What made Carrie Zaruba so tough, so able to express her feelings in song? Maybe it comes from always being the last kid when your class had to line up in alphabetical order? Whatever it was, she is rising into the Country Music sky, bright, fast and impossible to ignore. Her debut album, Woman on a [...]
Since the release of their album, Florida Georgia Line has been heating up the music scene – and just last week – earned the highest debut album sales of 2012 for a new Country artist with nearly 63,000 copies of Here’s to the Good Times, entering the sales charts at #3 on the Billboard Country Albums and #10 on the Billboard Top 200
Kelleigh Bannen never made the trek to Nashville — she was already there. Born and raised in Music City, she was singing and writing songs when she was 2 years old. Well, actually, as she notes in her self-written bio, “it was a little song with two lines that I would sing to myself [...]
[portfolio slideshow] Award-winning and reigning CMA SRO Video Director of the Year Shaun Silva introduced FORWARD, Nashville’s most customized and experienced post production facility during an open house and ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday evening. Designed by Silva and Nashville Architectural and Interior Space Designer Chris Gill, FORWARD is poised to set a new standard and offering to world of film [...]
Music star Aaron Lewis has been chosen as the NRA Country Artist Of The Month for November. The frontman for multi-platinum selling rock band Staind, Aaron is heading back to his country roots with the release of his first full-length solo album, The Road, on November 13, 2012. He joins some of country music’s biggest [...]
Last spring was bound to be busy for the “God Bless The USA” singer and songwriter Lee Greenwood, when a controversy outside Boston earned Greenwood loads of free publicity. The kids at Stall Brook Elementary School wanted to sing Greenwood’s famous song, but the local school board urged them to change the lyrics to “We Love The [...]
“Baby I Confess, I Was Not Expecting This”
Just kidding, I was. As a Matt Wertz fan since 2008, I was thrilled to hear that he would not only be playing on Vandy’s campus, but he would be playing right in front of my dorm.
Wertz performed in the newly added lounge in Rand dining hall. The lounge created such a cool environment, with an intimate atmosphere for the hundred-student turnout. Saying that the performance was awesome is not an adequate explanation – I went in stressed and left feeling so uplifted. Let me explain …
Counting down the days to his self-titled debut, JT Hodges proclaimed August “Prize Month.” On his various social sites, he invited fans to vie for more than 160 prizes, ranging from personalized handwritten notes to autographed guitars, photos, hats, and Copperpeace guitar straps. Fifty lucky winners got their Twitter addresses included in the album’s liner [...]
Johnny Garcia has been playing guitar with Trisha Yearwood since 1991 and is also her music director. Add Garth Brooks to his resume in 2000, and he’s been on some of the biggest stages in cCountry music for the last 20 plus years. Johnny is also a songwriter, studio owner, producer and publisher. The following [...]
Chad Sullins and the Last Call Coalition are having a great year. Their new CD, Incommunicado was released on July 10 and the first single, “Thank God For Jack Daniels,” has broken into the Top 100 of the Texas Music Report after only two weeks. It’s sweet success that’s been a long time coming for [...]
