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A year after that show, the whole an audience. He’s done it for years at
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a time when new artists in country have and taverns and some places you’d
struggled to be heard, Aldean broke best not even go. He’s thrown down
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ith the
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“Home,”
Blake Shelton
took a long career step forward. With
the release of “Startin’ Fires,” he leaps
“Home” took Shelton into new

musical territory, stretching him
guitar, plant corn and watch the deer
and hawks. When I left the house
this morning, there was camouflage
hanging on the clothesline--as redneck
as it gets. And it’s funny, the lifestyle
I’ve lived for years and years has
become the new green movement. It’s
my favorite song on the album because
I can sing that with a big smile on my
face, confident that people are getting
a hundred percent who I am as a
It’s a long way from Ada, Oklahoma,
where he dreamed early on of a career
in music. Blake cut his teeth on the
Oklahoma City club circuit while still
in high school. He was part of the
entertainment for an event in Ada
honoring Mae Axton, writer of the
Elvis classic “Heartbreak Hotel.” She
saw him perform and told Blake she
thought he could get a record deal if he
moved to Nashville and that she was
willing to help.
That convinced him to move just
two weeks after graduation. He worked
with Hoyt Axton, Bobby Braddock and
Earl Thomas Conley, among others, en
route to his record deal, and his debut
single, “Austin,” shot him straight to
the top of the charts.
vocally and stylistically, helping him person.”

expand his audience to include those The album has plenty of all the
who might have missed the more elements t hat ma ke Shelton t he
traditional approach he’d taken to that multidimensional artist he is today--
point. soaring melodies, passionate lyrics, a
“Startin’ Fires,” his fifth album, bit of romance, and songs that celebrate
completes that journey, establishing the country life.
him in the process as one of country “I think this album takes things a
music’s most talented and versatile step above where they have been,”
song stylists. he says. “It shows me as the artist
“This is something I’ve been wanting I’ve always wanted to be, which is
to do,” he says, “exploring richer somebody with a fresh sound that
melodies and challenging myself as a when you hear it, you think, ‘That’s
singer.” got Blake Shelton’s stamp on it.’”
Long-time fans will find that Shelton Taken as a whole, “Startin’ Fires”
honors his roots. Long known for is a richly nuanced look at one of this
the way he wraps his rich baritone generation’s most engaging singers and
around both emotion-laden ballads like certainly one of its most interesting
“Austin” and “The Baby” and light- characters. Last year’s star turn on the
hearted party anthems like “Some NBC miniseries “Clash of the Choirs”
Beach” and “The More I Drink,” he and Blake’s appearance as a judge on
tackles songs about country life and Nashville Star have helped raise his
attitudes with more joyful assurance profile across the board, introducing
than ever, bringing his personality to his irreverently skewed personality to
bear on the record as never before. millions of new fans.
“I think this album is probably more
autobiographical than anything I’ve
ever done,” he says.
WHO BLAKE SHELTON
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r yder lee and stokes

Nielson met in a church
band as teenagers, and
they’ve been making
records together ever
since. Their high school
friendship begat a country band of five
called The Lost Trailers, who have
blazed their way through hundreds of
honkytonks, joints, roadhouses and
concert halls building a fiercely loyal high school, where they convinced
fan base.
Trailers. Those are the guys I

saw open for Chesney or open
for Sugarland,’” said Stokes.
Ryder a nd Stokes both
gravitated towards music in
WHO
WHEN
another student, drummer Jeff Potter,
“Anyone who has ever seen us live to join them in a band named Ryder
is going to hear the first seconds of Stokes. Soon, Stokes’ younger brother
‘Holler Back’ and ‘There’s the Lost Andrew came on as their bassist, a
THE LOST TRAILERS

