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JANUARY/FeBRUARY 2014 www.maverick-country.com MAVERICK FROM THE EDITOR... MEET THE TEAM Editor t is with a great deal of sadness, that I acknowlege that this will be my last issue as Alan Cackett editor of Maverick. I have always believed that when you no longer enjoy doing 24 Bray Gardens, Loose, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 9TR, UK something, then it’s time to stop and look to do something di erent. I have had a 01622 744481 Igood run as editor, and now is the time to hand over to someone younger. Someone who [email protected] can hopefully take the magazine forward, embracing country music’s future whilst not Managing Editor overlooking its huge legacy of the past. I know that the new editor Laura Bethell who Michelle Teeman 01622 823920 worked with me for 5 years, 2 as my deputy editor, will do just that. [email protected] It was just over 47 years ago that I edited and published Britain’s rst regular monthly country music magazine. Looking back that was quite an audacious and bold undertaking Designer Laura Bethell for a teenager from a council house estate who le school at 15. Some of the original 01622 823922 readers of Country Music Monthly are still around and have continued to follow my writing [email protected] and views on the music as readers of Maverick. ere was a time when I not only knew Editorial Assistant many of the Maverick readers’ names but had a personal contact with them, but recently Chris Beck I’ve lost touch and I have to say that I miss the chats that we used to have when they phoned Project Manager up to renew their subscriptions. at kind of feedback is—I think—essential for an editor. Natasha Smith 01622 823927 I believe in the almost 12 years that I’ve been editing Maverick, that along with the [email protected] dedicated contributors, we have created a somewhat unique magazine. I could never have kept the magazine running over that period without the commitment of those contributors Offi ce Manager Cherry Batchelor both past and present. I would like to take this opportunity to thank them all and to pay a 01622 823920 special tribute to two of the original contributors who are no longer with us. Al Moir (aka [email protected] Larry Kelly) and Bob Kilbey. Like myself they were both sticklers for getting facts correct, Publisher spelling artist’s names correctly and the correct use of punctuation. All things which appear David Rossiter 01622 823920 to have fallen by the wayside in most publications these days. I hope that the legacy I [email protected] created with Maverick in respect of those ideals will continue to be maintained within the pages of Maverick. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Chuck Schultz and www.hand-media.com his wife Kelly as Maverick’s new Nashville correspondents. eir appointment is part of Maverick Maverick’s long-term goal to go fully international. Already distribution of the magazine Published by hand media Goldings, Elphicks Farm, has been set up across North America and in Scandinavia, in addition to newsagents Water Lane, Hunton, across the UK. Kent, ME15 0SG. UK. Telephone: +44 (0) 1622 823920 I should point out that I am still very passionate about music. I can’t imagine that that Fax: +44 (0) 1622 823933 will ever change. I love many of the newer younger acts that are taking country music Email: [email protected] forward. People like the Band Perry, Eric Church, Kacey Musgraves and our cover artist, Website: www.maverick-country.com Taylor Swi . I intend to continue writing about the music, both the newcomers and the Stockists legendary and not so well-known names from the past. I wish to write and listen to music If you can’t fi nd Maverick in your local stockists please call Cherry at my leisure and also have time to unwind and spend more time with my family. Batchelor on 01622 823920 I would love the opportunity to keep in touch with readers, especially those with whom I Reprints go back a long way, but also to hear from many of the newer, younger readers who have For reprints of specifi c pages within discovered Maverick more recently. I am sure that Laura and her team will pass on the this magazine please telephone feedback to me. All that’s le to say is many thanks for your support over the years Natasha Smith on 01622 823927 or email: [email protected] and the very best for the future. for more details. Designed and produced by hand media. ©2013. 