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ERIN KINSEY WRAPS BUSY 57TH ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS WEEKEND
DEBUT SINGLE “JUST DRIVE” AMONG MOST ADDED AT COUNTRY RADIO IMPACT WEEK
Erin Kinsey performs onstage during ACM Lifting
Lives Topgolf Tee-Off & Rock On at Topgolf Las Vegas
on March 06, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty
Images for ACM)
Nashville,
TN — March 10, 2022 — “Rising star” (People) RECORDS Nashville recording
artist, Erin Kinsey, is wrapping up a busy weekend in Las
Vegas at the 57th Academy of Country Music Awards.
For her first ever awards show, Kinsey was named an Amazon Prime Video
Creator with the savvy singer-songwriter hitting her socials and sharing
a behind the curtain glimpse from Allegiant Stadium on the big night. Leading
up to the show, Kinsey played an electrified set at the ACM Lifting
Lives Topgolf Tee-Off event, with proceeds benefiting ACM Lifting Lives,
and hit the stage as part of the “Revolutionary Women of Music” event,
hosted by Kelly Ford and presented by PickleJar.
The packed weekend led into an exciting milestone as her debut radio single, “Just Drive,” impacts country radio this week, racking up 26 total
stations and 3rd most added (Mediabase) honors. Written
by Kinsey along with Michael August and Josh Ronen and
produced by Ronen, the song continues to gain momentum with over 23
million streams/views to date and counting.
“Erin Kinsey is the rare new artist who lights up the stage and fires up the
audience from the very first note,” says Jim Murphy, Senior Manager, Country
Programming at Music Choice. “Such an easy decision to add Erin out-of-the-box
on Music Choice.”
“Erin connects with her audience on all levels. I’ve seen it in person at
shows, and on multiple social platforms. She’s the real deal,” says John
Reynolds, PD WSOC/VP of Music and Entertainment, Beasley Media Group.
Last week, the official music video for her latest track release, “Hate
This Hometown,” premiered via CMT.com,and fans
can check out an acoustic performance video of her hit “Just Drive”
now via The Country Daily. In celebration of Women’s History Month, Erin will be
featured this weekend on WOMEN of iHEARTCOUNTRY on all 150+ iHeartCountry
stations nationwide and streaming HERE.
Kinsey is gearing up for the March 25 release of her debut EP, 40
East. The project from the “21-year-old Texan …female version of Luke Bryan
or Cole Swindell” (Billboard), features a fresh stack of six tracks all
co-written by Kinsey and is available for pre-order/pre-save now at https://erinkinsey.lnk.to/40east.
ABOUT ERIN KINSEY Texas native Erin Kinsey may be a country music
newcomer, but she’s been hard at work since she was 11 years old. Now 21, she
is the epitome of a 10-year overnight success who has established herself as a
Nashville singer-songwriter with a bright future ahead of her. Having moved
from Texas to Tennessee the morning after her high school graduation, Kinsey
quickly immersed herself in country music, and in return she was embraced by
music insiders who’ve helped her reach her larger-than-life goals. And so far,
so good. She consistently receives close to ten million views when she posts an
original song on TikTok, and her debut single, “Just Drive,” is impacting
country radio now. The song has been featured on SiriusXM The Highway “On The
Horizon” and has over 23 million views/streams to date and counting.
Kinsey is signed to RECORDS Nashville, a joint venture with Sony Music
and her debut EP, 40 East, releases on March 25, 2022. Where
she goes from here is just about everywhere.
ABOUT RECORDS NASHVILLE
RECORDS Nashville is the country division of RECORDS—the New York-based record
label run by founder Barry Weiss in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment.
Launched in 2020, it houses a dynamic roster of modern country talent,
including multiplatinum rising star Matt Stell, Chris Bandi, Erin
Kinsey, George Birge, and more. The team comprises sought-after Nashville
A&R executives and creatives. The label brings the entrepreneurial spirit
and career development philosophy of RECORDS to Nashville and country music at
large.
For
superstar Miranda Lambert, each of her seven consecutive US No. 1 albums
has presented a chance to explore a new theme while pushing herself across
varying sonic landscapes. With the progressive 15-song album, Palomino, due
Friday, April 29th, Lambert has crafted a record that explores the
world and the people in it, seeking beauty and adventure all around.
