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Inside Track: more April updates

More updates from April’s Inside Track on Music Row

My column, Inside Track on Music Row, has been a mainstay of the Nashville Music Guide for more than twenty five years, and is now read by country music fans around the world via the Internet.

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  • Idol alum Alexandria Corn “Cheated Better” with new single
  • Becky Buller passes “The Barber’s Fiddle” down through generations
  • Brandy Clark’s new album, Your Life Is A Record
  • Young Fables release ‘homemade’ EP
  • Street named to honor Conway Twitty
  • Joe Hanson moves on with “Part of Me”
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Alexandria Corn’s ex could have “Cheated Better”

Rising country artist AND American Idol alumna Alexandria Corn is a scorned woman in her newest single “Cheated Better” in which she laments the lackluster cheating of an ex-boyfriend. She advises that he could have been smarter by anything from bringing a change of clothes to making sure to come up with an alibi. With her detailed lyrics placed over a pop-influenced melody, “Cheated Better” is a force to be reckoned with. Written by Corn with Khiana Meyer and Mandy McMillan and produced by Sam Grow, listen to the single here.  

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Conway Twitty’s ‘Lost Tapes’

Preshias with Joni and John Wesley Ryles
Preshias with Joni Twitty and John Wesley Ryles, listening to the remastered Conway Twitty tapes

Monday morning started out great with Joni Twitty and John Wesley Ryles. I was with them at Ricky Skaggs‘ studio putting the finishing touches of musical magic to the rare 1970 recordings that Joni’s father Conway Twitty cut with Scotty Moore for the U.S. Armed Forces Network. The long-lost songs are soon to be released by Country Rewind Records. www.countryrewindrecords.com

Working on Conway's 'Lost Tapes'
Working on Conway Twitty’s ‘Lost Tapes’

Pictured (left to right) are: John Wesley Ryles (back up vocalist and Conway’s son-in-law), Ron Oates (‘The Bomb’ piano player!) Joni Twitty, and engineer Mark Capps (Mark worked on Conway’s last album). Not Pictured: Guitarist Kevin Williams, who has played with The Gaithers for 24 yrs. Everyone at Country Rewind Records is so excited to be ‘a spoke in this wheel’ as these historic recordings finally get to be heard by Conway’s fans!