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        COUNTRY MUSIC NEWS - Friday, August 15, 2008

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*———– TEST YOUR COUNTRY MUSIC KNOWLEDGE ———–*

Q. In the song ‘It Was’ by Chely Wright, what does she
say she ‘used to have so many’ of?   

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       +—– TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY —–+

1925 Rose Maddox born in Boaz, Ala.
 
1933 Bobby Helms born in Bloomington, Ind.
 
1933 Mike Seeger of the New Lost City Ramblers born in
New York City 

1941 Don Rich, lead guitarist in Buck Owens’ Buckaroos,
born Don Ulrich in Olympia, Wash. 
 
1952 Hank Williams’ “Jambalaya” charted 
 
1979 Old-time singer Asa Martin died
 
1984 Record producer Norman Petty died 

1990 Former Statler Brothers guitarist-vocalist Lew
Dewitt died 
 
1968 Hank Williams Jr.’s movie A Time to Sing debuted
in Nashville 
 
1975 David Rogers opened Country Green Club in Atlanta,
Ga. 
 
1928 Jimmie Rodgers recorded “No Hard Times” and “Peach
Pickin’ Time Down in Georgia” 

1951 Grandpa Jones recorded “You Done Me Mean And
Hateful” and “Fifteen Cents Is All I Got”

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* NOW A LOOK AT COUNTRY MUSIC & THE PEOPLE MAKING IT TODAY *

   After Three-Year Delay, Keith Anderson Bows New Album

Keith AndersonKeith Anderson’s patience is finally paying
off.

Anderson admits he was frustrated last year when, just
after finishing his second album for Arista Records, he
was told he was going to have to switch labels. While
still within the Sony BMG family, the transfer meant it
would be another year before his album could be released
– an excruciatingly long delay for any artist, but
particularly wrenching for Anderson, whose previous
album had sold half a million copies and helped build a
sizable fan base he wanted to maintain.

But the wait was worth it. “I Still Miss You,” the first
single from his new album, C’mon!, is his highest-chart-
ing song to date — and it’s still climbing. Moreover,
the anticipation fueled by a three-year wait for new
Keith Anderson music has whipped up great expectations
for C’mon! (His earlier album, Three Chord Country and
American Rock & Roll was released in May 2005.)

Here was the problem: At Arista, Anderson found himself
competing for attention with fellow male vocalists Alan
Jackson and Brad Paisley, as well as with superstars
Brooks & Dunn and Carrie Underwood.

That being the situation, Joe Galante, head of Sony
BMG Records, Arista’s corporate parent, decided
Anderson stood a better chance of gaining the spot-
light if he moved over to Columbia, another Sony BMG
label. Its roster included Gretchen Wilson, Miranda
Lambert and Montgomery Gentry — but no other prom-
inent male artist.

“It freaked me out to switch,” Anderson recalls,
“because I’d had so much success on Arista. There
are such good friends over there and a great pro-
motional staff. My first record had gone gold, and
I’d had three big [single] hits.” Nonetheless, he
bowed to Galante’s strategy and proved himself to
Columbia by going on a six-month tour of radio
stations to ballyhoo the new album and single.

At the same time, Anderson continued to work the
road to keep fan interest up. “Oh, gosh, it was
just tour, tour, tour,” he says. “We were constantly
playing dates. We started playing all the new music,
too. So fans were getting a taste of it even before
the album came out.”

Among the songs getting the best responses, Anderson
reports, were “Sunday Morning in America,” “Somebody
Needs a Hug” (a strong candidate for second single),
“C’mon!” and “Break My Heart.”

“We don’t play many of the ballads,” Anderson says,
“because the show is such a live rockin’ show.”

Like its predecessor, C’mon! showcases Anderson’s
writing. He had a hand in writing every one of the
11 songs except for the catchy Foster & Lloyd
rhapsody, “Crazy Over You.” (Foster & Lloyd sang
along with Anderson on this cut.) His co-writers
were Jeffrey Steele (who also produced the album),
Rivers Rutherford, Bob DiPiero, David Lee Murphy,
Chuck Cannon, Tim Nichols, Jason Sellers, Vicky
McGehee, Chris Wallin, Rodney Clawson, John Rich
and Bobby Pinson.

Although it had already been a No. 1 single for Big
& Rich, Anderson decided to include “Lost in This
Moment” in his album. He says the song has been
around for a long time. “[Co-writer] John Rich and
I pitched it to a lot of other artists since neither
one of us had a record deal at the time [we wrote it],”
he explains. “And then — seven years later — we both
recorded it, not knowing that the other one had. …
Once it became a hit, we thought, gosh, we’ve already
spent time and money on my recording. Let’s put it on
the record and give everybody another taste of it.”
 
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             +— COUNTRY STARS CONCERTS —+

       Brad Paisley Gets Ready for Election Day Play

Brad Paisley’s new album, Play, will be released on
Nov. 4, the day of the U.S. presidential election.
Described as “an all-out guitar celebration,” the 15-
track album includes four songs that feature vocals.
Among them are Paisley’s collaborations with B.B. King
(on “Let the Good Times Roll”) and Keith Urban (”Start
a Band”). Paisley and Steve Wariner collaborated on
writing and singing “More Than Just This Song,” a
tribute to their early guitar heroes. Paisley salutes
one of his mentors, the late Buck Owens, by adding his
vocals and guitars to “Come On In.” Owens wrote the
song and recorded it, but the track had remained un-
finished. The 11 instrumental tracks include “Cluster
Pluck,” a jam featuring James Burton, Vince Gill, John
Jorgensen, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert and
Wariner.

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TODAY’S QUIZ ANSWER:

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