He’s one of the best and has been absent for far too long

I think Faith actually has done a very smart thing by waiting. Her last regular-studio album (she did have that Christmas one in 2008) was Fireflies and while it had some hits, she still had some backlash like she had with Cry. I think now is the best time for her to release an album because the public has renewed interest in her.

Besides that I would love new Dixie Chicks but Faith kinda has the ups and downs for me because a lot of the time her music appears to only sound good when she is pleading for something which gets annoying but i would like to see her again.

I wouldn’t characterize Dwight Sings Buck as a “side project.” Dwight’s discography has been very concept-heavy over the years and I see this as no more of a deviation from his norm than dwightyoakamacoustic.net or Dwight Live. In any event, I believe I read that he’s got an album in the works for release sometime in the late Spring. Definitely looking forward to new tunes from him.

It’s funny you included Vince Gill; just three nights ago I re-ripped These Days to my iPod at a higher bit rate and realized it’s about to turn five years old! I was never a huge Gill fan (I liked him, but rarely bought his music), but I’d be game for new release if he can be talked into making it.

As for the general idea of this list, I’m afraid for once I can’t really think of anyone I’m aching to hear from that’s been absent for any significant length of time. Mostly right now I’m trying to catch up on early Waylon albums that have gotten a CD release in the last two years. I kind of got behind and now there are about six of them in circulation I don’t have! They’re not new recordings, of course, but most of the songs will be new to me and that’s as good as it gets when you’re a fan of the deceased.

(Along those lines, I’m also excited about next month’s Johnny Cash Bootleg, Vol. 2, a companion piece to Personal File.)

I guess that with 6 years between Real Fine Place and Stronger we might have expected a little more tracks from Sara’s new CD….. Particularly since we are in an era where artists generally release 12-14 song albums to fully be considered an album in today’s world. In short, I am JUST THRILLED that Evans finally has new music out, just LOVE her.

I wonder what is up with this thing, is is just Sara and McEntire doing the 10-song albums, or are there others? (Though, McEntire’s did come out a little more than a year after her last album).

And while I am very excited over the prospect of getting a new album from Sara Evans, I’m pretty sure I could easily devour more than just nine new tracks and a new version of “Born to Fly” (though I do look forward to hearing that bluegrass version). Ten tracks can hold me over for now, but I sure hope she doesn’t go another six years before she releases her seventh album.