Our sister publication THE DAILY BANNER told us about this artist and this song.  As soon as we heard it, we knew we had to write about it as well.  Back Stage Pass News reviews a lot of songs every year.  No other song has brought the type of reaction this song has evoked the type of reaction that "WHAT IF" has.  

We have discovered that not only does this song touch on the pain of miscarriage, TaniA is singing from experience with the miscarriage of twins and triplets.  The pain she delivers in this song is genuine and you can feel it.  

The vocals that Tania delivers in this track are unbelievably beautiful. Her range is vast and she is pitch perfect. In addition, TaniA is drop dead gorgeous. 

British singer-songwriter TaniA Kyllikki has garnered international praise for her upbeat, determined demeanour, vast old-school vocal range, and raw, organic approach to storytelling, that has drawn comparisons to musical greats. She has won the hearts of people around the world and conquered adversity, and has been able to rise up strong like a phoenix using her own experience into inspirational songs for her fans. Rising up strong in the independent music scene, TaniA Kyllikki, who is engaged to her music partner Rynellton, aka Garry D. Hairston, from the United States, composes music in the UK in the countryside surrounded by horses she adores. Survivor of past abuse and rape, and born with long list of illnesses, every one of her songs is a window to her soul, filled with depth, feeling and sympathy. In January 2022, her self penned album, Why Chapter One, peaked at #25 on Amazon's Hot Pop Albums, and remained in the top 100 for a month. TaniA, dubbed a "lyrical genius" by critics, has graced the covers of and been profiled extensively in a variety of music periodicals. In 2021, 3x Grammy Winner, NeYo, presented one of TaniA's singles titled "Remind Me". Independently, TaniA has gained millions of streams between her discographies. Her last single release titled, H.W.C., released late 2022, has garnered near half a million between the music video released via VEVO, and other music platforms it's on. TaniA is now in the process of recording her second album for the aim of late 2023 release.

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https://linktr.ee/aweinspiringrecords​

Rising Star Seth Bunting has a brand new single coming out on March 10, 2023.  The name of the song is "Remains The Same."  The song tackles the plight so many young people going through when they have to endure long distance relationships. 

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Yesterday, our mother publication, THE DAILY BANNER announced this tour and there have been new tour dates added since then. We have it on good authority that in addition to the 2 new dates you see here, there are an additional 3 new tour dates confirmed with Air Supply this summer. 

Little River Band is back better than ever. LRB has been making music and entertaining people for over four decades now.  Booked by Artists International Management, the agency that will soon celebrate 40 years in the business is pleased to announce LRB’s 2023 Tour. Read on to see dates for Little River Band 2023 Tour Announced.
The booking agency Artists International Management and PR Director Donna Nolan Wilson do want to reiterate that this is the 2023 schedule SO FAR.  New dates for 2023 are being booked weekly. Many additional dates have contracts and/or announce dates pending. To keep up with where Little River Band will be in 2023, visit their website at http://www.LittleRiverBand.com

Little River Band 2023 Tour Announced

• Sat, Jan 21 –L’Auberge Casino & Hotel Baton Rouge – Baton Rouge, LA
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• Jan. 28 – Feb. 2nd, 2023 –On The Blue Cruise 2023 – Port Miami, FL
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• Sat, FEB 11 – Lillian S. Wells Hall at The Parker –Ft Lauderdale, FL
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• Sat, FEB 18 – Grand Falls Casino & Golf Resort®, Larchwood, IA
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• Thu, FEB 23 – Genesee Theatre – Waukegan, IL
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• Sat, MAR 4- Alabama Theatre – North Myrtle Beach, SC
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• Thu, MAR 9 – Florida Theatre – Jacksonville, FL 
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• Sat, MAR 11 –IP Casino Resort and Spa – Biloxi, MS 
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• Sun, MAR 12 – Ruth Eckerd Hall – Clearwater, FL
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• Fri, MAR 17-Sound Waves Theater loading dock- Atlantic City, NJ
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• Sat, MAR 18 – American Music Theatre – Lancaster, PA
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• Fri, MAR 24 - Lincoln Square Theater, Decatur, IL
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• Sat, MAR 25 – Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City – Kansas City, MO –
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• Sat, APR 22 – Treasure Island Resort and Casino – Welch, MN
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• Sat, APR 29 – Carteret Performing Arts and Events Center – Carteret, NJ
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• Sat, MAY 6 – Renfro Valley Entertainment Center- Mt Vernon, KY
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• Sat, MAY 20 – Junction at Galatyn Park – Richardson, TX
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• Fri, JUN 9 – Maryland Hall For the Creative Arts – Annapolis, MD
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• Fri, June 16 - Hampton Beach Casino, Hampton Beach, NH
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• Fri, JUL 14 – Morongo Casino Resort and Spa – Cabazon, CA
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• Fri, JUL 21 – South Shore Music Circus – Cohasset, MA
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• Sat, JUL 22 – Cape Cod Melody Tent – Hyannis, MA –
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• Wed, July 26 – Peterborough Musicfest, Del Crary Park, Ontario, Canada
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Little River Band 2023 Tour Announced

