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JAKE OWEN
2012 AMERICAN COUNTRY AWARDS
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR
ON THE RODEOHOUSTON
STAGE MARCH 13
In 2012, Jake released an EP album, Endless
Summer, which yielded the Top 40 hit, “Summer Jam,” a
collaboration with new country duo Florida Georgia Line,
and headlined his own tour in support of it. Of this
experience, Jake reveals, “One of the most memorable
moments was my first headlining tour at the end of last
year. I was a part of the CMT on Tour when I first started
out, and I was the opening act for Little Big Town and
Sugarland. To come back a few years later and headline
the same tour with my buddies Love and Theft and
Florida Georgia Line was awesome.” Apparently, it was
funny, too! As Jake tells it, “There are a lot of pranks that
go on on tours. We like to have a little fun. Right after
Pearl was born, we were about to do the encore on the
CMT Tour, and, when Love and Theft and Florida
Georgia Line joined me onstage, they were wearing
nothing but adult diapers! I about lost it.”
BY JAMES HARVEY
‘I
’m really excited about performing at the Rodeo!” says
RCA-Nashville recording artist Jake Owen, who will make
his debut performance at RodeoHouston on March 13.
“This will be my first time performing at this Rodeo and I
can’t wait to experience it.” Having just completed his first
headlining tour in 2012, Jake was recently named Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the 2012 American Country Awards.
“At the end of February, I’ll be joining Jason Aldean’s 2013 Night
Train Tour,” Jake adds. “ I’m really excited to get back out on the
road with the fans.” For more information on Jake and his
upcoming performances, see his website: www.jakeowen.net or
www.rodeohouston.com.
While still promoting his third studio album, Barefoot Blue
Jean Night, which has already spawned two Billboard No. 1
singles, “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” and “Alone With You,” as
well as a third chart-topper, “The One That Got Away,” which
reached No. 1 on the Country Airplay Chart and became a No. 1
video on the CMT Top 20 Countdown, Jake is already back in
the studio recording his forthcoming fourth studio album. “I’ve
been in the studio with producer Joey Moi, who produced several
of the tracks on my last album, Barefoot Blue Jean Night,
working on my next full-length studio album,” Jake says. “We are
still in the beginning stages of cutting songs so it’s still early in
the process. I did not write all of the songs on this album. There
are so many amazing writers in Nashville that I wanted to look
for the best songs that fit me and the overall vibe of the album
whether I wrote them or not. I think that the new music is right in
line with the musical style of Barefoot Blue Jean Night, but we
are taking it up a notch! There will be something for everyone on
this new album. It will be a cohesive album you can listen to
from start to finish. I hope that fans love it and make it a part of
their good times to come.”
Aside from recording hit songs, headlining sold-out concerts, and winning awards this past year, Jake even found time
to start a family. He married model Lacey Buchanan on May 7,
2012, having proposed to her onstage a month before. Their
daughter, Olive Pearl, was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22,
2012. Jake now counts “being a dad” as his greatest adventure.
“It’s funny,” Jake muses. “So many people told us that your life
will completely change when you have a baby. I look at it more
as ‘added’ to my life instead of changed. Everything that I do in
my life and career, I now share with Lacey and Pearl, which
makes it even more special.”
