 Ashley McBryde makes her Grand Ole Opry debut on Friday, June 16, 2017. Photo credit: (c)2017 Grand Ole Opry Photo By: Rachael Black NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Press Release) – Ashley McBryde is exactly where they said she’d never be-- working as an independent singer/songwriter in Nashville, opening for Chris Stapleton and Eric Church, making her Grand Ole Opry debut (6/16), and releasing music when and where she wants to.
McBryde fearlessly lays it all on the line, and it's that honest all-in approach that has led to NPR critic Ann Powers to ask if McBryde could be "among the first post-Stapleton country stars?" Her drive and perseverance certainly led The Grand Ole Opry to invite McBryde to make her Opry debut Friday, June 16, as her SiriusXM The Highway’s “Highway Find,” "A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega," makes its way into the homes and hearts of Country fans the world over.
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Winner of the 2017 Ameripolitan Music Award for Best Female Rockabilly Artist, Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones are New York’s premier roots rock n’ roll, rockabilly, rhythm & blues outfit. The Ark-Tones are releasing their 2nd full length album, entitled Love You to Life, out August 11th, and they will hit the road in support on August 16th, spreading the gospel of American music wherever they go. Describing their sound, Hope explained to Rockabilly Online “I would say we are a new take on an old sound. It’s been described as ‘pan-americana’ which means we use many areas of early rock and roots music as a creative launchpad. Where it goes from there is anyone’s guess, because while we appreciate old music, we don’t want to write songs that have already been written.” The album will be available initially on CD and digital, with vinyl coming from Germany's Crazy Love Records in late summer. Pre-orders begin August 11th through Bandcamp, Itunes and Amazon.  Courtesy: bobseger.com Bob Seger’s iconic catalog makes its streaming debut today. The debut includes twelve platinum/multi-platinum albums as well as Seger’s debut album, Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man. Fans can stream their Seger favorites via services including Amazon Music, Apple Music, iHeart Media, Napster, Slacker Radio and Spotify. Listen HERE
Today’s debut offers one of the most sought-after catalogues for digital music distribution uniting Seger fans around the world. Ten of Seger’s albums included in today’s launch are now available via digital download for the first time.  AUSTIN, Texas (Press Release) — Chris Fullerton sings country music bold and brave beyond compare. Epilepsy Blues, the Central Texas singer-songwriter's debut on Austin-based Eight 30 Records (out August 11, 2017), delivers hard truths both elegantly (“Bad Winds”) and effortlessly (“Come to Texas”), and simply stun with candor (“I Feel Nothing,” the title track). “The songs are about my depression and struggle to cope with a medical crisis,” Fullerton says. “A lot are very hopeful about being in a dark place but knowing there’s light at the end of the tunnel and I'm gonna survive.”
The road for an artist living with epilepsy has been paved with dark holes; Fullerton survived with tales to tell. Sharp storytelling guides the journey throughout the new album (“Seven Roman Candles,” “Motel Blues”). “Songs such as ‘Bad Winds’ are just kinda hopeless,” Fullerton says. “The chorus of ‘Motel Blues’ is, ‘I’m taking a westbound train and I won’t be home again.’ ‘Westbound Train’ is a freight-train-hopping saying that means you’re dying. There’s a lot of death in [the release]. There’s also a lot of strange things that are just in my brain on a daily basis like ‘El Paso Spacedance.’”  Beginning 7/17/17 Songsalive & The Sound Connector invite songwriters to participate in a seven-day songwriting challenge. A seven-day songwriting challenge is an excellent way to supercharge your songwriting skills, engage with a wider community, and showcase the songwriting skills you’ve been working on.
Each day of the seven-day challenge will feature a prompt to help you get your creative wheels turning. These prompts are merely considered suggestions - feel free to write about anything you’d like on each day and share them on Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr. The challenge welcomes all levels of talent and genres. Songsalive! is a fully Incorporated Non-Profit Company - 501)c)3 Public Benefit Educational Charity; and California State and USA Federal Tax Non Exempt Status. Songsalive!® is the largest international non-profit membership organization and social community for songwriters and composers, since 1997. The Sound Connector is an online songwriting blog that promotes community, craft, and intelligent dialogues about songwriting; learn more at thesoundconnector.com.  NASHVILLE, TN (Press Release) – Road-warrior brothers ELI YOUNG BAND have been performing together across the globe, and today release their 11-track album FINGERPRINTS as a return to sonic roots and celebration of those who have had a hand in their successes along the way. Out now, the new music is the MULTI-PLATINUM-selling band’s first on The Valory Music Co. imprint and features songwriting credits from namesake members lead singer Mike Eli and guitarist James Young. They recorded the album in Nashville alongside co-producers Ross Copperman and Jeremy Stover, showcasing a mix of heartfelt lyrics over driving rhythms.
