Transcript

7.24.26 · Country Weekly

0:04
Speaker 1: Now it's time to catch up with Country Weekly, where
0:07
Speaker 1: we check out news and gossip from the world of
0:10
Speaker 1: country music. I'm your host Ken Dawkins as always, and
0:14
Speaker 1: I'll be reading from various sources found online. As a reminder,
0:19
Speaker 1: RADIOI is a reading service intended for people who are
0:21
Speaker 1: blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult to
0:24
Speaker 1: read printed material. We'll begin with the first article, dated
0:28
Speaker 1: the twenty second of July from Holler dot Com. First up,
0:34
Speaker 1: Zacktop announces new song Good Girls and Cowgirls. After debuting
0:40
Speaker 1: it during a show last week, Zachtop has taken to
0:43
Speaker 1: social media to announce his brand new single, good Girls
0:46
Speaker 1: and Cowgirls. Top released the song on August twenty first.
0:50
Speaker 1: The video, which features a short concert clip of Top
0:53
Speaker 1: performing his new song for the first time in front
0:56
Speaker 1: of a packed out Montana crowd on his Cold Beer
0:59
Speaker 1: and Country Music Summer tour, thanks for being our guinea
1:03
Speaker 1: Pigs Montana. New song, Good Girls and Cowgirls, is out
1:06
Speaker 1: August twenty first. The South of Sanity hit maker writes
1:10
Speaker 1: fans danced enthusiastically as Tops band jam to the tunes
1:13
Speaker 1: traditional country sound one. Top is currently no Stranger too.
1:18
Speaker 1: The song lightheartedly compares cowgirls to good girls, using the
1:22
Speaker 1: I Never Lie hit maker's classic country wit and imagery
1:25
Speaker 1: with lyrics such as good girls are made of sugar
1:28
Speaker 1: and spice, cowgirls are made of whiskey and ice. The
1:32
Speaker 1: lyrics reflect that of which only a cowboys such as
1:35
Speaker 1: Top can learn from experience, as he playfully spells out,
1:39
Speaker 1: cowgirls like to take it outside. They love to dance,
1:42
Speaker 1: and they know how to ride. They'll do things it'll
1:44
Speaker 1: make you lose your mind. To a crowd of fans
1:46
Speaker 1: lucky enough to be part of the exclusive experience. Nothing
1:50
Speaker 1: beats the classics, and it's refreshing. How this song has
1:53
Speaker 1: no intention of shying away from a traditional country sound,
1:56
Speaker 1: because ultimately it doesn't need to. In a modern country
1:59
Speaker 1: land escape full of artists eager to experiment with a cool,
2:02
Speaker 1: new sound, Top keeps it original. The Washington Natives discography
2:07
Speaker 1: offers a soft place for old school listeners to land
2:10
Speaker 1: in a world of new age country, as well as
2:12
Speaker 1: introducing contemporary fans just discovering the branches to the roots
2:16
Speaker 1: of country music. Though Holler's not sure what direction Top
2:19
Speaker 1: will take following the release of this song, any sign
2:22
Speaker 1: of new music is good news. For his loyal fan base.
2:25
Speaker 1: With any luck, this could be the beginning of the
2:27
Speaker 1: rollout for a new album, a craving that fans have
2:29
Speaker 1: expressed with comments such as we need another album, mister
2:32
Speaker 1: Zachary under a brand new post next, why Tim McGraw
2:38
Speaker 1: is giving a pawn shop guitar to a young fan
2:40
Speaker 1: at every twenty twenty six tour stop. During his recent
2:45
Speaker 1: tour stop, Tim McGraw has revealed the heartwarming reason why
2:48
Speaker 1: he plans to give away a pawn shop guitar at
2:51
Speaker 1: every forthcoming show on his twenty twenty six run. McGraw
2:55
Speaker 1: is currently in the middle of his twenty twenty six
2:57
Speaker 1: pawn Shop Guitar Tour, titled after his recent single of
3:00
Speaker 1: the same name, which dates lined up at New Jersey
3:03
Speaker 1: and New York later in July. The story behind the
3:06
Speaker 1: song pawn Shop Guitar, which is widely expected to be
3:09
Speaker 1: the name of McGraw's next album, pivots around McGraw's early
3:12
Speaker 1: days in the music industry, when he pawned his high
3:15
Speaker 1: school football ring to purchase his very first guitar. It
3:18
Speaker 1: goes on to recount how he then ended up sleeping
3:21
Speaker 1: in his car with that same guitar as he chased
3:23
Speaker 1: down his dreams of becoming a country music star across
3:27
Speaker 1: the pared down instrumental, McGraw nostalgically kroons pawned my high
3:31
Speaker 1: school ring, my freshman year in college, traded my education
3:35
Speaker 1: for some six string knowledge. Now, in honor of his
3:38
Speaker 1: own origin story, the Live Like You Were Dying hit
3:42
Speaker 1: maker has started giving away a pawn shop guitar to
3:45
Speaker 1: a young fan from each city he and his band
3:47
Speaker 1: perform in. In a new clip shared online, the country
3:51
Speaker 1: legend explains to the crowd, because of the story behind
3:54
Speaker 1: my pawn shop guitar, in every city that we play in,
3:57
Speaker 1: we decided to go to a pawn shop and get
3:59
Speaker 1: a guitar, and we're going to start some kid out
4:02
Speaker 1: tonight on their journey with their own pawnshop guitar, before
4:05
Speaker 1: addressing a fan in the front row, and this little
4:08
Speaker 1: young lady who's right here is going to be the
4:10
Speaker 1: first one to get it. McGraw has accompanied this with
4:14
Speaker 1: footage of his guitar tech John P visiting a local
4:17
Speaker 1: pawnshop during one of the crew's tour stops and the
4:20
Speaker 1: aising with the owner about which one to purchase. John
4:24
Speaker 1: P underlines, We're going to give it to a good cause.
