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CLAY WALKER KICKS OFF
RODEO HOUSTON MARCH. 1
ack in the early ‘90s, one of my photographers shot a
picture of a Beaumont-area singer at the Silverado Dance
Hall & Saloon in Baytown. The young country music singer
said that he was trying to land a record deal with major
label Elektra Records.
That record contract never did materialize, but a short time later
he signed with Giant Records, and in ‘93, with the release of his selftitled debut CD, which yielded three No. 1 singles, “What’s It To You,”
“Live Until I Die,” “Dreaming With My Eyes Wide Open,” and a No. 9
single, “Where Do I Fit In The Picture,” Clay Walker became one of
the hottest new singers in country music. His next CD, If I Could
Make A Living, kept him on top of the charts with two more No. 1
singles, the title cut and “This Woman And This Man.”
Eighteen years later, Clay, who will make his 17th performance
at RodeoHouston on March 1, is still a viable force in country music.
His recent No. 4 single, “She Won’t Be Lonely Long,” was named by
Billboard Magazine as one of the Top 10 Hot Country Songs for
2010. His current Asylum-Curb single from his She Won’t Be Lonely
Long CD, “Where Do I Go From You,” is perched in the Top 30 on
Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart and is moving up.
On his cell phone from Nashville, Clay apologizes for cancelling
the interview the previous week. “It snowed so hard here,” Clay says,
“there was ice everywhere. I was on my way to the airport, and I was
not taking my hand off the wheel for a second, or my mind off the
drive. There were wrecks everywhere. Being from Texas, trying to
drive in this ice and snow -- that’s just a little unusual for me.”
Clay, who calls Galveston home now, is working on building a
home in Tennessee. “Commuting back and forth all these years,”
says the multi-platinum selling artist, “I might as well have a place
here (in Tennessee). We love it here. The hills are beautiful -- but I’ll
always be a Texan.”
Clay credits his longevity in country music to “probably never
looking back,” he laughs. “I think that’s probably a big part of it. I’m
always in the present about songs and about my life. I really try to
get better, and do better, as a person every day. That’s a pretty tough
feat. I think there’s a lot of people who live in the past -- and I’m one
of those people that’s constantly in the present.”
Clay, who has the knack for churning out country hits (his track
record includes 15 Top 5 singles), says “it’s a testament that folks
still want to hear good strong solid country music. I’m certainly one
of the people who does like what I would call ‘new country music,’
meaning music that is a little more pop-sounding. I like it -- but I love
the more real country music like this song (“She Won’t Be Lonely
Long”). I think there are a lot of fans out there who identify with this
song, or the song wouldn’t have been one of the most-played songs
in 2010.”
When Clay first heard the song on a demo tape, he was more
than just ecstatic. “I was jumping up and down going, ‘This is one of
the best songs I’ve ever heard.’ My wife heard it, and when you get
both sides of the perspective, a guy and a girl liking a song, then you
know you’ve got something really great.” Clay calls the song “unbelievable” and “a genius-type song.
“I’ve been in clubs where I’ve been singing and performing, and
I’d see women walk in that look just like this woman in the song. It
just hit me. The visual was very real.
“Too many times,” Clay says, “I think that men take our
significant others for granted. When you take ‘em for granted too
long, you end up where they can’t take it anymore. All of a sudden
they’re like, ‘You know what? It’s over. Fine. I’ll show you.’ And as
soon as their relationship ends, they start working on the way they
look, working out and looking better, just to show you what you lost.
It’s kind of sad because a lot of times we don’t realize what we
have right there in our hands because we just take it for granted -- and then they
show you. Wow! I think women love this song because they see themselves in the
song. I guess the whole moral is ‘appreciate what you have before you lose it.’”
This CD is a landmark CD for Clay because he cut Alabama’s “Feels So Right”
with Alabama’s lead singer Randy Owen. “Randy,” says Clay, “is one of the nicest
human beings that I’ve personally been around.” The first concert that Clay ever
attended was an Alabama concert in Beaumont back in ‘82 when he was in junior
high school.
