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June 16, 2008 Issue 94 How’s Your Gold Powered? Owen Accepts NAB Honor For Country Cares Perhaps the best time to find finely tuned and pruned Power Gold categories is during the spring book, when the results of all those Auditorium Music Tests are in place. Panning for bullion, we dug into Mediabase to find the shiniest nuggets from three eras -- 2000-2006, 1994-1999 and 1980’s-1993. We do so with the caveat that everyone separates the PG from Recurrents a little differently. For our purposes, we (pretty much) call everything that peaked on the Country Aircheck/Mediabase chart prior to Jan. 2007 as Gold – with the top performers getting the PG designation. Here are the Top 10 for each era – and you can mine the remaining Top 50 for each period on Page 6. Power Gold 2000-2006 1. KEITH URBAN/Somebody Like You 2. RASCAL FLATTS/Life Is A Highway 3. TOBY KEITH/As Good As I Once Was Randy Owen was in Washington, DC last week to accept 4. GRETCHEN WILSON/Redneck Woman the NAB Education Foundation Service To America Samaritan Award on behalf of Country Cares For St. Jude Kids (CA 5. A. JACKSON & J. BUFFETT/It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere Weekly 6/9). The entire presentation, along with Owen’s very 6. DIERKS BENTLEY/What Was I Thinkin’ emotional remarks during his acceptance speech, can be seen 7. MARK WILLS/19 Somethin’ here. With Owen (holding Samaritan Award) after the 8. LITTLE BIG TOWN/Boondocks presentation are (l-r) event hostess Deborah Norville, the father 9. BON JOVI f/J. NETTLES/Who Says You Can’t Go Home of St. Jude patient Keeley Imel, FCC Commissioner Deborah 10. SUGARLAND/Baby Girl Taylor Tate, Keeley and Jack Sander, Senior Advisor to Belo Corp and Joint Board Chair of NAB. ©2008 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] June 16, 2008 Country Aircheck Weekly Page 2 1994-1999 Power Gold MY TUNES : MUSIC THA T SHAPED MY LIFE 1. TIM MCGRAW/Something Like That KMLE/Phoenix MD Gwen Foster 2. TIM MCGRAW/Where The Green Grass Grows discusses her most meaningful songs, albums 3. TIM MCGRAW/I Like It, I Love It or concerts: 1. Dan Fogelberg, Nether Lands and 4. DAVID LEE MURPHY/Dust On The Bottle Souvenirs: Two of the first albums I bought 5. JO DEE MESSINA/Lesson In Leavin’ with my own money. I spent hours and 6. TOBY KEITH/How Do You Like Me Now hours listening to them. I had started writing poetry in my teens, so I was fascinated how 7. LONESTAR/What About Now Dan crafted the lyrics and melodies of 8. BROOKS & DUNN/My Maria his songs. 9. JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY/Sold 2. Bluegrass Festival: I was around 11 when I 10. TIM MCGRAW/Down On The Farm attended my first bluegrass festival. Old, young, great and not so good – it didn’t matter. Everyone played and everyone had a great time. I fell Power Gold 1989-1993 in love with bluegrass music and the folks who play it. 3. Mary Chapin Carpenter/My Heaven: Driving back from a 1. BROOKS & DUNN/Boot Scootin’ Boogie concert in the country in 2004, I heard this song for the first time. As 2. GARTH BROOKS/Friends In Low Places I drove along at night on top of the mesa, my heaven felt just within arms reach. This song not only brings me closer to my friends and 3. TOBY KEITH/Should’ve Been A Cowboy family who have passed on, but it brings me peace. (The entire CD 4. S. KERSHAW/She Don’t Know She’s Beautiful Between Here and Gone is stellar!) 5. GARTH BROOKS/Ain’t Going Down (Til The...) 4. Keith Whitley: He is at the top of my favorite country artists list. He has influenced so many other artists. I met him just before he died. 6. ALAN JACKSON/Chattahoochee 5. The Police & Sting: I’ve seen Sting and/or The Police in concert 7. TRAVIS TRITT/Take It Easy seven or eight times. These shows stand way out above all the 8. GARTH BROOKS/Rodeo concerts I’ve ever been to. It’s like being in a musical Garden of Eden. 9. GARTH BROOKS/The Dance • A highly regarded song or album you’ve never heard: Any thing by Amy Winehouse. 