Jan 26th 2004

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TAKE COUNTRY BACK's
Country Music Newsletter



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Date/Issue: Jan 26 2004 - 088




Welcome to our new subscribers to Take Country Back's weekly newsletter! If we could a favor this week - we'd love to hear feedback about the newsletter - what you like, what's missing -- etc.....your views are important to us! Send comments to [e-mail]

Brand new contest for TCB readers!! Win one of 3 double CD sets of great music from Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash!!
More details here: klewmedia.com/contest.asp?id=295&refid=309 Deadline Feb 14th!

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NEW MESSAGE BOARD!!

TCB now has its very own interactive message board. We've had a great run participating with the Music World forum but its now time to spread our wings and fly on our own. We've created a message board specifically for TCB readers and listeners - to get and share information, make new friends, talk about your favorite tunes and new releases and get the latest updates on what's happening at TCB throughout the week. You can find our new forum at:
takecountryback.proboards22.com/index.cgi

TCB thanks the good people at Music World for putting up with us and for making us feel welcome while we were there. We wish you the best....

We don't have many rules other than common courtesy and respect for fellow posters and their opinions. We aren't looking to be the biggest board on the 'net but we aim to try and be a friendly, informative one. Don't be shy -- drop in and say hello -

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TCB's been committed to bringing you the best country music has to offer. Make your voice heard
and vote for your favorite tunes while listening to TCB Radio - www.live365.com/stations/tcback

Top tracks for last week on TCB Radio (as voted on by our listeners)

1. John Evans - The Honky Tonk Life I Lead
2. Walt Jr and the Country Div. - Cold Brown Bottle
3. Steve Moore - Long Beach Blvd
4. Patrick Glenn - I Can't Stand To Watch My Old Flame Burn
5. Monty & The Pythons - (I Want) The Real Thing
6. Merle Haggard - Haggard Like Never Before
7. Larry Cordle -That's Why They Call 'Em The Blues
8. Jason McCoy - Please, Please
9. Gary Allan - Guys Like Me
10. Fred Eaglesmith - Dancin' On The Bar

Be sure to check out our revamped Radio Portal page - (http://www.takecountryback.com/new/TCBchart.htm) for the rest of our Top 30 (this week's list is exceptionally great!) - our newest additions to the playlist as well as a complete programming schedule!

This week we've added great new tunes from Flatlanders, Cisco, The Mavericks, Jesse Dayton, James Hand, Rick Trevino, Curtis Potter, Houston Marchman and a few rare tunes from Merle Haggard and Johnny Paycheck! Also:

Christine Mims - Under Your Spell (yup -- the Harlan Howard tune - and Christine nails it!)
Mark Murphey - Winter Night
Rob Darien - Ain't Enough
Dan Roberts - Only in Texas
JR Castillo - Goin To San Antone

Special Radio Programming Notes:

CD Tex Radio Show - bringing you the best of Texas each Saturday at noon EST

This week's CD TEX RADIO SHOW

Special Guest: T.C. Taylor

with music by: Bobby Flores, T.C. Taylor, Lonnie Spiker, Jason Allen, Johnny St. Clair, Rob Darien, and Jim Byrom


Indep. Country Universe The program that features new country Music from today's up and coming stars! Independent and small label artists, who don't have big expense budgets and marketing campaigns, just great music! Wednesdays 8 p.m and Sundays 3 p.m. EST

NEW! TCB Indie Showcase - is back with more great indie albums to share with you weekly! www.takecountryback.com/independent.htm This week's showcase albums are:

Travis Adkinson - Finally
Lost John Casner - Don't Make Me Laugh When I'm Drinkin'
T. Jae Christian - Old Porch Swing
Jacob Lyda- Back In The Swing

If you've got an indie album you'd like to showcase in this format contact us with details on how to submit for consideration - [e-mail]

Check the entire TCB Radio schedule here: www.live365.com/broadcast/scheduler/?stationname=tcback


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The Week's Quote: Country radio now wouldn't play anything with that much controversy. They're afraid they might jar somebody out of their computer seat. They don't want to make anyone cry. Emotions should be what we cherish the most as human beings. It's what separates us from machinery." Merle Haggard

Regular Columns:

Opry Happenings with JD www.takecountryback.com/features/opry.htm
2 Cents your place to say exactly what you want! Your opinion matters at TCB! www.takecountryback.com/2cents.htm
Honky Tonk Showcase Pick - January's pick -
Thad Cockrell - Warmth and Beauty www.takecountryback.com/quickpicks/qp-tcnov03.htm
News - You can check out TCB's News Page for more recent articles and country music news: www.takecountryback.com/news.htm

Birthday Calender www.takecountryback.com/birthdays/september.htm
TCB Info Board pub152.ezboard.com/btcbnews
NEW! TCB Interactive Message Board takecountryback.proboards22.com/index.cgi
Blast From The Past Hank Sr - Alone With His Guitar www.takecountryback.com/hanksr.htm
Caught LIVE! - New photos added!! - Special thanks to Larry M for sharing photos from his collection www.takecountryback.com/live.htm
NEW! TCB Indie Showcase www.takecountryback.com/features/independent.htm
Upcoming CD Releases: www.takecountryback.com/new/releases2003.htm