“My mom took me to go see them,” he recalls. “I still remember their performance. Randy Owen left such an impression on me with the energy that he had on
stage.” Clay decided to cut “Feels So Right” for the CD because “it’s one of my
favorite country songs of all time. I’d have to say that song and ‘Miami My Amy’ by
Keith Whitley.
“I remember seeing my mother’s face when Randy sang ‘Feels So Right.” That
song, Clay says, “moved people. It never gets old. It still sounds as good today as it
did then. The only way that I would record ‘Feels So Right’ was with his blessing, and
being on it. It wouldn’t have been right. I would never have done it without him.
“It was one of the absolute greatest moments of my life.”
Clay also recorded “Before The Next Teardrop Falls” with Freddy Fender on a
previous album. “Those are the only two duets I ever even wanted to do. Those
events epitomize my love of country music -- and they epitomize the greatest experience that I’ve ever had in the studio.”
HOUSTON RODEO PARADE GRAND MARSHAL
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C
hen I was a kid, I loved going to parades...being
the Grand Marshal of the Houston Rodeo makes
me feel like the biggest kid of all!!’
Clay Walker
lay Walker is a hometown RodeoHouston™ favorite. We are excited to have him serve as Grand
Marshal for the Downtown Rodeo Parade, and we
are looking forward to his high-energy performance
on opening night of the 2011 Houston Livestock
Show and Rodeo.”
Leroy Shafer, chief operating officer of
the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo™
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RANDY “SOMETIMES I TALK IN MY SLEEP” CORNOR, CENTER, WITH, LEFT TO RIGHT, KARI
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SUGARLAND STEAMS
TOWARD THE EDGE WITH
‘THE INCREDIBLE MACHINE’
BY BOBBY REED
O2011 CMA CLOSE UPO NEWS SERVICE /COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATIONO, INC
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he Country Music industry is a proverbial big tent with a variety of
styles, performers and fans. But Sugarland, the 2010 CMA Vocal
Duo of the Year, is expanding that already spacious tent and changing people’s perceptions of the genre by sprinkling traces of reggae,
arena rock, new wave and alternative rock throughout their adventurous new album, The Incredible Machine.
The catchy lead single, “Stuck Like Glue,” written by Sugarland’s Kristian
Bush and Jennifer Nettles along with Shy Carter and Kevin Griffin, went to
Country radio on July 26 and established itself as the best-ever Billboard Hot 100
entry for a Country duo or group, with 93,000 downloads in its first week. By early
October, it had sold 584,000 downloads and cracked the Top 10 on the Billboard
Hot Country Songs chart. When Mercury Nashville dropped the album Oct. 19, it
powered immediately to No. 1 on both the Country and Top 200 charts.
An ambitious campaign had been launched to promote the album. Back in
April, the duo began its “The Incredible Machine Tour,” an eye-popping spectacle
bristling with theatrical elements. The stage design relied heavily on steampunk, with
imagery that featured wood, brass, Victorian machinery and steam power. This
retro-futurist aesthetic is mirrored by the design of their album cover, which consists
entirely of pipes and gadgets designed by Lightborne Inc. in Cincinnati and cleverly
arranged to spell out “Sugarland” against a stark white background.
“It’s certainly atypical for a Country band to have a tour named after an album
that’s not even out yet,” said Ken Robold, Executive VP and GM, UMG Nashville.
“But we’re all for artists stretching the boundaries. As a label, we respect
Sugarland’s artistic vision. It’s been fascinating to watch Jennifer and Kristian
progress as performers, writers and entertainers. We love having them here.”
Sugarland had sold more than 8 million albums. Their debut, 2004’s Twice the
Speed of Life and their sophomore album, Enjoy the Ride, each are triple Platinum.
The double-Platinum studio album Love on the Inside was followed by the live
concert CD/DVD package Live on the Inside and the holiday-themed Gold and
Green, consisting of standards and originals, co-written by Bush and Nettles.
