The Billy Block Show - February 2013

GARETH DUNLOP

WARD-THOMAS

SHERRY LYNNJORDAN ANDERSON

JIM LAUDERDALE • KRISTI ROSE • JANEY LIDEY• THE BEN FLANDERS PROJECT • JAMES CAMERON BAND • SAM HAWKSLEY • KRIS WHIPPLE • ME-GAN KEELY • AMBER HAYES • THE DARLINS • JULIET & THE LONESOME ROMEOS • SHEL • V E NC E N T VA N - Z A N T • I RON C OW B OY

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17 Years of Billy Love!Happy Anniversary!It was this same time 17 years ago that the idea hit me. We were the last wave to move to Nashville from California. A bunch of us were al-ready here. Jim Lauderdale, Lucinda & Rosie, Buddy & Julie, Jeffrey Steele, Redd Volkaert, Dale Watson and more. We were all a part of the LA/Ronnie Mack Barndance/ Supernatural/Cosmic Cowboy/ Cali-fornia Country Music scene. Some of us had Nashville record deals like Dwight Yoakam, The Desert Rose Band, and Highway 101. We all hung out and played at The Palomino Club on Lankershim Blvd. ev-ery Tuesday night. Now everyone was living in Music City, USA.

One of my favorite guitar players had also moved to Twang Town & was playing with Dwight, Rosie, John Prine and The Divinyls. His name

was Duane Jarvis. DJ took my call on that fateful day in 1996 and after an hour-long discussion, it was decided. We were going to start a Nashville Barndance every Tuesday night at The Sutler on Franklin Rd.That first night was quite memorable. We chose The Sutler because my drums were already set-up from our regular Monday night gig with Walter Hyatt & King Tears. Johnny Potts said, ”Let’s try it for a few weeks and see how it goes.” Walter did sound and played the first show. DJ played too. Both Walter & DJ are no longer with us and are dearly missed. Kristi Rose and Fats Kaplin played and Jim Lauderdale showed everyone how it was supposed to be done.

Ronnie Mack’s famous line, “Now put that on the radioooo!” was the rallying point for my sister Nancy Block. In just 3 months she made the deal for us to broadcast LIVE from The Sutler on Lightning 100. How ironic we changed the name to Roots Revival. In just a few years we had our own weekly TV show on CMT. It has been the most remarkable and fun thing to create, host and produce, this weekly gath-ering of creative misfits, dreamers, and poets. Rocky Block says he’d like to take over for his dad. While not taking over just yet, Rocky Block made his solo debut performance on our show 15 years after he was brought into this world.

Join us this Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 as we welcome back Grammy winner Jim Lauderdale, Kristi Rose & Fats Kaplin with Sam Hawksley, Gareth Dunlop & our 7pm Tribute to Walter Hyatt, Duane Jarvis & Buck Jones with Taylor Hyatt, Jon Byrd, Phil Lee & Buddy Mondlock and more. The 17th Anni-versary show begins with a group that is ushering in The New Americana movement in Nashville, The Cumberland Collective, at 6pm. Arrive early! Stay late! Can’t wait to share this great NEW music with you! Watch the live webcast at www.billyblock.com. Specials thanks to John Grady (our first sponsor) Ralph Murphy (our champion at ASCAP) Jody Wil-liams and the BMI team, Ellen Jones & Tim Fink and all at SESAC, Eddie Schwartz for bringing SO-CAN to the party, and Music Row titans Luke Lewis, Tony Brown, Tim DuBois, Mike Dungan, Scott Borchetta & Jeff Tuerff at Curb, and all who have supported our efforts along the way. Special thanks to Adam Dalton and the NTS ProMedia team, Mike Newman, and Lee Totten at Bubble Up Interac-tive for upgrading www.billyblock.com, Captain John at Trader Joe’s Green Hills, and Aimee Johns at Flavour Boutique. Thanks to the over 5000 bands and artists who have graced our many stages over the years, and to the Nashville music community that continues to discover exceptional new talent from our own backyard and across the global musical landscape every Tuesday night at The Mercy Lounge and High Watt. Here’s to many more memorable Tuesday nights.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5th at THE MERCY LOUNGE

