If you want to see Vince Gill and are in downtown Nashville on Friday (February 12th), you can see him for FREE at the special Vince Gill pop up store, housed inside the legendary Ernest Tubb Record Shop. He’ll perform several tracks from his new album, Down to My Last Bad Habit, available on Friday.
WHEN
Friday, Feb. 12 – 6.00pm
WHERE
Ernest Tubb Record Shop, 417 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37203
Vince has released his new single, “Take Me Down,” from his new album, Down to My Last Bad Habit.
Charles Kelley has stepped out from his band Lady Antebellum and released his debut solo album, The Driver. The nine-song collection includes the title cut, which features Dierks Bentley and Eric Paslay, as well as a couple of other appearances by Stevie Nicks on the Tom Petty cover, “Southern Accents,” and Miranda Lambert on “I Wish You Were Here.” “Round in Circles,” marks the first time that Charles and his brother, Josh Kelley, recorded together since Josh’s early work. The last song recorded forThe Driver is “The Only One Who Gets Me,” which is the first time the Georgia native has written a song specifically for and about his wife, Cassie, who is pregnant with the couple’s first child.
“I want people when they hear the record to, I guess, know that I wasn’t chasing anything with this. I just wanted to make music that I believed in,” says Charles. “I hope too that they get to hear my voice in a little more of a raw environment, and this is how I’ve always wanted my voice to sound. I tried to kind of get into a little more of a richer tone, so I want people when they walk away to go, ‘Wow! I didn’t know he could sing.’”
This spring, Charles will hit the road on The Driver Tour, and he’s taking along his brother Josh Kelley for the ride. The two-month tour kicks off April 9th at The Fillmore in Washington, D.C.
The Driver Track Listing:
Charles Kelley (what he wants fans to go away with) OC: …could sing. [laughs] :26
“I want people when they hear the record to, I guess, know that I wasn’t chasing anything with this. I just wanted to make music that I believed in. I hope too that they get to hear my voice in a little more of a raw environment, and this is how I’ve always wanted my voice to sound. I tried to kind of get into a little more of a richer tone, so I want people when they walk away to go, ‘Wow! I didn’t know he could sing.’” [laughs]
This Sunday (February 7th), millions of people around the world will be tuning in to the Super Bowl (the Big Game), including some of your favorite country artists. Some will be rooting for the Denver Broncos, while others will be pulling for the Carolina Panthers to win the Big Game. Canaan Smith, Darius Rucker, Luke Bryan, Lady Antebellum, Easton Corbin and Little Big Town are definitely fans of football.
Sam Hunt will perform at the annual tailgate party preceding Sunday’s game, along with pop star Seal.
Canaan Smith (Super Bowl) OC: …It’s cool. :21
“Super Bowl’s all about pizza and commercials. You gotta sit down, you gotta drink your beer, get a little buzz. It’s pepperoni and banana peppers for me and my family. We sit down, we have a a good time, we have friends over. We have a nice TV, plenty of space. We have a good time. Usually, when it’s all said and done, we have a little dance party afterwards too. It’s cool.”
Darius Rucker (football) OC: …football season. :20
“Ever since I was five years old, I’ve loved football, and I love how physical it is. I love the chess match of the game. I love the speed of the game. I love college football, but for me watching pro football is better because the speed is so much more. For me, there’s two times a year, man — football season and waiting for football season.”
Easton Corbin (football) OC: …that’s on. :07
“That’s all that’s on the bus on the weekends. That’s it, and we’ve got three TVs on the bus, so that’s all that’s on.”
Lady A (tailgate food) OC: (Charles) …football watching. :21
HILLARY: “Honestly, chips and salsa, salsa or cheese dip or something. That’s like what I always go for. I could eat that every meal. No joke.” DAVE: “Best tailgate food is a big ole burger soaked in Dale’s sauce. That’s all you need.” HILLARY: “Or bratwurst. I forgot that. Those are good.” CHARLES: “Cold beer! A couple of little finger foods, but without cold beer, it’s not football watching.”
LBT (football story) OC: …my lip. :40
“I was the quarterback to my powder puff team. I was running the ball and I came around the corner – this was in high school – and a foreign exchange student, I think her name was Inga (KIMBERLY: “Inga.”), and I didn’t want to fumble ‘cause my brother and my dad were there, and I come from this very athletic family, so I held onto the ball. I knew I was going to go down, so I let my head hit first and I bit all the way through, but I didn’t fumble and I had a hole in my face, though. The sad thing is that it was just flag football, but I left my flags on and cleats and everything, ‘cause it looked cool, and I had blood running all down my jersey. I went to the emergency room like that, and they sewed up my lip.”