A line from
the first song written for the album perhaps sums up the project as a whole
best: “there’s always been a stranger in my soul / who loves a good
goodbye and a good hello,” she sings in “Tourist.” On Palomino,
her inner stranger travels lyrically from Fort Worth to the Mojave Desert;
Battambang, Cambodia to Maine; the Crystal Palace in Bakersfield to the Rocky
Mountains and beyond. In each destination and with every character met along
the way, Lambert’s freewheeling trek is a work of unbridled freedom and
self-discovery without painful introspection.
Miranda
Lambert – Strange (136K
views) published Mar 10, 2022
“The
making of this record has been one of the most fun and creative experiences of
my career,” reflects the woman who holds the title of most-awarded artist in
ACM history. “Luke Dick, Natalie
Hemby, and I went out to my farm in Tennessee in 2020 and started writing
songs.We figured while we have
time let’s get out to the country and seewhat
happens. The first one we wrote was‘Tourist’
and that set us on a path to create somethingwith
a bit of a theme. Since we couldn’t travel at the time, we decided to go on a
journey throughsongs. I hope
y’all are ready to travel with us wandering spirits and meet some cool
characters withgreat stories.”
Her first
solo album since 2019’s GRAMMY-winning Wildcard (despite a
busy interim that included releasing the GRAMMY-nominated collaborative
project The Marfa Tapes as well as Pistol Annies
celebration Hell of a Holiday), Palomino opens
with a slow build and a low-slung vibe on “Actin’ Up,” with the opening
track serving as the first in a series of postcards from the road, images and
moments, places seen and swallowed whole, characters you won’t forget... It’s
all here in a brew of styles, sounds and wordplay that are absolutely Miranda.
Tapping
longtime songwriting collaborators Luke Dick (Eric Church, Kacey Musgraves) and
Jon Randall (Emmylou Harris, Dierks Bentley) to co-produce with her, Lambert
once again pushes the envelope of what country music can contain. Whether the
bump-and-grind thump of the one who can’t be extinguished on “I’ll Be Loving
You,” the skunk weed strut of Marfa sessions’ revisited “Geraldene,”
the gorgeously hushed vintage bar-room heartbreak of “That’s What Makes the
Jukebox Play,” or the sunny life code that informs the ever-curious
songwriter on “Tourist,” Lambert has fashioned a true song cycle, a journey of
one woman questing for happiness and the folks she meets along the way.
“Unthinkable
things coming together,” marvels the woman who has won the Academy of Country
Music’s Female Artist of the Year a record-setting nine consecutive times and
the Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year seven times. “When
Natalie, who is such a bad ass singer and the kind of person who raises the
cool in every room, started singing ‘Rollin’ on the river...,’ we were all
like, ‘What if the B-52s sing on this?’ They loved the song. They Zoomed in
with Luke and Jon and sang their part, which gives me so much joy. I missed
their Zoom, ‘cause I was on a plane; but to ZOOM the B-52s into your record?
Yes, please.”
With a
core band of drummer Fred Eltringham (The Black Crowes),
bass/keyboardist Ian Fitchuk (Sam Hunt, Joy Oladokun, Birdy)
and guitarist Rob McNelley (Joe Bonamassa, Beth Hart, Buddy
Guy) joining, they worked close to the bone, exploring what the songs could be
while retaining Lambert’s serious country flavours.
“I love
everything about Marfa: some friends around a campfire, no fixes,
no protocols, no filters. It was raw and real, and I wanted to take some of
that with me,” remarks Lambert. “‘In His Arms,’ ‘Waxahachie’ and
‘Geraldene’ got to go on this journey with us, cutting them with a full
band – and usually the public doesn’t get to hear that part, which I’m really
excited about.”
The
references tucked throughout the album – Little Feat’s “Willin’,” Bruce Hornsby
and the Range’s “Mandolin Rain,” Emmylou Harris’ “Roses in the Snow” – create a
treasure hunt for music fans of all ages. For Lambert, raised on a healthy diet
of Texas icons, classic and modern country, rock & roll and pop radio as a
girl, it’s how influences come together and pollinate each other that
make Palomino so interesting and so fun.
