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VOL. 19 NO. 5
COVERING COUNTRY MUSIC SINCE 1991
AUGUST 2012
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TEXAS HOT COUNTRY MAGAZINE, AUGUST 2012, PAGE 3
TOP 20 SONGS PLAYED ON THE NEW 93Q
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JANA KRAMER
DUSTIN LYNCH
JOSH TURNER
EASTON CORBIN
THE BAND PERRY
KENNY CHESNEY
RASCAL FLATTS
GLORIANA
THOMPSON SQUARE
THOMAS RHETT
HUNTER HAYES
KEITH URBAN
KRISTEN KELLY
LITTLE BIG TOWN
BLAKE SHELTON
JERROD NIEMANN
MIRANDA LAMBERT
CARRIE UNDERWOOD
MIRANDA LAMBERT
LOVE & THEFT
WHY YA WANNA
COWBOYS AND ANGELS
TIME IS LOVE
LOVIN’ YOU IS FUN
POSTCARD FROM PARIS
COME OVER
COME WAKE ME UP
(KISSED YOU) GOODNIGHT
GLASS
SOMETHING TO DO WITH MY HANDS
WANTED
FOR YOU
EX-OLD MAN
PONTOON
OVER
SHININ’ ON ME
FASTEST GIRL IN TOWN
BLOWN AWAY
OVER YOU
ANGEL EYES
INTRODUCING BAYTOWN’S COUNTRY MUSIC SINGER/SONGWRITER
Breelan Angel B
reelan’s debut EP, Write It My Own Way, has just been
released, and features six songs she co-wrote -“Feelin’ No Pain,” “Real Good Night,” “Best Of Him,”
“You’re Wrong,” “Addicted To The Pain” and “Write It
My Own Way.” Breelan, a recent graduate of Southern
Methodist University with a degree in business management, brands her country a mix of traditional,
southern rock and country rock. “It has that hard
country edge feel to it.”
the buzz on breelan
On behalf of the Crosby Fair and Rodeo, I would like to say
that having Breelan Angel at the Crosby Fair and Rodeo was
one of the best things we did this year. Breelan put on a great
show and drew a big crowd of her own fans. With a mix of her
own original tunes and many favorites we all know, she put
on one of the best performances I’ve seen from a new artist in
a long time. We look forward to having her back next year.
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BILL BUSBY
CROSBY FAIR & RODEO
Breelan opened for the legendary Don Williams on June
21st at the Stafford Centre. She possesses a powerful
voice and features a solid group of musicians. Breelan’s
presentation of original scores demonstrates a skill set
beyond her vocal prowess. We are excitedly looking
forward to her next appearance here.
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CHRIS CAGLE
BACK IN THE SADDLE
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‘This Entire Record
(Back In The Saddle)
Is A Snapshot Of My Life
Over The Last Three Years -Every Verse, Every Chorus,
Captures A Chapter.’
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A
sk Chris Cagle what’s most important to him and you
can bet he’ll answer this way: “Family, ranch, music.
That’s it.” This response is seemingly simple for a
man whose professional credits include two gold
albums, two No. 1 albums and 12 charted songs.
From 2000-2008, Cagle released an almost non-stop
catalog of hits that resulted in a scorching hot
career. Cagle’s musical character and burning
ambition never wavered but today, Cagle’s personal
perspective has mellowed. His 2012 album, entitled
Back In The Saddle, is, in more ways than one, a new
lease on life.
Born in DeRidder, Lousianna, and raised “all over,” Chris
set off for Nashville after trying his hand at college in Texas and
finding the pull to pursue music too strong to ignore. Like many
young artists, he spent several years working odd jobs in Nashville and scraping up enough cash to record four original songs
to record a demo tape. Thanks to a couple of chance meetings
and the opportunity to be heard by Scott Hendricks, Chris
was signed to Virgin Records in 2000 – that first album featured
the unaltered version of his demo songs. Chris quickly earned
critical and commercial success and attracted a legion of fans
that included industry heavyweights and country fans alike.
Cagle’s first No. 1 smash, “I Breathe In, I Breathe Out,” remains
a fan favorite.
