The 50th Annual CMA Awards are coming to LONDON, England!
CMA Awards 50/50:
“Nothing Like the First Time" Happy April Fools Day Folks!
Advancing Country
Music around the world is central to the Country Music Awards (CMA’s) mission
and they are delighted to acknowledge the exhaustive efforts of their
international and domestic colleagues and their dedication to developing new
territories and fans for Country Music beyond their U.S. borders
The CMA Awards turn
50 in 2016, and they released a trailer for what is shaping up to be a very
special anniversary.
Starting in 1968
they were held at Nashville's Grand Ole
Opry (initially at Ryman Auditorium, and from 1974 through 2004 at the new
Grand Ole Opry House).
In 2005, the awards
show was held outside of Nashville at Madison
Square Garden in New York City.
Since 2006, they
have been held at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. For 50 years, the CMA Awards
stage has been home to Country Music’s most iconic moments. Legends have been
born. Country Music royalty has been crowned. The songs that touch the depths
of our souls have become timeless.
Following the phenomenal success of the 2016 C2C Country To Country Festival the CMA
have now decided to take it one step further with their boldest move yet!
With Bob Shennan, CMA Board member and BBC
Director of Music, Bob Harris (OBE)
and BBC Radio 2 rolling out the C2C
red carpet treatment the CMA simply couldn’t resist!
YES! The 2016
country superstars and CMA nominees will be heading once again to London’s
iconic O2 Arena in November for the
award ceremony.
In this special
year the CMA will be asking both present and past CMA hosts to take part.
1991/ 1992 host Reba McEntire will join Mr. CMA and
2013 C2C star Vince Gill (1994-2003),
Brooks & Dunn (2004-2006) and 2008-2015
CMA hosts and C2C superstars Carrie
Underwood and Brad Paisley.
It is doubtful that Bobbie Gentry will appear who
co-hosted the first ceremony (which was not televised).
Bob Harris (OBE) is slated to present an
award along with frequent British Country Music Awards host Steve Cherelle “The Big Man” of country
music. Cherelleis best known as the presenter of the Sunday Country show on BBC Radio Essex which broadcasts right
across the eastern counties. He is also a gigging musician remembered as
Britain’s answer to the late John Denver on the popular 90s TV show Stars In Their Eyes.
During the 2016
Country To Country Festival Kacey
Musgraves was presented with the International
Artist Achievement Award. Formerly the International Touring Artist Award,
the CMA International Artist Achievement Award recognizes outstanding
achievement by a U.S.-based artist who contributes to the awareness and
development of Country Music outside the United States.
Kacey Musgraves & Bob Harris receive their CMA awards backstage at the Country To Country 2016 Festival
Bob Harris received his fourth award
from the CMA when he picked up the Wesley
Rose International Media Achievement Award for a second time. The Wesley
Rose International Media Achievement Award recognizes outstanding achievements
in media, which contribute to the development of Country Music outside the
United States. Radio, TV, print journalists, authors, editors, television
writers, producers, and PR companies, who reside outside the United States, are
eligible to win this Award.
CMA has been
associated with C2C since the inaugural event in 2013. CMA-sponsored activities
in 2016 included the popular CMA Talks
series, which featured “Live with Charles Esten” followed by a signing and
“Nashville Heavy Hitters”.
CMA Cinema returned with a screening
of CMA Music Festival and CMA Songwriters Series shows featured
Little Big Town and Darius Rucker. The joint CMA/Nashville Convention and
Visitors Corporation (NCVC) booth was the hot spot for autograph seekers in the
O2 Arenas Town Square.
The popular CMA Songwriters Series featured Charles
Esten, Lori McKenna, Ashley Monroe, Charlie Worsham, and host Shane McAnally –
with a surprise appearance by 6 times CMA Award Female Vocalist Miranda Lambert.
CMA Awards 2016:
PRE-Televised Awards
Keeping with
tradition Video Of The Year, Musical Event of the Year and Musician of the Year award will take
place during pre-televised festivities leading up to the broadcast of "THE
50th Annual CMA Awards. These will be held
at Indigo In The O2
C2C 2016 main arena
act and Nashville singer-songwriter Andrew
Combs will be returning to present the pre-televised ceremonies with a
special performance of his soul-searching single "Foolin'!