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For five years, the band toured hard.
“We were basically living in America,”
Ryder said. Eventually they started
opening for acts like Sugarland, Carrie
Underwood, Dierks Bentley and Kenny
Chesney.
“What we learned from Kenny was
put out great songs, put out songs you
believe in, and that your fans believe
in,” Stokes said. It was time to put it on
a record.
WHERE 2009 GRAND VALLEY The band found Brett Beavers, who
HYUNDAI COUNTRY JAM came into the picture with the same
goal: capture the energy and excitement
position now held by the fifth and of The Lost Trailers’ live show and put
last member to join the band, Manny it on a record. He produced several
Med i na (A nd rew moved over to tracks including “Holler Back” and
keyboards). “How ‘Bout You Don’t.”
The new band caught a break early Ryder and Stokes not only share
when one of their demos found its way songwriting credits on several tunes,
to Willie Nelson, who invited them but also took the production reins in
to perform at a Fourth of July picnic. the studio on a couple of cuts.
They were a hit, Willie was impressed “We took six months off to make this
and he invited the band, by then called record,” Ryder said. “We haven’t taken
The Lost Trailers, on tour with him. that much time off the road in six
“ W h at w e le a r ne d f r o m t h at years. We poured all of that energy that
experience was that putting on a great would have gone into performing live,
show will build a fan base,” Stokes said. and put it on this record. Everything
“If you do it night after night, your fan we have done for the last seven years
base will grow. If you earn fans early has led to this record.”
on, they’ll stay fans for life.”
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at green comm a nds a
position in the music world
uniquely his own. He sells
out stadiums like the Houston
Astrodome and Dallas’ Smirnoff
Center as a headliner, yet he also
gets the opportunity to tour with major
artists like Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban
off-the-beaten-path music. At the same
time, the carefree, slice-of-the-good-
life, sing-along-with-me nature of his
work has built-in mass appeal.
He’s already proven he can build
an enthusiastic, youthful following
through the time-tested virtues of hard
work, live performance and word-of-
and the Dave Matthews Band. mouth buzz. Now it’s time to add fuel
That dichotomy underscores one to the fire with the kind of exposure
point: As hugely popular as Pat Green radio and a committed, well-oiled
is, as rabid as his loyal fan base is, record label can provide.
there’s still an enormous audience “It’s really the core market of music
getting their first exposure to his one- fans that I still need to tap into,” Green
of-a-kind music and performances. surmises. “I’ve always figured it was
With his first album since signing just a matter of timing, and now I
with BNA Records, the three-time think our timing is perfect. I think this
Grammy nominee looks to take his is the best album I could make, and I
music to the masses. Cannonball, his think I have the best team behind me.”
explosive new album, captures Green’s As his attitude and words prove,
joyous, provocative songwriting style Green has no problem believing that
with new sharpness and swagger. Cannonball is a career album for him.
Working for the first time with a “I have to believe in what I’m doing—
powerhouse Nashville label, Green and that’s what has gotten me over every
his supporters expect Cannonball to hill,” he says. “I’ve got a big heart, and
transform him from massive cult star I’ve got a strong desire to climb to the
to emerging country superstar. top cliff and jump off. If you’re going to
“I feel like this album is a home run,” do that, you have to think you deserve
Green says with characteristic aw- it. We’ve been doing this a while now,
shucks honesty. “I wanted to take our and it just keeps getting better. I’m as
brand of independent music and give it ready as I can be for what comes next.”
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WHO PAT GREEN