• Fri, JUL 28 – Lucas County Agricultural Society – Maumee, OH
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• Sat, JUL 29 – Marion Cultural and Civic Center – Marion, IL
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• Fri, AUG 4 – Humphreys Concerts By the Bay – San Diego, CA
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• Sat, AUG 5  – Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino – Las Vegas, NV –
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• Sat, AUG 12 – Desert Diamond Casinos & Entertainment – Sahuarita, AZ
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• Fri, SEP 1 – Ilani Casino – Ridgefield, WA
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• Sat, OCT 21 – The Chesterfield – Saint Louis Place, MO –
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• Sat, NOV 11 – Medina Entertainment Center – Hamel, MN
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• Fri, NOV 17 – Hoyt Sherman Place – Des Moines, IA –
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• Fri, DEC 1 – Andiamo Celebrity Showroom – Warren, MI
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About Little River Band:
​Through the ‘70’s and ‘80’s, LRB enjoyed huge chart success with multiplatinum albums and chart topping hits like:
“Reminiscing,”  Cool Change”, “Lonesome Loser”, “The Night Owls”, “Take It Easy On Me”, “Help Is on Its Way”, “Happy Anniversary”, “We Two”,  “Man On Your Mind”, “The Other Guy”, and It’s A Long Way There.” Worldwide album, CD sales and digital downloads now top 40 million and LRB has set a record for having had Top 10 hits for 6 consecutive years – In fact, they were the very first band to achieve that remarkable status. Based in Nashville, and booked by AIM, LRB has been touring America around the calendar for the past 26 years.

About ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT:Artist International Management has represented such Hall of Fame acts like Jerry Lee Lewis and Percy Sledge. Referred to in business as AIM, AIM is a full service booking agency that really cares about its clients.  AIM has been in business for nearly 40 years. Find out more about AIM at www.AIMROCKS.com.
ITS PROMOTIONSAIM is very instrumental in giving promoters and venues the assistance they need to make a date successful. To help accomplish that goal, they work closely with ITS Promotions. ITS Promotions is their in-house PR Agency whose main focus is to give and get attention for clients. Press releases, interviews, online promotions and more as needed are supplied to insure a successful outcome for every booking. For more about ITS Promotions, visit www.InsideTheSong.com.
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Galen Laius Gering is an American actor most known for his portrayal of characters on daytime soap operas. He currently plays the role of Rafe Hernandez on the long-running NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives. He also appeared on the NBC daytime soap opera Passions as Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald.  

The actor posted a photo of himself last night.  Rumor has it that he has fractured 3 ribs. Gering took to Instagram two days ago to share with his fans that he is hospitalized with 3 broken ribs! No word on how he injured himself but he had previously shared about helping a trucker who was stranded in the snow.  Let's wish Galen a speedy recovery. 

Fun, fun, fun still her Daddy takes your Merry Christmas Baby away.  In all seriousness, this is a really happy, upbeat and jazz-fabulous song. Merry Christmas Baby has everything ingredient needed for a hit Christmas song that could become an annual favorite in homes across the world. You don't believe  me??  Take a listen for yourself.  Either stream on Spotify or play on YouTube below. 

The Nied’s Hotel Band, voted Pittsburgh’s “Best Bar Band” in the 2016 Pittsburgh Magazine Readers Poll, is a powerhouse recording and performing rock-n-roll and R&B group from Pittsburgh, PA. (USA). NHB delivers the hardworking, blue collar, muscle that has made Pittsburgh a legendary rock-n-roll city. A recent review by The Pittsburgh City paper proclaimed, “The Nied’s Hotel Band could be called The E-Street Band of Pittsburgh.” In addition, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto has proclaimed July 17th as “Nied’s Hotel Band Day” in honor of the bands impact on the local music scene and their unwavering support of charitable causes.

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Singer-Songwriter Rico Rossi teamed up with Jerry Wessling to bring "Moonshine Under The Midnight Sun," to life so everyone could enjoy it.  The success of the song has been evident in thee song and Official Music video accumulating over 100,000 views in 3 weeks. The Midnight Sky is the limit for this highly contagious song. 

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About Rico Rossi:
Rico Rossi lives in Alaska and has spent the last few years in the Hip Hop genre. Originally from the Bay area in California, Rico took a trip to Alaska and fell in love with everything about Alaska. The single Dad relocated to Alaska for his 8 month old son who is half Alaskan Native Eskimo. Rico has recently decided to transition into the country music genre. Rico has had an awakening, both spiritually and musically. He has now released three songs in the country genre with “City 2 the Country,”  “Moonshine under the Midnight Sun,”  and "Crazy."


