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Friday, October 16, 2009

Courter: The small-town way is best sometimes

By: Barry Courter
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Several weeks ago, Cody McCarver began working on the logistics of shooting a video for "White Trash With Money," a remake of the Confederate Railroad song that appears on his recently re-released self-titled CD.

He wanted to shoot it under a traffic light in Nashville.

"There was so much red-tape and hoops to jump through," he said. "So, I called the mayor in Dunlap (Tenn.) and asked, 'Can we shoot it under the red light?' and he said, 'Sure.'"

One phone call was all it took.

McCarver and crew gathered last Sunday afternoon and shot footage and, by all accounts, had a good time doing it. He hopes to have the video completed in the next several weeks.

The "new" album is being re-released on the Koch, now known as E1, label, which is the largest independent distributor in the world.

"They bought it and released with some new stuff, so it's now in Best Buy and Amazon," he said.

The video for "Red Flag," which is on the CD, was to be released in Europe this week, as well, McCarver said.

* And now for something completely out-of-the-blue: Sirius XM Radio has added Monty Python Radio to its lineup, at least for a little while. The special event will air for 10 days beginning today on Sirius channel 105 and XM channel 151 and will run 24/7 through Oct. 25

I've grown attached to my Sirius and as someone who often laughed until I stopped at Python routines, especially on vinyl, I'm pretty excited.

I was one of those geeks who could quote entire passages from "The Life of Brian," "Contractual Obligation Album" and "Matching Tie and Handkerchief" and in fact prefer hearing routines like "The Cheese Shop" and "Argument Clinic" to seeing them.

Monty Python Radio will feature classic Python sketches, skits and, songs, fan requests and various members of the original Python troupe reminiscing and talking of new projects, according to a news release.

* Nest weekend, KZ106 will be sponsoring a Rock Art Show at Hamilton Place featuring works by Ron Campbell. Campbell was the director and animator of the Beatles cartoons that aired on Saturday mornings from 1965 to 1969. He will have paintings on display, as well as for sale, and he will do a live demo of his work.

The show will also feature posters, rock art, photographs, gold records and drawings detailing the history of rock 'n' roll.

It will be on display Oct. 23 through Oct. 25 during mall hours and is free. We'll have more details in next week's FYI Weekend.

E-mail Barry Courter at bcourter@timesfreepress.com

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