This incredible outfit exhibits the essence of Nashville’s songwriting sensibility, with the joy of youthful Rock & Roll passion and the rever-ence of Gospel inspired sweet Southern soul music. The Cumberland Collective is a commu-nity of independent singer/songwriters and-musicians from across the U.S. All respected in their own right, the band’s 15 members have become their own small community; growing organically into the most creative project in Music City today. Those who attend a Cumber-land Collective performance find themselves a part of the community too. Audiences don’t just watch The Cumberland Collective, they ex-perience it. This incredible outfit exhibits the essence of Nashville’s songwriting sensibility,

with the joy of youthful Rock & Roll passion and the reverence of Gospel inspired sweet Southern soul music. Wherever The Cumberland Collective goes music is loved, connections are made and friendships are forged.

www.thecumberlandcollective.com

17th Anniversary Show

THE BILLY BLOCK SHOW

CUMBERLAND COLLECTIVE

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Walter Hyatt, Buck Jones, and Duane Jarvis were special and valued friends of the Billy Block Show. Although they are no longer with us, their legacies live on. Join us as we

pay tribute to them on our 17th Anniversary with an all-star group of musicians, featuring Taylor Hyatt, Jon Byrd, Irene Kelley, Buddy Mondlock, and Phil Lee.

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SPECIAL TRIBUTE

Kristi Rose & Fats Kaplin taking part in Billy Block’s Anniversa-ry Show is a great Mu-sic City tradition! Kristi Rose is a powerful and evocative singer and writer. Fats Kaplin is a composer and master

multi-instrumentalist, who has played with hundreds of artists, Most recently, Jack White, Beck, Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale, Paul Burch,and his own group, Kane-Welch-Kaplin.As a duo, Kristi Rose & Fats record and per-form around the globe,mesmerizing audiences with their searing, crystallized, but still often amused perspective of this world in which we live.live.

www.pulpcountry.com

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KRISTI ROSE

BACKSTAGE HOSPITALITY PROVIDED BY TRADER JOE’S GREEN HILLS


Sam Hawksley is unquestionably one of Australian music’s best-kept secrets. If you’ve never heard of him before, prepare yourself for some-thing very special and unique as this record

is set to change everything. A gifted guitar-ist and gun-for-hire, Sam has performed and recorded with a variable who’s-who of the Australian music scene, a list that includes the likes of The Whitlams, John Farnham, Adam Brand, Wendy Matthews, Vanessa Amorosi, Richard Clapton, and many, many more. Sam Hawksley’s new self-titled album is a distinc-tive and diverse collection of lilting songs, immediate and regularly intimate, occasion-ally heart-broken but more often joyous and full of life. It’s an uplifting showcase of Sam’s beautiful and gentle songwriting approach, delivered in his always soothing vocal style and backed by world-class musicianship.

www.samhawksley.com

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SAM HAWKSLEY

Jim Lauderdale is a multi-talented per-former and songwriter, with successes in both country and bluegrass music. His roots stem from the Carolinas, yet his career has taken him all over the

United States and abroad, making him an international recording artist with an ever-growing fan base. Jim won “Artist of the Year” and “Song of the Year” at the first “Honors and Awards Show” held by the Americana Music Association in 2002. He is among Nashville’s “A” list of songwriters, with songs recorded by artists such as: Patty Loveless, George Jones, The Dixie Chicks, Solomon Burke, Mark Chesnutt, Dave Edmunds, John Mayall, Kathy Mattea, Lee Ann Womack, Gary Allan, Blake Shelton, Vince Gill, and George Strait.

www.jimlauderdale.com

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JIM LAUDERDALE

Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 24-year-old Gareth Dunlop has spent the last year traveling between the U.S. and U.K. with sold out shows in Northern Ireland based on the

success of his song “Fool’s Desire.” His new-est release is “Wrap Your Arms Around Me” on the soundtrack to the film Safe Haven, due out February 5th, 2013. Gareth’s soulful voice and captivating songs have lead to his songs being used in numerous television shows in-cluding House, Private Practice, Cougar Town, Army Wives, and a recent Subaru commercial. In the U.K., Gareth has opened for a diverse group of artists including Van Morrison, Jeff Beck, The Stereophonics, Snow Patrol, Nanci Griffith, and more.

