KENNY CHESNEY
Attn: KENNY CHESNEY fans! The country music superstar will appear on ABC's Good Morning America Show on Sept. 13. Kenny will sing "Never Wanted Nothing More."
Said Kenny: "It's the same idea as morning drive. When people are starting the day, it just sets the tone for your entire day and if we're going to kick-off a record, you wanna pull all that energy from New York City and put it right back into your music. If we can get that into people's homes, it'll be perfect."
Kenny will end the day in New York on NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."
GARTH BROOKS
GARTH BROOKS has a new single out: "More Than a Memory." A new 3-disc set (2 CDs, 1 DVD) titled The Ultimate Hits will go on sale Nov. 6.
MERLE HAGGARD
Also out on Nov. 6, Time Life issues a 3-CD set titled "Legends of American Music: Merle Haggard - The Original Outlaw." (Note: merlehaggard.com is still offline. If anyone has information, please email to amy@blackbookpress.com)
JASON MICHAEL CARROLL
You can hear "Living Our Love Song" on Jason Michael Carroll's My Space page. This follow up to "Alyssa Lies" is a hit.
TAYLOR SWIFT
I would not have thought so unless I saw it myself, but it is worth watching Taylor Swift's "Teardrops on my Guitar" duet with America's Got Talent youngster Julienne Irwin. [Note to NBC: You really should have this stuff accessible on your website. You are missing fan traffic.]
WIN BIG & RICH's NEW BOOK
Send us an email with your favorite Big & Rich story. It can be your best concert memory, why you like a particular song, or why you joined the fan club. The best response will get a free copy of All Access Big & Rich, compliments of Fanscape and Black Book Press. Email amy@blackbookpress.com
Monday, September 3, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Country Music News: Big & Rich Contest, Merle Haggard
BIG & RICH CONTEST
Are you a Big & Rich fan?
Do you want to win a free copy of the new All Access Big & Rich book and DVD?
Are you a Big & Rich fan?
Do you want to win a free copy of the new All Access Big & Rich book and DVD?
Here's how: Send us an email with your favorite Big & Rich story. It can be your best concert memory, why you like a particular song, or why you joined the fan club. The best response will get a free copy of All Access Big & Rich, compliments of Fanscape and Black Book Press.
All Access Big & Rich is jam-packed with more than 200 color pages of behind-the-scenes photos and stories about the Muzik Mafia. You learn the stories behind the songs and get to know more about superstar entertainers Big Kenny and John Rich. Plus you get the All Access Big & Rich DVD, too. The book sells for $24.99 and is available online and in book stores.
Include your name and contact info and email your contest entry to: amy@blackbookpress.com
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Information about the Freak Parade and all of your favorite country music fan clubs is available in the Black Book Guide to Country Music Fan Clubs: The Top 100. Click here to order for only $7.95.
MERLE HAGGARD
We received an email that the merlehaggard.com web site is not operational. At present, when you log onto the site it says "Account Suspended." The snail mail address we have for the fan club is: Merle Haggard Fan Club, c/o Libby Roberts, 235 Murrell Meadows Dr. #72, Sevierville, TN 37876. If anyone has additional information, please email amy@blackbookpress.com
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Country Music News: Big Dog Daddy
Toby Keith brought his Big Dog Daddy tour to South Florida Saturday night and rocked the house with his unique blend of country.
Janis Fontaine offered this review in the Palm Beach Post today:
WEST PALM BEACH — Even in the heat, I love freedom of the outdoor space at Sound Advice. If you've never seen a concert there, I recommend the venue. And if you can see a superstar like Toby Keith, so much the better.
Keith took the stage shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday following opening acts Flynnville Train and Miranda Lambert. Train delivered a solid set, showing that these guys are obviously great musicians. But their look is more sloppy than sexy - they all have longer hair than I do - and probably won't appeal to the fans who buy the CDs - women, who on top of talent want someone nice to look at.
Miranda Lambert, on the other hand, is very nice to look at. But she started her set with one of the worse faux pas in the music business - she said hello to the wrong city. That's like calling your date by the wrong name. How invested can you be if you can't get the name right?