Luke Bryan (Super Bowl food) OC: …over again. :22
“Definitely Super Bowl is like the queso, the Frito Lay scoops with the Ro-tel situation. I guess it’s like, what’s the black-eyed pea stuff too? All of that, just stuff that you can sit there and have lots of sodium, and then just, it’s like Thanksgiving all over again.”
Dierks Bentley is the latest superstar to be featured in an exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The Dierks Bentley: Every Mile a Memory will open March 4th and run through September 6th.
“It’s crazy to be considered for something like this,” Dierks says in a statement. “The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is home to the most revered and influential country artists of all time. Just being in the building as a visitor is humbling, but to actually be featured in one of the museum’s exhibits is something I never would have believed if you’d suggested it back when I started chasing this dream down on Broadway. I’m going to have to go down there to see it for myself to really make it sink in.”
He’ll do an intimate Q & A and acoustic performance at the Hall in the CMA Theater March 12th. Among the items on display will include guitars, lyrics and stage clothes.
Every Mile a Memory is named after his 2006 No. 1 single will trace his journey from Phoenix to Nashville, including his early days playing for tips in honky tonks on Lower Broad in Nashville to his current headline tours.
Dierks is making his way up the country charts with his latest single, “Somewhere on a Beach,” which is from his upcoming album, Black, due out later this year.
Chris Stapleton has been added to the list of performers at this year’s GRAMMY Awards. He’ll be joined by Bonnie Raitt and Gary Clark Jr. in a tribute to the late B.B. King.
Chris is nominated for four GRAMMYs, including Album of the Year and Best Country Album for Traveller, as well as Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song for the album’s title cut, “Traveller.”
Previously announced country performers include Little Big Town, Sam Hunt and Carrie Underwood.
Chris is climbing the country charts with his latest single, “Nobody to Blame.”
The 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards will air live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles February 15th at 8pm ET on CBS.
There’s a new synonym for “everywhere” and it’s “Vince Gill.”
Thanks to the excitement being generated by the February 12th release of his new album—Down To My Last Bad Habit—Vince will be involving fans more intimately in more ways than ever before.
“Take Me Down,” the first single from the album, features vocal assists by Little Big Town and has already been shipped to radio. “A masterful appraisal of the volcanic force of love,” one critic calls it. Hear it at http://www.npr.org/2015/11/19/456382190/songs-we-love-vince-gill-take-me-down.
Starting today, fans can preview the entire album on National Public Radio’s “First Listen” site at http://www.npr.org/2016/02/03/464899204/first-listen-vince-gill-down-to-my-last-bad-habit?sc=tw
Vince’s skills as a storyteller are legendary. A first of its kind audio-documentary, a Spotify playlist has been created to capture Vince’s engaging tales of the music business and the stars he’s worked with along the way—in three categories: Vince Gill: A Musician’s Heart, Vince Gill: The Vocalist and Vince Gill: The Creator. Listening to these inside accounts is the closest thing to being a guest in Vince’s living room. To listen, follow these Spotify links:
http://smarturl.it/VGTheMusician
http://smarturl.it/VGTheVocalist1
http://smarturl.it/VGTheCreator1
Vince has played, sung and/or written songs on more than 500 albums by other artists. And he’s produced projects beyond these. So what could be more natural—or delightful—than a diversion called “Six Degrees Of Vince Gill”? Fans can enter any musician’s name to discover the degrees of separation the musical figure has from Vince. Want to know the number of degrees between Vince and, say, Adele? It’s two. Check it out for yourself at 6degreesofvincegill.com.
The famed Ernest Tubb Record Shop on Nashville’s Lower Broadway, the city’s live-music center and most heavily visited thoroughfare, has been transformed into a special Vince Gill pop up store. It features a giant outdoor photo of the new album cover and inside there’s a Vince Gill kiosk displaying his MCA Records catalog. The store also includes other artifacts, such as limited edition Vince Gill t-shirts, guitar picks and more. It is the only store at which CD copies of Down To My Last Bad Habit can be purchased before the release date.
But it takes more than a monster album launch to keep Vince away from sports. He and his 14-year-old daughter, Corrina, sang the national anthem for the world-televised NHL All-Star game in Nashville on Jan. 31. And he and wife Amy Grant served as celebrity coaches. Icing the cake, Gill served as honorary Mayor of Smashville—along with the real mayor, Megan Barry—during the game weekend, Jan. 29 – 31.
