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What's a Guy Gotta Do? Joe Nichols Signs New Deal, Hits "Home Run" with New Single Impacting Radio in May

4/23/2021

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New Single “Home Run” Available Digitally Worldwide 4/23
Impacts Country Radio on 5/10

NASHVILLE, TN (April 23, 2021) – Multi-platinum Quartz Hill Records artist Joe Nichols returns with new single “Home Run” available digitally worldwide on 4/23. The song ushers in a new era of classic-influenced country music from Nichols.

“Home Run” impacts country radio on May 10.
Stream/ buy “Home Run” HERE.  

“Home Run” was penned by award-winning songwriters Ashley Gorley, Dallas Davidson and Ross Copperman. The song explores the need for human reconnection and for new beginnings, serving as an anthem for anyone looking to turn life’s curveballs into a straight shot toward the center field seats. That message is what ultimately drove Nichols to record the song.

“It’s more than a great hook; it’s a great message, too,” says Nichols. “After the year we’ve had, we could all use a little bit of a break, just to step away from the rat race for a while and get back to our roots. We could all use a reminder of what home feels like.” 

“Home Run” marks Nichols’ first new music since his 2018 EP, Never Gets Old: Traditional Country Series, and the first music since reuniting with veteran label head Benny Brown with whom Nichols enjoyed two multi-week No. 1 singles, the RIAA Gold-certified hits “Yeah” and “Sunny and 75” from the critically-acclaimed album, Crickets.

Nichols is currently in the studio recording his inaugural full-length album for Quartz Hill Records, reuniting with acclaimed music producers Mickey Jack Cones and Derek George, who helmed Nichols’ much-lauded Crickets. Cones also produced Nichols’ follow-up album, Never Gets Old, which was named one of All Music’s “Favorite Country Albums of 2017” alongside projects by Willie Nelson, Margo Price and Chris Stapleton.

For the latest news on Nichols visit: www.JoeNichols.com and follow him (@JoeNichols) on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. 



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Multi-Genre Entertainer Jimmy Bowen Hits the TV Airwaves with Season Two of Music Series, Jimmy Bowen & Friends

4/16/2021

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Jimmy Bowen talks with Little Texas's Brady Seals about new music and new book "God Blessed Texas and Me Too" Photo Credits: Wayne Cowan and Daniel Cowan
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Deborah Allen with Bowen Photo Credits: Wayne Cowan and Daniel Cowan
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T. Graham Brown with Bowen Photo Credits: Wayne Cowan and Daniel Cowan
Now Airing on Heartland TV, The Family Channel, The Country Network, Ride TV, RightNow TV, StrykTV, Country Road TV, and Country TV - New Zealand

(Nashville, TN. – April 14, 2021) –Americana/Bluegrass/Red Dirt Country Entertainer Jimmy Bowen is excited to return to the airwaves this spring with season two of Jimmy Bowen & Friends, a live TV music series. The show hosted by Bowen consists of thirteen half-hour episodes featuring Bowen performing live with his band and a featured guest artist each week.

"I am thrilled to be back for season two. 'Jimmy Bowen & Friends' is the music variety TV show I always dreamed of hosting and with the outstanding team we have assembled, and the super-talented guests we have lined up, I know we will continue to expand our viewership with each and every season. Our show offers a diverse line-up crossing musical genres, and blending rising artists and seasoned entertainers so I am confident that there is something for everyone." Bowen commented.

Jimmy Bowen & Friends is syndicated nationwide and was produced by award-winning production company CJM Productions, whose shows are broadcast in over 200 million homes in the USA as well as the UK and New Zealand. 

The show was filmed live at Ridenour Rehearsal Studios, a local favorite in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (read an exclusive interview about the filming HERE) and the star-studded line-up includes multiple award-winning artists Jason Crabb, Becky Bullard, Lewis Brice, Rockland Road, Brady Seals, Frank Ray, Nosey Flynn, Deborah Allen, Linda Davis,  Larry Stephenson Band, Nu-Blu and T. Graham Brown.

The production kicked off season two at the beginning of this month on the following TV Networks: Heartland TV - Tuesday, 5 p.m. EST, Sunday, 5 p.m. EST, The Family Channel - Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. EST, Sunday, 4:30 p.m. EST, The Country Network (TCN) - Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Friday, 11:30 a.m., Sunday, 3 p.m. (broadcast stations air times are true to the time zone the viewer is in, online streaming platforms are EST), RightNow TV - Tuesday, 3 p.m. EST, Wednesday, 12 a.m. EST, Friday, 3 p.m., EST, Saturday, 12 a.m. EST, Sunday, 12 a.m. EST, StrykTV (OTT) - Monday 2 a.m. and  4 p.m. EST, Wednesday 4 p.m. EST, Friday, 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. EST, Country Road TV -  TBA, Country TV-New Zealand - TBA, Ride TV - TBA. Most of these networks also offer Streaming. Please consult local listings as airing dates/times are subject to change without notice. Bowen is already in the planning stages for season three.

ABOUT JIMMY BOWEN
Jimmy Bowen is a highly acclaimed musician, singer, and songwriter. He is from Charlotte, N.C., and became involved in music by the time he was 5 years old. Bowen has been creating music for over 3 decades and has toured internationally with some of the most well-known names in Bluegrass music including Charlie Waller and the Country Gentlemen, and David Parmley and the Continental Divide. He has had the opportunity to share the stage with country legends including Earl Thomas Conley, Eddy Raven, John Conlee, Josh Turner, Little Jimmy Dickens, and Mel Tillis, and has even had the privilege to perform at the White House for President, George W. Bush, Sr. and at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. In October of 2019, Bowen was inducted into the National Traditional Country Music Association’s America’s Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame. Another passion of Bowen’s is acting. He has been cast for various television series, dramas, and commercials all while working with some of the biggest names in TV including Michael Rooker, (Days of Thunder), Adam Arkin (Chicago Hope), John Hawkes (The Perfect Storm with George Clooney), and Mary Steenburgen (Philadelphia). Bowen was also a featured actor in Toby Keith’s “Hope on the Rocks” video, and in the drama-filled ABC- TV hit series Nashville.

