Feb
12
The Winter Olympics brings hockey, figure skating, ski jumping and bobsledding back to television beginning Friday. So if you were Rascal Flatts and wanted to redo one of your hits for the Olympics, what would you call it?
“‘Bob That Sled,’” Flatts guitarist Joe Don Rooney laughs.
Actually, the group has put new lyrics to its current single, “Unstoppable,” for inclusion in a digital-release Olympics album, 2010 AT&T Team USA Soundtrack, which also features Gloriana’s “The World Is Ours Tonight” and Sugarland’s “Wide Open” alongside tracks by Mariah Carey, 3 Doors Down, Hoobastank and the All-American Rejects.
Continue Reading
ShareThis
Jan
26
Jamey Johnson photo courtesy of UMG Nashville.
Mercury Records released Jamey Johnson’s “High Cost Of Living” to radio stations exactly one year ago today, knowing all along that it would be a real battle to get it onto the airwaves. It had a rough-and-tumble, throwback sound that owed a huge debt to Waylon Jennings’ late-‘70s records. But even more daunting were its lyrics, which found the singer in jail after going off the deep end with drugs, alcohol and a prostitute.
It did not become a hit, but it did earn the respect of Jamey’s fellow artists and musicians. “High Cost Of Living” is nominated for Best Country Song and Best Country Male Vocal at this Sunday’s Grammy Awards. The CD, That Lonesome Song, competed for country’s Album of the Year honors in last year’s Grammys, as well as the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Country Music Association Awards, and “High Cost” was a key part of the project.
Continue Reading
ShareThis