Jake, along with his twin brother Jarrod, was born on
His debut album, Startin¶ With Me, which included
August 28, 1981, and raised in Vero Beach, Florida, where he
“Ghosts,” was released in 2006, and yielded three hit
was an outstanding athlete at Vero Beach High school and, later,
singles: “Yee Haw,” which made it all the way to No. 16
at Florida State University. When a severe shoulder injury
on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart; “Startin’ With
(suffered in a wakeboarding accident) ended his dream of
Me,” which made it to No. 6, and “Something About A
becoming a professional golfer, however, Jake found his true
Woman.” Over the next two years, Jake opened for
calling in music. While recovering from reconstructive surgery on
such luminaries as Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood,
his shoulder, Jake began playing guitar and writing songs. After
Alan Jackson, Brooks and Dunn, Little Big Town and
his recovery, Jake moved to Nashville, where he met songwriter
Sugarland. In 2009, Jake was named Top New Male
and producer Jimmy Ritchey, with whom he (along with Chuck
Vocalist at the Academy of Country Music Awards. Also
Jones) wrote the song “Ghosts,” originally intended for Kenny
in 2009, Jake’s second studio album, Easy Does It,
Chesney. In fact, it was a Kenny Chesney concert that inspired
debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Country Albums
Jake to pursue a career in country music. As Jake tells it, “I
Chart, and produced three more hit singles: “Don’t
always had a love of music growing up, and I knew that this was
Think I Can’t Love You,” which went all the way to No. 2
what I wanted to do after attending a Kenny Chesney concert. I
on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart; “Eight
started out by playing bars in Florida and then made the move to
Second Ride,” which peaked at No. 11; and “Tell Me,”
Nashville.” On the strength of this song, Jake was offered a
which went to No. 35. In support of Easy Does It, Jake
recording contract with RCA-Nashville in 2005.
joined Keith Urban on his Get Closer world tour in 2011.
Besides his dedication to his family and
to his music, Jake also enjoys philanthropy
through his own Jake Owen Foundation. As
Jake says, “I host an annual concert in my
hometown of Vero Beach, Florida, to benefit
the Jake Owen Foundation. The Foundation
supports St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital and youth organizations in Indian
River County, Florida, including Autism
Speaks and the Mardy Fish Foundation. This
year we raised well-over $125K for the
cause.” How would he like to be remembered? “I hope that people remember that I
was a good guy and, maybe, made them
smile one day, or helped to change their life
in some way,” Jake offers. “For me, it is not
about the awards or number of hits. I care
about people.”
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JASON ALDEAN RIDES
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On the Web: JasonAldean.com
On Twitter: @JasonAldean
BY TOM ROLAND
© 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc.
J
ason Aldean’s My Kinda Party won CMA’s Album of the Year Award in 2011, amassing more
sales than any other Country album in that calendar year. And if anyone still harbored doubts
about his stature, the 2012 nominations list pretty much put them to rest. Aldean nabbed three
nominations, including his second straight for Entertainer of the Year. But he also had a hand in
the successes of some other acts that populated the finalists list.
Eric Church, whose five nominations led the field, is one of Aldean’s former opening acts. Doublenominee Luke Bryan, who announced 2012’s nominees with Aldean on ABC’s “Good Morning America,”
is one of Aldean’s best friends as well as an opener at his shows. Double-nominee Thompson Square
claims several of Aldean’s band members among its production team. Kelly Clarkson shared the 2011
Vocal Event Award with Aldean for “Don’t You Wanna Stay.” New Artist nominee Brantley Gilbert wrote
two Aldean hits, “My Kinda Party” and “Dirt Road Anthem,” before he started scaling the singles charts
as an artist in 2011.
Aldean downplays his role in their careers. “I’m not going to sit there and take credit for those
things,” he said. “I think those guys were great artists before.”
Even so, these artists and many others as well have benefited from Aldean’s efforts. He helped to
change the sound of Country Music by opening a stylistic door. When “Hicktown” (written by Big Kenny,
Vicky McGehee and John Rich) debuted on the national charts in April 2005, Toby Keith and Montgomery
Gentry arguably led the Country pack with edgy, testosterone-driven energy. But “Hicktown” took it further
by melding a decidedly Country, small-town theme with the crunchy guitar chords and sonic assault of
hard rock.
When we shipped that first single,” remembered Jon Loba, EVP, Broken Bow Music Group, “the
initial resistance out there was that ‘this isn’t Country, this is rock,’ ‘this is too hard,’ ‘this is not something
that P1s (core Country listeners) can relate to.’ It was a daily battle. I can’t remember how many times we
almost lost that record, so to go from that to mass acceptance and influence is definitely very gratifying to
see.”
In the process, Aldean became a central figure in the “baseball cap Country crowd,” as described by
Don Gosselin, Operations Manager, Clear Channel/New Orleans and Program Director, WNOE-FM/New
Orleans.
Gosselin singles out Aldean, Eric Church and Brantley Gilbert, all of whom employ baseball caps
extensively in their imaging, as acts that draw large numbers of 20-something male fans to their concerts.
