Drie dagen Vince Gill achter elkaar, dat lijkt me toch geen probleem? Dit keer samen met Rascal Flatts. Je ziet en hoort Whenever You Come Around van het album When Love Finds You uit 1994.

Songtekst:

The face of an angel…pretty eyes that shine;
I lie awake at night wishing you were mine.
I’m standing here holding the biggest heartache in town
Whenever you come around.

I get weak in the knees, and I lose my breath.
Oh, I try to speak, but the words won’t come…
I’m so scared to death.
And when you smile that smile, the world turns upside down
Whenever you come around.

I feel so helpless…I feel just like a kid.
What is it about you that makes me keep my feelings hid?
I wish I could tell you, but the words can’t be found
Whenever you come around.

I get weak in the knees, and I lose my breath.
Oh, I try to speak, but the words won’t come…
I’m so scared to death.
And when you smile that smile, the world turns upside down
Whenever you come around.

(Instrumental)

I get weak in the knees, and I lose my breath.
Oh, I try to speak, but the words won’t come…
I’m so scared to death.
And when you smile that smile, the world turns upside down
Whenever you come around.

And when you smile that smile,
The world turns upside down…
Whenever you come around.
Whenever you come around.

Dit is nog zo’n leuke track van het album Neon van Chris Young. Het album werd inmiddels al meer dan 500.000 gedownload of gekocht.

Songtekst :

She turns every head coming down the sidewalk
In that red sundress that she just bought
Causing a traffic jam on a greenlight
A string of pearls showing off her suntan
And all those curls dancing ‘round her RayBans
If you think that’s something to see

You ought to see her when she’s on that front porch
In those cut-off jeans
And that Texas Longhorns t-shirt
Hair drying in the breeze
Humming along to some old Haggard song
You ought to see her when she’s on

Down at the office in those high heels
Looking like a million, closing big deals
She’ll remind the boys eyes are way up here
Yeah that’ll make you smile ear to ear

You ought to see her when she’s on that leather couch
Reading that fairy tale
To a sleepy eyed little girl
In pajamas and ponytails
Saying one day your prince charming will come along
You ought to see her when she’s on

Oh you ought to see her when she’s on that front porch
In those old cut-off jeans
And that Texas Longhorns t-shirt
Smiling back at me
When you see her dressed to kill
And it drops your jaw
You ought to see her when she’s on that leather couch
Reading that fairy tale that’s when she’s on
That’s when she’s on that front porch
In those old cut-off jeans
That’s when she’s on

Oh when she’s on
That’s when she’s on

Ik vind Vince Gill een fenomeen. De man maakt al vele jaren prachtige countrymuziek. Take Your Memories With You komt van het album Pocket Full Of Gold uit 1991. Dit is een uitstekende live uitvoering.

Songtekst:

I can read the writing on the wall
You pretend that nothing’s changed at all
I’ve got just one thing to ask you if it’s so
Just take your memory with you when you go

So I won’t have to think about
The lonely nights I’ll be without
Someone to hold me when the cold wind blows
Take your memory with you when you go

I walk the floor and wonder what went wrong
I’ll have to find a way to carry on
Why don’t you leave before the heartache starts to show
Take your memory with you when you go

So I won’t have to think about
The lonely nights I’ll be without
Someone to hold me when the cold wind blows
Take your memory with you
So I won’t have to miss you
Take your memory with you when you go

Kevin Costner heeft met zijn groep Modern West een nieuw album uit. Er staan 19 nummers op en u krijgt hier enkele nummers in verkorte versie voorgeschoteld. Het is ook de soundtrack voor een nieuwe miniserie over twee families in de Burgeroorlog. Klik hier voor de trailer.

Ik vond deze schitterende live uitvoering van Man Of Constant Sorrow. Je hoort en ziet o.a. Dan Tyminski, Vince Gill, Jerry Douglas op dobro en Alison Krauss op viool. Op de achtergrond zie je beelden uit de film Oh Brother Where Art Thou waar deze song uit komt.

Songtekst:

I am a man of constant sorrow
I’ve seen trouble all my day.
I bid farewell to old Kentucky
The place where I was born and raised.
(The place where he was born and raised )

For six long years I’ve been in trouble
No pleasures here on earth I found
For in this world I’m bound to ramble
I have no friends to help me now.

(chorus) He has no friends to help him now

It’s fare thee well my old true lover
I never expect to see you again
For I’m bound to ride that northern railroad
Perhaps I’ll die upon this train.

(chorus) Perhaps he’ll die upon this train.

You can bury me in some deep valley
For many years where I may lay
Then you may learn to love another
While I am sleeping in my grave.

(chorus) While he is sleeping in his grave.

Maybe your friends think I’m just a stranger
My face you’ll never see no more.
But there is one promise that is given
I’ll meet you on God’s golden shore.

(chorus) He’ll meet you on God’s golden shore.

Dit is de laatste single van Randy Montana. Het was de opvolger van 1.000 Faces en deze song komt eveneens van het album Randy Montana.

