(Nashville, Tennessee March 1, 2016 Press Release) - Organizers of the 4th Annual Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam have announced superstars Eric Church, Brad Paisley andJake Owen as the headliners for this year's three-day country music festival taking place in beautiful Panama City Beach, Florida, September 2-4, 2016. Over 75,000 music fans are expected to converge on Frank Brown Park in Panama City Beach for the event, and tickets go on sale to the public March 15.
 
"We're beyond excited about our headliners and our overall lineup," said Festival Executive Producer Rendy Lovelady. "We can't thank Panama City Beach and the Tourist Development Council enough for the way they welcome our fans from across the country."
 
"Our lineup is so huge this year we are reconfiguring the venue to make the fan experience perfect," added PCB Entertainment Chief Operating Officer Mark Sheldon.
 
Rounding out the lineup for this year's extravaganza are: Brett Eldredge, The Band Perry, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Granger Smith, Sara Evans, Tyler Farr, A Thousand Horses, Charles Esten, Neal McCoy, Mark Chesnutt, Darryl Worley, Colt Ford, Dylan Scott, Craig Campbell, Kirstie Lovelady, Gal Friday Band, Chris Cavanaugh and Them Dirty Roses. Another massive artist announcement is coming in the next couple of weeks.
 
Three-day tickets begin at $129, and various ticket packages can be viewedhere. A variety of Preferred Lodging Packages in one of the country's most beautiful beach locations are also available.
 
For additional information about Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam, including tickets, artist lineup updates, directions, parking, lodging and more, visit www.GulfCoastJam.com.

Americana, Outlaw-Country artist, RJ Comer, (previously lead singer of Dance Hall Pimps), returns with a new single "Nightly Suicide", from his new EP due this year. 

Gritty, bluesy and dark, "Nightly Suicide" is an homage to Charles Bukowski and a reflection of Comer's own alcoholism from the past. Comer’s soulful vocals alongside noir guitar riffs convey the bleak imagery of the song which is visually brought it life in the intriguing video. 

Directed by Guillermo Rodriguez, “Nightly Suicide” was filmed in Granada, Spain and at Los Angeles’s legendary music venue, The Mint. Marcos Tinez plays the younger RJ; a lonesome alcoholic who is wearing the identical hat RJ is wearing in other clips of the music video to visibly connect past and present.

TDC is pleased to premiere the video for "Nightly Suicide" below.

Nashville, TN - Undercurrent, the fourth album from acclaimed GRAMMY nominated singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sarah Jarosz will be released on June 17th via Sugar Hill Records. Undercurrent features a newfound confidence and a more minimalist production, focused on Jarosz’s upfront vocals and most personal songwriting to date. 

Undercurrent was co-produced by Jarosz and Grammy award-winning engineer/producer Gary Paczosa. Jarosz is featured on guitar, octave mandolin, and banjo with tasteful accompaniment by Jedd Hughes and Luke Reynolds (Guster) on guitar/harmony vocals, and Mark Shatz contributing bass throughout the album. Sara Watkins and Aoife O'Donovan, her bandmates in I'm With Her, make an appearance on the Jarosz/O'Donovan co-write "Still Life." The themes running through Jarosz’s writing range from transitions in life and love in “Early Morning Light” and “Take Me Back,” to nostalgia on “Back Of My Mind.” The joyous and up-tempo “Comin’ Undone,” a co-write with Parker Millsap is an ode to pushing through when days feel heavy.  

Since the release of her last album Build Me Up From Bones (2013), Jarosz has toured internationally, acted as a guest host for Garrison Keillor’s famed A Prairie Home Companion and taught at Yo-Yo Ma’s prestigious Global Musician Workshop. Build Me Up From Bones received high critical praise that included The New York Times, New York Magazine, NPR, LA Weekly and USA Today, and she performed on CONAN and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in the same week.

Undercurrent reflects the unique way Jarosz combines her early roots-based background with new influences stemming from a recent move to NYC and a diverse group of musical colleagues. The album encapsulates a true artist during the process of personal evolution and discovery, and should firmly secure her spot as one to watch. 

Mountain Heart is set to return with Blue Skies, their first studio album in five years.  The new project, being released on May 6th via Compass Records, finds Mountain Heart completely reinventing themselves around long-time members Josh Shilling and Aaron Ramsey.  Jeff Partin and Seth Taylor joined after the band’s last album was released and violinist and vocalist Molly Cherryholmes (of 5-time Grammy-nominees Cherryholmes) joined just weeks before Blue Skies studio sessions were to begin.  

The same soulfulness that gave the band its name in the first place is still there, but now voiced through a blend of musicians that make room not just for their bluegrass legacy, but also for the introspection of singer/songwriter ballads, the simplicity of classic country, the excitement of R&B, and the atmospherics of modern folk pop. The 10-song set was produced by the band and recorded live in the studio without edits or studio trickery; the first single from the album, “Addicted” premieres today via  PopMatters. Check it out here: http://www.popmatters.com/post/mountain-heart-addicted-audio-premiere/

Earlier this year, the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Miranda Lee Richards released her first album in over six years Echoes Of The Dreamtime on Invisible Hands Music. The collection of eight psychedelic folk songs was recorded in her home with production from Rick Parker who has worked with the likes of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Lord Huron.

 
Watch the video for "7th Ray" here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k5N42XQ3hA

"So much of our experience lies within the realm of the subconscious, influencing our outer realities. When we realize we have control over our offering to the world, we begin to examine the subconscious and have a conversation with it, instead of being ruled unknowingly by it," says Richards about the album. "In Echoes of the Dreamtime, those inner workings rise to the surface and begin to integrate into our experience. Contained therein are themes of self-discovery, transformation, and grappling with the duality between dark and light within ourselves and society. The literal use of Space Echo throughout is reflective of the theme: it’s subtle and beautiful and repeats until we listen.”
 
Richards was born in San Francisco after the summer of love and before the dawn of disco. Her parents are well-known underground comic book artists Ted and Terre Richards, R. Crumb being their most infamous contemporary. After graduating from the San Francisco School Of The Arts, she travelled to Paris to model, but soon returned to the U.S. to pursue a musical career. A series of chance encounters led her to befriend Kirk Hammet from Metallica, who taught her to play guitar. Early demos of her songs reached the ears of Anton Newcombe, and she soon joined his band The Brian Jonestown Massacre. She sang on their early recordings, including the first track on the debut album, and appeared with them in the seminal documentary DIG!.

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Nashville, Tenn. (March 1, 2016 Press Release) – Country Music Hall of Famer and CMA/ACM award winner Don Williams, who became one of the biggest country stars known as the “Gentle Giant” with his relaxed songs and 6-foot-1-inch frame, is retiring after six decades of making music and entertaining crowds.

“It’s time to hang my hat up and enjoy some quiet time at home. I’m so thankful for my fans, my friends and my family for their everlasting love and support,” Williams said.

They came to call Williams the “Gentle Giant” in the decades he was a dominating country hitmaker because of his unique blend of commanding presence and that laid-back, easy style that has appealed to adult men and women alike—cutting across national and genre boundaries.