2009 Jammin Country Artists

Montgomery Gentry

Montgomery GentryMontgomery Gentry's journey into the front ranks of American music has been one of the most gratifying sagas of the past decade. Their road to gold and platinum albums, CMA and ACM awards, a Grammy nomination and highly successful tours has been paved both with musical integrity and with an abiding respect for the people and the genre they represent. [Full Bio]

  • Latest Album: Back When I Knew It All
  • 17 Top 20 country hits: "Daddy Won't Sell the Farm", "Hillbilly Shoes", "Lonely and Gone", "She Couldn't Change Me", "My Town", "Speed", "Gone", "Hell Yeah", "If You Ever Stop Loving Me" (#1), "She Don't Tell Me To", "Something To Be Proud Of" (#1), "Some People Change", "Lucky Man" (#1), "What Do Ya Think About That", "Back When I Knew It All" (#1), "Roll With Me" (#1), One in Every Crowd
  • Official Website

Jason Aldean

Jason AldeanAfter selling two million copies of his first two albums, topping the charts with five smash hits, racking up award nominations and hitting every stop on the requisite “new artist” tour circuit for the last three years, country rocker Jason Aldean is running full throttle into Spring. Having just wrapped his first full and very successful headlining tour, he’s prepared to leverage that momentum with the release of his highly anticipated third album, Wide Open.

The Macon, Georgia native wrapped up 2008 on a high note. Aldean’s debut of “She’s Country,” the first single off the forthcoming CD and now the fastest-rising single of his carreer to date, was introduced with a lights-out performance on the CMA Awards in November.

Upon hearing the lyrics and energy in the demo of “She’s Country,” Aldean knew it would be a great fit for his live show. “When we got in the studio and played it for the first time, it flew out of the speakers!” he exclaims. Written as a southern shout-out to all the country girls, the song champions the big guitars and solid backbeat that form the nucleus of Aldean’s signature sound. It also gives fans a taste of what lies in store on the rest of the album.[Full Bio]

  • Latest Album: Wide Open
  • 7 Top 20 country hits: "Hicktown", "Why" (#1), "Amarillo Sky", "Johnny Cash", "Laughed Until We Cried", "Relentless", "She's Country"
  • Official Website

Kenny Rogers

Kenny RogersBy now, Kenny Rogers has become such an icon that it's easy to forget how he got there. The songs on 42 Ultimate Hits, bringing together the top songs of his career from the late 60s First Edition years up to his current return to the charts, offers a crash-course reminder that Rogers is a star because he excels at his craft.

Just look at the titles: "Lady," "Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town," "The Gambler," "She Believes in Me," "Islands in the Stream," "We've Got Tonight," "Buy Me A Rose." Not a ditty among them. Then listen. The sweetly raspy vocals are instantly identifiable as Kenny Rogers - he sounds like nobody else. More importantly, he inhabits each song, making it vivid and tangible. For more than five decades, Rogers has delivered memorable songs, drawing fans among rock, pop, soul and country audiences.

When one singer makes such an indelible mark, that's not mere luck or even simple talent. "I really, really love what I'm doing," Rogers says. "People survive longer if they love what they're doing. Because you just don't quit." [Full Bio]

  • Latest Album: 50 Years
  • 19 #1 country hits: "Daytime Friends" (#1), "Every Time Two Fools Collide" (#1), "Love Or Something Like It" (#1), "The Gambler" (#1), "All I Ever Need Is You" (#1), "She Believes In Me" (#1), "You Decorated My Life" (#1), "Coward Of The County" (#1), "Lady" (#1), "I Don't Need You" (#1), "What Are We Doin' In Love" (#1), "Love Will Turn You Around" (#1), "Islands In The Stream" (#1), "We've Got Tonight" (#1), "Crazy" (#1), "Morning Desire" (#1), "Tomb of the Unknown Love" (#1), "Make No Mistake, She's Mine" (#1), "Buy Me a Rose" (#1)
  • 3 Grammy Awards
  • Official Website

Rodney Atkins

Rodney AtkinsThere’s a very good reason that no less than four songs from Rodney Atkins’ platinum-selling 2006 album If You’re Going Through Hell became No. 1 hits—a feat that no one had accomplished since 2002. It’s the same reason that two of those songs became the most-played of 2006 (“If You’re Going Through Hell [Before the Devil Even Knows]”) and 2007 (“Watching You”), and why concert audiences all over the country are cheering him on and singing along.

