Florida Georgia Line will perform a surprise free show tonight (Sept. 2) at Nashville club Exit/In. The performance will be filmed as part of CMT’s new series Instant Jam.
Beginning at noon today, the first 350 people who arrive at Exit/In will get wristbands for the concert. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the show will begin at 8:30 p.m. Fans must be 18 or older.
Industry EventsSeptember 4-6
Live On The Green Festival at the Public Square Park in downtown Nashville
September 8
Miller Harris golf tournament at Temple Hills Golf Club
September 9
ACM Honors at the Ryman
September 15
Girl Scouts Annual Luncheon, CMT’s Women in Music Theme
September 17
Americana Honors & Awards Show
September 17-21
Americana Music Association’s 15th Annual Festival & Conference at the Hutton Hotel
September 20-21
Music City Food + Wine Festival at Public Square Park
September 23
2014 SOURCE Awards at Nashville’s Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum at the Historic Municipal Auditorium
September 26-28
Island Hopper Songwriter Festival at Sanibel Captiva Island
September 27-30
IEBA 2014 at the Omni Nashville
September 30
IEBA Class of 2014 induction ceremony at the CMA Theater at the CMHoF
September 30-October 4
IBMA World of Bluegrass 2014 and Film Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina
Single Add DatesSeptember 1
Brad Paisley/Perfect Storm/Arista Nashville
Joe Nichols/Hard To Be Cool/Red Bow
Tim Dugger/Gettin There/Sidewalk Records
Bruce Larson/Fishin’ Pole Dancin’
Kenny Davin Fine/Friendship/Higher Ground
Kaylee Rutland/Good Day To Get Gone/Kaylee Rutland Music
Shane Gamble/Beautiful Work/Rt 50 Music Inc.
Sundy Best/I Wanna Go Home/e-One Entertainment
Sammy Hakim/Fearless/EXT Records
September 8
Tim McGraw/Shotgun Rider/Big Machine
Lee Brice/Drinking Class/Curb
Easton Corbin/Baby Be My Love Song/MCA
Natalie Stovall and The Drive/Mason Jar/Hit Shop Records
North 40/Whole Lot of Livin’/Rhyme Town Entertainment
Adrian Duffy & The Mayo Bros/Storm Breaking/SR Records
September 15
Trisha Yearwood/PrizeFighter/RCA-Nashville
Jackie Lee/She Does/Broken Bow
Olivia Lane/Steal Me Away/Big Spark Music Group
Larry Fleet/Damn This Storm/Music Mill Entertainment
Ashliegh Lisset/Target On My Heart/ALS Entertainment
Tim Cadiere/Hop In My Truck/6 Tone Records
Tim Sweeney/Every Friday Night/Oil House Records
September 22
Kelsea Ballerini/Love Me Like You Mean It/Black River Entertainment
Album ReleasesSeptember 2
Terri Clark/Some Songs/BareTrack Records-Universal Music Canada
Karyn Rochelle/Karyn Rochelle
September 7
Various/The Buddy Holly Country Tribute: Remember Me/TBHEF
September 9
Lee Brice/I Don’t Dance/Curb Records
Dustin Lynch/Where It’s At/Broken Bow Records
Brothers Osborne/Brothers Osborne/EMI Nashville
September 16
Tim McGraw/Sundown Heaven Town/Big Machine Records
George Strait/The Cowboy Rides Away: Live From AT&T Stadium/MCA Nashville
Maggie Chapman/Vignette/Creative Nation
September 23
Lee Ann Womack/The Way I’m Livin’/Sugar Hill
Kenny Chesney/The Big Revival/Blue Chair Bay-Columbia Nashville
Big & Rich/Gravity/Big & Rich Records-Kobalt Label Services
Lori McKenna/Numbered Doors
September 30
Lady Antebellum/747/Capitol Records Nashville
Blake Shelton/Bringing Back the Sunshine/Warner Bros. Records
Marty Stuart/Saturday Night & Sunday Morning/Superlatone
Ricky Skaggs & Sharon White/Hearts Like Ours/Skaggs Family Records
Lucinda Williams/Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone/Highway Records-Thirty Tigers
Various/Michael W. Smith & Friends: The Spirit of Christmas/Capital Christian Music Group-Sparrow Records
Luke Bryan at Chicago’s Soldier Field. Photo: Lyle Waisman/ Soldier Field
Pictured (L-R): Marion R. Ross and Martin J. Ross.
Kenny Chesney took the stage Aug. 29 at the Georgia Theatre in Athens, Ga., where he performed a surprise pop-up concert for an extremely small crowd of around 500 fans as a part of CMT’s new Instant Jam series which premieres Saturday, Sept. 27 at 10 p.m., ET/PT. Each episode of Instant Jam features live performances, and captures all the excitement and energy as artists reveal to fans how to score tickets to an exclusive show in their area, while giving a behind-the-scenes look at the hours leading up to their concert.
Kenny Chesney at The Georgia Theatre in Athens, Ga. Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for CMT
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Arista Nashville’s Brad Paisley brought songs from his just-released new album, Moonshine in the Trunk, to ABC’s Good Morning America Summer Concert Series on Aug. 29.
Pictured (L-R): GMA’s Ginger Zee, Amy Robach, and David Muir; Paisley; and GMA’s Lara Spencer.
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This past Saturday, while on the road in support of their REWIND Tour, Rascal Flatts visited the West Coast home of John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios. The band and Lasseter originally formed their relationship around the 2006 release of Cars (Walt Disney Pictures & Pixar Animation Studios), which featured the group’s rendition of the classic “Life is a Highway” on the movie’s soundtrack.
Pictured (L-R): Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus, John Lasseter, and Joe Don Rooney.