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BIG & RICH BY BEN FONG-TORRES
Big Rich
w hen it
comes to
Big & Rich,
there’s no need
for a t y pic a l
bio. You can get a telling of their early
career — separate and together — from
the folks at Warner Bros. Nashville, or
by Googling the dynamic duo. Their
back story hasn’t changed, so why
retell it?
I’m more interested in the biography
BETWEEN RAISING HELL AND AMAZING GRACE
and with two video cameras rolling, I
asked the guys about their place in life
and music. That place just happens to
be the title of their third CD: Between
Raising Hell and Amazing Grace.
John looked natty in black and blue—
black hat and sport jacket; blue shirt
and jeans. Kenny was all over the place,
with patchy, fashionably tattered jacket
and pants, along with his trademark
top hat. This one was smaller than the
usual, however. “It’s medium,” he said,
came from a conversation he had with
a friend, “and the realization that
between raising hell and ‘Amazing
Grace’ is that fine line that we’re
walking on all the time, trying to live
life to its fullest and at the same time
knowing that every day of our lives
is a blessing. And I feel like, to those
given much, much is expected. We’ve
gotta reach out there and help those
that need our help right now.”
Spoken like the son of a preacher
been fired from the soft-country band,
Lonestar, and is pitching songs left and
right. Kenny, who’s anything but soft,
is playing clubs all over town, drawing
female admirers. One of them was
dating John Rich.
“She wanted to go see him; her
girlfriends were all going to see him,
they were all in love with this guy
Big Kenny, and I went OK, I’ll go
check him out. He’s up there in all his
bigness, doing country, rock and roll,
of the choices they’ve made as Big & “but it should be extra large, because man. Well, actually, it was John, who and…Queen. It was very odd music,
Rich. In their mixing of traditional my cranium is constantly pulsing with comes out of Texas and Tennessee, but it was good stuff.” After the show,
country sounds with hip-hop, rock, imagination and creativity welling up whose father was a preacher — a a mutual friend introduced them. “She
and the occasional Native American in it. It’s about to explode.” guitar-playing preacher, at that. But said the two of you should get together
yell. Their employment, in their Muzik and write a song. There’s no telling
“ ”
I feel like, to those given much,
Mafia troupe, of a painter who works what you all will end up writin’ because
on a canvas during B&R shows, and of you’re so different.” Rich agreed to
a former Foot Locker salesman, called give it a shot. “It might be a complete
Cowboy Troy, who’s become the most
prominent black country performer much is expected. We’ve gotta fiasco,” he thought, “but I hadn’t seen
anybody else do the kind of music he
reach out there and help those

since Charley Pride—with one major was doing; it interested me enough on
difference. Troy raps. In Spanish, a writing level to go, ‘OK, let’s see.’”
that need our help right now.

sometimes. As does Big Kenny, doing R ic h d id n’t k now it t hen, but
a little “hick-hop.” And then there’re His Bigness was relatively new to
their social messages, including “Love professional music. He was building
Everybody,” flashing on big screens homes in Virginia when, one beer-
behind them, and emblazoned on the As John moved, ever so slightly, away Kenny’s mother was the pianist at their soaked night, he agreed to go on stage
back of Big Kenny’s guitar. from Kenny, I asked why the call sheet church in Virginia. Both Big & Rich at a pub and sing a song — the only
I’m curious, too, about the whole for the session requested: “Please Not had spiritual grounding; both did a lot song whose lyrics he knew: “Peaceful
Muzik Mafia thing. That was the Sloppy.” Rich cast an eye at the publicist of Sunday singing. Easy Feeling” by the Eagles. Soon after,
informal jam session they set up in from Warner Bros. Nashville. “She And both credit their fathers for he bought a guitar, taught himself
Nashville, a town notoriously not might’ve meant ‘sloppy drunk,’” he said. their love-everybody, help-thy-fellow- to play, and moved to Nashv ille.
interested in looseness — at least not “I think the beauty of the real us artist values. “I was listening to a lot of country
when it comes to the music industry. shines through,” said Kenny, “no “Everything that’s happened in my music; it was the dominant music on
Kenny Alphin and John Rich grew matter what our bodies are clothed in.” life has guided me to be the person construction sites and in farm shops.
it into a scene and, ultimately, into Lest you think that Big & Rich live I try to be now,” says Kenny. “My But a lot of those same people love rock
a stable of talent, with several of the only to jest, the new album will set father’s one of the most incredible and roll. I grew up as a real appreciator
participants joining them in the leap you straight. Sure, there’s some of the people I’ve ever met. He’s a saint by of all shapes and forms.”
onto the radio, the charts, and concert “I throw Benjis out the window all all means, always trying to help his So there you go. Kenny’s “bigness”
stages. Gretchen Wilson, anybody? day” bravado of their first two disks, neighbor, anybody that he could.” referred to his range of musica l
And so, one recent morning in but there’s far more grace — in words Flash back to Nashville, circa 1998. interests. John Rich appreciated that
Beverly Hills, in a hotel suite that and music — than hell-raising. Suffice to say, both John and Kenny range, and, after they began writing,
could only be described as big and rich, The album’s theme, Kenny said, are struggling. Join the club. John’s and in 2001, while they were going

