DEALS
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Prime Day this year will be a two-day parade of non-stop deals and exclusive entertainment from Taylor Swift in the first-of-its-kind, Prime Day concert performing live with Dua Lipa, SZA, Becky G, and host Jane Lynch.
Alexa, When Is Prime Day?: July 15 & 16 Will Be a Two-Day Parade of Epic Deals
Prime Day 2019 will feature more than one million deals globally, including the biggest Prime Day deals ever on Alexa-enabled devices
BREAKING NEWS
Country News – July 3, 2019
with Shannon McCombs
This week Trisha Yearwood talks about what she
does in her new video that she never does on camera! Plus, did you know that
Kenny Chesney co-wrote his new single with a pop music star? Also… Lots of Legend
News from artist like Tanya Tucker, Crystal Gayle, Jeannie Seely, and The Oak
Ridge Boys!
UK NEWS
(23 June 2019) HACKED
OFF: Helena Mace's Facebook pages Stolen
This is a WARNING
to the many artists who rely solely on their Facebook
page as a way of using social
media keep in contact with their fans and publish their live events and music
releases.
Although multi
award nominated Bournemouth singer-songwriter Helena
Mace has her own website, Twitter
and Instagram accounts she has been the victim of having her 2 Facebook
accounts (both music profile & personal profile) hacked into and stolen by
a person who was illegally selling products in Helena's name. Posing under
someone else's account and fraudulently gaining money is an illegal activity.
Helena built up
with the help of Country Music Social Media a 4 - 5K Facebook following and she
lost a 12-year-old personal Facebook history.
Facebook reviewed
it and her personal page down which she’d had for 12 years. The music page had some
women selling dodgy products on it. Despite
numerous of Helena's fans reporting this Facebook have done nothing apart from
shutting down Helena's access to Facebook.
Requests to
Facebook to investigate this have so far after several weeks led to nothing and
the hackers had won.
July 5 Update: Richard Slee ITV news Bournemouth,
interview was also aired on the ITV Meridian: Musician devastated by scam on
Facebook
Set Volume, Tap / Click to watch Facebook Interview
Here is my interview if you didn't get to see it live and it's also on the ITV Meridian page on here and Twitter ❤
Posted by Helena Mace on Friday, 5 July 2019
UK TOUR & GIG
UPDATES:
Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters (Jan), Good Lovelies (Aug), Lockeland
(Aug-Sept), Lisa Mills (Oct-Nov), Megan O'Neill (July), Nashville
Nights UK (Aug), The Haley Sisters (July-Aug), The Workhouse
Country Music Festival (July), Ward Thomas (July-Oct)
UK CHART NEWS
Official UK Top 100 Singles Chart (Week Ending
4 July 2019)
28 June 2019 - 4 July 2019
At No.1 for the seventh week in a row, "I
Don’t Care" (65,002 sales, including 57,618 from sale-equivalent
streams) pairs Ed Sheeran and Ontario’s Justin Bieber. It trailed
on sales but has the upper-hand overall on "Señorita", which debuts
at No.2 (56,619 sales), for Cuba’s Camila Cabello and Canadian collaborator
Shawn Mendes.
Taylor Swift with "You Need To Calm Down"
fell 5-10 (28,789 units)
Official UK Top 100 Albums Chart (Week Ending
4 July 2019)
28 June 2019 - 4 July 2019
22-year-old Lewis Capaldi’s debut album, Divinely Uninspired
To A Hellish Extent bounced 3-1 to secure its fifth week at the summit
in six weeks on release, although its sales weree off 21.00% week-on-week to a
new personal low of 19,003 (including 11,085 from sales-equivalent streams).