Lambert tried to make up for it but giving a rocking performance. I was impressed with her stamina. Playing the stage at SAA in August is a bit like trial by fire, and the Kerosene girl didn't falter there. She took the stage to strains of American Woman in a teal tank and jeans, and played her signature pink guitar, then went right into Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the title cut from her second CD. She almost seemed to kick up a little breeze with her attitude.
The native Texan gracefully swept the sweat from her brow and delivered What About Georgia and Me and Charlie Talking, then followed the lighthearted Dry Town with the dark Gunpowder and Lead. They bathed her in red for the dark ballad about killing an abusive boyfriend: "His fist is big but my gun's bigger..."
Lambert kept up the pace for the rest of her set, flinging her long blond hair about and running across the stage even at the end of her set. Aside from the tiny but important mistake, she delivered a great show. But she knew that we were there for the Big Dog.
As usual, Toby opened with a video featuring a Ford truck (his sponsor) and Larry the Cable Guy: The Adventures of Big Dog Daddy and Possum Boy. Hilarious.
Then the curtain opened to reveal Keith's new set. (Unlike Tim and Faith he revamped just about everything this year and spared no expense.) No Ford truck center stage this year, but the whole set was based upon its grill. Sort of subliminal advertising.
And Keith did not forget where he was. As a date, he was fully engaged. Lots of eye contact - I don't know how you make a crowd of thousands feel like they're making an individual connection, but he did.
He looked great in a black T-shirt and jeans, very fit and strong. The set showcased his 10-piece band, with dozens of lights and a huge video screen behind the band that looked like a big trampoline.
Keith opened with Big Dog Daddy, the title cut from his new CD, and followed with Honkytonk U. He showed pictures of his grandma and himself as boy, great for the "Aaww" factor. The show, which on many levels seemed spontaneous, was a well-orchestrated game plan careully designed to give the fans an emotional experience. And it worked.
Keith played drinking songs: Get Drunk and Be Somebody, Whiskey Girl; love songs: He Ain't Worth Missing, You Should't Kiss Me Like That; and redneck songs: As Good As I Once Was, Who's Your Daddy. But when he sang his first No. 1 single, I Shoulda Been a Cowboy, the crowd shouted loud enough to drown him out.
After a whirlwind of hit songs, Keith and his band played a Ted Nugent song, and he scoffed, "I can rock but they can't sing country!"
When the show "ended" the crowd knew it wasn't over. We hadn't heard the patriotic songs, songs at the core of who Keith is. To chants of Toby and USA, he returned for the encore. He played American Soldier and Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue amid fireworks and flames.
It was the perfect good-night kiss.
More Miranda
Last week, Miranda gave this interview to Janis Fontaine at the Post:
"I'm partial to people with cocky attitudes," Miranda Lambert says with a laugh. "If you like it, great, if you don't, go somewhere else. I guess it gets translated into my music."
Lambert is not only talking about Toby Keith, whose Big Dog Daddy Tour she opens for on Saturday at Sound Advice Amphitheatre, but her second attitude-laden album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which was released to rave reviews in May.
"This album has some extreme songs, but it's more just about being strong," she said by phone from St. Louis. "That's more the message that I'm trying to send: Be strong in whatever you're doing. Be a strong woman and stand up for yourself."
Lambert, the Nashville Star reality show finalist who set the country music scene on fire with her first platinum-selling disc Kerosene, has been standing tough for a long time. She learned to do for herself in tiny Lindale, Texas, about 40 miles east of Dallas, population 2,500.
Her parents were private investigators. "My parents didn't shelter me much. I grew up in a really great home and in church, but my parents had parties on the porch with Dad and everybody playing music and drinking beer, and I was just exposed to that lifestyle. They never tried to shelter me from that so I saw a lot early in my life."
On Kerosene, released when she was just 22, Lambert showed a maturity most artists work years for.
"People used to call me an old soul, and I think I was, and now I'm kind of catching up with it. When I started writing Kerosene I was 17 years old and I didn't really have a lot of life to write about. But being on the road for three years has taught me a lot. I think on this album I really wrote more from my point of view, rather than taking other people's perspective."
Lambert, like her lyrics, is thoughtful and complex: "Sweet like a kiss, sharp like a razor blade," as one line goes. She's a contradiction: A girly-girl who killed a deer with a bow last November; a sophisticated songwriter and accomplished guitarist who'll be only 24 on her next birthday.