nowhere slow with their respective
careers, hit on the idea of an informal
jam session on Tuesday nights, dubbed,
for no good reason, “Muzik Mafia.”
“We realized that there was this
whole bunch of us that were making
all different kinds of music in different
joints in town,” said Kenny. “We
were all writing songs together, no
matter what kind of music we were
predominantly making, and we wanted
to play them more often. So we decided,
why don’t we get together one night
a week and find us some little place
where we can make music and not have
to clean up afterwards?”
They got a club — The Pub o’
Love, capacity maybe 75 — and never
promoted the jams to the general
public. But they caught on quick.
“Within a few months they had to
bust out the back wall. Other artists
would show up. It was acoustic driven;
we’d have percussionists come and play
boxes or shakers. It was like sitting in a
living room, learning from each other.”
Among the students was a bartender,
Gretchen Wilson, who’d take a night off
to be there for the party, and “Cowboy
Troy,” who’d drive down as often as he
could from his shoe sales job in Dallas.
The Muzik Mafia has grown into
a mini-empire. “The thing is, we still
do Mafia jams in Nashville on Tuesday
nights when we’re there,” said Rich.
“There’s still no cover; we still don’t
advertise it, but we’ll pull the tour
bus out in front. It gets a little wilder.
We’ve had everyone from Bon Jovi,
Jewel, and Stone Temple Pilots, to hard-
core country acts drop by. We’re still
together. When you’re selling millions
of records, when you’ve got a Tuesday
night off, why aren’t you home? We
still like to jam.”
WHO BIG & RICH

WHEN FRI JUNE 26TH @ 9:30PM
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LUKE BRYAN
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f
ans dr awn in by luke and cotton in Leesburg, Ga., a tiny town
Br yan’s boy ish, dow n- that just got its first traffic light two
home charm soon discover years ago. But Bryan seemed destined
w h a t ’s b e h i n d i t : a n for a different career. Even as a small
intelligent wit, an off- child he recalls being drawn to music.
the-wall sense of humor “I had one of those little suitcase
and a unique take on life shaped by record players that I called my ‘rec-rec’
experiences both joyful and tragic. and I would listen to Ronnie Milsap
They also soon discern that this boy and Alabama on it all day, and I mean
next door is a talented triple threat ALL DAY,” he remembers.
vocalist, songwriter and musician. Bryan had his first guitar
Even before his first Capitol Records by age 14, and was playing
Nashville single, “All My Friends Say,” in a local bar at 15. By age WHO LUKE BRYAN
had been sent to country radio, Bryan, 16, he was regularly writing
32, was already earning significant
med ia attention, includ ing being
songs and leading his own
band. It was during this
WHEN SUN JUNE 28TH @ 4:30PM
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time he also got involved
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selected for the honor. Bryan was also “It’s kind of funny,” he fertilizer plant. But he was unhappy
included in Country Weekly’s “Who’s recalls. “Wednesday nights I’d be through. It’s the most life-altering and remembers feeling “something
Hot in 2007” feature and the single playing for church groups and then event.” But at the same time, such a wasn’t right.” His father sensed it too,
was chosen as an iTunes “Discovery Friday and Saturday I’d be playing Alan harrowing occurrence brings with it and one day took his son for a drive
Download” of the week. Jackson, George Strait and Clint Black “a whole new appreciation for life. You and told him, “Music is what you were
At the same time, Bryan’s second at some little old dives in Georgia.” take each day as a special day. I don’t meant to do. You either quit this job
major cut as a song writer—Billy H is i ntent ion was to move to take anything for granted anymore.” and move to Nashville, or I’m going to
Currington’s “Good Directions”—was Nashville and pursue a music career A f ter the acc ident, Br yan fire you.”
quickly climbing the country airplay soon after his high school graduation, immediately scrapped his career plans, “The day I moved to Nashville and
charts and eventually hit the top spot a goal his family enthusiastically choosing instead to stay with his every day since then has been the
on the country singles charts in May supported. Sadly, fate had other plans. family during their painful ordeal. best day of my life,” Bryan says of
2007 giving the Georgia native his first Bryan had lined up a Nashville He continued to write and play music, fi nally making his long-delayed move
#1 song (three straight weeks) … as a apartment and a roommate, but on the and eventually enrolled at Georgia in September 2001. “I don’t consider
songwriter. Bryan’s first major cut was very day he was scheduled to move, his Southern University, not far from one thing I’ve done since I’ve been in
the title track to Travis Tritt’s “Honky older brother and biggest supporter, home. It was there that Bryan’s talents Nashville work. Spreading fertilizer and
Tonk History.” Chris, was killed in what Bryan calls a really blossomed as he performed with hauling peanut wagons, that’s work!
Countrified is something that comes “freak car accident.” his band nearly every weekend. Doing interviews and playing for fun
naturally to Bryan. He grew up helping The experience, Bryan says, is “the Even a f ter col lege g raduat ion, crowds, I’ll never consider that a job.”
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forth between Nashville, but they did
had earned four top 20 singles, an ACM Brown and Newfield’s great alliance Growing up on a horse farm in their very best to try to support me.”
Best New Artist award, and an army is never more evident than in the Healdsburg, Calif., in the heart of Between the loss of a parent and her
of fans for their rabble-rousing honky- album’s crowing jewel and lead single, Sonoma County wine country, Heidi’s new marriage, Heidi Newfield is in a
“
a lot on her mind.
From the moment that we started in on it, we all
three just sort of looked at each other and went ‘OK
wait a minute— this is really a special song’
tonk brand of country music, Heidi had
“I love the road— but when I stopped

