2016-02-20
Playlist
week of February 20, 2016 - BBC
Playlist
Brand
new music from Joey & Rory, Loretta Lynn & Chris Stapleton. Classics
from Jim Reeves, Faron Young and Johnny Cash. A
recap on the 2016 Grammy Winners
Baillie & The Boys - Safe In The Arms Of Love (Kathie
Baillie Feb 20, 1951) BIRTHDAY
Vince Gill - Me & My Little Girl | Album: Down To My Last Bad Habit New Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Brandy Clark - Hold My Hand | Album: 12 Stories CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Jim Reeves - I Love You Because
Mary Chapin Carpenter - This Shirt (Feb 21, 1958)
BIRTHDAY
David Starr & John Oates – Secrets | Album: Love and Sabotage Amazon UK
- UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Jess Vincent - Charley’s Song | Album: Shine
Amazon UK
Matt Stillwell - Hey Dad New Single
Dale Ann Bradley - Memories, Miles &
Tears
Sammy Kershaw - Politics Religion &
Her (Feb 24, 1958) BIRTHDAY
Loretta Lynn - Everybody Wants To Go To
Heaven New Single
Faron Young – Rhinestones (Faron Young Feb 25, 1932; died Dec 10, 1996 (aged
64)) BIRTHDAY
Farewell Angelina - Hillbilly 401K New Single
Bennett Bowtell & Urquhart - I Hear Them All | Album: Bennett Bowtell Urquhart (15
Jan 2016) Amazon UK - UK iTunes
New
Joey & Rory – Suppertime | Album: HYMNS: That Are Important
To Us New Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey New Single (Grammy 2016 Country Album of the Year)
Ralph Stanley & Laurie
Lewis - Old
love Letters (Ralph Stanley; Feb 25, 1927) BIRTHDAY
Blair Lane - My Whole World New Single
Bonnie Raitt - The Ones We Couldn’t Be Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Johnny Cash - Out Among The Living (Feb
26, 1932; died Sept 12, 2003 (aged 71)) BIRTHDAY
Randy Travis - On The Other Hand
Joni Harms - Oregon Trail
Troy Johnson - Stop Following Me (sinle)
Amazon UK New Single
Lucinda
Williams -
Can’t Close The Door On Our Love | Album: The Ghosts of Highway 20 New (22 Jan 2016) Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Tammy Wynette - Half The Way Home
New on The Show
Matt Stillwell
“Hey
Dad” - “It really is great, the video is lovely as
well..did not want to cut one note short” - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
His
new single "Hey Dad" (723 Entertainment) was sent to country radio on
Feb 19, 2016 and described as “the riveting new single”.
Written
by the artist and Lynn Hutton, just a month after Matt’s father passed away in
December, "Hey Dad" has already become an online sensation, with more
than 19 million video views, 250,000 audio streams and 11,000+ downloads. The >>
moving video for "Hey Dad" (228K
YouTube views) is playing on both CMT and CAC.
Matt
Stillwell has released three Billboard-charting singles: "Shine,"
"Sweet Sun Angel" and "Ignition." The video for
"Shine" reached #6 on GAC and #3 on CMT Pure.
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Farewell Angelina
Signed to award-winning songwriter/producer Keith Stegall’s Dreamlined Entertainment, Farewell Angelina is an all-female country group which features Nicole Witt, Andrea Young, Elizabeth Elkins and Lisa Torres. The original trio added the well-known harmony vocalist and solo singer Torres in late 2014. Their chemistry as writers and creative drive all combined with their dynamic stage show brought the industry out and soon Jen Ketner and Keith Stegall (Zac Brown Band, Aaron Watson, Alan Jackson) were recording some tracks with the band. The band has had cuts on albums by artists like George Strait, Lee Brice and Billy Currington and their instrumental and vocal talents also have appeared on albums for artists like Trace Adkins, Jana Kramer, Frankie Balard, and Jason Aldean.
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Farewell Angelina
“Hillbilly
401K”
The
single “Hillbilly 401K” (in2une Nashville / Dreamlined Entertainment Group) was
sent to country radio on Feb 8, 2016 with
an impact Date: March 14, 2016
Signed to award-winning songwriter/producer Keith Stegall’s Dreamlined Entertainment, Farewell Angelina is an all-female country group which features Nicole Witt, Andrea Young, Elizabeth Elkins and Lisa Torres. The original trio added the well-known harmony vocalist and solo singer Torres in late 2014. Their chemistry as writers and creative drive all combined with their dynamic stage show brought the industry out and soon Jen Ketner and Keith Stegall (Zac Brown Band, Aaron Watson, Alan Jackson) were recording some tracks with the band. The band has had cuts on albums by artists like George Strait, Lee Brice and Billy Currington and their instrumental and vocal talents also have appeared on albums for artists like Trace Adkins, Jana Kramer, Frankie Balard, and Jason Aldean.
Elkins
described the songwriting process for Queens of Country:
"It was when [my family] moved to Alabama
that I first heard people refer to the lottery as the "redneck 401k".
I brought that idea up in a songwriting session in Nashville...and my co-writer
Jon McElroy suggested it might be more fun as "Hillbilly 401k".