It’s similar to the impact of the Outlaw movement in the late 1970s, when a core Country audience found
commonality with non-Country fans who related to the blue-collar rebellion signified by those artists’
music.
“Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson were the outlaws of the day,” Hart observed. “They had a similar
image and drew those (mixed) crowds. Jason Aldean has appeal to a lot of people outside of our format,
particularly males, because of the attitude he brings to his music. People want to raise hell, drink or
whatever.”
“There’s more of a harder edge, more attitude-driven sort of stuff,” Aldean agreed, comparing his
music, and that of Church and Gilbert, with Country’s mainstream. “If you listen to all of our records, they
sound completely different. But I think it’s pretty obvious that we grew up probably listening to a lot of the
same music.”
While that grittier side of Aldean’s art played a big role in carving a space for him in Country’s sonic
landscape, a key to his rise lies in his insistence on counter-balancing his rock edge. He followed
“Hicktown” with “Why” (Rodney Clawson, McGehee and Rich), a power ballad that appealed to female
fans. Over time, he’s widened his creative circle by trying other types of material that defied his history,
particularly by rapping in “Dirt Road Anthem” (Colt Ford and Gilbert) and with the power ballad “Don’t You
Wanna Stay” (Andy Gibson, Paul Jenkins and Jason Sellers), which crossed onto the Adult Contemporary
charts and attracted a whole new segment of non-Country female fans.
“As an artist, that’s what you want,” Aldean reflected. “You don’t want to back yourself up into a
corner and play to one demographic or the other. We want everybody listening. We can go out and do one
of those big tempos, but if you start putting four or five of those on every record, that’ll get boring. Just be
able to change it up with a ballad here or there, or something off the wall now and then. That’s really the
thing that makes it work.”
“We hear that all the time from the female consumers and core fans. They love Jason because he
rocks but he also sings songs that a lot of rockers resist,” said Rick Shedd, Senior VP/GM, Broken Bow
Label Group. “He allows himself to be vulnerable.”
Aldean does all of those things on his current album, Night Train. “Take a Little Ride” (Dylan Altman,
Clawson and Jim McCormick), “Wheels Rollin’” (Neil Thrasher, Wendell Mobley and Hillary Lindsey) and
“This Nothin’ Town” (Thrasher, Mobley and busbee) embrace his energetic, rockin’ edge. “Talk” (Thrasher
and Mobley), “Walking Away” (David Lee Murphy and Clawson) and “Black Tears” (Canaan Smith and Tyler
Hubbard) employ sounds and storylines that show a balladeer’s sensitivity.
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Then there’s “1994” (Thomas Rhett, Luke Laird and Barry Dean), the
album’s off-the-wall entry that picks through hit titles from Joe Diffie’s
singles discography while holding Diffie up in a rapping, nostalgic ride
down memory lane.
Night Train was clearly made with an eye toward reaching out to the
disparate demographics of Aldean’s audience. Still, his strategy didn’t
involve cloning his previous work. The sales and CMA Album of the Year
recognition for My Kinda Party created a new and somewhat unfamiliar
context for Night Train, so Aldean did his best to forget about past successes as he rolled up his sleeves to tackle the present.
“I knew there were going to be a lot of people that have high
expectations of this album and that there would probably be a lot of people
that want to compare records,” he said. “But it’s a completely different
album. I’m a couple of years older now, so it’s going to reflect a different
point of view of where you are. I don’t think it’s fair to compare them. But I
will say this: I think Night Train is an unbelievable record. I’m very proud of
it. Do I hope Night Train tops Party? Of course I do! Was that the mindset
when I went in and cut it? No, not at all.”
One aspect that’s consistent on all of Aldean’s albums is the
makeup of the studio team. Each one was recorded under the guidance of
producer Michael Knox and the aid of the singer’s road band, including
guitarist Kurt Allison, bass player Tully Kennedy and drummer Rich
Redmond. Using the touring band was a bit unusual when Aldean did it on
his debut album, though it’s since become more commonplace. In fact,
three of the five finalists for CMA’s Single of the Year in 2012 — Aldean’s
“Dirt Road Anthem,” Church’s “Springsteen” and Little Big Town’s
“Pontoon” — featured at least two members of the artist’s road band.