Bruce Springsteen with WESTERN STARS fell 1-3 (13,898 units)
The debut album by 20-year-old rapper Lil Nas X,
whose introductory single "Old Town Road" is the year’s
fourth biggest seller (930,137 sales) arrived at No.23 (3,416 sales),
Official UK Country Album Top 20 Chart (Week Ending
4 July 2019)
28 June 2019 - 4 July 2019
Willie Nelson with RIDE ME HOME debuted at #1
Cassidy Janson with CASSIDY (BMG) held at No.2 (2 weeks; #2 peak)
Jessie Buckley with WILD ROSE - OST held at No.3 (11 weeks; #1 peak)
Buddy & Julie Miller with BREAKDOWN ON 20TH AVE. SOUTH made a debut at #4
Chris Stapleton with TRAVELLER climbed 6-5 (68 weeks; #1 peak)
Keifer Sutherland with RECKLESS & ME fell 4-6 (9 weeks; #1 peak)
Carrie Underwood with CRY PRETTY climbed 9-7 (41 weeks; #1 peak)
JJ Cale with STAY AROUND fell 7-8 (9 weeks; #2 peak)
Thomas Rhett with CENTER POINT ROAD fell 8-9 (4 weeks; #1 peak)
Kacey Musgraves with GOLDEN HOUR fell 5-10 (60 weeks; #1 peak)
Outside the Top 10
Yola
with WALK THROUGH FIRE fell 10-11 (18 weeks; #1 peak)
Ward Thomas with RESTLESS MINDS fell 15-17 (20 weeks; #1 peak)
Sarah Darling with WONDERLAND fell off the top 20 from #1 in its
third week at retail
COUNTRY ALBUM
& SINGLES RELEASES
(28 June 2019) Runaway June - Blue Roses
(Wheelhouse Records)
Debut #1 UK Country iTunes Album Chart (#46 UK iTunes all-genres) | Debut
#3 US Country iTunes Album Chart (#19 US iTunes all-genres)
(28 June 2019) Jade Jackson – Wilderness
(Anti/Epitaph)
10 Tracks/Time: 44:29Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Debut #14 UK Country iTunes Album Chart (#681 UK iTunes all-genres) | Debut
#21 US Country iTunes Album Chart (#200 US iTunes all-genres)
(28 June 2019) Shane Smith & the Saints -
Hail Mary (Geronimo West Records)
11 Tracks/ Time: 46:38 Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com
Debut #10 UK Country iTunes Album Chart (#398 UK iTunes all-genres) | Debut
#1 US Country iTunes Album Chart (#11 US iTunes all-genres)
(28 June 2019) Jason Pritchett - Tail Light
Town (EP; SRM Productions, LLC) CAN
5 Tracks/Time: 15:29 Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Debut #12 US Country iTunes Album Chart (#89 US iTunes all-genres)
(28 June 2019) Caleb Lee Hutchinson - Caleb Lee
Hutchinson (EP)
Debut #14 US Country iTunes Album Chart (#134 US iTunes all-genres)
Hutchinson was the blond-haired charmer whose crisp
baritone and forward-thinking tastes captivated American Idol’s 16th season,
and with an adventurous batch of original music on the way, he’s ready to build
on those hints of artistry.
Meanwhile, “Belle of the Bar” takes a turn toward
dreamy modern rock, with ambient guitars and vocal echos framing a blue-jeaned
vision of love at first sight. “It’s a good mix of what I’m going for,”
Hutchinson says, “traditional, modern and experimental at the same time.” But
to truly grasp that “modern and experimental” side, look no further than
“Better Now.”
https://www.facebook.com/CalebLeeHutchinsonMusic/ (102K Likes)
(28 June 2019) Prophets and Outlaws - Dreamer
(Seven Set Jam Records)
12 Tracks/Time: 42:09 Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com
Debut #22 US Country iTunes Album Chart (#177 US iTunes all-genres)
(28 June 2019) Hosier - Country Boy Style
(feat. Marquiese McClendon) (Redneckin Records) 9 Tracks/Time: 27:06 Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com
Debut #46 US Country iTunes Album Chart (#388 US iTunes all-genres)
(28 June 2019) Josh Abbott Band - Catching Fire
(EP; Pretty Damn Tough)
4 Tracks/Time: 12:33 iTunes - Amazon.com
Debut #57 US Country iTunes Album Chart (#495 US iTunes all-genres)
(28 June 2019) Tommy Chayne - The Campayne (EP;
Average Joes Entertainment)
6 Tracks/Time: 18:37 Amazon UK - iTunes - Amazon.com
Debut #129 US Country iTunes Album Chart (#1180 US iTunes all-genres)
(28 June 2019) Emma
Beau - Emma Beau (Emma Beau) AUS
Genre: Indie/Pop/Alt/Folk
Hometown: Sunshine Coast, QLD & Sydney, NSW,
Australia
Emma Beau is a multi-instrumentalist who brings the
stage alive with her unique voice and self penned songs. Having toured
instrumentally for 10 years with the likes of Kasey Chambers, Jon English, Mind
Over Matter and more, Emma now brings her own distinctive talent to light on
her own stages around the globe. | https://www.facebook.com/emmabeaumusic/ (3,987 Likes)
(28 June 2019) Simon James - Happy Ever After
(GingerDog Records) UK
Debut #4 UK Country iTunes Album Chart (#195 UK iTunes all-genres)
(28 June 2019) Anna Howie - An Idiots Guide to
Love (EP; Right Track Records) UK
Debut #7 UK Country iTunes Album Chart (#394 UK iTunes all-genres)
"A Beguiling combination of intelligent
songwriting and engaging performance." - Richard Leader Host of Leader’s
American Pie
Played the Black Deer Festival Yard Stage in 2018
She shares: Currently gigging around the UK - sometimes
just with my guitar sometimes my band come too. My songs are a positive take on
life and love, friendship and courage. Over time I have worked as a function /
backing / session singer, I have done live Radio 2 sessions with Brian May and
Kerry Ellis and appeared on several albums. I have gigged with a variety of
bands, mostly as one half of Sirens which has taken me to a variety of weird
and wonderful places all over Europe.
