Little Big Town signs with Capitol Nashville

Country group Little Big Town has left their previous independent record label, Equity Music Group, a press release today stated.

Less than 90 minutes later, Capitol Nashville released a statement announcing a multi-record deal with the group.

Capitol also now has acquisition of the group’s two Equity albums -The Road to Here (2005) and A Place to Land (2007).

To read a longer article on the group’s new record deal, click here.

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Have you tried HD radio?

There is nothing better than listing to some good country radio but do you know what’s better than regular radio? HD Digital radio! There are new HD radio stations with quality clear sound, almost as good as listening to a CD. There’s even this really cool thing called iTunes tagging where you can hear a song on the radio and if you like it, it will tag the song onto your iTunes playlist and you’ll be able to download it from iTunes whenever you get the chance.

Isn’t that pretty cool?

Something else that is cool is some new stations near me. Being that I live only about five miles from the Florida line, there are some good Florida High Definition Radio stations. There are stations in Jacksonville and in Daytona, which is just a good hop and a skip away from here and we all know we love listening to some good music. You can hear that good music on those new country music stations. So check out HD radio today… I know I will.

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Gracin’ isn’t ‘Crazy’

Album review I wrote for the paper:

American Idol alum and up and coming country super star Josh Gracin released his new album on Tuesday, April 1. His first album, “Josh Gracin,” which was released in 2004, went gold, selling over 500,000 copies. He is one of three male country artist in the past few years to receive a gold album debut album and have three Top 5 songs come from that album, including the Number One hit, “Nothin’ To Lose.”

The new album, “We Weren’t Crazy,” which has been three years in the making, already has a few radio released songs such as the ballad, “I Keep Coming Back,” and the Top 5 single “Favorite State of Mind,” a fast-paced mid-tempo song where he names almost every state in the Chorus, expressing his love for “Georgia peaches” and “Florida beaches.”

Gracin’s latest single and title track of the album, “We Weren’t Crazy,” is already blazing up the charts but the song is more personal to the singer than any other song that he’s recorded. Co-written by Gracin, Bobby Pinson, and Tony Lopacinski, the song tells of Gracin’s personal story of marrying his high school sweetheart, moving to California after joining the Marines and having children of his own.

Also on the album is a remake of a song, “Telluride,” that appeared on Tim McGraw’s “Set This Circus Down” album but wasn’t released as a single. “Sweet September,” a sweet ballad, tells of ones memory of first love while “I Don’t Want To Live” is a more powerful ballad, showcasing his vocal range.

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Ego Trippin’

Have you guys heard Snoop Dogg’s new album? I was just over at this new website, rapartists.com, a website about rap artists which is really cool and saw some pretty cool stuff, including Snoop’s new album. If you haven’t checked the album out, you should. You should also check that website out because it’s pretty neat with all kinds of stats about the top rap albums. I might be a white girl, but I love some rap.

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Nick Carter going country?

So everybody knows that it’s been this weird dream of mine to see Nick Carter sing country music, right? Well sometime this week, according to The Tennessean and People.com, Nick was seen in a bar in Nashville singing Alan Jackson’s “Midnight in Montgomery.”

Yeah….

There’s another point in the Nashville over Charlotte move.

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