Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Country Music Pride

Country Music Pride

Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 04:47 PM PDT

Nashville is an ever changing town. Traditionalists may argue it changes a little too much at times. But there is an underlying thread that, despite towering high-rises, nascent sub-culture hot spots, and an evolutionary music business, still remains woven deep into Nashvillia. Cool.

Plain and simple. Music, pop culture, social trends, entertainment, restaurants and bars. You hear it in the ambient city air and feel it with every step down the hallowed halls of music row. Nashville has always been at the forefront of what's groovy. Even when no one else knows it.

Every once in a while folks need to be reminded. The Country Music Hall Of Fame And Museum is making sure we don't forget a few guys that did just that with Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City, opening March 27. The exhibit will take a look at Nashville during the 1960's-70's.

In the early 60's Bob Dylan reluctantly came to town to record tracks for Blonde On Blonde. The story goes, after he discovered the musicianship and diligence among studio players Dylan decided to record most of the album here, transforming Nashville form a "recording artist" town to "singer-songwriter" town.

Around this period Johnny Cash began featuring folk and contemporary artists on The Johnny Cash Show.   Names like Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, James Taylor and Bob Dylan himself found themselves alongside Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson and Carl Perkins.

Paul McCartney, Joan Baez and The Byrds are just a few others who brought their distinct flavors of cool to Nashville. This renaissance fueled the dawn of the Nashville cats. Nestled snug between Elvis and Alan, this is one of the most important epochs of country music and where we get a lot of the artists now known as legends.

The exhibit is set to run till December 31, 2016. So there's time, but I would procrastinate too long, as you are not going to want to miss this one. For more info visit CountryMusicHallOfFame.org  

Luke Bryan Kicks Of “Spring Break” In Florida

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 04:27 PM PDT

Spring Break is in full swing and Luke Bryan has kicked off his shows in the best known destination for spring break, the sunny state of Florida this week! Bryan will also release a new music video for the aptly titled single, 'Spring Breakdown,' one of the new tunes off his 'Spring Break…Checkin’ Out' album which hit stores today, (Tuesday, March 10th).

Watch the premier clip of his new single here: http://vevo.ly/TOyEQ4.

Longtime videographer for Luke, Michael Monaco, produced the video. The video features exclusive footage from the last 6 Spring Break shows highlighting some of their favorite moments as well as a clip of Luke recording the new single in the studio earlier this year.

The Spring Break concerts are set for this week, March 11th and 12th at the Spinnaker Beach Club in Panama City, Florida. In the past, over 230,000 fans have Bryan's shows.

'Spring Break…Checkin' Out' is now available in stores as well as online TODAY! The new album contains five new original songs which Luke co-wrote himself in addition to the six songs from last year's EP. Luke’s newest release is tipped to be one of the top grossing country albums of 2015.The collections of all 6 of Luke's Spring Break releases combined have sold over 1.1 million to date.

Spring Break…Checkin' Out Track Listing

  1. My Ol’ Bronco
  2.  Games
  3. She Get Me High
  4.  Spring Breakdown
  5. Good Lookin’ Girl
  6. Checkin' Out
  7. You And The Beach
  8. Night One
  9.   Like We Ain't Ever
  10. The Sand I Brought To The Beach
  11. Are You Leaving With Him

Bryan kicks off his 'Kick The Dust Up Tour' later this week and it will go through the end of October. Dustin Lynch and Randy Houser will be on the road with Bryan throughout the tour. Florida Georgia Line and Thomas Rhett will be making special guest appearances on all seven of the stadium shows.

Luke holds the title of CMA Entertainer of the Year and will be co-hosting the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards with Blake Shelton for a third year in a row on April 19, 2015.  Luke is up for four nominations for this year's ACM's which include Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist, Song of the Year for 'Drink A Beer' and Vocal Event for 'This Is How We Roll' with fellow touring mates, Florida Georgia Line.

Visit www.LukeBryan.com or follow Luke on Twitter @LukeBryanOnline, Instagram and Facebook.

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