Music Row's Robert K. Oermann recently reviewed Gary's latest single, "Learning How to Bend," from LIVING HARD. He says, "He has a heap of vocal charisma, and the production is a rolling locomotive with a full head of steam. This thing is going to...
Singing is first love of two-time dance winner Julianne Hough By JANIS FONTAINE Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Julianne Hough danced into our hearts when she won back-to-back titles on Dancing with the Stars. Now she's...
Getting to know the name and face of Julianne Hough on ABC’s pop-culture phenomenon dance-off show, “Dancing with the Stars” (DWTS), a 20-million-a-week viewed televised competition, gave this up-and-coming country starlet a leg up over other country...
No twang? No problem By Alison Bonaguro Before Jack Ingram took the stage, rookie artist Ashton Shepherd opened the show with her own 45-minute set of self-penned songs that are destined to be the anthems of young motherhood. This Alabama...
Hough off the hoof "Dancing" star focuses on her singing By ED CONDRAN • Correspondent • June 27, 2008 Don't expect Julianne Hough to do the foxtrot when she steps onto to the PNC Bank Arts Center stage in Holmdel, even though...
Paisley pleases his party-loving fans By Stephanie Schomer DARIEN — Country music fans at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center were lucky enough to bear witness to a wonderfully fun show Friday night as Brad Paisley brought his “Paisley...
Reviewed by Mike Farley Country music executives are always looking for good-looking people they can turn into singers – and, hopefully, into stars. It’s a bonus when the artist already has musical talent, or when the American public has done the...
Disc Debuts: 'Love on the Inside' by Sugarland Sugarland B+ Love on the Inside (Mercury Nashville) ARTISTIC MATURITY: Love on the Inside, the third studio album for Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, delivers on the creative promise...
Ashton Shepherd has entered the country music scene with a voice that holds nothing back. It’s loud and full while possessing an uninhibited twang that is fairly uncommon in today’s mainstream market. When people hear Shepherd sing, they may be...
Bobby Karl Works Lee Ann Womack’s Crazy Party Chapter 296, Part 1 Sometimes you stage an event just because it’s the classy thing to do. Thus it was that the faithful gathered at the War Memorial Auditorium on Monday (10/20). The center of the...
LEE ANN WOMACK CALL ME CRAZY (MCA Nashville) First track “Last Call” sets the cheatin’, lonesome, post-midnight honky-tonk feel of Lee Ann Womack’s wondrous new album: “I’ll bet you’re in a bar, listenin’ to a country song / Glass of Johnny Walker Red,...
LEE ANN WOMACK Call Me Crazy (MCA Nashville) Producer: Tony Brown Release Date: Oct. 21 Just when you thought she couldn’t get any better, Lee Ann Womack surprises in a big way. “Call Me Crazy,” the follow-up to her highly lauded “There’s More...