The 2016 CMA broadcast
of the "The 50th Annual CMA Awards" will be broadcast live on ABC-TV and on a paper view basis in the
UK by Lirpa Loof Productions.
The BossHoss: 2016
Tour, Echo Nomination & No.1 Official German Album
The BossHoss:
2016 Tour, Echo
Nominations
Chart Success
Album Review: The
Bosshoss - Dos Bros
We Take A Look At the Making
of their video “Dos Bros” and reveal the cast members!
** March 30, 2016 Update **The bags are packed,
the trucks fully loaded, the hot stoves are ready and the amps preheated: From
the end of March the Berlin country rock Outlaws The BossHoss are back on the road through the great halls to
celebrate their tenth anniversary together with their fans. BossHoss have of
course bagged their current top 1 album "Dos Bros", her eponymous hit
single and the latest single "Jolene", with the Urban Cowboys will
ensure orderly atmosphere in each arena!
Half of the upcoming "Dos Bros" 2016 Tour
dates 2016 are already sold out! www.thebosshoss.com
They also have their first Echo nomination for the category "Best Band Rock / Pop National".
“This year we are even
nominated directly for two categories: again as " Best Band Rock / Pop
National " and on top of that for the " Best Video National " to
our single" Dos Bros ". they excitedly
shared
So keep your fingers crossed and let's be
taking the opportunity to celebrate our upcoming tour!
The Echo Awards
will be held and handed out in Berlin on April 7, 2016. Adele tops this
list. She picked up three nominations: album of the year; best female artist,
international; and hit of the year, a best song honor, for "Hello,"
the first single off 25. Only home-grown German diva Helene Fischer could match
that tally. Echo (stylised as ECHO, is an accolade by the Deutsche
Phono-Akademie (de) an association of recording companies of Germany to
recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry -Echo Nominees
THE BOSSHOSS with DOS BROS debut at No.1 on the Official
German Album Chart
With their seventh studio album DOS BROS it scored success for The BossHoss, the Cowboys from Berlin, made
a bow at the top of the German Album Chart
(dated
Oct 17, 2015) and thus landed their first #1 of the band's history.
It stayed in the top 10 for the first 5 weeks
of its release returning for a further 2 weeks at #7 & #9 (chart issues Jan
1 & 8, 2016) and has logged 19 weeks in the top 30.
Previously their 2013 album FLAMES OF FAME reached
No.2.
In the eventful 10 years, the BossHoss have already
reaped numerous successes with platinum awards for the albums "Flames of
Fame", "Rodeo Radio" and "Inter Urban Hymns".
In 2011 they released album "Liberty of
Action" in Germany selling over 400,000 records sold even double-platinum
status. Honours include the German Television Award in 2012 and the Echo 2014
in the Katergorie "group National Rock / Pop".
After this exciting 10 years there is still no
end in sight for BossHoss, on the contrary, the success of the band looks set
to get even bigger and know who’s where the album "Dos Bros" will
lead the Cowboys too!.
Label:
UK: Spinefarm Records | Germany: Island (Universal Music)
Island 0602547374301 (UMG) / EAN 0602547374301
Standard Tracklist:
1. Wait for Me 2. Dos Bros 3. Joyridin' 4. Today Tomorrow Too
Long Too Late 5. I Like It Like That
6. Star of the Roadcrew 7. She Is a Little B 8. Tennessee Woman 9. I'm Coming Home
10. Lady JD 11. A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done
Ten years ago, in May 2005, Berlin outfit
Bosshoss released their first album called INTERNASHVILLE URBAN HYMNS.
From those beginnings the band have constantly
strived to develop their sound and have gone on to became one of the German's
most popular acts.
Song-writing wise they headed to Nashville,
Tennessee for the first time meeting with resident songwriters "We ploughed our own field for ten years,"
said Boss Burns. "It was high time
to take a look beyond the borders". They sought ideas and opinions
from outside the band bubble with a goal for Country, Southern rock and blues
put to a modern pop context.
