New Music Video From Green River Ordinance - "For Old Times' Sake"

New Music Video From Green River Ordinance - "Red Fire Night"

Write You A Song Podcast - An Interview With Songwriter & Green River Ordinance's Josh Jenkins

This morning we share another new podcast from host Tom Mailey from Bonneville radio station New Country 105.1 KNCI in Sacramento. Tom is a country radio veteran with over 30 years of experience in Seattle and Sacramento and a key partner in our Golf & Guitars Children's Charity Music Festival, a little event in our twelfth year that has raised well north of a million bucks for kids and individuals with disabilities. It highlights the songwriters in our industry and is entitled Write You a Song. 

It's his hope that this podcast will shine a little overdue spotlight on the talented men and women who, mostly behind the scenes, write the songs that become part of our lives. You know their words and music, but maybe not their names: Write You a Song will feature some of country music’s biggest songwriters--like Jeffrey Steele, Brett Warren, Ashley McBryde, Tim Nichols and more.

If you’re at all familiar with the ocean, you’ll know that while most swells on a given day will be roughly the same size, every once in a while, that pattern gets upset when, out of nowhere, a wave twice the size of the others, or even greater, suddenly appears. They’re called rogue waves and while they don’t happen very often, and they can’t be predicted, they cannot be ignored. Our guest this month? He helped write the musical equivalent of a rogue wave last year.

Josh Jenkins is relatively new to mainstream country, but he isn’t new to music. Since they first formed around 2003 in Ft Worth Texas, Josh and his band, Green River Ordinance, has carved out a critically acclaimed spot for themselves in pop-rock and Americana- even touring with big rock acts like Collective Soul, Train and the Goo Goo Dolls. In 2016, they became among the first artists to release an album fully funded by loyal fans, via Kickstarter. 

But while he and his bandmates still very much get together to perform, Josh has taken his passion for songcraft and settled into the Nashville songwriting community, where just this last year, he finally scored his first two hit singles. One went #1 the last week of January 2022 and the other was a musical rogue wave. 

The Golf & Guitars Music Festival Raises Over $100,000 In 2016 For Kid Charities

We had more than 108,000 reasons to love Golf & Guitars this year. That’s how many dollars that the Golf & Guitars Music Festival & Pro-Am raised this year in a record fundraising effort in Morton Golf Foundation’s largest fundraiser on May 16 & 17, 2016.

We brought the general public two nights of music and featured different performers on each night of our concert series. The hottest acts in country music, the up-and-coming artists you’ll soon see topping the charts and some of Nashville’s very best songwriters are all donating their time to help raise funds for children’s charities during the music festival. 

The Morton Golf Foundation is proud to call KNCI 105.1 FM our partner in hosting this special event. Golf and Guitars is a celebrity pro-am golf tournament and concert featuring nationally recognized & major label country music artists.  Each golfer in the tournament gets to play with one of the celebrities and then gets a seat next to the stage where these artists put on a tremendous concert underneath the beautiful golf course sky.

The highlights were many over the two days:

Our line-up was one of our very best ever. With our headliner, Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum, Love & Theft, Jackson Michelson, Lockhart, Green River Ordinance, Lauren Alaina, Drake White, Canaan Smith, Jason Michael Carroll, LOCASH, Eric Paslay, Parmalee and Aaron Lewis, we had arguably our finest line-up ever on night two.

Our Singer-Songwriter Showcase and Pairings Party on night one was equally as special. We had Logan Brill, Hailey Whitters , Jordan Reynolds , Francesca Beghe, Chris Roberts, Ella Mae Bowen, Scott Stevens, Faren Rachels, Jennifer Paige, Ashley Campbell and Megan Conner- with Jimmy Wayne acting as our first night host. When Campbell covered her father’s touching “Wichita Lineman,” our event had its first standing ovation in its history.

For the second consecutive year, Jason Michael Carroll played a round of golf with four very special local heroes out of our Wounded Warriors golf program. PING Golf generously donated a set of clubs and personalized golf bag to each of the players that was gifted to the veterans up on stage to a rousing applause.

On night one at our Singer-Songwriter Showcase & Pairings Party, not only did the Morton Golf Foundation gift 21 different high school seniors $26,000 in scholarship money mostly donated by our incredible sponsor Air Force One Golf, but Sleep Train founder Dale Carlsen generously donated $2,500 to kick off a new and upcoming foster child golf program that was brainstormed by frequent G&G participant and country artist Jimmy Wayne, a tireless advocate and former foster kid himself.

The local California Eagles, our Special Olympics golf program held here in the Sacramento region, had many of their participants on-hand on night two running our raffle for an autographed guitar signed by all of the G&G artists, raising nearly $5,000 for their own program.

Mother Nature contributed in her own way with two gorgeous springtime days with nary a cloud in the sky. The concerts under the sky are one of the highlights of every local music fan with the music held right on the 17th tee.

Another highlight was our generous foursomes that came out and enjoyed great shots and bad shots alike across both the Alister MacKenzie and Arcade Creek GC’s at Haggin Oaks. Our gracious hosts Love and Theft did wonderful jobs with their storytelling and artist introductions in their regular hosting gig they’ve handled over the last several years. They’ve just signed a brand new recording deal with Curb Records and we can’t wait to hear what is in store for them.  

All in all, it was a highly successful two days of fundraising and a memory everyone that was in attendance will remember for a lifetime.

 

Block your calendar for Monday, May 15 & Tuesday, May 16, 2017 for Golf & Guitars X.

