New Music Video From Emily West - "Long Definition"

New Music Video From Emily West - "Day Dreaming" (Aretha Franklin Cover)

16th Annual Golf & Guitars Music Festival Line-Up Launched - 1.5+ Million Dollars Raised For Charity Since Event Started

Announcing Ticket Sales and Star-Studded Lineup for the 16th Annual Golf & Guitars Music Festival

We're thrilled to announce the launch of ticket sales for the eagerly awaited 16th Annual Golf & Guitars Music Festival and Children’s Charity Concert! Mark your calendars for June 24 & 25, 2024, as we return to the scenic Haggin Oaks Golf Complex in Sacramento, CA, for a two-day extravaganza of music, golf, and philanthropy.

Star-Studded Lineup

This year's festival boasts a lineup filled with some of the brightest stars in country music. Get ready to be entertained by the incredible talents of Mark Wills, Ashley Cooke, Craig Campbell, Josh Ross, Corey Kent, and Dylan Schneider. We’re also excited to welcome back long-time Golf and Guitars favorites like Love & Theft, One Flew South, and Jason Michael Carroll. These artists are not only chart-toppers but also big-hearted individuals ready to make a difference through their music.  Night one is a singer-songwriter showcase filled with an equal amount of talent including chart-topping songwriters like Erin Enderlin, Emily West, Kevin Post and more. 

More Than Just a Music Festival

Golf and Guitars is more than just a concert; it’s a celebrity pro-am golf tournament that brings together top country music artists and fans for a cause close to our hearts. Each golfer has the unique opportunity to play alongside a celebrity, blending sport and entertainment to create unforgettable memories. As night falls, the golf course transforms into an enchanting concert venue under the stars, where our artists give stellar performances that resonate far beyond the music.

A Cause Worth Supporting

All proceeds from the Golf and Guitars Music Festival go towards supporting vital children's charities. The Morton Golf Foundation is a primary beneficiary, receiving a significant portion of the event's funds to continue their incredible work. Additionally, the artists contribute to the charity of their choice through the tournament purse, ensuring that their participation benefits multiple causes. Over the years, Golf and Guitars has proudly raised over $1.5 million for charity, making a substantial impact on the lives of many children.

Get Your Tickets Now!

Don’t miss out on this unique blend of sports, music, and philanthropy. Tickets for the Golf and Guitars Music Festival are on sale now! Secure your spot and be part of an event that celebrates great music and supports even greater causes. For ticket information and details on the event schedule, please visit our Golf & Guitars website at www.golfandguitars.com. 

Join us for two incredible days of music and giving back at the 16th Annual Golf & Guitars Music Festival. Let’s make a difference together!

New Music Video From Emily West - "Unforgettable"

Emily West Preps The Upcoming Release Of The Highly Personal Dear Diary Album

After being rung through the proverbial big-label ringer by Capitol Records Nashville earlier in her career, it would make sense that Emily West would want to follow her own muse and passions from different musical influences in the music she felt compelled to release. Since that time, she's made a statement that she’s found a new career compass and following it down her own yellow brick road (which just happens to be the name of her own label she’s released her own music on.) It’s passionately compelling and personal songwriting at its very best and has drawn from pop, country, big band and more. Her autobiographical 2014 song "Made for the Radio" was this site's Song of the Year for it's visceral and emotional take on her own story.

She received karmatically-charged justice in finishing second in America’s Got Talent and with that, earned a new record deal with Sony in the process. With that behind her, it's on to her next musical adventure and she's back to following that muse again and has a new project that she's put together with her Nashville friends that has just gone live on Kickstarter and will be titled Dear Diary. 

West hasn't made a record in the last 5 years and never one this personal.  She opened up her personal journals to Leroy Powell & Tim Jones (collectively known as Whiskey Wolves of the West), and  constructed mini-Broadway musicals for each of the tracks on the project. The songs were recorded by Grammy award-winning engineer Bill Reynolds (Band of Horses, The Avett Brothers, Lissie) at his studio the Fleetwood Shack.

Powell assembled an all-star band including AmericanaFest Musician of the Year and multi-Grammy winner Chris Powell (Jamey Johnson, Brandi Carlile), who also happens to be his little brother, on drums, Chase McGillis (Nikki Lane, Nicole Atkins) on bass, and fellow wolf Tim Jones on acoustic guitar.  