It’s because Atkins has a rare gift for reflecting the lives of his listeners in his music—their hopes, their concerns, their spirit, their adversities, even their sense of humor. Simply put, as he sang in another chart-topping smash, “These Are My People.” A native of small-town East Tennessee, the adopted son of a loving family and the proud father to a family of his own, Atkins understands regular lives because he still leads one. “People always talk about image—‘You’re the guy in the ball cap, the All-American country boy,’” says Atkins, who does indeed still favor caps to cowboy hats. “But if the songs don’t connect with the folks listening, then none of that stuff matters.” [Full Bio]

  • Latest Album: It's America
  • 6 Top 20 country hits: "Honesty (Write Me a List)", "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)" (#1), "Watching You" (#1), "Cleaning this Gun (Come on in Boy)" (#1), "These are My People" (#1), "Invisibly Shaken", It's America
  • Official Website

Phil Vassar

Phil VassarThose who best understand Phil Vassar – good-time, whirling-dervish-on-the-piano, hardest-working-man-in-country-music Phil Vassar – also understand the ongoing evolution of his mostly self-penned music. And Prayer Of A Common Man, his fourth studio album and first for Universal Records South, adds several more layers of artistic expression to his deepening repertoire.

The Virginia-born singer, songwriter and musician took his seat as country's leading piano man with the success of songs like "Just Another Day In Paradise" and "Six-Pack Summer," and his penchant for pure musical escapism continues. Vassar's heart-swelling embrace of life's richest blessings is also apparent, especially on lead single "Love Is A Beautiful Thing." At the same time, his writing has grown more introspective and personal, as "This Is My Life" and the title track can attest. [Full Bio]

  • Latest Album: Prayer of a Common Man
  • 12 Top 20 country hits: "Carlene", "Just Another Day in Paradise" (#1), "Rose Bouquet", "Six-Pack Summer", "That's When I Love You", "This is God", "American Child", "I'll Take That as a Yes (The Hot Tub Song", "In A Real Love" (#1), "Last Day Of My Life", "The Woman in My Life", "Love Is A Beautiful Thing"
  • Official Website

Little Big Town

Little Big TownWhen you’ve spent the better part of two years in the stratosphere, it’s all the more important to stay true to the elements of life that really matter—friends, family, the power of music. Those are the things that give you A Place to Land.

Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Roads Schlapman, Phillip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook have learned that lesson well. By the time the group’s shimmering harmonies, knockout stage shows and superb songcraft earned them a well-deserved breakthrough with 2005’s platinum The Road to Here, the bond among them was already more family than friendship. [Full Bio]

  • Latest Album: A Place to Land
  • 6 Top 40 country hits: "Boondocks", "Bring It On Home", "Good as Gone", "I'm with the Band", "A Little More You", "Fine Line"
  • Official Website

Shooter Jennings

Shooter JenningsDon't let Shooter Jennings fool you.

Sure, he rocks. He's lean and wiry, with tattoos snaking up his arms – his mother's name on one, a gun on the other – and a crimson stud gleaming in one ear. He's played sold-out shows at the Viper Room and the Roxy. He's subbed for Axl Rose onstage – twice – with Guns N' Roses.

But look a little closer. Underneath that gun are the letters CBCS, for "country boy can survive." That earring turns out to be an eagle silhouette spread-winged into the letter "W" – an icon known by anyone who has listened to and loved the original outlaw.