New Music Video From Green River Ordinance- "Red Fire Night"

Green River Ordinance To Release Fifteen Early in 2016

Artist: Green River Ordinance

Album: Fifteen

Label: GRO

Release date: Jan. 22, 2016

The title of Fifteen, Green River Ordinance’s first studio album in three years, has a dual meaning for the hard-working quintet. In addition to marking the fifteen years that have passed since the five bandmates first began making music together, fifteen was also the average age of the band members when the group formed.

It has been a decade and a half since they first convened in their hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, Green River Ordinance—named after their home state’s law forbidding door-to-door sales.

Green River Ordinance’s thrilling evolution continues on Fifteen, which the press release says, "matches irresistibly infectious melodies and insightful, forthright lyrics with rootsy, rousing musical flights and soaring vocal harmonies. Such catchy, upbeat tunes as “Always Love Her,” “Keep Your Cool” and “Red Fire Night,” and such intimate, personally-charged numbers as “Simple Life,” “Endlessly” and “Heart Open” offer an artful balance of electric and acoustic textures."

“When we were starting out, people would describe us as organic, or talk about us being a grass-roots band,” bassist Geoff Ice notes. “We didn’t really understand what they meant at the time, but the meaning has become clear to us in the last few years, and we’ve realized that it’s one of our biggest strengths as a band.”

“Looking back at our history, the songs that have really connected with people were the ones that we didn’t overthink or overanalyze,” observes frontman Josh Jenkins. “So with the new album, a lot of the challenge was trying to stop ourselves from thinking too much, and focusing on writing about stuff that matters to us. All you can do is try and remain present in the songs and stay in touch with the things that inspire you and move you, and have faith that that will connect with people.”

Towards that end, the band approached the making of Fifteen in a manner designed to inspire the band’s creative impulses. For some of the album’s songwriting sessions, they returned to the riverside cabin on the banks of the Caney Fork River in rural Tennessee, where they’d written much of Chasing Down the Wind. The band cut tracks for Fifteen in separate sessions with three notable producers—Paul Moak, Rick Beato and longtime GRO collaborator Jordan Critz—in three different cities. The band recorded many of its performances live in the studio, capturing the musicians’ chemistry.

“Looking at the songs that we’re writing now, and then back on the songs that we were writing when we were kids, it’s interesting to see how much things have progressed,” says Geoff. “But in some ways, it’s still the same. We’re still in the process of discovering who we are and what we can be, and communicating that as honestly as we can.”

“Fifteen is a new chapter for us, and we’re gonna be out playing as many shows as we can and making an effort to communicate with as many people as we can,” Josh concludes. “I feel lucky to be in a band with these guys who’ve been my friends since middle school, and it’s a privilege to be able to keep making music with them.”

Track listing:
1. Keep Your Cool
2. Red Fire Night
3. Maybe It's Time (Gravity)
4. Simple Life
5. Tallahassee
6. You, Me & The Sea
7. Always Love Her
8. Endlessly
9. Only God Knows
10. Life In The Wind
11. Keep My Heart Open

New Music Video From Green River Ordinance- "On Your Own"

Green River Ordinance Preps The Collection For Release This Week

The Fort Worth, Texas-based band Green River Ordinance is self-releasing a greatest hits collection of sorts this coming Tuesday (6/24) with a new album titled The Collection: Live & Unplugged.

Over the decade-long journey from their first incarnation as 13 and 14 year old kids in Fort Worth, Texas to the upcoming release of their latest EP, "Chasing Down the Wind," Green River Ordinance has evolved steadily. "Chasing Down The Wind" features the continued growth of Green River Ordinance's honest, hopeful songwriting, and soaring harmonies. Written on the banks of the Caney Fork River in rural Tennessee, their new EP captures the spirit and freedom that comes from escaping the rush of the big city and rediscovering the simple things in life. Released on 6.18.13, "Chasing Down The Wind" debuted at #15 on iTunes overall, #1 on the Singer-Songwriter chart, in the Billboard Top 100, #6 on the Billboard Folk Chart, #26 on Billboard Rock, and was the #88 most sold album in the country.

GRO's intensity and strong fan connection prompted EMI to sign them to Capitol Records and in 2009, the band's debut album, "Out of My Hands," shot to the top of the billboard charts and catapulted their two singles "Come On" and "On Your Own" into the top 40. GRO has shared stages with acts like Bon Jovi, Train, NEEDTOBREATHE, Zac Brown, Counting Crows, and The Goo Goo dolls among many others. GRO has had their music played on 56 network and cable shows, in three films, and had their videos featured on MTV, VH1 & CMT. GRO's independent follow up record, Under Fire, propelled by the success of the singles “Dancing Shoes” and “Heart of Me” in both Country & Hot AC formats, continued to push the band's national success reaching the billboard top 100 chart.

Track Listing:

1. Dancing Shoes
2. Goodbye L.A.
3. Resting Hour
4. Endlessly
5. It Ain't Love
6. On Your Own
7. Come On
8. Under Fire
9. She Is in the Air
10. Red Fire Night
11. Learning
12. Take It Easy

New Live Opry Performance Video From Green River Ordinance- "It Ain't Love"

New Music Video From Green River Ordinance- "Flying"

The official music video for Green River Ordinance's "Flying" single, as heard on Sirius XM The Highway and CW's "The Hart of Dixie".

New Music Video From Green River Ordinance- "She Is In The Air"

New Music Video From Green River Ordinance- "It Ain't Love"

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