wanting to pack my bag and get on the
bus, that was a telltale sign it was time
for a change,” she recalls.
“Johnny & June.” Written by Newfield,
Stephony Smith and Deanna Bryant,
the song wasn’t even born until the
album, “What Am I Waiting For,” was
60 percent finished.
“From the moment that we started
talent was lovingly nurtured by her
mother and father. Every trail ride,
every horse show and rodeo was set to
a soundtrack of Ernest Tubb, Loretta
Lynn, Patsy Cline and all the great
traditionalists.
”
very different place now than when
hard-partying, good-timing Trick Pony
hit the scene in 2001, and her new
album reflects that.
“There are parts of this record that
are not just about a man and a woman
The diminutive blond who became in on it, we all three just sort of Later—to her mother’s dismay— for me,” she explains. “They’re about
fa mous for her ex plosive voic e, looked at each other and went ‘OK Heidi’s two older sisters turned her on my experiences all the way around,
r a mbu nc t iou s st a ge a nt ic s, a nd wait a minute—this is really a special to the great rock bands of the 60s and like leaving the group, and my feelings
trademark unruly curls points out, song,’” Heidi recounts. Using country’s 70s: The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, about that, the pain and the hurt, or the
“That was still me. But I felt that I legendary First Couple as a muse, and AC\DC. Heidi also fell in love with joy of being independent and standing
had been painted into a corner, and I “Johnny & June” yearns for a love traditional blues, and began playing the on my own two feet. Everybody who
wanted to be able to branch out.” that is “powerful and big, and crazy harmonica at an early age, attracted listens to this record can take these
So with a heavy heart, a deep respect and wild. Everybody wants to find that by what she calls “the most lonesome songs, and place them in their lives,
for where she came from, and an artist’s kind of a big love in their life,” Heidi, sound on the planet.” and relate to them.”
hunger to evolve, Heidi Newfield flew 38, says with a smile. From the first time she ever picked up
the Trick Pony coop. She’s thinking, obviously, of her NFL a microphone at the age of 5 or 6, Heidi