When Dick
suggested Mick Jagger’s “Wandering Spirit,” which he felt embodied the
project’s manifest destiny, she knew it was a matter of making the song her
own. Enlisting Sarah Buxton and The McCrary Sisters, known for their work with
Bob Dylan, it became a feverish downhome gospel for ramblers of all stripes and
stands tall as the only outside cut on the project.
Only
Lambert & Co. could come up with the characters in the outrunning
heartbreak boogie of movin’ on and makin’ friends found in “Scenes,”
from a trucker named Dwayne to an old hippie named “Katie with a K.” Equally
frisky are the big money earners on the quirky, barbwire plucky “Country
Money” – whether the Carter Sisters and their good corn liquor, Connie
Johnson and her cattle or Carol Jean the chicken egg queen, these ladies are making
bank.
It’s that
desire to taste it all, to explore the possibilities while sidestepping the
statements and judgements that colors Palomino. And it’s not all
happy-go-lucky stuff, even if it feels that way. Yearning and driving through
the night on the sweeping “Waxahachie,” the tumbling “Strange”
offers a more philosophical approach to being out of sorts. By “Carousel,”
the almost lullaby closer, we meet Elaina, a former circus highwire
walker/trapeze artist living in Nacogdoches as a mother and wife. With the
exhaled truth of how she came to leave the circus – “She fell so hard
because he always let her fly / Till he left her heart suspended in a cotton
candy sky...” – with a broken heart she couldn’t heal, it speaks
volumes about the multitude of lives most people contain.
For
Lambert – and lovers of her wild-eyed country – Palomino is as
much about the journey as the destination and the characters along the way.
Track Listing
1. Actin'
Up (Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, Jon Randall)
2. Scenes
(Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, Natalie Hemby)
3. In
His Arms (Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall)
4. Geraldene
(Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall)
5. Tourist
(Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, Natalie Hemby)
6. Music
City Queen feat. The B-52’s (Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, Natalie Hemby)
7. Strange
(Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, Natalie Hemby)
8. Wandering
Spirit (Mick Jagger, James Rippeto)
9. I'll
Be Lovin’ You (Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, Jon Randall)
10. That's
What Makes the Jukebox Play (Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, Natalie Hemby)
11. Country
Money (Miranda Lambert, Aaron Raitiere, Mikey Reaves)
12. If
I Was a Cowboy (Miranda Lambert, Jesse Frasure)
13. Waxahachie
(Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall)
14. Pursuit
of Happiness (Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, Natalie Hemby)
15. Carousel
(Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, Natalie Hemby)
Breakout
US star Morgan Wade has announced her first ever UK headline tour in
support of her hugely acclaimed debut album Reckless.
Touring
the UK in June 2022, she will play The Garage, London on June 21st,
Glasgow’s Oran Mor on June 23rd and Manchester
Academy 3 on June 24th.
Tickets are available on O2 presale from 9am on March 15th, Live
Nation presale at 9am on March 16th, and general sale at 9am on
March 17th. Tickets will be available from livenation.co.uk
Morgan Wade has captured the hearts of fans and critics around the world with
her debut album RECKLESS,
a stunning record of Tom Petty-esque rock, classic country guitars and
captivating pop inspired hooks. Signing to Sony Music this year the new deluxe
edition of the album immediately became BBCRadio 2s Album Of The
Week upon its Jan 31st release. And the tearaway
single ‘Wilder Days’ was
also championed as Record Of The Week and has become an A-List mainstay
at the station for well over a month, along with radio play across many other
UK stations.
Morgan’s album sits proudly at No.1 in Rolling Stone’s Best Country and
Americana Albums of 2021 list, but its cross-genre appeal also finds it at
No.13 in the main best of albums list across all genres too. It’s also No.4
with Stereogum, No.5 for Billboard and features in many
more.
Morgan has also been named as one of Amazon Music’s Artists To
Watch 2022, Spotify’s Hot Country Artist To Watch 2022, Apple Music’s Best Of
2021. Pandora’s Artists To Watch 2022 and YouTube Music’s Trending Artist On
The Rise.