4:27
Speaker 1: It's a heartwarming story, especially given how it nods to
4:30
Speaker 1: McGraw's own entry into country music, with the Louisiana native
4:33
Speaker 1: hopefully helping to sparkle love for playing with young fans.
4:37
Speaker 1: Who knows, perhaps a child that receives a guitar from
4:40
Speaker 1: McGraw's show might one day end up emulating the humbled
4:43
Speaker 1: and kind Kroner's success. Now we move on over to
4:48
Speaker 1: countrycentral dot com. With the first article dated the twentieth
4:53
Speaker 1: of July, John Party reveals the Gamblingman Tour dates. John
4:58
Speaker 1: Party has announced the gambling Man and Tour of fall
5:00
Speaker 1: and winter run of headline dates with support from Alexandra
5:04
Speaker 1: Kuay and Sadie Bass. The tour kicks off September seventeenth
5:08
Speaker 1: in Richmond, Virginia, runs through mid November, closing out November
5:11
Speaker 1: fourteenth in Independence, Missouri. Tickets for the Gambling Man Tour
5:16
Speaker 1: go on pre sale this week. The announcement comes amid
5:18
Speaker 1: a significant personal transition for Party. On July third, he
5:22
Speaker 1: and his wife's Summer Party announced their divorce after nearly
5:25
Speaker 1: six years of marriage, sharing a joint statement on social
5:28
Speaker 1: media and noting that they intend to continue co parenting
5:31
Speaker 1: their two young daughters. Party has built his career on
5:34
Speaker 1: a run of four top five albums, including his twenty
5:37
Speaker 1: sixteen platinum certified number one California Sunrise, and he's racked
5:42
Speaker 1: up fourteen RIAA certified singles with six chart toppers, according
5:47
Speaker 1: to Capitol Nashville. He also holds the distinction of being
5:50
Speaker 1: the first California native inducted into the Grand Old Opry
5:54
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty three. The closest he will be
5:57
Speaker 1: to our Neck of the Woods will be in Charleston,
5:59
Speaker 1: West Virginia on September twenty sixth. Next, Morgan Wallen shares
6:05
Speaker 1: bin by Now release date. Morgan Wallen will release his
6:09
Speaker 1: new single bin by Now this weekend, the singer confirmed
6:13
Speaker 1: by sharing a pre save link to his Instagram story.
6:16
Speaker 1: The announcement follows a raw, piano driven version of the
6:19
Speaker 1: song Wallin posted to Instagram two days earlier, captioned with
6:22
Speaker 1: a nod to releasing it before the boats get winterized.
6:26
Speaker 1: By contrast, the original follows the breezy alt pop formula
6:29
Speaker 1: of recent singles like Love Somebody. The song centers on
6:33
Speaker 1: a couple drifting toward the end of a relationship, weighing
6:36
Speaker 1: whether the connection was ever meant to last in the
6:38
Speaker 1: first place. Wallin first teased the track back in June
6:41
Speaker 1: during CMA Fest weekend, and has since referenced it multiple times,
6:46
Speaker 1: including during a show at Chicago's Soldier Field before a
6:50
Speaker 1: pre saved link quietly went up with further comm or
6:53
Speaker 1: without further comment. The upcoming release follows Wallen's comments back
6:56
Speaker 1: in April, when he confirmed to Serious Exms the Highway
7:00
Speaker 1: that he was sitting on seven or eight completed singles
7:02
Speaker 1: and was ready to start rolling out sneak peaks of them.
7:06
Speaker 1: Bin By now appears to be the first of that
7:08
Speaker 1: batch to reach an official release date. Moving on now
7:13
Speaker 1: to countrynow dot com with the first article dated July twentieth,
7:18
Speaker 1: may Estes brings nineties country nostalgia to life with new
7:22
Speaker 1: anthem the nineties called. May Estes has always valued the
7:26
Speaker 1: kind of timeless storytelling that defines the era of country music.
