Bucky Covington at the WXTU 23rd Anniversary concert on 6/9; photo by our friend Citronella. Thanks so much!CMT's Jessica Murphy caught up with Bucky Covington for an exclusive interview now posted at CMT.com--and it's an absolute must-read. Here's an excerpt, in which Bucky answers a question about what might be ahead, musically:
Your debut album was released about a year ago. Are you working on any new projects, any new songs?
We are. Right now, we're on the second single of this album. It's called "Good to Be Us," which is doing great right now. ... We will probably be pushing another single off this album. I think it will be a ballad called "I'll Walk." I've already starting writing some for the album, song shopping, and we are starting to slowly get ready. I'm kinda different from a lot of artists. A lot of artists have all the time in the world to make the first album, and then the next album is rushed because you have to hurry up and get it back out.
But for me, I came off American Idol, and we had this little window that we wanted to be in so people couldn't just forget you. With me, it feels like the first album was very rushed, because as soon as I come off the show, we wanted to put an album out. And we did and got a great album out of it. I've already had songs [not recorded] from the first album waiting for the second album because I had too many good songs come at me. So we're definitely getting ready for the second album.
Check out the full article here, and while you're over at CMT.com, feel free to register at CMT and vote for Bucky's "A Different World" for USA Weekend Breakthrough Video in the 2008 CMT Music Awards? (Like you didn't know that was coming!)
Edited to add a link to CMT News' front page, where Bucky's the cover story, and to post this week's chart news. "It's Good to Be Us" is #13 on this week's Radio & Records country singles chart, where a superstar or two polevaulted ahead--but the good news is that that bullet is still present and accounted for. Ken Barnes' Idol Chatter blog at USAToday.com has updated this week's sales figures, and Bucky Covington, the CD, sold 1200 copies this week for a total of 333,000 and counting. (Thanks, Anon!) See you later tonight--Winnie
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