Historically, Nashville has used a handful of musicians to handle
much of Country’s session work, believing that the skills required to get a
good sound in the technical confines of a studio are different than those
required to support an artist onstage. Jennings and Nelson got much of
their outlaw reputations by fighting that assumption. Aldean, by contrast,
faced little resistance at Broken Bow when he decided to use his own
players.
As Aldean remembered it, “I went in and basically said, ‘This is what
you guys signed me for. You signed me because you liked these demos
that I cut and you liked the way that my record sounds. So if that’s what
you like, then let me keep doing it the way I’ve done it. If you don’t, it’s not
going to sound like that.’ It was actually never a really big deal.”
Maybe not. But by building an audience that blends core Country
fans with new, young and non-traditional converts, Aldean has become a
bona fide big deal. All of his shows in 2012 were sellouts, many within
minutes or hours of tickets going on sale. He headlined a stadium for the
first time in August and, in true Country fashion, was determined to make
hay while the sun shines. Aldean packed his schedule so tight that in one
stretch he was at home in Tennessee for only a couple of nights over a
couple of months.
“The bottom line is I love what I do,” Aldean insisted. “I’m living out a
dream that most people would never get to experience. That would be crazy
not to want to take advantage of that and take it in as much as I could while
it’s here. At some point, you know it’s going to kind of level off. Every artist’s
career does at some point. And I figure I can rest when that happens.”
PAGE 8, TEXAS HOT COUNTRY MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 2013
CLAUDE KING
MUSIC & MEMORIES OF A COUNTRY LEGEND
CLAUDE WITH DAVID HOUSTON,
TOP ROW, LEFT; TEX RITTER,
MIDDLE ROW, LEFT; FERLIN
HUSKY, MIDDLE ROW, RIGHT;
JOHNNY HORTON, BOTTOM ROW,
LEFT; AND MERLE KILGORE, BOTTOM ROW, RIGHT. MERLE COWROTE ONE OF THE ALL-TIME CLASSIC COUNTRY HITS WITH CLAUDE -“WOLVERTON MOUNTAIN.”
TEXAS HOT COUNTRY MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 2013, PAGE 9
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAUDE KING
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STILL GOING STRONG AT 90!
laude, of “Wolverton Mountain” fame, who has
been recording since ‘47, just released his latest
CD, Claude King’s Beer Drinkin’ Songs. Selections
include “Wolverton Mountain” (of course),
“Honky Tonk Man,” “Beer Drops And Teardrops,”
“51 Beers,” “Beers And Pinballs,” “Little Bitty
Heart,” “House Of The Rising Sun” and “Chip ‘N’
Dale’s Place.” The CD is available on iTunes.
Why did Claude call the CD Claude King¶s Beer Drinkin¶ Songs?
After having titled the CD about drinkin’ beer, Claude had second thoughts. “I don’t think
that’s too good of an idea really, after I got to thinking about it,” he says with a laugh, over the
phone from his home in Shreveport. “I’ve never been known to do a lot of drinkin’, but that kind of
puts me in that category.”
But then again Claude, most country music fans, especially those who hang out in honkytonks and dance halls, can certainly relate to drinkin’ beer. And to fit into the honky tonk and beer
drinkin’ theme, Claude included his old fishin’ buddy’s (Johnny Horton) country classic, “Honky
Tonk Man,” penned by Claude’s (and Johnny’s manager) Tillman Franks.
During Claude’s long stretch in the country music world, he has established himself as one
of its most revered and enduring stars. Fellow Louisiana country music performer Eddy Raven
sums it up best when, in a recent interview, he told me that “Claude is one of the guys; one of the
real guys. I always respected the way he acted and the way that he handled himself. He always
seemed to be the perfect gentleman. A really neat guy, and to have survived the industry as long
as he has and still be a very viable part of it, is a task that most people don’t ever accomplish. He
is truly one of the few that have done that. Claude, what a great guy! I’m just thrilled to know that
he’s appreciated like he should be. The main thing about Claude, to me, is that he’s handled
himself so well. You never heard any bad things about him. I guess that’s why he didn’t wear
black.”