She has two original albums to her name - Tales From A
Telephone Box, and more recently Under The Bed (And Other Hiding Places) - both
produced by Phil Hudson (Carleen Anderson, Bobby Bird, Mica Paris).
(30 June 2019) Chris Petersen - Cowboy Coming
Home (Diehard Cowboy Records)
SINGLES
(28 June 2019) Bailey Tomkinson - Movie Scene
(Single; FBP Music) UK
Debut #3 UK Country iTunes Singles Chart (#120 UK iTunes all-genres; #109),
then #4 (#142; #153) | Sat 29 June: #4 (#263), then #8 | Sun June 30: #20 | Mon
July 1: #66, then #104
(28 June 2019) Biddy Ronelle - Raising Hell
(Single; Biddy Ronelle) UK
Debut #59 UK Country iTunes Singles Chart, then #17 (#903 UK iTunes
all-genres), then #5, then #6 (#460), then #7 | Sat 29 June: #10 (#659),
#26 | Sun June 30: #91
Professional vocalist, songwriter and vocal tutor
based in Leeds. Touring with The Chicago Blues Brothers (cast includes
"soul sister" Deeanne Dexeter). Award winning (Yorkshire Post's Voice
of 2006) power-house vocalist providing top-class entertainment for any event.
From vintage 20's music through to modern day pop, rock, country and soul.
I have performed all over Europe and beyond for many
entertainment companies and tour operator's including The Show Team and Thomson
holidays. | https://www.facebook.com/biddyronellemusic/ (165 Likes)
(28 June 2019) Debbie Nunn - Live the Dream
(Single; Ambitious Records UK) UK
(28 June 2019) Jeannine Barry - Love Just Hurts
(Single; Jeannine Barry) UK
Debut #48 UK Country iTunes Singles Chart (below #1500 UK iTunes
all-genres), then #63, then #46, then #52, then #27, then #29, then #24 (#1156
all-genres) | Sat June 29; #13 (#779), #8 UK Country iTunes Singles
Chart (below #607 UK iTunes all-genres), then #11, then #16 | Sun June 30: #25
| Mon July 1: #72, then #113
Review: #30SecondReview LYRIC Magazine: Big, catchy song from
JB with great production too. Heartbreak battling regret with a healthy dose of
sadness. ‘Somewhere along the way we got lost’ Nice guitar solo too.
#DustInMyEyes
(28 June 2019) Jake Morrell - Freewheeling
(Summer Mix) (Single; Future Rebel Records)
Debut #136 UK Country iTunes Singles Chart
(28 June 2019) Alex Krupa - Drunk On the
Speakers (Single; Alex Krupa) UK
Debut #31 UK Country iTunes Singles Chart (#1327 UK iTunes all-genres), then
#45, then #50, then #74
CANADIAN NEWS
(25 June 2019) Paul Brandt's #NOTINMYCITY To
Receive 2019 Slaight Music Humanitarian Award
The Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Board of
Directors is honoured to present the 2019 Slaight Music Humanitarian Award
to Paul Brandt for the leaps and bounds he has made in raising awareness and
taking action to end child sexual exploitation and sex trafficking in Canada
with his #NotInMyCity movement. Given out annually, the Slaight Music
Humanitarian Award celebrates a person or organization who has made an
outstanding contribution of time and energy in support of humanitarian causes.