221/mav/11/13 Alan Cackett @Maverick_Mag www.facebook.com/MaverickMagazine Contributors: Ian Ambrose, John Atkins, Simon Beards, Chris Beck, David Brassington, John Brindle, Keith Clark, Paul Collins, Nick Dalton, Nick Dent-Robinson, Holley Dey, Jamie Hailstone, Alan Harrison, Andrew Heaps, Jeremy Isaac, John Jobling, Helen Keen, Paul Kerr, David Knowles, John Lees, Peter Palmer, Simon Redley, John Roffey, Emily Saxton, Chuck Schultz, Jeremy Searle, Jade Sydenham, Eric Thom, Jela Webb, Arthur Wood ha ia nd med Maverick 1 C O N T E N T S 60 featuring... 4 News CMA AWARDS 6 Tour Dates 40 16 Maverick Covermount CD 55 17 Pickin’ & Grinnin’ CLAIRE LYNCH BAND, CHASTITY BROWN, HATFUL OF RAIN 24 The Gig Room B.B. KING’S LUCILLE 28 Danielle Bradbery HEART OF DIXIE 31 Nashville Notebook 32 Roots of Country ROSE MADDOX 36 Obituaries CAL SMITH, MARVIN RAINWATER 40 Toby Keith TWENTY YEARS IN THE GAME 48 44 John Hartford 60 Taylor Swift COVER FEATURE THE GOODLE DAYS 66 CD Reviews Index 48 Scotty McCreery THAT TRADITIONAL SOUND 67 CD Reviews - NEW RELEASES 50 New to You BABAJACK 96 CD Reviews - SHORTCUTS 52 Ayla Brown 100 CD Reviews - DUSTY RELICS SCORES IN COUNTRY MUSIC 110 Christmas Reviews 55 Deana Carter THE STAR RETURNS 111 DVD Reviews 58 Will Hoge NEVER GIVING IN 112 Book Reviews & Letters ISSUE NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY- FOUR JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2014 MAVERICK CMA Awards 2013 A SPECIAL REPORT BY CHUCK SCHULTZ he CMAs are named “Country Music’s Biggest Night,” and direction. The song became some new, some really rich in rightly so. Rarely do you get all the big names in one sound, an amazing rendition. Drink A Beer by Luke Bryan with T space for three hours. With drama high, and nerves short, Chris Stapleton. When I saw Luke and Chris (who wrote the this award show will send you through all imaginable emotions as song), do this at rehearsal I knew it was going to be incredible. a writer not only a musician. I rally wanted to do something With a lot of fog, Luke and Chris with Bryan’s backing band different with this look back at 2013’s version and not your usual: took this song for a ride. I figure this is Song and Single of the ‘Oh this person won this and this person won that.’ Let me start Year for 2014. with performances that really shook me so much I’ve got to put them in three separate and I have to put my favourite In The Iconic Rendition Of An Iconic Song Category: Alan performances in individual categories. ‘Face Melting,’ ‘Just Plain Jackson and George Strait with He Stopped Loving Her Today. As a Awesome,’ and ‘Iconic.’ tribute to George Jones, Jackson and Strait traded the vocal duties on this legendary song. Giving chills to the audience. In the Face Melting category: Outsiders by Eric Church. All I There had to be a tribute and what better way than to have two could think, as I was giving my neck whiplash: ‘Way to go all living legends perform the song. Bobby’ on them (Kid Rock reference), nice middle finger to the ‘establishment’ and I for one stood up and cheered. The Then there was Taylor receiving the Pinnacle Award. The performance was so rich and loud and, well, rock’n’roll. Eric world Pinnacle itself means ‘the top.’ Well Taylor welcome, be Church you just went to number one on my list. Day For The Dead introduced/presented by what can only be described as ‘the face by Zac Brown Band with Dave Grohl. Okay we were watching of country:’ Rascal Flatts, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Dave ‘warm up’ he was practically: ‘I’m going to kill these drums Keith Urban and Brad Paisley (all of whom she opened for) with and leave them on the street.’ Well he did, the song had a similar additional congratulations from Sir Mick Jagger (which brought melodic structure as a trad ZBB song, but with a twist, combined a scream from Taylor and a tilt to Nashville), there cannot be a harmony vocals blended in the mix and a tribute to the real higher honour than to get an award like this (last presented to Allman Brothers Band in the last third of the song. Garth Brooks in 2005). So I ‘m sorry (no I’m not!) Taylor is going to be around for awhile. In The Just Plain Awesome Category: Red by Taylor Swift with Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, Sam Bush, Edgar Meyer and Eric Darken. On to the Award Winners themselves. There are two that I’d So what can’t Ms Swift do? Oh wait there isn’t anything she can’t like to talk about. Two awards to make note of.