This Day In Country Music 2/25 Cash,Loretta,Nelson, Alabama, Jones,

 Today's Country Music History Lesson 

    1981

Country music winners at the 23rd Annual Grammy Awards included; Best Country Vocal Performance, Male - George Jones for "He Stopped Loving Her Today", Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group: Emmylou Harris & Roy Orbison for "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again"and Willie Nelson won  for "On the Road Again."

  Willie and Glen Campbell doing a live rendition  of  On The Road Again. 

George Jones- He Stopped Loving Her Today - Live

1982

Alabama released their sixth studio album Mountain Music their most successful album and second US Country #1.          

 Check out this video of Alabama and Friends performing Mountain Music at the historic Ryman in Nashville in 2014

1992

Johnny Cash was awarded the Grammy Legend Award, "for ongoing contributions and influence in the recording field."

1998

Johnny Cash's album, Unchained, won a Grammy Award for Best Country Album.  The 

album was an all star collaboration behind the scenes.  Check out the behind the scenes videos. 

2014

Loretta Lynn suffered minor burns following a fire at her home. The singer was at home watching TV when a candle burning in the sunroom toppled over, setting a chair on fire. Loretta discovered the blaze when she went to investigate a crackling sound and the singer used a pillow to beat down the flames.

Jim's Equipment Repair Nashville Music News 2/25/20; Tanya Tucker,& Carrie Underwood

Cry Pretty Reaches A Milestone

Carrie Underwood was moved to tears during an interview at last week's Country Radio Seminar in Nashville.   UMG Nashville CEO Mike Dungan and president Cindy Mabe joined Carrie as the session was closing and surprised her with a plaque commemorating her album’s platinum status.
Carrie shares writing credit on nine songs on Cry Pretty, as well as co producer credit.  The tearful superstar said, “This means a lot, because I feel like this is the project that I’ve done, and the album that I’ve done, that is the most ‘me.’ I’m honored and I’m humbled, and God is good.”

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Tanya Wakes The King

  Country legend Tanya Tucker is loving her post Grammy winning resurgence.  When  Her CMT Next Woman Of Country Tour stopped in Memphis, TN Tucker was inspired by the spirit of the KING. 

  Tucker and her crew were treated to the VIP tour of Graceland earlier in the and the energy of  Elvis filled her soul.  Her set was full of hits, vintage cuts, casual banter with fans, an Elvis inspired pose, and a few covers of the King's classics including the often overlooked In The Ghetto.   

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Memories. Pressed between the pages of my mind. So great taking the boys, crew, and @reverielaneband through Graceland. The King may be gone, but his memory and legacy lives on. #Elvis #TheKing #TanyaMotherTucker . 📸: @dkupish

A post shared by Tanya Tucker (@thetanyatucker) on Feb 20, 2020 at 6:21pm PST

Red Dirt Report: Carrie Hits The Town

 Carrie Underwood must be suffering a bit of cabin fever.  The country superstar made a few stops in music city over the weekend. 
  Carrie and husband Mike Fisher stopped by the Bridgestone arena to watch Mike's former teammates on the Predators play a tough three periods of hockey.  In an instagram post, Carrie seems to miss the game and her husband playing it.
  "Good to be back at a @predsnhl game! Way to pull out the win, guys! Didn’t realize how much I missed it. Think I can talk the hubby into coming back for one more round? #LetsGoPredators #UnRetiredAgain? #FangFingers #MyHusbandNeedsAJob" 

 Thursday Afternoon Underwood surprised an invitation only crowd in Nashville by joining Keith Urban on stage for a live version of the 2017 hit, The Fighter.    Underwood had performed earlier in the afternoon and opportunity struck.. We haven't heard if it was planned in advance. 

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Good to be back at a @predsnhl game! Way to pull out the win, guys! Didn’t realize how much I missed it. Think I can talk the hubby into coming back for one more round? #LetsGoPredators #UnRetiredAgain? #FangFingers #MyHusbandNeedsAJob

A post shared by Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) on Feb 22, 2020 at 8:02pm PST

 

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What Intimidated Miranda?

Many people may not remember but in 2003 Miranda Lambert  made a splash  by competing on the first season of Nashville Star. Last week she shared that the show was very intimidating, and she actually failed her initial audition.

  Taste Of Country Dot Com reports that Miranda gave an industry only interview as part of the 2020 Country Radio Seminar in Nashville last week.   She told the audience that when she first auditioned for the USA Network reality singing competition, her heart wasn't really in it, and she didn't get very far into the audition process.

   Bev, her mom, was angry with Miranda for not putting her heart and soul into the audition. Bev had spent countless hours shuttling Lambert to auditions, and bookings. The notion that Miranda didn't showcase her true talents didn't sit well with mom.   Bev insisted that her daughter audition again in another city, and Lambert sang "Crazy" in her second audition, winning her way onto the show.

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Baby Mooney

  Dan & Shay's Shay Mooney welcomed baby number 2.  People reports that Ames Alexander Mooney was born on Friday (Feb. 21) in Nashville. to proud parent's Hannah and Shay. 

