Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#1051 in the Series) is Rave On Buddy Holly. Back in the early 90s I worked as a District Manager for a music distributor.  One of our accounts was Wal-Mart.  We would stock them with their music and make sure they were fixture properly etc.  (BTW, back then, they refused to stock AC/DC because their albums had parental warning stickers on them. Later there was a new AC/DC release and the ONLY place you can get it was Wal-Mart!) At one point, we were doing some major renovations that had to be done only at night after the stores closed.  I was the head of one of these projects.  I had to use...

  Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#973 in the Series) is Justin Townes Earle, Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now (Bloodshot Records) When your father is one of the best singer-songwriters in the business and you are named after another about whom Steve Earle once said “Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that”, the expectations are very high, and with his most recent release for Bloodshot records, Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now, Justin Townes Earle, the son of Steve Earle and the step-son of Allison Moorer, has emerged in his own...

The 2013 Americana Music Festival and Conference has announced it’s final line-up. We have it for you below. Everything below is clickable for more information. The fest officially begins on Wednesday September 18th and will run for five days and end on Sunday the 22nd. If you wish to purchase wrist bands you can do so HERE! There are many highlights this year including Richard Thompson, Rosanne Case, Bill Bragg, John Fullbright, David Bromberg and many many more… ———————————————————————————————————————————————   Wednesday, September 18  Cannery Ballroom 10:00pm • The Infamous Stringdusters 11:00pm • Black Prairie 11:59pm • Pokey LaFarge Hard Rock Café, Reverb Room 5:00pm • CMT Edge Happy Hour Mercy Lounge 10:00pm • The Lone Bellow 11:00pm • JD McPherson 11:59pm • The Band of Heathens ONE...

  Win a pair of tickets to see Justin’s Townes Earle in Chicago Illinois on May 10th. Yes, you read it correctly; Cool Album of the Day is giving away two tickets to see Justin Townes Earle at the fabulous Park West Theater in Chicago. The date of the show is Thursday, May 10th. We will be giving away two free tickets to whomever can recruit the most people to “LIKE” the Cool Album of the Day facebook page between now, April 24th and Sunday Night at 11pm Central Time, May  6th. Here’s how it will work. Use sharing options, emails, and/or messages etc. to get people to “LIKE” our facebook page. It’s located at http://www.facebook.com/CoolAlbumOfTheDay. Once the “like”...

    There is so much buzz about this album and rightly so. I’ve been listening to it and can tell you it’s been worth the wait. It’s not exactly sure how long we have the rights to keep this posted so as they say “Get while the gettin’s good!” Here’s a stream of the new Justin Townes Earle album Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me via GC Magazine. It will be officially released here in the States on Tuesday, March 28th. See our piece on JTE’s Harlem River Blues.  REVIEW OF Nothings Going to Change The Way You Feel About Me Now Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with...

  ————————————————————————————————————————————————————– 2012 looks like it will be quite the year for Bloodshot Records recording Artist Justin Townes Earle. March 10th will be the beginning of  a tour that will take him to Australia and New Zealand and then back to the States. Look for additional UK dates in late summer and fall. The tour will be in support of his new album Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now which will be released on March 27th. — Larry Carta Here’s a preview on the new album, Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now Here’s a piece on Harlem River Blues Bloodshot Records Website For more info visit the Official Justin Townes Earle Website Justin Townes Earle...

  Justin Townes Earle’s record label, Bloodshot Recordshas just announced his next release will be coming this fall. Look for it on March 27th, 2012. The following is the press release. JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, TRACK LISTING SPRING FORWARD: March 27, 2012 is the date for the release of Justin Townes Earle‘s fourth Bloodshot full-length, Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now. It will be available on limited-edition LP, CD and digitally. Produced by Earle alongside longtime collaborator Skylar Wilson, the 10-track album was recorded completely live with no overdubs over a four-day period at an old converted church recording studio in Asheville, NC. Of the new record, Earle says, “I think that it’s the job...

Want to see Justin Townes Earle this summer? Well you’ll get your chance. Here are tour dates though early August, Highlights include The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Hangout Music Festival and also a free show in downtown Chicago! UPCOMING DATES: April 29 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Tickets April 30 Oxford, MS Double Decker Arts Festival Tickets May 1 Chattanooga, TN Rhythm & Brews Tickets May 2 Atlanta, GA Cobb Energy Center Tickets May 13 Nelsonville, OH Nelsonville Music Festival Tickets May 14 Beaufort, NC Beaufort Music Festival Free May 20-22 Gulf Shores, AL Hangout Music Festival Tickets May 29 Newport, KY Southgate House Tickets May 30 Chicago, IL Pritzker Pavilion – Millennium...

Our Friends in New Zealand Need Your Help. ‘Cool Album of the Day’ has always had a special relationship with New Zealand.  We’ve shared so much great music with you from that tiny paradise. Be it The Split Enz in the early Eighties or Crowded House in the present.  We also took a look at Neil Finn and Tim Finn’s solo efforts. New Zealanders all. We must not forget our new fave Justin Townes Earle; you know we’ve raved about him more than once  on these pages. Well who could forget his great song from his last album, “Christchurch Woman.” Well Christchurch is broken and needs your help. So if you can find it in your heart. And if...

Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#250 in the Series) is Justin Townes Earle, Harlem River Blues. (Bloodshot Records) I’ll be the first to admit. I ‘think’ I had heard of Justin Townes Earle. But I’m not sure. He’s an Americana musician and that pretty much is my favorite genre for years now. Somehow, Justin slid through the cracks. This week changed that.  I was watching a few  ‘DVRed’episodes of David Letterman last night. (I can’t believe he didn’t have ‘Mike Singletary’ on to discuss his firing.) On Tuesday this week, Justin was the musical guest. To say the least I could not have liked his performance more!  He was outstanding.  I then was able to see that his...