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It Burns When I Pee Live Stream (heh!) Tonight

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  • It Burns When I Pee, the only podcast covering the cutting edge and proud tradition of country music, will be streaming their show live tonight (7:30pm CST) and showing us how the sausage is made. And yes, that is a lewd comment directed towards Norma Jean. The final gussied up and edited edition will be available  on Jan 23rd which will feature an interview and music by Bob Wayne.
  • George Clinton, leader of the psychedelic funk music collective Parliament Funkadelic, is one of the celebrities participating in this season ofCMT’s  Gone Country 3.  Says Clinton: “I wanted to do Gone Country because I wanted to learn how to write country songs. I’ve written a lot of songs before, but I’ve never been validated as country, not even to myself. I’m country. I am a country boy. Johnny Cash, I like his songwriting. I used to watch Roy Clark and all them all the time — Chet Atkins and all those guys are really good songwriters. The lyrics for country songs are miles and miles ahead of almost anybody else’s lyrics. I guess everybody would agree there’s no comparison to it. I’m pretty sure I’ve got to do something that’s pretty challenging. I try not to imagine what it is, so when it happens I’ll just say I don’t have no time to do nothing but get off my ass and do it. I’m funky about doing whatever it takes.” I might have to actually watch it this season in spite of the homophobic midget host John Rich.
  • Mercury Nashville is set to release an LP version of Jamey Johnson‘s Grammy nominated album That Lonesome Song on January 27.  Since That Lonesome Song was released, it has spent 8 weeks in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums Chart and has appeared on numerous 2008 Top-10 lists (including mine.)
  • Ryan Adams has announced a musical hiatus citing health issues and “narcissistic over-indulgent behaviour” as the reason. Really!? Who knew? In all seriousness, I hope Adams finds peace of mind in his reprieve.  (guardian.co.uk)
  • Shooter Jennings talks about to NPR World Cafe host David Dye about Waylon Forever, a collection of songs Shooter recorded with his dad Waylon Jennings in 1995. Shooter then revisited the material with his backing band, The .357s.
  • Joe Whyte is back with his band at the Rockwood on inauguration Tuesday. Aang great show will be had by all: Rockwood Music Hall
    196 Allen St., NYC – 8pm – FREE
  • New York blues guitarist Popa Chubby is readying his foray into country music entitled Vicious Country. The release features his wife Galea on bass. Below is a video shot at New York’s Rodeo Bar of Popa Chubby covering Hank Williams III‘s song Straight to Hell.

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Merle Haggard Recovering From Operation

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  • At the insistence of his family and personal physician, country music legend Merle Haggard had a malignant tumor removed from his lung Monday at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital. Our thoughts are with the Hag and his family and here’s to a speedy recovery.
  • NPR’s All Things Considered has a post on the Waylon and Shooter Jennings collaboration album Waylon Forever which they report “honors the outlaw legacy of Waylon Jennings. Shooter and his band complete the songs with the right combination of Southern rock with a Black Sabbath chaser. Waylon, who loved all kinds of music and even palled around with Metallica, would no doubt approve.”
  • If you’re in the San Francisco area tomorrow night (11/6) head over to Amnesia (853 Valencia St.) for the Hang Jones CD Release Party

David Allan Coe and Shooter Jennings in Harp Magazine

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A great conversation by a couple of bonafide country music outlaws reminiscing about the good old days. From the piece:

JENNINGS: Nashville’s never going to change. They’re always going to be the same. They play by the rules. And it’s all still a pop thing. Nashville controlled it in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. It was just the reckless people that did it their own way that broke out [into the mainstream].

COE: The greatest example of that is Charlie Rich. Charlie Rich was just coming off of Behind Closed Doors, which was the biggest fuckin’ record. And if you went up by Sony Records, they would tell you-you couldn’t walk in a building, you know. Because Charlie was in the building, they had the doors locked. Security had to check you out first before you could get in the building. Then they had the awards show. And he was supposed to read the winner of male vocalist of the year. And he just opened the envelope and read it and took his fuckin’ lighter out and set it on fire.

JENNINGS: When John Denver won.