The band has consistently evolved from album to
album and have established a very distinctive sound.
On album No. 9 they take things a step further:
DOS BROS is both familiar but
redefines the future.
The BossHoss unite not only all the elements of
their distinctive signature sounds, but add a decent shot of TexMex, Southern
rock and Americana influences into the mix giving the songs entirely new
sounds.
Despite the sombre (prison, despair) nature of
the song the fiery jail break cinematic opener "Wait For Me" also rocks freedom and love. It set the pace with
a race with the devil and noteworthy fine harmonica and guitar solos.
Starting with the single, the early September
4, 2015 released title track "Dos
Bros" with dusty Hot Desert guitars, a driving beat, catchy hooks is
supported by a sexy girl choir it tells the story of two inseparable Outlaw
brothers.
It's too small the gain to much the pain on the
gritty but easy going "Today
Tomorrow Too Long Too Late" with an Elvis-like melody that brings to
mind Suspicious Minds.
Drum beats and driving guitar kick off the Iron
Maiden-like "She Is A Little B".
The ragged marching forward "A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done"
turns up the horsepower and is slated to become their own working-class anthem.
It's about the hard life of a cowboy in the modern world.
"My
Truck is bigger than your truck" and "My balls are bigger than your balls" they sing on a track that
name-check's Johnny Cash!
Party tracks include the galloping "Joy Riding" (Their new “triple b”
freedom hymn: Baby, bike & booze), the 70s-influenced piano ballad "Lady JD" and the old-meets-new-school
on the R'n'B-fused "I Like It Like
That" transforming classic Bo Diddley influences with groovy country
vibes to produce a highly infectious and dirty-danceable-floorfiller number:
It's trouble here we come, whilst looking at
the handsome female protagonist and with lines such as "I like it when you turn it up loud, when
you're going down, down and down" leaves little to the imagination.
With hearts a "pumpin", grunting backing vocals and heavy panting
she's driving the male onlooker insane making his whole backbone shiver.
On the slower paced "Tennessee Woman" they switched down a gear looking for a great
gal. On the catchy Southern Rock, Nu-folk number "I'm Coming Home", with neat honky-tonk piano licks, the travel
weary male tires of being a "rolling stone" out on the road. He
ignores a lawyer’s advice to stay away as drinkin' muddies the mind failing to
forgot that city woman. Enough! He's ready to quit and set off cruising into
the sunset. The twist to the tale suggests he is ready to come home to be with
a true love rounding off with "I'll never leave you alone". The deluxe
2-CD adds cover versions given a The BossHoss twist. These include reworked
cover of Marilyn Manson's "Beautiful People", The Commodores'
"Easy" and with a groovy Country remake interpret Macklemore &
Ryan Lewis' catchy "Thrift Shop".
They team up with Netherlands
terrific group, The Common Linnets
with a swampy take on Dolly's signature worldwide smash "Jolene"
promoted via a video on Vevo
(389K views; first published on Dec 11, 2015) which also quickly generated over 155,000
YouTube hits. It features the fabulous earthy vocals from Ilse DeLange and some
neat dobro picking.
“Jolene” was released as a single making a
chart entry on Jan 1, 2016 at #82 and climbed to #35 (issue date
March 18, 2016) in its 12th chart frame on the Official German Top 100 chart. The band also reported “Absolute
madness !!! We have cracked with "Jolene" the Top 20 airplay charts”.
The single come top 10 on Germany’s mainstream Radiocharts.com
On September 4, the single "Dos Bros"
hit the stores followed up three weeks later with their eponymous album.
In addition to regular studio album the band
have brought out an additional album of cover songs.
What better way to celebrate a 10th anniversary
better than in this form!