[Full Bio]

  • Latest Album: Bad Magick: The Best Of Shooter Jennings And The .357's
  • Favorites: "4th of July", "Put the 'O' Back in Country", "This Ol Wheel", "Gone to Carolina", "The Wolf", "Walk of Life", "Higher", "The Letter", "Lonesome Blues", "Blood from a Stone", "Hair of the Dog"
  • Official Website

Jason Michael Carroll

Jason Michael CarrollJason Michael Carroll doesn’t look like he sounds – and that intrigue only heightens both realities of the tangy vocalist from North Carolina. After all, to hear him is to hear a straight-up, full-tilt, no-frills country singer who works a groove like a mule team, a melody like a barrel racer going for time, and a tear jerker with the dignity of Sunday grace. And fans have loved what they’ve heard – sending Carroll’s debut album, Waitin’ in the Country, to #1 in its first week of release, and making his first singles, “Alyssa Lies” and “Livin’ Our Love Song,” back-to-back Top 5 hits – with Carroll becoming Billboard’s Top New Country Artist of 2007. [Full Bio]

  • Latest Album: Growing Up is Getting Old
  • 4 Top 40 country hits: "Livin' Our Love Song", " I Can Sleep When I'm Dead", " Alyssa Lies", "Where I'm From"
  • Official Website

32 Below

32 BelowThe days of the old "Country Cowboy" are vanishing. 32 Below is bringing the new age of country music and people love what they hear. With a musical style that's all their own, and a show that demands attention from the audience, 32 Below delivers night after night, year after year.

Whether too "rock" for country and too "country" for rock, 32 Below is unapologetically honest, with songs like "Quit Coming Around", "Don't Look Back", and "Make A Little Noise", from their sophomore studio album released in 2004. Call it what you want, 32 Below writes true life songs for the working class. [Full Bio]

  • Latest Album: Stopping the Machine
  • Favorites: "The Devil in Me", "Make a Little Noise", "Quit Coming Around", "Watch You for Hours", "Kick'n Back", "Livin' Laughin Lovin", "Walkin"
  • Official Website

Collin Raye

Collin RayeAsk about Collin Raye and his music and those who represent him will tell you about his five Platinum Albums, fifteen #1 hits and twenty-four top 10's. And they'll also let you know that he is one of the best vocalists and live entertainers around and cite his five nominations as Country Music's Male Vocalist of the year. In the past few years, Collin, while still retaining his love of country music, has added new genres to his recordings and shows. Few artists are lucky enough to have a career that keeps going in new directions. But Collin Raye is one of the lucky few to sustain not only a full and viable career, but also one who keeps garnering new fans and audiences with each new project. [Full Bio]

  • Latest Album: Selected Hits
  • 21 Top 10 country hits: "Love, Me" (#1), "Every Second", "I Want You Bad (And That Ain't Good)", "In This Life" (#1), "Somebody Else's Moon", "That Was a River", "Little Rock", "Man of My Word", "My Kind of Girl" (#1), "That's My Story", "If I Were You", "Not That Different", "One Boy, One Girl", "I Think About You", "Little Red Rodeo", "On the Verge", "What the Heart Wants", "I Can Still Feel You" (#1), "Someone You Used to Know", "Anyone Else", "Couldn't Last a Moment"
  • Official Website

Restless Heart

Restless HeartThe harmonies are pure silver, polished to a high sheen. And, as easily as silver conducts electricity, their music has electrified audiences around the world for 25 years. Legendary country music group, Restless Heart, is celebrating their Silver Anniversary – 25 years of perfecting the art of entertaining.

As silver starts as a by-product of the mining of other minerals, Restless Heart came together in late 1983 as the by-product of a project by famed writer/producer Tim Dubois. He was looking for exceptionally talented studio musicians to record demos of songs he had written. The lustrous voices of that “demo band” rose quickly to the surface and Restless Heart signed a recording contract with RCA Records in 1985. [Full Bio]

  • Latest Album: 25 and LIVE
  • 15 Top 10 country hits: "(Back to the) Heartbreak Kid", "I Want Everyone to Cry", "I'll Still Be Loving You" (#1), "That Rock Won't Roll" (#1), "Til I Loved You", "Wheels" (#1), "Why Does It Have to Be (Wrong or Right)", "A Tender Lie" (#1), "The Bluest Eyes in Texas" (#1), "Big Dreams in a Small Town", "Fast Movin' Train", "Say What's in Your Heart", "Dancy's Dream", "You Can Depend on Me", "When She Cries", "We're Gonna Be OK" (#1 Adult Contemporary)
  • Official Website

