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Lionel Richie Takes You Behind the Scenes of Tuskegee

Country Girl — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:38 +0000

This album is AMAZING! I have my review copy and can’t stop listening to it! Check out the behind the scenes footage from the recording of Tuskegee! The new album Tuskegee will be in stores March 27th!

Lionel Richie’s Tuskegee Track-Listing:
1. “You Are” with Blake Shelton
2. “Say You, Say Me” with Jason Aldean
3. “Stuck On You” with Darius Rucker
4. “Deep River Woman” with Little Big Town
5. “My Love” with Kenny Chesney
6. “Dancing On The Ceiling” with Rascal Flatts
7. “Hello” with Jennifer Nettles
8. “Sail On” with Tim McGraw
9. “Endless Love” with Shania Twain
10. “Just For You” with Billy Currington
11. “Lady” with Kenny Rogers
12. “Easy” with Willie Nelson
13. “All Night Long” with Jimmy Buffett

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Rascal Flatts Announce New Tour- “The American Band Tour”

Country Girl — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:55:05 +0000

As one of the hottest touring acts in any genre, Country music supergroup Rascal Flatts announced today they will launch a brand new tour beginning this summer, “The American Band Tour.” The tour will feature an all band set-up with Little Big Town, Eli Young Band and Edens Edge opening. The shows will begin in Hartford, Conn., on June 15 at the Comcast Theatre. Please check www.rascalflatts.com for up to date tour information.

“We are always looking for new ways to re-energize our live shows,” says Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts. “We thought bringing out these bands, whom are among some of our favorite vocal groups, would make a great night of entertainment!”

Click Read More to see if The American Band Tour is coming to a city near you!

“The American Band Tour” dates:

6-15     Hartford, CT                Comcast Theatre
6-16     Boston, MA                 Comcast Center
6-23     Washington DC            Jiffy Lube Live
6-24     Virginia Beach, VA     Farm Bureau Live
6-29     Cleveland, OH             Blossom Music Center
6-30     Darien Center, NY       Darien Lakes Perform.Arts Ctr
7-6       Bangor, ME                 Bangor Waterfront Pavilion
7-13     Dallas, TX                   Superpages.com Center**
7-14     Houston, TX                Woodlands Pavilion**
7-20     Detroit, MI                   DTE Energy Music Theater
7-22     Cincinnati, OH             Riverbend Music Center
7-27     St Louis, MO               Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
7-28     Chicago, IL                  First Midwest Bank Amp.
8-9       Charlotte, NC               Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
8-10     Raleigh, NC                 Time Warner Cable Music Center
8-11     Philadelphia, PA          Susquehanna Bank Center
8-31     Indianapolis, IN            Klipsch Music Center
9-1       Pittsburgh, PA              First Niagara Pavilion
tba       Mountain View, CA     Shoreline Amphitheatre
tba       San Diego, CA             Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
tba       Atlanta, GA                 Lakewood Amphitheatre
tba       Tampa, FL                   1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre
tba       W Palm Beach, FL       Cruzan Amphitheatre

**Thompson Square will replace Eli Young Band

Rascal Flatts Fragrance, Restaurants, Clothing and More Coming Soon?!?!

Country Girl — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:00:57 +0000

J.R. Schumann recently talked to Gary Levox of Rascal Flatts and got him talking about all kinds of business ventures in the works for Rascal Flatts. Take a listen and find out if Gary will ever send fans a tweet, what he uses in his hair and most importantly when we can all smell like a Rascal Flatt!

Interview with Gary Levox of Rascal Flatts by JRontheradio

Top Tweets of the Week – Week of January 29th

Country Girl — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:00:32 +0000

10. With a busy release week, @KelliePickler and band took New York! “Me & my gang! #NYwillneverbethesame ”

9. I only have one response to @BrettEldredge’s tweet – WATCH IT GROW! “I grew a beard in like 10 seconds once I got up in the mountains…somethin in the water up there!!! chi chi chi chia beard!”