Ahead of the UK tour, Morgan will be debuting songs from Reckless for the first
time in the UK this weekend as she performs on the main stage at C2C Festival
as part of their Introducing
Nashville series, which see artists taking the stage together
in an acoustic line-up to share the stories behind their songs. For more
information about Introducing
Nashville, visit IntroducingNashville.com
What C2C fans are saying!:
Morgan Wade NEEDS to do a tour here and the O2
just showed her some love
**** me I think I just fell in love with Morgan
Wade! ❤️❤️
The utter brilliance of Morgan Wade (my
favourite artist of the moment by a bloody mile) it was just perfect!
Morgan Wade is the realest deal ❤ my favourite of her songs too.
MORGAN WADE....I just wanted to hug you.
Photo credit: Steve Smith (C2C Attendees)
MORGAN WADE JUNE 2022 UK
HEADLINE TOUR DATES
21st – London, The Garage
23rd – Glasgow, Oran Mor
24th – Manchester, Academy 3
*
BREAKING NEWS *
About
Rough
Trade West is very excited to present
an unplugged performance and signing from Morgan Wade.
Where:
Morgan Wade: Unplugged + Signing Rough Trade West, London (Talbot Rd,
London W11 1JA, UK)
NASHVILLE,
Tenn. – “How will you ever know what you’re capable of if you never try?”
singer and innovator Caitlyn Smith asks. “For far too long,
I’ve let this fear of failure sit in the driver’s seat. So, I leaned into a
more supportive community, and I learned to trust my own compass. I was so
curious to know what my music would sound like now. Through this process I’ve grown,
and I’ve made a record I’m really proud of… a record that’s all mine. High.”
After spending the better part of 2021 in the studio, logging hundreds of hours
self-producing her next album, the ACM New Female Artist of the Yearnominee announces
her forthcoming third album, High, set for release on April
8 via Monument Records. Pre-order available now.
“Self-producing has taught me so much about trusting my own compass,” says
Smith. “It has been a beautifully terrifying experience and has added a layer
of vulnerability when you’re also responsible for painting the sonic landscape
as an artist, in addition to writing and singing the songs.”
Caitlyn Smith | Photo
Credit: Shervin Lainez
The power vocalist has released new single “Downtown Baby”. The new release follows her
arena-ready title-track released in January and written by Smith
alongside Miley Cyrus and Jennifer Erin Decilveo (originally
released by Cyrus on her album Plastic Hearts), of which MusicRow critic Robert
Oermann notes “this single confirms the widely admired songwriter’s
status as a first-rate record maker.”
This week,
Smith returns to London as part of C2C (Country To Country) Festival,
performing at Indigo at The O2 in London. Of Smith’s new music, BBC Radio
2’s Bob Harris opines, “It’s big and it’s dramatic and it is
absolutely fantastic. I love this record.”
She completely commanded the audience with just her voice and a guitar (and probably didn't even need the guitar!) Particularly loved 'This Town' about the highs & lows of songwriting in #Nashville#C2C2022pic.twitter.com/5qWZWkX3MO
After spending the last year opening for George Strait, Reba, Little
Big Town, and Old Dominion in stadiums and arenas across
the country, Minnesota’s Mpls.St.Paul Magazine notes,
“The mammoth-voiced, versatile, classic-country-loving vocalist whose songs mix
acoustic Americana with gritty blues swagger and punchy pop hooks is fast
becoming one of the most buzzed-about singers in Nashville.”
