Pistol Annies debut at the top
On the songs chart, Luke Combs was second with "She Got the Best of Me," Dan + Shay third with "Tequila" and fourth with "Speechless." Jimmie Allen was fifth with "Best Shot."
Jason Aldean was up 3 to 19 with "Girl Like You." Jordan Davis' "Take It From Me" jumped from 25 to 20. Scotty McCreery was at 21 with "This is It," up 6. Jake Owen was at 23 with "Down to the Honkytonk," up 3. Luke Bryan was at 29 with "What Makes You Country," up 6. Morgan Wallen's "Whiskey Glasses" moved up 6 to 34. Chris Lane jumped 10 to 35 with "I Don't Know About You." "Love Ain't" from Eli Young Band was up 3 to 40. Chase Rice was up 5 to 42 with "Eyes On You." Pistol Annies debuted at 48 with "Got My Name Changed Back."
On the albums chart Combs was second with "This One's For You," Dan + Shay third with their self-titled disc, Chris Stapleton fourth with "Traveller" and Kane Brown fifth with his self-titled disc.
Cole Swindell jumped from 23 to 12 with "All of It." Dierks Bentley's "The Mountain" skyrocketed from 40 to 13. Rosanne Cash debuted at 16 with "She Remembers Everything." Adam Calhoun debuted at 21 with "The Throne." Keith Urban's "Graffiti U' was at 40, up 7.
On the Bluegrass Albums chart, Dailey & Vincent were first for the fourth week with "The Sounds of Christmas." The Devil Makes Three were second with "Chains Are Broken." Rhonda Vincent & The Rage with Jesse McReynolds, Mac Wiseman, Bobby Osborne and Sonny Osborne were second with "Live at the Ryman." "Hot Rize: 40th Anniversary Bash" were fourth with Steve Martin And The Steep Canyon Rangers fifth with "The Long-Awaited Album."
The Annies were also first on the Americana/Folk Albums chart. Bob Dylan debuted in second with" More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 14." Stapleton was third with "Traveller" and fourth with "From A Room: Volume 1." Cash debuted in fifth with "She Remembers Everything."
On the overall top 200, Pistol Annies debuted at 15. Combs was 27th, Dan + Shay were 46th, Stapleton's "Traveller" 52nd and Brown 62nd.
More news for Pistol Annies
- 12/15/21: Monroe completes chemo
- 12/01/21: Pistol Annies share their "Snow Globe"
- 09/30/21: It's going to be a "Hell of a Holiday" for Pistol Annies
- 11/02/18: Pistol Annies, The Mavs, Cash out with new sounds
- 10/12/18: Pistol Annies "Stop Drop and Roll One"
- 09/27/18: Pistol Annies plan "Interstate Gospel"
- 05/28/14: Pistol Annies' Presley signs label deal
- 05/27/13: Lambert replaces Pistol Annies at festival
CD reviews for Pistol Annies
You just knew a Pistol Annies' holiday album would be a little bit twisted. Sometimes more "Merry Christmas from the Family" than, say, "Silent Night." Comprised of three song female voices – Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley – "Hell of a Holiday" is mostly the sound of a group that just wanna have fun during the Christmas season.
The album opens with its title cut, where these women get revved up for Christmas over a pounding drum ...
For those who thought "Hell on Heels" was a one-off side project for Miranda Lambert (along with sidekicks Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe), think again. The Annies, aka "Lonestar Annie" (Lambert), "Hippie Annie" (Monroe), and "Holler Annie" (Presley), are no novelty act. Instead, they tackle material that you just are unlikely to hear on mainstream country radio both in subject matter and sonics.
Like the debut, this one also makes it quite clear that ...
One might think that given the presence of Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies are some sort of unworthy side, vanity project for Lambert in between discs. They also would be most wrong because this is not just Lambert and a few sidekicks.
Nope. This is a full-fledged, hardcore country trio album (Ashley Monroe and Angeleena Presley are Lambert's partners in crime) and an excellent one at that. The disc takes no prisoners to say the least, making that clear from the get go ...
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