SOLID Gives Back to the Nashville Community with Free 19th Annual Crawfish Boil, Tuesday, May 175/12/2016  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Press Release) - The Society of Leaders in Development (SOLID) will host their 19th Annual Crawfish Boil onTuesday, May 17 starting at 5:30 pm. The event will take place at the Sony/ATV parking lot on Music Row and will offer the community free food, free beer, and music. The organization will also provide activities such as a dunk tank, a photo booth, and corn hole.
Founded in 1997, SOLID's purpose is to provide its members with a community that promotes social networking, community service, and educational opportunities. The non-profit organization represents all facets and levels of the music industry while addressing the ever-changing challenges presented in today's industry. With roots in Nashville,SOLID continuously strives to meet the needs of the community and industry professionals.
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 (L-R) Ethan Jodziewicz, Sierra Hull, Kenneth Pattengale, Lucinda Williams, Joey Ryan, Margo Price, Jed Hilly. Photo by Sarah Como The Americana Music Association announced the nominees for its 15th annual Honors & Awards show this evening at an event held at the historic Mansion on O Street in Washington, D.C. The invitation only affair, presented by the musicFIRST Coalition, was attended by members of Congress and musicians and streamed live via Facebook exclusively through NPR Music.
Hosted by The Milk Carton Kids — Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan — and featured performances by Lucinda Williams, Margo Price and Sierra Hull & Ethan Jodziewicz. A full list of categories and nominees for the Americana Music Association’s 15th Annual Honors & Awards is below: Album of the Year Something More Than Free, Jason Isbell, Produced by Dave Cobb The Ghosts of Highway 20, Lucinda Williams, Produced by Greg Leisz, Tom Overby and Lucinda Williams The Very Last Day, Parker Millsap, Produced by Parker Millsap and Gary Paczosa Traveller, Chris Stapleton, Produced by Dave Cobb and Chris Stapleton  Courtesy: MTS Management (Press Release) Nine Time Independent Award Winning Artist Matthew Huff is pleased to announce the release of his fourth album: The Best of Me on June 7, 2016.
The album was tracked and produced at Raney Recording Studio in Drasco, Arkansas, the same studio that he has used throughout his career. Jon Raney is a Multi-Grammy nominated engineer for his mixing/mastering. Raney is a third generation engineer, preceded by his grandfather, Wayne Raney (Country Music Hall of Fame) and his father Zindel Raney, both respected engineers and musicians in their own right. Musicians on the album are Robbie Springfield (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel), Mike Kennedy (drums), Dennis Wage (keyboard, piano, organ), Doug DeForest (bass), David O’Neal, Charlie White, Evan Seiling and Becca Bradley. This album features co-writes with Charles Barnes, Darren Barry, Lance Carpenter, and Mary Lynne O'Neal. Matthew is grateful for the support of the radio stations who have played his music and credits the devotion of his fans for his success. With their donations of time, financial support, purchasing his albums and words of encouragement, he has been able to purse his love of music for the past six years. Matthew personally thanks everyone who has been supportive of his career. Arkansas native Matthew Huff won multiple awards for his third album, Give It All I Got, in the categories of Album of the Year, Song of the Year and also won Country Male Artist of the Year at multiple Award Shows in 2014, 2015 and 2016. In 2011 Matthew Huff had the honor of receiving the George D. Hay Music Hall of Fame and Hoe-Down Award and was the Nashville New Country Star Winner. Matthew Huff’s album The Best of Me is now available for pre-sale on his website and will be available for physical release in June of 2016. A digital release date is set for later in the summer. For information on Matthew Huff visit his website: www.MatthewHuffOfficial.com Holiday Sequel 'Dolly Parton's Christmas Of Many Colors: Circle of Love' Set For 2016 Return5/11/2016  Courtesy: Webster PR UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (May 11, 2016 PR) – Coming off the phenomenal performance of last year’s holiday special and looking to recapture the enthusiasm of the nearly 16 million viewers who tuned in, NBC is announcing the sequel “Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love.”
“Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love” is the next chapter in the life of young Dolly Parton. The film delivers Christmas joy and peril as an unexpected blizzard threatens the Parton family, while at the same time Dolly’s father (and his kids) make sacrifices to raise enough money to finally buy his loving wife the wedding ring he could never afford to give her. Meanwhile, an important person in little Dolly’s life begins to see that her amazing voice and musical gift might just be made for something bigger than rural Tennessee.  Courtesy: Webster PR NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 11, 2016 PR) – The same week Sea Gayle Music’s CJ Solar was named one of May’s “10 New Country Artists You Need to Know,” by Rolling Stone Country, the southern-rock-and-blues-tinged country music newcomer celebrates the exclusive premiere of his grassroots breakthrough single “Tall Boy,” on CMT. Directed by Marcel Chagnon and set in the smoky basement of a house in East Nashville, the straight-throw-down party video makes you wish you got invited to the shoot. Click to watch.
“Tall Boy” is the lead single from Solar’s debut EP release, Hard One To Turn Down. And a hard one to turn down, it is. Rolling Stone Country’s Chris Parton says of the track, “With its boozy narrative and clever, repetitive hook, ‘Tall Boy’ feels like a ready-made radio hit.” Co-penned by Solar, the single has garnered more than 300,000 Spotify streams in a month’s time. The early success can likely be accredited to the Baton Rouge native’s ability to blend Delta blues and Southern rock influences into a modern country hit. Hard One to Turn Down is available for download here. cjsolar.com facebook.com/cjsolarband twitter.com/cjsolar  Credit: Mary Keating Bruton AUSTIN, Texas (Press Release) -- James McMurtry’s extensive “Back At It” summer tour kicks off during St. Louis’Twangfest (June 8) and zigzags across North America before wrapping up in Maryville, Tenn. (July 23). Major markets include Denver, Reno, Salt Lake City as well as Midwest and East Coast stops in Indianapolis, Kansas City and Pittsburgh. “June could be hot in Austin what with the unexpected acceleration in climate change,” McMurtry says. “Time to tour, I say. Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales. Now we make records to promote tour dates.”
Clearly, the sea change has only inspired the singular songwriter. Witness Complicated Game. McMurtry’s first album in six years has garnered universal acclaim. “At a stage where most veteran musicians fall into a groove or rut, McMurtry continues to surprise,” Texas Music magazine recently noted. “[Complicated Game] is a collection of narratives as sharply observed as any from McMurtry, but with a contemplative depth that comes with maturity.” Western Centuries–A Trifecta of Country Songwriters–Releases 'Weight of the World' on June 35/10/2016  The worn floor of an old honky-tonk is not usually a place you’d think of as welcoming to bold new experimentation. If you’ve got something new to say, you’d better say it in the form of a brisk two-step that keeps the dancers moving. So it’s doubly impressive that Seattle country band Western Centuries is able to meld wildly disparate influences into an original honky-tonk sound that won’t make dancers miss a step.
Formed originally under the name Country Hammer by Americana songwriter Cahalen Morrison, known for his innovative work as an acoustic duo with Eli West, Western Centuries revolves around three principal songwriters–Morrison, Ethan Lawton, and Jim Miller–each with a totally different perspective. Here, Cahalen Morrison channels his New Mexico roots–he grew up exploring lost arroyos and playing drums in a conjunto band–into a kind of blood-red Western drawl. His songs are as influenced by cowboy poetry or his great-grandfather’s Scottish Gaelic poetry as much as his love of George Jones. Ethan Lawton came out of the rough, working-class streets of Seattle’s South end, working in hip-hop and punk before losing his heart to bluegrass. His bone-dry vocals meld intensely with the rocksteady back-beat of his country songs, born from his love of old Jamaican 45s mixed with early bluegrass. Jim Miller comes from the jamband circuit, where he ruled for decades as a founding member of the much-loved band Donna The Buffalo. Throughout, the dancefloor was his temple, and he cribbed ideas from Louisiana Zydeco all the way to the The Band. Western Centuries’ debut album, Weight of the World, released by Free Dirt Records on June 3, 2016, introduces a band of roots music mavericks bringing refreshingly new ideas to their country roots.  Courtesy: Conqueroo Americana pioneers’ debut album reissued and expanded with 11 bonus tracks.