SAWYER BROWN
‘ If you can’t have fun at a SAWYER

BROWN SHOW, you can’t have fun
’
t
he world of sawyer brown good friends can allow. who really love being on that stage as what they do onstage - and that
is filled w ith d irt roads, “We came out of the notion we were and seeing the people letting it all go. combustive sense of musical eruptions
small towns, little thrills, there to entertain people, to make sure Somebody once told me Ìf you can’t fired an intense immersion in all kinds
tiny moments and intimate everybody had a good time,” concedes have fun at a Sawyer Brown show, you of music.
connections... but mostly, creative catalyst Miller, known as much can’t have fun...’ I don’t know, but it “You have no idea,” says the soft-
it’s about recog n it ion of for his hyperkinetic performances as would sure be nice if it was true.” spoken frontman. “People look at me
how major those things really can be: for writing “Some Girls Do,” “The After 23 years, and more than 3,500 offstage, and think it’s an act. But that’s
every day people seeing themselves in Dirt Road,” “Hard To Say,” “Step That shows, gold and platinum albums, a how me and my brother were raised.
each other, the five men onstage and Step,” “This Time,” “The Boys & Me,” smattering of awards and more long Be good, do right, but when you get to
their songs. For the Apopka, Fla.-bred “Thank God For You” and “The Walk.” odds than any act you can think of, church, you let it go. People talk about
band, these are songs of the common “You’re looking at a bunch of blue Sawyer Brown remains a band you can my dancing...well, where we went to
man delivered without mercy, only a collar people here, who were raised to count on. Never ones to get above their church, that’s what people did when
relentless commitment to the freedom put the work in, to make sure the music was pumping. And lemme
and fun that only a night out among the people are satisfied and
WHO SAWYER BROWN tell you: that music got goin’ .”
When it got its start more than 20
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for the heart of small towns, rural Brooks, who advised, “You’re different,
realities, lives lived in common places but you’ve got something. Different is
and truths so basic they go unnoticed. hard, but when it hits, it sticks.”
But along the way, while all kinds And so it has. With the longest
of acts were racing by and then falling uninterrupted run as a band currently
by the by, Mark Miller and company in country music, Sawyer Brown’s
were amassing a string of hits that songs a re a n i nteg ra l t hread i n
defined the worldview of regular the fabric of radio over the past 20
people living between the coasts. years. They didn’t do it on pomp and
Drummer Joe Smyth describes the circumstances, flash and sizzle — in
energy: “The energy onstage is what spite of what the singer might’ve been
keeps the fans coming back — and wearing — but solid music, strong
their energy is part of what keeps us support and remembering to give their
rocking so hard... and we only rock fans their best.
harder as the night goes on. For us, it’s “We’ve been through a lot together,”
like the more we play, the harder they Hubbard admits. “And that really
push us and the better it feels. After brings you together. In 1986, things
an hour and a half, we’re slamming were terrible - and to the outside world,
harder than when we hit the stage, it probably looked like it was all gonna
and it just feels incredible.” fall apart. But we were all so hard-
The seeds for this unlikely intensity headed in our determination to do what
were sown in some equally unlikely we were here to do, we would NOT be
places. Ma rk M i l ler was ra ised stopped.
Pentecostal, where the music in “I learned a lot about loyalty and what
church threw down every bit as hard friendship was all about... we all did.”

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luminary from Pasadena, Maryland, went on, the tandem swiftly learned
grew up accustomed to center stage, their collective value. Chris & Preston Grand Junction, CO
playing in front of the masses each had launched their career.
Friday night. When not quarterbacking “Looking back we realize that we
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HYUNDAI COUNTRY JAM
s ince their debut in 1999, eddie

Montgomery and Troy Gentry
have been a cornerstone of the
most important movement in
country music since the Outlaws.
Just as Waylon, Willie and the rest
kicked open the genre’s doors in the
1970s, Montgomery Gentry has helped
kick-start 21st century country.
The elements consist of
straightforward lyrics reflecting the
realities of modern life, a tour and stage
show that are completely inclusive of
their audience, and a gritty rock edge
that has captured the imaginations of
untold millions.
Theirs is a world of blue-collar
anthems, tales of life, work, love, loss
and patriotism balanced by the hard-
partying spirit that takes the edge
off --”the good, the bad, the ugly,
and the party on the weekends,” as
Montgomery has long capsulated it.
“People recognize the realism in our
music,” says Gentry. “We’re not trying
to candy coat anything. Who we are is
who we are. It’s all about being real,
being yourself, and playing real music
to the people.”
For Montgomery Gentry, the upshot
of that connection with their audience-
-their “friends,” as Montgomer y
i nva r iably c a l ls t hem--has been
m i lestone a f ter m i lestone i n a n
enviable career trajectory.”Some People
Change,” the leadoff single & title
track from their stellar new collection,