Archives

Editorials www.takecountryback.com/edarchives.htm
Honky Tonk Showcase Picks www.takecountryback.com/reviews/htsarchive.htm
Blasts From the Past www.takecountryback.com/blasts.htm
Newsletters www.takecountryback.com/newsletters/newsletterarchives.htm
Quick Pick Archives www.takecountryback.com/quickpicks/quickpicks.htm
UPDATED Review Archives www.takecountryback.com/new/recentreviews.htm (pg 1) www.takecountryback.com/new/recentreviews2.htm (pg 2) www.takecountryback.com/new/recentreviews3.htm (pg 3)

New articles

Johnny Rodriquez joins in on Pickin Party at Randy Willis' Austin home... www.takecountryback.com/pickinparty.htm
Rodney Hayden's Living the Good Life - www.takecountryback.com/reviews/rhrev0903.htm

Recent Reviews

We're back at it, working steadily on the pile of discs on our desks. We've got some great new music to share with you real soon -- in the meantime -- If you're looking for reviews we've already shared in the newsletter check out: www.takecountryback.com/new/recentreviews.htm and www.takecountryback.com/new/recentreviews2.htm and www.takecountryback.com/new/recentreviews3.htm

NEW Wanda Jackson - Heart Trouble www.takecountryback.com/reviews/wjrev0104.htm
NEW Moot Davis - self titled www.takecountryback.com/reviews/mdrev0104.htm
NEW Livin', Lovin', Losin': The Songs Of The Louvin Brothers www.takecountryback.com/reviews/ltrev0104.htm

Quick Pick Reviews - be sure to check out the sound clips of our favorite tracks!


NEW Marti Brom - Wise to You! www.takecountryback.com/quickpicks/qp-mbjan04.htm
NEW Cari Lee and the Saddle-ites - The Road Less Traveled www.takecountryback.com/quickpicks/qp-cljan04.htm
NEW Jim Croce - Home Recordings - Americana www.takecountryback.com/quickpicks/qp-jcjan04.htm
NEW Dierks Bentley - self titled www.takecountryback.com/quickpicks/qp-dbjan04.htm
NEW Brad Paisley - Mud on the Tires www.takecountryback.com/quickpicks/qp-bpjan04.htm
NEW Josh Turner - Long Black Train www.takecountryback.com/quickpicks/qp-jtjan04.htm
NEW Darrell Scott - Theatre of the Unheard www.takecountryback.com/quickpicks/qp-dsjan04.htm
Deke Dickerson - In 3 Dimensions www.takecountryback.com/quickpicks/qp-ddnov03.htm
The Cornell Hurd Band - Live at Jovita's www.takecountryback.com/quickpicks/qp-chbnov03.htm
The Chieftains - Further Down The Old Plank Road www.takecountryback.com/quickpicks/qp-chnov03.htm
The Hangdogs - Wallace '38 www.takecountryback.com/quickpicks/qp-hdnov03.htm


Quick Pick Archives www.takecountryback.com/quickpicks/quickpicks.htm

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TCB Song of the Week:

Jill King - 98 Degrees and Fallin' www2.allaccess.com/sounds/jillk986.ram


NEW! Reader Picks of the Week

Here's a chance for you to share some of the music that's impressed you lately. Send the artist, album title and a short description (one or two sentences) and we'll include some of your picks in our newsletter each week - If you've got a weblink to the artist's site send that along as well to [e-mail] subject line: Reader's Pick!

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Country Music News

* starting today Great American Country's (GAC) new web address will be www.GACtv.com

* BR549 will be releasing their brand new studio album on March 9th! Energized by the enthusiasm of two new members, the reconstituted goodtime honky tonk band returns with their most focused, most original album of their careers. Tangled in the Pines, the band's first album on Dualtone Records (streetdate: March 9) and sixth overall, features everything fans and critics love about BR549: ramped-up country dance floor rave-ups and witty romps about the travails of life, love and the pursuit of the perfect shuffle beat. For the first time, the band has been allowed to record a complete album of its own original tunes. The result makes for a distinctive, contemporary album that maintains the infectious fun and timeless traditionalism that has always been the band's trademark.

* watch for Cindy Cashdollar's debut album Feb 7th! It'll be available www.texasmusicroundup.com and you can find out more info at www.cindycashdollar.com

* Coming March 16th The Stanley Brothers - "An Evening Long Ago: Live 1956" (DMZ/Columbia/Legacy) - 20-track concert performance has only been previously
available as an item for sale at Ralph Stanley concerts in the '70s and '80s. Recorded at the studios of WCYB Radio in Bristol, Virginia, on March 24, 1956

* Slaid Cleaves is one of our favorite artists and he will be releasing a new CD on Rounder/Philo in March. Titled Wishbones, it was produced by Gurf Morlix and features co-writes with Ray Wylie Hubbard and musical appearances by Eliza Gilkyson and Ian "Mac" McLagan.

