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  • in reply to: Big Sur Friday June 29 #49978
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    http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/2012/jun/28/songwriter-royalty/

    “I’ve been writing up a storm lately,” she says. “The song I wrote last night is a pretty ballad about when people say, ‘There will always be a place in my heart for you.’ I took that idea and turned it into a song.”

    On Friday at the Henry Miller Library, Williams – accompanied by guitarist Doug Pettibone – says she’ll probably play the tune in addition to a few other new ones.

    You lucky dogs who are going to this show. Can’t wait to hear the new songs, or at least hear about them. 🙂

    in reply to: Rainer Ptacek Tribute: The Inner Flame #49037
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    Sorry, LWJ! When I did my search before I posted, I only checked on the Records category. 😳

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    Now, that’s Americana! When kids still played outside, with toy guns, and your mom wouldn’t let you back in the house until it was dark outside.

    in reply to: Rainer Ptacek Tribute: The Inner Flame #49035
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    Looks like the original release date was July 8, 1997, with a somewhat different mix of songs and artists. My two favorite additions being Lu and Chuck, of course. 🙂

    http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-inner-flame-a-tribute-to-rainer-ptacek-mw0000022986

    1. The Inner Flame – Rainer Ptacek / Giant Sand

    2. Rude World – Jimmy Page / Robert Plant

    3. The Good Book – Emmylou Harris

    4. Rudy With a Flashlight – Evan Dando

    5. Something’s Gotta Be Done – Mark Olson / Victoria Williams

    6.Where’s That At? – Tina W. Chesnutt / Vic Chesnutt

    7. One Man Crusade – Kris McKay

    8. Losin’ Ground – Eric Drew Feldman / PJ Harvey / John Parish

    9. Worried Spirits – The Drovers

    10. Life Is Fine – Madeleine Peyroux

    11. 21 Years – Robert Plant / Rainer Ptacek

    12. I Am a Sinner – LK

    13. Broken Promises – Jonathan Richman

    14. Powder Keg – Bill Janovitz

    in reply to: Rainer Ptacek Tribute: The Inner Flame #49033
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    Agreed! 🙂

    in reply to: Rainer Ptacek Tribute: The Inner Flame #49031
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    Chuck Prophet Facebook post –

    “Look what just arrived. A copy of the Rainer Tribute CD we worked on. Inner Flame. Get yours now. Rainer was the living embodiment of everything we longed to be; Rainer was cool. Stone cool. Too cool for this world it turns out.”

    US release date – 6/26/12

    1. The Inner Flame – Giant Sand & Rainer
    2. The Farm – Lucinda Williams
    3. Rude World – Robert Plant & Jimmy Page
    4. The Good Book – Emmylou Harris
    5. Story Teller – John Wesley Harding
    6. Rudy With a Flashlight – Evan Dando
    7. Something’s Gotta Be Done – Victoria Williams & Mark Olson
    8. Junkpile – Grandaddy
    9. Losin’ Ground – PJ Harvey
    10. Limit To It – Chuck Prophet
    11. Where’s That At? – Vic Chesnutt
    12. Life Is Fine – Madeleine Peyroux
    13. 21 Years – Robert Plant & Jimmy Page
    14. Poweder Keg – Chris Whitley
    15. Broken Promise – Jonathan Richman
    16. One Man Crusade – Kris McKay
    17. That’s How Things Get Done – Howe Gelb ‘Sno Angel
    18. Be Prepared – Rainer with Joey Burns & John Convertino

    in reply to: Nurse Jackie #49960
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    TO wrote: Happened again -I think they haven’t cleared something and then I go back and look and sure enough I approved it.

    I refer to those situations as being “more efficient than you know”. 😀

    in reply to: New shows being announced #49747
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    I’m not sure if Lafayette is delighted or devastated; I think the summer vacay to Florida is around this time. Hope this timing works for you! xo

    TO wrote: Here are some additional shows–all full band– that are about to be announced in the next few days:

    7/25 — Covington, KY
    7/26 — Nelsonville, OH

    in reply to: New shows being announced #49749
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    tnt wrote: I wish…

    me too! 😀

    in reply to: May 31st Performance at Americana Nominees Announcement #49907
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    Big thanks, TO! Looking forward to hearing the songs. 🙂

    Here is Billboard’s recap of the event –

    http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/record-labels/backbeat-americana-music-award-noms-with-1007207352.story

    Backbeat: Americana Music Award Noms With John C. Reilly, Lucinda Williams, Shelby Lynn
    June 01, 2012 | By Ryan J. Downey, Los Angeles

    John C. Reilly was feeling under the weather but his love of Americana music was too strong for him to stay down on Thursday morning.

    The Oscar-nominated actor and Grammy winning Walk Hard comedian turned up to the Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles, as promised, to reveal the list of nominees for this year’s Americana Music Association Awards, despite battling a bit of illness in the days prior. “Now there’s an Americana actor, right there!” declared Jim Lauderdale, who returned as host for the intimate ceremony and played guitar in the backing band for a short concert featuring Lucinda Williams, Shelby Lynne and Robert Ellis. Buddy Miller led Lauderdale, Don Was (bass), Don Heffington (drums) and Greg Leisz (pedal steel / guitar) behind them.

