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Blake Shelton Reveals The Birthday Gift He Got From Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani took to social media to share a sweet birthday message to her beau Blake Shelton, who turned 42 last week. Well, apparently that isn’t the only way she helped the country star celebrate his big day.

“People” reports that Gwen threw Blake a pizza party at her house for friends and family, and got him a great gift for his ranch in Oklahoma. “It’s like a ‘Welcome to the Ranch’-type sign,” Blake told the mag. “It was a handmade deal. It’s pretty cool.”

And it seems the pizza bash was Blake’s idea. “[Gwen] said, ‘What do you want?’ I go, ‘Well, there’s a big pizza oven out there, so we need to figure out how to use that thing,’” he said. “So they have a friend who actually owns a pizza restaurant here in town, he came over and knew how to do it.”

Blake added, “I have no idea how to do any of that stuff. It’s either a frozen pizza for me or Pizza Hut.”

ONE MORE THING! In an interview with Entertainment Tonight Blake talked about all the marriage rumors that circulate about he and Gwen noting, “First of all, the rumors stuff, I’m not gonna sit here and say that it makes me mad. It’s funny,” he says. “I’ve learned over the years just to take that for what it is,” adding that the reports are “complimentary.” As for whether they’ll get married, Blake notes, “Obviously, that’s gotta lead somewhere, but I promise you, we won’t break the news in any of the grocery store trash magazines.”

Miranda Lambert Says New Album Is Coming This Fall

Miranda Lambert is currently working on a new album, and she now says fans can expect it sometime in the fall. “I would call it old Miranda, but a Miranda at a whole new level, if that makes any sense,” she tells the “Chicago Sun-Times” of the record.

Miranda’s albums are usually inspired by changes in her life, and since she just got married that could be a good thing, although she insists it’s “not going to be love song overload or anything like that.”

“I made a career on being a rock and roller and I think fans are going to hear that throughout,” she notes, “And yeah, there is this vibe of being happy that goes through this album. I am really, really happy.”

This day in 1975, “Rhinestone Cowboy” by Glen Campbell entered the Top 40.

This day in 1975, “Rhinestone Cowboy” by Glen Campbell entered the Billboard Top 40 chart.

Larry Weiss wrote and recorded “Rhinestone Cowboy” in 1974, and it appeared on his album Black and Blue Suite. It did not, however, have much of a commercial impact as a single. In late 1974, Campbell heard the song on the radio and, during a tour of Australia, decided to learn it. Soon after his return to the United States, Campbell went to Al Coury’s office at Capitol Records, where he was approached about “a great new song” — “Rhinestone Cowboy”.

Several music writers noted that Campbell identified with the subject matter of “Rhinestone Cowboy” — survival and making it, particularly when the chips are down — very strongly. As Steven Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic put it, the song is about a veteran artist “who’s aware that he’s more than paid his dues during his career … but is still surviving, and someday, he’ll shine just like a rhinestone cowboy.”

Released in May 1975, “Rhinestone Cowboy” immediately caught on with both country and pop audiences. The song spent that summer climbing both the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Billboard Hot 100 charts before peaking at No. 1 by season’s end – three nonconsecutive weeks on the country chart, two weeks on the Hot 100. Billboard ranked it as the No. 2 for 1975. It also topped the charts in Canada and several other countries.

During the week of September 13 — the week the song returned to No. 1 on the Billboard country chart, after having been nudged out for a week by “Feelins'” by Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn — “Rhinestone Cowboy” topped both the country and Hot 100 charts simultaneously. This was the first time a song had accomplished the feat since November 1961, when “Big Bad John” by Jimmy Dean did so.

Ken Burns “Country” Documentary Announces Five-Disc Soundtrack

The Ken Burns documentary “Country Music” is set to debut on PBS September 15th, and now a soundtrack to the 16-and-a-half-hour series has been announced.

The five-CD set, dropping August 30th, will span the complete history of Country music, featuring songs by artists like the Carter Family, Gene Autry, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, George Jones and more.