Songtekst :

Well, I saw you down on Sixteenth
Holding hands with some new friend
There was a time that would’ve killed me
A wrecking ball right through a building
As if my world was gonna end
Chorus:
But the world kept spinning
You’re long forgiven
And now you’re living in the back of my heart
Your pretty face
The kisses I tasted, they’re all safe
In the back of my heart
No telephone calls, pictures on the wall
No regrets at all
In the back of my heart
Like you were staring out a window
With a hunger in your eyes
What was calling you, I don’t know
But I could see you had to let go
And baby so did I, so did I
Repeat Chorus
Well, I used to let you take up
Every corner of my mind, yeah
Repeat Chorus
In the back of my heart
Oh, in the back of my heart

Eerder deze week kondigden we de nieuwe single aan van Lady Antebellum op USCM. De groep bracht deze single, Wanted You More, live tijdens een recente aflevering van The Voice.

Songtekst:

I kept waiting on a reason
And a call that never came
No, I never saw it coming
Something in you must have changed

All the words unspoken, promises broken
I cried for so long
Wasted too much time, should’ve seen the signs
Now I know just what went wrong

Chorus
I guess I wanted you more
And looking back now, I’m sure
I wanted you more
I guess I wanted you more

All the nights we spent, just talking
Of the things we wanted out of life
Making plans and dreams together
Wish I’d seen, I was just too blind

My heart was open, exposed and hoping
For you to lay it on the line
In the end it seemed
There was no room for me
Still, I tried to change your mind

Chorus
I guess I wanted you more
And looking back now, I’m sure
I wanted you more
I guess I wanted you more

Ohhh, I don’t need you
I don’t need you anymore

Chorus
I guess I wanted you more
And looking back now, I’m sure
I wanted you more
I guess I wanted you more

I don’t need you
I don’t need you anymore

Het album Tuskegee van Lionel Richie is een schot in de roos met meer dan 1 miljoen verkochte stuks. Daarom nog een extra song van dit album met Blake Shelton. In 1983 eindigde dit popnummer You Are op #4 in de Billboard Hot 100.

Songtekst :

 Baby you’ll find
There’s only one love
Yours and mine
I’ve got so much love

And needing you so
My love for you
I’ll never let go
I’ve got so much love

All I want is to hold you
Let me show how much I love you baby (Show you)
I don’t mind and I don’t mind (Loving you)
Girl I love you
There’s no one above you

(Chorus)
You are the sun
You are the rain
That makes my life this foolish game
You need to know
I love you so
And I’d do it all again and again

Tell me it’s true
I can’t believe you do what you do
I’ve got so much love
And my love you’ll see
We’ll stay together, just you and me
I’ve got so much love

Only you (know me)
Tell me how to love you baby (show me)
I don’t mind and I don’t mind (tell me)
Girl, I love you
Always thinking of you

(Chorus)
You are the sun
You are the rain
That makes my life this foolish game
You need to know
I love you so
And I’d do it all again and again

I know you know the way I feel
And I need your love for always
Cause when I’m with you
I fall in love
Again and again and again, Baby.

Momenteel scoort Easton Corbin met zijn nieuwe single Lovin’ You Is Fun. Zijn nieuwe album zal niet lang meer op zich laten wachten. Don’t Ask Me About A Woman is van zijn debuutalbum Easton Corbin uit 2010.Songtekst:

I was sittin’ with him on his front porch swing
Soaking up wisdom and Grandma’s sweet tea
Listening to his stories, man, he’d done it all
His tour in the Army and his wilder days
Raising my daddy and bailing his hay
He cut off a twist of tobacco, stuck it in his jaw
Cocked back his hat with a sideways grin and
gave me that ole wink
He said, I can tell you something ‘bout
most anything

Chorus:
But don’t ask me about a woman
All I know is boy they’re something
They’re tender and they’re tough
Can break it down and lift you up
Don’t ask me about a woman
That’s some complicated stuff
They ain’t made to figure out
They’re just made to love

He said, boy I’ve lived nearly eighty years
There’s a lot of know how between these ears
But when it comes to your grandma
I’m still your age
It took me a long, long time to learn
Loving a woman is full of left turns
The more they change, the more they stay
the same
Son, it’s been that way since the
beginning of time
We’re behind the wheel but just along for
the ride

Repeat Chorus

Fast forward ten years it’s Saturday night
She’s changed three times, says her hair
ain’t right
My mind reels back to the time and place
When I heard my grandpa say

Don’t ask me about a woman
Boy, that’s some complicated stuff
They ain’t made to figure out
They’re just made to love
Now I know what he’s talkin’ about
They’re just made to love

Zal Alison Krauss tijdens haar concerten in Nederland en Belgiê veel nieuw materiaal brengen of meer teruggrijpen naar grote hits uit het verleden? Dit My Opening Farewell is van haar meest recente album Paper Airplane en uiteraard is Union Station ook van de partij.Songtekst:

My love stands before the open window
Staring so far away
He can almost feel the southern wind blow
Almost touching my restless days

He turns from the window to me
Sad smile his apology
Sad eyes reaching for the door

Daylight loses to another evening
And still he spares me the word goodbye
He sits alone beside me fighting his feelings
He struggles to speak but in the end I only cry

Suddenly it’s so hard to find
The words that would help me speak my troubled mind
He’s offering these to me as if to be kind:
There is a train everyday leaving either way
There is a train everyday leaving either way
There is a world, you know
And there is a way to go
And we’ll soon be gone, it’s just as well
This is my opening farewell

A child’s drawing is on the table
A woman’s silk lying on the floor
And he would keep me here if I were able
And lock us safe behind this open door

But suddenly it’s so clear to me
I’ve asked him to see what he may never see
Now his kind words find their way back to me
There is a train everyday leaving either way
There is a world, you know
And there is a way to go
And we’ll soon be gone, it’s just as well
This is my opening farewell