About Jerry Wessling: 
Valley musician Jerry Wessling has recently taken a dive into country music and he seems to be having a blast with it. Wessling has been playing music across Alaska for many years. He works as a middle school math teacher during the day. However his summer schedule is packed with performances  all over Alaska. “Summertime is when it gets pretty intense. I’m having fun. I’m having a good time,” Wessling said.  Wessling said that his favorite part of being involved with the Alaskan music scene has always been the people. “I love playing music with my friends,” Wessling said. “It’s just what I do. I’m supper passionate about it.”

This multitalented artist has much to give to the country genre and we can’t wait to share what he will be doing next. In the meantime, check out “City 2 the Country,” and “Moonshine Under the Midnight Sun.” You won’t be disappointed.
 
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Bring My Song To Life decided to respond to country star Morgan Wallen’s song, “Wasted On You.” The response song is called “Waiting On You” and features the talented Malena, one of the singers on the Bring My Song To Life roster. The lyrics were written by in-house staff, and the entire composition and production were also handled by the company’s roster musicians.

The song is a guitar-driven, soft country ballad with some pop influences. The lyrics reflect the other side of the story of Morgan Wallen’s original song, displaying what his female counterpart would sing about. One passage of “Waiting On You” says, “Looks like my heart’s been broken again. I want you, boy, I don’t understand, why you’ve given up, leaving me blue, waiting on you,” which appears to be a direct response to “Wasted On You”’s line, “Looks like I'm learnin' the hard way again, it's all my fault, yeah. I dropped the ball, you're gone, and I'm gone three sheets to the wind, thinkin' 'bout all I've wasted on you.”

About Morgan Wallen’s “Wasted On You”:
​The song “Wasted On You” by Morgan Wallen was released on January 11, 2021, and is the fourth single from the album “Dangerous: The Double Album.” The song peaked at number 9 in the Billboard Hot 100 charts and topped the Billboard US Hot Country Songs and US Country Airplay charts. The song was also an instant hit internationally, topping the country charts in Canada and peaking at number 10 in the Canadian Hot 100 charts. “Wasted On You” was awarded 3× Platinum for more than 3 million certified sales in the United States.

About Bring My Song To Life:
Bring My Song To Life is a music-as-a-gift company that enables anyone to make a song for a special occasion or as a gift. Offering one of the most unique gift ideas currently available, Bring My Song To Life can write a song about a person’s personal story, which can then be shared as a gift or kept as a fond memory of an important milestone.  Visit the website for
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The infectious rendition of J.J. Cale’s classic “Call Me The Breeze,” performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers during their legendary 20-show run at the Fillmore is out now, with an accompanying video directed and hand-illustrated by Emmy Award-winning Jeff Scher; watch/share HERE and listen/share HERE. The new track is taken from the highly-anticipated Live at the Fillmore (1997)—Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ first live record in over a decade—set for release November 25 on Warner Records. Pre-save/pre-order HERE.
The video features characterful animations of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers performing live at the Fillmore, hand drawn by educator and filmmaker Scher. “‘Call Me The Breeze’ is an anthem to freedom,” says Scher, whose body of work includes music videos for Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and others as well as pieces in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Harvard Film Archive, The Centre Pompidou and the National Film Archive of Austria. “The most direct metaphor for me was driving and the joy of unrestricted motion which made me think of the way things blur when they fly past.  I was excited to try and recreate that motion blur with paint and pastel. I started with the first shot and just kept adding shots and cutting it together as I went. You might say it just evolved as it grew.  Making the video in this way felt like I’d incorporated the spirit of the song into the process of making the video.”
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were long-time fans of the late singer J. J. Cale. The band frequently played his songs in their sets, and Petty often played Cale songs on his acclaimed “Buried Treasure” show on Tom Petty Radio. “Call Me The Breeze” is one of two J. J. Cale covers on Live at the Fillmore, alongside “I’d Like To Love You Baby.” Other album highlights include Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door,” The Rolling Stones’ “Time is On My Side” and more from The Kinks, Everly Brothers, Bill Withers, The Byrds and Chuck Berry, along with extended versions of original tracks “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” and “It’s Good To Be King.”
“Call Me The Breeze” is the latest offering from Live At The Fillmore, the legendary 20-show run that Petty noted as “the highpoint of our time together as a group.” An intimate, stripped-down version of “I Won’t Back Down” and “Listen To Her Heart,” with an accompanying video directed by Peter Sluszka, are also out now.
Last month previously unreleased, never-before-seen footage unearthed from the Petty estate vaults was released as part of a short film about the band’s legendary 1997 residency at the historic San Francisco venue. The captivating 20 sold-out show run included some of the most joyful, inspirational and prolific experiences of the band’s career, during which they were nicknamed the “Fillmore House Band.” Watch/share Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: The Fillmore House Band (Short Film) HERE.
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Somewhere in the world, in a mean little honky-tonk or big music hall or church basement rec room, someone is playing a Jerry Lee Lewis song. Wherever there is a piano, someone is shouting…