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For Chris, the professional success and sales were gratifying, but his
personal life blistered under the spotlight. “I was tired of who I was in this
business,” Chris says. “I had become somebody who I didn’t want to be.” He
bowed out and retreated to Marietta, Oklahoma, a place where he could distance
himself from the industry, reconnect with his roots and take back control of his
life. He spent the next couple of years staking his claim on home life and
embracing a lifelong dream: building his family’s home, “Big Horse Ranch,”
with his own two hands, nail-by-nail. What started out as a “piece of dirt” is now
an impressive Oklahoma homestead. Chris also met the woman who he happily
reveals “owns him,” his wife, Kay, who he describes in the song “Let There Be
Cowgirls”: “Something you can’t tame/She’s a mustang/ The heartbeat of the
heartland.” “The worst days we’ve had together are better than the best I’ve had
with other people,” Chris says. He also found a new identity as a father.
On the birth of his daughter in 2010, Chris says, “She made me want to be
better at everything. Period. I’ve never cared enough about myself to take
responsibility for my faults; she made me man right up.”
Cagle’s 2012 release from Bigger Picture Group, Back In The Saddle, is his
homecoming – a rekindling of his creative flame and a roaring reminder of his
rock-infused country roots. It’s something he originated and what he does best:
relatable, backroads and familiar while also being a striking form of country
music worth getting excited about. While assuring his fans that the Chris they
love hasn’t changed, Cagle sees his new persona as a better version of himself.
“I want my music to be an environment, to strike chords, passions, memories,
faults, loves, angers and redemptions,” Chris says. “Imagine my music just on
the outside of town right where the road turns to the rural route. A dirt road culde-sac with trucks all parked in a circle. I would love to see my music fit into
that.”
This Chris Cagle may look a little different to those who are used to a
louder, harder-partying version of the star. Rest assured, Chris still gets “as
rowdy as a redneck can get,” but these days he confines himself to a smaller
space – the 40’x40’ stage. And when the show’s over, he puts on a different hat
and heads back to hearth and home. It is there that Chris has found balance
and a new passion. Today, his biggest off-stage thrill is training and raising
cutting horses, and when he puts on his cowboy boots and favorite ball cap, it
is because he’s living the true cowboy lifestyle, not because he’s putting on a
show.
Chris’ self-proclaimed version of “redneck rock ‘n roll,” has been firing
people up for over a decade, and this time around, Chris is chomping at the bit
for an energetic reintroduction to the country music community that’s been a
long time coming. Fans will still see flashes of the Chris they know, but they’ll
also see the joy and confidence that home life provides him. “I’m happy. You’re
gonna hear the smile through the radio,” Chris says of his new record. “For the
first time since April 2001, I am truly happy to do it; I have a new lease on all of
it.”
Chris is back with all the energy of a newcomer and the wisdom of a
veteran and the renewed passion is contagious. “I’m at a place in my life where
I think about everyone I’m working with, especially the fans. I thank God that
I’m in a place in my heart where I am grateful and aware. I am very, very, very
humbled and blessed.”
Cagle still has a fire, his passion driven not just by his music, but family
and horses and the place he calls home. His fans will recognize the glow and
appreciate the authenticity: “I’m a lot like charcoal. Once you light me
up, I’m gonna burn hot for a long, long time, but if you pour water on me it takes
a little effort to get me started again. Bigger Picture Group and my family have
helped light that fire for me. So let’s throw some gasoline on it, light it up and
watch it burn.”
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JOE NICHOLS
LIVE AT THE PASADENA
RODEO SEPT. 14
BY JAMES HARVEY
‘I
haven’t sounded this good in a long time,” says country music star Joe Nichols
of the new music he is currently creating for his forthcoming eighth studio
album. Best known for the No. 1 hit songs, “The Impossible” (2002),
“Brokenheartsville” (2003), “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off” (2005) and
“Gimme That Girl” (2010), Nichols will be the headline entertainer at the Pasadena Rodeo on Sept. 14. His live show promises to be a crowd-pleaser as well.