Michelle Knopick
She has been working year in and year out to pursue her
music career not only in the states but Internationally as well.
Blair Lane
Described as an acclaimed singer-songwriter Blir is a
country artists with a gospel soul, a versatility reflected in two independent
albums.
TROY JOHNSON
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Michelle Knopick
“Fairytales”
– “I like the sound of this lady…I think
it’s really good…Yeah I think it’s great” - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Michelle is from a small town in Southeast Kansas called
Independence.
Her style has been described as a "contemporary
country sound with a 1950's vintage look"
She is currently attending Belmont University and will receive her Bachelors of Arts studying
Commercial Voice and Music business in 2016. She is currently a senior and
planning to guaduate in August 2016.
Michelle's style has been referred to as a neo pop
bluegrass kind of sound. She has been seen on the hit ABC show 'Nashville', and
CMT's Top 20 Countdown.
"However, in
God's time and perseverance one of my biggest dreams came true on Feb 12, 2016.
I was featured on one of the most famed country music radio stations WSM 650 AM, the home of the Grand Ole Opry," said Knopick in the Daily Reporter. The morning show with BillCody the station featured her new single "Fairytales".
I was featured on one of the most famed country music radio stations WSM 650 AM, the home of the Grand Ole Opry," said Knopick in the Daily Reporter. The morning show with BillCody the station featured her new single "Fairytales".
This song is about hope and love. It was written alone
with her and her guitar after a breakup. Although they weren't ever technically
together, she states that it had felt like it was official and he had all the
benefits of being official – “So many
stories in this day and age are like this everyday. You go along dating the
same person for a while but when you bring it up or mention "What is
this" then you never hear from them again or they say they just want
things the way they are. "Fairytales is about how people are sick of this
trend and just want something real but have lost hope." If you get tired
of the person or its not becoming easy anymore, a lot of people just move on or
start sleeping around creating this merry go round effect. This song is for
those lost and lonely souls who need some inspiration and hope. Not on your
time but on God's time he will bring you the right one. "God is just
working extra hard on mine" :)
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Blair Lane
“My
Whole World” – “It’s not quite you
expect it leaves a bit of punch at the end..a clever twist, that was rather
good” - Marie Crichton
BBC Radio Shropshire
Lane has spent his entire life making music in one form
or another, first as a drummer, then as a bassist and guitarist, and later, as
a music student at a distinguished stateside university before arriving as a
gifted and highly versatile singer/songwriter and independent recording artist.
Raised the son of a preacher man, country singer
songwriter Blair Lane grew up bouncing from one small Newfoundland town to the
next. His musical life has been a gradual evolution from a gospel infused home
to flirtations with teenage rock to his present love of contemporary country.
In 2009 Blair released his first recording, “Only One”.
The Album, recorded at Beech Creek Studios in Nashville, TN, consisted of
eleven original gospel songs. In 2010, he returned to Nashville for sessions
that resulted in 2013’s “When Life Gets In The Way of Living”. This second
album was a collection of life experience songs that were mainly in the
country/pop genre.
The song “Only One” placed in the top ten in the gospel
category of the 2009 International Songwriting Competition and the top 30 in
the songwriting competition of The Gospel Music Association of Canada. “When
Life Gets in the Way of Living” was nominated for Music NL’s 2014 Country Album
of the Year and the title tack was played in heavy rotation on local country
radio.
“My Whole World”
(Jerry Duncan Promotions)
was sent to country radio Feb 15, 2016: It captivates
listeners instantly, pulling them deeper as the story unfolds, while unleashing
the crushing blow with a twist (revealed in the bridge) they won't see coming.
Listen to this song all the way through and it will grab you. Read More
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TROY JOHNSON
“Stop Following
Me” – “Really Like It” - Marie Crichton
BBC Radio Shropshire
Country
/ Americana / Rock
Singer/Songwriter
Platinum
Records Nashville and Jeff Solima at Hit Squad Promotions have teamed up on a
new Hit song release, " Stop Following Me" sent to radio Feb 1, 2016.
Songwriter/producer
Greg Hudik the CEO of Platinum Records Nashville introduces and represents their
new and rising artist, Troy Johnson. The current Music Row buzz on Troy has
been overwhelmingly positive due to his powerful voice and perfect pitch. Troy has been regarded as the #1 demo singer
in Nashville for some time — he is the highest paid and most sought-after demo
singer in the country genre. For the majority of male artist hits that you
play, Troy probably got to sing them first—and his voice played a prominent
role in getting the song recorded.
Troy has been
blessed with cuts by The Dixie Chicks (co-write on hit, “Some Days You Gotta
Dance”) covered by James Taylor with Dixie Chicks (CMT Special), Keith Urban
& The Ranch, Sara Evans (vocals, and co-wrote "Tonight" on
RESTLESS), Thompson Square (co-wrote “Getaway Car” with Keifer Thompson
& Shawna Thompson) ,
Montgomery Gentry, Ricky Van Shelton (wrote “Tic Toc”) and
lends background vocals on the 2016 release Wynonna & The Big Noise.