In 2003, Lambert got national exposure when she came in third on the first season of Nashville Star, a country version of American Idol. She says losing that contest was a blessing.
"I was 19 years old and I wasn't ready to make a record in a month. For me, I got all the exposure of the winner that season because I was on all nine episodes, but I didn't have to have that big yellow sticker - Nashville Star Winner - on every album from here on out, and I also had plenty of time. I waited two years to put an album out and he (winner Buddy Jewell) had to put one out in a month. So I think it was a blessing I had time to build it.
"I think you can't really put your heart and soul into something you're rushed to do, especially in the creative sense. To me music is something that's very personal and that you really need to take time (with) and if you win, you don't have that time. When you're in such a rush, you maybe settle for a couple of songs you don't believe in."
Initially the picturesque blonde worried that her record label might want her to do just that: Sing songs she didn't like or believe in.
"I was ready with my whole spiel. Luckily, I had a great label. I signed with Sony and they just said, 'We signed you to be a writer, we signed you for who you are, now go and make your album.'
"It gave me a lot of confidence, but it was also a lot of pressure to do it right. I got to do this my way, but what if it's not successful? About a month before the album came out, I remember just being scared to death. Luckily, it worked."
Worked is an understatement. Kerosene debuted at No. 1 on the country charts, sold more than a million copies, earned her a Grammy nod, and was named one of the best albums of the year by The New York Times, Rolling Stone and Blender magazine.
And Kerosene's clever lyrics and catchy melodies helped Lambert distinguish herself in a country music landscape that seems to be littered with pretty blondes lately. She set herself apart from Carrie Underwood, Kellie Pickler and Taylor Swift, she said, by carving herself out a niche as the country-rocker girl.
"Every one of us has a different style," Lambert said. "I think I do something a lot different in my music and on stage. I sing about things other girls don't tend to sing about; drinking and cheating and real life situations and I think that sets me apart. And I have a tattoo," she laughs.
"It's a tough road, though. Everybody's looking at you and waiting to see who's going to have the next hit. I think I have more of an edge than the other girls, but thank God there's room for all of us."
Janis Fontaine offered this review in the Palm Beach Post today:
WEST PALM BEACH — Even in the heat, I love freedom of the outdoor space at Sound Advice. If you've never seen a concert there, I recommend the venue. And if you can see a superstar like Toby Keith, so much the better.
Keith took the stage shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday following opening acts Flynnville Train and Miranda Lambert. Train delivered a solid set, showing that these guys are obviously great musicians. But their look is more sloppy than sexy - they all have longer hair than I do - and probably won't appeal to the fans who buy the CDs - women, who on top of talent want someone nice to look at.
Miranda Lambert, on the other hand, is very nice to look at. But she started her set with one of the worse faux pas in the music business - she said hello to the wrong city. That's like calling your date by the wrong name. How invested can you be if you can't get the name right?
Lambert tried to make up for it but giving a rocking performance. I was impressed with her stamina. Playing the stage at SAA in August is a bit like trial by fire, and the Kerosene girl didn't falter there. She took the stage to strains of American Woman in a teal tank and jeans, and played her signature pink guitar, then went right into Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the title cut from her second CD. She almost seemed to kick up a little breeze with her attitude.
The native Texan gracefully swept the sweat from her brow and delivered What About Georgia and Me and Charlie Talking, then followed the lighthearted Dry Town with the dark Gunpowder and Lead. They bathed her in red for the dark ballad about killing an abusive boyfriend: "His fist is big but my gun's bigger..."
Lambert kept up the pace for the rest of her set, flinging her long blond hair about and running across the stage even at the end of her set. Aside from the tiny but important mistake, she delivered a great show. But she knew that we were there for the Big Dog.
As usual, Toby opened with a video featuring a Ford truck (his sponsor) and Larry the Cable Guy: The Adventures of Big Dog Daddy and Possum Boy. Hilarious.
Then the curtain opened to reveal Keith's new set. (Unlike Tim and Faith he revamped just about everything this year and spared no expense.) No Ford truck center stage this year, but the whole set was based upon its grill. Sort of subliminal advertising.
