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old native of Rockingham, N.C. He
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decade and wanted to get a Nashville
record deal, but he wasn’t quite sure
how to actualize his dream.
“I kept wondering: how do people do
that? It was kind of like saying I wanted
to be a fi re truck, almost impossible.”
He’s a genuine good ole Southern
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“Like everyone else, I’ve always
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at green comm a nds a
position in the music world
uniquely his own. He sells
out stadiums like the Houston
Astrodome and Dallas’ Smirnoff
Center as a headliner, yet he also
gets the opportunity to tour with major
artists like Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban
off-the-beaten-path music. At the same
time, the carefree, slice-of-the-good-
life, sing-along-with-me nature of his
work has built-in mass appeal.
He’s already proven he can build
an enthusiastic, youthful following
through the time-tested virtues of hard
work, live performance and word-of-
and the Dave Matthews Band. mouth buzz. Now it’s time to add fuel
That dichotomy underscores one to the fire with the kind of exposure
point: As hugely popular as Pat Green radio and a committed, well-oiled
is, as rabid as his loyal fan base is, record label can provide.
there’s still an enormous audience “It’s really the core market of music
getting their first exposure to his one- fans that I still need to tap into,” Green
of-a-kind music and performances. surmises. “I’ve always figured it was
With his first album since signing just a matter of timing, and now I
with BNA Records, the three-time think our timing is perfect. I think this
Grammy nominee looks to take his is the best album I could make, and I
music to the masses. Cannonball, his think I have the best team behind me.”
explosive new album, captures Green’s As his attitude and words prove,
joyous, provocative songwriting style Green has no problem believing that
with new sharpness and swagger. Cannonball is a career album for him.
Working for the first time with a “I have to believe in what I’m doing—
powerhouse Nashville label, Green and that’s what has gotten me over every
his supporters expect Cannonball to hill,” he says. “I’ve got a big heart, and
transform him from massive cult star I’ve got a strong desire to climb to the
to emerging country superstar. top cliff and jump off. If you’re going to
“I feel like this album is a home run,” do that, you have to think you deserve
Green says with characteristic aw- it. We’ve been doing this a while now,
shucks honesty. “I wanted to take our and it just keeps getting better. I’m as
brand of independent music and give it ready as I can be for what comes next.”
a fresh shot at making a bigger impact.
That’s exactly what I think we’ve SHOW US YOUR COUNTRY
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Indeed, Green has always lived on
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country music and her “Ferrari of a voice,”
as one critic called it, have since made her
one of the genre’s most respected artists.
Big Rich
w hen it
comes to
Big & Rich,
there’s no need
for a t y pic a l
bio. You can get a telling of their early
career — separate and together — from
the folks at Warner Bros. Nashville, or
by Googling the dynamic duo. Their
back story hasn’t changed, so why
retell it?
I’m more interested in the biography
BETWEEN RAISING HELL AND AMAZING GRACE
and with two video cameras rolling, I
asked the guys about their place in life
and music. That place just happens to
be the title of their third CD: Between
Raising Hell and Amazing Grace.
John looked natty in black and blue—
black hat and sport jacket; blue shirt
and jeans. Kenny was all over the place,
with patchy, fashionably tattered jacket
and pants, along with his trademark
top hat. This one was smaller than the
usual, however. “It’s medium,” he said,
came from a conversation he had with
a friend, “and the realization that
between raising hell and ‘Amazing
Grace’ is that fine line that we’re
walking on all the time, trying to live
life to its fullest and at the same time
knowing that every day of our lives
is a blessing. And I feel like, to those
given much, much is expected. We’ve
gotta reach out there and help those
that need our help right now.”
Spoken like the son of a preacher
been fired from the soft-country band,
Lonestar, and is pitching songs left and
right. Kenny, who’s anything but soft,
is playing clubs all over town, drawing
female admirers. One of them was
dating John Rich.
“She wanted to go see him; her
girlfriends were all going to see him,
they were all in love with this guy
Big Kenny, and I went OK, I’ll go
check him out. He’s up there in all his
bigness, doing country, rock and roll,
of the choices they’ve made as Big & “but it should be extra large, because man. Well, actually, it was John, who and…Queen. It was very odd music,
Rich. In their mixing of traditional my cranium is constantly pulsing with comes out of Texas and Tennessee, but it was good stuff.” After the show,
country sounds with hip-hop, rock, imagination and creativity welling up whose father was a preacher — a a mutual friend introduced them. “She
and the occasional Native American in it. It’s about to explode.” guitar-playing preacher, at that. But said the two of you should get together
yell. Their employment, in their Muzik and write a song. There’s no telling
“ ”
I feel like, to those given much,
Mafia troupe, of a painter who works what you all will end up writin’ because
on a canvas during B&R shows, and of you’re so different.” Rich agreed to
a former Foot Locker salesman, called give it a shot. “It might be a complete
Cowboy Troy, who’s become the most
prominent black country performer much is expected. We’ve gotta fiasco,” he thought, “but I hadn’t seen
anybody else do the kind of music he
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ans dr awn in by luke and cotton in Leesburg, Ga., a tiny town
Br yan’s boy ish, dow n- that just got its first traffic light two
home charm soon discover years ago. But Bryan seemed destined
w h a t ’s b e h i n d i t : a n for a different career. Even as a small
intelligent wit, an off- child he recalls being drawn to music.
the-wall sense of humor “I had one of those little suitcase
and a unique take on life shaped by record players that I called my ‘rec-rec’
experiences both joyful and tragic. and I would listen to Ronnie Milsap
They also soon discern that this boy and Alabama on it all day, and I mean
next door is a talented triple threat ALL DAY,” he remembers.