More contemporary artists on the soundtrack include Trisha Yearwood, Vince Gill, Reba McEntire, Dwight Yoakam, Roseanne Cash and more. The tracklist is below:

 

Disc One:

“Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)” – Carter Family
“Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)” – Jimmie Rodgers
“Barbara Allen” – Bradley Kincaid
“I’ll Fly Away” – James and Martha Carson
“If the River Was Whiskey” – Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers
“Fox Chase” – DeFord Bailey
“Blue Yodel No. 9 (Standin’ on the Corner)” – Jimmie Rodgers
“Wildwood Flower” – Carter Family
“In the Jailhouse Now” – Jimmie Rodgers
“Comin’ Round the Mountain” – Uncle Dave Macon and Sam McGee
“Pretty Polly” – Coon Creek Girls
“T.B. Blues” – Jimmie Rodgers
“Mountain Dew” – Grandpa Jones and His Grandchildren
“Home on the Range” – Gene Autry
“I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” – Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers
“Tumbling Tumbleweeds” – Sons of the Pioneers
“Keep on the Sunny Side”/ “I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes” – Carter Family
“The Great Speckled Bird” – Roy Acuff
“Whoa Babe” – Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
“New San Antonio Rose” – Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
“Wabash Cannon Ball” – Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys
“Mule Skinner Blues” – Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys

Disc Two:

“Honky Tonkin’” – Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
“It’s Mighty Dark to Travel” – Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys
“New Mule Skinner Blues” – Maddox Brothers and Rose
“I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)” – Eddy Arnold and His Tennessee Plowboys
“Foggy Mountain Breakdown” – Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys
“Molly and Tenbrook” – Stanley Brothers
“Lovesick Blues” – Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
“I Saw the Light” – Hank Williams
“Hey, Good Lookin’” – Hank Williams
“It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” – Kitty Wells
“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” – Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
“Jambalaya” – Little Brenda Lee
“New Step It Up and Go” – Maddox Brothers and Rose
“I Walk the Line” – Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two
“Crazy Arms” – Ray Price
“Bye, Bye Love” – Everly Brothers
“The Long Black Veil” – Lefty Frizzell
“El Paso” – Marty Robbins
“Night Life” – Ray Price
“Hello Walls” – Faron Young
“I Fall to Pieces” – Patsy Cline
“Ring of Fire” – Johnny Cash
“Crazy” – Patsy Cline
“I Can’t Stop Loving You” – Ray Charles

Disc Three:

“Dang Me” – Roger Miller
“I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail” – Buck Owens
“Don’t Come Home a-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)” – Loretta Lynn
“Coal Miner’s Daughter” – Loretta Lynn
“Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” – Charley Pride
“Hungry Eyes” – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
“Mama Tried” – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
“Harper Valley P.T.A.” – Jeannie C. Riley
“Don’t Touch Me” – Jeannie Seely
“Folsom Prison Blues” – Johnny Cash
“Stand by Your Man” – Tammy Wynette
“She Thinks I Still Care” – George Jones
“You Ain’t Going Nowhere” – The Byrds
“Me and Bobby McGee” – Kris Kristofferson
“Help Me Make It Through the Night” – Sammi Smith
“Sunday Morning Coming Down” – Kris Kristofferson
“Okie From Muskogee” – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
“Man in Black” – Johnny Cash
“Girl From the North Country” – Bob Dylan with Johnny Cash
“Grand Ole Opry Song” – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken” – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Disc Four:

“Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way” – Waylon Jennings
“Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)” – Dolly Parton
“Jolene” – Dolly Parton
“I Will Always Love You” – Dolly Parton
“We’re Gonna Hold On – George Jones and Tammy Wynette
“Texas Cookin’” – Guy Clark
“If I Needed You” – Townes Van Zandt
“I Can’t Stop Loving You” – Johnny Rodriguez
“I’ve Been a Long Time Leaving (But I’ll Be a Long Time Gone)” – Waylon Jennings
“Love Hurts (Live)” – Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels
“Boulder to Birmingham” – Emmylou Harris
“Bluebird Wine” – Emmylou Harris
“Whiskey River” – Willie Nelson
“Miles and Miles of Texas” – Asleep at the Wheel
“Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” – Willie Nelson
“Good Hearted Woman” – Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
“Family Tradition” – Hank Williams Jr.
“Seven Year Ache” – Rosanne Cash
“Pancho and Lefty” – Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
“He Stopped Loving Her Today” – George Jones

