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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
An honor student in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, Marlee Scott enjoyed junior high school, loved riding horses and showed promise in music. But while her mother thought it fitting for her to study flute, her daughter had other plans: She wanted an electric guitar and was determined to cut her first album at 15. [...]
Playing a mixture of Old-Time, Bluegrass, Honky-Tonk, Folk and Blues, Finnders and Youngberg are exactly what Americana music is all about. Watching them perform is just as much fun as listening to them sing and play as they share a central mic, standing in a semi circle and weaving in and out with classic choreography [...]
©2011 by Bronson Herrmuth Megan Ellis has stage presence above and beyond her young years. I suppose one could contribute that to her competing in beauty pageants as she grew up in a small town in Ohio, playing on the softball team, being involved in 4H, and her love for acting that drew her to [...]
When I meet Bryan Wain at a café on West End Ave., he looks as though he was born in the wrong decade. Either that, or he looks like he was a background character from a traveling cast of Grease, complete with black leather bomber jacket, black v-neck t-shirt—which I’d like to imagine has a [...]