As Joe describes it, “We’ve got a lot of humor. We’ve got a lot of energy. We’ve
got a lot of classic, old songs that we like to put into the show to keep people on their
toes and to make sure they remember who paved the way for us. At the end of the day
I’d like for people to walk away thinking, ‘Man! That show included everything, and we
sure got our money’s worth.’” For more information, see the websites www.
pasadenarodeo.com and www.joenichols.com.
“The new music is being produced now by Tony Brown and Mickey Cones, and we’re
getting some great songs and a great start,” Joe says. “It’s sounding really nice. The last
couple of albums are dear to me, and I love what we were able to put out, but this album
feels like it takes me back to several years ago when I was singing at my best. I’m
planning to have some originals on it. I’ve been writing my tail off! But, I don’t know. I’ve
never been the guy that says, ‘I have to write some of this stuff. I’ve always wanted the
best songs no matter where they come from, and, sometimes, I got lucky and had a
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couple of songs worthy.” Known for his ability to recognize great songs, Joe reveals his winning
formula: “If I hear a song and it’s tough to listen to, then it’s probably going to be tough to listen
to on the radio if it’s too wordy, if it’s not a coherent thought, or is not a catchy melody. It needs a
hook, it needs a melody, and I think the lyric needs to be compelling. And number one overall:
believability. If I listen to a song and I don’t believe it, I’m not going to sing it like I believe it.”
Regarding his songwriting formula, Joe adds, “Sometimes I’ll walk into an office with a
couple of great writers with an idea, and within an hour, we’ll have a verse and a chorus and half
of a second verse, and we haven’t even had lunch yet. And there are some days that we bang on
a guitar for four hours without one solid idea. Sometimes the feeling is right, the chemistry is
right between the writers, and you just know you’ve got a hit. That’s why a lot of these writers
have several hits with the same group of people. Because they become comfortable with each
other, and they know that when they have a good idea, they keep running with it. That’s a good
formula. I like that about Nashville. They have such a good handle on streamlining creativity, a
good handle on how to know when magic is happening and not get in the way.”
Born and raised in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1976, Joe was inspired to become a country
singer by his dad, Mike Nichols, who was a truck driver and a local country musician. Joe,
however, cites Merle Haggard as his greatest musical influence. “I used to sit in my room and
mimic his and Keith Whitley’s records all the time when I got my first pawn-shop guitar back
when I was, maybe, 11 or 12. I can remember getting that after working all summer long for this
little old lady, Mrs. Louise Smith, about 80 years old, who lived down the road. I worked for a
buck-fifty an hour until I made enough money to buy this pawn-shop guitar for 40 dollars. It had
strings that were about an inch and a half off the neck. It felt like I was gripping sandpaper on
that thing, but I learned how to play some songs on my own. Over and over, I listened to songs
of Merle, Keith Whitley, Don Williams, Randy Travis and many of those old country guys.”
Joe began writing and performing songs at age 15, and he was signed to his first
recording contract at age 19. By the time he was 21, Joe had moved to Nashville and had
begun “paying his dues.” In 2002, he got his big break when he was signed to Universal South
Records (now Show Dog-Universal Records). His second studio album, Man with a Memory,
sold platinum, yielded back-to-back No. 1 hits, and earned him three Grammy nominations. On
the strength of these accomplishments, Joe was named the Academy of Country Music’s Top
New Male Vocalist of 2003, and he was awarded the Country Music Association’s Horizon
Award the same year. Since then, he has toured the country with both Alan Jackson and Toby
Keith, and he has even toured Switzerland and Australia. In addition, Joe entertained American
soldiers on a tour of the Middle East.
After becoming a star in his own right, Joe was able to sing for Merle Haggard in what he
counts as his most memorable musical moment. As Joe tells it, “I got to sing for Merle at Buck
Owens’ place (the Crystal Palace in Bakersfield, California). Before Buck died, he brought a
bunch of people together to do this tribute concert to guys he’d made bronze statues of, like
Willie (Nelson), George Jones, George Strait, Garth (Brooks), himself, Ray Price, Patsy Cline.