Contains sought-after “Positively Lost Me” from the film Pretty in Pink. Also features new liner notes by frontman Jimmer Podrasky and many never-seen photographs. LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Press Release)— While the members of the Rave-Ups held day jobs in the mailroom at A&M Records, they were able to use the label’s studios at night and during lunch breaks to record what would become a genre-defining release. Enlisting the help of producer Stephen Barncard (Grateful Dead’s American Beauty) as well as the legendary pedal-steel player Sneaky Pete Kleinow, the band released Town + Country in 1985. The album gained enough attention to get the band featured in John Hughes’ classic 1986 film Pretty in Pink. Sadly, their “Positively Lost Me” didn’t make the soundtrack, and the Fun Stuff Records-issued Town + Country fell out of print. Fans of the band (and the film) have been searching for it ever since. Three decades later, it’s finally available again via Omnivore Recordings on July 8, 2016.  Courtesy: So Much Moore Media Nashville, TN (May 10, 2016 PR) - Kentucky Bluegrassers NewTown bring hard-traveled backroad tales to life on their new CD, HARLAN ROAD (Mountain Home Music Company). Produced by multi-Grammy Award winner Barry Bales, the 11-track outing, due in stores on July 8, combines fresh, down-to-earth songs, complex instrumentation and mesmerizing vocals that offer listeners a feast for the senses. Fans can pre-order the CD now on iTunes.
The Lexington-based band is fronted by award-winning fiddler Kati Penn and her husband, Jr. Williams, a respected banjo player. The two split lead vocal duties and present powerful performances on this moving musical journey. Highlights abound and include Hayes Griffin's trailblazing instrumental "Feast Of The Gryphon" - an explosion of exquisite pickin' that jumps the groove in its intensity. Kati slides to the sultry with her "old school" Rock-inflected take of Lucinda Williams' hit, "Can't Let Go"(written by Randy Weeks), brims with confidence on the Americana vibe of Sarah Siskind's "Wildfire," and haunts the hills and valleys with a stunning performance of Tyler Childers' magnificent, "The Crows And The Jakes." The disc's title track, a minor-key miracle of loneliness and longing written again by Childers, is brought to life by Jr.'s gritty desperation, while the Bluegrass/Funk of his transcendent take on C.J. Cain's "Drifter Blues" proves his versatility. On another Childers' composition, the banjo-laden "Hard Times," Williams brings the heartache of coal country to stark reality.  Courtesy: MSO PR (Press Release) AUDIENCE Network has announced a new monthly music TV show, "AUDIENCE Music: Spotlight." This groundbreaking series will exclusively showcase emerging, unsigned music artists giving them national broadcast TV and digital exposure. "AUDIENCE Music: Spotlight" creates a lifelong relationship with the artist from the very beginning of their career giving them the chance of a lifetime to cut through the noise, which no other network has done before. "AUDIENCE Music: Spotlight" will launch May 2016.
AUDIENCE Network will give the artists their first live performance on national television as well as an in-depth interview in the collaborative, artist-driven tradition of the network which is known for the striking, cinematic-look of its concerts and exceptional quality music programming. "AUDIENCE Music: Spotlight" will continue to nurture these young acts as well as building a fan base throughout their rising careers. The show crosses a diverse array of musical genres with upcoming artists slated for May and June including Isac Elliot, Aubrie Sellers, Phebe Starr, Julia Cole, Oh Whitney, Mitch Rossell,The Sisterhood, Ryan Beaver, Armstrong Leigh and many more to come. |
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