Prior to release of the new album, Mercury Nashville sold preorders at
Sugarland concerts. Fans could go to the merchandise table to purchase a laminate
with a detachable card containing a download code, allowing the buyer to get the
digital album the day of its release. Sugarland also did a countdown at iTunes,
offering one track for sale each week for three weeks leading up to the album’s
release.
Sugarland’s success online and at brick-and-mortar retail matches their
triumphs on the road, where they routinely draw 10,000 fans per show. “The
Incredible Machine Tour” concluded on Oct. 16 at Cruzan Amphitheatre in West
Palm Beach, Fla.
“This album is designed to play in very large places and to communicate with
a large group of people,” said Bush. “When you have an instrument as powerful
and as graceful as Jennifer’s voice, you don’t want to tiptoe in. You really go for it!
And those types of songs are often where Jennifer and I intersect musically.”
Bush and Nettles co-wrote every track on The Incredible Machine except for
“Shine the Light,” a Nettles solo composition that spotlights her piano work. In the
past, Bush played acoustic guitar and mandolin on Sugarland albums; this time
out, he also played all the electric guitar parts.
Another change involves Bush’s role as a vocalist. He sings the album’s
moody centerpiece, “The Incredible Machine (Interlude),” and trades lead vocals
with Nettles on the rousing anthem “Stand Up.” “I don’t know how many people
have really heard me sing before,” Bush admitted. “For fans of the band, it’s like a
whole new layer is peeled back.”
Other tracks on the album include “All We Are,” which has a chant-along
chorus, and the revved-up “Wide Open,” written specifically for the 2010 Winter
Olympic Games.
Sugarland’s critical acclaim and commercial accomplishments, which include
seven No. 1 singles, clearly result from the fertile creative partnership between Bush
and Nettles.
“Kristian and I have learned to trust each other a lot more, and I think we’ve
learned to trust ourselves more,” Nettles explained. “Our biggest strength is the
encouragement that we offer each other, to really go to those far-reaching places.
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Whenever we’re in the writing process, there’s no idea that’s dumb. There’s no idea that
shouldn’t be said, because even if it’s not the right line or the right chord progression or the right
whatever, it may be the next step to get to where we want to go. We’ve developed a nice volley with
each other.”
“So far, it has worked wonderfully,” Bush confirmed. “In the story of who we are, this album is
more us than we’ve ever been.”
One industry veteran who has frequently witnessed this volley is Byron Gallimore. He coproduced the new album with Bush and Nettles, his fourth project with the duo. “Jen and Kristian work
on the road together all the time, and they have a real camaraderie,” he said. “It’s a beautiful thing to
watch them in the studio, the way they work together and feed off of each other. It’s not one person
doing more than the other. It’s as equal a thing as I could ever imagine. They know and understand a
lot of the same music and therefore they complement each other. They just work really, really well
together.”
In June, Sugarland kicked-off a Webisode series, “The Week in Review,” which is posted at
www.YouTube.com/Sugarland. Directed by Valarie Bienas, it offers behind-the-scenes glimpses of
Sugarland offstage and on the road. One installment, posted July 12, depicts them and their crew
sipping wine at the Ironstone Vineyards in Murphys, Calif. The Aug. 23 episode, featuring a poignant
voiceover by Bush, shows Sugarland and Little Big Town rehearsing the Marc Cohn hit “Walking in
Memphis” and then performing it onstage in Memphis. The hilarious Sept. 28 edition includes a “Star
Wars” parody, complete with the onscreen text “May the Sugar Force Be with You” and some
“security guards” dressed as intergalactic storm troopers.
“Valarie Bienas is a wonderful documentarian, videographer and photographer,” said Nettles. “I
love the way she sees us. I love what she captures of us. It feels authentic. She thinks very much the
way we do, and we are happily able to say, ‘Here, you capture it and edit it.’ We give her our trust,
and she does a great job.”