"Not only is Paul Brandt one of the greatest
entertainers in our format and our country, he is an extraordinary
humanitarian. Using his platform, he has
become a strong voice for those affected by the horrible crimes of child sexual
exploitation and sex trafficking in Canada and we are in awe of the change he
is creating," said Tracy Martin, CCMA President. "The CCMA is
honoured to recognize #NotInMyCity and Paul's remarkable efforts to bring
attention to this urgent issue in our country."
This CCMA Award of Achievement is named the Slaight
Music Humanitarian Award in recognition of the generous donation made by the
Slaight Music Foundation. The 2019 Slaight Music Humanitarian Award will be
presented to Paul Brandt during a private industry event as part of Country
Music Week 2019, taking place September 5-8 in Calgary, Alberta.
(25 June 2019) Mackenzie Porter Announces Highly
Anticipated New Single "These Days"
Big Loud's flagship Canadian signing and chart-topping
singer-songwriter Mackenzie Porter is primed to release a brand-new single to
Canadian radio. With nearly half a million streams (500k) to date already,
"These Days" is Porter's second radio-ready single in
2019, following her breakout hit "About You".
The release of "These Days" comes hot off
the success of Porter's recent Billboard Canadian Country #1 for "About
You" (May 2019), an achievement that made Porter the 7th Canadian female
artist to reach #1 in Billboard Canadian country history. "These
Days" is one of seven new songs Porter has released since returning to the
country airwaves in December 2018.
"These Days" can be streamed now on some of Canada's biggest
and best playlists, including Apple Music's "A-List Country" &
"Canada's Country", Spotify Canada's "All About Country"
and Amazon Music Canada's "Fresh Country".
Porter will also perform at some of Canada's most notable music festivals this summer including Cavendish Beach Music Festival (July 5), Big Valley Jamboree (August 2) and Boots and Hearts (August 11). She will then head across Canada with 26 stops on Dallas Smith and Dean Brody's highly anticipated Friends Don't Let Friends Tour Alone Tour this September. Fans can expect more new music to come from the rising country star this Fall.
Adding to the excitement, last week HELLO! Canada and
People Magazine announced Porter's engagement to 'Nashville' star Jake
Etheridge. After dating for five
years, the couple became engaged last month and plan to tie the knot next
summer.
(27 June 2019) Brittany Brodie New Single
"Boys Can Do That Too" And A Special Performance In London England.
Brittany Brodie’s latest single "Boys Can Do That Too"
is a song she was inspired to write since a young age. She remembers growing up
seeing guys driving trucks and operating equipment; you know "doing guy
things".
My daddy would say to me "Girls can do that
too". >> YouTube
I would like to see young children growing up watching
girls do these things and their parents say "Boys Can Do That Too".
Because there is no such thing as girl things or boy things ... we can do
anything!
Brittany is not only making a name for herself in
Canada she is traveling to London England on July 25th to perform at the
popular Nashville Meets London.
NEWS
(24 June 2019) Delta
Rae left Big Machine & announced
plans to record 2 new albums.
The Light is coming 3/20/20.
Here’s the plan: We are going back into the studio
with the producer of Carry The Fire, Alex Wong, to record two sister albums
that will reflect the dual sides of Delta Rae: The Light and The Dark. The
Light will be hopeful, soulful, and sun-kissed and released in Spring 2020. On
July 1st they will be launching a Kickstarter to make these albums.
(24 June 2019) Miranda Lambert Shares New
Producer, New Sound
Miranda Lambert is switching gears for her next album. In a new
interview, the country superstar reveals she's working with a new producer for
her forthcoming album, which will have a "rock vibe."
Lambert has worked with producer Frank Lidell since
she recorded Kerosene in 2005, but for her new album, she worked with producer
Jay Joyce, whose credits include Eric Church, Little Big Town, Carrie
Underwood, Brothers Osborne.and more. Read more at Taste Of Country
(25 June 2019) Trisha Yearwood is APPY
Gwendolyn Records' Trisha
Yearwood has partnered with
entertainment company Zynga Inc. for the 10th anniversary of its classic game,
"FarmVille." Yearwood will lend her likeness and appear as a farmhand
avatar in the game’s "FarmVille 2: Country Escape," while her current
single, "Every Girl In This Town," will play in the background of the
game.
