BAM Column: Fall country CDs
From Sunday’s The Oklahoman.
Country albums coming
Country music fans will find their horn of plenty overflowing this fall with albums of new material, greatest hits and Christmas carols.
As the holiday shopping season nears – as crazy as it sounds, it’s already October and Christmas is merely 81 days away – many top country artists and rising stars are offering new CDs to stuff their fans’ stockings.
Oklahoma hitmaker Toby Keith, who recently took the No. 3 spot on Forbes’ cross-genre list of top-paid music stars, will release his latest studio album, “That Don’t Make Me a Bad Guy” on Oct. 28.
The lead single, “She Never Cried in Front of Me,” has already cracked the top 5 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart; the bitter ballad to lost love marks the Norman resident’s 35th top 10 hit.
Since 1993, Keith has sold more than 31 million albums, so chances are good his latest will be one of fall’s big hits.
It’s all about the hits when mega-popular trio Rascal Flatts, which includes Joe Don Rooney of Picher, releases its first compilation, also on Oct. 28.
“Greatest Hits Volume I” will include 13 tracks, including “My Wish,” Life Is a Highway” and “Bless the Broken Road.” The band will make its first foray into holiday fare on the limited special edition, which will include its new recordings of the classics “White Christmas,” “Jingle Bell Rock” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.”
Rascal Flatts is the top-selling country band of the decade, with more than 17 million sales to its credit, so the timing certainly seems right for a hits collection.
Other anticipated autumn releases include Brad Paisley’s mostly instrumental album “Play,” coming out Nov. 4; Kenny Chesney’s “Lucky Old Sun,” which already has already scored a No. 2 single, on Oct. 21; and starlet Taylor Swift’s “Fearless,” the follow-up to her smashing 2006 self-titled debut, on Nov. 11.
The season also will see offerings from Trace Adkins, Tim McGraw, Billy Ray Cyrus, Big & Rich, George Strait, Lee Ann Womack, Little Big Town, Charlie Daniels, Billy Currington, Julianne Hough, John Michael Montgomery and more.
Since the list will only get longer as Christmas gets closer, country fans will have plenty of reasons to crank their stereos and iPods loud this fall.
-BAM
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