Alan Jackson Earns Star and George Jones Fills Bass Hall

from The 9513 by Brody Vercher

• Alan Jackson is among 28 recipients chosen to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010.
• Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson and Randy Travis are among the latest group of targets for honest album covers at Farce the Music.
• Test your CMT Music Awards and A Star Is Born knowledge in Chet Flippo’s summertime quiz.
• Free download: Owen Temple is giving away “Broken Heartland,” the opening track to his new record Dollars and Dimes.
• The second season of CMT’s Can You Duet kicks off tomorrow night.
• Listen to John Doe and The Sadies perform several covers — including “Husbands and Wives,” “Stop the World and Let Me Off” and “Night Life” — in a World Cafe session.
• Despite the burr in his voice and the slower pace of several songs, Shirley Jinkins says George Jones is still able to fill concert halls with adoring fans, as he did last night at Bass Hall.
• Take a listen to a couple of songs from honky-tonkers Arty Hill & The Long Gone Daddys whose five-year old debut, Back On The Rail, is in the top ten of the Americana charts thanks to a recent re-release.
• No Depression sent a couple of bloggers to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival where they’re recapping the events and posting hi-res pictures of acts like Jerry Douglas and Tim O’Brien, Zac Brown Band, and Three Girls and Their Buddy.
• GAC introduced a trio of new books about Jimmie Rodgers.
• Listen to Lee Hazelwood’s “Hey Me I’m Riding,” which Groover’s Paradise describes as “a sleazy horned-up 70’s paean to the art of ‘movin’ on’ [...] riding a country-soul groove so infectious you’re bound to find yourself herky jerky two-steppin’ and jive-assin’ out the door and down the road a fer piece.”
• Miss Leslie commented on the lack of soul — the kind that Marty Robbins and Lefty Frizzell emoted in their songs — in today’s mainstream music.
• If you’re looking for a good laugh, Craig Shelburne recommends Rodney Carrington’s new album, El Niño Loco. The video for his song “If I’m The Only One” features a cameo from Toby Keith.

• Here’s a video of Verlon Thompson performing “The Guitar,” a song he co-wrote with Guy Clark that will hopefully appear on Clark’s upcoming album, Somedays The Song Writes You (Sept. 22).

  Popout