    Check Out All Our Backbeats Right Here
    Industry folks and artists sat in the Clive Davis theater, just beside the Grammy Museum’s current heavy metal exhibit, and listened intently as Lynne sang a tune about learning music with her sister and mother, followed by Williams moving performances of “Blessed” and “You Are Loved.” The group closed the late morning event with a singalong-worthy “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” which was dedicated to Donald “Duck” Dunn, Levon Helm, Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson.

    “Any time I get a chance to play with these guys, I’m there,” said Leisz, who has recorded with everyone from Beck and Tracy Chapman to John Fogerty and the Smashing Pumpkins. “[The Americana Music Assocation] is making people aware of [American roots music], like young people coming up who may have some affinity for whatever is popular at the time, maybe giving them some appreciation for where everything is coming from, the historical arc of American music.”

    Jason Isbell, former member of the Drive By Truckers, led all artists with four nominations, while Gillian Welch snagged three of her own. Steve Earle was nominated for two awards, including Album and Song of the Year. Alabama Shakes, Dawes, Deep Dark Woods and Robert Ellis are up for Emerging Artist of the Year. The full list of nominations is below.

    “One of my challenges when I came in 6 years ago was Americana was seen as some ‘alt-country’ thing, as a radio format. I never prescribed to that,” Americana Music Association Executive Director Jed Hilly told Billboard.biz. “I think radio formats have been one of the greatest contributors to destroying the music business in the last 20 years. I told the Board of Directors that when I came in. We were also known as a Nashville-centric organization. Quite frankly when you live in a town that has Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale and the list goes on, you may be Nashville-centric. But it’s been my challenge to remove that perception.”

    Under Hilly’s direction, the AMA had last year’s nom-ceremony (which included performances from Helm and Civil Wars) at New York’s Gibson Showroom. “Every year people are like, ‘What are you going to do next?’ So we were like, ‘Let’s take it to Hollywood.’ As an association, we admire those who honor legacy. It’s very important to us and our mission. So we have a great relationship with [ Grammy Museum Executive Director] Bob Santelli here. He does incredible work. We have a great relationship with Terry Stewart [President and CEO of] the Rock Hall, with Kyle Young [Director] at the Country Music Hall of Fame. They open doors.”

    Reilly, of course, is a well known supporter of roots and Americana, which made him a natural choice to read this year’s nominees. “He attends Americana shows. He played with Sara Watkins not too long ago, he was at [Pioneertown, California venue] Pappy & Harriets,” Hilly pointed out. “He’s part of the community whether people know it or not, but he’s also an actor’s actor, just as Buddy Miller is a musician’s musician. And he’s a great guy. He’s sick as a dog and he still came!”

    Reilly read a list of nominees that included artists like Ellis, Gillian Welch, Deep Dark Woods and frontrunner Jason Isbell (the former Drive-By Truckers member led with four nominations). The nominations ceremony was broadcast on the web by various outlets. Winners will be announced at the Americana Music Awards September 12 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Reilly suggested the Awards be renamed “the ‘All the Good Bands That Are Out There Awards.'”

    Guests included New West Records general manager Mike Ruthig and V.P. production/catalog Peter Jesperson, Vanguard Records director of A&R Bill Bentley, Bug Music president David Hirshland, Conqueroo PR founder Cary Baker, ad exec Colleen Toombs and James Aardahl from Nissan, who sponsored the event.

    “Nissan is really supportive of the Nashville creative arts scene; another side of Nashville” Hilly said of the Japanese carmaker, whose North American headquarters are in Franklin, Tennessee. “They are supporting the Americana Music Conference, the Nashville Film Festival, the Ryman, Music City Roots. They are supporting the ‘other’: the difference between commercial art and fine art. That neon exterior, the country music establishment, is a great thing and an important part of the economy. But we don’t live in that world. And Nissan has embraced all of these other elements that I would put in the fine art category and that’s a really cool thing.”

    The full list of nominees is below:

    Album of the Year
    Here We Rest, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
    I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive, Steve Earle
    The Harrow & The Harvest, Gillian Welch
    This One’s For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark, Various Artists

    Artist of the Year
    Gillian Welch
    Hayes Carll
    Jason Isbell
    Justin Townes Earle

    Emerging Artist of the Year
    Alabama Shakes
    Dawes
    Deep Dark Woods
    Robert Ellis

    Song of the Year
    “Alabama Pines,” written by Jason Isbell and performed by Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
    “Come Around,” written and performed by Sarah Jarosz
    “I Love,” written by Tom T. Hall and performed by Patty Griffin
    “Waiting on the Sky to Fall,” written and performed by Steve Earle

    Instrumentalist of the Year
    Buddy Miller
    Chris Thile
    Darrell Scott
    Dave Rawlings

    Duo/Group of the Year
    Carolina Chocolate Drops
    The Civil Wars
    Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings
    Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
    Punch Brothers

    in reply to: New shows being announced #49739
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    tonyg wrote: Tickets went on sale today for the July 31 and August 1st shows at Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield Maine.