Cuttin’
loose at
became the fastest-rising in their a nd ac t ive dut y p er s on nel. For
already impressive catalog. It followed Montgomery Gentry, that is something
the Jam
“She Don’t Tell Me To,” the single that dates back to the release of their
from 2005’s greatest hits collection, first record. They have done many
Something To Be Proud Of: The Best shows for military personnel through
of 1999-2005, a song that hit the Top the years, but in 2006 for the first time
5 on the country charts, while the they were able to travel to visit troops
albums’ title track reached #1 on both in Kuwait, Iraq and Germany as part
the Billboard and R&R singles charts. of a USO tour. It was a journey that
In addition, the pair was CMT’s Most affected both deeply.
Played Duo of 2005. “It was an eye-opening experience
They have performed for well over for me,” says Gentry, “seeing what our
a million fans & prior to headlining soldiers are doing to battle terrorism
tours, they were on Kenny Chesney’s and help the Iraqis and Afghanis gain a
“No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems” better way of life.”
tours in 2002 and 2003, and the Brooks “I don’t ever want to hear anybody
& Dunn Neon Circus & Wild West say, ‘I don’t know if this generation has
Show in 2001. They were named the got what it takes,’” says Eddie. “We’ve
CMA’s Duo of the Year in 2000, and got the baddest men and women in
received that year’s American Music
Award for Favorite New Artist--
the world & knowing that they’ve got
our backs reminds me every day why
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their future looks even brighter. of overwhelming similarities.
“It’s just amazing how the crowds
keep getting bigger,” says Gentry.
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they’ve got,” says Montgomery, “when Our Hats go
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si ng i ng a long w it h us. It’s just
the music hits and the lights come on,
they’re all the same--rednecking and off to you
incredible.
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t hose who best understand
Phil Vassar – good-time,
whirling-der v ish-on-the-
piano, hardest-working-man-
in-country-music Phil Vassar
– also understand the ongoing
evolution of his mostly self-penned
music. And “Prayer Of A Common
Man,” his fourth studio album and
first for Universal Records South,
adds several more layers of artistic
get-together we had in my family.”
Devotion to family is one of the
reasons Vassar has become increasingly
contemplative and emotional with
his music. He considered his place in
the world with “American Child,”
addressed hard questions of faith in
“This Is God” and explored that which
truly brings meaning in his most
recent smash, last year’s “Last Day Of
My Life.”
just poor. You don’t really know it or poses for arriving aspirants.
understand it when you’re a kid. I never “My dad worked at a GE plant, and
had a car. I didn’t have one even college. even though I don’t make minimum
I’d have never even gone to college if I wage I still work my ass off,” Vassar
couldn’t run fast or jump high.” says. “Even today, I still have that
The track scholarship to JMU gave work ethic where you feel like if you
Vassar a way out of a town where there don’t work hard you’re not going to
were only two career options – both eat. That’s something my dad instilled
factories, and it was college where his in me and my sisters. I’m not in that
musical passions first took serious hold. desperate place anymore where I’m
He moved to Nashville and banged out wondering if I should buy gas or milk,
expression to his deepening repertoire. He may be an acclaimed performer a living playing piano in local clubs but I can definitely relate to that guy.”
The Virginia-born singer, songwriter and chief executive of a successful while writing original music
and musician took his seat as country’s
leading piano man with the success
business venture, but he’s also the son of
a factory worker from a small, Southern,
and pursuing an artist deal.
His father’s work-a-day ethos
WHO PHIL VASSAR
of songs like “Just Another Day In lunch pail town. “I grew up poor,” propelled him through the
Paradise” and “Six-Pack Summer,” and Vassar says. “Not middle class, we were long-odds gauntlet Nashville WHEN FRI JUNE 26TH @ 5PM
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also apparent, especially on lead single
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same time, his writing has grown more
introspective and personal, as “This Is
My Life” and the title track can attest
Like light through a prism, the hues
of Vassar’s muse are both seamless and
distinct. And those shades are a direct
reflection of the many forces at work in
the life of a maturing recording artist.
“I can look back on songs I’ve
written, kind of smile and remember
what I was going through at the time,”
Vassar says. “But it’s a different life
for me now. Experience changes you
and affects what comes out in your
writing.” As the cares of the world work
on him, Vassar fi nds the pull of home
growing stronger, which gave weight
to the choice of “Love Is A Beautiful
Thing” as his album’s first single. “It
reminds me of growing up back home
in Virginia,” he says. “It really paints
a portrait of Americana. Every time I
hear that second verse about giving
away your daughter at her wedding it
makes me tear up. In a way, the song
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