www.garethdunlop.com

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GARETH DUNLOP

10 PM ALLSTAR JAM




At first glance, Hampshire, England and Nashville,Tennessee are worlds apart. But the two worlds magically collide in the musical renderings of Lizzy and Catherine Ward-Thomas. Raised on an English farm south of London, the eighteen-year-old fraternal twins are equally at home racing down ski slopes, riding horses, or simply taking their dog, Betty, for a walk through the English countryside. Drawing on their own life experienc-es and the experiences of those close to them, Lizzy and Catherine have developed a sense for crafting songs that cuts to the heart of the matter and doesn’t sugar coat dif-ficulties or avoid topics considered “taboo”. Making the journey to Nashville, Tennessee, the twins entered the studio under the direction of Blazier and Rodriguez, and-soon found themselvds recording with some of Nash-ville’s most prominent session players. Their music is a hybrid of Country and Rock, blending lush harmonies with captivating lyrical content.

www.wardthomasmusic.com

WARD - THOMAS

6

PMBased out of Alaska, Janie Lidey is an Emmy

award winning singer-songwriter who has been writing music nearly all of her life. Rather than focus on her craft alone, Janie dedicated herself to teach-ing music in the public schools of Alaska for 25

years. In 2011, Janie decided to follow her passion and become a full time singer-songwriter. Her new single, “Nothin’ But A Smile” will be released in July 2012, and her new album, “Janie Lidey- Nothin’ But A Smile” will be available on itunes in June 2012.

www.janielidey.com

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JANEY LIDEY

For twenty-seven-year-old Kris Whipple,

songwriting is a way to tell his story and express him-self through music. Raised in West Detroit, Kris cuts hair for a living, but says his vocation is “loving my wife, loving my job, loving my family, and opening my

heart.” He admits that he is “still learning”, but looks for-ward to discovering life through the “journey we are all on” and coming to know the unknowable future. Rather than spending energy trying to predict what might hap-pen in the future, Kris prefers to spend his time appreci-ating the moment, and being thankful.

8:30

KRIS WHIPPLE

With his six-string skills best described

as a fusion of metal, south-ern rock, and psychedelia, Ben Flanders is an accom-plished Guitarist, Producer, and Composer, based in Nashville, Tennessee. Born into a musical family in Brisbane, Australia, Ben

became mesmerized by the guitar. Refusing to confine his playing to one style, Ben caught the attention of Er-nie Ball MusicMan Guitar Company, which officially en-dorsed him in 2009. Ben is currently working on his first Instrumental EP, White Noise, due out in spring of 2013.

www.youtube.com/user/bengrockson

9:00

THE BEN FLANDERS PROJECT

Megan Keely is an American Singer-Song-

writer whose sound is in-fluenced by an amalgam of soul, jazz, and folk, and evokes a timeless waft of nostalgia while carving a fresh new niche for itself. She puts on a show that is teeming with rich musical

sensitivity and delicate emotion. When joined by her family, their instruments melt together naturally, leav-ing plenty of space for the music to breathe. Whether accompanying herself solo or playing with a full band, Megan gives a performance that is not to be missed. Her debut album, Acorn Collection, is available now.

www.megankeely.com

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MEGAN KEELY




Lizzie is a fourteen-year-old high school fresh-man from South Florida, who decided music and performing were her calling around the age of four when she saw her first live musical theatre perfor-mance in Jackson, Wyoming. Growing up in Florida and Wyoming, Lizzie attended and performed in many musicals and went to the concerts of Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift. Lizzie knew she wanted to perform just like they did. She is evolving into a talented Country/Pop singer-songwriter who plays both the guitar and keyboard. With poise and ma-turity beyond her years, Lizzie’s vibrant personal-ity shines on stage with her undeniably amazing stage presence. Lizzie’s debut single, “Butterfly,” is

currently receiving radio play and is charting on Nashville’s Music Row Chart.