While most of the songs were co -written by Emily, Leroy, and Tim, "Why Don't You Call Me Baby" an Instant Grand Ole Opry classic, was penned with the inimitable Mindy Smith. Rounding out the album are cuts by the Canadian wonder man Ron Sexsmith, Laura Nyro's "Wedding Bell Blues" and the great American Songbook standard "Unforgettable."

Fans of West that would like to help contribute to the project (and receive a digital download or a limited edition vinyl run of the project) can do so at Emily's Kickstarter page HERE. 

New Music Video From Emily West - "Made For The Radio"

New Live Performance Music Video From Emily West - "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" (Live on WSM 650)

New Music Video From Emily West - "Out of Sight (Out of Mind)"

New Music Video From Emily West (With Whiskey Wolves of the West) - "I Only Have Eyes For You"

New Music Video From Emily West - "Heaven and Back"

New Music Video From Emily West - "Don't Ever Go To Paris When You're Lonely"

New Music Video From Emily West - "Symphonies"

Emily West Preps Symphonies For An August Release

Artist: Emily West
Album: Symphonies
Label: Indie/Tone Tree
Release date: August 18, 2017

Not that her earlier work wasn't great, but this listener fell in love with Emily West's music with the release of her 2012. I Hate You, I Love You was a renaissance throwback of a project that was genre-bending with its classic vocal and country blend.  It couldn’t have be more different from what Nashville is pushing out these days. West’s gorgeous vocals were showcased across each track and each note was concentrated and given an importance. She reached the ceiling with belted singing and reduces it down to a whisper on a whim- blowing the listener away at each end of the spectrum.

She eventually moved to New York, feeling stifled by the industry’s tendency to put its artists in boxes, and auditioned for the 9th season of America’s Got Talent, where she landed as the immensely popular runner up. Following her success on the show, she signed with Sony Masterworks and released her debut album All For You.

Now, West has announced the upcoming "lush, cinematic EP resembling, according to her, a “dark Disney record.” Symphonies at once pays tribute to the sadness-tinged yearnings of a torch singer while combining with West’s soaring aspiration, resulting in a collection that bursts with the grit and hope of Dorothy in Wizard of Oz and resides on the Hollywood 101." The EP will be released on August 18th.

From the press release:

"Recorded with producer and co-writer Daniel Tashian, Symphonies showcases West’s ability to remain both vocally powerful and delicate. West serves as a tour guide through landscapes as diverse as lonely French boulevards, smoky Tarantino saloons and wistful sunsets over the City of Angels. She slips seamlessly from vocal vamping in her James Bond inspired “Heaven and Back,” with its dark, stealthy fringes and lavish dramatic core, to a confused vulnerability in “Don’t Ever Go to Paris (When You’re Lonely),” with soaring, tender vocals and lyrics full of sarcastic contradictions. The title track, “Symphonies,” retreats into West’s personal reveries, from the intimate to the grandiose. Symphonies is a fairytale for the broken hearted sung in the lightest of pinks. It also combines tears and laughter, nostalgia and hope."

Emily West Covers Molly Drake - "I Remember"

New Live Performance From Emily West - "O Holy Night" at Hardeman County Prison

Taking a cue from the late great Johnny Cash, Emily West performed a concert for the men jailed at Hardeman County Correctional Prison near Memphis, Tn in collaboration with former inmates who have overcome incarceration and addiction. 

Emily had this to say about her experience on her Facebook wall, "Truly. He taught us to LOVE one another. His law is LOVE and his gospel is PEACE."

Here is one of the performances from that day:

 

Hear It Here: Emily West's PG-13 Christmas Song with KS Rhoads - "Date With Santa"

New Grand Ole Opry Performance From Emily West - "Heaven and Back"

New Homemade Music Video From Emily West - "To Make You Feel My Love"

New Music Video From Emily West - "Made For the Radio"

After being rung through the ringer by Capitol Records Nashville earlier this decade, it would make sense that Miss West would feel like giving the big music labels the finger for not allowing her to follow her muse and sing the music she felt compelled to release. So she set to music one of the most profound statement songs of the 2014, describing the “vacant black hole hearts” of the label heads that are “f***ing the next star.” The magic of the song isn’t that it’s just a call-out of those she felt did her wrong. It’s a statement that she’s found a new career compass and following it down her own yellow brick road (which just happens to be the name of her own label she’s releasing music on.) It’s passionately compelling and personal songwriting at its very best. She received Karmatically-charged justice in finishing second in America’s Got Talent just over a year ago and earned a new record deal with Sony in the process. This track was That Nashville Sound's number one song of 2014 and it's just now getting its own music video.

New Music From Emily West - "I Believe In You & Me"