And Keith did not forget where he was. As a date, he was fully engaged. Lots of eye contact - I don't know how you make a crowd of thousands feel like they're making an individual connection, but he did.
He looked great in a black T-shirt and jeans, very fit and strong. The set showcased his 10-piece band, with dozens of lights and a huge video screen behind the band that looked like a big trampoline.
Keith opened with Big Dog Daddy, the title cut from his new CD, and followed with Honkytonk U. He showed pictures of his grandma and himself as boy, great for the "Aaww" factor. The show, which on many levels seemed spontaneous, was a well-orchestrated game plan careully designed to give the fans an emotional experience. And it worked.
Keith played drinking songs: Get Drunk and Be Somebody, Whiskey Girl; love songs: He Ain't Worth Missing, You Should't Kiss Me Like That; and redneck songs: As Good As I Once Was, Who's Your Daddy. But when he sang his first No. 1 single, I Shoulda Been a Cowboy, the crowd shouted loud enough to drown him out.
After a whirlwind of hit songs, Keith and his band played a Ted Nugent song, and he scoffed, "I can rock but they can't sing country!"
When the show "ended" the crowd knew it wasn't over. We hadn't heard the patriotic songs, songs at the core of who Keith is. To chants of Toby and USA, he returned for the encore. He played American Soldier and Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue amid fireworks and flames.
It was the perfect good-night kiss.
More Miranda
Last week, Miranda gave this interview to Janis Fontaine at the Post:
"I'm partial to people with cocky attitudes," Miranda Lambert says with a laugh. "If you like it, great, if you don't, go somewhere else. I guess it gets translated into my music."
Lambert is not only talking about Toby Keith, whose Big Dog Daddy Tour she opens for on Saturday at Sound Advice Amphitheatre, but her second attitude-laden album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which was released to rave reviews in May.
"This album has some extreme songs, but it's more just about being strong," she said by phone from St. Louis. "That's more the message that I'm trying to send: Be strong in whatever you're doing. Be a strong woman and stand up for yourself."
Lambert, the Nashville Star reality show finalist who set the country music scene on fire with her first platinum-selling disc Kerosene, has been standing tough for a long time. She learned to do for herself in tiny Lindale, Texas, about 40 miles east of Dallas, population 2,500.
Her parents were private investigators. "My parents didn't shelter me much. I grew up in a really great home and in church, but my parents had parties on the porch with Dad and everybody playing music and drinking beer, and I was just exposed to that lifestyle. They never tried to shelter me from that so I saw a lot early in my life."
On Kerosene, released when she was just 22, Lambert showed a maturity most artists work years for.
"People used to call me an old soul, and I think I was, and now I'm kind of catching up with it. When I started writing Kerosene I was 17 years old and I didn't really have a lot of life to write about. But being on the road for three years has taught me a lot. I think on this album I really wrote more from my point of view, rather than taking other people's perspective."
Lambert, like her lyrics, is thoughtful and complex: "Sweet like a kiss, sharp like a razor blade," as one line goes. She's a contradiction: A girly-girl who killed a deer with a bow last November; a sophisticated songwriter and accomplished guitarist who'll be only 24 on her next birthday.
In 2003, Lambert got national exposure when she came in third on the first season of Nashville Star, a country version of American Idol. She says losing that contest was a blessing.
"I was 19 years old and I wasn't ready to make a record in a month. For me, I got all the exposure of the winner that season because I was on all nine episodes, but I didn't have to have that big yellow sticker - Nashville Star Winner - on every album from here on out, and I also had plenty of time. I waited two years to put an album out and he (winner Buddy Jewell) had to put one out in a month. So I think it was a blessing I had time to build it.
"I think you can't really put your heart and soul into something you're rushed to do, especially in the creative sense. To me music is something that's very personal and that you really need to take time (with) and if you win, you don't have that time. When you're in such a rush, you maybe settle for a couple of songs you don't believe in."
Initially the picturesque blonde worried that her record label might want her to do just that: Sing songs she didn't like or believe in.
"I was ready with my whole spiel. Luckily, I had a great label. I signed with Sony and they just said, 'We signed you to be a writer, we signed you for who you are, now go and make your album.'