Smith just announced her own US headlining High & Low Tour 2022 which
kicks off in her hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 1. The
13-city tour includes stops at New York’s Gramercy Theatre and at Brooklyn Bowl
in Nashville, Tenn. Caitlyn Smith - The High & Low US Tour 2022
4/1 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
4/6 – New York City, NY – Gramercy Theatre
4/7 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl
4/23 – Indianapolis, IN – HI-FI Indy
4/24 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
5/4 – Allston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
5/5 – Asbury Park, NJ – The Wonder Bar
5/6 – Philadelphia, PA – MilkBoy
5/7 – Alexandria, VA – The Birchmere
5/11 – Atlanta, GA – Vinyl
5/12 – Charlotte, NC – Visulite Theatre
5/13 – Savannah, GA – District Live
5/14 – Charleston, SC – Music Farm About Caitlyn Smith
After winning a Critics Choice Award and writing songs for the likes of Miley
Cyrus, Dolly Parton, Meghan Trainor and John Legend, Garth Brooks, and Jason
Aldean, Caitlyn Smith has established herself as one of Nashville’s
brightest rising stars. Undeniably one of the best vocalists of this
generation, Smith’s 2018 Starfire and 2020’s Supernova saw
her in the pages of TIME Magazine and The New York
Times, and had her named to Rolling Stone’s 10 country
artists to know and Paste’s 10 country artists to watch. Her
latest single, “High,” is available everywhere now. Visit CaitlynSmith.com for more information and follow along on
Instagram and Twitter @caitlynsmith or @caitlynsmithmusic on Facebook and
TikTok.
(22 Feb 2016) Country Music Hall of Famer Sonny James dies
aged 87 This Blog feature takes a look at his career, chart hits, awards, music and artist tributes.
Marie CrichtonBBC Radio Shropshire plays:
8 Aug 2005 Sonny James - Bimbo | Album: The Nashville Dream
Vol 2 (Newsound)
30 April 2007 Sonny James - Blue Moon Of Kentucky | Album:
CD The Sound Of Bluegrass (Various Label Columbia)
28 April 2008 Sonny James - Bimbo (Birth May 1 "James
Loden")
27 April 2009 Sonny James - Blue Moon of Kentucky
25 April 2011 Sonny James - Ask Marie | Album: The Capitol
Collector’s Series
30 April 2012 Sonny James Pure Love | Album: Young Love & Other Rock ‘N’ Roll
Ballads
27 April 2013 Sonny James - True Love's A Blessing | Album:
Capitol Collectors Series
Sonny James: May 1,
1928 (Hackleburg, Alabama, U.S.) - Feb 22, 2016 (aged 87; Tennessee)
Throughout his life he
has stood always at the ready to share a funny story. Accompanied by his boyish
smile, this man of deep faith never failed to cultivate his unique gift of
making every friend feel as if they were his greatest friend every step of the
way.
A native of Alabama, James grew up playing fiddle and
guitar with his family, guesting on radio stations and local festivals
throughout the South.
After finishing Military service in the early 50s, Sonny
was introduced to Chet Atkins, who
steered him toward a recording contract with Capitol Records.
In 1956, James’ signature hit, “Young Love,” spent nine weeks atop the Country charts,
eventually crossing over to Pop.
Television and film appearances followed, as did membership
to the Grand Ole Opry and a star on
the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
Mr. James hosted the first-everCMA AWARDS in 1967, and the hits kept coming.
Between 1967 and 1971, he put together a string of 16 consecutive chart-toppers.
Mr. James was inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 2006.
Introduced by Kris Kristofferson as one of the new
inductees, it marked Sonny’s first television appearance in 20 years.
James Loden, known as
Sonny James, was born in Hackleburg,
Alabama, on May 1, 1928.
As Kix Brooks
said in 2006, the year Mr. James was inducted into the Country Music Hall of
Fame, the singer was “an artist who really
dominated his time in history.”
According to The Tennessean, he began performing with his
family when he was just 3, playing a handmade mandolin.
He later learned to play the guitar and fiddle, and was a
fiddle champion as a teen.
The family would perform on local radio stations and in
schoolhouses around the South.
He served in the Alabama
National Guard and was sent to Korea
in 1950, where he began to write songs.
After leaving the Army, James moved to Nashville and began
to pursue a career in music.
Sonny James began recording music in 1952 and his breakthrough song, “Young Love,” came in 1957, according to his website.
With its polished production and crooning vocals, “Young
Love” would help open the door for the Nashville sound of the late 1950s and
1960s.
The Career of Sonny James
Seemingly born with a natural talent for playing stringed
instruments it would be at the age of four, when placed at the centerpiece of
his family's country show, where he first began to realize his potential to
entertain others.
·Because he was just a kid he was called “Sonny Boy” but by 1952 when he signed
with Capitol Records this six-foot three-inch talent was re-billed as The
Southern Gentleman, a tag that portrayed his polite ways.