The little guy weighed in at 6 lbs., 7 oz. and is 19.5 inches long.

“Our family is ecstatic,” the couple say in a statement to People. “Ames is absolutely perfect!”

   This is their second child. Their first son Asher James was born  in January of 2017.

Brandi Carlile will serve as this year's Record Store Day Ambassador. 

 When this year's Record Store Day rolls around on April 18 a familiar face in country music will be front and center.   Brandi Carlile was named the 2020 Record Day Store Ambassador on Friday.

  The official record store day twitter made the big announcement including a video of Carlile in a studio.   Carlile says,  "We’ve been making the physical manifestation of independent-minded music for over two decades in this space,".  "What independent record stores do is that they mine, archive, love, meticulously care for, and make available to you other people’s dreams,"  Carlile continued. 

A New Feature: The Red Dirt Report- Maren Morris Wants a Gypsy Baby

 I wanted to try something new today, The Red Dirt Report. The concept is simple. I take a seriously written country music story and add tabloid elements to it to make it sensational and ridiculous .  Darn it! Maren and Ryan are just too likeable though, so I figure my first time doing this on Kickin is not as tabloid-ish as I would have liked...

   Maren Morris told NASH COUNTRY DAILY that she and husband Ryan Hurd are going to raise a  "Tour Bus Baby". 

   In a recent interview with Kix Brooks Maren said:

    “I don’t want to take a year off,”..... “I don’t want to, like, be away from my fans for that long. I’m still, at my core, a workhorse, and I love performing. I love being onstage, and I love to sing, so my turnaround after I deliver is pretty short. It’s only two months and I have another gig, but mentally and emotionally—and I could change after I have my baby—but I think that it’ll be good for me to have an endpoint because if it’s just open-ended, I’m gonna be, like, [having] cabin fever, going stir-crazy in the house, like, taking care of this kid . . . It’s kind of nice to have a goal to be like, ‘Okay, I have two months,’ to not put pressure on myself but to get it back together, bring him on the road with me ’cause that’s gonna be the reality. He’s gonna be a tour bus baby, so it makes me feel like I can do motherhood and my career and not have to compartmentalize them.”

   Maren and Ryan's baby boy is due to make his world premier debut in March, meanwhile mama Maren is scheduled to perform at the legendary Houston Rodeo in early March, just weeks from her due date. 

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  Carlile Hits Hollywood

  Brandi Carlile tweeted her excitement about contributing to the new Disney-Pixar film ONWARD.

Thrilled to announce that I will perform the end credit song for Disney & Pixar’s upcoming film, Onward! This new song is called “Carried Me With You,” which I wrote and produced with Phil & Tim Hanseroth. https://t.co/YhO0zqEm9D

— Brandi Carlile (@brandicarlile) February 12, 2020

   The Song, CARRY ME WITH YOU was written specifically for the film.  ONWARD Opens nationwide March 6th.

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 Kane Brown's New Documentary Is Coming

Kane  Brown is the subject of a new  Amazon documentary.    The film is entitled Velocity and follows Brown's recent sold out show at the Staples Center in LA.   TASTE OF COUNTRY   reports that Brown is only the 11th Country Artist to sell out the arena. According to his management, he did so in 90 minutes.    

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 Ronnie Dunn Covers Merle in New Project

Ronnie Dunn is bringing a 1984 Merle Haggard Grammy winning classic back into the public eye by performing his own rendition. Dunn lends his smooth delivery to THAT'S THE WAY LOVE GOES.  The song is part of Ronnie's upcoming project Re-Dunn a lovingly record collection of 24 classic country songs covered by  Dunn.

This Day In Country Music 2/18

A quick look at the biggest moments from this day in country music.

1954
 "No Money in This Deal" George Jones' debut single was released

1975
 Trevor Rosen from Old Dominion was born Michigan

1988
Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner shared a stage for the first time since they parted ways in 1974.   The reunion happened during a taping of Dolly's short lived TV Show Dolly!

1999
Dixie Chicks were at #1 on the US Country music album with Wide Open Spaces.

Opry Planning A Huge Night Of Music in February

Every night at the Grand Ol' Opry is magical, but fans are especially excited about the line up hitting the stage on February 11th.   Arguably three of the biggest names in country music will be taking the stage along with an unbelievable supporting line up.   
  Luke Combs, Darius Rucker and Jimmie Allen headline with appearances from Maggie Rose and Dale Watson.    
Tickets and travel packages can be found at Opry.com  

Garth Announces First Dive Bar Stop of 2020

Garth Brooks will be celebrating his birthday two days early this year when the Dive Bar makes it's first 2020 stop at Six String Grill & Stage in Foxboro Mass. on February 5th.  The appearance was originally scheduled for December but was canceled due to the weather.  Garth will turn 58 two days later on February 7th.                              (image source: Nashcountrydaily.com)

Little Big Town Tops The Charts

Little Big Town’s ninth studio album, Nightfall, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart this week.Their  previous No. 1 albums include The Reason Why (2010), Tornado (2012) and The Breaker

Source:  Taste of Country Dot Com