Bowen’s current single, "Red Line" is working its way up the Texas Country charts. His  second most recent single, the double-meaning dubbed ex's lament of “Second Hand Smoke,” hit No. 35 on the Texas Country charts. Both songs can be found through all streaming platforms and digital outlets including Spotify, Apple, iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play. He just finished up recording new music that is scheduled to be released later this month and has been busy with personal appearances to promote his music and TV show. Shows include Larry's Country Diner, Dr. Ward Bond's Life Changing Wellness Show - The Music Edition, The Backstage Pass Powered by The Sports Guys Podcast, The 615 Hideaway, Main Street Today, Celebration Conversations, The Chris and Sandy Show, and more.

To learn more about Jimmy Bowen, his music, Jimmy Bowen & Friends, and upcoming tour dates and appearances, visit his Website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

#countrymusic #countrymusictelevision
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Ronnie Milsap Delivers "A Better Word for Love"                          (updated with 5/1 Opry video)

4/14/2021

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Track listing (including songwriters) below!

Country Music Hall of Fame legend Ronnie Milsap follows up his all-star Duets, featuring Kacey Musgraves, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Billy Gibbons, Luke Bryan and George Strait with A Better Word for Love - to be released 4/30. 

Teaming with longtime co-producer Rob Galbraith, the pair sought to celebrate the genre-blurring kind of country that Milsap defines.

In fact, the title track has been recorded by other artists - even recorded on supergroup Alabama's album Cheap Seats - but Milsap's held on to the rich song for some time himself. 

Mike Reid (“Stranger In My House,” “I Can’t Make You Love Me”), Gary Nicholson (“One More Last Chance,” “The Trouble With The Truth”), Al Anderson (“All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down,” “The Cowboy In Me”), Jim Weatherly (“Midnight Train To Georgia,” “Best Thing To Ever Happen To Me”), Brent Maher (“Why Not Me,” “Lesson In Leavin’”), Allen Shamblin (“Life’s A Dance”, "Don't Laugh at Me"), and David Ball are among the renowned writers featured. 

“I have been blessed to work with some of the very best songwriters in the world,” Milsap reflects. “Over the years, they’ve kept bringing me unbelievable songs, and in some cases, they’ve let me hang onto them because I loved them so much. When Rob and I started this project a few years ago, we decided some of those songs were so special… We wanted to build this album around them, so they wouldn’t be treasures only Joycee and I could hear.

“We got to go back to Ronnie’s Place, the studio I built all those years ago, just dig in and cut them – and some songs that have the same kind of heart, the soul and that joy that I’ve always loved. You know, even a sad song when you do it sad enough’ll make you feel better.”

Along the way, Milsap received a special package from Carl Perkins’s widow. “Big Bertha” was the last song the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer had written. She’d sent it to Milsap thinking he’d do it right. Not only did the Academy of Country Music Pioneer Award winner bring his signature slow burning blues to the song, he enlisted Vince Gill for the quick-hitting, fiddle-punctuated country portion of the ode to more than a woman, but a driver. And they hit it out of the (golf) park.

“Singing a song about a golf club without Vince Gill just didn’t feel right,” Milsap laughs. “And he was able to bring that thing he does like nobody else to Carl’s song.”

To further honor these songs, Milsap enlisted some of Nashville’s finest to play: guitarists Brent Mason, Steve Gibson, Mark Casstevens, and Chris Leuzinger, bass player Michael Rhodes, drummer Lonnie Wilson, double steel players Mike Johnson and Paul Franklin, and Milsap’s longtime musical director Jamie Brantley.

As a further homage to his longtime musical compatriots, Milsap includes “Civil War,” recorded live at Atlanta’s Chastain Park in 1993. Capturing his longtime touring band in their prime, the Cindy Richardson/Carol Chase song weaves Southern gospel into a song of marital dissolution – and demonstrates the vocal dynamics, keyboard stylings and drama onstage.

"The state of our union is one of confusion" he sings in his trademark tremble. 


A Better Word for Love Track Listing:

“Big Bertha” featuring Vince Gill -Randy Moore, Carl Perkins, DJ Perkins
“Wild Honey” – Jim Weatherly, Nigel Wright
“A Better Word for Love” – Al Anderson, Gary Nicholson
“Almost Mine” – David Ball, Randy Goodrum
“Fool” – Thomas Cain
“This Side of Heaven” – Brent Maher, Allen Shamblin, Mike Reid
“Civil War (Live),” recorded at Atlanta’s Chastain Park in 1993 – Cindy Richardson, Carol Chase
“Fireworks” – Steve Dean, Don Gatlin, Mike Ulvila
“Now” – Thomas Cain, Tim Nichols
“Too Bad for My Own Good” – Joe H. Hunter, Jim Whitehead, Jim Weatherly

#countrymusic #RonnieMilsap #Opry #VinceGill #CheapSeats

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"Authentic America" Adventures with host Nan Kelley makes Season 2 Return to Circle TV

4/2/2021

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Still missing Nan on GAC? Then Circle TV is where you need to be. 
Watch AND follow Authentic America on Instagram to keep up with the couple's adventures! 
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