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The ‘Best Worldwide Driven’ Variety & Entertainment Magazine March/April 2016 TESSANNE CHIN NBC’s ‘The Voice’ JOURNEY WITH ME 5 Healthy & Cheap EASTER BASKET IDEAS BRYAN HAYES “fARTHER DOWN the line” ST PATRICK’S DAY FOODIE IDEAS DROWNING POOL HELLELUJAH OVER A DECADES worTH OF EXPERIENCE AND Knowledge FEATURES 04 Bryan Hayes Farther Down The Line 06 Legendary Gritty, Poetic And Intellecutal 08 Gary Nelson Continues To Burn 10 Drowning Pool HELLELUJAH 18 Pelugion This Is Only The Beginning 19 JCraig A Quiet Storm Stirring 21 Wormbass Fulfilling His Destiny COVER STORY 12 Tessanne Chin Much Has Happened Since “The Voice” LIFESTYLE | HEALTH 07 5 Healthy & Cheap Easter Ideas Have Fun With Healthier Easter Baskets 14 Dr. Vastola’s Health Tips (Column) The Dangers Of Taking Things For Granted 16 St Patrick’s Day Food Ideas 5 Simple & Healthy Foodie Ideas 22 Be Inspired (Column) Eloho Shares Words Of Inspiration ENTERTAINMENT 17 All Hands On Deck (Last Column) Sierra Alston Interview 23 Juniper On The Water Industry Passion Into Reality 2 • BWD Magazine • www.bwdmagazine.com In a world where a swipe across the virtual shelf has LAST ISSUE supplanted the casual stroll down the aisle, content driven media has become the golden chalice of promo- tion; fresh content delivered with the minimum of fuss constantly throughout the day has become the key to ensnaring the public interest, of reaching the plateau of fame and recognition you deserve to be standing upon. 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Offical Website BWDMagazine.com @BWDMagazine BWD Magazine - “The Best Worldwide Driven” Magazine ‘Leading Whilst Others Follow’ BWD Magazine • www.bwdmagazine.com • 3 BRYAN HAYES ryan Hayes crafts personal narra- “I wasn’t really thinking of a theme, but now that it’s tives with a novelist’s eye (“Let’s complete I guess the constant theme I see and hear Ride”) and a poet’s elegance is just real life. The songs are real. They’re things (“Small Town Amazing Grace”). that I’ve lived and experienced. Like Jimmy Buffett B Clear evidence: The Memphis said in a song ‘some of its magic and some of it’s area resident’s seamless Farther Down The Line. tragic’. Some of the songs make me smile and some Hayes’ excellent new collection spotlights a rap- of them make me cry, but I felt like they all have idly rising songwriter growing exponentially (the a place on this record.” They certainly do. Farther title track). “This record was definitely written with Down The Line effortlessly splits the delicate dif- more confidence,” Hayes explains. “I was not afraid ference between moving (“Tangle Me Up in You”) to touch on subject matter that I might have shied and grooving (“Everything’ll Be Okay”). away from a few years ago. I now know what a gift this career is, so I feel like I owe it to my folks to be Folks notice. “Not only does Bryan craft a great honest and open. I want the songs to come from my song with melody and music, but more impor- heart.” tantly he crafts a great story with his lyrics and he sings them the only way he knows how – from his Hayes frequently delivers keen insight with earthy heart,” says Andy Hunt, the celebrated Grammy- elegance. “We break out those old CDs and do our winning, Nashville-based producer. Frequent Guy best to sing along,” he sings on the buoyant open- Clark collaborator Noel McKay echoes: “Bryan er “Let’s Ride.” “We fumble through the verses and Hayes’ songs always come from that sincere place shout the chorus loud and strong, with both those that seems to effortlessly draw the listener in. He speakers blaring Guy Clark and John Prine/Baby, is among the rare songwriters truly capable of tonight let’s ride.” The song effectively serves as channeling life experience into great, listenable a blueprint for the Memphis songwriter’s career: songs.” Free your mind. Loose inspiration within. Let music speak. The excellent new album doubles down on past high watermarks (Still Just a Man…10 Years Later) “While I was writing for this record, I was just trying with vivid vignettes throughout (“Southern Rain,” “I to write the best songs that I could,” Hayes explains. Wanna Run”). Admittedly, Hayes’ canvas for subject 4 • BWD Magazine • www.bwdmagazine.com matter has expanded with greater breadth and depth. “I touch on Still Just a Man…10 Years Later marked a reflective moment in a God and politics a bit in this record,” he says. “Sometimes that’s a career built from the ground up. Hayes’ debut Just a Man (2004) tough row to hoe when you’re playing a lot of the smaller clubs like I earned a loyal following in the Mid-South and boosted his touring do, but my songwriting heroes did the same thing. They were always schedule as well as earning two “Best Of” Memphis Songwriter open and honest, and I loved that about them. I have always admired Awards. His second album Long Hard Road (2006) took Hayes and the fact that Billy Joe Shaver has the courage to sing about Christ his band ‘The Retrievers’ to the regional level with independent in bars and clubs. I actually got to open for him in late 2014 and I internet radio play over the Southeast. His Tangle Me Up In You EP thanked him for that.” (2013) grew his audience even farther and earned opening slots for Randy Houser, Turnpike Troubadours, Billy Joe Shaver and several Spin that word and expand the notion: Thankful. You’ll notice Hayes others. “Bryan Hayes and I both come from the Deep South,” says express the feeling around every twist and turn. Much has to do The Trisha’s singer-songwriter Kelley Mickwee. “That means he tells with returning from a side trip he took years ago: Fighting in the it like it is.” war in Iraq. Naturally, that mission pushed his songwriting toward the back burner. “There was a two-year window in 2009 and 2010 His straightforward approach has paid off handsomely. Hayes’ when I was deployed to Iraq and I had to put the guitar in the closet,” songs have appeared on several compilation albums including the he says. “I was either at Fort Benning Georgia training or in Iraq. As Memphis Songwriters Association’s 2010 Members Only album the military tour started winding down, I picked up the guitar again in (“Soldier’s Prayer”) and Retriever Records 2012 compilation B-Sides, Mosul, Iraq and started writing again and reconnecting with music and Demos & Lies “Woman (You’re Amazing To Me)” and “Small Town how much I love and missed songwriting.” Amazing Grace”. Additionally, Hayes appeared on Retriever Records’ 2012 live album Live At Farmhouse Studio (“Long Hard Road,” “Texas Hayes looked toward songwriters like Clark and Prine for insight in a Bottle”). In addition to writing and performing, Bryan is a and inspiration when entering the studio for his triumphant return producer and engineer at Farmhouse Recording Studio (www.farm- to the fold, Still Just a Man…10 Years Later, effectively modeling the houserecordingstudio.com) in Moscow, TN. recording process after the 2012 Americana Album of the Year This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark. “That record changed my life,” he says. “The way those songs were presented was just so intimate. It Contact Information sounded like you were in the room with those guys. Guy’s ability to be brutally honest is what I take away. He gets right to the point. There’s Website: BryanHayesMusic.com no fluff, no smoke and mirrors. Everything from the music to the lyrics Twitter: @BryanHayesMusic to the production needs to be there. The first time you hear ‘Stuff That Instagram: BryanHayesMusic Works,’ you shake your head and smile and go, ‘That’s it. That’s all it needs.’ You instantly relate.” All Rights Reserved BWD Magazine • www.bwdmagazine.com • 5 LEGENDARY rik “Legendary” Heath was born October 15, Legendary was invited to the 2014 BET Hip-Hop Awards the 1990 in Baltimore MD. year he decided to start rapping. That’s not the amazing part! E He had NO industry connections whatsoever. NO knowledge Legendary grew up around Edmondson Ave. A of recording or promotion. NO mixtape or single out. Only street notorious for drugs and gang violence. his street ties. He fell into the temptation the streets brought, but decided that going to college was more important. Legendary’s lyrics are gritty because of his street ties, but his college education gives a poetic and intellectual influence on his music that appeals to all listeners.