In 2010, Matt Kennon's single, The Call, shed light on suicide prevention. This year, he continues that crusade with You Had To Pick On Me, a powerful message of anti-bullying.
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Grimes, a project of Claire Boucher, will release the new album, Visions, to those outside of Canada on February 21st, which coincides with a tour through the US & Canada. The album will be released to the rest of the world on March 12th. The tour is scheduled to reach Europe in May.
Track list for Visions
1. Infinite ♡ Without Fulfillment
2. Genesis
3. Oblivion
4. Eight
5. Circumambient
6. Vowels = Space and Time
7. Visiting Statue
8. Be A Body
9. Colour of Moonlight (Antiochus) (feat. Doldrums)
10. Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U)
11. Nightmusic (feat. Majical Cloudz)
12. Skin
13. Know The Way (Outro)
The first radio single in four years from Vince Gill will be released to radio stations on Aug. 29. The new single, "Threaten Me With Heaven", is the lead track from his latest album, Guitar Slinger, which is due to be released Oct. 25th on MCA Nashville.
Vince co-wrote the single with wife Amy Grant, Dillon O’Brian and Will Owsley. Since the recording of the song, Owsley took his own life, giving the song a deeper impact for the singer.
Other tracks from the upcoming album include "True Love", which features Amy Grant and her daughter, Sarah Chapman, on vocals. Daughters Jenny Gill and Corinna Gill, also will make guest appearances on the album.
Among the songwriters with credits on the upcoming project are Leslie Satcher, who penned “Bread and Water” with Gill.
There are certain songs that tug at your heart strings and don't want to let go. Like Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss with "Whiskey Lullaby", Martina McBride's "Independence Day", or Alan Jackson & Patty Loveless singing together on "Monday Morning Church". "They make you teary-eyed, or get you to say "wow".
I heard Brett Eldredge's single, "Raymond", earlier today and felt the tug on the old heart strings. It may have to do with the fact that I can relate to the Alzheimer's Disease story in the lyrics. I had to watch my Grandmother waste away from that disease. This song reminds me how she wouldn't remember much of recent events, but if you went back 20 years or more and talked about those events, she was quite coherent.
Take a listen to "Raymond":
I work down at Ashberry Hills
Minimum wage, but it pays the bills
Cleaning floors and leading hymns on Sunday
Katherine Davis, room 303
Sweetest soul you ever could meet
I bring her morning coffee everyday
She calls me Raymond
She thinks I'm her son
Tells me get washed up for supper
before your daddy gets home
She goes on about the weather
how she can't believe it's already 1943
She calls me Raymond, and that's all right by me
She talks about clothes on the line in the summer air
Christmas morning and Thanksgiving prayer
Stories of a family that I never had
Sometimes I find myself wishing I'd been there
When she calls me Raymond
She thinks I'm her son
Tells me get washed up for supper
before your daddy gets home
She goes on about the weather
how she can't believe it's already 1943
She calls me Raymond, and that's all right by me
There's a small white cross in Arlington
Reads Raymond Davis '71
Until she can see his face again
I'm gonna fill in the best I can
When she calls me Raymond
She thinks I'm her son
Tells me get washed up for supper
before your daddy gets home
She goes on about the weather
how she can't believe it's already 1943
She calls me Raymond, and that's all right by me
She calls me Raymond, and that's all right by me
Be sure to stop by Brett's website and check out his music, videos & more: BrettEldredge.com
Country music legend, Don Williams, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday evening.
"What's the score" is a song that was recorded for Don's last major label release on Capitol Records, Prime Cuts, in 1989. A greatest hits package was re-mastered in 2004 which contained two new not-previously-released recordings. They were "Old Coyote Town", and "What's The Score", which was co-written by Buddy Cannon. This song was intended to be a single release, but it never made it out as a radio single due to Don's departure from the record label and a changing of the guard at Capitol.
Take a listen to the Gentle Giant’s song, “what's the score”.
What began as a ho-hum day turned bright very quickly when I arrived at the radio station and saw that a bunch of new singles had arrived. One of them caught my eye very quickly. It's a new version of Loretta Lynn's classic, Coal Miner's Daughter, which features Loretta along with Miranda Lambert and Sheryl Crow.
Now I know, some of you are saying "how does Sheryl fit into that group?" Well, Sheryl is a bit of a Southern girl herself, growing up in the bootheel of Missouri. It's interesting to hear how much her southern "twang" emerges when singing with the likes of Loretta & Miranda on this one.
Take a listen:
"Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute To Loretta Lynn" will be released on November 9th. It includes Loretta songs done by Gretchen Wilson, LeeAnn Womack, The White Stripes, Carrie Underwood, Alan Jackson & Martina McBride (I really want to hear THAT one!), Faith Hill, Steve Earle & Allison Moorer, Reba McEntire, Kid Rock and more. See it here at Amazon
By the way: If you haven't heard Sheryl do some 'twang' previously, take a listen to her remake of the Carter Family classic, No Depression in Heaven:
I got a bunch of new singles at the radio station today. One of them intrigued me greatly, not so much for the song itself, but by the people singing.
"Something Going On" is a duet with Wayne Warner & Bonnie Tyler. While I've never really heard of Wayne Warner, I've definitely heard of Bonnie Tyler (and my brain immediately starts humming "Total eclipse of the heart"). However, after the first listen of the song, I came to the realization that it's a nice little ditty of a song.