COE: Yeah. He refused to announce this guy as male vocalist of the year. And I thought it was the greatest fuckin’ thing I ever saw in my life. And you know what? You never heard Charlie Rich’s name again ever. That’s how powerful that town is. I just think music should be good or bad, period.

Justin Townes Earle Live Cuts at Hearya.com

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  • Hearya.com has posted four great live cuts from Justin Townes Earle. The cuts are “Lone Pine Hill,” “Who Am I To Say,”
    “Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me” and “Turn Out My Lights.” The session was recorded along with his live show
    accompaniment and friend Cory Younts.
  • Tickets for the July 5, 2008 Hootenanny in Orange County CA are on sale now.Some of the artists scheduled to appear are Mike Ness,BR549’s Chuck Mead,Royal Crown Revue, Cadillac Tramps, Grant Lee Phillips, Big Sandy, James Intveld, Guana Batz, Throw Rag, Blood on the Saddle, Roger Allen Wade, Russel Scott, Powerflex 5, Chris Schiflet, Dusty Rhodes, Rickey Warwick, Sh*tkickers, Hellbound Hayride and Wil Ridge
  • Aquarium Drunkard has a great post on a two-volume Dirty Laundry compilation that rounds up a collection of black country-soul cuts from the sixties and seventies. Samples offered are James Brown doing Hank Williams’ “Your Cheating Heart” and Bettye Swann doing  “Just Because You Can’t Be Mine.”
  • CMT’s Unplugged at Studio 330 has Shooter Jennings playing some cuts off his latest release The Wolf.”

Shooter Jennings to open Charlie Daniels’ Volunteer Jam

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Charlie Daniels has invited Shooter Jennings to open a series of Daniels’ Volunteer Jam concerts this year. April 11-12 in Harris, Mich. the bill also features .38 Special (which includes Donnie Van Zant, of the country duo Van Zant.)

The origial Volunteer Jam took place in 1972 was suppose to a one-off showcase of Daniel’s friend’s which just happed to be the best Southern Rock bands of the time which including the Allman Brothers Band and the Marshall Tucker Band.

Upcoming New York Shows

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Great stuff coming up soon:

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit / The Whigs / The Felice Brothers – Bowery Ballroom – 10/10

Shooter Jennings – Bowery Ballroom – 10/23

Drive By Truckers / Ryan Bingham / The Dead Horses – Bowery Ballroom – 10/26

Lucero / Bobby Bare Jr. / Whiskey & Co.  – Bowery Ballroom – 11/4

Laura Cantrell – Mercury Lounge – 11/10

Buck 65 / Bernard Dolan – Bowery Ballroom – 11/18

Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers / The Pine Hill Haints – Mercury Lounge 11/18

New York Concert Calender

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Some upcoming New York shows foe all you city Hillbillys and Betties.

Bowery Ballroom

Fri 09/14/07 Pieta Brown
Fri 09/14/07 Teddy Thompson

Sat 09/29/07 Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers
Sat 09/29/07 The Alternate Routes

Wed 10/10/07 Jason Isbell
Wed 10/10/07 The Whigs

Tue 10/23/07 Shooter Jennings

Fri 10/26/07 Drive-By Truckers
Fri 10/26/07 Ryan Bingham

The Mercury Lounge

Sat 11/10/07 David Kilgour
Sat 11/10/07 Euros Childs
Sat 11/10/07 Laura Cantrell

Town Hall

Wed 09/26/07 Allison Moorer
Wed 09/26/07 Steve Earle

Tue 10/02/07 Fionn Regan
Tue 10/02/07 Lucinda Williams
Wed 10/03/07 Fionn Regan
Wed 10/03/07 Lucinda Williams
Thu 10/04/07 Fionn Regan
Thu 10/04/07 Lucinda Williams

Sat 10/27/07 Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Sat 10/27/07 Jack Cooke
Sat 10/27/07 Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys

Shooter Jennings to Release First Single From the Wolf – Walk of Life

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Singer/songwriter and heir to the outlaw tradition Shooter Jennings will introduce the lead single from his third studio album, The Wolf (9/17), a cover of the Dire Straits cut “Walk of Life.”

Now I like Dire Straits, especially “Sultans of Swing”, but “Walk of Life” always seemed pretty lightweight and silly to me.

