Country Music

        COUNTRY MUSIC NEWS - Wednesday, August 6, 2008

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       +—– TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY —–+

1922 Old Joe Clark born Manuel D. Clark, Jr., in Erwin,
Tennessee 

1935 Mandolin great Herschel Sizemore born in Leighton,
Ala. 

1940 Myrna Lorrie born in Ft. William, Canada 

1959 Singer/songwriter Darrell Scott (”Long Time Gone,”
“It’s a Great Day to Be Alive”) born 

1964 Twins Patsy and Peggy Lynn born in Nashville,
Tennessee 

1968 Lisa Stewart born in Louisville, Mississippi 
 
1977 First Top 10 for Kendalls; “Heaven’s Just A Sin Away”;
charted in 1977. 
 
1989 Nathan “Nat” Levine (Producer of cowboy films by Gene
Autry, Roy Rogers & others) died 

1989 Billy Bowman (Western Swing steel guitarist) died 
 
1949 Red Foley’s “Two Cents, Three Eggs and a Postcard”
debuted 

1955 Lefty Frizzell headlined the first-ever country
concert held at the Hollywood Bowl 
 
1946 Merle Travis recorded “Muskrat” 

1953 Ernest Tubb & Red Foley recorded “Double Datin’
 
1953 Ernest Tubb & Red Foley recorded “It’s The Mileage
That’s Slowin’ Us Down” 

1958 Louvin Brothers recorded “I Wonder If You Know”
 
1958 Louvin Brothers recorded “Blue” 

1958 Louvin Brothers recorded “Blue From Now On”
 
1958 Louvin Brothers recorded “My Heart Was Trampled On
The Street” 

1958 Louvin Brothers recorded “Send Me The Pillow You
Dream On”
 
1958 Louvin Brothers recorded “Today”
 
1958 Louvin Brothers recorded “She Will Get Lonesome”
 
1958 Louvin Brothers recorded “Red Hen Hop” 

1958 Louvin Brothers recorded “On My Way To The Show”
 
1958 Louvin Brothers recorded “Read What’s In My Heart” 

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

    Hank Williams Unreleased Songs Set for Release

A large collection of previously-unreleased Hank Williams
recordings will begin reaching the listening public this
fall. Time Life will release the first set of recordings
from Williams’ 1951 Mother’s Best radio show over the
next three years. In totality, the collection encompasses
143 never-before-released songs, including between-song
patter with Williams, his band members and his wife
Audrey. The radio broadcasts were recorded on acetates,
which were thrown away and retrieved from a dumpster and
ultimately ended up with the Williams estate, which
partnered with Time Life for these historic albums. Once
all the discs are issued, Williams’ song catalog will
effectively be doubled. The initial CD release this fall
is set to include some 15 songs.
 
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              +— COUNTRY STARS ALBUMS —+

              Sugarland’s Love on the Inside
               Debuts as Top Country Album

SugarlandHow sweet it is! Sugarland scores the No. 1
country album and the No. 2 country song on the Bill-
board charts this week, toppling, at least for now,
the tenacious Taylor Swift.

Rocketing Sugarland to the summit is the duo’s third
Mercury Records album, Love on the Inside: Deluxe Fan
Edition. It sold 314,000 copies its first week out,
according to the Nielsen SoundScan count. That total
also put the CD at No. 2 on the all-genres Billboard
200 list, just behind Miley Cyrus’ Breakout, which
sold 371,000 units.

For the second week in a row, Alan Jackson’s “Good
Time” ranks as Billboard’s No. 1 country song.

Love on the Inside is the only new title on the current
album chart. There are, however, four albums making a
comeback: Larry the Cable Guy’s Morning Constitution
(re-entering at No. 54), Jeff Bates’ self-titled pro-
ject (No. 55), Little Big Town’s A Place to Land
(No. 61) and Rodney Carrington’s King of the Mountains
(No. 74).

Montgomery Gentry’s “Roll With Me” (No. 56) is the
highest-ranking of the week’s three new songs. The
others are Randy Owen’s “Like I Never Broke Her
Heart” (No. 59) and Carter’s Chord’s “Different
Breed” (No. 60).

Rounding out the Top 5 albums are Swift’s Beautiful
Eyes and Taylor Swift (No. 2 and No. 3, respectively),
Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits and Sugarland’s Enjoy The
Ride.

Trailing Jackson’s “Good Time” on the songs chart are
Sugarland’s “All I Want to Do,” Keith Urban’s “You
Look Good in My Shirt,” Swift’s “Should’ve Said No”
and Brooks & Dunn’s “Put a Girl in It,” in that order.

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TODAY’S QUIZ ANSWER:

A. Kenny Chesney