Anyway, he had this big concert with me, Dierks (Bentley), and a bunch of other younger guys
that were there. Merle drove down from his house near Lake Shasta, and I got to sing Merle
Haggard songs with Merle sitting on the stage watching the show. It was the coolest little
moment for me because it was one of those things where I could picture myself as a 12-year-old
kid listening to this guy on a tape and thinking, ‘Man, there’s nobody like this guy. I hope one day
to meet him.’ And here I was singing on stage with him there watching me singing ‘Footlights’
and ‘Okie from Muskogee.’ I was just amazed by that moment.”
Joe also recorded a duet with country music legend Gene Watson, whose songs have
appeared on a number of Joe Nichols’ albums. As Joe tells it, “On In a Perfect World, I sang
a duet with Gene. I’ve always said that Gene Watson was the most underrated singer of
country music of all time, because I think he’s an incredible singer and that he never really got
his full due. It was a big honor to get to sing with him on his record. And yeah, I’ve cut
‘Farewell Party’ and ‘Should I Come Home (or Should I Go Crazy).’ I’ve had a good streak of
albums where I cut a Gene Watson song on every one of them. He’s got some great songs,
and he sings great still, and I’m proud to know him.”
Of all he has accomplished in the past decade, what is his greatest adventure so far?
According to Joe, “My greatest adventure has been marriage. I never knew what it would be like
to be married, and I never considered myself to be the kind of person who would ever be
married. But that has been an adventure! Man, I’ve changed so much since the day I got
married, and for the better. I think it’s a wild adventure. I’ve become a different person that I
never thought I’d be. I’m head- over-heels in love with somebody, and I never thought that was
possible for me. But, here I am…married for almost five years now. And I’ve got a little baby girl
that brightens my day just by hearing her.” Joe married his “sweetheart wife” Heather Singleton,
whom he has known since they were both 19 years old, in 2007. Their first child, Dylan River
Nichols, was born in April 2012. “I also have a 13-year-old (daughter Ashelyn) that is about to
turn 14, and that, in itself, is becoming quite the adventure in another way.” Joe quips
Besides marital bliss, and professional contentment, what’s next on Joe’s wish list? “I’d
like to just create my own tour the way I’d like to create it one day, and just go out there and
have sort of a Brooks-and-Dunn-type circus,” Joe muses. “From the late ‘90s to the early
2000s, they had a ‘festival’ kind of thing all day. I’d like to do that one day. Of course, I’d like to
go to the Grammys and bring one home. That’d be nice. That is one of the deals where, once
you get nominated, you just think, ‘Wow! It doesn’t even matter at this point whether I win it or
not.’ But after being nominated a few times, it would be a really cool deal to bring one home.” Of
his place in country music history, Joe adds, “I’d like to be remembered as someone who
influenced a lot of people like I was influenced. I really don’t want to be remembered as the next
‘somebody.’ I want to be remembered as the first ‘me,’ and for something that nobody else has
done. I don’t know what that is yet, but I hope this story gets even more amusing.”
Having achieved so much in the past decade, Joe remains appreciative of his past and
hopeful for his future. As he concludes, “I’m sure happy that I’ve been given all the opportunities
that I’ve been given. I think we’ve capitalized on most of them, and I’ve had a good time. I’m in
the midst of making a really cool batch of new music. So, I think, to be me right now…the
schedule’s a little crazy, and sometimes, I don’t know which way is up… but I’m incredibly
thankful every day for all the blessings I’ve been given from above.”
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ountry Music has weathered seismic changes since May 1949, when Kitty Wells
stepped up from her gig as “girl singer” with Johnnie & Jack and their group and
stood alone behind a microphone at Owen Bradley’s Castle Studios. She had
agreed to record a song written by J.D. Miller and pitched by Troy Martin. It didn’t
thrill Wells or her husband, Johnnie Wright of Johnnie & Jack, but she agreed to
cut it mainly for the $125 session fee.
That song, “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” exploded when released
that summer, rocketing to No. 1, staying there for six weeks and selling well over a
million copies. It pushed Wells from the background in her husband’s group and square
into the center of the Country Music spotlight. It also caused controversy by daring to
rebut Hank Thompson’s hit, “Wild Side of Life,” which dismissed a wife gone bad as a
“honky tonk angel” for abandoning marriage and succumbing to the temptation of
saloons “where the wine and liquor flow, where you want to be anybody’s baby.”
