 Courtesy: Missing Piece Group (Press Release) Mountain Heart have released their first studio album in five years, Blue Skies, today via Compass Records. Blue Skies find Mountain Heart completely reinventing themselves without a single founding member. Frontman Josh Shilling is the only member previously featured on a Mountain Heart release with their final arrival, violinist Molly Cherryholmes (of 5-time Grammy-nominees Cherryholmes) joining just weeks before studio sessions were to begin. Jeff Partin, Aaron Ramsey, and Seth Taylor complete the new lineup. The album has been met with critical praise with Rolling Stone Country stating “Though no original members remain, the new Mountain Heart manages to straddle the line between complete reinvention and staying true to their roots - there’s a palpable electric current running through ‘Blue Skies,’ while still maintaining the relaxed, festival-ready pulse they’ve become known for over the course of more than a decade.” Pop Matters stated, “...we are talking about great Southern music here, underpinned with virtuosic musicianship full of heart and soul” while No Depression said “...the prospects for widespread appeal are sunny indeed.” Blue Skies can now be heard in its entirety via the All Music Guide.
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 Courtesy: Shanachie Ent (Press Release) Just a week after the release of their critically acclaimed new album Never Enders, Lonestar has released the music video for the title track and current single. Watch here. Impacting Country radio now, NEVER ENDERS was penned by Richie McDonald, Deans Sams and songwriting veteran Marv Green- who was a co-writer on the band's mega-hit "Amazed."
The boys headed just south of Nashville for the music video shoot where they transformed the Shelbyville Municipal Airport's runway into a set. Performance scenes were shot directly on the runway with Luminary Creative's video director Jacob Moyer at the helm. Never Ender's celebrates the groups past 24 years of success while optimistically looking ahead to whatever the future may bring. In a recent interview with The Rowdy, Michael Britt says: "Never Enders touches on a lot of emotions and brings them to surface. It's about not giving up and moving forward." See more from their interview HERE. Never Enders is available now on iTunes HERE  (Nashville, Tenn. Press Release) - The Americana Music Association will announce the nominees for the 2016 Americana Honors & Awards ceremony, presented by the musicFIRST Coalition, on Wednesday, May 11 at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT, through NPR Music's Facebook Livestream, from the historic Mansion on O Street in Washington, DC.
This special program will be hosted by The Milk Carton Kids and will feature performances by some of Americana's most beloved artists.  Courtesy: Webster PR NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 5, 2016 PR) – Beloved Country music pioneer Charley Pride sits down with Dan Rather for THE BIG INTERVIEW on Saturday, May 7, at 10aE. During the candid hour-long conversation, the Grammy-winning singer opens up about his early life as one of 11 children, picking cotton in the fields of the Mississippi Delta, as well as his introduction to music, the songs that inspired him, and his first guitar.
Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, Pride had a childhood that was much different from those of his modern contemporaries. Pride describes his early life saying, “I learned that you had to share a lot, and [that] you bang one another upside the head a lot, and try to get a biscuit before the other one. We lived in what we called a ‘shotgun house’, and there was a bed over on this side and a bed over on this side, and we’d sleep three and four to a bed. I remember sometimes I’d wake up and my brother’s toes were right in my nose. We grew up on a farm, and we all had something to do. In the evenings, either me or my brother would go get real dry chips [so] my mother could start the fire in the morning prior to us going and chopping the cotton… I walked four miles to school and four miles back. That’s where I grew up."  Courtesy: Conqueroo MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Press Release) — The Cook Convention Center in downtown Memphis, Tennessee was packed on May 5 with musicians, music business professionals and fans who gathered to honor the past year’s best in blues. For the 37th year, the Blues Foundation handed out its Blues Music Awards, recognizing the accomplishments of many extraordinary musicians.