Jason Aldean announced that his new album Old Boots, New Dirt will be available Oct. 7 and will feature 15 new tracks, including his latest single “Burnin’ It Down.”
“With this new album, it’s definitely the same old me. But, I like to mix things up and try new sounds and go into territory I’ve never explored before, so I do a little bit of that too. That’s why I named the album Old Boots, New Dirt,” said Aldean. Again produced by Michael Knox, the album was recorded with members of Aldean’s long time touring band.
Aldean adds, “I think my fans have come to expect some surprises from me, and we’ve got another big one coming tonight. You’ll have to pay attention or you could miss it in a flash.”
Fans can visit www.BuzzFeed.com at 7 p.m/Central today (Tuesday Sept. 2) to hear the announcement.
Old Boots, New Dirt Track List with songwriters:
1. Just Gettin’ Started
(Chris DeStefano, Rhett Akins, Ashley Gorley)
2. Show You Off
(Neil Thrasher, Tony Martin, Brett Beavers)
3. Burnin’ It Down
(Rodney Clawson, Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley, Chris Tompkins)
4. Tryin’ To Love Me
(Wendell Mobley, Hillary Lindsey, Neil Thrasher)
5. Sweet Little Somethin’
(David Lee Murphy, Ben Hayslip, Marv Green)
6. Laid Back
(Michael Tyler Spragg, Jaron Boyer, Adam Shoenfeld)
7. Tonight Looks Good On You
(Dallas Davidson, Rhett Akins, Ashley Gorley)
8. Too Fast
(Chris Stapleton, Lee Thomas Miller)
9. If My Truck Could Talk
(Wendell Mobley, Neil Thrasher, Andrew Pates)
10. Old Boots, New Dirt
(Lee Thomas Miller, Tom Shapiro, Neil Thrasher)
11. I Took It With Me
(David Lee Murphy, Ben Hayslip)
12. Don’t Change Gone
(Neil Thrasher, Tony Martin, Michael Dulaney)
13. Miss That Girl
(Ross Copperman, David Lee Murphy)
14. Gonna Know We Were Here
(Brett Beavers, Brett James)
15. Two Night Town
(Tim Nichols, Brett James)
Carnival Music artist-writers Logan Brill and Rob Baird have teamed for a co-headlining tour this fall.
Knoxville, Tenn. native Brill performed alongside The Band Perry in Virginia Beach, Va., this summer. She was recently invited to join the Country Music Hall of Fame’s artist membership program, performed on NPR’s Mountain Stage, and had televised appearances on WGN News.
Baird’s last release, I Swear It’s The Truth, was named one of the Top 20 albums of the year by SPIN Magazine, and the single “Dreams and Gasoline” was featured on ABC’s Nashville. He has toured with Eli Young Band and Don Williams, as well as headlining his own tour dates. He has collaborated with Mark Nesler, Scooter Carusoe, Marla Cannon and Billy Montana as he preps for his next release in 2015.
Owned by producer Frank Liddell, Carnival’s rosters includes songwriters Stoney LaRue, Troy Jones, Carusoe, and David Nail.
Tour Dates:
Oct. 3 | Port Clinton, Ohio | The Listening Room
Oct. 4 | Cincinnati, Ohio | Taft Theatre Room
Oct. 8 | Annapolis, Md. | Rams Head
Oct. 9 | Rocky Mount, Va. | Harvester Performance Center
Oct. 10 | Knoxville, Tenn. | The Square Room
Oct. 11 | Charlotte, N.C. | Puckett’s
The Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) and Country Music Television (CMT) have announced the 15th Annual NSAI Song Contest Presented by CMT. The contest is open to all genres and submissions will be accepted from Sept. 1, 2014 until Oct. 31, 2014.
The top ten songs will be voted on by the fans during February 2015 to turn out a Grand Prize CMT Listeners’ Choice Award Winner. The winner will receive a mentoring session with Warner Music Nashville recording artist Charlie Worsham (who was the 2006 NSAI Song Contest Winner), a one-year single song contract with Little Louder Music Publishing, live performances at the 2015 Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival and The Bluebird Cafe, a three (3) day trip to Nashville, Tenn., and more.
“NSAI’s Song Contest is not a one-time prize; it’s an invitation into the songwriting community,” says NSAI Executive Director Bart Herbison. “This is a powerful vehicle to get ‘discovered.’”
Submit entries via mail to NSAI (a printable entry form can be found at nsai.cmt.com) or online at sonicbids.com/NSAICMTSongContest. Entry fees are $35 per song for current NSAI members and $45 per song for non-NSAI members. There is no limit to the number of songs that songwriters can submit.
In addition to the CMT Listeners’ Choice Award Winner, one lyric-only winner will be selected along with 10 runners-ups and 10 honorable mentions. All entrants will receive a personalized scoring sheet.
Morgan Riley visit
Warner Bros. Nashville held a reunion recently at Nashville’s Tin Roof. Executives and staff from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s attended. Former staff even flew in from Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington state.
Present and former employees of Warner Brothers Nashville came together to hang out at The Tin Roof. Photo: Randi Radcliff
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Streamsound Records founder/co-owner Byron Gallimore and president/CEO Steve Richardson, as well as VP, National Promotion & Strategic Marketing Teddi Bonadies, recently presented at the Cox Radio Summit presentation held at Noteable Blends in Nashville. Programmers of Cox Media Group were treated to performances from Kristian Bush and Austin Webb during the event.
The Brentwood, Tenn.-based label was launched in 2012, and is distributed by ATO Records. The label roster includes Bush, Webb, Dakota Bradley and Jaida Dreyer.
Pictured: Streamsound Records recording artists Kristian Bush and Austin Webb with the Cox Media Group. Photo: Streamsound Records