·In 1956 as rock n roll was just beginning
Sonny's multi-million selling Young Love
exploded on the scene and became a simultaneous #1 country and pop hit - the first such traditional country
cross-over of its kind.
·By 1963 a collaboration at Capitol Studios in
Hollywood with Nat King Cole, a
favorite of Sonny and his father, would begin to focus Sonny's musical approach
into a more pop-sounding style of country in the hopes of broadening the
country listening audience.
·Beginning in 1964 with his musical style
refined, and his “sound” produced to be identifiable, Sonny began what would
become his legendary streak of 16
consecutive #1 releases - an uncontested record which no other recording
artist (solo) has ever surpassed in any genre.
·A decade later, Sonny James had amassed not
only 16 #1's in a row, but a surreal 26
#1's in total and 72 titles on
the country charts.
·Sonny's broad appeal not only as a performer,
but an entertainer, brought him into larger and larger markets and venues as he
created new paths for others to follow which had not previously been welcoming
to country artists in general, including his numerous appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.
·Always an integral part of his sound and style,
his mastery of the guitar as a
musician added a depth to his recordings and stage appeal which translated
perfectly to television.
·His full vocal tones backed by his “Southern Gentlemen” created a sound
that was awarded time after time with great success.
·The first country recording artist on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, his hits such
as "The Minute You’re Gone", "You’re The Only World I
Know", "It's Just A Matter Of Time", "Running Bear",
"Empty Arms" and so many more - make it easy to realize that at the
same time when the world was listening to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones on
rock radio, they were hearing and listening to Sonny James on country radio.
·Within pop-culture, the movie Apollo 13 may have depicted the
legendary music of Hank Williams on a moon flight, but it was actually a
musical program requested by NASA to be recorded personally by Sonny James which
became the first country artist to travel into space and go as far as our
moon's orbit on-board Apollo 14, which launched January 31st, 1971.
·Immediately following his string of #1's, Sonny
then went on to produce the first 3
albums for Marie Osmond, which saw
the first single, Paper Roses, surpass sales of 1 million worldwide and Marie
nominated for a Grammy Award.
Sonny James first No.1 hits (Hot Country Songs):
"Young Love"
(1956; writers Ric Cartey, Carole Joyner) Also #1 on all genre US Hot 100. Note: It peaked at #11
in the UK chart dated March 8, 1957 when at the time
American actor and singer Tab Hunter
was No.1 on UK single chart with the song. The Tab Hunter Show was a huge hit in
the United Kingdom, where it ranked as one of the top situation comedies of the
year. Donny Osmond also had a #1 UK Single with the song in 1973.
"You're the
Only World I Know" (1964; writers Sonny James and Robert Tubert) #91
US Hot 100
"Behind the
Tear" (1965; writers Ned Miller, Sue Miller) #113 US Hot 100
Sonny James sixteen consecutive No.1 songs were:
“Need You”
(1967; writer Johnny Blackburn, Lou Porter, Teepee Mitchell),
“I’ll Never Find
Another You” (1967; writer Tom Springfield)
“It’s The Little
Things” (1967; writer Arlie Duff)
“A World Of Our Own”
(1968; writer Tom Springfield) an international hit for The Seekers
“Heaven Says Hello”
(1968; writer Cindy Walker)
“Born To Be With You”
(1968; writer Don Robertson)
“Only the Lonely”
(1969; writers Roy Orbison, Joe Melson)
“Running Bear”
(1969; writer J. P. Richardson)
“Since I Met You,
Baby” (1969; writer Ivory Joe Hunter)
“It’s Just a Matter
of Time” (1970; writers Brook Benton, Clyde Otis)
The string of 16 consecutive (non-holiday) single releases
would be surpassed in 1985 by the country super-group Alabama; the band would go on to have 21 No.1 songs in a row.
Earl Thomas Conley and Blake Shelton also have sixteen No.1 winning
streaks.
** Billboard statistician disregard all non-No.1 duets,
B-side releases that chart on their own and Christmas releases in
determining No. 1 streaks. If Christmas songs and duets were to be included
in No.1 streaks, however, Sonny James
would continue to hold the standard with 16.