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
Too much love drives a man insane…

“But they won’t play it like the Killer,” Lewis liked to say, as if he needed to make sure the whole world was hearing him right, hearing the pounding genius of it, in songs like “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” “Breathless” and “Great Balls of Fire.”
“’Cause,” he liked to say, “ain’t but one of me.”
 
You broke my will
But what a thrill…

Lewis, perhaps the last true, great icon of the birth of rock ‘n’ roll, whose marriage of blues, gospel, country, honky-tonk and raw, pounding stage performances so threatened a young Elvis Presley that it made him cry, has died.

He was there at the beginning, with Elvis, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Carl Perkins, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, and the rest, and watched them fade away one by one till it was him alone to bear witness, and sing of the birth of rock ‘n’ roll.

“Who would have thought,” he said, near the end of his days, “it would be me?”

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!

He suffered through the last years of his life from various illnesses and injuries that, his physicians have often said, should have taken him decades ago; he had abused his body so thoroughly as a young man he was given little chance of lasting through middle age, let alone old age. 

“He is ready to leave,” his wife Judith said, just before his death.

Lewis, who performed everything from “Over the Rainbow” to Al Jolson, who played the Opry and the Apollo and even Shakespeare, was 87 years old.

Some music historians have wondered if Lewis, regarded by his fans and many music historians as rock’s first, great wild man, might be indestructible; his obituary has been written, re-written, then shelved, gathering dust for a day that seemed inevitable, but seemed to never come. He defied death in his old age just as he shrugged off the hard-driving, self-destructive lifestyle of his younger years, to play his music to a worldwide audience across seven decades, decorate the walls of his home with Grammys and gold records, and spawn a million outrageous stories -- most of them true.
Once, when asked by a biographer: “Is it true that…”

“Yeah,” interrupted Lewis, without waiting to hear the particulars, “it probably was.” 

His beginnings sounded like myth. His father, Elmo, and mother, Mamie, mortgaged their farm to buy him a piano, after he climbed onto a piano bench and, without ever having touched a keyboard before, began to play. His nickname, Killer, had nothing to do with his playing, but came from a schoolroom fight in Ferriday when he tried to choke a grown man with his own necktie; still, it fit the man, the musician to come, but there was more to him than a barroom piano pounder who sometimes kept a pistol in his pants.

Musicians and music journalists called him a true virtuoso, whose music was so rich and complex that some of them swore there were two pianos on stage instead of one. He played honky-tonk and blues across the same keyboard in the same instant, could play melody with both hands. He sang rockabilly before he knew it had a name, sang blues, gospel and country in the same set and sometimes the same breath, to become No. 24 on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Sam Phillips, who launched the careers of Elvis and Lewis at Sun Records in Memphis, called Lewis the most talented person he had ever seen. A talent that made him one of the very few to be inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s first class in 1986 and, most recently this past week, at long last, into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

As Lewis stacked hits on the charts in ’57 and Elvis received his draft notice, the reigning king of rock ‘n’ roll drove to Sun Records in tears, to tell Lewis: “You can have it.”  

But if Jerry Lee’s life was a comet that streaked across the sky of American music, it was also a thing that scorched him inside and out, and so many of the people around him.       

Judith, his seventh wife, was by his side when he passed away at his home in Desoto County, Mississippi, south of Memphis. He told her, in his final days, that he welcomed the hereafter, and that he was not afraid.

Born into the Assembly of God church in his hometown of Ferriday, Louisiana, he never stopped believing, even when his lifestyle made the specter of hell seem closer. His greatest fear, that he would be condemned to a lake of fire for playing what many in his Pentecostal faith called “the devil’s music,” haunted him. He shared his fear with Elvis, who begged him to never mention it again. Lewis thought Elvis, also a Pentecostal, was the one person who might understand, but he died in ’77, leaving Lewis to wonder, alone.

He had prayed every day across his long life for forgiveness, and for salvation. His was a church that believed in miracles; why, he sometimes wondered, should he not be one of them? He found peace near the end of his life in a simple idea: that a music that brought such joy to so many could only come from God, “and the devil,” he said, “didn’t have nothin’ to do with it.”

“He said he was ready to be with Jesus,” said Judith.