7:30
Speaker 1: She was raised on. The authenticity found in those songs
7:34
Speaker 1: is something she tries to carry into her own music today.
7:38
Speaker 1: At the same time, she isn't afraid to have a
7:40
Speaker 1: little fun while sticking to her roots, and she proves
7:42
Speaker 1: that in her witty, dance worthy anthem the nineties called
7:47
Speaker 1: as nineties country music continues to surge in popularity with
7:49
Speaker 1: the new generation of listeners. Estes knows what it's like
7:53
Speaker 1: to be a true fan, the kind that can spend
7:55
Speaker 1: hours discussing the impact of artists like Brooks and Dunn, Conway,
7:59
Speaker 1: Twitty Billy, Ray Cyrus, and Alan Jackson. She makes that
8:02
Speaker 1: clear while tipping her hat to the hits of the
8:04
Speaker 1: same artists in her new track. In middle school, singing
8:08
Speaker 1: on the AM country station every Tuesday was the best.
8:11
Speaker 1: As these explains, what was on radio was so amazing,
8:14
Speaker 1: Alan Jackson, Brooks and Don Reva, Leanne Walmeyt, Martine McBride, Shenandoah,
8:19
Speaker 1: on and on. My taste spans wider than just country genre,
8:23
Speaker 1: but the artists and songwriting I grew up on really
8:25
Speaker 1: inspired the music maker that I am today. Growing up
8:29
Speaker 1: in Hope, Arkansas also taught her that staying true to
8:32
Speaker 1: her country roots is the key to creating music that
8:35
Speaker 1: feels honest and authentic. She continues, every step of the way,
8:39
Speaker 1: I knew one thing I wanted to make honest country music.
8:42
Speaker 1: God sure gave me a unique perspective and story to
8:45
Speaker 1: write songs from. But it's always been important to me
8:48
Speaker 1: to also celebrate and remember the timeless music that came
8:51
Speaker 1: before me. Written by Grammy Award winning Aaron Raiderae alongside
8:56
Speaker 1: Benji Davis, the nineties, called celebrates her deep appreciation this
9:00
Speaker 1: era of country music. Simultaneously, it marks May's Blue Highway
9:04
Speaker 1: Records debut and serves as the perfect soundtrack to any
9:08
Speaker 1: boot scoot and beer drinking night in Honckey talk estes
9:12
Speaker 1: gritty and powerful vocals come to life as she imagines
9:14
Speaker 1: the decade itself, calling in with a request to take
9:17
Speaker 1: back everything from its trucks to its signature style and
9:21
Speaker 1: sounds as it grows with popularity in today's world. Along
9:25
Speaker 1: the way, Asti salutes the artists and songs that helped
9:27
Speaker 1: her shape her own musical journey, all while delivering a
9:30
Speaker 1: reminder that some things never go out of style. The
9:33
Speaker 1: phone started ringing off the landline, Jack said, the nineties called.
9:37
Speaker 1: They want their country back. They want their trucks, They
9:40
Speaker 1: want their style. They want to take it on back
9:42
Speaker 1: about a country mile. They want their hat, tight fitting jeans.
9:46
Speaker 1: They want their boot scooting boogie. If you know what
9:48
Speaker 1: I mean. Just got a message from a ghost of
9:50
Speaker 1: good times past the nineties called and they want their
9:54
Speaker 1: country back, she sings on the chorus. The new song
9:57
Speaker 1: arrives while may Estes continues to work on building her
10:00
Speaker 1: highly anticipated full length Blue Highway debut project, set to
10:04
Speaker 1: arrive next year. Additionally, it follows the release of her
10:07
Speaker 1: twist on Brooks and Duns, She's Not the Cheating Kind.
10:11
Speaker 1: Fans can catch the songstress on the road all summer,
10:13
Speaker 1: with a complete list of dates available on her website. Next,
10:18
Speaker 1: Metro Nashville Police horses helped reach medical emergency after Alan
10:23
Speaker 1: Jackson's final concert. If you've ever attended a concert, festival,
10:28
Speaker 1: or large scale of van in Nashville, chances are you've
10:31
Speaker 1: seen the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department working behind the scenes
10:34
Speaker 1: to help keep fans safe. That was no different when
10:38
Speaker 1: Alan Jackson brought his final concert to Nissan Stadium late
10:40
Speaker 1: last month. While the historic night will be remembered for
10:43
Speaker 1: emotional performances, heartfelt tributes, and stadium wide singalongs, another important
10:49
Speaker 1: moment unfolded after the show is approximately seventy thousand fans
10:53
Speaker 1: poured out of Nissan Stadium and onto the Shelby Street
10:56
Speaker 1: pedestrian bridge amid the massive crowd. Metro Newnashville Police mounted
11:01
Speaker 1: patrol officers were called into action after a serious medical
11:04
Speaker 1: emergency occurred on the bridge. With thousands of people packed
11:08
Speaker 1: shoulder to shoulder, officers in medical personnel faced a difficult
11:12
Speaker 1: challenge reaching the person in need quickly through the overwhelming crowd.