Alabama's streak would be eight and 13 (with the 1982
Christmas song "Christmas in Dixie" splitting the pair of streaks)
Earl Conley's streak split into nine and seven (broken up by the
1986 duet "Too Many Times" with Anita Pointer),
Blake Shelton’s run is split starting with "Hillbilly
Bone" (featuring Trace Adkins) then "Boys 'Round Here" (feat.
Pistol Annies and friends), "My Eyes" (featuring Gwen Sebastian) and
"Lonely Tonight" (featuring Ashley Monroe)
"Is It Wrong
(For Loving You)" writer Warner MacPherson; was the final of Mr. James'
twenty-three number ones on the country chart.
Albums
Twenty-one of his Albums reached the country top ten from 1964 to 1976.
His No1. Billboard Top Country Albums were:
studio album NEED YOU released in
April 1967 and with Compilation album The
Best of Sonny James released in Nov 1966 (#141 Billboard 200)
200 Years of Country Music (#6, 1976, Columbia Records) was his final Top 10 studio album.
His last album to chart was YOUNG LOVE (Capitol Records), released in 1973, which reached #50
on Top Country Albums
Sonny James - The
Southern Gentleman: The First Four Albums 1957-1959
[2xCD] (Jasmine Records)
The Southern Gentleman features four classic albums of pure
country: The Southern Gentleman; Sonny; Honey & The Sonny Sidetogether for
the first time on CD outside of multidisc box sets.
Sonny Rocks is a 2003 Bear Family release covering 33
Capitol and RCA tracks from Sonny James, the 'Southern Gentleman' of country.
Details: 1-CD Digi-Pac (6-plated) with 32-page booklet, 34 tracks, playing time 76:27 minutes.
These 33 songs catch Sonny James’ transition from
journeyman country singer to pop star. We begin with a few early songs that
pointed towards Young Love (including For Rent and Twenty Feet Of Muddy Water),
then Sonny James’s great original version of Young Love itself, and then a
selection of the very best Capitol and RCA recordings from the golden years,
including "First Date First Kiss First Love", "Uh-Huh Mm", "Talk Of The School", and
Sonny James' great vocal version of the Shadows’ "Apache". As a special bonus the
original version of "Young Love" by Ric Cartey is included. Dave Samuelson’s
notes draw on extended interviews with Sonny James, and recount the
song-by-song journey of one of the towering figures of pop and country music! Available from:
Sonny James - Young
Love (6-CD) [6-CD-Box & 68-Page
Book] (Import)
This boxed set presents every surviving recording 'The
Southern Gentleman' made between 1952
and 1962, across six compact discs.
The first two discs feature Sonny James' rarely heard country sides, including
the original “I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know” and such chart singles as “That's
Me Without You”, “She Done Give Her Heart To Me, For Rent” (One Empty Heart), “Twenty
Feet Of Muddy Water”, and “The Cat Came Back”. The heart of the box set
collects such teen pop sides as “Young Love”, “You're The Reason I'm In Love”, “First
Date, First Kiss, First Love”, “Uh-Huh-mm”, “You’ve Got That Touch”, and “Talk
Of The School”, plus all three of Sonny James' original Capitol albums. The set
ends with the singer's often-overlooked NRC, RCA Victor and Dot sides,
including Jenny Lou and his vocal version of the guitar standard, “Apache”.
Produced with Sonny James' cooperation, this collection
includes a 68-page book by Dave
Samuelson covering Sonny James' early years on radio with the Loden Family
through his 1963 return to Capitol Records.
Charlie Daniels: The music
world has lost a great artist and a good Christian man Rest in peace Sonny
James
The Oak Ridge Boys RIP Sonny
James... A big loss
Rhonda Vincent: (pictured) So
saddened to hear of passing of country music HOF member Sonny James born
5/1/1929 he hosted 1st #CMA awards Travis Tritt Very sorry
to hear that Sonny James has died. I covered his "Christmas In My
Hometown" for my Christmas album
Taste of Country: We are so
sad to hear that Sonny James has died at 87:
Grass Roots Promotions: We are
saddened at the news of the passing of country music legend Sonny James. His
incredible career included 16 #1 singles in the 60's and 70's; James was
inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006. He was a class act and
will be missed.
