TNS Video History- Mark Chesnutt- "Your Love Is A Miracle"

An Interview With Mark Chesnutt Over At The 9513

Saguaro Road Records has recently released neo-tradionalist favorite Mark Chesnutt’s new collection of all-American, all-time favorite, whiskey-soaked standards— an album appropriately called Outlaw.

The album features re-recordings of some of Chesnutt’s personal heroes and life-long friends such as Billy Joe Shaver, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings (for whom Mark’s eldest son is named.) The product of producer Pete Anderson (Dwight Yoakam/Michelle Shocked/Tanya Tucker), Outlaw is a true-denim-blue Mark Chesnutt-branded musical composition.

I had an opportunity to interview Chesnutt for the granddaddy of all country music blogs, The 9513. Read a snippet below and then click HERE to read the entire interview.

"I didn’t want the album to sound like a modern country record. I didn’t want it to sound like what was going on in Nashville right now. Anytime you work with Pete Anderson, you’re going to get Pete Anderson sounds. He’s such a unique guitar player and music guy. We didn’t want it to sound like Nashville because we weren’t in Nashville. We recorded this out in Burbank in Pete’s studio out in California. It was a big thrill for me because in all my career I had never cut anything other than in Texas or Nashville. I started out recording in Texas, but everything else was in Nashville. This was a big thrill to go somewhere else and cut some music."

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Rascal Flatts Leave Disney- Sign With Big Machine Records

Big Machine President/CEO Scott Borchetta announced today (7/29) that Rascal Flatts would be the latest addition to the Big Machine family. A new album called Nothing Like This is due out November 16, and the first single “Why Wait” is being released to radio today.

The trio’s most recent album Unstoppable was their last with Disney owned Lyric Street Records. There is no official word on the status of remaining Lyric Street staff

Free EP From Josh Gracin Available For Download

In celebration of his new creative freedom, Josh Gracin felt it was time to say thank you to his fans that have stuck by him. What better way than with the gift of new FREE music?

Fans can go to www.joshgracin.com and download the Free Fan Appreciation EP which features three never before heard songs.

“I really hope you enjoy the three never before heard songs. “Give Us Tonight”, “Lead Me Home” and “Loves Lullaby” are exclusively yours all for simply being you, an awesome fan! Keep an eye out for more exciting things to come including a brand new album! Having a new single, “Cover Girl”, on the radio and a new album in the works wouldn’t be possible if you hadn’t stuck with me. So again, thank you, thank you, thank you!"

James Otto To Shake What God Gave Ya On September 14th

James Otto will bring his soulful country music to "Shake What God Gave Ya," his new disc coming out Sept. 14.

"Musically I'd say I'm the love child between Ronnie Milsap and Barry White," joked Otto. "This sexy, sultry, soulful sound makes you wanna move and dance. And that is exactly what I want fans to do while listening to this album, 'Shake What God Gave Ya'."

Recorded in Nashville and co-produced with Paul Worley (Big & Rich, Lady Antebellum, The Dixie Chicks), Otto penned 11 of the 12 tracks including the current Top 25 hit country single Groovy Little Summer Song and the duet Good Things Gone Bad, featuring Milsap.

The disc is the follow-up to his 2008 release "Sunset Man," which landed at number 3 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart and delivered Just Got Started Lovin' You, which was the year's most played single at country radio and Billboard's number 1 Hot Country Song. Last year, Otto won an ACM and CMA Award in the Song of the Year category as a co-writer for In Color, the Jamey Johnson-sung song that also earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Country Song).

Songs on the CD are:

1. Are Ya With Me
2. Groovy Little Summer Song
3. Lover Man
4. Soldiers & Jesus
5. Love Don't Cost A Thing
6. Sun Comes Round Again
7. Shake What God Gave Ya
8. It's A Good Time (For A Good Time)
9. Just Like Sunshine
10. Let's Just Let Go
11. She Comes To Me
12. Good Things Gone Bad featuring Ronnie Milsap

New CD Featuring Colt Ford, Brantley Gilbert, Matt Stillwell & More Hits August 3rd

What do you get when you mix up some of country music's hottest new artists with the biggest and baddest of weekend crazes? An album called Mud Digger. Now available on iTunes and headed to Wal-Mart August 3rd.

Average Joes Entertainment recording artists Colt Ford, Brantley Gilbert, Matt Stillwell, Sunny Ledfurd and Lenny Cooper team up for a CD full of new and exclusive tracks that celebrate true country pastimes. You don't need a big truck to dig these tracks but you do need a CD player.

These hot new country artists have seen incredible success individually this year, and this CD highlights fan favorite tracks like "Mudd Digger" (over 18,000 paid iTunes downloads and over 1,000,000 YouTube views to date,) "Kick it in the Sticks" (selling over 1,200 iTunes downloads a week and with over 500,000 YouTube views,) and "Dirt Road Dancing" (currently #2 on GAC's "The Top Picks Channel".)

Mud Digger also features never-released tracks "Nothing in Particular (Remix)" and "If it Ain't One Thing (It's Your Mother)" and tracks previously unavailable on CD such as "Shindig" and "Butterfly Tattoo."

Katie Armiger Readies Confessions Of A Nice Girl For October 5 Release

Beautiful young country artist Katie Armiger teamed up with GACTV.com to have fans help name her third studio album, set for release on Cold River Records on October 5th. During the last two weeks over 1,300 fans flocked to the website to cast their vote for the album and Confessions of a Nice Girl was the clear winner with over fifty percent of the votes.

“I think it’s incredible that so many fans voted to help pick the album title,” said Katie. “Thank you to those fans and GAC for being so supportive and amazing. I couldn’t have dreamed up a better way to celebrate this release then with everyone who has been involved so far!”