11:17
Speaker 1: That's when Nashville's mounted patrols stepped in. In a new
11:20
Speaker 1: social media update, Metro Nashville Police shared how the department's
11:24
Speaker 1: mounted officers and their horses helped create a path for
11:27
Speaker 1: the first responders, allowing them to reach the emergency situation
11:30
Speaker 1: as quickly as possible. According to the department, the mounted
11:34
Speaker 1: patrol was able to safely move through the massive crowd.
11:37
Speaker 1: Mounted officers were able to safely move through the crowd,
11:40
Speaker 1: creating a path that allowed first responders to reach those
11:42
Speaker 1: in need as quickly as possible. In moments like these,
11:45
Speaker 1: every second matters, and our horses gave emergency crews the
11:48
Speaker 1: axis they otherwise would not have had. The post also
11:51
Speaker 1: highlighted the incredible training required of the horses and its riders,
11:55
Speaker 1: who remained calm despite the challenging environment surrounding them. What
11:59
Speaker 1: you don't know always see is what these horses overcome.
12:02
Speaker 1: Hundreds of feet above the Cumberland River, surrounded by blaring music,
12:05
Speaker 1: waving flags, thousands of shouting people, and crowds so tight
12:09
Speaker 1: they were brushing against them, they remained calm, focused and professional.
12:14
Speaker 1: Their training and the trust between horse and rider made
12:17
Speaker 1: the difference. The department says the moment served as a
12:20
Speaker 1: reminder of the important role the Mounted Patrol plays during
12:23
Speaker 1: Nashville's largest events. Sometimes the work we do isn't immediately
12:27
Speaker 1: obvious from the outside. The mount of Patrol is about
12:30
Speaker 1: far more than visibility or tradition. It's about reaching people
12:33
Speaker 1: when others can't, creating order and chaos, and helping ensure
12:37
Speaker 1: that when someone needs us most, we can get there.
12:40
Speaker 1: No matter the crowd, no matter the challenge, the Metro
12:42
Speaker 1: Nashville Police mount of Patrol will always do everything we
12:45
Speaker 1: can to get those we need to help. Oh those wildfires, yeah, next, wildfires.
12:53
Speaker 1: Smoke forces Hank Williams Junior to postpone Michigan concerts and
12:57
Speaker 1: impacts Midwest festivals. Hank Williams Junior has been forced to
13:03
Speaker 1: postpone two concerts originally scheduled for this weekend due to
13:06
Speaker 1: poor air quality conditions across Michigan. The Great Lake State
13:10
Speaker 1: has experienced some of the worst air quality in the
13:12
Speaker 1: US this week, as smoke from the wildfires burning in
13:15
Speaker 1: Minnesota and parts of Canada has moved into the region,
13:18
Speaker 1: creating hazardous conditions for residents and visitors alike. According to
13:23
Speaker 1: The Detroit News, the conditions across the state could be
13:26
Speaker 1: very unhealthy and hazardous. Hank Junior's team announced the schedule
13:30
Speaker 1: change on social media early Friday morning last week, revealing
13:33
Speaker 1: that both of his Michigan shows have been rescheduled for
13:36
Speaker 1: next month adam an abundance of caution regarding air quality,
13:40
Speaker 1: This weekend's Hank Williams Junior shows in Michigan have been
13:43
Speaker 1: postponed and rescheduled to August thirteenth at Pine Know Music
13:47
Speaker 1: Theater and August fourteenth at akroschuer Amphitheater. And the statement
13:51
Speaker 1: read The team also assured ticket holders that their tickets
13:55
Speaker 1: will remain valid for the new dates. All previously purchased
13:59
Speaker 1: tickets will be the honor for the new dates. More
14:01
Speaker 1: information will be emailed directly to ticket holders. Fans who
14:05
Speaker 1: were planning to attend the shows were encouraged to hold
14:07
Speaker 1: on to their tickets and to wait further updates from
14:09
Speaker 1: the venues and the ticket providers. Hack William Junior's concerts
14:13
Speaker 1: aren't the only country music event being impacted by wildfire
14:17
Speaker 1: smoke across the Midwest. Country Thunder Wisconsin, which kicked off
14:21
Speaker 1: Thursday and runs through Sunday, has been keeping attendees updated
14:25
Speaker 1: as officials continue to monitor air quality conditions caused by
14:28
Speaker 1: the wildfire smoke. The festival shared that it is working
14:31
Speaker 1: closely with local officials to ensure the safety of everyone
14:35
Speaker 1: on site. Your health and safety is our top priority,
14:38
Speaker 1: and we will be providing masks for attendees at all
14:41
Speaker 1: entrance points if required. That's the festival sharing. Organizers are
14:46
Speaker 1: also reminded fans that on site medical staff is available
14:49
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven to assist anyone in experiencing health concerns. Meanwhile,
14:55
Speaker 1: Country Jam USA and Eau Claire, Wisconsin was also moving
14:59
Speaker 1: forward as planned while while keeping a close eye on conditions.
