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EMI Records Nashville’s Brothers Osborne releases their highly anticipated debut album, Pawn Shop, Friday January 15. In support of the album release, John and TJ Osborne will make their national TV debut with NBC’s “Late Night With Seth Meyers” Monday, January 18 followed by “TODAY” on Tuesday, January 19 during the 9AM hour.
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Black River Entertainment recording artist Kelsea Ballerini has been counting down to the release of her debut album THE FIRST TIME on 5/18 and will celebrate this week with a national media blitz across several platforms, including performing her Top10-and-rising smash “Love Me Like You Mean It” (Ballerini, Whitehead, Kerr, Carpenter).
The wait is over! Lucy Hale’s highly anticipated album, Road Between, is available for fans to download starting tomorrow, June 3rd as it hits store shelves, iTunes, and other online outlets.
Catch Lucy on “Ram Country” on Yahoo! Music as she performs three songs from Road Between starting June 4. Adding to the media frenzy, Lucy will be featured in American Profile, Country Weekly, People Country, Nashville Lifestyles, Southern Living, US Magazine and many more in support of the June 3 album launch.
Fans can see Lucy live when she takes to the stage this Saturday, June 7, to perform “You Sound Good To Me” and other songs from Road Between at the WBCT Birthday Bash in Grand Rapids, MI. Lucy will next appear live when she makes her Grand Ole Opry debut on June 21 in Nashville.
Road Between is produced by Mark Bright and Mike Daly and features Lucy’s critically acclaimed single, “You Sound Good To Me,” written by tunesmiths Ashley Gorley, Luke Laird, and Hillary Lindsey. The album contains 10 other stellar songs including one written by fellow country singer and Grammy-winner, Kacey Musgraves. Lucy showcases her own songwriting talents on the record’s final track, “Just Another Song” and duets with Joe Nichols on “Red Dress.”
Declared one of CMT’s Next Women of Country, the Memphis born-and-raised 24-year old singer and actress first started singing along with the radio to her favorite Martina McBride, Faith Hill and Shania Twain songs. While Lucy Hale made her mark early on as an actress, best known for her role on the hit ABC Family drama “Pretty Little Liars,” she is eager to share her longtime love for music, with her country debut album, Road Between, due tomorrow on DMG Nashville.
Learn the latest about Lucy on Facebook and follow her on Twitter and Instagram to find out more about her single, upcoming album and touring plans.
With her avant-garde ballads and soaring vocals, Cassadee Pope will release her debut album FRAME BY FRAME on Republic Nashville next Tuesday (10/8). Celebrating release week, Cassadee will appear on multiple national television shows and perform a free show at New York City’s Bryant Park. Continue Reading →
Powerhouse singer/songwriting duo, LoCash Cowboys, self-titled Average Joes Entertainment debut album, scheduled for release June 18, 2013, is a diverse collection of songs that captures the high-energy, roof-raising spirit of the group’s phenomenal live shows and delivers what fans have come to expect. Produced by Shannon “Fat Shan” Houchins, Noah Gordon and Jeffrey Steele, the album will be available everywhere music is sold.
Introducing the album, the lead single, “Chase a Little Love,” is “immensely and endearingly sincere…and the glistening production scores bonus points (Robert Oermann). View the “fast and furious” video for “Chase a Little Love” on CMT.com, CMT Pure, CMT Mobile, GAC and TCN. In addition, a live acoustic version of the song, shot in California in the beautiful Santa Monica Mountains, is featured on Ram Country on Yahoo! Music’s “Music With a View.”
New country artist Rose Falcon just released her 5-song EP entitled ’19th Avenue The EP Volume 2′ with Show Dog Universal Music. Overall, it’s a decent effort. Rose’s voice is slightly airy with a stronger than usual nasally tone combined with a bit of grittiness–the best I can describe it. Very similar to artists like Lucinda Williams, so to me her voice is a little more folk/Americana rather than country. She doesn’t necessarily sound like every artist out there, which is a good thing when you are trying to stand out. I’m kind of on the fence about this one. I don’t absolutely love it, but I don’t hate it, either. Just middle of the road for me.
Lyrically, I feel the songs are well-written and there is strong composition/structure musically. However, none of the songs really wowed me, but I enjoyed “Carry Me Home”–a mid-tempo song with more of a traditional country feel to it with lots of fiddle added in. I, also, enjoyed “If Love Had A Heart”, which is mid-tempo, heartfelt ballad. I really liked this one, which I felt was the most radio-friendly of all the songs, and thought it was a good fit for her voice.
