Opry.com’s Guide To What’s New In Country.
Nashville, Volume 1: Tear Down The Woodpile
Opry member Marty Stuart is nowhere near new to Nashville, or the country music industry in general, but his new album has a solid energy while still staying true to traditional country music . He’s been an Opry member since 1992, has been making music for decades, and has a long string of stories that revolve around the instruments and lyrics of his career. His first Opry performance was as the 13-year-old mandolin player for Lester Flatt’s band, toured with Johnny Cash for six years, now has six albums to his name, and the list doesn’t stop there.
Marty, with his Fabulous Superlatives released the sixth album this week, which is also available as Vinyl LPs. With tracks titled “Sundown in Nashville,” “Hollywood Boogie,” and “Truck Driver’s Blues,” it’s not surprising that Marty produced the project and wrote much of the material. This album truly showcases Marty’s love for traditional country music. But it’s not all-the-way traditional; Marty throws a whole bunch of energy in the tracks, that will certainly appeal to a younger demographic as well. The album is full of retro sounds, legendary influences, steel guitar, and the flat out “Nashville Sound” that Marty grew up listening to.
Album Track List: (click here to purchase the album)
1. Tear the Woodpile Down
2. Sundown in Nashville
3. A Matter of Time
4. Hollywood Boogie
5. Holding On to Nothing
6. Truck Driver’s Blues
7. Going, Going, Gone
8. The Lonely Kind
9. A Song of Sadness
10. Picture from Life’s Other side
Marty Stuart will be on Opry Country Classics THIS THURSDAY at the Ryman Auditorium! Click here to purchase tickets. Until then, here’s Marty having a guitar jam on the Opry stage.
Hard 2 Love
In high school, Lee Brice’s friends introduced him to genres he’d never heard before but it was around that time that Brice began to focus on football more than music. He eventually went to Clemson University and played until an injury his senior year forced him to give it up.
Throughout those years, however, Brice continued to write and perform. He even took a trip down to Nashville during spring break and met songwriter/producer Doug Johnson.
“He told me, ‘Lee, I see that you love music with every bone in your body, so unless you love civil engineering as much as you love music, you need to be here. And if you do come to Nashville, I’ll stand by you from the moment you get here.”
Brice did come to Nashville, and Johnson kept his word. After co-writing sessions with songwriters all over town and years later, Brice released his debut album Love Like Crazy. The title track broke Eddy Arnold’s record for longest run on the Billboard Country Charts, in which Arnold held since 1949 with his hit “Bouquet of Roses.”
While Lee now has musical influences ranging from Garth Brooks and Tom Petty to Whitney Houston and Ray Charles, the Sumter, South Carolina native grew up completely on gospel music. At seven years old, Brice began to teach himself how to play his aunt’s old upright piano and by 10 he was writing songs, with only his gospel background and his father’s Alabama and Oak Ridge Boys albums for inspiration.
Lee released his second record this week including the hit song, “Woman Like You,” which became Lee’s first No. 1 song as a recording artist.
Album Track List: (click here to purchase the album)
1. Hard to Love
2. A Woman Like You
3. That’s When You Know It’s Over
4. Parking Lot Party
5. Don’t Believe Everything You Think
6. I Drive Your Truck
7. See About A Girl
8. Friends We Won’t Forget
9. Life Off My Years
10. Seven Days A Thousand Times
11. Beer
12. That Way Again
13. One More Day
Here’s Lee on the Opry stage performing his first No. 1:
Up All Night
Kip Moore released his debut album this week featuring “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck,” his Top 10 single and was just certified Gold. Kip wrote or co-wrote every track on the album, and he says he is anxious to see what people think of the depth of the record.
“I am so excited,” he says. “It’s really going to throw people for a loop when they get the record. They might have a perception in mind of what it’s going to be because of ‘Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck,’ and I am anxious to see what they think when they hear the depth of this record.”
CMT.com says, “I have not heard a more compelling and appealing new singer-songwriter-performer since Jamey Johnson came along. And I don’t hand these awards out in Cracker Jack boxes. Moore has earned the right to be heard with his impressive debut album. What separates him from all the new formulaic back-road beer-and babes writer-singers? Songs that scratch and kick at you and plead and then demand to be heard. His vocals are urgent and gritty, the giften voice of a true storyteller working at full throttle.”
Album Track List: (click here to purchase the album)
1. Drive Me Crazy
2. Beer Money
3. Somethin’ ‘Bout A Truck
4. Everything But You
5. Crazy One More Time
6. Where You Are Tonight
7. Reckless (Still Growin’ Up)
9. Up All Night
10. Fly Again
11. Faith When I Fall
12. Mary Was the Marrying Kind
13. Motorcycle
14. Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck (Acoustic)
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