 (Press Release) Grammy-nominated acclaimed singer/songwriter Kim Richey will release her first album in five years, Edgeland, on Yep Roc Records March 30. In support of the album, the Nashville-based artist has confirmed the first leg of a U.S. tour, which includes stops in Nashville, Duluth, Vienna, Cambridge, Pittsburgh, and Ann Arbor, among others. A full list of dates is below.
Today, American Songwriter premiered “Whistle On Occasion,” featuring Chuck Prophet and notes that “…Richey is a veteran to the craft of poetry and storytelling.” The album is now available for pre-order. Recorded in Nashville, Edgeland is Richey’s eighth studio album was produced by Brad Jones (Over the Rhine, Hayes Carll, Josh Rouse). A who’s who of Nashville players joined Richey in the studio, including Dan Dugmore (multi-instrumentalist); Jerry Roe (drums); Pat Sansone (multi-instrumentalist); Doug Lancio (multi-instrumentalist); Dan Cohen (multi-instrumentalist); Chris Carmichael (string arranger); and Robyn Hitchcock (guitar).
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 Courtesy: PLA Media “This month marks 10 years since 17-year old Casey Brooks ended her life by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge and Spring 2017 marked the beginning of construction on a suicide barrier for the bridge. I wonder who Casey would be today,” says Lockwood. “Life is precious. You are important. We CAN and we ARE building a safer and more loving world.”
Nashville based singer/songwriter and California native, Lockwood Barr, appeared on CBS Sunday Morning on January 7, 2018 to continue to advocate for a subject that has been a passion of hers for a decade. During Barr’s interview with CBS’s John Blackstone, she tells the story of how her childhood friend ended her life by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge just months before their high school graduation. For years, Lockwood and numerous others have petitioned for a preventative suicide barrier along the iconic bridge. This spring their hard work paid off, plans for a $200 million suicide barrier were approved and are due for completion in 2021. You can view the full interview here,www.cbsnews.com.  Courtesy: Aristo PR Nashville, Tenn. – (Press Release Jan 8, 2018) Multi-PLATINUM singer/songwriter and CRS 2018 Artist Humanitarian of the Year, Dierks Bentley, has been announced as Monday’s featured speaker (Feb. 5 from 4 – 5:00 p.m.) for CRS 2018, set for Feb. 5-7 in Nashville, Tenn.
The conversation, sponsored by DAV and titled “Climbing The Mountain,” will spotlight Bentley’s rise to superstardom built by following his own path and not trends, ultimately celebrating a career built on the combination of commercial success and critical acclaim. The CRS 2018 Artist Humanitarian Award presentation, sponsored byChildren’s Miracle Network Hospitals, will take place during the CRS Opening Ceremonies (sponsored by Sarah Cannon), prior to Bentley’s conversation. Since moving from Phoenix to Nashville in the 1990s, Bentley has established his own artistic path in country music. Instead of rehashing proven formulas, he’s doggedly reinvented his sound with every album and has ultimately built one of the most enviable careers in any genre of music. His program will explore the last decade of trials and triumphs that developed him into the artist who “sells out enormous tours, is a perennial favorite of format radio stations, and earns critical acclaim without compromising his artistic vision” (Entertainment Weekly).  Ross Cooper - Photo by Jodie Domingue
January 8, 2018 (Press Release) - Ross Cooper has announced the Mar. 9 release of his new LP, I Rode The Wild Horses, produced by Eric Masse (Miranda Lambert, Andrew Combs) and featuring contributions from an impressive list of guest artists including Erin Rae on vocals, Jeremy Fetzer (Steelism) on guitar, Eli Beard (Shania Twain, Rayland Baxter) on bass, Tommy Perkinson (Lera Lynn) on drums, Skylar Wilson on keys, and the incomparable Eddy Dunlap on pedal steel.
Cooper also released the album's title track and lead single today. The song premiered this week at Wide Open Country, who praised it as an "homage to those road-weary cowboys Cooper often looked up to growing up in plains of West Texas. He delivers an authentic perspective on the jangly number that finds a weathered cowboy reminiscing about his glorified heyday."Ross Cooper is the rare country musician who has actually lived the life of a cowboy. The former professional bareback rider was still bustin' broncs when his music career began. Though a knee injury sidelined his rodeo career, Cooper drives a band like he's still wearing spurs and holding on for eight. His new album, I Rode The Wild Horses, pushes country music way past traditional territory just for the rush. It's the new Nashville sound: glimmering pedal steel, rollicking & rocking telecaster riffs, soulful keys, and gorgeous harmonies.  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (January 8, 2018 Press Release) -- Crowned by many as the one to watch in 2018, CMT Next Women of Country artist Kalie Shorr is set to release Awake on January 26. The highly-anticipated project features seven songs that truly showcase Shorr’s ability, passion and energy she injects into her music. Awake will be available for pre-sale on iTunes January 15 while the project's first single "Two Hands" continues to be featured on SiriusXM The Highway's "On The Horizon," Radio Disney Country, TuneIn Country Roads and on prominent Apple Music playlists Breaking Country and Cool Country.
