Gretchen Wilson: Four Times Platinum
In just over eight months Gretchen Wilson has garnered three Top 5 singles, a CMA Award, an AMA Award, two Billboard Music Awards, a Grammy Award, and now her debut album Here For The Party has been certified quadruple platinum for sales in excess of four million units.
The critically-acclaimed album hit stores May 11, 2004, debuted at #2 on Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart and spent a record nine weeks atop the Country Albums Chart. Her first single "Redneck Woman" spent a record six weeks at #1 and has reached well over 100,000 digital downloads. More...
Maggie Austin Enters Top 20
Maggie Austin's current single, "Taking Time", is at #20 on the Indie World Country Chart. It jumped 9 spots from last week. "Taking Time" is a song about being with that special someone, "letting go and leavin' worries behind". More...
Hayes Carll Releases New Album, Little Rock, On March 8
Hayes Carll, one of the best of a new breed of Texas singer/songwriters, releases his sophomore album, Little Rock, on March 8. This self-described "twisted folk singer" serves up an album full of rough and ragged songs that deliver a gut-punch of honesty and gritty realism. If you can tell the character of a person by the company they keep, then Carll is in good shape. He teamed with roots producer extraordinaire R.S. Field (Billy Joe Shaver, Sonny Landreth, Buddy Guy) for this project--the follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2003 debut, Flowers and Liquor. The new album features Alison Moorer on guest vocals and guitarist Kenny Vaughn (Lucinda Williams, Rodney Crowell). Carll also managed to track down two of his songwriting heroes, Guy Clark and Ray Wyllie Hubbard, to write songs for Little Rock. More...