And country music singer/actor/disc jockey Johnny Western adds, “Claude King is one of
the finest recording artists I ever had the pleasure of working with. We both recorded for Columbia Records in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, and I had the opportunity to work many shows with
Claude, who is a true gentleman of country music.”
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CLAUDE IN PEARLAND WITH HIS PRODUCER,
MARK CHAMNESS, AND LEON BECK. MARK IS
THE FOUNDER OF NASHVILLE RECORDS
RECORDING STUDIO IN PEARLAND. MARK,
WHO GREW UP IN SHREVEPORT, IS A LIFELONG FRIEND OF THE CLAUDE KING FAMILY,
AND A FORMER MEMBER OF CLAUDE¶S COTTON DAN BAND. SAYS MARK, ³CLAUDE KING
IS A PIONEER OF WHAT AUTHENIC COUNTRY
MUSIC IS ALL ABOUT.´
PART TWO OF A SERIES
ON CLAUDE KING
What does it mean to Claude to be a country music singer?
“I’ve always loved country music,” Claude states, “and when I
was a little kid, we had an old battery radio way back in the
country. My daddy let me listen to the Grand Ole Opry back then.
He didn’t want to use it any more than he had to because he liked
to listen to Amos and Andy and we just had a battery that operated
that thing. So, we couldn’t play it a whole lot, but I tried to squeeze
in and listen to the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday nights when I
could. I loved Jimmie Rodgers way back then. I kind of wanted to
do country music.” Eventually he started a country music group
with two other guys, Tillman Franks and Buddy Attaway. That was
before World War II. “Then Pearl Harbor happened and I decided
to join the navy.”
Music was not Claude’s only interest back during his early
years. “I shot marbles,” he says, “and I was a marble champion at
two different elementary schools I went to. I was the marble champion at Adkins Avenue Grade School, and they used to have these
marble tournaments -- and I won the tournament there. I was the
champion and got a medal for it, and when we moved to another
adddress, I went to Summer Grove Elementary School, which is
close to where I live now in Shreveport. And I won the championship
there.”
Cluade was also quite taken with the western action on the silver
screen. “I’d go to westerns on Saturday when I could,” he laughs, “I
had a chance to once in a while -- and I loved the western stars back
then. Buck Jones was my favorite; Ken Maynard, Col. Tim McCoy,
Bob Steele. Those were the big cowboy stars back then.”
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GEORGETTE JONES
THE DAUGHTER OF GEORGE AND
TAMMY IS CARRYING ON
THE FAMILY TRADITION
T
amala Georgette Jones was born to the only
Hall of Fame husband and wife country
artists, George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
She¶s been singing with one or both parents
since the age of 3. She recorded her first
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Georgette also worked as a backup singer
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of SESAC and the CMA.
Georgette tours Ireland twice a year, where
she has developed a very loyal fan base. She also
tours Europe and Asia.
A duet entitled ³You And Me And Time,´
which Georgette co-wrote for her dad, was
released as the first single from her
dad¶s CD, Burn Your Playhouse Down.
Georgette has filmed a TV series
entitled Sordid Lives, starring alongside
Emmy award winner Leslie Jordan (Will
and Grace) and many other big stars
such as Olivia Newton-John, Bonnie
Bedelia (Die Hard), Margaret Cho and
others. Georgette re-recorded three of
her mom¶s songs included with five
songs from Olivia Newton - John in the
soundtrack.
More recently, Georgette has
recorded two CDs with Heart of Texas
Records. A Slightly Used Woman and
Strong Enough To Cry, and When Tractors Fly with Lennon Records.
In describing her brand of country,
she says, ³I probably fall more along the
lines of my mom than my dad as far as
like my dad is definitely very traditional
and that¶s it. It¶s one-sided because
that¶s what he loves. That¶s the kind of
country that he enjoys the most. Mom
did open the door to a lot of different
kinds of music.
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traditional country music. It may be a
little more modern, a little more on the
bluesy side perhaps, but I just love
singing traditional music the most.´
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