KENNY ROGERS RELEASES CHRISTMAS LIVE

Nashville, TN – It’s that time of year again…and that means Kenny Rogers is gearing up to celebrate the holidays, once again, on his Christmas & Hits Tour – now a holiday tradition – coming to a city near you soon…plus this holiday season brings the release of Kenny’s first-ever live Christmas recording, Christmas Live.



Featuring such favorites as “Silent Night,” “Mary, Did You Know,” “My Favorite Things,” “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!,” “Away In A Manger / O Holy Night,” “O Come All Ye Faithful,” “We Three Kings/The Little Drummer Boy,” “‘Til The Season Comes Around Again, and “The Chosen One/Joy To The World,” the album truly captures the essence of his live holiday performances so that you and yours can enjoy these special musical moments wherever you happen to be and whenever you’d like.

Available for pre-order now via www.kennyrogers.com and at Kenny’s Christmas & Hits shows on the road beginning November 26th, Christmas Live makes the perfect gift or stocking stuffer.

Listen for "The Chosen One/Joy To The World" on a radio station near you!

2010 Christmas & Hits Tour
11/26 - Bossier City, LA
11/27 - Biloxi, MS
11/28 - Anderson, SC
12/2 - London, ON CAN
12/3 - Toronto, ON CAN
12/4 - Quebec, QC CAN
12/6 - Ottawa, ON CAN
12/7 - Greensburg, PA
12/8 - Verona, NY
12/9 - Morristown, NJ
12/10 - Glens Falls, NY
12/11 - Atlantic City, NJ
12/12 - Mashantucket, CT
12/14 - Binghamton, NY
12/16 - Detroit, MI
12/18 - Lynn, MA
12/19 - North Bethesda, MD
12/20 - Reading, PA
12/21 - Virginia Beach, VA
12/22 - Westbury, NY

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Signs with New Frontier Touring

Nashville, TN – New Frontier Touring is thrilled to announce the signing of multiple Grammy and CMA award-winning artist Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to their roster for exclusive worldwide representation!



“Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and their music epitomizes what the New Frontier Touring roster is all about,” said agency prez Paul Lohr. “We are honored to be entrusted with their tour guidance, and continuing their decades of success. We look forward to working with the Dirt Band and riding with them “to Infinity and Beyond!”

Immortalized for their “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” recordings and iconic hits such as “Mr. Bojangles” and “Fishin’ In the Dark,” Nitty Gritty Dirt Band are country-rock pioneers, country-radio hit makers and modern-day standard bearers for the Americana scene. They continue to release new, vibrant and relevant music in their on-going, legendary career

Jennings To Be Honored With Tribute Collection

Late country music icon Waylon Jennings will be honored with a deluxe tribute compilation on February 8, as Scatter Records and the Big Machine Label Group team up to release The Music Inside: A Collaboration Dedicated To Waylon Jennings, Vol. 1. Distribution and promotion will be handled by The Valory Music Co.



The star-studded tribute is part of a three volume project featuring some of country music’s best performing Jennings’ songs, including Kris Kristofferson, Jamey Johnson, Trace Adkins, Patty Griffin, and Sunny Sweeney. The lead single from Vol. 1 is “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way,” which supergroup Alabama reunited to record. The single goes for adds Dec. 13.

The project was conceived in 2007 by Scatter Records founder Witt Stewart, who contacted Jennings’ widow Jessi Colter with the idea. Colter also appears on the tribute, dueting with Sunny Sweeney on “Good Hearted Woman.” Colter and Jennings’ son Shooter pays tribute as well, performing “Belle of the Ball” for Vol. 1. Every performance on the collection earned Jessi and Shooter’s blessing.

“There have been several tribute albums made in my father’s honor, all of which were great tributes to his legacy. But this one has been a true passion project for a lot of artists and friends who truly wanted to remember and give back to the wonderful man he was,” says Shooter. “In the years since my dad passed away, I’ve grown as an artist and I feel this is the first time I’ve been able to give back truly to the man who inspired, influenced and nurtured me and my musical passion.”

Volumes 2 and 3 are due to be released later in 2011.

Vol. 1 tracklist:

1. This Time – Jamey Johnson
2. Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way – Alabama
3. I’m A Ramblin’ Man – Randy Houser
4. Belle of the Ball – Shooter Jennings
5. Good Hearted Woman – Sunny Sweeney and Jessi Colter
6. Don’t You Think This Outlaw Bit’s Done Got Out Of Hand – James Otto
7. Just To Satisfy You – John Hiatt w Waylon Jennings
8. Rose In Paradise – Kris Kristofferson and Patty Griffin
9. You Ask Me To – Trace Adkins
10. Go Down Rockin’ – Waylon Jennings

(Bonus Track)
The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don’t Want To Get Over You) – Chanel Campbell

Brett Eldredge - Raymond

There are certain songs that tug at your heart strings and don't want to let go. Like Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss with "Whiskey Lullaby", Martina McBride's "Independence Day", or Alan Jackson & Patty Loveless singing together on "Monday Morning Church". "They make you teary-eyed, or get you to say "wow".

I heard Brett Eldredge's single, "Raymond", earlier today and felt the tug on the old heart strings. It may have to do with the fact that I can relate to the Alzheimer's Disease story in the lyrics. I had to watch my Grandmother waste away from that disease. This song reminds me how she wouldn't remember much of recent events, but if you went back 20 years or more and talked about those events, she was quite coherent.

Take a listen to "Raymond":


I work down at Ashberry Hills
Minimum wage, but it pays the bills
Cleaning floors and leading hymns on Sunday

Katherine Davis, room 303
Sweetest soul you ever could meet
I bring her morning coffee everyday

She calls me Raymond
She thinks I'm her son
Tells me get washed up for supper
before your daddy gets home
She goes on about the weather
how she can't believe it's already 1943
She calls me Raymond, and that's all right by me

She talks about clothes on the line in the summer air
Christmas morning and Thanksgiving prayer
Stories of a family that I never had
Sometimes I find myself wishing I'd been there

When she calls me Raymond
She thinks I'm her son
Tells me get washed up for supper
before your daddy gets home
She goes on about the weather
how she can't believe it's already 1943
She calls me Raymond, and that's all right by me

There's a small white cross in Arlington
Reads Raymond Davis '71
Until she can see his face again
I'm gonna fill in the best I can

When she calls me Raymond
She thinks I'm her son
Tells me get washed up for supper
before your daddy gets home
She goes on about the weather
how she can't believe it's already 1943
She calls me Raymond, and that's all right by me
She calls me Raymond, and that's all right by me

Be sure to stop by Brett's website and check out his music, videos & more: BrettEldredge.com

Hank Williams

Today at the station, I received a sampler of Hank Williams: The Complete Mother's Best Recordings, a 16-disc collector's box set released by Time Life.


Here are a few previews:

Where the Old Red River flows:


Nobody's lonesome for me:


Audrey Williams & The Drifting Cowboys: I like that kind


Check out the Time Life website to order the collection: Hank Williams The Complete Mother's Best