Honky Tonk Tailgate Party 2009 - Featuring Mark Wills, Jeff Bates and Trent Willmon

Honky Tonk Tailgate PartyJoin three of country music's favorite artists this summer for the "Honky Tonk Tailgate Party '09" tour. [Full Bio]

  • Mark Wills: A multi-platinum selling country music star with 8 top 10 hits including "Don't Laugh At Me" and "Wish You Were Here." "Don't Laugh At Me" was nominated by the Country Music Association for Single, Song, and Video of the Year. Wills won the Academy of Country Music's award for Top New Male Vocalist. In 2002, his single "19 Somethin'" spent six weeks at No. 1 and was Billboard's top country hit of the year. Mark just recently released his latest album, Familiar Stranger, on Tenacity Records.
  • Jeff Bates: Jeff signed with RCA Records in 2002. The association yielded two critically acclaimed albums—Rainbow Man in 2003 and Leave The Light On in 2006—plus seven hit singles including "The Love Song," "Long, Slow Kisses," and "One Second Chance." In 2008, Bates released his first album for Black River Music Group, the self-titled Jeff Bates. As a songwriter, he has also enjoyed cuts by Montgomery Gentry, Tracy Lawrence, and most recently, on Jamey Johnson's Grammy-nominated album.
  • Trent Willmon: Trent first captured country music audiences with songs like "Beer Man," "Dixie Rose Deluxe's" and "Home Sweet Holiday Inn." His sophomore album, A Little More Livin', produced his first Top 25 single, "On Again Tonight." Trent also helped cowrite Montgomery Gentry's #1 hit "Back When I Knew It All." Willmon is now on fire with the release of his third album, Broken In.
  • Official Website

Crystal Shawanda

Crystal ShawandaCrystal's U.S debut album, Dawn of a New Day, was released August 2008 on RCA Records. The Album entered the Billboard Country Albums Chart at #16 making Shawanda the highest charting full-blooded Native American country artist in the SoundScan era. Her single, "You Can Let Go," made it in the Top 5 in Canada and Top 25 in the U.S. She won 5 awards at the 2008 Canadian Aboriginal Awards. In February of this year, she joined Brad Paisley and Dierks Bentley for the Paisley Party Tour. [Full Bio]

  • Latest Album: Dawn of a New Day
  • Country Hits: "You Can Let Go", "My Roots are Showing"
  • Myspace Website

Flynnville Train

Flynnville TrainIt's been a long road, yet the ride is just beginning. After 15 years and countless miles of touring, writing and performing, four men arrive as FLYNNVILLE TRAIN. Their style of good-time, rockin’ country music is the driving force behind this powerhouse sound from the midwest. They’ve slaved in factories, raised families, and obsessed over perfecting theircraft. They supported each other’s effortsfor years before collaborating in 2001, and now it’s time... time to leave the overtime behind and shift into overdrive. [Full Bio]

  • Latest Album: Flynnville Train
  • Favorites: “High on the Mountain”, “Baby’s in Black”, "Truck stop in the Sky", "Last Good Time", "Nowhere Than Somewhere"
  • Official Website

Bomshel

BomshelKelley and Kristy are musical counterparts and best friends. The girls had their first serendipitous meeting at a show in Michigan. Kristy describes it as, "The first time I got nervous to follow another artist on stage was after seeing Kelley perform. She doesn't just stand there and hold a microphone, she entertains her audience and puts on a SHOW."

This album is the product of two friends, a guitar and lots of morning coffee. "We came together at what could possibly be the most creative time of our lives. We had both gone through serious, "break up's" if you want to put it that way, and we met as Yin and Yang writers looking for an outlet." Kelley said. [Full Bio]

  • Latest Album: Bomshel Stomp
  • Favorites: "Bomshel Stomp", "Fight Like a Girl", "Cheater Cheater", "It Was an Absolutely, Finger Lickin', Grits and Chicken, Country Music Love Song", "Ain't My Day to Care", "The Power of One", "Devil Went Down to Georgia"
  • Official Website

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