Program Director Research

singer/songwriter to release the long overdue follow-up to her 1992's gem, Sweet Old World, can start counting the days until the new release. In a deal that's just been finalized, Williams is leaving American Recordings for her new home, Mercury Records. That means Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road will finally be in stores, most likely July 7th. And yes, this time it's for real. And yes, from what we've heard, it's worth the wait.

Williams, perhaps best known as the songwriter of Mary Chapin Carpenter's Grammy

Award-winning country hit "Passionate Kisses," has earned a reputation not only as a sterling songwriter, but also for being impossibly hard to please in the studio. Car Wheels and a Gravel Road was actually started three years ago in Austin with her longtime producer Gurf Morlix at the helm. Williams was not happy with the results. (The songs were "flat, lifeless" she told the New York Times Magazine last year in a profile that painted Williams as painfully indecisive when making records.) So Williams parted ways with Morlix and hired roots rock king Steve Earle, along with his right hand studio man Ray Kennedy, to remake the record. Again, dissatisfaction. Next up was Bruce Springsteen's former keyboardist Roy Bittan. He'll get final producing credits on the record come July.

Despite her procrastinating ways, no

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company spokeswoman could not explain why that was.) In other words, Grease sold 8 million copies between 1978 (the year of its release) and November 7, 1984 (the date of the last request.) What it has sold since '84 is anybody's guess. But based on the sustained popularity of the movie, which just celebrated its 20th anniversary re-release, it's no stretch to suggest the soundtrack has sold an additional 8 million in the last 14 years, putting the Travolta/Newton-John soundtrack at the 16 million mark, and tying it with The Bodyguard. In other words, when Titanic becomes the best-selling soundtrack in history later this year, it will have to sail past five records instead of just four. ERIC BOEHLERT-Rolling Stone (April 6, 1998) Why isn't Pearl Jam's Yield selling well? All Access Radio runs from Puffy/Page track Puffy Combs, the man who's produced and performed on more hit records than anyone else over the last year-and-a-half, might be crossing over to rock & roll with "Come With Me," his remake of Led Zeppelin's classic "Kashmir" (complete with Zeppelin great Jimmy Page on guitar), but that doesn't mean radio's going to follow. Despite the press hype surrounding the unusual musical marriage, the duo's
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