Bobby Bones Gets Fined; Whitey Morgan Gets Kudos; Lee Greenwood, Professional Patriot?

• Country Universe wants your Top Five Title Tracks.
• Saving Country Music has provoked a hearty discussion (155 comments and counting) with an explanation of why Luke Bryan’s “Kick The Dust Up” is more than just a bad song.
• View a photo of Luke Bryan with his mom at the private opening of a new Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibit to see where he gets his glistening white toothiness from.
• Farce the Music and Saving Country Music agree that Whitey Morgan’s new Sonic Ranch is pretty wonderful, with Trailer calling it “my favorite album of the year thus far” and Trigger calling it “the definitive Whitey Morgan & The 78’s album.” So you should probably pick it up. Usually those guys aren’t both wrong about any given thing.
• My Kind of Country’s Occasional Hope reviewed the Carl Jackson-produced Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited, which includes new recordings from Ashley Monroe, Brad Paisley, Vince Gill, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Marty Stuart, Sheryl Crow, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Larry Cordle, Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers, and more.
• The FCC has fined iHeartCommunications $1 million for the airing of false Emergency Alert System tones during an episode of “The Bobby Bones Show” last October.
• The first out-of-state marker on the Mississippi Country Music Trail will be at the Nashville offices of Big Loud Shirt Industries, Craig Wiseman’s publishing company. As you might imagine, Craig Wiseman is from Mississippi.
• West Virginia’s traditional country scene got an entry in the Images of America book series, which usually focuses on telling the stories of towns and historical districts. Preview it here.
• Spoiler alert: Lee Ann Womack’s chat with Baron Lane for Cowboys & Indians will provide some fodder for the next Quotable Country.
• Entrepreneur approaches Lee Greenwood as a branding case study, offering up nuggets like: “Greenwood realized quickly that his brand wasn’t music, it was the feeling his music evoked when his audience listened to it. That feeling is patriotism.”
• Darrell Scott got together with Rodney Crowell, Will Kimbrough, Bill Payne, Gretchen Peters, Barry Walsh, John Cowan, Kenny Malone, Tommy Womack, Tracy Nelson, and Boy Named Banjo at City Winery Nashville to celebrate Ben Bullington. Juli Thanki reported on it for The Tennessean. All the songs on Scott’s new album, Ten, were written by Bullington, a doctor and songwriter who died of pancreatic cancer in 2013.
• Windmills Music has a peek at what Dierks Bentley has been writing, and who he has been writing with, for his next album.

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