www.lizziesider.com

LIZZIE SIDER

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After moving to Nashville, singer-song-writer and founding member of the LA duo, The Darlins, Jude Toy, asked singer-songwriter and Nashville native, Er-inn Bates, if she wanted

to write and perform together around town. From the first co-write, they knew they had something special. Jude’s rockin’ acoustic guitar and harmo-nies blended with Erinn’s bluegrass-tinged lead vocals and mandolin. Several months later, The Darlins were reborn. The dup have opened for sev-eral Country stars and performed in the Music City Showcase, Alabama Line. Their rootsy, harmony-rich sound, along with their songwriting, has tak-en them to venues like Music City Roots and The Bluebird Café and has garnered their songs several placements on network television.

www.thedarlins.com

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THE DARLINS


10 PM ALLSTAR JAM

In the past year, James Cameron

Band has shot onto the music scene all across Ontario. Most notably, James and the band have played at the beaches in Toronto on Canada Day

to a crowd of over 100,000 attendees. This past Oc-tober, the band opened with a fifty minute set for keynote speaker, Craig Kielburger, from Free The Children. The performance took place at nationally renowned theatre the Centre in the Square with over two thousand students in attendance. Since then, the band has been working hard to maintain a positive image in their local community, playing several shows around the area. In addition, several band members are also working hard to maintain their averages in both high school and university. Each band member is very excited for what the future has to hold, and is working hard to pursue their individual and united passion for music.

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JAMES CAMERON BAND

Vinny and his band Trailor Choir were

signed to country super-star Toby Keith’s record label Show-dog Univer-sal in june of 2007 and spent the next 3 years opening shows for Toby.

The band got a jump start when Toby featured their song “Off the Hillbilly Hook” in his movie Beer for My Horses, and their song “Rockin’ the Beergut” landed in the top 30 on the Billboard Country Mu-sic Chart. The song sold over half a million down-loaded copies, and its music video made it into the top ten on CMT and was nominated for CMT video of year. Vinny has written 3 songs that have landed in the Billboard Top 40, but he may be most well known as the star of NBC’s hit reality show The Big-gest Loser, where he made it to the top four. Now with a new lease on life, Vinny is primed and ready to begin his solo career.

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VENCENT VAN-ZANT

Juliet and the Lone-some Romeos’ de-

but album, No Regrets, released on Nashville-based Tree O Records, marks the emergence of yet another great artist from the fertile Boston

music scene. The album is a rich experience of roots-infused Pop music, with a nod to the Country side, that revolves around Juliet Simmons Dinallo’s rich and soulful voice. The deeply emotional songs travel down the highways and back roads of heart-ache and hope. From the original and insightful songwriting, to the masterful musicianship, to the spot on production, No Regrets truly is an album that has something for everyone. It also announc-es to the world the arrival of Juliet Simmons Dinal-lo and her rich, powerful, take-no-prisoners voice bursting with soul.

www.julietandthelonesomeromeos.com

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JULIET & THE LONESOME ROMEOS



CRS THUNDER COUNTRY 102 NIGHT


Born in the farm town of Loveland, Colorado, where she lived for ten years before moving to Florida with her family, this songstress was born with the desire to perform. Staying in-volved with all things music throughout her childhood, Jordan knew from an early age that loving country music was much more than just a hobby. Her previous release, Key To My Heart, was released last summer and wrapped up a full fledged radio tour in support of the hit sin-gle. Currently residing in Nashville, this twenty year-old songbird is poised to take the coun-try world by storm, showing what a lot of hard work, determination and faith can do.

www.jordanandersoncountry.com

JORDAN ANDERSON

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sound and undeniable English charm are add-ing a unique flavor to the world of country music. David Adam By-rnes has been called a

backwoods redneck and he’ll be the first to tell you, he wears the label well. He sports a ball cap, plaid is “the fabric of his life,” he loves a barroom band, cranks his music up loud, adores his fam-ily, respects his country and is no stranger to hard work nor heartache. Billy Kelly is a recording art-ist and studio musician who has worked with his band Dakota, The Buoys, Jerry-Kelly, and Charlie Louvin.These three will form a once-in-a-lifetime trip and will rock out at 6:30.

