Music

It made nearly $150,000,000 at the box office.  It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy.  It was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three: Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Sound Mixing and Best Supporting Actress (Anne Hathaway).  And, now, Les Miserables is being released to DVD! And to pay tribute to the musical and movie, Jaclyn, Barb Birgy and I took the stage at Theatre Workshop's Opryhouse to bring some of our favorite songs from Les Miz to life.  WATCH!

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Theatre Workshop of Owensboro has announced that its 2013 summer musical presentation will be the classic, Man of La Mancha. There will be six performances June 7-16 in downtown Owensboro.

When it debuted in 1965, Man of La Mancha won five Tony awards, and introduced the extraordinarily popular song "The Impossible Dream".

Audition dates for the musical have been set for Sunday, March 24, 2:00 to 4:00pm, and Monday, March 25, 6:30 to 8:30pm. Actors, singers and dancers are needed, as well as backstage and technical help.

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Last night, the Top 9 on American Idol took the stage and tackled the Lennon/McCartney songbook.  Who stood out in the crowd and which contestants are in danger of landing in the bottom three?  Our Idol expert, Steve Thompson, tuned in to handicap the field and rank their performances.

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Dolly Parton never minced words about it.  She said that she will always love Whitney Houston's version of her hit "I Will Always Love You" because it sold millions of copies and made Dolly LOTS of money.  I honestly never thought anyone would come close to Whitney's version of that song.  I mean, holy cow!  She sang the bloody hell out of it and it spent 14 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Singles Chart.  So, imagine my surprise when my friend Anissa Jo Skaggs came across THIS video on the web.  Some random girl walked up to a random karaoke machine inside a discount grocery store and laid the song out.  WATCH!

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I have loved Brett Eldredge ever since I played the same Legendary Live show with him in May of 2011. He is such a nice person and pretty hilarious! He is also one of my favorites to follow on Twitter. His humor is unmatched and more times than not, when I read his tweets, I seriously LOL!  His debut single, "Raymond" definitely made a name for him with his great vocals and true country sound. His latest single, "Don't Ya" is SO much fun and I've loved it since the first time we played it!

I've been waiting for the video to be released and it finally was! It's pretty fun and feisty and makes me love him even more! Check it out for yourself and let me know what you think!

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It's been ten years since the Dixie Chicks' scandal rocked the country music world.  It was March 10th of 2003 that Natalie Maines told a London audience that was she "ashamed that the President of the United States (George W. Bush) is from Texas."  And since that time, it's been a mixed bag.  There have been major successes and major disappointments for the trio.  Among the successes, fivetrophies at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards.  Their comeback effort, Taking The Long Way, was named Best Album and Best Country Album.  Their defiant anthem "Not Ready to Make Nice" was named Record of the Year and Song of the Year.  And the group won the award for Best Country Vocal Duo or Group.  Among the disappointments, the Accidents and Accusations Tour, which launched the same year.  Ticket sales were strong in some parts of the country . . . a total bust in others.  Some dates were moved from arenas to smaller venues.  Some dates were canceled outright.  While the industry had welcomed them back with open arms, many of their fans had not.  For the Chicks, things just haven't been the same.  And now, Natalie Maines, the group's lead singer, is branching out on her own.

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Awesome news!  Ya'll love the song and now you're gonna get the chance to hear her sing it live.  Kristen Kelly, who is tearing up the chart with "He Loves to Make Me Cry," has just joined the cast of the 2013 Big O Music Fest and will appear with Jake Owen, Justin Moore, Love & Theft, Colt Ford, Lo Cash Cowboys and Jaclyn Graves in Owensboro.  To get you excited about seeing Kristen live, I snagged this video from my friends at The Grand Ole Opry.  Kristen has a killer voice and this, most definitely, is a killer song.

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It's Make It or Break It Monday and we want to know your thoughts on the brand new song by the Pistol Annies.  It's called "Hush Hush" and will be the lead-off single from the forthcoming CD Annie Up, which hits record stores and online retailers May 7th.  Get a sneak preview here at WBKR.com.

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Last week I wrote about the beginning of South by Southwest (SXSW) music, film, and tech festival. Well the festival is wrapping up today so I figured I would bring you an update!

While I wasn’t able to go to SXSW I followed it all week through various blogs, news reports, and even artist tweets

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When Luke Bryan recently released is album Spring Break...Here to Party--a compilation of twelve previous tracks and two new ones--I had not heard whether there was going to be a single released from the package or not.

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I am always amazed at what you can learn from Facebook and Twitter.   And Saturday night I found out some cool news about Chris Young.  I follow Chris on Facebook and over the weekend he posted this . . ."If you're in Nashville go see my step brother Carter play in the band Young Cardinals.  Exit/In 9pm."   Did you all know Chris had a step brother who was making his rounds on the Nashville music scene?  I didn't either.  But I did some research and came across a couple of videos from some recent performances.  Check em out!

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WBKR's American Idol expert Steve Thompson absolutely nailed it yesterday as to what would happen on the show last night.

In this brave new world of season twelve, we discover that this group of relative unknowns get to cover an Owl City song from the new movie The Croods. What can possibly be greater than that? Oh... You mean a career?

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