"As someone who plays 'FarmVille,' and having
grown up on a farm in Georgia, the game ties back to my roots," Yearwood
said. "With women also being the central characters in all the 'FarmVille'
games, it shows that farming -- like music, tech, politics, science and
entrepreneurship -- should be accessible to anyone." "FarmVille 2:
Country Escape" is available on the App store and Google Play
(27 June 2019) Gabby Barrett Signs With Warner
Music Nashville
Warner Music Nashville has signed “American Idol” alum
Gabby Barrett
to the label group, where she has been assigned to its WAR promotion
team. BARRETT is currently in the studio with GRAMMY-nominated producer Ross
Copperman working on her debut release for the label. She is represented by
Red Light Management and William Morris Endeavor.
Her first single, “I Hope,” was already picked by
SIRIUS XM’s “The Highway” channel as a “Highway Find,” and claimed the top spot
on the station’s “Hot 30 Countdown” as well as on RADIO DISNEY’s “Country Top
50” chart. It has also generated 35 million on-demand streams to date.
(27 June 2019) Parker McCollum Signs With
Universal Music Group Nashville
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP NASHVILLE (UMGN) has signed
singer/songwriter PARKER MCCOLLUM to its artist roster. His current focus track,
“I Can’t Breathe,” is in rotation at SIRIUSXM’s “The Highway” channel. The
native of CONROE, TEXAS, also earned some recognition earlier this year for his
duet with DANIELLE BRADBERY on a cover of “Shallow.”
MCCOLLUM built a following in TEXAS with his 2015
album, “The Limestone Kid,” and its single, “Meet You In The Middle,” which
became a hit on TEXAS’ regional radio chart. He later earned national acclaim
with his 2017 follow-up album, “Probably Wrong."
(27 June 2019) Singer/songwriter Cassadee Pope has
signed a worldwide publishing agreement with BMG Music Publishing.
She's managed by Fusion Music/Red Light, booked by CAA and represented by
Austen Adams at Dickinson Wright.
Cassadee has toured extensively with some of country's
biggest stars including Tim McGraw, Dierks Bentley and Rascal Flatts. She has
also performed at London's iconic O2 arena during C2C: Country to Country
Festival and has earned the distinction of being the only country artist to
perform at 2018's Warped Tour. Most recently, Cassadee wrapped a tour with
Maren Morris before embarking on her first-ever headlining "CMT Next Women
of Country Tour."
L-R: Courtney Allen (BMG Creative Dir. A&R),
Cassadee Pope, Kos Weaver (BMG Nashville EVP)
Photo Credit: Cody Heckber
(29 June 2019) Due August 23 on Big Machine Records, Midland’s much-anticipated second album LET IT ROLL is available now for pre-order.
Following the first single “Mr. Lonely,” which was
released alongside a rowdy >> music video starring acclaimed
actor Dennis Quaid as the notorious bachelor, new song “Put The Hurt On Me”
offers a more vulnerable side to the raucous trio. They embrace pedal steel
classic Country tones and three-part harmony on “Put The Hurt On Me,” which the
trio’s Mark Wystrach, Cameron Duddy and Jess Carson wrote alongside Shane
McAnally and Josh Osborne. The latest song from their forthcoming album LET IT
ROLL finds Osborne, McAnally and Dann Huff producing, as lead singer Wystrach
croons:
Kill me softly baby with your kiss
If I go I wanna go like this
Come on be as cruel as you can be
Yeah baby put the hurt on me
Midland return for headline UK shows (Special guest
Desure) in December 2019
AWARDS
(25 June 2019) The Nashville Songwriters Hall Of
Fame Announces Its 2019 Slate of Nominees; Five To Be Inducted Oct. 14 at
Annual Gala
Twelve exemplary tunesmiths are 2019 nominees for the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (NaSHOF) - eight in the Songwriters category and
four in the Songwriter/Artists category.
All nominees
experienced their first significant (Top 20) songs at least 20 years ago. Two
songwriters and one songwriter/artist, elected by their professional songwriter
peers, will be inducted at the 49th Anniversary Nashville Songwriters Hall of
Fame Gala on Monday, October 14, at the Music City Center.
The three will be joined by a veteran songwriter and a
veteran songwriter/artist elected by a separate body of veteran voters. Those nominees experienced their first
significant (Top 20) songs at least 30 years ago. Nominees are not announced in these
categories. All inductees will be announced later this summer, preceding the
annual gala.