His last album was a gospel record with his cousin, lifetime televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who had preached against his music when they were younger. In Jerry Lee’s final months, they took turns at the keyboard, singing songs they learned as children: “Old Rugged Cross” and “Lily of the Valley” and “In the Garden.” Lewis, though his voice and body were weakened by his injury and a recent stroke, seemed happy, content.

Much of his life, Lewis had seemed determined to leave the world in the great fire he sang about. He set pianos ablaze, busted hecklers in the head with the butt-end of his microphone stand and rammed the gates of Graceland with his Rolls Royce. He shot holes in the wall of his Memphis office with a .38 revolver, shot his bass player in the chest, “by accident,” with a .357. His life, at different times, was a blur of high-speed chases and Crown Royal. The DEA met his planes on the runway. Fortunes came and went; all the wild rock musicians who came after him, he said, were mostly amateurs. Keith Richards tried to toss up a bottle of Crown Royal and catch it by the neck, like him, “but he never did it right … wasted a bunch of good liquor.”

But if you asked him, in his waning years, what he hoped people would say about him, he had a simple answer.
“You can tell ‘em I played the piano and sang rock ‘n’ roll.”

His career, like his body, seemed doomed a dozen times.

After soaring to the top of the charts in ’57 with songs like “Shakin’” and “High School Confidential,” he was castigated in the press for his marriage to his 13-year-old cousin, Myra. His rock’n’ roll star seemed to burn out even as it began to rise, and after a few big hits in the early 1960s his career seemed to be over. He responded by loading two cars with instruments and musicians and hitting the road, to play some big rooms, still, but also every honky-tonk and beer joint that would pay him to perform. He fought his way out of beer joints in Iowa, then drove all night and all day to another town and another show.

Sometimes he gave them magic and sometimes, if the mood was on him, he gave them less, but in his old age he swore he gave them the magic all the time. In ’64, record producers taped his show at a Hamburg, Germany, nightclub and made what would become music history. Live at the Star Club would be regarded as one the rawest, wildest, and greatest live albums of all time.

Then, in a twist that surprised many of his rock fans, Jerry Lee Lewis went country. “Another Place, Another Time,” was just the beginning of a string of soulful country chart-toppers that made him rich and famous all over again. He had more than 30 songs reach Billboard’s Top 10, including “To Make Love Sweeter for You” and a haunting “Would You Take Another Chance on Me.” It seemed only natural to Jerry Lee. He had always believed that Hank Williams hung the moon.

In this new stardom he finally played the Grand Ole Opry, the organization that had once snubbed him, and ignored the two-song protocol to play what and for long as he pleased, even playing through the commercials. Then, in perhaps the oddest twist of his musical career, he was cast as Shakespeare’s sinister Iago in a musical production in Los Angeles; he was a natural.

Once again, he flew around the world, sometimes on his own plane, and once again his lifestyle made almost as many headlines as his music. Tragedy followed him; he buried two sons. His health began to fail, marriages failed, but somehow he always rallied, always kept playing, for big paydays, or for free in a Memphis nightclub, living the life he sang about in his songs.

In 2006, his Last Man Standing album sold a million copies, his best-selling album of his long career. He followed that with another success, Mean Ol’ Man. You could hear the ghosts of the old honky-tonks in them, as if Jerry Lee Lewis had, truly, found a way to stop time. He did a duet with Springsteen.  

His Lifetime Achievement Grammy was a kind of crowning achievement, and he appeared at Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame shows to accept his due and to school the whippersnappers on how it was done.

In 2012, when he was 76, he fell in love and married Judith, and they lived quietly – quietly for Jerry Lee Lewis – in northern Mississippi, though Lewis continued to do shows here in the U.S. and abroad.  That year they took a trip to Ferriday to visit the family cemetery, and to drive across the bridge to Natchez where, as a boy, Jerry Lee used to dangle over the girders high above the brown water of the Mississippi and the passing boats below. The other boys begged him to get down, but he just hung there, grinning, till they were in tears. When asked if he was scared, a lifetime later, he just looked surprised. The Killer didn’t get scared. But looking down at the river as an old man, he said he might have been crazy.

Later, they drove past the church where he beat the piano to pieces with his cousins Swaggart and Mickey Gilley, who would go on to country music stardom, pounding a little blues and honky-tonk into the hymns they were supposed to be practicing.

Just across town from the tiny church had once stood the other temple of his musical education, a blues joint called Haney’s Big House, where some of the biggest acts in the country came to play. As a little boy, he snuck in the door and hid under the tables to hear rolling blues piano and wicked guitar. And somewhere in between it all, between the hymnals and the beer joints, between Hank Williams and Ray Charles, he found something that was his alone. It was always a waste of breath to ask if he had any regrets.

He had a million, and he had none. It all just depended on the song that was running through his head at the time.

