Erin Enderlin is the highly acclaimed songwriter behind songs “Monday Morning Church” by Alan Jackson, “Last Call” by Lee Ann Womack, and a number of other songs from Randy Travis, Terri Clark, Joey + Rory and Tyler Farr among others. On her recent 2017 album, Whiskeytown Crier, she’s enlisted a who’s who of friends and authentic country artists to assist on the project including Jamey Johnson and Jim “Moose” Brown handling producer duties. Artists assisting with vocals on the project include Chris Stapleton, John Scott Sherrill, Randy Houser and Ricky Skaggs. Of the song themes, even Jamey Johnson—the mostly-dour-topic troubadour who co-produced the album—was worried that this group of songs might be collectively too dark. “Can you believe that?” laughs Enderlin. She almost proudly exclaims, “Jamey thought my songs were too sad.” The stories only further exemplify Enderlin’s fantastic ability to carve a story out of the trials and tribulations of small-town America.
Jim “Moose” Brown is a studio musician/record producer/songwriter in Nashville. He is a member of Bob Seger’s “Silver Bullet Band,” a Grammy Award- winning songwriter and Grammy-nominated record producer, and an in demand session player. Moose was nominated for Keyboard Player of the Year by the Academy of Country Music in 2005, 2006, and 2011. Moose won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song for co- writing “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” and also co-wrote the Top 10 hit for Darryl Worley “If Something Should Happen” as well as James Otto’s single “For You.”
In 1996, Heidi Newfield joined up with Keith Burns and Ira Dean to form Trick Pony. The group would go on to release a handful of Top 20 singles, and won an ACM Best New Artist Award. Already having made a name for herself as the highly energetic frontwoman of new country trio, Newfield decided upon a solo career and did it in a big way, launching the leadoff single and track from the eventual full-length, "Johnny and June," into a massive hit on the Billboard Hot Country charts.
Tomorrow, you'll see and hear a special collaboration between these three artists with a brand new music video that may or may not revolve around a bottle of wine... stay tuned...
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