Trent Willmon Cooks on ‘Smoking Gun Tour’
Columbia Records recording artist Trent Willmon has been criss-crossing the country visiting radio stations in support of his upcoming album, Trent Willmon, which hits stores on October 12. Willmon’s current single is “Dixie Rose Deluxe’s.”
Willmon continues to haul his self-made, gun-shaped grill behind his tour bus and then sets up in radio station parking lots.
His most recent visit was this week was at WKKT in Charlotte, NC, where he prepared brisket and all the homemade fixin's for about 130 staff members and 24 radio winners. After her performed an acoustic set, he was on his way to WSOC to prepare for dinner.
Pat Green Scores Highest Career Chart Debut
Pat Green’s "Don't Break My Heart Again," the lead single from Green's follow-up to the gold Wave On Wave, arrives at radio, it's already his highest charting debut at #42 on Radio & Records one week before the official add date.
“It's crazy, but crazy cool," said Green. "I mean, the week before we're even starting -- the song has already outcharted my first two singles! And it's funny, because it's all happened so organically... but it's wild that people so far beyond Texas are hearing my music."
Produced by Don Gehman, the man behind Green's Wave On Wave and John Mellencamp's most seminal work, "Don't Break My Heart Again" merges Green's ace road band with some of America's most influential musicians. In addition to Dixie Chick musical director/Storyville focal point David Grissom on electric guitar, critically acclaimed violinist/songwriter Lisa Germano was enlisted along with Notorious Cherry Bomb John Hobbs on piano and Hank Williams Jr.’s steel wizard Mike Daly.
Craig Morgan delivers "Look At Us"
Broken Bow Records singer/songwriter Craig Morgan continues down the road in support of his new single, "Look At Us." Morgan will hit a homerun in Cleveland, Ohio on August 24, where he will interview with WGAR from 8-9 a.m., perform and sign autographs at Howl At The Moon Saloon at 12:30 p.m. as part of the "High Noon Saloon" event and then sing the national anthem at the Cleveland Indians vs. New York Yankees game at Jacobs Field at 7 p.m.
"Baseball is the All-American sport and the national anthem represents all of America," said Morgan. "It's an honor to sing the national anthem at America's favorite pastime."
Morgan’s current single, "Look At Us," from his Broken Bow Records debut album, I Love It, breaks Top 30 and is the follow-up to his hit single, "Almost Home," which was Music Row's prestigious Song of the Year and named one of the Top 10 Songs I Wish I'd Written by the NSAI.
Mountain Heart Receives Five International Bluegrass Music Award Nominations
Powerhouse bluegrass band Mountain Heart received five nominations today for the 15th Annual International Bluegrass Music Awards, to be held on October 7 at the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville, KY. For the second consecutive year, the band will vie for the IBMA's top honor, Entertainer of the Year, in a category that includes perennial favorites Alison Krauss & Union Station, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, The Del McCoury Band and Rhonda Vincent & The Rage. The band also received their second nomination for Instrumental Group of the Year, where the competition includes Blue Highway, Alison Krauss & Union Station, The Del McCoury Band and Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder; and their third nomination for Vocal Group of the Year, in a field that includes Blue Highway, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and The Del McCoury Band. Additionally, instrumental award nominations went to band members Adam Steffey (mandolin) and Jason Moore (bass). Steffey is a two-time Mandolin Player of the Year winner, while this is Moore's first individual instrumental nomination. Members of the group also played and sang on A School of Bluegrass, nominated for Album of the Year, Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs of the Louvin Brothers, nominated for Recorded Event of the Year, and Send the Angels, nominated for Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year. More...