“I’ve had an interesting life,” he said, in his 2014 biography, “haven’t I?”

Written by Rick Bragg
Jerry Lee Lewis is survived by his wife, Judith Coghlan Lewis, his children Jerry Lee Lewis III, Ronnie Lewis, Pheobe Lewis and Lori Lancaster, sister Linda Gail Lewis, cousin Jimmy Swaggart and many grandchildren, nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents Elmo and Mamie Lewis, sons Steve Allen Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis Jr., his siblings Elmo Lewis Jr. and Frankie Jean Lewis and his cousin Mickey Gilley.

Services and more information will be announced in the following days. In lieu of flowers, the Lewis family requests donations be made in Jerry Lee Lewis' honor to the Arthritis Foundation or MusiCares - the non-profit foundation of the GRAMMYs / National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

​Groundbreaking Country artist Lily Rose returns with brand-new track “Whatcha Know About That,” available everywhere today. Showcasing her Country tendencies and swagger like never before, Rose playfully paints a picture of what a laid-back southern lifestyle would look like in hopes of catching the attention of a new love interest. The track written by Dave Pittenger, Jonathan Hutcherson, Sydney Cubit and Miranda Glory drops with an all new music video set in the Tennessee countryside, out now.
 
“'Whatcha Know About That' is different from anything else I've cut with my record label, Big Loud, to date. It has a Keith Urban-sounding, boot-stomping energy to it that hopefully gives the listener the perfect windows-down, falling in love feeling,” reflects Rose. “The second I heard the demo I knew this song was going to be beyond fun to play live!”

​“Whatcha Know About That” comes nearly a year after her Oct. 2021 introductory project STRONGER THAN I AM which garnered praise from Billboard, People, American Songwriter and more. With her signature knack for “approachable lyrics and hooky production,” (MusicRow) Rose turned a page in her musical journey this summer with the “remorseful banger” (Billboard) “I'd Be You” in June before following up with the barstool ballad “In My Drinks” in July. 
 
Turning heads nationwide with her “expansive soundscape” (American Songwriter), Rose completed headlining stops across the West Coast before joining Country megastar Sam Hunt for select dates this summer. Rose will kick off Dylan's Scott's AMEN TO THAT TOUR tonight, Oct. 7 at Midnight Rodeo in Springfield, Mo. Returning to the same stages she was opening just last year, Rose will stop in Chicago, Ill. at Joe's Live for a headlining show with rising artist Jordan Fletcher on Nov. 11. 
 
For dates and more information, visit her website here and keep up with her on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. 

After delivering electrifying performances, winning over fans and judges like the legendary Simon Cowell and dominating the Billboard/iTunes charts, Stoney Creek Records recording artist Drake Milligan has charged out of the gates this morning with his debut LP Dallas/Fort Worth sitting simultaneously at #1 on the iTunes All-Genre Top Albums and iTunes Top Country Albums charts. The feat comes after just last night wrapping an incredible season on NBC's highest rated show of the summer America’s Got Talent. 

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Milligan made it to the Top 3 on Wednesday’s AGT finale (9/14), following a superstar duet with five-time Billboard Chart topper Jon Pardi, and a rowdy, rollicking romp through his debut single “Sounds Like Something I’d Do” the night prior (9/13). 

All season long, press outlets have praised the high-energy honky-tonker and his infectious, trad-country spirit, with everyone from Entertainment Tonight, PEOPLE, USA Today, Hollywood Life and Parade, to Billboard, American Songwriter, Taste of Country, The Boot and more hailing Milligan’s latest and greatest accomplishment. 

The timing couldn’t be better for the rising star, whose Country-to-the-core full-length album debut arrives today (9/15), adding yet another milestone to his incredible story. The project features AGT fan favorite “Kiss Goodbye All Night,” along with others like Milligan’s new single “Sounds Like Something I’d Do,” which will be impacting Country radio Monday (9/19). 
Both tracks were part of a recent feat that found Milligan dominating multiple iTunes charts, hitting #1 on both the iTunes Country Songs and the all-genre iTunes songs chart with his single “Kiss Goodbye All Night,” and also sending his self-tilted EP to #1 on both the iTunes Country Albums and the All-Genre iTunes Album chart, among other stats. At one point, Milligan held the Top 4 spots of the iTunes Country Videos chart, and occupied seven of the Top 30 spots All-Genre, including #3 (“Sounds Like Something I’d Do”) and #5 (“Kiss Goodbye All Night”). 
Looking ahead, the fiery performer will ride his AGT momentum straight into a headlining tour, as he returns to the road with a full slate of dates this fall. Check out the cross-country routing below and get tickets HERE.
 