15:02
Speaker 1: Festival organizers said they were working with emergency coordination teams
15:06
Speaker 1: to monitor smoke alerts and the heat index throughout the event.
15:09
Speaker 1: Fans attending the festival were encouraged to stay hydrated, take
15:13
Speaker 1: breaks and shaded areas, and wear masks if the smoke
15:16
Speaker 1: begins to impact them. Now we listen into what's going
15:20
Speaker 1: on at Saving Country Music with the first article dated
15:23
Speaker 1: July twenty first, Joe Nichols reveals how Nashville is using
15:27
Speaker 1: new AI tools. I've heard artists say this, I don't
15:32
Speaker 1: use any AI, I don't use any Suno for my stuff.
15:35
Speaker 1: Bull crap. I'm telling you. I've seen singers out there
15:37
Speaker 1: give interviews where they're like, I don't do that. I
15:39
Speaker 1: don't do that. I'm telling you for a fact. Lie.
15:43
Speaker 1: They're lying through their teeth. Maybe at some point they said,
15:46
Speaker 1: I'm only considering this to be AI or SUNO or whatever.
15:49
Speaker 1: But yeah, they do that. Whether they know it or not,
15:51
Speaker 1: it's sometimes another story, but they do. These were the
15:54
Speaker 1: recent revelations from country artists Joe Nichols talking to Evan
15:58
Speaker 1: Paul a Taste of Country, where the country traditionalist also
16:01
Speaker 1: revealed how Souno played a role in his new song
16:04
Speaker 1: sey l a V. According to Nichols, se La V
16:07
Speaker 1: writers Brett Warren, Jason Sellers, and Lance Miller did not
16:10
Speaker 1: use AI to write the song itself, but did put
16:13
Speaker 1: it into Suno to spit out a demo they could
16:16
Speaker 1: then send to Nichols and other prospective performers. While pitching
16:19
Speaker 1: them to record it, they pulled the song together as
16:22
Speaker 1: a joke, Nichols explains. Then they came up with a
16:25
Speaker 1: catchy melody, and then they put it through one of
16:27
Speaker 1: those AI generating what would this song sound like if
16:30
Speaker 1: it had these prompts, and it came out really super catchy.
16:34
Speaker 1: Then they sent the sumo a demo to Nichols, who
16:37
Speaker 1: at the time was the chaperone on a Washington, d c.
16:40
Speaker 1: Trip with one of his kids, but listened to it
16:42
Speaker 1: and sent it back saying to pop. But he kept
16:46
Speaker 1: humming the melody, and as time went on he had
16:47
Speaker 1: a change of heart and decided to record and release
16:50
Speaker 1: a more country version of the song. Seala V came
16:53
Speaker 1: out on July seventeenth, and, frankly, according to Saving Country Music,
16:57
Speaker 1: it still sounds pretty pop. The revelations in the interview
17:01
Speaker 1: have some worried about how much AI assistance is creeping
17:04
Speaker 1: into the songwriting and production of country music, especially if
17:08
Speaker 1: a more traditional and older artists such as Joe Nichols
17:10
Speaker 1: is working with it, let alone the twenty somethings looking
17:13
Speaker 1: to score their first hit. Nichols goes on to reveal
17:17
Speaker 1: I've written some things that I put into Suno or
17:19
Speaker 1: one of those, to see if I'm looking at it
17:21
Speaker 1: the way other people would look at it, the algorithm
17:24
Speaker 1: would look at it. Do I hear this song as
17:26
Speaker 1: a bluesy gospel song or does it come out as
17:28
Speaker 1: a bluegrass song and a different vibe completely? So it's
17:31
Speaker 1: helpful to tell you if you're on the right track.
17:34
Speaker 1: Nichols then clarifies, I don't go any further with that SUNO.
17:37
Speaker 1: I don't want to building anything for me. I don't
17:39
Speaker 1: want it to tell me where my blind spots are.
17:41
Speaker 1: What I'm not paying attention to. The singers on Suno
17:44
Speaker 1: are amazing. I don't use those because the singers from
17:47
Speaker 1: Suno are the best singers in the world combined as
17:49
Speaker 1: one singer. So it's impossible to do something as good
17:52
Speaker 1: as Suno. But there are still some moral dilemmas when
17:56
Speaker 1: dealing with Suno in the music creation process, even if
17:59
Speaker 1: it's not being used to create the finished song itself.