The Grand Ole Opry will celebrate Vince’s 25-year membership in that hallowed institution with two Vince-headlined shows Aug. 13.
Fans can pre-order Down To My Last Bad Habit at http://umgn.us/2hbt.
Sam Hunt will headline the Super Bowl 50 NFL Tailgate Party at Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco on Sunday (February 7th), along with pop superstar Seal. Sam will perform prior to the big matchup between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers, and both his performance will be televised as part of CBS’s Super Bowl Sunday pregame show, The Super Bowl Today.
The Georgia native is looking forward to playing at this year’s Super Bowl. “I’m just looking forward to being in the middle of Super Bowl energy. It’s become such a massive pop culture event, and I love that they’ve incorporated music and entertainment with the sport itself and the entertainment value that comes from that,” says Sam. “It encompasses just a strong representation of American culture, and I’m looking forward to being in the middle of all that positive energy. I’m a huge music fan, obviously, and I’m a huge sports fan, so those are two of my favorite worlds combined there.”
Sam recently earned his first-ever GRAMMY nominations for Best New Artist and Best Country Album. The Grammys will be handed out live February 15th on CBS.
Sam’s debut album, Montevallo, topped the Billboard Country Albums Chart in its first week, and it remains the best-selling debut album for a country artist since 2011. The album has so far produced three consecutive No. 1 Platinum-selling singles with “Leave The Night On,” “House Party” and the Double-Platinum “Take Your Time,” plus Hunt’s latest Top 5 Platinum-selling single, “Break Up In A Small Town.” The monumental album has spent more than a year in the Top 10 on the country album sales chart — nine of those weeks at No. 1.
Check out which team (or quarterback) Sam is pulling for right here.
Sam Hunt (performing at Super Bowl 50) OC: …combined there. :29
“I’m just looking forward to being in the middle of Super Bowl energy. It’s become such a massive pop culture event, and I love that they’ve incorporated music and entertainment with the sport itself and the entertainment value that comes from that. It encompasses just a strong representation of American culture, and I’m looking forward to being in the middle of all that positive energy. I’m a huge music fan, obviously, and I’m a huge sports fan, so those are two of my favorite worlds combined there.”
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (February 1, 2016) – MCA Nashville breakout star Sam Hunt’s ACM and GRAMMY-nominated debut album Montevallo earns RIAA Double Platinum certification. Montevallo topped the Billboard Country Albums chart in its debut week and remains the best-selling debut album for a country artist since 2011. Following the RIAA news this morning that the organization now takes on-demand audio and video streaming data into consideration, Montevallo leapt from Gold to Double Platinum status.
Helping launch Hunt into the country music forefront, Montevallo has so far produced three consecutive No. 1 Platinum-selling singles with “Leave the Night On,” “House Party” and the double Platinum “Take Your Time,” plus his current Platinum-selling “Break Up In A Small Town.” There will be a fifth radio single off of the impressive debut as “Make You Miss Me,” written by Hunt, Josh Osborne and Matthew Ramsey, ships to country programmers later this month.
Hunt, recently earning his first ever GRAMMY nominations with nods in the all-genre Best New Artist category and in Best Country Album for Montevallo, will be performing on the Feb. 15 broadcast with seven-time GRAMMY winner and fellow nominee Carrie Underwood.
ACM Awards nominations were also revealed this morning with Hunt earning nods in Album of the Year for Montevallo and Single of the Year for “Take Your Time.” Hunt was previously announced as one of this year’s ACM Party For A Cause performers at the annual benefit festival for ACM Lifting Lives leading into the April 3 awards show.
Hunt established a strong presence early in the streaming space ending 2015 with four of the Top 10 streaming country tracks and as the No. 2 top-streaming country artist. He maintains the No. 2 top-streaming position this year and holds the top streaming country tracks for 2016 with his current single, “Break Up In A Small Town” for the 11th week in a row, the mega hit “Take Your Time” at No. 3, and the fun-loving “House Party” ranked at No. 4.
Montevallo, produced by Zach Crowell and Shane McAnally, landed on multiple “Best of…” lists including the Associated Press, Billboard, Country Weekly, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, SPIN Magazine, Village Voice and The Washington Post, and has spent 56 of the past 57 weeks in the Top 10 on the country album sales chart, with 45 of those weeks in the Top 5 and nine perched at No. 1.
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