The first video from Alecia Nugent’s Hillbilly Goddess CD has appeared online.

The video is for the song, Don’t Tell Me, written by Buddy and Julie Miller, and shot and edited by Glenn Sweitzer.

It’s a lovely song and a very attractive video, but I can’t help but wonder why they didn’t create a video for the hilarious and heartwarming title track.

But what do I know…

Alecia Nugent has announced the winner in her online Hillbilly Goddess contest where fans were invited to submit essays promoting the cause of their own better halves as the one, true Hillbilly Goddess.

The contest was born of the lyrics to the title track to Alecia’s latest CD, a clever and quite funny song she wrote with Sonya Kelly and Carl Jackson, describing a Hillbilly Goddess as the opposite of a high fashion, pop culture diva.

The winning entry came from W. Brent Woodal, and is titled My Hillbilly Goddess – My Wife Marie. Here’s just a taste:

On our first date we went to the edge of the woods near her home and picked polk salad. Then we went back to her place where she cooked it for supper. She knew exactly how much fatback to throw in for seasoning; I was hooked from the first bite. I hadn’t tasted polk salad that good since my grandmother died. After sopping up the last of the pot likker with the cornbread she had made I asked her to marry me. She told me that I was moving way too fast so I waited until our fourth date to ask her again. That time she said, “Yes.” Because of fond childhood memories she has of listening to the Louisiana Hayride, we got married at the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana. After the preacher pronounced us man and wife I removed her John Deere cap before kissing her. We then went with family and friends to a local Waffle House where our reception was held.

How can you top that!

Brent wins a copy of Alecia’s CD plus a basketload of T shirts and other fun stuff from John Deere and Smith & Wesson. Something tells me they will be put to good use.

This week’s edition of Track-By-Track with Kyle Cantrell will feature Alecia Nugent and her superb new CD, Hillbilly Goddess. She will discuss each track with Kyle as they play through the entire album.

The show can be heard on Sirius-XM, and debuts this morning (6/24) at 11:00 a.m. (EDT). Rebroadcasts are scheduled for Thursday (6/25) at 9:00 p.m. and the following Wednesday (7/1) at 11:00 a.m.

Look for the show on Bluegrass Junction, Sirius 65 and XM 14.

The Mountain Stage web page at the NPR Music site has links to a number of recently re-aired programs that should be of interest to readers of The Bluegrass Blog.

These are encore presentations of earlier shows, but the music is still plenty fresh and powerful all around. The Crooked Still and Rhonda Vincent bits are especially fine.

You can access the audio for these segments online:

• Alecia Nugent
• Rhonda Vincent & The Rage
• Shawn Camp
• Uncle Earl
• The Belleville Outfit
• Sometymes Why
• Crooked Still