18:03
Speaker 1: First most roll record labels, mainstream and Independent have pending
18:07
Speaker 1: lawsuits against Suno for ripping off their copyrights and the
18:10
Speaker 1: copyrights of artists like Joe Nichols. Suno uses the existing
18:14
Speaker 1: catalog of recorded music to compose its prompted songs in
18:17
Speaker 1: a matter of seconds, and does so royalty free, so
18:21
Speaker 1: as record labels sue Suno, the artists signed to them
18:24
Speaker 1: are using and supporting the tool. The second dilemma is
18:28
Speaker 1: if a song was written by humans but used as
18:30
Speaker 1: Suno demo to either flesh out the writing or influence
18:33
Speaker 1: of the production, does this need to be disclosed as
18:36
Speaker 1: AI assisted under the recently universal proposed AI labeling, even
18:40
Speaker 1: if Suno is not writing or populating the music of
18:42
Speaker 1: the song in full. Also, along with not considering the
18:46
Speaker 1: slippery slope of people who rely on copyrights to protect
18:49
Speaker 1: their intellectual property, like songwriters and performers, there are other
18:54
Speaker 1: downstream effects to consider. The building of data centers has
18:57
Speaker 1: become an almost universally repudiated practic. This on a local level.
19:01
Speaker 1: Those data centers are being built in part to build
19:04
Speaker 1: out infrastructure to support songwriters using Suno to create demos
19:08
Speaker 1: and deliver them promptly. This past Tuesday, streaming service Deezer,
19:13
Speaker 1: which has been in the lead detecting and tracking AI
19:15
Speaker 1: generated content, said that for the first time, the amount
19:18
Speaker 1: of AI songs uploaded to the format was over fifty percent.
19:23
Speaker 1: Even though many of these songs never go on to
19:24
Speaker 1: be heard or become popular, it's still a massive volume,
19:27
Speaker 1: equating to about ninety one thousand tracks a day. The
19:31
Speaker 1: company also reveals that often the majority of streams these
19:34
Speaker 1: tracks receive are fraudulent, up to eighty five percent. Later
19:39
Speaker 1: in the conversation with Joe Nichols, Evan Paul of Tastes
19:42
Speaker 1: of Country asks him, but what's the difference between autotune, though,
19:45
Speaker 1: and singing it and having suno in your voice? Joe
19:48
Speaker 1: Nichols responds ultimately, I don't view it much differently because
19:51
Speaker 1: autotune saves time. But here's the thing about autotune that
19:55
Speaker 1: really drives me crazy. We have developed a generation of
19:58
Speaker 1: singers that sing like autotone the nasally pitch and pinch
20:01
Speaker 1: in their vocal. Autotune was never originally meant to pitch
20:05
Speaker 1: correct an entire performance, either live or in the studio.
20:08
Speaker 1: The point of it was when you have a singer
20:10
Speaker 1: that turned into an incredible performance, But perhaps a note
20:13
Speaker 1: or two is flat. Autotune allows you to save the
20:17
Speaker 1: performance but correct the pitch on those particular notes. Some
20:21
Speaker 1: have equated autotune to AI, but it's a completely different tool.
20:24
Speaker 1: Autotune can't create a vocal performance for an entire song
20:27
Speaker 1: in seconds like SUNO. It can only correct the pitch
20:30
Speaker 1: of an existing one. But similar to how some artists
20:33
Speaker 1: might sing to mimic autotune, they use the use of
20:36
Speaker 1: AI could also influence how human creators write and perform songs,
20:40
Speaker 1: even if they don't use the technology correctly. But autotune
20:44
Speaker 1: started as a time saver in the studio, then it
20:46
Speaker 1: became a crutch for certain performers who can't sing to
20:49
Speaker 1: create an entire career from a similar slippery slope is
20:52
Speaker 1: presenting itself for AI. Today, songwriters can use it to
20:56
Speaker 1: build out demos or test songs for appeal in the
20:58
Speaker 1: algorithm to marrow. Or it could be full integration with
21:01
Speaker 1: the software to replace the need for co writers or
21:04
Speaker 1: musicians and ultimately any human As AI reveals, it can
21:07
Speaker 1: do everything in music making process and not complain about
21:11
Speaker 1: copyrights or coffee breaks. As music creeps toward full digital integration,
21:16
Speaker 1: leaving the human element that's so integral to music behind. Next,
21:21
Speaker 1: Tyler Childers to produce first new album via Willie Carlyle.
21:27
Speaker 1: It was being taken under the wing of Stgil Simpson
21:29
Speaker 1: that helped launch Tyler Childers into uncommon altitudes early in
21:32
Speaker 1: his career. Now Tyler Childers will see what kind of
21:36
Speaker 1: magic he can come up with behind the mixing board.
