"Farmer's Daughter" by Crystal Bowersox : CD Released, video coming!

So the big day has passed and Crystal Bowersox's debut album Farmer's Daughter was released. I had pre-ordered a digital copy on iTunes so I downloaded it to listen to the full album including the free extra track, "Finally Got It Right" which sounds great. In fact, if it were me I would have included that track on the original 12 and left off "Hold On". I just checked iTunes and "Finally Got It Right" is no longer available so I am feeling extra special. One interesting fact I noticed on iTunes is that if you currently sort the tracks on the album by popularity, the #2 most popular song after the title track, "Farmer's Daughter", is "For What It's Worth". I suppose that is the only cover on the album, and it was a pretty popular song decades ago, but it has 6 bars in popularity, whereas #3 "Speak Now" has 3 bars, and #4 "Mine All Mine" has 2 bars along with #5 "Hold On". I was also a little disappointed that the included digital booklet did not include any lyrics, although it did have some interesting photos. I will have to wait for the physical CD I am receiving for Christmas (pre-ordered from Amazon where it is still selling for only $6.99.) The album has been consistently in the top 10 in album sales at Amazon since this past weekend, so I hope the sales from the album will be good. I am guessing overall first week sales will be on the same order of magnitude as Lee's initial number (39,000) but could go +/- 10,000 either way. HitsDailyDouble.com is currently predicting 45-50K for her. I guess we will have to wait until next week to find out for sure. I did my part by helping to sell two copies!

I enjoyed watching the video clips from WUPW in Toledo which gives the album a nice personal and local perspective. They had stories on her Monday evening, Tuesday at 6:30 and again Tuesday evening at 10. One neat thing in the 10pm clip is a small preview of the music video for "Farmer's Daughter". After viewing the clip from cambio connect it makes me quite curious about the final video. Her publicist, Gina Orr, tweets that the video will go to VH1 on Jan 3.