- Reba reportedly sold her Beverly Hills estate for a cool $22.5 million.
- Jewly Hight did a nice Chris Stapleton feature for NPR.
- Also listenable online from NPR: Dale Watson chatted with Scott Simon.
- Too late for another article on women in country? Grantland has a good one.
- Kip Moore wishes you’d stop asking him about bro country.
- 5 Signs You’re Obsessed with Sam Hunt. Whew, looks like I’m in the clear.
- Carrie Underwood raps, kinda.
- When Dolly Parton’s July 31 acoustic concert at the Ryman Auditorium sold out in minutes, she scheduled another for August 1.
- For the first episode of her Americana Corner YouTube show, EmiSunshine interviewed and sang “I Saw the Light” with Holly Williams.
- Jason Isbell called in to WGN’s “The Download” to talk about his music career and Something More Than Free.
- Carlene Carter: “Remembering June Carter Cash”
- Chris Thile (of Nickel Creek, The Punch Brothers, everything else) will reportedly take over for Garrison Keillor as full-time host of the long-running “A Prairie Home Companion” radio show. But the transition will be a gradual one, occurring over the next year or two.
- Paul W. Dennis reviewed Mac Wiseman and Merle Haggard’s duo album Timeless, available exclusively through Cracker Barrel.
- Man beaten to death after Kenny Chesney show in Seattle. Unidentified suspect still at large.
- Thomas Rhett’s sophomore album, Tangled Up, will be out September 25. (via press release)
- Amazon’s current batch of $5 country albums includes Pistol Annies, Dixie Chicks, Paul Franklin & Vince Gill, The Mavericks, Glen Campbell, etc.
Today’s album releases:
Chris Stapleton’s Red Dress; Whitey Morgan Picks Favorites; CMA Fest TV Special Will Air August 4
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