Shenandoah Signs Recording Contract With 8 Track Entertainment
Pictured (L-R): Bill Harbin, V.P./Partner 8 Track Ent.; Jeff Goodwin, V.P./Partner 8 Track Ent.; Shenandoah’s Manager, Cole Johnstone; Mike McGuire, Shenandoah; Marty Raybon, Shenandoah; Noah Gordon, Pres./Partner 8 Track Ent.; Rodney Hall, Co-Owner/Pres. FAME Publishing/FAME Records/FAME Recording Studios. Photo: Claire Nichols.
Award-winning country band Shenandoah has signed a worldwide recording agreement with newly-formed 8 Track Entertainment, which will be distributed by Warner Music Group’s ADA (Alternative Distribution Alliance). New music from the band is to be expected soon.
The Grammy, CMA and ACM-winning band has tallied more than 300 million streams, over 8 million combined album sales, and 13 No. 1 radio singles over the course of a career that spans more than three decades. Shenandoah is currently on the road for their “35th Anniversary Tour.”
“The most incredible things continue to happen in the life of Shenandoah,” explains the band’s frontman Marty Raybon. “A very large piece of our moving forward is the signing with 8 Track Entertainment. This in so many ways will enlarge the music reach, even the brand Shenandoah. We are looking forward to the partnership and the work we have before us. ’90s country music is still alive, and we are going to make more of it, just all grown up now.”
The deal also marks the beginning of a partnership between 8 Track Entertainment and the historic Fame Recording Studios for future music projects. 8 Track Entertainment founding partners Noah Gordon (president), Jeff Goodwin (vice president, marketing & partnerships), and Bill Harbin (vice president, corporate partnerships) announced that the corporation will be based in Muscle Shoals with satellite offices in Nashville.
“I am absolutely delighted to sign Shenandoah to 8 Track Entertainment as Muscle Shoals is where it all began for this group at the outset of their career,” says Gordon. “They will return to FAME to record their next project, scheduled for release in the coming months.”
“We are very excited to partner with 8 Track Entertainment on this next chapter in Muscle Shoals music’s historic legacy. Our music is currently on fire with the Shoals represented on almost every major award show over the last few years,” adds Rodney Hall, Co-Owner and President of FAME Publishing/FAME Records/FAME Recording Studios. “We look forward to working with the entire Shoals music scene to bring opportunity to artists, producers, engineers, studios, songwriters, musicians as well as all the other music related businesses.”