Disc Five:

“Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’” – Ricky Skaggs
“On the Road Again” – Willie Nelson
“Amarillo by Morning” – George Strait
“Somebody Should Leave” – Reba McEntire
“Diggin’ Up Bones” – Randy Travis
“Why Not Me” – The Judds
“Honky Tonk Man” – Dwight Yoakam
“Streets of Bakersfield” – Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens
“Where’ve You Been” – Kathy Mattea
“I’m No Stranger to the Rain” – Keith Whitley
“Go Rest High on That Mountain” – Vince Gill
“Guitar Town” – Steve Earle
“She’s in Love With the Boy” – Trisha Yearwood
“Tennessee Flat Top Box” – Rosanne Cash
“Get Up John” – Emmylou Harris & the Nash Ramblers
“Uncle Pen” – Ricky Skaggs
“I Still Miss Someone” – Rosanne Cash
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken” – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

This day in 1970, Johnny Cash appears on “TV Guide”

This day in 1970, Johnny Cash graced the cover of “TV Guide.”

The Johnny Cash Show was a music variety show hosted by Johnny Cash. The Screen Gems 58-episode series ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on ABC. It was taped at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The show reached No. 17 in the Nielsen ratings in 1970.

Cash opened each show, invariably preceding the first number with his customary “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash” greeting, and its regulars included members of his touring troupe, June Carter Cash (his wife) and the Carter Family, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, and The Tennessee Three, with Australian-born musical director-arranger-conductor Bill Walker. The Statler Brothers performed brief comic interludes. An instrumental version of “Folsom Prison Blues” was used for the opening credits.

It featured many folk-country musicians, such as Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, Kris Kristofferson, Mickey Newbury, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Merle Haggard, James Taylor and Tammy Wynette. It also featured other musicians such as jazz great Louis Armstrong, who died eight months after appearing on the show

As an actor, he had a dozen credits to his name, including roles on ‘Columbo’, ‘Little House On The Prairie’, and several movies.

Luke Combs Invited To Be The Next Member Of The Grand Ole Opry

Luke Combs has certainly been enjoying some major success and things got even better earlier this week. While performing at the Grand Ole Opry, Chris Janson, Craig Morgan and John Conlee came out to invite Luke to be a member of the prestigious institution.

“We just want to touch you. What a career this guy is having. It is incredible. You all know that. We all know that. The Grand Ole Opry wants you to know that we just love you,” John first told Luke, before he, Chris and Craig all asked him, “How would you like to be the next member of the Grand Ole Opry?”

Luke was visibly emotional after being invited, breaking down in tears in front of the crowd. “This is the absolute feather in my cap for me as far as career goals. It is the absolute number one thing for me. It cannot be surpassed,” he later shared. “It’s something I’ve dreamed about since I made my debut… I just can’t believe it. It doesn’t feel real.”

 

 

Granger Smith Selling Charity T-Shirt To Honor Late Son

Granger Smith suffered a huge tragedy last week when his three-year-old son River died in a tragic drowning accident. Now the singer is using his son’s memory to do some good and help others.

Granger’s Yee Yee Apparel site is selling “The River Smith Tribute Shirt,” which features an image of a Yee Yee Excavator with the name “Riv” on its body. The company shares that “Riv’s favorite thing to do was watch excavators scoop up dirt,” adding that they chose the color red because it was River’s favorite.

The post explains that, “100{99cd714f394079a7f0ed2eb1518dd31342ff3ceb5b6c267c3ad8acd5b5a7d66b} of the proceeds from this shirt will go to Dell Children’s Medical Center in honor of River Kelly Smith,” sharing, “He was cared for by the wonderful staff at Dell Childrens before he passed away.”

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