"It gave me a lot of confidence, but it was also a lot of pressure to do it right. I got to do this my way, but what if it's not successful? About a month before the album came out, I remember just being scared to death. Luckily, it worked."
Worked is an understatement. Kerosene debuted at No. 1 on the country charts, sold more than a million copies, earned her a Grammy nod, and was named one of the best albums of the year by The New York Times, Rolling Stone and Blender magazine.
And Kerosene's clever lyrics and catchy melodies helped Lambert distinguish herself in a country music landscape that seems to be littered with pretty blondes lately. She set herself apart from Carrie Underwood, Kellie Pickler and Taylor Swift, she said, by carving herself out a niche as the country-rocker girl.
"Every one of us has a different style," Lambert said. "I think I do something a lot different in my music and on stage. I sing about things other girls don't tend to sing about; drinking and cheating and real life situations and I think that sets me apart. And I have a tattoo," she laughs.
"It's a tough road, though. Everybody's looking at you and waiting to see who's going to have the next hit. I think I have more of an edge than the other girls, but thank God there's room for all of us."
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Country Music News
TRACY LAWRENCE
Attention: Tracy Lawrence fans. There is a wonderful, if brief, interview with Tracy online at CMT.
About recording "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" with Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw, Tracy says: We've all been friends for years. We've talked about it off and on -- for a long time -- of us doing something together. I sang on a track on one of Chesney's albums a couple of years ago with George Jones, and we bounce around and do those things periodically. I thought it would be real cool for the three of us to get together. I thought the lyrics of the song applied so much because they've had their whole deal with the horse.
[Chesney gained national media attention in 2000 when he rode away on a deputy's horse at the New York State Fair. McGraw was charged with attacking the deputies as they tried to corral Chesney and the horse.]
Kenny's had his bumps in the media, and everybody has, but we all met at the same time early on in our careers. And to see everyone succeed to the level that we all have is really pretty amazing -- for three kids to have met all those years ago and still actually have a good relationship with each other. When my vocal was done on the record, I burned copies of it and sent it to both of them. We talked on the phone a couple days later. They loved it and said it was a good idea. We booked a studio and everybody got together to finish up a record.
WILLIE NELSON
Attention: Willie Nelson fans. An awesome, Willie Nelson three-part interview with David Breskin in Musician magazine in 1982 is available online.
Part 1 http://stillisstillmoving.com/?p=1919
Part 2 http://stillisstillmoving.com/?p=1932
Part 3 http://stillisstillmoving.com/?p=1947
CMT
CMT has a new blog for country music lovers at http://blog.cmt.com/ Categories include albums, news, tours and, of course, CMT shows. Also a handful of artist under "Popular Topics." It is worth a look.
COUNTRY MUSIC FAN CLUBS
Your favorite country music fan clubs are included in the BLACK BOOK GUIDE TO OFFICIAL COUNTRY MUSIC FAN CLUBS: THE TOP 100, FROM TRACE ADKINS TO TRISHA YEARWOOD. Now available at amazon.com
Attention: Tracy Lawrence fans. There is a wonderful, if brief, interview with Tracy online at CMT.
About recording "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" with Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw, Tracy says: We've all been friends for years. We've talked about it off and on -- for a long time -- of us doing something together. I sang on a track on one of Chesney's albums a couple of years ago with George Jones, and we bounce around and do those things periodically. I thought it would be real cool for the three of us to get together. I thought the lyrics of the song applied so much because they've had their whole deal with the horse.
[Chesney gained national media attention in 2000 when he rode away on a deputy's horse at the New York State Fair. McGraw was charged with attacking the deputies as they tried to corral Chesney and the horse.]
Kenny's had his bumps in the media, and everybody has, but we all met at the same time early on in our careers. And to see everyone succeed to the level that we all have is really pretty amazing -- for three kids to have met all those years ago and still actually have a good relationship with each other. When my vocal was done on the record, I burned copies of it and sent it to both of them. We talked on the phone a couple days later. They loved it and said it was a good idea. We booked a studio and everybody got together to finish up a record.
WILLIE NELSON
Attention: Willie Nelson fans. An awesome, Willie Nelson three-part interview with David Breskin in Musician magazine in 1982 is available online.