Seventy-nine-year-old Buddy Guy, a veteran of 35 BMAs, won both Album of the Year andContemporary Blues Album of the Year for Born to Play Guitar, while 30-something bluesmen Cedric Burnside and Victor Wainwright were also double winners. The Cedric Burnside Project’sDescendants of Hill County was chosen Traditional Blues Album of the Year and, for the fifth time, Burnside was named top drummer. Victor Wainwright & the Wild Roots was selected the Band of the Year, with Wainwright receiving the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year title.  Courtesy: Webster PR DUNCANSVILLE, Pa. (May 5, 2016 Press Release) – Better Business Bureau accredited and Houston-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Helping A Hero, will break ground on its second specially adapted home in the state of Pennsylvania, this time for local community member, EM1 (NUC) Jeffrey Campbell, USN, on Wednesday, May 11 in Duncansville, Pennsylvania. To honor Campbell's selfless military service, Country Music Hall of Fame members, The Oak Ridge Boys, will sing the National Anthem at the groundbreaking ceremony. Community members are encouraged to attend to show their support.
 Courtesy: Western Publicity (Press Release) Before you hear Tom Rhodes’s voice, you feel it - like a left jab to the jaw. Raspy and soulful, like Ray LaMontagne or a young Van Morrison, but with a soaring intensity that recalls Jackson Browne. Your eyes adjust. You regain your bearings. A familiar feeling washes over you: Have I heard this before? Then, a split-second later, comes the power-punch: the words - direct, poetic, timeless, true.
In July 2016, Rhodes will release his fifth full-length album Who You Were – a stunning culmination of Rhodes’s search for his unique voice as a songwriter and singer. Rhodes’s new album Who You Were is a collection of stories and reflections brimming with the same clear-eyed wisdom that abounded on his previous album, 2014's With Or Without. However, the songs on Who You Were possess an added poignancy. Rhodes’s father - himself a master storyteller and dispenser of wisdom - passed away on September 14, 2015. To Rhodes, Who You Were feels like a torch being passed, from one storyteller to another: “These stories aren’t just learned from my dad, but this is me taking on that role as he passed away and sort of left that role... This is the conversation I would want to have with my kid. I wanted to write about the things that a father tells a son or daughter.”  Courtesy of the Artist Next week Silver City Bound head out on tour to Istanbul and Azerbaijan representing American roots music and collaborating with amazing local artists. Before they jet across the ocean, the boys premiered the video for their terrific single, "Take My Picture" which you can watch here.
(Press Release) Following the recent and heralded release of its EP ‘Take My Picture,’ which reached the top ten of Bandcamp’s Americana chart, Silver City Bound will be traveling to Azerbaijan to do concerts and workshops on behalf of the U.S. Department of State's Arts Envoy Program. While in Azerbaijan, the band will collaborate with local musicians and perform at high profile festival America Days.  Courtesy: Aristo PR (Press Release) Songwriters around the world are invited to enter the 2016 Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition.
This prestigious international contest offers a first prize of $50,000(AUD), second prize of $10,000(AUD) and third prize of $5,000(AUD). Previous prize winners include Kimbra, Gotye and The Preatures. Named after iconic Australian songwriters Harry Vanda and George Young, responsible for The Easybeats’ classic Friday On My Mind, John Paul Young’s Love is in the Air and a slew of hits, the competition aims to support talented songwriters while raising much-needed funds for not-for-profit organizationNordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Australia (NRMTA).  Courtesy: HBPR Nashville, TN --- May 5, 2016 (Press Release) --- Red Light Management artist Logan Brill signs deal with Warner Chappell Music. Brill also made the move from BMI to ASCAP and continues to assemble her Nashville team including: Red Light Management, United Talent Agency, Scott Safford at Safford Motley, and HBPR.
“We’ve been watching Logan gracefully create a credible musical identity for herself in town and on the road,” said Ben Vaughn of Warner Chappell Music. “Logan loves to craft songs and also has a strong appreciation of great songs and the great songwriters that populate Nashville. Everyone at W/C is honored to be a part of her journey.” |
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