8. No one experiences the joys of legroom more than touring acts like @LauraBellBundy ‘clean living!’ just got on a flight and I have the entire row too myself … Not to mention MORE LEGROOOM #heavenlyairtraun

7. Sunny Sweeney (@gettinsweenered) always has those truthful sayings that no one thinks of. Sunny’s Aphorism of the week is: “the divorce rate in my sock drawer is amazing.”

6. With ACM nominations out this week, there were plenty of thankful tweets this week. @ChrisYoungMusic had my favorite “Workout-check…shower-check…2ACM nominations-check #waitwhat

5. @LukeBryanOnline has some great things coming for all of us fans! Look for “Spring Break 4” on iTunes soon! “Great day in the studio recording Spring Break 4”

4. This week was a big week for @JayDeMarcus, see what he had to say “Alright y’all, Ali and I have baby number two on the way!! Huge surprise but we’re very excited!!”

3. A new tour started this week. @MartinaMcBride is hitting the road with George Strait “Can’t believe we start the George Strait tour tomorrow night! So freaking excited! Are you ready Lafayette???”

2. The last few weeks have been hard for @Miranda_Lambert. First Blake’s dad, now her friend “Please call your friends, especially the ones you haven’t talked to In a while or maybe are not on great terms with and tell em u love em.”

1. @DierksBentley has had the opportunity to play many types of shows. This week he was in Milwaukee playing after an Admirals game. “dude just fired a snapshot that broke the glass right in front of my face #totallyrad”

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The Country Music Hall of Fame Partners with the American Heart Association Exhibit that Included Sara Evans, Lorrie Morgan and More

Country Girl — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:15:46 +0000

The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is opening a spotlight exhibit, Something in Red, in support of the American Heart Association and Go Red For Women®. The exhibition, which will feature red ensembles from several country stars, including Sara Evans, Naomi Judd and Lorrie Morgan, will open on February 3, 2012 (National Wear Red Day), and run through April 2012.

The red dress is a symbol of the fight against heart disease in women. Several country artists have partnered with the American Heart Association and the museum to raise awareness of this disease, the number one killer of women, by making their own red dresses available for this special exhibit.

Among the dresses featured in Something in Red:

Sara Evans’ full-length velvet sheath with feathers, designed by Victor Costa for Nahdree and worn at the 1999 Academy of Country Music Awards
Naomi Judd’s leather-like jacket and skirt with bugle beading, rhinestones, and tulle crinoline, designed by Esben and Vanessa Ware and the Judds and worn at the 1987 Country Music Association Awards
The JaneDear girls’ Danelle Leverett’s strapless Daisy mini-dress with floral detailing, worn on the cover of the duo’s 2011 self-titled debut album; and the JaneDear girls’ Susie Brown’s shimmering cocktail dress, designed by Ryan Gamboa and worn at the 2011 Academy of Country Music Awards
Lorrie Morgan’s full-length Caché gown with pleated bodice and spaghetti straps, worn on the Grand Ole Opry
Julie Roberts’ one-shouldered, matte jersey cocktail gown with rhinestone embellishments, made by Caché and worn on the Grand Ole Opry

Spotlight exhibits supplement themes and topics in the museum’s core exhibition, Sing Me Back Home: A Journey Through Country Music. These short-term, informal displays provide a closer look at a particular person, group or aspect of country music, or they spotlight recently donated items or special anniversaries. Rotated often, spotlight exhibits also offer a glimpse into the museum’s unique collection, which includes recorded discs; historical photographs; films and videotapes; posters; books; songbooks; periodicals and sheet music; personal artifacts such as performers’ instruments, costumes and accessories; and more.

Other current spotlight exhibits focus on the Academy of Country Music Awards, Bobby Braddock, Nudie Cohn, Bill Monroe, Rascal Flatts, Reba, Jean Shepard and Porter Wagoner.

