As there’s only one week to go before we launch the ‘Talking Country’ feature there’s news on today’s show as to how you can register to be one of the first to take a listen.
Our Album of the Week feature three tracks from recent visitors to Britain, that’s Sugarland and their new album ‘The Incredible Machine’.
One of our listeners takes us back to 1976 and a number four country chart success in our ‘Remember This’ track.
Our ‘Coulda Been Country’ track was originally a hit in 1970 and 29 years later it featured in a movie soundtrack.
Charley Pride has been back into the studio and you can hear one of the tracks from his new album.
I’ll also be taking the usual look at the Billboard Hot Country Songs Charts and playing the top three best selling singles Stateside.
There’s also music from Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, the Zac Brown Band, Miranda Lambert, Isle DeLange,Trace Adkins and many more.
To take a listen just click the button below, it’ll be nice to know you’re there.
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Brian C
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Sugarland – Album Of The Week
Those voting for the CMA Vocal Duo this November what will they consider A) how this album sounds or b) the success of their Album sales and Incredible Machine Tour ?
Its #1 on the UK Country Album Chart and ‘Stuck Like Glue’ is #2 on iTunes Country song chart.
I like ‘Tonight’, ‘Little Miss’ and ‘Stand Up’ on the new album.
Yes I and country purists were doubting their country cred and blowing hot air into the “S” that came out the “D”, thus pouring water on their freight train success with finding very few songs that resemble country music.
The “Sugarland formula” was bound to evolve and this week (18 Feb) it was explained on Bob Harris Country when they were doing an acoustic session.
It was excellent!
It is the first time I’ve heard them explain the song writing intentions of The Big Machine and its concept. Their music, country or otherwise, is all about translating the album sound to a big arena.
Jennifer Nettles said ” We wanted to make sure that all the songs could be played in giant venues, arenas, amphitheatres and stadiums so that when the sound comes through a gigantic speaker to try and reach the person in the very far back, the very top, that it translates and what you find is much like the radio, less is more, you cannot compress a million sounds into one wall of sound, you want the emotion of each piece to stand out”
“We enjoyed visiting our influences as music fans and as influences growing up as teenagers and the music that we choose then and I think that those are component parts of who we are as song writers and obviously this says, here, these are the component parts of Sugarland.
We came about and came up within the Atlanta singer-songwriter scene there and it was a very fertile, rich and supportive community of songwriters at the time in the 90′s ….So I think it was more in celebration of that part of our history as songwriters as much as it was an intent to say lets go further than we’ve gone before in these areas or lets go further than we’ve gone before in our career or outside of the boundaries of genre ”
Universal Music Group (UMG) Nashville chairman/CEO Luke Lewis says. “There’s an old adage in Nashville that says you can’t go outside the box, but you can run right up to the corners of it,” “That’s what Jennifer and Kristian keep doing. They’re musically adventurous, and thankfully they haven’t made the same album twice.”