This year's nominees in the Songwriter category are:
Shawn Camp, Ed Hill, Marcus Hummon, Archie Jordan,
Kostas, Rivers Rutherford, Ronnie Rogers, Jerry Salley
The nominees in the Songwriter/Artist category are:
Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Eddy Raven, Dwight Yoakam
The gala is the
primary annual fundraiser for the nonprofit Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame,
whose mission is to honor Nashville's rich legacy of songwriting excellence
through preservation, celebration and education.
(27 June 2019) Ashley McBryde, Luke Combs and
Jimmie Allen among MusicRow Awards Honorees
Ashley McBryde was the top winner at Weds night’s (June 26) “31st
ANNUAL MUSICROW AWARDS,” as the only artist taking home two trophies. She was
named Breakthrough Artist Of The Year, and shared the Song Of The Year
prize with Jeremy Bussey for her “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” at the
ceremony, held at Nashville’s War Memorial Auditorium.
Luke Combs was named Artist Of The Year, Jimmie Allen was
awarded Breakthrough Artist-Writer Of The Year, and Tenille
Townes won an award named for a MUSIC ROW journalist, the ROBERT K.
OERMANN Discovery Artist Of The Year.
TV
(26 June 2019) In Case You Missed It: Capitol's Little Big Town performed
"The Daughters" on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring
Jimmy Fallon (June 26). Watch here.
(28 June 2019) CMT Crossroads' Brooks & Dunn & Friends aired Friday (June 28). Watch the performances here (with Jon Pardi >> here)
MUSIC NEWS
(27 June 2019) Spring 2019 Smart Audio Report:
Strong Smart Speaker Use Balanced By Security Concerns
NPR
and EDISON RESEARCH have released THE SMART AUDIO REPORT SPRING 2019
that revealed the evolution of smart speaker
user behavior and perceptions. Today, 70% smart speaker owners use their devices
daily despite common concerns around security and privacy -- and those fears
are main reasons non-owners have not acquired a device.
“We are starting to see more pragmatic usage of these
devices,” Edison Research SVP Tom Webster said. “The longer people have these
devices, the less experimentation they do with them — but the more ingrained
into everyday life these devices become.”
THE SMART AUDIO REPORT SPRING 2019 and a full archive
of past reports from NPR and Edison Research are available at. www.npr.org/smartaudio
(27 June 2019) Kylie
Minogue feared she may struggle
to keep her emotions
in check during her Glastonbury gig - after cancer robbed her of the chance to
headline the festival.
The I Should Be So Lucky singer, 51, was due to
headline the iconic British music event's Pyramid Stage in 2005, but was forced
to pull out after being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of just 36.
She did appear as a guest with the Scissor Sisters in
2010, but says her Sunday afternoon legends slot will reduce her to tears as
she will finally get to play a full Glastonbury set.
"I will remember what happened those years ago
and my overriding feeling will just be of gratitude and, how fragile life can
be," she told Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper. "Will there be tears?
Absolutely. Let's just say I will be wearing waterproof mascara."
Kylie admitted that her set will bring back
frustrating feelings as she lost the chance to headline when she was at the
height of her pop career.
PRESS RELEASES
(24 June 2019) Country LakeShake Celebrates Five
Years w/ All-Female Friday Lineup & Highest Attendance
The fifth-annual Country LakeShake “Cheers-ed to Five Years” this weekend on the lively shores of Lake Michigan at Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, delivering “some of country's finest” (Billboard) artists for a three-day weekend getaway experience, with the festival hosting its highest attendance to date. In a never-been-done-before style” (Sounds Like Nashville) Country LakeShake hosted an all-female artist lineup on Friday showcasing eleven “female country singers who country fans adore” (CMT) across two stages. With Miranda Lambert headlining, with the Pistol Annies, Lambert closed out the first night of the festival by inviting her fellow main stage artists from the day including Lindsay Ell, Cassadee Pope, Lauren Alaina and Maren Morris back to the stage for a collaborative performance of U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” for what Billboard claims as an “epic country moment”.
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| Click to Enlarge Aaron Watson Off The Record Interview |
(25 June 2019) ALABAMA Reveals "50th
Anniversary End of Tour Celebration" Set for Nashville's Bridgestone Arena
on Nov. 20
ALABAMA, the most-awarded country music group of all-time,
will mark the end of its historic "50th Anniversary Tour" with a
final stop in Music City later this year. Tuesday morning, the band announced
its "50th Anniversary End of Tour Celebration," set for 7 p.m. on
November 20 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. Band members Jeff
Cook, Teddy Gentry and Randy Owen have recruited Country Music Hall of Famer
Charlie Daniels to join them at the milestone event.