* Randy Thompson's new release, That's Not Me, hits the streets on February 9.

* The very latest from award winning band Asleep at the Wheel is titled: Remember the Alamo. This latest album is a reverent compilation of songs related to Texas and the history and events of The Alamo. It includes faithful reinterpretations like "Remember The Alamo," "Ballad of Davy Crockett," and "Ballad of the Alamo," the latter which appeared in the 1960 John Wayne feature film. www.cmt.com/artists/az/asleep_at_the_wheel/356584/album.jhtml

* Billy Corgan, Jackson Browne and Los Lobos are among the artists who will contribute to the tribute album "Por Vida," which will help singer/songwriter Alejandro Escovedo pay his Hepatitis C medical bills. Others who will appear on the two-disc album, due out in April via Or Music, are John Cale, the Jayhawks, Howe Gelb, Calexico, Chuck Prophet, Peter Case and Ian Hunter. They join previously confirmed participants Whiskeytown, Joe Ely and the Flatlanders, Jennifer Warnes and Los Lonely Boys, as well as the artist's brother, Pete Escovedo, and niece, Sheila E. The latest in a series of U.S. benefit concerts for Escovedo will take place Jan. 25 in Charlotte, N.C. Whiskeytown alumna Caitlin Cary leads the bill of more than 15 acts that will perform at the Double Door Inn.

* “The Honky Tonk Tailgate Party” is rolling into its fourth successful year on the road—this time with a combination of two founders—Rhett Akins and Daryle Singletary—with returning “Tailgate” tour mate Chad Brock, and first timer David Kersh.

* Jessi Colter's new release is Jessi Colter: An Outlaw and a Lady - You can listen to the entire album here:
www.cmt.com/artists/az/colter_jessi/352239/album.jhtml

* Jill King (Blue Diamond Records) is ready to heat up the radio airwaves with her new single, "98.6 Degrees," (written by Matraca Berg/ Harlan Howard) from her album, Jillbilly. King has already experienced success with her first two singles; "One Mississippi" (reaching No. 20 on Music Row, No. 16 on New Music Weekly’s Country chart, No. 60 on Billboard Country chart and No. 45 on the R&R Country Indicator) and "Hand Me Down Heartache" (reaching No. 21 on Music Row and No. 46 on the R&R Country Indicator.) This single is the track that jump-starts Jillbilly and King feels "98.6 Degrees" is the perfect song to do so. (Check out the sound clip above in TCB's Song of the Week) You can read our interview with Jill here: www.takecountryback.com/reviews/jkrev0203.htm

* Walt Grealis, founder and publisher of Canadian trade magazine RPM Weekly, died last Tuesday in Toronto, following a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 74. Grealis published Toronto-based RPM from its formation in 1964 until it ceased publication in 2000. A major figure in Canadian music, Grealis is credited with inaugurating the RPM Gold Leaf Awards, later renamed the Juno Awards, which are now held annually and are the country's preeminent music honors. Grealis also established the Big Country Awards, the forerunner of today's annual Canadian Country Music Awards. RPM successfully lobbied the federal government for domestic quotas on Canadian radio, which began in 1971 and remain in effect today. The publication also introduced the MAPL (Music, Artist, Production, Lyric) logo that is used today to signify Canadian content on recordings.

Interesting Reading:


Country Music’s Next Poster Boy: New Look, Old-School Sound www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/arts/music/25FRIS.html
Haggard Like Never Before www.starbanner.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040123/NEWS/201230320/1027/features01
Home on the Range - Roger Creager www.thebatt.com/news/2004/01/22/Entertainment/Home-On.The.Range-585300.shtml

More news (updated daily) www.takecountryback.com/news.htm


This Week in Americana: Our guest this week first gained widespread recognition as a leader of the new traditionalist movement of the mid-'80s. He's a former member of Emmylou Harris' Hot Band, and once fronted his own legendary band, The Cherry Bombs. As a songwriter, his songs have been recorded hundreds of times by everyone from the Grateful Dead to Jimmy Buffett, and from Bob Seger to Alan Jackson. He has produced albums for Rosanne Cash, Guy Clark, Jim Lauderdale and more, in addition to his own recordings. As an artist, he once had a string of five consecutive #1 singles. He's just released the latest in a long line of critically acclaimed albums, Fate's Right Hand. It is an honor and privilege to welcome the Houston Kid himself, Rodney Crowell.

This Week's Texas Music Chart Top 5

1. Pat Green - Guy Like Me
2. Brittany Roe - Shoes
3. Rodney Crowell - Earthbound
4. Josh Turner - Long Black Train
5. Cross Canadian Ragweed - Constantly

You can check out the rest of the chart at: www.texasmusicchart.com


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The Take Country Back Team