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DAVID BRADLEY, DAVID ADAM BYRNES & BILL KELLEY

The Lucky 13 house band is a mighty tal-

ented and diverse group of veteran musicians with credentials that will blow your mind. Randy Leago plays piano, or-gan, accordion, saxo-

phone, penny whistle, guitar, bass, and just about everything else. Multi-instrumentalist Jimmy C. Clark displays his musical prowess on fiddle, pedal steel guitar, trumpet, and guitar. Bassist extraordi-naire Paul Ossola is relatively new to Nashville but has a huge following of admiring fans and musi-cians. Thomm Jutz is an acclaimed guitarist, engi-neer, studio owner, artist, and producer. Show host and award-winning drummer Billy Block has per-formed and recorded with a diverse array of artists. This 7PM set will feature special surprise guest art-ists.

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LUCKY 13

When you come to the show, be sure to stop by Billy’s table and pick up some strings and


Seeing the movie Coal Miner’s Daugh-

ter when she was a little girl convinced Sherry Lynn that Country mu-sic was her destiny, even though she lived far from Nashville. Now the

top country singer in her native New Jersey, Sherry will release a new album this spring titled Beautiful Life. And just to show you the power of dreams, the first single from that album—also called “Beau-tiful Life”—is a duet with the iconic Crystal Gayle, the kid sister of coal miner’s daughter Loretta Lynn. Beautiful Life was produced by Ted Hewitt, the stu-dio wizard behind all of Rodney Atkins’ hits. Sherry and her band perform more than 100 dates a year throughout the Northeast.

www.sherrylynnmusic.com

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SHERRY LYNN

Oklahoma native Amber Hayes first

broke onto the Country music scene after her starring role as Kathy Twitty in the 2008 Con-way Twitty musical, It’s Only Make Believe. Am-

ber released her debut EPC’mon in 2010, landing two Top 40 singles (“C’mon,” “Wait”) on the national MusicRow Country Breakout chart. The talented singer-songwriter went on to tour with Country star Ty Herndon for much of 2011 before appear-ing in the major motion picture, “Cowgirls N’ An-gels” in 2012. Three of Amber’s songs made it into the film, including her duet with Lonestar’s Richie McDonald, “Always There For Me.” In October 2012, Amber released her sophomore album, Any Day Is A Good Day.

www.amberhayesmusic.com

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AMBER HAYES

The high-altitude town of Fort Collins,

Colorado is abundant in bicycles, awash in craft beer and rich in arts of all kinds. Understanding the town’s unique cul-tural brew begins (but

only begins) to explain the novel sound of SHEL. Four sisters, raised in an atmosphere of creative freedom and diligent study, have honed their mu-sical skills to surgical precision and blended their personalities and visions into a unified whole. They are a vocal group with outstanding instrumental capabilities and an instrumental group with a thrilling vocal attack. From their fetching, unpre-dictable songs to their whimsical, hand-made top hats, SHEL makes a profound impression, some-thing they are doing to growing crowds and criti-cal acclaim.

www.shelmusic.com

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SHEL

Iron Cowboy is “Big John” Davis, Fran

Czuba, Mike “Roscoe” La-Nunziata, Joe Michaels, Scott Wenrich, and Gary Ottaviani. This North East, Pennsylvania mod-ern country band with

a heart of Southern Rock is a perennial favorite at Thunder Country 102’s annual ThunderBash. Formed in late 2007, Iron Cowboy quickly took the Northeast by storm, and has opened for major acts including Bucky Covington over the past few yeas. In 2011, Iron Cowboy released their debut CD, Tat-too of You, which received great reviews from fans, critics, and fellow musicians alike. The CD’s title track, “Tattoo of You, and a second song, “WWJD” both spent several weeks on Music Row’s Country Breakout chart.The members of Iron Cowboy are currently working on material for the next CD and performing regularly throughout the northeast.