“Sometimes, this industry makes you second guess yourself,” Shorr explains. “It might not even mean to -- there are just so many opinions and it's easy to try to please everyone. This project is the first time I've tuned everything else out but my own gut feeling on who I am and what makes me unique. This past summer, I bought a new electric guitar, met an amazing producer, and fell back in love with the records that made me want to write songs in the first place. Before I knew it, the Awake EP was born. I couldn't be more excited for it's release, this record feels like the most authentic introduction to me I could give anyone.” Shorr will host an Awake EP launch party on Thursday, January 25 at The Back Corner. The event will be open to both the media and the public. To view the invitation, click here.  Pictured (L-R): Storme Warren, United States Special Forces' Josh*, Tim Montana, United States Special Forces Operator Corey* and Joe Denim *Last names omitted for security Photo Credit: Amber J. Davis NASHVILLE, TN (January 5, 2018 Press Release) – Country rocker Tim Montana kicked off the new year in a special way. During his set at Nashville’s War Memorial Auditorium last night (1/4), Montana presented United States Special Forces Operator Corey with an Epiphone Les Paul donated by Sound Check Nashville onstage before a packed house. Corey, a military operator for the past two decades, is about to be deployed for his 11th tour of duty.
Tim performed at the War Memorial Auditorium as part of the Nashville House Concerts series. Spearheaded by Sirius XM’s Storme Warren, the series is a new music variety show held the firstThursday of each month to spotlight the historic venue and to encourage other artists to perform there. After opening for Collective Soul’s Ed Roland, Montana was invited back onstage to perform their mega hit “Shine” alongside the group and Storme Warren to close out the evening. Montana ended his epic 2017 with a performance of his current single “Hillbilly Rich” on Fox & Friends. Already racking up an impressive 993,000 views, the official music video features pals Rob O’Neill, best known as the American hero and former U.S. Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden and “Streetbike” Tommy Passemente from MTV’s Nitro Circus. For more information please visit TimMontana.com / Facebook - Tim Montana / Instagram - TimMontana / Twitter: @TimMontana / YouTube – OfficialTimMontana  Courtesy of Columbia Records Nashville, Tenn. (January, 2018 Press Release) – Wrapping up one of their most exciting years to date, a cappella knockout HOME FREE is giving fans a peek behind-the-scenes of it all with their latest music video – which premiered exclusively on PopCulture.com – paying homage to Rascal Flatts’ version of “Life is a Highway.”
Capturing road life for the hard-touring group, the video follows the quintet as they travel the country on the first run of their wildly successful TIMELESS Tour, meeting with and performing for their enthusiastic fans. “Life is a Highway” is the opening track from Home Free’s latest studio album TIMELESS, which debuted at #2 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and is available now at all digital retailers. Go on the road with Home Free and watch “Life is a Highway” exclusively on PopCulture.com here. The second leg of the TIMELESS Tour kicks off March 1 in Baton Rouge, LA and includes two-night stops in Dallas, TX and Knoxville, TN – as well as a much-anticipated performance at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on April 6. Tickets are available now.  Courtesy: McGuckin PR 13-Track Collection Follows Flurry of Accolades for Bluesy Americana Purveyors Including Independent Music Awards Nomination for Debut Album
LA GRANGE, Texas (Press Release) — Combining bluesy soul with hints of country and jazz, The Wide Open crafts a sound they like to call “soulful Americana.” The term perfectly describes the dynamic merger of songwriting skill, vocal power and instrumental chops displayed by the duo of Season Ammons and Allen Rayfield on their new album, Long Road Home, releasing Jan. 12 on their own Two Moon Records label. The RV-traveling pair, now based in La Grange, Texas, are looking forward to revisiting their former stomping grounds on the sugar-sand beaches of Florida’s Gulf Coast. They’re among nearly 200 acts performing at the ninth annual 30A Songwriters Festival, which attracts roots music’s most esteemed and up-and-coming artists to South Walton, Florida, for four song-filled days. Becca Mancari Announces Tour Dates with Nikki Lane, The Weeks, The Lone Bellow and Bermuda Triangle1/6/2018  Courtesy: Missing Piece Group (Press Release) After a banner 2017 that marked the release of her critically-acclaimed debut album Good Woman, Nashville's Becca Mancari is announcing 2018 tour dates with Nikki Lane, The Lone Bellow, and The Weeks. Mancari will also hit the road with Bermuda Triangle, her band with Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard and songwriter Jesse Lafser. Find a full list of tour dates below.
Good Woman is now available for purchase and streaming via all major retailers. "With the release of Good Woman at the end of 2017, I'm so looking forward to sharing this record with you in 2018," said Mancari. "I’ll be hitting the road with my band, and we’re touring across the country to bring this music to many of you for the first time. I’m so excited that this year is going to be filled with new music, shows, and most importantly, beautiful evenings with you! I can’t wait to meet you out on the road!"  Courtesy: Missing Piece Group (Partial Press Release) Today, Fruition release "Northern Town", the second single off their forthcoming album Watching It All Fall Apart, out February 2nd via LoHi Records. Listen HERE
On Watching It All Fall Apart, Fruition transform pain and heartache into something truly glorious. With their songwriting sharper and more nuanced than ever before—and their sonic palette more daringly expansive—the band’s full-hearted intensity ultimately gives the album a transcendent power. Watching It All Fall Apart finds the three singer-songwriters Jay Cobb Anderson, Kellen Asebroek and Mimi Naja fully embracing their rock-and-roll sensibilities bringing a gritty vitality to each track while still showcasing their sublime harmonies they first discovered during an impromptu busking session in 2008. Watching It All Fall Apart is available for pre-order on CD, digital or limited edition color swirled vinyl, as well as deluxe bundles via www.fruitionband.com. |
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