Katie wrote nine of the thirteen tracks on the album Confessions of a Nice Girl. The album will include her hit singles “Kiss Me Now” and “Leaving Home,” which was chosen by over twenty high schools across the country as the 2010 graduation song.

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Gwyneth Paltrow Hits Country Radio With New "Country Strong"

This is the country music debut of Oscar Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow for the "Country Strong" 2010 movie- in theaters December 22nd.

To help her prepare for her role, Gwyneth tapped her husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, to teach her to play the guitar.

My Interview With Radney Foster Over At The 9513

The esteemed and high-in-demand singer/songewriter Radney Foster began his solo career in 1992 when he signed to Arista Records, Although his first release for the label (1992's Del Rio, TX 1959) produced four consecutive Top 40 hits, Foster saw his commercial success waning with the release of his second and third albums (1995's Labor of Love and 1999's See What You Want to See, respectively), and by 1999 he had exited Arista's roster. He then signed to the independent Dualtone Records label, for which he has recorded three more albums to date: 2001's Are You Ready for the Big Show?, 2002's Another Way to Go and 2006's This World We Live In.

Overall, Foster has charted thirteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the Top Ten hits "Just Call Me Lonesome" (#10, 1992) and "Nobody Wins" (#2, 1993). In addition, he has written singles for other country artists, including, Gary Allan, Darius Rucker, Sara Evans, Keith Urban and Jack Ingram.

I had an opportunity to do an interview Foster for The 9513. Read a snippet below and then click HERE to read the entire interview.

I think inspiration is always there to hit. I think you have to look for it. You have to be willing to pull the car over and be late. You have to be willing to say that you’ll be extra sleepy tomorrow because you have to write this song. But what I didn’t have early in my career was the discipline to say, “Okay, Tuesday I’m going to write.” You really set aside time for other writers and yourself to work and perfect the craft of journaling and songwriting. That’s the only way you get better.

Up & Coming New Nashville- Joel Warren

The cowboy waits with adrenaline racing through his veins as he nervously listens for the crack of the gate admitting the steer that he’ll soon wrestle to the ground. In merely a few seconds, the crowd will delight in cheering for the clinging-to-edge-of-their-seat display in the arena. Despite countless scrapes, bruises and even a broken ankle once, steer wrestling proved to be the first cheers rancher Joel Warren heard from a rowdy crowd.

“I was on a horse every day of my life since I was 5 or 6 years old,” recalls Joel when he reminisces about a hard working, but idyllic childhood reared in Thedford, Nebraska. He was adopted when only two days old. His dad was a celebrated champion steer wrestler and naturally Joel wanted to follow in his rather large boots. “My dad’s steer wrestling days were over, so I’d never seen him actually do it, but I heard plenty of stories and saw the buckles to prove it. Steer wrestling is a special connection we have.”

His childhood on the second generation ranch was a cross between a John Wayne western, “The Waltons” and “Little House on the Prairie” peppered with a large extended family of aunts, uncles & cousins. His grandfather Chester helped with the ground breaking of the Cowboy Hall of Fame. Joel remembers Chester receiving an award at the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Wilford Brimley, Tom Selleck, Michael Landon and the “Little House on the Prairie” cast were all in attendance. “I thought I had died and went to heaven.”

Though ranching and the roar of a rodeo arena were in his blood, the inviting applause and rumblings of a country music crowd proved to provide a new entertainment outlet for Joel. “With my grandparents, I’d watch the ‘Lawrence Welk’ show reruns and impersonate “the King" with swiveling hips and curling lips.” But soon, the Elvis fascination would yield to Chris LeDoux, George Strait and Garth Brooks. Joel got his first exposure throughout the Midwest competing in the “Galaxy of Stars.” You Look So Good In Love was the first song that he sang in the competition at only 13. Even though he didn’t win his first year, he refused to give up on his dream and would make a connection with the competition’s creator Wynne Adams. “I had been trying to win this competition for a couple years and the year I finally did it, the winner was given the opportunity to open for Pat Green. I was so excited, but at the same time I was torn. The very same night of the Pat Green show, I had purchased tickets to see my idol George Strait. So right there from the stage I offered to sell my two tickets. I never regretted that decision.”

After the competition, Joel made the move to Nashville where he learned to play guitar, built his confidence and honed his songwriting skills. “Before I played guitar, I would just wail my arm around on stage,” remembers Joel with a chuckle. “Now I would feel so weird taking a stage without having the guitar in front of me.” Still waters run deep with Joel as he is a man of few words. This ropin’ cattle rancher has lived his songs a bit too literally, but in the harshest of times his songwriting has offered the catharsis which has helped him process his life‘s changes. “I never thought I would be living the lyrics of my first single "Leavin’ Lubbock", but I am living proof that you can never say country music isn’t about real life stories.” Like the character in his song, Joel suffered the end of his marriage and is now living in the “Live Music Capitol of the World” Austin, Texas.



The roots of the ranching legacy mean everything to him as he aspires to represent the ranchers and rodeo cowboys.

When he’s not in the spotlight on stage, you’ll find this avid outdoorsman back at the ranch working cattle and hunting deer, turkey or coyotes. He’s come along way from his days singing along to the radio. “I just love the way music affects the crowd. I’m more comfortable on stage than anywhere else. I want to carry the torch for ranchers as it’s the only way of life I know.” This freshman project reads like a journal of small town life. There are the uplifting songs like Keep Rollin’ On and Writing a Song to balance the emotional rollercoaster on the debut single Leavin’ Lubbock and God Fearin’ Man. What keeps Joel Warren going are his fans who inspire him to keep on writing about his country roots and singing his own brand of country music.

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