Florida Georgia Line Adds Magician; Willie and Waylon Giraffes; Stream Ashley Monroe Live Tonight

• Kacey Musgraves is previewing her Pageant Material on late night TV this week, singing “Biscuits” on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (June 9) and “Family Is Family” on Late Night with Seth Meyers (June 10). (via press release)
• Meanwhile, Musgraves calls the soon-to-be-released “Biscuits” video “like Hee Haw meets Pee-wee’s Playhouse meets Wes Anderson.”
• Brennen Leigh put together a cute YouTube infomercial for her Lefty Frizzell covers album, including bits of her doing various songs. Although she’s not launching a proper crowdfunding campaign, Leigh is relying on your preorders to help her record the album. So hop to it.
• Until “Crushin’ It,” Brad Paisley had never made a music video for less than $80,000.
• Keith Urban will perform his new single “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16” on the CMT Music Awards tomorrow (Wednesday) night. You can hear the recorded version here.
• What’s the best way to avoid getting taken for $700 in a confidence game? Travel with a magician. The boys of Florida Georgia Line have added trickster Justin Flom as an opener on their current headlining tour. Flom joins non-magical charlatans Thomas Rhett and Frankie Ballard. (adapted from a press release)
• Both Kinds of Music’s frank review of Django and Jimmie more or less squares with my own assessment of that album, now that I’ve had some time to listen to it.
• Elias Leight’s thorough investigation of what happened to women in country draws on Billboard chart stats and interviews with Natalie Hemby, Jessi Alexander, Lori McKenna, Shane McAnally, Gerry House, and others. Highly recommended reading.
• Over at Farce the Music, Trailer launched a new feature called “Best of the Worst” where he counts down the five best songs from his least favorite artists. But he could only find three for Florida Georgia Line.
• At My Kind of Country, Occasional Hope reviewed Daryle Singletary’s Still a Little Country Left.
• Country Universe’s Leeann Ward wants to know which songs and artists have grown on you over time. Her own list includes Willie, Dwight, and Emmylou.
• If you’re looking for Waylon and Willie, they’re at the Fort Worth zoo.
• Yahoo Live will stream Ashley Monroe’s concert at 3rd & Lindsley tonight at 10:00 PM EST.

It’s a mighty strong album release day:

• Sam Outlaw – Angeleno
• Courtney Patton – So This Is Life
• Dale Ann Bradley – Pocket Full of Keys
• Dale Watson – Call Me Insane
• A Thousand Horses – Southernality
• Chris Hennessee – Greetings From Hennessee
• Sammy Kershaw – I Won’t Back Down
• Laura Bell Bundy – Another Piece Of Me
• honeyhoney – 3
• Montgomery Gentry – Folks Like Us
• Lucia Comnes – Love, Hope & Tyranny
• Big Country Bluegrass – Country Livin’
• The Deslondes – The Deslondes
• Various Artists – Now That’s What I Call Country Volume 8

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