In addition to the standard 11-track version of The Incredible Machine, Mercury Nashville
issued a deluxe edition, which includes a CD and a DVD. The video content consists of a Bienasdirected, 40-minute documentary, “Blood, Love, Hope, Lust, Steam,” as well as the music video for
“Stuck Like Glue” and footage of a live version of the album’s title track.
Many elements of both the album and its tour push outside the box for Country acts, whether it’s
the cover art, the rock influence, the quote from author Mark Helprin in the liner notes or the yoga
mats sold at Sugarland concerts. This is Country Music made for and by people who embrace
numerous aspects of pop culture.
“Kristian and I always say that our creative minds are ahead of our conscious minds,” Nettles
noted. “As I look back now at the lyrics of the song ‘The Incredible Machine,’ it definitely feels like a
metaphor for where we are right now in our career. We are at a creative rebirthing. When I think of
those first lines — ‘Feels like I’m flying / wings made of light / brand new and shinin’ / like a shot
rung out through the night’ — that seems to me to be a beautiful visual for where we are. We have
these beautiful, new butterfly wings of light. It feels like we’re in this new place. There is some
beauty and vulnerability in that creative space, and I love that. It has some risks but not really — not
with our fans.”
In addition to the devotion of their fans, Sugarland has won the respect and admiration of peers.
Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town, who often has toured with Sugarland, said, “Nobody writes fun,
upbeat, make-you-feel-good-about-your-life-and-yourself music better than Jennifer and Kristian.
Nobody. That’s just their thing. They’re so good at it.”
Gallimore sees Sugarland as part of a trend towards musical diversity within the genre.
“A lot of new acts, like Sugarland and Lady Antebellum, are doing music they grew up loving,”
he observed. “You hear their influences in the songs they write. Slowly, over time, our format evolves
and takes in a few new things. We still have traditional Country Music, which is wonderful too. I think
that’s what makes Country radio so interesting. We have a pretty wide deal going on now, so every
song doesn’t sound exactly alike when you’re riding down the road, listening.”
Indeed, no radio listener is likely to confuse Alan Jackson with Sugarland, but that variety is a
hallmark of today’s Country Music. There’s plenty of action in the center and, thanks to Sugarland
among others, along the outer edges as well.
On the Web: www.SugarlandMusic.com
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TEXAS H✪T COUNTRY
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PHOTOS BY
LEON BECK
JACINTO CITY OPRY
HERSHEL WOOTEN,
FRONT ROW CENTER,
WITH SANTA (JIM SHORT)
AND SANTA’S HELPER
(ABBY GOUGH).
BACK ROW, LEFT TO
RIGHT, JOYCE MACON,
NONDIA SMITH, RONNIE
MCKINNEY, JOE MACON,
CONNIE BARTH, TINA
ZARILLO, SANDRA
SHIPMAN, MIKE SHORT,
MAYRA LAMB AND
PEGGY PENDLETON.
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AT THE PASADENA
RODEO -- CASEY
DONAHEW, CENTER,
AND THE CASEY
DONAHUE BAND WITH,
THIRD FROM LEFT,
RODEO PRESIDENT TIM
COBB AND, THIRD FROM
RIGHT, RODEO VICE
PRESIDENT REX DAVIS.
PASADENA
RODEO VICE
PRESIDENT REX
DAVIS WITH JACK
INGRAM.
KEVIN FOWLER AT BIG
TEXAS DANCE HALL &
SALOON IN WEBSTER
WITH, LEFT TO RIGHT,
THE CLUB’S JOHN
SAVAGE, ROBERT LEE
AND ADAM SCHMIDT.
FRONT ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT, BOBBY SMITH, BILL BARFIELD
AND RAY SHIPMAN. BACK ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT, MARY
DOOLEY, RONNIE MCKINNEY, MIKE SHORT, SANTA’S HELPER
(ABBY GOUGH), SANTA (JIM SHORT), RENEE FUSSELL, FRAN
SHORT AND VICTOR EARNEST.
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introducing...
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