Country Music had seen gifted female performers before the advent of Kitty Wells,
but none had challenged slatternly stereotypes as boldly as she did on this single. The
moral onus, she sang, lay not on fallen women but on those who exploited them
because “too many times married men think they’re still single. That has caused many
a good girl to go wrong.”
This shift in perspective stirred controversy. Wells was even briefly banned from
singing it during broadcast segments of “The Grand Ole Opry.” But this initial resistance washed quickly away as Country Music reacted to the implications of its success
– namely, that there was more than one point of view for songs that address the
realities of life and that women could assume equal importance to men as singers and,
ultimately, in every other aspect of the business. That door would have opened inevitably, but it was Wells who made it happen.
In a career distinguished by 35 Top 10 singles, election to CMA’s Country Music
Hall of Fame in 1976, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and universal acknowledgment as “the Queen of Country Music” well before her last tour in 2007, she
revisited the themes of betrayal, heartbreak, treachery in love and the saloon’s fatal
lure. In the worlds she conjured, the “lights were dim and low” (“Honky Tonk Waltz”),
her sister steals away her suitor (“I Gave My Wedding Dress Away”), the true love of
her life is forever out of reach (“Makin’ Believe”) or a heartless hypocrite who stands
too close (“Poison in Your Heart”), and when she does marry the man of her dreams,
Kitty Wells at her induction into CMA’s Country Music Hall of Fame, 1976
Photo Credit: courtesy of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Photo Credit: courtesy of the Country Music
Hall of Fame and Museum
he turns out to either do “too many parties and too much drinkin’, too
many sweethearts and too little thinkin’” (“The Pace That Kills”) or
suspect her of doing the same (“Jealousy”).
The irony is that the life Wells lived was the antithesis of those suffered
by the broken, forlorn protagonists in her music. Her union with Wright was
deep and enduring. It was he who named her; she had been born Ellen Muriel
Deason but he thought the name Kitty Wells, borrowed from an old folk
ballad, was more suited to the stage. They worked together for decades,
adding their son and two daughters to the act as the Kitty Wells-Johnnie
Wright Family Show. Wright passed away in 2011, just a few days short of
their 74th anniversary.
In purely musical terms, Wells’ sound has faded from contemporary
Country. Backed by acoustic guitars, bass, one or more fiddles and steel
guitar, she was a strict traditionalist, never indulging in dramatic crescendos,
soaring leaps or melodic embellishment. Almost invariably, she stayed within
an octave range, articulating the lyric squarely on each beat, singing either
without any vibrato or with a tight, quick warble on long notes. Yet her singing
communicated powerfully, conveying sadness and even searing pain through
her unadorned delivery.
Listen to her recording of “Release Me.” Her version was released in
1954, more or less simultaneously with Ray Price’s rendition. He sings it with
a wide-open throat, his voice catching now and then to underscore emotional
turns in the words and melody. Wells holds back more. Aside from a quiet
downward glissando at the end of a few long notes, she sings almost conversationally. She keeps her feelings in check, but this keeps listeners riveted.
Even now, she has few if any peers in her ability to get to the heart of a song
with no pretense or apparent effort.
“Country Music would not be what it is today without Kitty Wells,” said
CMA CEO Steve Moore. “The honesty of the songs she sang, her courage in
claiming a role for women as a powerful voice in Country Music and her great
dignity onstage and in her life have benefited us all beyond measure. Now and
forever, she is the Queen of Country Music.”
Kitty Wells, 92, passed away July 16 in Nashville, her lifelong hometown, from complications as a result of a stroke.
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RYAN HARRIS &
KILLIN’ TIME BAND
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illin’ Time Band was formed in
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starting to come true. We recently
signed with a label, Astra Records,
and are working with singer/
songwriter/producer Keith McCoy.
We are teaming up with Keith to
start performing original music. I
have written several of my own
songs such as my most recent
recording of “Moment Of Truth.”
You can find this song on
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