Drake Milligan Tour Dates: 
SEP 16 - LOS ANGELES, CA @ The Desert 5 Spot 
SEP 17 - LOS ANGELES, CA @ The Desert 5 Spot 
SEP 18 - SAN BERNARDINO, CA @ Brandin’ Iron 
SEP 21 - OXFORD, MS @ Proud Larry’s 
SEP 23 - FORT WORTH, TX @ Billy Bob’s Texas 
SEP 24 - SAN ANTONIO, TX @ The Rustic 
SEP 30 - INDIANAPOLIS, IN @ Tin Roof 
OCT 1 - DETROIT, MI @ Tin Roof 
OCT 7 - GRETNA, LA @ Gretna Heritage Festival 
OCT 8 - SHERIDAN, AR @ Timberfest 
OCT 13 - BONHAM, TX @ Powder Creek Pavilion 
OCT 14 - HOUSTON, TX @ Armadillo Palace 
OCT 15 - SAN ANGELO, TX @ The Hangout (part of the Texas Strong Concert Series) 
OCT 20 - MEMPHIS, TN @ LaFayettes  
OCT 21 - LEXINGTON, KY @ Tin Roof 
OCT 22 - LOUISVILLE, KY @ Tin Roof 
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About Drake Milligan: 
Drake Milligan burst onto the national music stage last month entering the Billboard Emerging Artists Chart at #5 after dominating iTunes. The Fort Worth native charted back-to-back #1 hits on the iTunes Country Songs Chart, #1 on iTunes All-Genre Chart and reclaimed the #1 spot on iTunes Country Albums Chart, all while simultaneously holding positions #1, #2, #3 and #5 on iTunes Country Video Chart. Milligan is a student of classic Country music with the swagger of early Rock ‘n’ Roll.  He’s an electrifying entertainer who is packing Country fans into clubs night after night on tour. Milligan cites George Strait and Elvis Presley – the King of Country and the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll – as musical heroes. His unique style of traditional yet timely Country has been embraced by fans, peers and the media alike. 

Milligan has already earned high praise from People, USA Today, Parade, American Songwriter, CMT.com, Billboard, KTLA, Hollywood Life, Fort Worth Weekly, Sounds Like Nashville, and Taste of Country. Last night (9/14), Milligan performed a duet with Country star Jon Pardi on the Season 17 finale of NBC’s highest rated show of summer America’s Got Talent, where he placed in the Top 3. Skyrocketing to #1 on the iTunes All-Genre and Country Top Albums charts, Milligan just released his full-length debut album Dallas/Fort Worth via Stoney Creek Records, co-produced by award-winning Tony Brown and Brandon Hood. Milligan has attracted support from a who’s who of industry veterans including iconic songwriter Desmond Child, legendary promoter John Meglen and acclaimed TV/film producer Leslie Greif. 

Rapper T.I’s artist Young Dro starts a new record label in Atlanta, Georgia (Grit Game) and signed his first artist Lil Ozzy formally know as Louie Lennon. Lil Ozzy is a Emo Rapper from the east side of Atlanta who has worked with a lot of big names in the industry. Some of those artists are T.I., Young Dro, Rocko, Jonni Blaze, Future, Kandi Burruss and many more. 

Let’s see if this is Lil Ozzy’s big break that will lead him to finally be able to showcase his talent to the world?

Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. (born September 25, 1980), better known by the stage names T.I. and Tip (often stylized as TIP or T.I.P.), is an American rapper, record executive, and actor. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Harris is one of the highest selling hip-hop artists of all time and is also known as one of the pioneers of the hip hop subgenre trap music, along with fellow Atlanta-based rappers Jeezy and Gucci Mane. Harris signed his first major-label record deal in 1999 with Arista Records subsidiary LaFace. In 2001, he released I'm Serious, his solo debut and only album with the label, as well as formed the southern hip hop group P$C. Upon being dropped from Arista, Harris signed to Atlantic and soon co-founded his own label imprint, Grand Hustle Records, which he launched in 2002.
Harris, a three time Grammy Award winner, has released 11 studio albums, with seven of them reaching the top five of the US Billboard 200 chart. During his career, Harris has also released several highly successful singles, including Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits "Whatever You Like" and "Live Your Life" (featuring Rihanna), the latter replaced the former atop the chart and helped Harris join a select group of artists to replace themselves at number one and simultaneously occupy the top two positions. Harris began to gain major recognition in 2003 following his first high-profile feature on fellow Atlanta-based rapper Bone Crusher's single "Never Scared". Harris earned more prominence with the release of Trap Muzik (2003), which included the Top 40 songs "Rubber Band Man" and "Let's Get Away" (featuring Jazze Pha). The following year, Harris appeared on Destiny's Child's international hit "Soldier" (alongside Lil Wayne), and capitalized on it with the release of his Urban Legend (2004) album. His subsequent albums, King and T.I. vs. T.I.P., generated high record sales and were supported by popular singles, such as "What You Know" and "Big Shit Poppin' (Do It)", respectively.

