Chris Cagle is currently working on his fourth Capitol Nashville album which will include new single "What Kinda Gone," set to hit radio on July 23. Cagle is scheduled to perform for U.S. military troops in Korea at the end of July. His U.S. tour will begin in August.
Neal McCoy is featured on special edition cans of Old Milwaukee Beer for the second year, which has been distributed in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, parts of Illinois and Western Pennsylvania.
Darrell Scott is scheduled for two shows with podcaster and radio host Wichita Rutherford, including XM's Grand Old Time Machine and bluegrass podcast 5 Minutes with Wichita. Scott also has a new five part mini documentary, Highway 31— Visited, directed by Craig Havighurst of String Theory Media.
Jake Owen will appear for the first time on GAC's Top 20 Country Countdown with guest host Suzanne Alexander. He will discuss his role as the opening act for the Brooks & Dunn/Alan Jackson tour and details about his song, "Starting With Me."
Friday, July 6, 2007
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Country News for July 5, 2007
Brooks & Dunn
July 5, 2007 — Brooks & Dunn's current tour with Alan Jackson is about as laid-back as a tour can be. The guys tell Dial-Global that preparing for their nightly concerts has been low-key all the way, since all three guys are pretty easy-going.
However, Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn recall that things were not quite so simple when they were touring with Reba McEntire. "She'd rehearse for four weeks," Kix says. "She had yellow dots here, red dots here, blue dots here and green dots there. We'd walk in there for ten minutes and try and get a set list together and go, ‘That looks pretty good' and she'd go, ‘Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait?' "
Kix says Alan "kind of has our schooling, you know? We stumble around out there and figure it out as the tour goes on."
"It's not planned," Ronnie explains. "It's real loose. Every night he'll walk in and go, 'Y'all gonna do an encore?'"
Rascal Flatts Release New Single
July 5, 2007 — Rascal Flatts have released the first single from their upcoming album, Still Feels Good. The song, "Take Me There," was written by Neil Thrasher, Wendell Mobley and Kenny Chesney.
The guys have spent a good part of the summer working on the new album, and before heading into the studio, Joe Don Rooney told Dial-Global what the guys hoped for in this new project. "I think we've tried to grow with every album we've put out, and Me and My Gang has definitely been the highest growth spurt yet," he said. "But there's really not a whole lot of method to our madness. We just try to find the best songs we can record.
Joe Don says that through the years the trio has had the opportunity to work with some great producers. "With Dann Huff on Me and My Gang, it took us to a different level," he said. "It put some new life into Rascal Flatts, and with this new album we're doing the same thing. We're just trying to find great songs...trying to re-inspire ourselves once again to make something even better, if that's possible."
The new album, which will be the group's fifth, is due in stores on September 25. In support of the CD, the guys will launch their Still Feels Good Tour on July 13 in Uncasville, Conn. In 2006, the group performed before more than one million fans in concert.
Brad Paisley's Tour is smokin'!
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - ACM Top Male Vocalist Brad Paisley’s Hershey’s Presents Bonfires and Amplifies Tour is a hot ticket. Playing to over 250,000 fans through the first 23 shows – Paisley has seen an increase in attendance of 42% over his 2006 Time Well Wasted tour, that Pollstar ranked as the #4 country tour of the year for attendance. “Paisley , whose new album is called 5th Gear, was in overdrive with his usual collection of finger-blurring guitar riffs and a growing catalog of hits. Backed by a top-flight six-piece band, he had the crowd of about 12,000 on its feet for most of his 90 minute set,” states the Arizona Republic. The San Jose Mercury News glows “Brad Paisley capped an evening of country music with a set full of good humor and easygoing excellence.” And the Boston Globe observed “…the West Virginia native proved that he is the poster boy for new millennium country, effortlessly combining age-old tradition with a new age sensibility. … A rip-snorting instrumental – a rare commodity at mainstream country concerts – filled with his impressively nimble jazz and rock-tinged fretwork, was jazzed up by zippy animation – also hand-made by Paisley.
