Country Music

        COUNTRY MUSIC NEWS - Thursday, August 21, 2008

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Q. Who sings “American Soldier”? 

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       +—– TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY —–+

2006 Rosanne Cash and Steve Earle tape a new episode of
“CMT Crossroads” at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom
 
2006 Tracy Lawrence releases “Find Out Who Your Friends
Are,” his first single on his own label, Rocky Comfort
Records 

2003 Lonestar racks up a gold album for “From There To
Here: Greatest Hits” 

1982 Sylvia goes to #1 in Billboard with “Nobody”
 
1979 “The Devil Went Down To Georgia” brings The Charlie
Daniels Band the only gold single of its career 

1961 Patsy Cline records “Crazy” at the Bradley Film &
Recording Studio in Nashville 

1954 Guitarist Nick Kane born in Jerusalem, Georgia. In
1994, he joins The Mavericks, whose accomplished mix of
country, rock, pop and Latin sounds makes it a critically
acclaimed–and commercially under-appreciated–force in
the 1990s 

1939 Guitarist James Burton born in Dubberly, Louisiana.
A member of Elvis Presley’s band during the last seven
years of The King’s life, Burton plays guitar on record-
ings by Ricky Nelson, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris and
Buck Owens, among others 

1939 Harold Reid, of The Statler Brothers, born in
Augusta County, Virginia. His bass voice and comic
personality is easily distinguished in the group’s
award-winning gospel harmonies. They join the
Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008 

1938 Kenny Rogers born in St. Joseph’s Infirmary in
Houston. His pop-laced series of ballads and story
songs in the 1970s and ’80s make him one of country’s
best all-time sellers, with more than 25 gold albums.
He expands his reach with a lengthy acting career 

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  Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts Sing Out From Greeting Cards

Alan Jackson, Faith Hill, Martina McBride, George Strait
to Be Added to Hallmark Line

Tim McGrawTim McGraw, Rascal Flatts and a dozen or so
other country artists are reaching new fans through
“sound cards” designed, licensed and distributed by the
Hallmark greeting card company.

Each card carries a 30-second snippet from one of the
participating artist’s hit records, along with a Hallmark-
composed greeting that matches the song’s theme. The names
 of the song’s writers and publishers are listed on the
backs of the cards.

The “Use Tim McGraw” and “Use Rascal Flatts” lines are
racked in displays that hold six different cards and
envelopes. A photo of the artist tops each display but
does not appear on the cards.

Under the McGraw banner are four cards for birthdays
that contain sound clips from “Down on the Farm” (two
designs), “Live Like You Were Dying” and “My Next Thirty
Years.” The remaining two are categorized as “Love” cards
and feature clips from “Just to See You Smile” and “I
Like It, I Love It.”

For Rascal Flatts, “Mayberry,” “Fast Cars and Freedom”
and “Here’s to You” are the birthday clips, while “Love
You Out Loud,” “Thanks for Being You” and “Shine On”
constitute the “Love” messages.

“We have hundreds of songs, television shows and movie
clips licensed,” according to Deidre Parkes, a spokes-
person for Hallmark, who added that other country
artists with sound cards already in stores or on the
way include Alan Jackson, Faith Hill, Willie Nelson,
Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Martina McBride, Billy Ray
Cyrus, George Strait and Vince Gill. The cards are
available in Hallmark outlets and drugstores nationwide,
she said.

Because a single card requires separate licenses for
the recorded sound, each of the music publishers and,
in some cases, the artist’s image, Parkes said Hallmark
delegates the complex task of licensing to Corbis, a
Seattle-based company specializing in this service.

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             +— COUNTRY STARS OBITS —+

               Producer Jerry Wexler Dies,
             Signed Willie Nelson in the ’70s

Famed music executive and record producer Jerry Wexler
died at home in Sarasota, Fla. on Aug. 15, of congenital
heart failure. He was 91. Wexler was best known for help-
ing pioneer the Atlantic Records label, home to such
artists as Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and other R&B
greats. Wexler was also responsible for signing Willie
Nelson to the label in the 1970s, yielding the acclaimed
Nelson albums Phases & Stages and Shotgun Willie. Wexler
also opened a Nashville office for Atlantic’s country
music division in 1974. He left the label the following
year and worked as a freelancer, producing albums by such
artists as Bob Dylan, Dire Straits and Carlos Santana.
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TODAY’S QUIZ ANSWER:

A. Toby Keith