Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. I feel like I get away with murder. I'm really, really not that good. ● - - Buddy Miller on his Americana Music Association Honors and Awards wins. It sets the bar in a different area for the next album. I can't just go back and do something like I've done before. ● - - For Dierks Bentley, things will never be the same after "Up on the Ridge." This gives me hope. I do what I do and it's not for everybody. It's very, very … [Read more...]

A slightly abbreviated edition this week, but the rest of our posting schedule should (finally) be picking back up. Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. It will be a very country album, with steel guitar, fiddle, banjo, Dobro and all the acoustic sounds I like. We were just gonna call the album Country. ● - - Dierks Bentley on his next album, which will be, well, country. But called "Home." They paid a lot of attention to the original version, you can tell. I just … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. I was like, 'Okay, fine.' If we are lucky enough to get a record deal it will probably be the first thing to change. ● - - Hillary Scott on agreeing, reluctantly, to the band name 'Lady Antebellum.' In the military, I have a tough time seeing if they put females in the battlefield because you're not fighting other females when you're in a fox-hole fighting. You're fighting some evil guys. They're ready to destroy you. And especially … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. My fallback was if no one knows who I am and no one knows any of my songs I'm going [to] start playing Keith Urban songs. ● - - Tim McGraw on touring in Australia. Plus, there are a lot of kids that don't really have anything but are able to drift and follow us around the tour, and I've stood up for them. [Bouncers] are not going to let someone in because of the way they look or because of the way they smell? In a bar? I mean, come … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. I think this album is going to launch me right back into the thick of things, where my songs will get a lot of airplay again. ● - - With an assist from Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert, Neal McCoy thinks he's on the verge of a career resurgence. I think actual country music itself has become the new form of popular music right now. Thanks to artists like Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift, country music has a huge following. That's … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. What I don’t understand in this democratic country, how we have such a layered, almost caste system, of musicians. Here’s Bob Dylan and he is the greatest and when we’re all dead and gone and they’re looking back at us 400 years from now, they can look at Bob and say he was the Shakespeare of songwriters, and I would agree. But the fact is, you’ve got somebody like James McMurtry playing down at the Continental at midnight on a … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. I feel really responsible for his legacy. I knew him so well to know how much he cared about country music and about music in general -- boundless music and experimentation and the progressiveness of music. I feel I have an obligation I'll never lose. ● - - Shooter on being Waylon's son. What I took from scripture when I was young was that we're not meant to judge. I don't care what you do behind closed doors, who you love, how you … [Read more...]