Courtney Marie Andrews: Last News

Courtney Marie Andrews didn’t expect to be nominated for a Grammy, and she definitely never expected her first Grammys would look like last year’s. “The one time I was nominated, it was a Zoom call,” she chuckles. “It was hilariously what you would not want for your first Grammys.” Her sixth album, Old Flowers — a mournful and unsparing country record about a shattering break-up — had been shortlisted for Best Americana Album.

Uncut are releasing a special collector’s vinyl edition called ‘Sounds Of The New West’, to complement their long-running CD series and to celebrate their 25th anniversary.The compilation contains a total of 18 tracks from the five existing ‘Sounds Of The New West’ compilation and includes artists such as Lambchop, The Handsome Family, Jason Isbell and more.A statement from Uncut said: “For this bespoke, highly collectable double album, we’ve gathered together 18 of the finest tracks from the five existing Sounds Of The New West compilations – including songs from veteran favourites like Lambchop, The Handsome Family and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy alongside relative upstarts such as Courtney Marie Andrews, Frazey Ford and Joan Shelley.”Limited to only 1000 copies, disc one is pressed on a special ‘Purple Rain’ vinyl while the second is pressed on ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ vinyl.Check out the full track list here:‘Sounds Of The New West’ Tracklist:SIDE ASIDE BSIDE CSIDE D Pre-order for the album is open now, and you can purchase directly here.Finished copies of the vinyl will ship from late June 2022 onwards.

Low have shared their take on Bob Dylan‘s ‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’, recorded to mark Dylan’s 80th birthday next month.You can hear Low’s beautiful cover below, which is being released as part of Uncut magazine’s new ‘Dylan Revisited’ compilation.‘Dylan Revisited’ also features covers by the likes of Flaming Lips, Courtney Marie Andrews, Weyes Blood and Richard Thompson, and is included with the latest issue of Uncut which you can purchase here.“Being asked to cover a Dylan song is quite difficult,” Thompson said in the magazine.

Flaming Lips, Courtney Marie Andrews, Low, Weyes Blood and Richard Thompson are among the names to have contributed bespoke covers to a new album celebrating the life and work of Bob Dylan.With the icon set to celebrate his 80th birthday on May 24, Uncut‘s June issue comes with ‘Dylan Revisited’ – a covermount CD made up of 14 cover versions of choice cuts from Dylan’s songbook recorded exclusively for Uncut, as well as a previously unreleased track from the man himself.“Being asked to cover a Dylan song is quite difficult,” Thompson admits in the magazine.

‘Old Flowers’ is an intimate Emmylou Harris-inspired revelation that sees her coming to grips with the end of a nine-year relationship.We called Courtney at her Nashville home – where the Arizona native has lived for the past year-and-a-half – to discuss channeling sorrow into songwriting, along with some less sad stuff such as singing with Dolly Parton, making her granny sell her merch and how she kinda used to be a member of Jimmy Eat World.“I think that was my way of processing it and understanding how I felt about a very confusing time. I sat down a lot with myself and those are the kind of songs that came out.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterKacey Musgraves, Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Bill Murray, Eric Church and Stephen Colbert are just a few of the many artists confirmed for “Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine,” an online celebration of the legendary singer-songwriter, who died earlier this year of coronavirus complications.The show will premiere Thursday, June 11 at 7:30pm ET/6:30pm CT/4:30pm PT across multiple platforms including Prine’s YouTube, Facebook and Twitch channels.Confirmed guests include (in alphabetical order): Courtney Marie Andrews, Dan Auerbach, Kevin Bacon, Brené Brown, Brandi Carlile, Eric Church, Dave Cobb, Stephen Colbert, Peter Cooper, Iris DeMent, John Dickerson, Mitchell Drosin, David Ferguson, Vince