www.ironcowboyband.com

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IRON COWBOY

10 PM ALLSTAR JAM


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NaShVILLE’S LEGENdarY BILLY BLOcK ShOW Celebrating 17 Years of Introducing Authentic Artists & Music

February 5th at The Mercy Lounge17th Anniversary Celebration6pm Showcase Cumberland Collective- The New Americana7pm Tribute to Walter Hyatt/Duane Jarvis/ Buck Jones with Taylor Hyatt, Jon Byrd & More8:00 Kristi Rose-17th year8:30 Sam Hawksley- APRA Artist of Month9:00 Jim Lauderdale- Now That’s Americana9:30 Gareth Dunlop- Safe Haven Soundtrack star10:00pm All-Star Jam

February 12th at The Mercy Lounge6pm Ward-Thomas- Female duo from Great Britain7pm Lucky 13 with guests8:00 Janey Lidey- Alaskan Troubadour8:30 Kris Whipple Band- Eclectic Star9:00 Ben Flanders – Totally Rockin’9:30 Megan Keely- California Folk/Country10:00pm All-Star Jam February 19th at The Mercy Lounge6pm Lizzie Sider- Teen Sensation 7pm Lucky 13 with guests8:00 The Darlins- SESAC Artist of The Month8:30 James Cameron Band- SOCAN Artist of The Month9:00 Vencent Van Zant- Biggest Winner9:30 Juliet & The Lonesome Romeos- Americana Darling10:00pm All-Star Jam

February 26th at The Mercy LoungeCRS Thunder Country 102 Night6pm Jordan Anderson- Toxic6:30pm David Bradley, David Adam Byrnes & Bill Kelly7pm Lucky 13 with guests Somerville8:00 Sherry Lynn- Country Star8:30 Amber Hayes- Film & Music star9:00 Iron Cowboy- Country Rockers9:30 Shel- Moraine Music Stars10:00pm All-Star Jam

Magazine art & production by Kelly hays

Jim Lauderdale & Buddy Miller ...............................“It Hurts Me”Juliet & Lonesome Romeos ..................................“Wishing Well”Krisiti Rose .......................................................................“Johnny Guitar”Sherry Lynn............................................................ “Breakin’ Up Song”Shel.................................................................................................... “Stained”Gareth Dunlop........................... “Wrap Your Arms Around Me”Cumberland Collective......... “Bring A Lil’ Love To The Table”Ward/Thomas......................................................... “Way Back When”Janey Lidey.........................................................“Nothin’ But A Smile”Granny 4 Barrel............................“Colt Ford Stole My Girlfriend”Lizzie Sider....................................................................................“Butterfly”Jesse & Noah .....................................................................“Driven Back”Rattle Can.......................................................... “We Love The Cougs”Fancy.........................................................................................“Role Model”Jenn Bostic.................................................... “Jealous of the Angels”Rocky Block.......................................................“Love You Out Loud”Tawny River..................................................................................“Melody”Allen Thompson Band.................................................“Dirt To Dust”Luke Dick...................................................................................... “Esquilita”Danny Myrick........................................................................“Truck Yeah”Cathy Paty.................................... “Something About The South”April Kry..................................................................“Heart Inside of You”Brokedown Cadillac......................................... “Can You Hear Me”Sam Hawksley................................................................ “Save My Life”Scott Mulvahill................................................................... “Heartache”Sam Hunter............................................................. “Me & Mrs. Jones”Alex Flanigan................................................... “Diesel, Guns & Rust”Allie Farris.............................................................. “Work, Work, Work”Kree Woods.................................................... “Chance Happening”Yo Mama...........................................................................“It Takes Time”Charity Vance....................................................................................“Icing”Shannon Labrie............................................. “I Remember A Boy”The Bum Steers.................................................................. “Stick Pony”Elise Davis ........................................................................“Make The Kill”Jordan Anderson................... “Key To My Heart”

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