While the band just last week launched “Never Land” on SiriusXM’s The Highway and exclusively premiered music video with ETOnline.com, they are surprising fans today with another cinematic creation for “Skin & Bones.” Watch now: http://smarturl.it/SkinandBonesVEVO. Eli Young Band has always maintained a strong connection with their fans and the bonus music video is a reminder with several scenes filmed during a run of their live shows with videographer Lance Goodman.  Los Angeles, CA (Press Release) --Songwriting and playing music has been a consuming passion for Gerry Spehar since he picked up his first guitar at age 14. “I never went on a date in high-school without my guitar,” he admits. If you look at the album artwork on I Hold Gravity, you’ll notice that there’s not one image of Spehar without a guitar except for the one in which he has his arm around his wife, Susan. “Ever since I can remember, I have always had one or the other –usually both –with me.” Susan was Spehar’s college sweetheart and his other consuming passion--and this album is a love letter to her.
I Hold Gravity is a collection of 10 songs on which he collaborated with Susan as they chronicled their final cross-country drives, their mountain heritage, and an L.A. to Texas landscape filled with shrimpers, dynamiters and wildcatters, wrestlers, roughnecks, overambitious farmers, and Monsanto lawyers. Spehar spent the past year producing and finishing this album and taking care of Susan, who passed from cancer in September, just as they were finishing the recordings. Born and raised in Grand Junction, CO, during the 1970’s and 1980’s Spehar was based in Colorado and had a thriving musical career. He played as a duo with his brother George in the 70’s and in the Spehar Brothers Band with both George and brother Tom. He then performed solo until meeting Bobby Allison whom he began writing and performing with in 1981. During all this, Spehar opened shows for Merle Haggard, Boz Scaggs, Townes Van Zandt, John Fahey and others.  Award-winning artist Donovan Woods announced today the release of his new single titled "All Mine." An acclaimed songwriter who has written songs for artists such as Tim McGraw, Charlie Worsham, Charles Kelley (of Lady Antebellum), and Billy Currington while amassing a cataloge of rousing and well-received music of his own, Woods' "All Mine" is available now worldwide through iTunes, Spotify, and all other digital platforms HERE.
Listen to "All Mine" HERE  HuffPost premiered the lyric video track for "245th Peace Song" at http://bit.ly/2scgg4T
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Press Release) — Some songwriters wrestle with demons. Peter Himmelman wrestles with dialectics. In “Sacrificial,” a central song on his new album There Is No Calamity, Himmelman ponders questions like “How angry is too angry? How sweet is just too sweet?/How do you call out for love when love feels like defeat?” Later, he defines his song title “Ropes or Wings” as being among “the deepest choices of the human mind … With ropes we stay tied up, and with wings we can make this troubled world aligned.” His all-too-prescient “245th Peace Song” states, “the anger in people’s hearts needs to be cooled” before noting: “but you’ve got to be careful what you cool it with.” The album’s brick-and-mortar release date is August 11, 2017 on Himmasongs Recordings.  Courtesy: All Eyes Media Nashville, TN (Press Release) – Critically acclaimed artists and sisters Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer have announced select tour dates in support of their highly-anticipated upcoming release Not Dark Yet. The new album, which will be released on August 18th (Silver Cross/Thirty Tigers), was produced by Teddy Thompson and recorded in Los Angeles last summer. NPR Music unveiled an exclusive first listen of the album’s title track "Not Dark Yet" today. Click HERE to listen.
The shows start in New York City with two nights at City Winery, followed by stops in Boston, Philadelphia, Annapolis, Alexandria, Chicago, Nashville, and Atlanta. Shelby and Allison haven’t toured together since 2010. For a taste of the pair’s incredible musical bond, please listen to this in-depth All Things Considered feature that highlights their emotional live performances. Click HERE. |
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