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Accounts around town for CMA Fest. CMA It was a great concert; if you get [email protected] Folsom Prison Blues Celebrating 41 Years Fest is not the only time to hear the opportunity to hear her live I Contributors Phil Sweetland, 7 Matt Farris 30 Radio Spotlight great music and great talent. It’s all encourage you to do it. Also, if you Preshias Harris, Leslie Armstong, Jes- over the greater Nashville area from have never been to Loretta Lynn’s sica Northey, Rick Amburgey, Sherryl My Big Redneck Family 42 Bonnaroo downtown to midtown and Opryland Ranch - with her own western store, Craig, Lynette Lorenz, Krys Midgett, to the outskirts. a museum, a tour of the Plantation Peggy Mercer, Amanda Goodman 9 Breelan Angel 9Top Must-Sees Pruitt Home and the Cabin from The Coal Dirty Little Secrets 44 Lily Nelsen This time of year also brings about Miner’s Daughter - you’re missing a Photography Bob Coan, Jerry Over- another festival, Bonnaroo. Some of good trip. Loretta Lynn’s Ranch is 65 cast, Stacy Scruggs, Randi Radcliff, 11 Sherri Justice Country’s Must Watch Chad Lee, Michael Jenkins, Julianna the best and greatest talent is standing miles west of downtown off exit 143 Birdwell The Beauty of Music 46 Tony Stampley on a corner, playing in a honky-tonk on Interstate 40W. or making their first appearance on Founder Dan Wunsch 12 The Darlins 22 47 MyStargo one of the smaller stages at Bonnaroo. The magazine has made several HOW TO REACH NMG Nashville’s Rising Duo Feel Like A Local changes since our last print edition. Press releases, CD Reviews Our advice is to take the time to listen Due to our move to towards digital [email protected] 13 Business Spotlight 48 Producer’s Spotlight to each one and support each act in distribution and the utilization of Advertisement/Rates Downloads and More Ron Haffkine & Tawny River however you seem fit – whether our social networks to provide you [email protected] it be purchasing merch or sharing more up-to-date information on a 14 Eric Lee Beddingfield with your mass of social network daily basis, we are now moving to a Event Submissions I Just Want to Play Departments followers. You just never know when quarterly print publication. [email protected] they will be headlining a tour of their General Info 16 CMA Festival 2 Editor’s Letter own – it happens every day around Our quarterly issues will consist of a [email protected] here. CRS Edition in the beginning of the Oh, The Places You’ll Go 13 Business Spotlight NMGRadio.com 42 year, a Festival Edition during the [email protected] 18 Geoff Buell Downloads and More We are extremely excited to announce summer, a specialty issue in the fall, one of our advertisers and friends, and a Year-End/Holidays Edition. My Friends Call Me 15 Songwriter Nights Mailing Address Scott Hugger, just released a new app PO Box 331927 Nashville, TN 37203 Geoff 19 Nashville for smartphones that will take an out- We hope you enjoy the content and of-towner and make them a local in visit our supporters and advertisers. Physical Address 22 Kali Nolen Music Venues a matter of minutes. MyStargo is the We would also like to hear from Nashville Music Guide 38 Music Sq E, Suite 112, 1st Floor From Hollywood to 20 Sounding app and it can take you to some of the you, your suggestions for print or Nashville, TN 37203 Nashville, Kali most interesting places in Nashville, web content can be sent to editor@ Disclaimer: Nashville Music Guide, Inc Knows The Bright Board ranging from current homes to final nashvillemusicguide.com. is not liable for any inaccuracies sub- resting places of some of the late mitted by freelance journalists, adver- Lights & Big City 25 Growing Up greats as well as kid-friendly hot spots We also welcome your Albums for tisers, publicists, and/or persons using TWLOHA Kilgore like Grassmere Zoo and Nashville Review either to be submitted digitally this issue for the free publicity and/or 26 any royalty payments or fees due to Shores. or via mail to Nashville Music Guide, the publication of material in the form 28 Kadie Lynn Crazy ATTN: Album Reviews 38 Music of a press release, events, publicity, or We have a whole story on this Square East, Suite 112 Nashville, TN advertising. Ten Year Old Artist 34 Artists On awesome new app for you so we 37203 30 Twang Thang The Rise don’t want to give too much away, go read about it yourself! Enjoy your time in Nashville! Richard Lynch 37 Biz Buzz 30 Yonder Mountain Recently, we attended a “Georgette Randy Matthews & Amanda Andrews 40 Inside Track String Band 44 NashvilleMusicGuide.com 4 NashvilleMusicGuide.com 5 Angel Mary and The Tennessee Werewolves, a new family which is where the werewolf side comes from. When we were With an unparalleled passion Showdown, making it into the Arizona State Finals. Encouraged by trio, brings a rebel yell to Country music.They bring the rowdy in between houses, my parents started taking us to Cowboy for country music, it comes his success, Farris made the move to Nashville to further back to Country. With the cool collective sounds of old fashion Church, and it was there that we became friends with Joanne, as no surprise that artist Matt his career in 2011. dixie roots, bluegrass picking, heavy electric guitars and edgy Johnny’s sister. She opened up her home to us, and let us live Farris’s career has gotten off lyrics. This Trio has given a new definition to Country Music, there for awhile.” to a promising start. A heart His first single, Redneck Radio, saw placement in both the Billboard by launching the new sound of Country Rock. for helping those in need Indicator (peak #56) and Music Row (peak #) charts, as well as hold- Christian picks up the story. “I had met John Carter in town, paired with an incredible tal- ing a position at #1 on the Indie World Country chart four weeks in Angel Mary and The Tennessee Werewolves bring the rowdy and told him about the name of the band, and how it was ent and positive energy has a row. His current single, Resident Redneck, continues to ascend and back in Country. With the cool collective sounds of old fashion derived from his dad. He looked up our music, and liked it, allowed for the early and nat- was recently nominated for industry trade New Music Weekly’s New dixie roots, bluegrass picking, heavy electric guitars and edgy Angel Mary wrote him a letter one day, asking if we could ural growth of a significant Music Country Single of the Year Award. Radio and industry trades lyrics. record it, and he gave us permission. He invited us to record it fan base. All of these charac- aren’t the only ones that have taken notice – on February 1st, the cast at Cash Cabin, co-produced it, and played acoustic guitar on teristics have given Farris a of Country Music Television’s (CMT) My Big Redneck Family strong foundation on which sported Matt Farris shirts on an all ¬new episode. The natives of Hendersonville, TN have only been performing it.” to build his career – one that, as a family since November 2011, but music is something that at the hands of another, was almost instantaneously taken away. Farris continues to play live as much as possible, sharing the stage flows through their blood. Collectively, their influences range With their summer tour schedule about to heat with Darryl Worley, Trent from Motley Crue to Waylon Jennings to the Marshall Tucker up, Verado Records groupAngel Mary and the Tennessee Entertaining family and friends from the moment he spoke his first Tomlinson, Adam Gregory, Keith Anderson and Colt Ford. This sum- Band. However, if there’s one artist whose music made more of Werewolves (AMTW) made time for one more home town word, Farris’s passion for entertainment has always been apparent.