D'Juan Montrel Hart, better known by his stage name Young Dro, is an American rapper. After gaining recognition with his regional hit song "Yes Sir", from his 2002 independent album I Got That Dro, Young Dro aligned himself with fellow Atlanta-based rapper T.I. and signed to his label, Grand Hustle, in 2004.

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My dear brother-in-law, John Eastman, has passed away. Having known each other for over 50 years it is an extremely sad time for me, and our families.

John was a great man. One of the nicest and smartest people I have had the good luck to have known in my life.

Not only did he help me massively in my business dealings as my lawyer but as a friend he was hard to beat.

His sense of humour always shone through in everything he did and his devotion to his family was supreme.

We had so many fun times together through the years, but when the time came to be serious, he was unbeatable.

There is so much more that can be said of his incredible qualities, but words can hardly describe his passion for life and our affection for this amazing man. He will be sorely missed but always held dear in the hearts of those of us who knew and loved him.

See ya Johnny!

Love Paul 

RECORDS Nashville singer/songwriter Jennifer Hart will be releasing a brand-new single, “18” next Friday, August 5th. Co-written by Jennifer along with hit songwriters Paul DiGiovanni (Dan + Shay, Justin Moore) and Derrick Southerland (Carrie Underwood, Ingrid Andress) and produced by Brandon Hood, “18” will be the first single off of a forthcoming new project.  Fans can pre-save/pre-add “18” HERE now.
 
"18" finds Hart pining for the coming-of-age romance she envisioned as a young girl. "I know that's not how our story goes…but if it were up to me, I probably woulda met you at 18," she sings to her future partner, striking a balance between an impatient heart and her acceptance of God's plan.
 
Originally from Gilbert, Arizona, Jennifer Hart (formerly known as Jennifer Smestad) now calls Music City home. In May 2019, Jennifer funneled a combination of homesickness, faith, and family values into the original composition "Half The Man," which quickly went viral, racking up more than 20 million views on TikTok, over 12 million spins on Spotify and nearly 6 million views on YouTube.  
 
Committed to writing more organic, open-hearted songs from the heart, Jennifer has teamed up with producer Brandon Hood for her next project, creating new music that leans toward the country side of the country-pop bridge, blending pedal steel, mandolin, and other traditional textures with Hart's contemporary writing.  
 
Jennifer has a publishing deal with TwentySeven Music Publishing (in partnership with Sony Music Publishing), and is managed by Hill Entertainment Group.
 
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Jennifer Hart meets with the RECORDS Nashville team for the first time in-person since the pandemic, in anticipation of her upcoming new music.
 
Pictured (L-R): Back row – Hill Entertainment Group’s Greg Hill and Grace Jones, RECORDS’ Andrew Saltman, Laurel Kitteson-Cobb and Joe Fisher

Front row (L-R): RECORDS' Josh Easler, Hart, RECORDS Partner and Co-Founder Barry Weiss

ABOUT RECORDS NASHVILLE 
RECORDS Nashville is the country division of RECORDS—the New York-based record label run by founder Barry Weiss in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment. Launched in 2020, it houses a dynamic roster of modern country talent, including multi platinum rising star Matt Stell, Erin Kinsey, George Birge, Jennifer Hart and more. The team comprises sought-after Nashville A&R executives and creatives. The label brings the entrepreneurial spirit and career development philosophy of RECORDS to Nashville and c

This album is Music to all Nu-Metal Fans. Born during the Pandemic, Heathensun shows the general public that it is time to rock and roll nu-metal style.  Stream it on Spotify now!!

Hailing from The United States of America, Heathensun is an up and coming NU-Metal band with a penchant for writing banging tunes and dynamic narratives. Comprised on 4 immensely talented individuals, the 4-piece band is made up of Mark White (Drunkndonuts) on Guitar and EFX, Arroll Kelly (Ak-47) on Lead Guitar, Hunter Crews (Hunter) on Drums as well as John Nichols (Johnny Anthrax) fronting the band.

The members of Heathensun are based out of different cities with Johnny, Charlotte, NC, Drunkndonuts in Wilmington, NC, Hunter in Raleigh, NC,  and AK-47 in Myrtle Beach, SC. The band was born out of the pandemic in early 2021, working together remotely to create banging masterpieces over the internet. Even though still relatively new to the scene, Heathensun is already climbing the charts with their new album GANG ranked #73 on the Apple iTunes top 100 Rock USA Charts now available on all streaming networks.

​With big dreams and plenty of energy to spare, Heathensun seeks to positively influence society with their music, and is well on their way to becoming one of the most phenomenal bands in our generation.

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