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CountryMusicSweden
A nonprofit organisation to promote country music
Nyhetsbrev nr. 6 5 februari 2003
(Titta tillbaka på tidigare nyhetsblad på http://home.bip.net/peruno )
Posted by Country Music Assn. {CMA} on February 04, 2003 at 17:55:03:
The CMA Awards continues its run during November sweeps in 2003. The 37th
Annual CMA Awards will be held live November 5 at 8 p.m. EST on CBS from
Nashville. Returning for his twelfth turn at the host's podium will be Country
superstar Vince Gill.
"Moving the Awards to November sweeps has been good for the network, good for
the CBS affiliates and good for Country Music," said CMA Executive Director Ed
Benson. "The CMA Awards are a success on many levels - the widespread critical
acclaim for the depth and diversity of our performers; the ratings windfall for
the network; and consumer response at the retail level. 'Country Music's Biggest
Night' has found a high-impact placement in November."
CBS's
broadcast of "The 36th Annual CMA Awards," on November 6, 2002, led the network
to its first Wednesday win of the 2002-03 season in viewers and households
finishing in the Top 10 most-watched programs for the week according to Nielsen
ratings. The eligibility period for the 2003 CMA Awards is July 1, 2002 to June
30, 2003. The first ballot will be mailed to eligible CMA voting members May 29.
It is necessary to have 10 nominations to be included on the second ballot,
which is mailed to eligible members July 22. The final ballot will be mailed to
the membership September 23. The final nominees in the 12 categories for "The
37th Annual CMA Awards" will be announced at a press conference August 26 in
Nashville.
Som ni kan läsa i ovanstående meddelande så blev alltså
CMA Award Show ett av de mest beskådade TV-programmen i USA den veckan i höst
det sändes. Tänk om t ex Sveriges Television hade en aaaning om hur populär
countrymusiken är både i USA och i Sverige! Men de blundar väl som vanligt,
vänder andra sidan till och somnar om. Vi har sett det förut!
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG
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A song that became part of Ray Price’s 1962 “Night Life” album and is also
included in Willie Nelson’s new “Crazy: The Demo Sessions” on
Sugar Hill
Records, began with an encounter with an over friendly drunk in a Nashville,
Tennessee bar.
Willie Nelson and steel guitar great Buddy Emmons were together in the bar
and the situation became a case of “inverted mistaken
identity.” The drunk
closed in on Willie and Buddy and began getting closer and closer.
Buddy thought Willie knew the overly friendly drunk fellow and Willie
thought Buddy knew him! Finally Buddy asked the drunk, “Are
you sure about where you want to be?” And the drunk replied “Yeah.” Emmons
repeated the question, “Are You Sure?”
Buddy says that Willie looked at him and said, “Hey, there’s a title for a
song. I’ll write it and give you half of it.” Emmons
told Nelson that wasn’t necessary and even tried to talk Willie out of splitting
the song with him but Willie insisted—saying, “an idea is as good as a song.”
According to Buddy, “That’s just the kind of person Willie Nelson is!”
Willie did write “Are You Sure” and did share the song with
Buddy Emmons. The song was recorded by Ray Price and is included in his 1962
“Night Life” album. It’s also a track in Willie Nelson’s “Crazy: The Demo
Sessions” album on Sugar Hill Records. The album contains some of the early
Willie Nelson works recorded for Pamper Music-which was owned by Ray Price and
Hal Smith. The recordings were found in 1994 on a large unmarked ¼ inch reel of
tape labeled “Pamper Demos” in the vault of
Sony/ATV/Tree in Nashville, Tennessee. The Pamper
Music song catalog was sold to Tree International in 1969 and
Sony Music bought Tree in 1989.
The original recordings were not intended for release to the public-but were
intended for use as “demo recordings,” to pitch new songs to
recording
artists and record producers.
Information for this article came from liner notes furnished by producer
Steve Fishell. “Crazy: The Demo Sessions” is on Sugar Hill
Records and will be available in stores February 11th.
Nedanstående erbjudande gäller för er som har omkring
trehundratusen kronor liggande i en byrålåda och inte vet vad ni ska göra med
pengarna. Antingen sänder ni dem till mig direkt eller antar erbjudandet från
Gibson nedan!
Question:
I heard on the radio that Earl Scruggs has built a new banjo. Is that true?
Answer:
Although Earl didn’t build it, there is a new limited edition Gibson banjo
called “The Earl” and it is aimed at serious Earl Scruggs fans. The price is
$29,500 and includes round-trip airfare to Nashville, Tennessee, a personal
meeting with Earl Scruggs, your photo taken with Earl and he picks “Foggy
Mountain Breakdown” on the new banjo before handing it over to the new owner.
Purchasers of the new banjo also get to meet the instrument builders who
created it.
Oj, vad sugen jag blev på att köpa den här nya banjon!!
Upprop! Spelar du countrymusik i ett band och bor i Stockholmsområdet (5 – 10 mils omkrets är ok)? Sänd mig ett mail och berätta om bandet och medlemmarna. Skicka till steelguitar@swipnet.se Sänd gärna demo och annan info till: Janne Lindgren, Frösätrabacken 10, 127 37 Skärholmen.
Det här var tisdagens (något försenat) nyhetsbrev! Sköt om er!
Janne Lindgren
PS.
Om någon/några är osäkra på vad som egentligen är countrymusik eller inte, så är
mitt förslag att du/ni prenumererar på den utmärkta tidningen Kountry Korral.
Deras hemsida är
www.countrysweden.com
I den kan ni läsa om all form av countrymusik och den håller sig för det mesta
inom gränserna (med vissa små undantag). Eller varför inte lyssna på Country,
Country Music på Radio Lidingö 97,8 på tisdagar kl 20.00. Men det senare gäller
förstås bara för er som bor i Stockholm.
DS.
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