vocalist, songwriter and musician. Bryan had his first guitar
Even before his first Capitol Records by age 14, and was playing
Nashville single, “All My Friends Say,” in a local bar at 15. By age WHO LUKE BRYAN
had been sent to country radio, Bryan, 16, he was regularly writing
32, was already earning significant
med ia attention, includ ing being
songs and leading his own
band. It was during this
WHEN SUN JUNE 28TH @ 4:30PM
named one of Billboard magazine’s
new faces to watch in 2007. He was
time he also got involved
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included in Country Weekly’s “Who’s recalls. “Wednesday nights I’d be through. It’s the most life-altering and remembers feeling “something
Hot in 2007” feature and the single playing for church groups and then event.” But at the same time, such a wasn’t right.” His father sensed it too,
was chosen as an iTunes “Discovery Friday and Saturday I’d be playing Alan harrowing occurrence brings with it and one day took his son for a drive
Download” of the week. Jackson, George Strait and Clint Black “a whole new appreciation for life. You and told him, “Music is what you were
At the same time, Bryan’s second at some little old dives in Georgia.” take each day as a special day. I don’t meant to do. You either quit this job
major cut as a song writer—Billy H is i ntent ion was to move to take anything for granted anymore.” and move to Nashville, or I’m going to
Currington’s “Good Directions”—was Nashville and pursue a music career A f ter the acc ident, Br yan fire you.”
quickly climbing the country airplay soon after his high school graduation, immediately scrapped his career plans, “The day I moved to Nashville and
charts and eventually hit the top spot a goal his family enthusiastically choosing instead to stay with his every day since then has been the
on the country singles charts in May supported. Sadly, fate had other plans. family during their painful ordeal. best day of my life,” Bryan says of
2007 giving the Georgia native his first Bryan had lined up a Nashville He continued to write and play music, fi nally making his long-delayed move
#1 song (three straight weeks) … as a apartment and a roommate, but on the and eventually enrolled at Georgia in September 2001. “I don’t consider
songwriter. Bryan’s first major cut was very day he was scheduled to move, his Southern University, not far from one thing I’ve done since I’ve been in
the title track to Travis Tritt’s “Honky older brother and biggest supporter, home. It was there that Bryan’s talents Nashville work. Spreading fertilizer and
Tonk History.” Chris, was killed in what Bryan calls a really blossomed as he performed with hauling peanut wagons, that’s work!
Countrified is something that comes “freak car accident.” his band nearly every weekend. Doing interviews and playing for fun
naturally to Bryan. He grew up helping The experience, Bryan says, is “the Even a f ter col lege g raduat ion, crowds, I’ll never consider that a job.”
his farmer father harvest peanuts, corn worst thing anybody could ever go Bryan refused to reconsider moving
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SHOW US YOUR COUNTRY PHOTO CONTEST He first topped the Billboard country Like This,’” he recalls. “It describes
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singles chart in 1993 with “What’s It a beautiful starry night by the ocean
to You” and followed with his second and it’s really a true story. The lyrics
consecutive No. 1 hit, “Live Until I are ‘I hate nights like this, it makes me
Die.” Since then he’s placed 31 titles on want to be in love.’ I think it’s really
Billboard’s singles chart including such soulful and heartfelt.” Walker also
additional chart toppers as “Dreaming penned a tune titled “She Likes It In
with my Eyes Open,” “If I Could The Morning.”
Make Living,” “This Woman and This “It’s a song that’s playful and at the
Man,” and “Rumor Has It.” (The latter same time says that a woman needs
two songs each spent two weeks at the to know that she’s the most important
summit.) He’s scored four platinum- thing in your life. A woman wants to
selling albums, signifying sales of a be treated like a queen. She wants to
million units, and two gold albums, know that she is absolutely everything
discs that sold over 500,000 units. to you. That’s what th is song is
However, that doesn’t mean Walker basically saying. It’s a ballad and it
has any intention of resting on his really reminds me of some of the stuff
“BIRTH” DAY BY MARY ANN WALSH laurels. The talented Texan has teamed
with acclaimed producer Keith Stegall
that I grew up listening to and loved-
-some of the early George Strait stuff
to record his first album for Curb and even a touch of some Conway
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Days before announcing her departure
from the platinum-selling band that
She alighted—as fate would have
it—in the capable hands of famed
producer Tony Brown. “He wouldn’t
have time for me,” she remembers
thinking, “between George Strait and
Reba and Brooks & Dunn.” Yet Brown
was intrigued by the project, and
after giving Heidi three hours of his
undivided attention, he was in.
“Right away we just clicked. Right
away I think he got my song sensibility,
and was right on track with it.”
agent husband, whom she married in
June 2004. “It takes a special man to
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up & down the road,” says Heidi. “This
job takes a lot out of you and it is very
time consuming, and even when I’m
home, I’m not ‘really’ home sometimes.
My wheels are always turning, always
thinking about a song, what I need
to do better, what I should do more.
Thankfully, he understands, as he is
very passionate about his job too.”
was blessed not only with enormous
vocal talent, but the conviction that she
was meant to be a singer.
“I never really veered off that
path,” she explains. “And my parents,
fortunately, were very supportive.”
She remembers her f irst tr ip to
Nashville at age 13 to record a demo:
“We didn’t know what we were doing,
and we certainly didn’t have the money
to be running me all over back and
forth between Nashville, but they did
had earned four top 20 singles, an ACM Brown and Newfield’s great alliance Growing up on a horse farm in their very best to try to support me.”
Best New Artist award, and an army is never more evident than in the Healdsburg, Calif., in the heart of Between the loss of a parent and her
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“
a lot on her mind.
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