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May 7, 2021
A new version of John Prine’s beloved song, “Paradise,” performed by Sturgill Simpson, is out now on Oh Boy Records. The song whose proceeds benefit UNICEF USA’s Covid-19 Relief Fund will be featured on the forthcoming Prine tribute record, Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2, out October 8 on Oh Boy Records.
Simpson’s version of “Paradise” is the last song recorded at The Butcher Shoppe the studio Prine founded with Grammy Award-winning producer and engineer David Ferguson before the building’s demolition later this year. The studio was a meaningful place to Prine and Simpson, who shared a writing space in the building and recorded there numerous times throughout their respective careers. Reflecting on Prine’s influence, Simpson shares, “For myself along with many others, he was a mentor. He was very giving with his time and wisdom, and we were all grateful to get to know him.”
2002 Freddie Mercury Image Credit: AP
Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, the British band’s first Top 10 hit in the US, was voted the UK’s favourite single of all time in a poll by the Guinness Hit Singles book.
The song, which features in the epic ‘A Night At The Opera’ album, was voted ahead of ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon, ‘Hey Jude’ by The Beatles, ‘Dancing Queen’ by ABBA and ‘Like A Virgin’ by Madonna.
Thanks in the main to the complex styles and music of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, A Night At The Opera became the most expensive album ever record at the time as the band hired six different studios for the recording.
Leftover Feelings on May 21st via New West Records. The 11-song set was produced by Jerry Douglas and recorded at Historic RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tenn. A meeting of two American music giants in a legendary setting,
Leftover Feelings is neither a bluegrass album nor a return to Hiatt’s 1980s days with slide guitar greats Ry Cooder and Sonny Landreth. There’s no drummer, yet these grooves are deep and true. And while the up-tempo songs are, as ever, filled with delightful internal rhyme and sly aggression, The Jerry Douglas Band’s empathetic musicianship nudges Hiatt to performances that are startlingly vulnerable.
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer Charlie Black Dead at 71
Music Row reports. He was 71 years old.
In addition to penning tracks for artists including Kenny Rogers, Tanya Tucker, Brenda Lee, Alan Jackson, Phil Vassar, Collin Raye and more, Black is perhaps best known as the co-writer behind a string of Anne Murray songs in the late 70s and early 80s. Among those is A Little Good News, which became Murray s seventh chart-topping hit after she released it in 1983. The song also earned a Grammy Award as well as a CMA trophy.
Born on November 23, 1949, Black grew up in Cheverly, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. He graduated from the University of Maryland at age 21 and moved to Nashville with dreams of country music stardom, but quickly discovered success as a songwriter instead when 70s hitmaker Tommy Overstreet started cutting his songs, beginning in 1971 with I Don t Know You (Anymore).