"Our '50th
Anniversary Tour' has been really special with The Charlie Daniels Band being
at most cities we've played," says Gentry. "We could call this the
'Country Music Hall of Fame Tour.' Three generations of fans now sing along to
our songs each night."
(25 June 2019) Tyler Childers Releases New Song
‘All Your’n’ From Upcoming Album
Acclaimed US singer/songwriter Tyler Childers has
shared a new single, “All Your’n”, alongside a new lyric video.
The track is lifted from Childers’ forthcoming second
album, Country Squire, which is out 2nd August via Hickman Holler Records/RCA
Records. His first release in partnership with RCA Records, the album is now
available now for pre-order.
Produced by Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson, the
record was recorded at The Butcher Shoppe in Nashville and consists of nine
songs written by Childers including lead track, “House Fire.”
Rolling Stone praises the song, noting that Childers “updates the bluegrass
sounds of his native Kentucky with electricity and roots-rock stomp, nodding to
past traditions without sacrificing the present,” while Paste declares it “a
lusty do-si-do. It’ll have you slapping your knees, stomping your feet and
tossing your hair.” Watch >> official video
In addition to
Childers (vocals, acoustic guitar), the album features a number of renowned
musicians including Stuart Duncan (fiddle, mandolin, banjo), Miles Miller
(drums, background vocals) and Russ Pahl (acoustic guitar, electric guitar,
pedal steel, Jaw harp, baritone).
WATCH
(24 June 2019) Critically acclaimed duo Ferris
& Sylvester released the video for their new single ‘Flying Visit’.
Filmed in stark black and white, the video captures
the pair performing to an empty village hall, interjected with moments of stillness,
isolation and loneliness.
The song begins and ends with the simple statement
‘Bend down, come close, I love you’, and travels through a child-like yet
somber confession accompanied by guitar, strings and a hammond organ.
Regarding the video Ferris & Sylvester said, “We’ve toured this song for so many months and when it came around to making the video, it only felt right to do a performance based piece. Simple and straightforward, in a run-down village hall. We wanted to let the song speak. We teamed up with Sam Parish-Rookes once again for this one and as always with Sam, the process from the storyboard to the final edit has been a total journey and loads of fun. We are so proud to have made a piece like this.”
Credit: Rottingdean Village Hall | Director &
Editor (and great friend): Sam Parish-Rookes
The release comes ahead of Ferris & Sylvester’s
debut appearance at Glastonbury Festival where they played a number of shows
across the weekend. Download/Stream now.
(25 June 2019) Four-time GRAMMY Award winner Keith
Urban released a new live music video for his latest
single "Drop Top" featuring Kassi Ashton
The video, shot on his ‘GRAFFITI U’ World Tour which saw Urban play to over 1 million people, in seven countries across three continents, perfectly captures Keith where he feels most comfortable, on stage. “I love performing live, I love the whole experience of getting ready, heading over to the venue, experiencing the show and the buzz you feel after. There’s nothing like it.”
Drop Top revs up a story of driving to Coachella,
sound tracked by a roaring guitar lead and EDM-inspired bass and equally
raucous cameo courtesy of newcomer Kassi Ashton. The track is taken from his
ground-breaking #1 album ‘GRAFFITI U’ and its release follows a successful
return to the UK that saw Urban embark on his first tour of the UK and
Europe in more than a decade.
Urban, whose received praise from critics during his
UK and Europe visit for his electrifying and ‘no holds barred’ concerts, has
already stormed the charts with his 9th studio album, taking the top spot in
the U.S., Canada and Australia, becoming the only solo country artist to
achieve this, not once but twice!
(26 June 2019) Singer/Songwriter, Hayley
Orrantia, Premieres Stunning New Music Video For Her Latest Single, “If I
Don’t,” Exclusively On Billboard.Com
Country music singer and songwriter, Hayley Orrantia (website), has released the striking >> music video for her latest single, “If I Don’t”
from her recently released EP, The Way Out, exclusively on Billboard.com.
“I’m so honored to have Billboard.com exclusively
premiering the music video for my new single, ‘If I Don’t.’ This story and
video are very personal to me and having Billboard.com support me and my music
is a dream come true,” said Orrantia.