The BossHoss album "Dos Bros" CD standard Version is available at Amazon UK
The BossHoss album "Dos Bros" Download Deluxe version at Amazon UK or UK iTunes
The BossHoss album "Dos Bros"
double-CD Deluxe version & Vinyl deluxe version at Amazon.de
Deluxe Edition 2-CD Digipak | The Bosshoss (2-LP)
| Super Deluxe Boxset 2-CD & DVD
www.emp-online.com
About:
The BossHoss
The BossHoss are a 7-piece band playing a
surprising mixture of acoustic and electric instruments and lead by the two
frontmen Alec “Boss Burns” Voelkel and Sascha “Hoss Power” Vollmer. Over the
years they have developed their own energetic and eclectic blend of rock’n’roll.
Their influences are many and diverse; so in one of their wild live shows you
might expect to hear influences from as far afield as punk rock, country,
rockabilly, modern pop and Blues .
Band Members: Members: Boss Burns (Alee Volkel; 43), Hoss
Power (Sascha "Hoss" Vollmer; 43), Hank Williamson, Sir Frank
Doe, Russ T. Rocket, Guss Brooks (bass) and Ernesto Escobar de Tijuana
Connect with The BossHoss:
The "Dos Bros"music video
Berlin Urban cowboys The BossHoss demonstrate
the full range of their unique creations!
After eight-platinum albums, sold-out hall
tours, BossHoss turn up the heat with "Dos Bros" entering an entirely
new chapter of creativity!
Sex sells - That goes for Cowboys. And that's
why there's the new video BossHoss one thing: Plenty of hot
"Cowgirls" with little clothing.
Location:
The video was shot in a lignite (brown coal, a major energy source in former
East Germany) opencast mine near Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany
Desert heat and a sexy
girl gang: In the video for the single BossHoss
"Dos Bros" it depicts a stormy affair.
The Plot:
Boss and Hoss are held and try to escape capture from an extremely hot scantily
clad Amazonian-esque gang (in prime Russ Meyer-style), without much success.
With character "Upper Kitty" (played by Franziska Knuppe) donning
boots and carrying a whip she keeps the boys at bay who have little chance to
break free. Yes, a cowboy’s work is never done! The Cast Revealed:
The lovely "Dos Bros" crew!
Franziska Knuppe Sadly Franziska Knuppe has already found her
cowboy
The Potsdam model (40) celebrated a 16th
anniversary with her husband Christian Möstl (43)
How did the music video
shoot with the The Boss Hoss come about?
Alec Völkel asked me and I said yes, easily. I
know the boys for several years.
The BossHoss - Dos Bros (Making of)
"Do not ever think you're the first one
who did it - the dos bros, dos bros did it" - A clear statement that the
cowboys of The BossHoss make on new song "DosBros". For 10 years now the band hit the stage
travelling the world. Also in the video for the single Hoss Power and Boss
Burns find themselves that their captors and tormentors are all female models.
Not bad eh?!
Visually the video of the seven-member band
from Berlin certainly has a lot to offer once again!
Centre: Supermodel Franziska Knuppe Fotos: Olaf Heine / Universal Music
This is mainly due to supermodel Franziska Knuppe (Website
| mc2models.com
| Photo)
who plays the role "Upper Kitty"
extremely well as a leader of the Amazons Gang. But their protégés, half-naked
models, imprison the two Bros!
Chain Gang!:
Even as the two singers get reinforcement from the rest of the band at the end,
they all overwhelmed by the tough sexy girl gang.
Director Joern Heitmann and the company
Catapult set BossHoss and their kidnappers in a hot desert-like landscape, making
the situation of the two brothers to appear hopeless!
Naked Boobs or the close-up of many parts of
the body they are likely to perceive as an insult. Völkel shrugs. "Certainly the women are sexy," he
admitted. "But they remain the
dominant features." Against the inferior men simply have no chance
". That's why the story is to see with a wink" In the sexist corner
he can certainly not say: "We are
not machos"
Of course, he strives to always meet the female
sex on an equal footing. Too soft a man in his opinion, however, should not be:
"I think women want a strong guy who
is simultaneously empathetic and understanding."
Playmate December 2012Germany and Vice Playmate of the
Year 2012. (Photo)
In addition, she appeared in Playboy 2013
Portugal / 2, Hungary 2013/4, Netherlands 2013/10, 2012/12 & 2013/1 and
Germany. Covergirl from Playboy Germany 2013/1 and 2013/7
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