21:38
Speaker 1: As it's been announced he will be producing a new
21:41
Speaker 1: album from folk powerhouse Willie Carlyle, to be called The
21:44
Speaker 1: Universal Bubba. It will be out on November sixth, with
21:47
Speaker 1: a new single out now. I think this one goes
21:51
Speaker 1: to outer space, says Carlyle. I think this is the
21:53
Speaker 1: widest range of influences that I've ever had. It touches
21:57
Speaker 1: on funk, It touches on Americana, Cajun, old time and
22:00
Speaker 1: experimental music. It feels like getting drunk at the Civil
22:03
Speaker 1: War reenactment, or cruising at the Cattle Auction, or doing
22:06
Speaker 1: molly at the Square Dance. The abundant seventeen track double
22:10
Speaker 1: album was cut with the Tyler Childers backing band, The
22:13
Speaker 1: Food Stamps, at a makeshift all DIY recording studio constructed
22:17
Speaker 1: in the Baywater District in New Orleans. It was recorded
22:21
Speaker 1: over a two week span. Along with whatever experimental music
22:24
Speaker 1: it might contain. Willie Carlyle also assures there's also more
22:28
Speaker 1: fretless nineteenth century banjo on it than any record I've
22:31
Speaker 1: ever made. It shouldn't be entirely surprised that someone of
22:35
Speaker 1: the stature of Tyler Childers would take two weeks away
22:38
Speaker 1: from his family and mules in Kentucky to record an
22:42
Speaker 1: underground record with Willie Carlyle. His songs and the unique
22:45
Speaker 1: version that Carlyle brings to his music has made many
22:48
Speaker 1: fans with the artist community. It does feel slightly out
22:52
Speaker 1: of left field that Childers would choose Willy as his
22:54
Speaker 1: first test pigeon for producing beyond his own projects, but
22:58
Speaker 1: it's also one hundred percent desert for the boost Willie
23:01
Speaker 1: will receive. Carlyle goes on to say, I want to
23:04
Speaker 1: make universal folk music songs for all kinds of weirdo
23:08
Speaker 1: with the idea that there is nobody that doesn't have
23:10
Speaker 1: folk songs and everyone deserves folk songs. I want to
23:13
Speaker 1: write songs that prove the old weird America didn't go anywhere.
23:17
Speaker 1: They were living and dying for it. Every day. I
23:19
Speaker 1: believe there's noble work to do on that context, that
23:22
Speaker 1: if we feel despair, we don't need to because there's
23:25
Speaker 1: so much good work to do. Ahead of the album,
23:28
Speaker 1: Willie Carlyle has released the new song Mason Jar at
23:31
Speaker 1: the Center of the World. Carlyle wrote the song while
23:34
Speaker 1: touring with Tyler Childers in Australia. The Universal Bubba is
23:38
Speaker 1: now available for pre order. Now we switch footwear and
23:43
Speaker 1: head on over to the boot dot com with the
23:45
Speaker 1: first article dated the twenty first of July. Chris Stapleton
23:49
Speaker 1: wrote this career changing song for Thomas redd. Thomas Rhet's
23:54
Speaker 1: Crash and Burn represented a major shift in direction when
23:57
Speaker 1: he released it in twenty fifteen due to it pop, soul,
24:00
Speaker 1: and R and B influences. Those influences might be even
24:04
Speaker 1: more surprising to some fans given the fact that the
24:07
Speaker 1: pre fame Chris Stapleton was one of the writers on
24:09
Speaker 1: the song. Crash and Burn came out more or less
24:12
Speaker 1: by a random fluke. Stapleton told Taste of Country back then,
24:16
Speaker 1: I have a good friend from Detroit named Jesse Fraser.
24:19
Speaker 1: We kind of a musical odd couple. He said. He's
24:21
Speaker 1: a DJ and makes tracks stick by us side by side.
24:25
Speaker 1: It's kind of a funny looking pairing, but we're dear
24:27
Speaker 1: friends and we've known each other a long time. He's
24:30
Speaker 1: a wonderful guy and a wonderful talent, though their musical
24:33
Speaker 1: approaches are very different. The pair began working together, but
24:37
Speaker 1: not particularly with an eye toward releasing the results. Maybe
24:40
Speaker 1: two years. I had some of these ideas for these
24:42
Speaker 1: kinds of pop songs, Stapleton recalled. He and I just
24:45
Speaker 1: started moonlighting. He's a publisher in town and he's popular
24:48
Speaker 1: songwriter now. He and I would get together at night,
24:51
Speaker 1: almost in secret, to make these tracks, these pop things
24:54
Speaker 1: with no real agenda. Crash and Burn was one of
24:57
Speaker 1: the earlier efforts at that. He has kind of a
24:59
Speaker 1: modern motown thing that he does, and mix that with
25:02
Speaker 1: a little bit of hillbilly that I do, and the
25:05
Speaker 1: result is a song like Crash and Burn. The track
25:08
Speaker 1: juxtaposed a fun, up tempo vibe with a heartbreak lyric.
25:11
Speaker 1: Do you hear that? It's where I'm at. It's the
25:13
Speaker 1: sound of teardrops falling down down, slamming door unlesson learned
25:17
Speaker 1: I let another love Crash and Burn. Crash and Burn
25:21
Speaker 1: was a sharp turn in a very different direction for Rhett,
25:24
Speaker 1: who released the song as the lead single from his
25:26
Speaker 1: sophomore album, Tangled Up. The result was a song that
25:29
Speaker 1: stood out at country radio, and it actually marked a
25:32
Speaker 1: major turning point in his career, opening up his music
25:35
Speaker 1: to a wider range of influences while scoring a huge hit.
