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CountryMusicSweden
A nonprofit organisation to promote country music
Nyhetsbrev nr. 3 24 januari 2003
(Titta tillbaka på tidigare nyhetsblad på http://home.bip.net/peruno )
Ibland räcker tiden inte till ens för att tänka på countrymusik, än mindre att skriva nyhetsbrev till er. Jag missade tyvärr Heather Myles på Kägelbanan i söndagskväll på grund av att jag var tvungen att åka till Nybro för en lång inspelningssession. Jag lyckades se henne på Nyhetsmorgon dock, men blev väl inte så där jätteimponerad, vare sig av Heather själv eller av bandet! Kanske var det så att de var tröttkörda eftersom de jobbat flera kvällar i rad och sedan upp till TV4 på morgonen. Ingen artists önskescenario precis!
Av musikvänner har jag hört att det var skapligt med folk på hennes konserter, men få jag talat med har varit speciellt nöjd med hennes show. Trots detta så är det viktigt att vi ställer upp och går på konserter med countryartister, så sällan som de visar sig i Stockholm och i övriga Sverige. Och trots nästan ingen annonsering alls, inte ens i de countrypublikationer som finns i Sverige, så har Heather dragit förvånansvärt mycket folk till sina tillställningar. Ett konststycke!
Gamle bluegrassfavoriten Hylo Brown har avlidit i en ålder av 80 år!
Här nedan en intressant story om Ernest Tubb Record Shop. Här kan ni hitta countrymusik i alla former och de sänder paket till alla delar av världen.
Ernest Tubb Record Shop
By JEANNE A. NAUJECK
Staff Writer
If you're looking for the latest Diamond Rio or Rascal Flatts, go directly to
your local record chain. But if it's the Delmore Brothers or Fiddlin' Arthur
Smith you're after, they'll point you to the Ernest Tubb Record Shop.
Tubb has stayed in business for 56 years by catering to a few loyal customers who want hard-to-find music from famous and obscure country artists.
''Our customers are what Eddie Stubbs calls the 'deep catalog' folks,'' owner David McCormick said, referring to the award-winning WSM-AM and Grand Ole Opry announcer with an encyclopedic knowledge of country music. ''We sell 10 of Hank Snow to three of Garth Brooks. That's our niche.''
Ironically, this most anachronistic of record stores could point the way for the traditional music retailer to survive in the digital future: Develop a niche and provide a way for customers to immerse themselves in it.
''Ernest Tubb is surviving because they aren't trying to be all things to all people,'' said Don Van Cleve, president of the Birmingham, Ala.-based Coalition of Independent Music Stores, which represents 73 locally owned shops.
''The hits are a dangerous business to be in,'' he said. ''People who go to Tubb are not downloading stuff. They're wanting to possess the art and everything, the whole package.''
Tubb isn't cheap. You'll pay full price for that new Tim McGraw CD because Tubb doesn't buy in volume.
But you'll also access a selection you'll never see in Best Buy or Wal-Mart — shelf after shelf of music, including German-made box sets and small-label reissues of classic country albums from the likes of Kitty Wells, Porter Wagoner, Ferlin Husky and Charley Pride. Ernest Tubb featured them and scores of their contemporaries on his long-running Midnite Jamboree radio show, which has broadcast for more than 55 years on WSM every Saturday night after the Opry.
''He was the Alan Jackson, the Garth Brooks of that era,'' McCormick said of Tubb, the Country Music Hall of Famer who was a pioneer of electrified honky-tonk music. ''He'd be on the road and people would say, 'I can't find your records. For that matter, I can't find any country music.' ''
So in 1947, Tubb opened a mail-order and retail business out of a storefront at 720 Commerce St. downtown, moving to the 417 Broadway address four years later.
The business has expanded from downtown Nashville to another shop in Music Valley Village (where the Midnite Jamboree originates from an adjacent theater), one in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., and one in the Fort Worth, Texas, stockyards. Tourists make up about 95% of the business, McCormick said.
''We sell more bluegrass in Pigeon Forge, more Texas swing and Bob Wills in Forth Worth. They all have their distinctions,'' McCormick said.
About a third of the business is mail order, which carries McCormick through the slow winter months. There's also a Web site, www.etrecordshop.com, which has been online for three years and continues to add sales and expand to new customers.
''We're seeing new people from all over the country. And we're seeing younger people all the time,'' he said.
McCormick began working at the shop part time in 1968. Tubb made him a manager in 1972 and a partner three years later. McCormick acquired the company after Tubb died in 1984. The stores have always been profitable, and McCormick said his sales don't fluctuate with the economy.
''I have bought quite a bit in that store,'' Van Cleve said of the historic 417 Broadway location. ''I browse through it whenever I'm in Nashville.
''When you go in there and you're looking for some pretty obscure stuff, they not only have it but the staff knows all about it. You can tell that the staff at those stores love what they do.''
Total CD sales went down 9% last year, although country album sales were up 12%, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
''We've had some months that were down a little, but they sure weren't down 9%. It's been a pretty good year,'' McCormick said.
''Even in bad times, music is something
that soothes the soul. As long as there's a good country song and a good artist
to sing it, we'll be around.''
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Och så lite skivmässor kommande vår! Här kan ni hitta massor av intressanta countryskivor!
FYRA unika
Skivmässor i VÅR!
Vårens skivmässor bjuder på bredare utbud än någonsin tidigare.
Skivmässan i Solna och Göteborg bjuder tillsammans, mer än 1 KILOMETER lång
skivdisk (om man nu ställer allt på en rad).
P Lör. 1 MARS Valhalla Sporthall, GÖTEBORG (öppet kl.11-16.00)
Enda infodisken i Sverige, med expertpanel, fråga om artister, värderingar,
etc. Två hallar, 500 METER skivdisk och ca.130 olika säljare.
P Sön. 2 MARS Valhall, SKÖVDE (öppet kl.11-15)
Nu inne på 12.e året! Denna gång ytterligare förstärkt med fler utländska
säljare. Större/bredare utbud än någonsin tidigare.
P Lör.8 MARS Solnahallen/Solna, STOCKHOLM (öppet kl.10-16.00)
Sveriges största skivmässa med 600 METER skivdisk och ca.150 olika säljare.
Detta är original-skivmässan i Solnahallen. Störst och populärast.
P Lör 2 NOV Kulturhuset, JÖNKÖPING (öppet kl.10-15.00)
Kultmässan som är inne på det 18:e året. Alltid intressanta plattor i
omlopp.
Förhoppningsvis kommer mina nyhetsbrev lite tätare hädanefter, men skulle så
icke ske, så hav tålamod! Breven kommer! De här nyhetsbreven om countrymusik är
ändå de mest aktuella du kan läsa i Sverige. Och då menar jag riktig
traditionell eller som man också kallar det Classic Country! I mitt radioprogram
Country, Country Music på Radio Lidingö 97,8 har jag samma inriktning.
Programmet kan du höra över StorStockholm på tisdagar 20.00 och med repris på
lördagar 15.00.
Om du inte vill ha det här nyhetsbrevet och kommande, så skriver du en kort rad till mig och du stryks direkt ur mitt register!
Hälsningar,
Janne Lindgren
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