Part 1 http://stillisstillmoving.com/?p=1919
Part 2 http://stillisstillmoving.com/?p=1932
Part 3 http://stillisstillmoving.com/?p=1947
CMT
CMT has a new blog for country music lovers at http://blog.cmt.com/ Categories include albums, news, tours and, of course, CMT shows. Also a handful of artist under "Popular Topics." It is worth a look.
COUNTRY MUSIC FAN CLUBS
Your favorite country music fan clubs are included in the BLACK BOOK GUIDE TO OFFICIAL COUNTRY MUSIC FAN CLUBS: THE TOP 100, FROM TRACE ADKINS TO TRISHA YEARWOOD. Now available at amazon.com
Friday, July 20, 2007
Country Music: Billboard Top 10
Big and Rich have the number one song in country music this week, according to Billboard (7-28-07):
1. Big & Rich - Lost in this Moment
2. Kenny Chesney - Never Wanted Nothing More
3. Keith Urban - I Told You So
4. George Strait - Wrapped
5. Taylor Swift - Teardrops on My Guitar
6. Jake Owen - Startin' With Me
7. Montgomery Gentry - Lucky Man
8. Rodney Atkins - These Are My People
9. Jason Aldean - Johnny Cash
10. Bucky Covington - A Different World
It is good to see some of the new country music voices holding their own on the charts.
Billboard's Top Country Albums are:
1. Brad Paisley - 5th Gear
2. Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift
3. Toby Keith - Big Dog Daddy
4. Carrie Underwood - Some Hearts
5. Big & Rich - Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace
6. Tim McGraw - Let It Go
7. Jason Aldean - Relentless
8. Rascal Flatts - Me & My Gang
9. Sugarland - Enjoy the Ride
10. Keith Urban - Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing
Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats" is #18 on the Billboard Top 100 chart this week, down one. Still, the unmistakeably country song has crossed over onto the mainstream chart for 46 weeks now!
Big & Rich's "Lost in This Moment" stays at #38 on the Hot 100, with 17 weeks on the chart.
Taylor Swift's "Teardrops On My Guitar" is up one spot to #40 on the Hot 100, with 19 weeks on the chart.
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill's "I Need You" is up four to #50 on the Top 100, with 9 weeks on the chart.
1. Big & Rich - Lost in this Moment
2. Kenny Chesney - Never Wanted Nothing More
3. Keith Urban - I Told You So
4. George Strait - Wrapped
5. Taylor Swift - Teardrops on My Guitar
6. Jake Owen - Startin' With Me
7. Montgomery Gentry - Lucky Man
8. Rodney Atkins - These Are My People
9. Jason Aldean - Johnny Cash
10. Bucky Covington - A Different World
It is good to see some of the new country music voices holding their own on the charts.
Billboard's Top Country Albums are:
1. Brad Paisley - 5th Gear
2. Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift
3. Toby Keith - Big Dog Daddy
4. Carrie Underwood - Some Hearts
5. Big & Rich - Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace
6. Tim McGraw - Let It Go
7. Jason Aldean - Relentless
8. Rascal Flatts - Me & My Gang
9. Sugarland - Enjoy the Ride
10. Keith Urban - Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing
Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats" is #18 on the Billboard Top 100 chart this week, down one. Still, the unmistakeably country song has crossed over onto the mainstream chart for 46 weeks now!
Big & Rich's "Lost in This Moment" stays at #38 on the Hot 100, with 17 weeks on the chart.
Taylor Swift's "Teardrops On My Guitar" is up one spot to #40 on the Hot 100, with 19 weeks on the chart.
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill's "I Need You" is up four to #50 on the Top 100, with 9 weeks on the chart.
Friday, July 13, 2007
Country Music at Live Earth
The 7/7/07 Live Earth concert for the planet was seen in more than 100 countries and included a taste of country music
KEITH URBAN sang an awesome rock duet of "Gimme Shelter" with Alicia Keys, then went on to play "Days Go By," "Stupid Boy" and "I Told You So." CLICK HERE to see the "Gimme Shelter" video.
KELLY CLARKSON sang rock - no shade of her REBA duet.
