
his wife Lauren
Akins welcomed their second daughter
— Ada James Akins — on Saturday,
Aug. 12, at 10:28 p.m., a rep confirmed to PEOPLE. Born
in Nashville, Tennessee, Ada weighed 7 lbs., 3 oz. Our baby girl is here sweet Ada James Akins came into the world at
10:28 last night after almost 36 hours of labor (only Jesus got me through
that-& she is sooo worth it) " Lauren captioned a sweet hospital
photo on Instagram.
Baby Ada joins big sister Willa Gray Akins, who TR and
Lauren adopted this past May from a Ugandan orphanage.
TR's new album, which is appropriately titled LIFE
CHANGES, is due September 8.
PRESS RELEASES
(9 Aug 2017) Collin
Raye Honors Glen Campbell With 2013 Album 'Still On The Line: The Songs Of
Glen Campbell'
– In 2013, multi-platinum selling country sensation Collin Raye honored one of his heroes, Glen Campbell, with a
tribute album of the Rhinestone Cowboy’s iconic songs. The 12-track album
titled, Still On The Line: The Songs of Glen Campbell, was an opportunity for
Raye to show his respect and admiration for Campbell. Click here to order Still
On The Line: The Songs of Glen Campbell. Raye released the following statement
on Campbell’s passing: “My hero... My Friend... Glen Campbell, is gone. My
heart is heavy. A lot of memories… the end to a beautiful era in music. - Collinraye.com
(9 Aug 2017) Internationally renowned superstar, Billy Ray Cyrus,
will soon be honored by his
beloved home state of Kentucky as he is inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall Of Fame on May 11, 2018 at the Center For Rural
Development in Somerset, Kentucky. Other 2018 inductees are Jason Crabb, Jackie
DeShannon, Dale Ann Bradley, Bobby Lewis and late Grand Ole Opry member David
"Stringbean" Akeman.
“It’s been a long journey since those days of growing
up in Flatwoods, Kentucky,” said Cyrus. “For me, getting the chance to be
inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame just brings it all full circle.”
(9 Aug 2017) Kelsea
Ballerini, Vince Gill, Toby Keith, Little Big Town, Maren Morris, Brad Paisley,
Thomas Rhett, Hillary Scott, and George
Strait have been confirmed to perform at the "11TH ANNUAL ACM HONORS". The
Academy Of Country Music (ACM) will host the event at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on Wednesday, August 23rd. The
celebration will then be broadcast on CBS-TV on Fri Sept 15, 2017.
(10 Aug 2017) Wynonna and Naomi Judd will
reunite to perform together at “All in
for the Gambler: Kenny Rogers’ Farewell
Concert Celebration.” Reba McEntire, Chris Stapleton and Lady Antebellum
are also joining the star-studded lineup for the October 25 show at Nashville’s
Bridgestone Arena.
(10 Aug 2017) Darius Rucker is
busy launching “For the First Time,” the second single from his forthcoming
album, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME, due October 20. The weekend (Aug 13 & 14),
he reunited with the band that first brought him to the party: Hootie and the
Blowfish. “We play two shows in August every year,” Darius told ABC Radio, “and it sells out in minutes every time we
do it, because it's the only real time you can see us that's a public
appearance”
COUNTRY GOSSIP
(10 Aug 2017) Taylor
Swift's mum sobs while testifying against Denver DJ
Taylor Swift's mum blasted disgraced KYGO DJ David Mueller during testimony in her
daughter's groping case on Wednesday (9 Aug 2017), insisting she has no doubt
he "assaulted" the singer.
Swift returned to court in Denver, Colorado on
Wednesday afternoon and faced off with the radio host she accused of touching
her butt during a backstage meet and greet in 2013. Taylor Swift testified that
former radio DJ David Mueller intentionally grabbed her butt beneath her skirt
during a meet and greet photo in June 2013.
“It was a very
long grab,” she said in a Denver courtroom. Questioned about Swift's
reaction to Mueller being terminated, Swift said, "I didn’t have a reaction to a strange person I didn’t know losing his
job ... that was a product of his decisions, not mine. I’m not going to let you
or your client make me feel like this is my fault."
Additionally, Swift testified that she’d never
experienced such an incident before and that after it is said to have occurred,
she told Mueller “thank you for coming” in a monotone voice. “My eyes were to
the floor. I couldn’t make eye contact with either one of them [Mueller or his
girlfriend],” tweets Amanda
Zitzman, also with KDVR….Read More
I find sketches from today accurately show what I saw in court. @taylorswift13 confident. Mueller seemed withdrawn. #TaylorSwiftTrial pic.twitter.com/nKhU1bJhXP— Michael Konopasek (@MikeKonopasek) 10 August 2017
The 27-year-old's mother Andrea took the stand and
tearfully recalled her daughter telling her what had happened.
"I knew what happened, I heard it from her, I
heard it from my daughter’s mouth," she said. "He sexually assaulted
her, right there, that guy."
She pointed at Mueller, who lost his job at a local
radio station when the scandal broke.
"She (Taylor) couldn't believe that after he
grabbed her, that she thanked them for being there," Andrea recalled.
"It was just destroying her that she said that... As a parent it made me
question why I taught her to be so polite in that moment."
"I was upset to the point where I wanted to vomit
and cry at the same time," Andrea testified. "We felt it was
imperative to let his employers know what happened."
Mueller also hit the stand on Wednesday, and was
cross-examined by Swift's attorney, Doug Baldridge, who attacked the radio
host's claims that Swift's accusations had "rendered him
unemployable".
Mueller filed a $3 million (£2.3 million) slander suit
against Swift in Sept, 2015, claiming he lost his job at Denver radio station
KYGO after the singer falsely accused him of lifting up her skirt and touching
her rear-end. The Shake It Off hitmaker fired back in a countersuit, accusing
him of sexual assault and battery.
Mueller, 55, vehemently denies the allegations. The
case continues. “He grabbed my bare ass,” Taylor Swift testifies. See coverage
in the Denver Post
BIRTHDAYS
Birthdays in the week ahead
AUGUST
14 Connie Smith (1941),
15 Paul Jefferson, Rose
Maddox (1925),
16 Billy Joe Shaver (1939), Emily
Erwin (Dixie Chicks) (1972), Ashton Shepherd (1986), Dan
Smyers (Dan + Shay)
17 Kevin Welch
(1955)
18 Steve Wilkinson (Wilkinsons)
(1955),
19 Lee Ann Womack -
(1966), Clay Walker (1969), Eddy Raven (1934)
20 Jim Reeves (1924), Sneaky
Pete Kleinlow (1934), John Hiatt (1952)
R.I.P
(9 Aug 2017) Campbell Laid To Rest: Country Music Hall
of Famer Glen
Campbell, who died Tuesday at age 81 (BN 8 Aug), was laid to rest
Wednesday (Aug 9, 2017) in a private ceremony in his hometown of Delight, AR,
according to a statement on his official Facebook page.
Glen Campbell April 22, 1936 - August 8, 2017 (aged 81) BLOG: Country singer Glen Campbell dies at 81