The music video, directed by Emma Higgins, is a
beautiful depiction of how denial can often times keep us in situations that we
know deep down aren’t healthy. In a series of stunning vignettes, the story
follows Orrantia’s emotional division growing within the relationship between
her and a boyfriend that is masking his true intentions.
(Photo Credit:
Matthew Berinato)
(27 June 2019) “One of country's most promising newcomers,”
Capitol Records Nashville’s Caylee Hammack,
released the high-energy and soulful live video for her
“‘90s-alt-rock-influenced banger” “Just Friends” exclusively with
Variety. Filmed while on the road opening up for Brothers Osborne, the video
has Hammack “sounding like the second coming of Dolly before she goes grunge”
(Variety). Watch here
(29 June 2019)
Just days after The Hollywood Walk of Fame announced Tanya Tucker will
be one of their newest stars, the country legend premiered the video for “Hard
Luck,” the first official single from her new album, WHILE I’M LIVIN’
(out August 23, 2019 via Fantasy Records.) A 1978 chestnut from country rockers
Josefus, “Hard Luck” was chosen for the new album by Jennings and personalized
lyrically by Tucker. “This tune is really fun,” says Carlile. “If you know
Tanya Tucker you know this is her song.” The clip, directed by noted
photographer Chris Phelps (Willie Nelson, Sam Outlaw) stars Tucker, Carlile and
Jennings. Listen/buy “Hard Luck" here, watch/share the video here:
(29 June 2019) Bailey Hefley Releases Video For
"Dust On A Diamond"
Emerging country songstress Bailey Hefley released a
>> video for her thoughtful empowerment song with
smart lyrics you can’t help but sing along to (Cowboys &
Indians /
Kristin Brown). Hefley enlisted director Roman White (Justin Bieber, Carrie
Underwood, Taylor Swift) to bring to life her single "Dust on a Diamond."
“I was beyond blessed to have the opportunity to work
with Roman White on my first music video," said Hefley. "I teared up
a little when I watched the video for the first time because he really brought
my song to life. The video perfectly reflects what I wrote it about.”
COUNTRY GOSSIP
(26 June 2019) Sheryl Crow can't believe her
master recordings were destroyed in vault blaze
Sheryl Crow was in utter disbelief after learning the master tapes of her hit albums were destroyed
in a vault fire that was covered up for 11 years.
The singer/songwriter's original recordings of Tuesday
Night Music Club and The Globe Sessions were among those that went up in flames
in the 2008 blaze at Universal Studios in California.
The extent of the fire only came to light in a New
York Times article published earlier this month and she is still trying to come
to terms with the news.
"It absolutely grieves me," Crow told the
BBC. "It feels a little apocalyptic. I can't understand, first and
foremost, how you could store anything in a vault that didn't have sprinklers.
And secondly, I can't understand how you could make safeties (duplicates) and
have them in the same vault. I mean, what's the point?
"And thirdly, I can't understand how it's been 11
years... I don't understand the cover-up."
According to the Times' sources, the fire destroyed
thousands of master tapes featuring recordings by the likes of Aretha Franklin,
Chuck Berry, Janet Jackson and Nirvana.
Universal bosses have disputed the facts of the
article insisting the extent of the losses has been "overstated", but
Crow is far from convinced.
"There are many songs on my masters that haven't
come out," she said. "My peace of mind in knowing I could come back
someday and listen to them and mine those for basement tapes and outtakes, are
gone.
(30 June 2019) Miranda Lambert Shares Sexy New
PDA Picture With Her Husband, Brendan McLoughlin
Miranda Lambert turned to social media early on Friday (June 28) to share a sexy new
picture of herself happily posing with her husband, New York City police
officer Brendan McLoughlin.
The Instagram caption read "NYPDA," as a sly
reference to her husband's job with the police.
BIRTHDAYS
July 1: the late Keith Whitley (July 1, 1955; died May 9, 1989
(aged 34)), Michelle Wright (1961), Mac McAnally (1959)?, Lindsay
Anderton (Lucy Angel)
July 2: Fred Maddox (Maddox Bros)
July 3: Johnny Lee (1946), Aaron Tippin (1958), Sarah
Buxton (1980), Trent Tomlinson (1975)
July 4: Ray Pillow (1937)
July 6: Jeannie Seely (1940)
July 7: Linda Williams (Robin & Linda) (1949), the late Charlie
Louvin (July 7, 1927; died Jan 26, 2011 (aged 83)), Dave Haywood
(Lady Antebellum)
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