You can catch all of the concerts online at http://www.liveearth.org/
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
COUNTRY MUSIC: REBA & KELLY CLARKSON
REBA & KELLY CLARKSON DUET
Did you see the REBA and KELLY CLARKSON Crossroads show on CMT last week? If not, it is sure to be rerun.
Once again REBA shows herself to be the a fantastic performer, capable of soulful country and rock. And Kelly held her own with her idol, Reba.
One difference in their singing - Kelly says Reba can hit the low notes she can't, and Reba says Kelly can hit the high notes.
Together, they made some beautiful and memorable music.
You can watch the video of the REBA & KELLY CLARKSON duet of "Because of You" online at YouTube and CMT.
The CD version is online, too. CLICK HERE.
the live performance of REBA and KELLY singing "Since U Been Gone."
the live performance of REBA and KELLY singing "Does He Love You."
the REBA and KELLY Crossroads interview.
Lyrics to BECAUSE OF YOU
by Reba McEntire featuring Kelly Clarkson
(Lyrics & Music by: Kelly Clarkson/David Hodges/Ben Moody)
I will not make
The same mistakes that you did
I will not let myself
Cause my heart so much misery
I will not break
The way you did
You fell so hard
I've learned the hard way
To never let it get that far
Chorus
Because of you
I never strayed too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side
So I don't get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard to trust
Not only me
But everyone around me
Because of you
I am afraid
I lose my way
And it's not too long before you point it out
I cannot cry
Because I know that's weakness in your eyes
I'm forced to fake a smile, a laugh
Every day of my life
My heart can't possibly break
When it wasn't even whole to start with
Because of you
I never strayed too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side
So I don't get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard to trust
Not only me
But everyone around me
Because of you
I am afraid
I watched you die (I watched you die)
I heard you cry
Every night in your sleep (in your sleep)
I was so young (I was too young)
You should have known better
Than to lean on me (lean on me)
You never thought of anyone else
You just saw your pain (you never saw me)
And now I cry in the middle of the night
For that same damn thing
Because of you
I never strayed too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side
So I don't get hurt
Because of you I find it hard to trust
Not only me
But everyone around me
Because of you
I am afraid
Because of you (oooh)
Oooh Because of you (oooh)
Did you see the REBA and KELLY CLARKSON Crossroads show on CMT last week? If not, it is sure to be rerun.
Once again REBA shows herself to be the a fantastic performer, capable of soulful country and rock. And Kelly held her own with her idol, Reba.
One difference in their singing - Kelly says Reba can hit the low notes she can't, and Reba says Kelly can hit the high notes.
Together, they made some beautiful and memorable music.
You can watch the video of the REBA & KELLY CLARKSON duet of "Because of You" online at YouTube and CMT.
The CD version is online, too. CLICK HERE.
the live performance of REBA and KELLY singing "Since U Been Gone."
the live performance of REBA and KELLY singing "Does He Love You."
the REBA and KELLY Crossroads interview.
Lyrics to BECAUSE OF YOU
by Reba McEntire featuring Kelly Clarkson
(Lyrics & Music by: Kelly Clarkson/David Hodges/Ben Moody)
I will not make
The same mistakes that you did
I will not let myself
Cause my heart so much misery
I will not break
The way you did
You fell so hard
I've learned the hard way
To never let it get that far
Chorus
Because of you
I never strayed too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side
So I don't get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard to trust
Not only me
But everyone around me
Because of you
I am afraid
I lose my way
And it's not too long before you point it out
I cannot cry
Because I know that's weakness in your eyes
I'm forced to fake a smile, a laugh
Every day of my life
My heart can't possibly break
When it wasn't even whole to start with
Because of you
I never strayed too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side
So I don't get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard to trust
Not only me
But everyone around me
Because of you
I am afraid
I watched you die (I watched you die)
I heard you cry
Every night in your sleep (in your sleep)
I was so young (I was too young)
You should have known better
Than to lean on me (lean on me)
You never thought of anyone else
You just saw your pain (you never saw me)
And now I cry in the middle of the night
For that same damn thing
Because of you
I never strayed too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side
So I don't get hurt
Because of you I find it hard to trust
Not only me
But everyone around me
Because of you
I am afraid
Because of you (oooh)
Oooh Because of you (oooh)
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