Jennings says “I’ve loved this song since I was a kid, but when I actually read the lyrics, I was fascinated by the line ‘he do the song about the sweet lovin‘ woman, he do the song about the knife,’ because it’s a struggle that I can relate to as a musician,” explains Jennings. “Hopefully this song will make people let their guards down, and it will open the door to the rest of the album. Then the more personal songs I wrote will speak for themselves.”

Okay I’ll hold all judgement until I hear it for myself.

Jennings also wrote nine of the 13 tracks for The Wolf, produced by Dave Cobb, including the autobiographical country blues tinged title cut, as well as “Slow Train” featuring guest vocals by iconic country music group The Oak Ridge Boys and the tribute to best friends everywhere, “Old Friend.”

Jennigs says “Dave and I were able to live out some of our musical fantasies with this album, which includes horn sections, and some of the Grand Ole Opry background singers,” added Jennings “It’s a country album that shows my influences from guys like Hank Jr. and my dad, and a lot of the country from the 70’s and 80’s. We also got a cool drum sound for the whole record that almost has a disco sound to it, as strange as that may sound. I think my fans are really going to dig it.”

Shooter Jennings to Release “The Wolf” – 10/23/07

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Singer/songwriter and heir to the outlaw tradition Shooter Jennings continues to mark his territory (sorry, had to do it)
in country music with the release of his third studio disc – The Wolf – on October 23, 2007.

Jennings wrote nine of the 13 tracks for this third project showing a more personal side of songwriting and giving
fans a more introspective look at the singer’s personal struggles and triumphs.

Several standout tracks on The Wolf, which was produced by Dave Cobb, include the autobiographical country blues tinged
title cut, as well as “Slow Train” featuring guest vocals by iconic country
music group The Oak Ridge Boys and a tribute to best friends everywhere, “Old Friend.”

Fans can get a sneak peak of what’s to come from the new album out on the road, where Jennings and his band the
357’s will give a taste of things to come.

Upcoming tour dates:

8/8/2007 : I Love NY Food Festival
TIME:  6:00pm
WITH:  Dickey Betts and Great Southern
LOCATION:  Albany, NY

8/9/2007 : Beachland Ballroom
TIME:  8:00pm
WITH:  The No So Good Ol’ Boys support
LOCATION:  Cleveland, OH

8/10/2007 : Wisconsin State Fair
LOCATION:  West Allis, WI

8/17/2007 : Watertown Fairgrounds Arena
TIME:  7:00pm

8/18/2007 : Allen County Fair
TIME:  8:00pm
WITH:  Montgomerey Gentry
LOCATION:  Lima, OH

8/22/2007 : The Library
TIME:  9:00pm
LOCATION:  Oxford, MS
8/23/2007 : Shooter’s
TIME:  8:00pm
LOCATION:  Texarkana, AR

8/24/2007 : Heritage Hall
TIME:  8:00pm
WITH:  Charlie Robison supports
LOCATION:  Ardmore, OK

8/25/2007 : Black River Coliseum
TIME:  8:00pm
WITH:  Montgomerey Gentry
LOCATION:  Poplar Bluff, MO

8/30/2007 : Southgate House
TIME:  7:00pm
WITH:  Stoll Vaughn supports
LOCATION:  Newport, KY

8/31/2007 : Columbia Music Hall
TIME:  8:00pm
LOCATION:  Portsmouth, OH

9/1/2007 : Ribfest
TIME:  3:00pm
WITH:  Cowboy mouth, Bodeans..
LOCATION:  Indianapolis, IN

9/6/2007 : Voodoo Lounge
TIME:  8:00pm
LOCATION:  Maryland Heights, MO

9/7/2007 : Uncle Ron’s
TIME:  8:00pm
LOCATION:  Lincoln, NE

9/8/2007 : Celebration on the High Plains
TIME:  7:00pm
WITH:  Eli Young band supports
LOCATION:  Colby, KS

9/12/2007 : Aggie Theatre
TIME:  8:00pm
WITH:  Earl Greyhound supports
LOCATION:  Ft. Colllins, CO

9/13/2007 : Boulder Theatre
TIME:  8:00pm
WITH:  Very special guests
LOCATION:  Boulder, CO