    Scared me for a second there, I thought it might have been Stone Mountain in Georgia. 😮

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    http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/05/americana-music-associations-award-nominees-to-str.html

    By Tyler Kane

    The Americana Music Association is set to announce their 2012 award nominees tomorrow (May 31) at 2 p.m. EST, and we will stream the live broadcast of the event right here at Paste.

    The event, which will be held at the Grammy Museum’s Clive Davis Theatre in Los Angeles, will be hosted by Jim Lauderdale, and nominees will be announced by actor John C. Reilly. The event is also set to include performances by Lucinda Williams, Shelby Lynne and Robert Ellis. Music will also be provided by Buddy Miller, who will lead a band that includes Don Heffington, Greg Leisz and Don Was

    The announcements are in anticipation of the Americana Honors and Awards program, which is set to take place at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. on Sept. 12. The ceremony is the capstone event of the Americana Music Festival and Conference, which takes place on Sept. 12-15.

    Make sure to check back tomorrow here at 2 p.m. EST for the live broadcast.

    in reply to: Kin, Songs By Mary Karr and Rodney Crowell #49300
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    http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/05/28/alt-country-alert-new-rodney-crowell-album-streaming-free-today-only/

    5/28/2012 @ 2:34PM
    Alt Country Alert: New Rodney Crowell Album Streaming Free Today Only!

    The New Album by Alt Country legend Rodney Crowell in in pre-order at Amazon and the whole thing is available for free streaming today at rodneycrowell.com/kin.

    The record is co-written with New York Times best-selling author Mary Kar and features the performances of Norah Jones, Vince Gill, Lucinda Williams, Lee Ann Womack, Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson and Emmylou Harris. Perfect for a Memorial Day barbecue!

    in reply to: 5/19 Columbia MD #49885
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    I love that the pic’s caption reads simply “Lucinda Williams, badass”. That is the rep she so justifiably deserves. 😀

    http://chrisklimek.com/2012/05/21/we-happy-few-drive-by-truckers-and-lucinda-williams-at-a-mostly-empty-merriweather-post-pavilion-reviewed/

    We Happy Few: Drive-By Truckers and Lucinda Williams at a mostly empty Merriweather Post Pavilion, reviewed
    Posted on May 21, 2012[attachment=0:2qby670f]Lu NOLA Jazz Fest 2011 badass.jpg[/attachment:2qby670f]

    I am experienced. I’ve reviewed the great Louisiana songwriter Lucinda Williams for the Washington Post before, in 2007 and 2009.

    I’ve also reviewed Drive-By Truckers, one of my favorite bands, for the Post in 2009, and I’ve interviewed Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, the band’s two frontmen, separately for DCist, The Examiner, the Washington City Paper and Washingtonian. I was at DBT’s year-ending shows at the 9:30 Club last December, which were amazing.

    Saturday night I covered the bill Williams and DBT shared at Merriweather Post Pavilion for the Post. It was a beautiful night and a good show. Too bad almost nobody saw it.

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    The hardest-working woman in music marches on… 🙂

    http://www.robertplant.com/news/robert-plant-and-lucinda-williams-sing-for-lil-band-o-gold/

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    Robert Plant and Lucinda Williams Sing For Lil Band O Gold
    05.23.2012

    Lil Band O’ Gold’s next album ‘Plays Fats’ has a crack line-up of guests including Robert Plant and Lucinda Williams as well as Australia’s Jimmy Barnes and Tim Rogers.

    Plant first teamed up with the Louisiana supergroup for their Promised Land DVD and performed some of his Led Zep classics Cajun style with Lil Band O Gold. On this Fats Domino tribute Plant will sing lead vocal n ‘It Keeps Raining’ and ‘I’ve Been Around’.

    Lucinda Williams pops up with Ani DiFranco and Kenny Bill Stinson in ‘I’m Ready’ while Australia’s Jimmy Barnes takes lead for ‘Ain’t That A Shame’ and Tim Rogers sings ‘I’m Walking’.

    ‘Lil Band O’ Gold Plays Fats’ will be released by Dust Devil Music via EMI on June 8, 2012.

    1. Blue Monday – Warren Storm
    2. It Keep Raining – Robert Plant
    3. Let’s Talk It Over (Don’t Lie 2 Me) – CC Adcock
    4. I’m Ready – Lucinda Williams w/ Ani DiFranco & Kenny Bill Stinson
    5. I’m In Love Again – R. David Egan
    6. Going Home – Warren Storm
    7. Ain’t That A Shame – Jimmy Barnes
    8. What A Price (Grand Prix) – Steve Riley
    9. 4 Winds Blow – Warren Storm
    10. Poor Me – CC Adcock
    11. I’m Walkin’ – Tim Rogers
    12. Rosemary – Warren Storm
    13. I’ve Been Around – Robert Plant

    http://www.noise11.com/news/robert-plant-and-lucinda-williams-sing-for-lil-band-o-gold-20120523
    -Paul Cashmere

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