10. RANDY TRAVIS/Forever And Ever, Amen • An “important” piece of music you just don’t get: Bob Dylan. He is the preeminent poet/lyricist and songwriter of his time, but I can’t Radiothon Roundup listen to him sing. After three songs, I walked out of a concert in Dallas. Here’s a look at recent St. Jude Radiothon results turned in • An album you played or listened to incessantly: Most recently, I’ve by Country radio: been obsessed with One Flew South’s debut CD. After listening, I’m • KSHR/Coos Bay, OR, $6,313 (6/5-6) on a musical high. It’s a good (and legal) drug. • WPKX/Springfield, MA, $85,445 (6/12-13) • KYKS/Lufkin, TX, $115,693 (6/12-13) • WKRO/Daytona Beach, FL, $19,333 (6/12-13) WVMD/Cumberland, MD OM Brian Mo is looking for the Gig Alerts station’s first PD/afternoon jock. The station signed on as the KTNN-AM/Window Rock, AZ Station Manager Jay Allen Wolf in April. Interested parties can send airchecks and resumes is looking for an experienced News Dir./Reporter. Contact him to him at [email protected] or via snail mail at WVMD at [email protected]. PD Search, 15 East Industrial Blvd., Cumberland, MD 21502. ©2008 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] June 16, 2008 Country Aircheck Weekly Page 3 BIR T HDAYS Tuesday (6/17) - Russell Smith, Tracy Gershon (tracy.gershon@wbr. com), Matt Hargis ([email protected]), Chris Ward Wednesday (6/18) - Blake Shelton, Chris Carroll, Julie Reeves, Shelley Rose ([email protected]), Brian Hill (bhill@paradigmagency. com) Thursday (6/19) - Jim Collins, the late Lester Flatt, Doug Stone, Jeff Garrison ([email protected]), Ken Rush (krush@equitymusicgroup. com) Friday (6/20) - the late Chet Atkins; Anne Murray; Jon Elliot (jon.elliot@ sonybmg.com); Sherrie Halford; Keith Montgomery; Lance Tidwell ([email protected]) Saturday (6/21) - Hillary Kanter, Kathy Mattea, Allison Moorer, Paul Barnabee ([email protected]), Leon Everette, Porter Howell, Michael J. Foxx ([email protected]), Joe Mansfield Sunday (6/22) - Kris Kristofferson, Georgia Mock-Bedwell, Kim Fowler, Barry Hutchens, Lisa Strickland Monday (6/23) - the late June Carter Cash, Pake McEntire, Jay Wallis Brown, Michelle Laws, Danielle Godwin Scaife, Bob Turbel, Roy Wunsch Go Fish: This week’s label Promo of the Week belongs to Black River, who managed to convince Jeff Bates to change the spelling of his last name to “Baits” to coincide with the release of his new single, “Riverbank.” Taking their cues from lines in the song, the Rick Baumgartner-led team sent reporting stations a series of gifts – can we say that now that Spitzer is disgraced and gone? – that included a foil-pack of spam with a duct-taped “H” over the sp; a bag of Goldfish with gummy earthworm attached; and, a “Sweet Tea” pack that contained a huge tea bag, sugar and the secret family recipe from Mama Bates. Artist News Trisha Yearwood has partnered with Coldwater Creek’s Susan G. Komen Foundation fundraiser, Share your journey... for the Cure. Fans can go to www.coldwatercreek.com/journey or pick up a donation card at any Coldwater Creek store, then spread the message to friends with their referral ID. Taylor Swift donated the proceeds from her merchandise sales at CMA Music Festival June 7, $10.500 to the American Red Cross’ Nashville Chapter. Athlon Sport’s 2008 College Football Pick em Game will pit fans against Trace Adkins as they predict the winners of each week’s match ups. The winner will receive a trip to Nashville, hang in the Capitol suite at a major college football match up and a trip to an Adkins 2009 concert stop with meet and greets. Pre-registration is opeon at www.athlonsports.com/gameon. ©2008 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] JuneJune 16,16, 20082008 Country Aircheck Weekly Page 4 Toby Keith’s Biggest & Baddest Tour will feature backstage Beer For My Horses honkytonk performances from Carter’s CHECK OU T : IN Sto RES 6/17 Chord, Mica Roberts and Trailer Choir. Keith will partner with local radio station for the showcases in addition to Charlie Allen This Is Now (River Run) providing them with footage for their websites. Born in the same town that spawned the country music industry (Bristol, TN-VA), Allen Industry News has been performing since the age of seven. The Recording Academy Nashville Chapter has elected He co-wrote 10 of the 12 songs on the album. its 2008-2009 Chapter Board. Grand Ole Opry GM Pete Tracks include, “I Did This To Me,” “Can’t Take Fisher will serve as President, producer (Rascal Flatts, Carrie Him Out Of Me,” “See If I Care,” “Proof,” and a Underwood) Mark Bright is VP and CAA’s Rod Essig is cover of Danny O’Keefe’s “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues.” Wyatt Secretary. Easterling produces. Chart Chat Carter’s Chord Carter’s Chord (Show Dog) (digital only) Seven for seven.