25:39
Speaker 1: He has a vision of where he wants to go
25:41
Speaker 1: and who he wants to be, I think, and a
25:43
Speaker 1: lot of those kind of different little pop things guilty
25:46
Speaker 1: pleasures that Jesse and I made wound up in the
25:48
Speaker 1: hands of different artists and on buses, probably because they
25:52
Speaker 1: seemed musically odd to people to hear me do those things.
25:55
Speaker 1: That's Stapleton talking, But it's just wound up in the hands.
25:58
Speaker 1: At some point tr looked at me and said, hey, man,
26:01
Speaker 1: can I have this song? And I said, yeah, man,
26:03
Speaker 1: if you want to cut it, do it. It was
26:05
Speaker 1: particularly gratifying for Stapleton to see such an unusual song
26:09
Speaker 1: of his end up moving the ball forward for someone
26:11
Speaker 1: he'd known for such a long time. I've known Thomas
26:14
Speaker 1: Rhett since before he was having success he was having
26:17
Speaker 1: now when he was just barely an adult, he said,
26:19
Speaker 1: with another laugh. He's a wonderful young man, and I'm
26:22
Speaker 1: happy for all his success and happy to have any
26:24
Speaker 1: hand in it that if he wants to record some music.
26:27
Speaker 1: Talking to Taste of Country Nights a decade later, red
26:30
Speaker 1: acknowledged that a lot of people on his team and
26:32
Speaker 1: back in twenty fifteen, advised him that releasing Crash and
26:36
Speaker 1: Burn could spell doom for his growing career, including his father,
26:39
Speaker 1: nineties country star Red Atkins, who now is one of
26:43
Speaker 1: the most prominent songwriters in Nashville. I think Crash and
26:46
Speaker 1: Burn might have been the first one that my dad
26:48
Speaker 1: was like, I just think that's not a good idea,
26:50
Speaker 1: REHD related during a twenty twenty five appearance. There was
26:54
Speaker 1: a lot of people that I trusted a lot told
26:56
Speaker 1: me that that was a terrible idea, he said. His
26:59
Speaker 1: decision to ignore them and trust his own instincts paid
27:02
Speaker 1: off when Crash and Burn reached the top of the charts,
27:05
Speaker 1: giving Reddy his fourth career number one song. That song
27:08
Speaker 1: did something really big for me. I think it's kind
27:10
Speaker 1: of separated me from a lot of folks. Wrhet noted,
27:13
Speaker 1: but there were a lot of people that were like, hey,
27:15
Speaker 1: this could be a career Destruction for You. HTT released
27:18
Speaker 1: Crash and Burn in April of twenty fifteen. Stapleton released
27:21
Speaker 1: his debut solo album, Traveler that May, and the album's
27:24
Speaker 1: overwhelming success took Stapleton from a prominent singer songwriter in
27:28
Speaker 1: Nashville community to one of the biggest country stars of
27:31
Speaker 1: his generation. And finally, Garth Brooks adds two shows to
27:35
Speaker 1: Blame It All on My Roots Tour. There are now
27:38
Speaker 1: four concerts on Garth Brooks twenty six tour itinerary. The
27:41
Speaker 1: singer and songwriter just announced two additional Blame It All
27:44
Speaker 1: on My Roots Tour dates. The new shows will be
27:47
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. Brooks say demand for the original two concerts
27:51
Speaker 1: on sale Friday inspired an additional Mattine concert on August
27:54
Speaker 1: twenty third and a new opening night on August twentieth.
27:58
Speaker 1: All seats of priced at one hundred and fifty four
28:00
Speaker 1: dollars before taxes, with the ticket price including facility and
28:04
Speaker 1: service fees. So far, Indianapolis remains the only city on
28:07
Speaker 1: his itinerary, but that figures to change if this new
28:11
Speaker 1: tour operates like previous tours, He'll announce a new city
28:14
Speaker 1: only after ticket sales for the indie shows have hit
28:16
Speaker 1: a satisfactory mark, expect an initial set of dates to
28:20
Speaker 1: be expanded elsewhere due to popular demand. This a la
28:23
Speaker 1: carte approach to revealing cities, as something very few other
28:26
Speaker 1: artists do. If any, No opening act has been revealed
28:30
Speaker 1: for these shows. Historically, Brook's wife Tricia Yearwood, has played
28:34
Speaker 1: before he takes the stage. This concludes the reading of
28:38
Speaker 1: Country Weekly for this week. If you have any comments
28:41
Speaker 1: or suggestions about our program, kindly call us at eight
28:44
Speaker 1: five nine four two two six three nine zero. Thank
28:48
Speaker 1: you for joining me and on behalf of everyone here
28:50
Speaker 1: at Radio I. This is Ken Dawkins wishing you a
28:53
Speaker 1: great day.