Trisha Yearwood is Back
Nashville, TN -- Big Machine Records President & CEO Scott Borchetta announced today the release of Trisha Yearwood's first single for the label, set for a July 30th airplay date.The song, "Heaven, Heartache And The Power Of Love" is the first song released from her upcoming Big Machine Records album of the same name. It will be the first studio recording from Yearwood since 2005. The album is produced by Garth Fundis.Fans will have the chance to preview a clip of the new single on her website (www.trishayearwood.com) and her MySpace page (www.myspace.com/trishayearwood) beginning July 13th.The single will be delivered digitally to country radio on July 16th
July 5, 2007 — Brooks & Dunn's current tour with Alan Jackson is about as laid-back as a tour can be. The guys tell Dial-Global that preparing for their nightly concerts has been low-key all the way, since all three guys are pretty easy-going.
However, Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn recall that things were not quite so simple when they were touring with Reba McEntire. "She'd rehearse for four weeks," Kix says. "She had yellow dots here, red dots here, blue dots here and green dots there. We'd walk in there for ten minutes and try and get a set list together and go, ‘That looks pretty good' and she'd go, ‘Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait?' "
Kix says Alan "kind of has our schooling, you know? We stumble around out there and figure it out as the tour goes on."
"It's not planned," Ronnie explains. "It's real loose. Every night he'll walk in and go, 'Y'all gonna do an encore?'"
Rascal Flatts Release New Single
July 5, 2007 — Rascal Flatts have released the first single from their upcoming album, Still Feels Good. The song, "Take Me There," was written by Neil Thrasher, Wendell Mobley and Kenny Chesney.
The guys have spent a good part of the summer working on the new album, and before heading into the studio, Joe Don Rooney told Dial-Global what the guys hoped for in this new project. "I think we've tried to grow with every album we've put out, and Me and My Gang has definitely been the highest growth spurt yet," he said. "But there's really not a whole lot of method to our madness. We just try to find the best songs we can record.
Joe Don says that through the years the trio has had the opportunity to work with some great producers. "With Dann Huff on Me and My Gang, it took us to a different level," he said. "It put some new life into Rascal Flatts, and with this new album we're doing the same thing. We're just trying to find great songs...trying to re-inspire ourselves once again to make something even better, if that's possible."
The new album, which will be the group's fifth, is due in stores on September 25. In support of the CD, the guys will launch their Still Feels Good Tour on July 13 in Uncasville, Conn. In 2006, the group performed before more than one million fans in concert.
Brad Paisley's Tour is smokin'!
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - ACM Top Male Vocalist Brad Paisley’s Hershey’s Presents Bonfires and Amplifies Tour is a hot ticket. Playing to over 250,000 fans through the first 23 shows – Paisley has seen an increase in attendance of 42% over his 2006 Time Well Wasted tour, that Pollstar ranked as the #4 country tour of the year for attendance. “Paisley , whose new album is called 5th Gear, was in overdrive with his usual collection of finger-blurring guitar riffs and a growing catalog of hits. Backed by a top-flight six-piece band, he had the crowd of about 12,000 on its feet for most of his 90 minute set,” states the Arizona Republic. The San Jose Mercury News glows “Brad Paisley capped an evening of country music with a set full of good humor and easygoing excellence.” And the Boston Globe observed “…the West Virginia native proved that he is the poster boy for new millennium country, effortlessly combining age-old tradition with a new age sensibility. … A rip-snorting instrumental – a rare commodity at mainstream country concerts – filled with his impressively nimble jazz and rock-tinged fretwork, was jazzed up by zippy animation – also hand-made by Paisley.
Trisha Yearwood is Back
Nashville, TN -- Big Machine Records President & CEO Scott Borchetta announced today the release of Trisha Yearwood's first single for the label, set for a July 30th airplay date.The song, "Heaven, Heartache And The Power Of Love" is the first song released from her upcoming Big Machine Records album of the same name. It will be the first studio recording from Yearwood since 2005. The album is produced by Garth Fundis.Fans will have the chance to preview a clip of the new single on her website (www.trishayearwood.com) and her MySpace page (www.myspace.com/trishayearwood) beginning July 13th.The single will be delivered digitally to country radio on July 16th
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