Volume 22 | Issue 185 PUBLICIZING SINGERS, WRITERS & MUSICIANS TO MUSIC ROW AND BEYOND SINCE 1995 CHAD PRATHER Entertains, Enlightens, and Encourages Through His Stories of Life Experience Also Inside: Album Reviews, Women in Music, Inside Track with Preshias & more. Special CRS Edition with New Faces of Country Music: Drake White, Jon Pardi, Maren Morris, Granger Smith & William Michael Morgan February 2017 Vol. 25 #185.indd 1 2/8/2017 3:19:36 PM Don't Book An Act. Hire A Performer. Bob Randall, Clays Country Radio 2016 Male Vocalist Award Winner & Rising Old NASHVILLE’S FREE #1 ANDROID APP! School Country Music Star Text the word NASHVILLE to 31996 for your FREE PREMIUM #1 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ANDROID APP in Nashville, Tennessee. There is so much more to see in Nashville in addition to Broadway. 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Garth Brooks will return to this years Country Radio Seminar in a keynote presentation on Thursday February 6 Trashy Fem 23rd entitled “Inside Studio G,” an intimate, behind-the-scenes look into Let’s Talk About It business and life of the reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year. 9 Michael Tyler Moving forward, thank goodness the Politics are behind us and we can get New Album 317 onto something Country. 10 Maren Morris I want all our fans, readers, subscribers and advertisers to know that all of New Faces Artist 16 us here at the Nashville Music Guide are here to support you. No matter 11 Drake White how big or how small you are, you are important to us. We support you New Album Sparks Departments and want to help you in any way possible with your promotional needs. We are dedicated to you and we want you to grow with us. This year 2017 13 Jon Pardi 4 Editor’s Letter Publisher & CEO will be a kick off year for us in many ways. You will see us back on the Randy Matthews New Faces Artist 12 Business Spotlight [email protected] streets all over your town, so be sure to look for us. 16 Chad Prather Managing Editor Amanda Andrews Congratulations to one of my friends Amanda Pruitt, an East Texas artist “The Chad” #WatchChad [email protected] who has made the move to Tennessee to chase her dreams and just be her. 18 Granger Smith Contributors Preshias Harris, We all know up-rooting your life, your family and packing your belong- Jessica Northey, Rick Amburgey, ings is a big step. We wish the best for her and hope you check her music out too. Hit her up for a writing session Texas Country Spotlight Sherryl Craig, Steve Kilgore, Jessica or singer for a gig. She’s no quitter! Andrews, Tina Anderson, Captain Joe 19 Lane Roberson Kent, Katherine Poole On December 30, I attended an album release party in Fort Worth, Texas for Jake Penrod and let me tell you some- New Artist Spotlight Photography Bob Coan, Jerry Overcast, Randi Radcliff, Chad Lee, thing; I was impressed. Of course I wasn’t around when Hank Sr. was around, but I’m sure that’s what it felt like 20 William Michael Morgan 6 Michael Jenkins, Julianna Birdwell, to have him in front of you. True Traditional Country music. If he sang a cover he sang it in his style. I told Jett Cilene Bosch, Chloe Hall Traditional Country Comeback Williams how impressed I was and she said she felt the same way. Founder Dan Wunsch 22 Doug McCormick 14 Sounding Board Album Reviews HOW TO REACH NMG After the first of the year, I attended the “who’s who” in country music at Webster PR’s Holiday Mixer, as always Dirt Road Dancin’ Press releases, CD Reviews Kirt Webster brought out the stars. He had a jazz band playing and I wondered why in the world he chose a jazz 21 Growing Up Kilgore [email protected] band. So I asked him and he said he did that so the stars didn’t feel like they needed to work. That’s why they call with Mark Chestnutt Physical Mail him the marketing genius. PO Box 220670 Nashville, TN 37203 23 Women in Music Disclaimer: Nashville Music Guide, Inc I would also like to welcome to our team Jan Braun who has came on with us in our sales division, we appreci- with Wildwood is not liable for any inaccuracies sub- ate her efforts this issue along with all other staff, writers and contributors.Thank you all very much. Also, thanks mitted by freelance journalists, adver- tisers, publicists, and/or persons using go out to the PR firms, record labels, management companies and all those who invite us to their events and share 24 Lucky 13 this issue for the free publicity and/or their press releases. Keep them coming! any royalty payments or fees due to with Presley & Taylor the publication of material in the form of a press release, events, publicity, or We look forward to a great year and remember CMA Fest is just around the corner and we are already planning for 26 NMG CAM advertising. it! 28 Artists On The Rise Inside Track Publisher & Editor, 29 Randy Rich with Preshias Harris [email protected] 34 Music Venues NashvilleMusicGuide.com 4 20 NashvilleMusicGuide.com 5 fighting for the same thing, were making TrashyFem. How much progress has someone feel attacked, the shirts allows the each other feel bad about how they’re been made? person wearing it to bring up the topic on fighting for those things. Five days after launching the their own. Turns out that it had more mean- I decided that was the big push Trashy- Kickstarter campaign we reached our ing than I ever could have imagined… Fem: social media accountability and face- goal. Which is awesome, but it was a goal Mary Louise Meadors wore the shirt to-face interactions. Each shirt has a topic to just get the company launched and we “Church is Your Temple, My Body is Mine” on it that is meant to create dialogues and are still pushing for more support. for the TrashyFem promo video talked Story By Rachel Smith ignite passions on subject’s people want/ For me, I always find it very hard to about having tattoos, and how her body Photos By Chloe Hall need to talk about. My goal was to create donate money. I’m broke and I have bills to was her temple and how if she had tattoos more opportunity for face-to-face pay, and it’s hard for me to just give money nobody else had the right to say anything Nashville Native, Chloe Hall returned to made me really upset that I couldn’t hide in conversations by allowing the shirts to to a Kickstarter even, let alone a charity. about it. Nashville after college like so many peace, but then I realized that it wasn’t okay. generate accountability for people’s This way, you’re getting a shirt, and It was awesome. She saw the shirt as graduates with goals, hopes and dreams for There’s a time and place for that, but now statements and allow them to see how these everyone loves new clothes. discussing body modifications, which was her future. Little did she know that the wasn’t that time and place. I needed to get words can ignite real emotions. If you are TrashyFem is trendy and fashionable. not my initial purpose, but proves that experiences and challenges that she would involved and do my part. going to say something like that, at least They’re conversation starters. whatever meaning the wearer feels is most face would lead her to the creation of a I started talking about a T-shirt line about you’re saying it to their face. You’re donating your money and don’t important is what they’re going to find in clothing startup that promotes social and a year ago. Most of it happened while I was Even though TrashyFem is very much even have to think about it, and it’s not like the messages that are being created by political change.