For more information about the American Heart Association, Go Red For Women and National Wear Red Day, visit www.goredforwomen.org.

Lionel Richie’s ‘Tuskegee’ a Star-Studded Attraction

TawnyTucker — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:45:21 +0000

Music icon Lionel Richie will release Tuskegee, a collection of 13 of his international hits recorded with some of the biggest names in country music, on March 27th.

His duet partners on Tuskegee include Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles, Jason Aldean, Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Darius Rucker, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Chesney, Billy Currington and Little Big Town. On this worldwide, multi-genre album, Richie is also joined by the likes of such superstars as Shania Twain, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson and Jimmy Buffett.

In addition, the Academy of Country Music and dick clark productions will tape an all-star concert special, Lionel Richie and Friends “In concert” at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 2nd. The show will air at a later date on the CBS Television Network. Some of his greatest hits will be performed by Jason Aldean, The Band Perry, Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Rogers and many more.

“Tuskegee is where it all began, the place where I felt that everything was available and possible,” he says. “It’s where I learned about life and love and the power of music, and the place I built a musical foundation that knows no genres or boundaries.

“Doing this album was coming back to the beginning, back to basics, back to home,” he says. “The part of it I love the most is that the journey has been one of discovering myself. By the time I got back to Nashville, I clearly knew that the roots of my songwriting, my storytelling, were from the South.”

It’s also been a process of rediscovering the hits that have served as the soundtrack of the lives of generations around the world.

“Every Lionel Richie song that I can think of I had a personal experience with – high school homecomings, proms, you name it,” says Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts, who duets on “Dancin’ On the Ceiling.” “Lionel was always playing in my house. His music always said what we felt and couldn’t express.”

Once again, Richie is following his songs as they take him back to country, where they have been welcomed for more than two decades. Conway Twitty recorded “Three Times a Lady,” Kenny Rogers famously sang “Lady” and Alabama recorded “Deep River Woman.” Artists such as Tim McGraw, Darius Rucker and Rascal Flatts perform his songs in their shows. He has performed on the Country Music Association Awards three times, and his 2011 performance receive two standing ovations and was recognized as the highlight of the evening.

“When I did the CMAs and the room was singing along with me, it was really more like a family reunion than it was a concert or show,” he says. “It was just great validation to know that the music was accepted like it was.”

These innovative musical interpretations have given new meaning to his songs while serving as a powerful reminder of the timelessness of his impressive body of work. He asked the other singers to select the songs and ignore his original version and instead perform the song as if it were their own. “I wanted it the way they would do it in their show, which means I captured their essence. You make the song a Willie Nelson song. You make the song a Rascal Flatts song.

“It’s special to the point where it sounds new again, so I’m excited just as the writer, as the original parent of this child. I’m excited to see another generation embrace the music.”

Richie says recording Tuskegee was perhaps the most fun he’s ever had in the studio.

“Tuskegee is going to be one of the most special albums I’ve ever done in my life. This is something that’s going to be so special forever because it’s a moment in time when these artists all got together and celebrated some music,” he says. “What started out as a collaboration of a group of very talented, very successful artists ended up growing into brand new, very good friends.”

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Rascal Flatts Member Jay DeMarcus and Wife Allison Expecting Sibling for Daughter Madeline Leigh

Country Girl — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:59:03 +0000

Rascal Flatts bassist and vocalist Jay DeMarcus and his wife Allison, a former Miss Tennessee and a current CMT personality, are anticipating the birth of their second child this summer. The baby will become a younger brother or sister to their daughter Madeline Leigh, born December 17, 2010.

“This was definitely a huge surprise, but we’re so thankful and excited that Maddie is going to have a brother or sister,” says Jay. “We’re really gonna have our hands full!”

“Jay and I are thrilled about completing our family. Madeline is going to love having a sibling and we are bracing ourselves for the many sleepless nights ahead,” adds Allison.

Jay and Allison were married May 15, 2004 in Nashville, Tenn.