Young joins Billion Airs club
Monday, June 10, 2019 – Chris Young officially joined the "Billion-Airs" club as the singer was surprised onstage during his Artist of the Day play at CMA Music Fest with plaques commemorating his more than 2 billion career streams and 12 million singles sold.
Young shared the honor with fans at Fan Fair X floor. "This is thanks to every single person here who has bought a CD, streamed a single or come to my concerts. I can't thank you enough for all the support you've shown me and can't wait to share more music with you soon."
As his current single "Raised On Country" is on the country radio charts, Young is adding to his total with 2 new songs out in the past few days. On Thursday, the Grand Ole Opry member stood in the hallowed circle for an emotionally charged performance of "Drowning," written with Corey Crowder and Josh Hoge. On Saturday, Spotify House at Ole Red was the scene for another surprise as Young welcomed Lauren Alaina to the stage for the first-ever performance of their duet, " Town Ain't Big Enough." Both songs will drop to digital and streaming services in the coming weeks and will be found on his upcoming album, "Raised On Country," out later this year.
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Losing Sleep
Chris Young has one of the best country voices, and it's always a pleasure to hear him sing. But it's disappointing when the title cut sounds more like the groove to a Justin Bieber song than anything truly country. When, say, someone like Jason Aldean performs music with barely any resemblance to real country music, it's not that big a deal; he's not a great natural singer to begin with. However, Young's voice is just too good to waste on mere pop. »»» |
It Must Be Christmas
Song selection can sometimes seem fairly inessential whenever chosen by a master singer. Such is the case with "It Must Be Christmas," Chris Young's new holiday collection. He sounds as perfectly comfortable with the jazzy "I'll Be Home for Christmas," where its supper club vibe takes a little of the edge off one seriously sad song, as he does with the Phil Spector rock nugget "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)."
Young is also helped out by a few special guests. »»» |
I'm Comin' Over
Chris Young has enjoyed steady success from his previous four releases, and there's no reason to suggest that "I'm Comin' Over" won't do the same. But that doesn't mean that Young is doing anything all that different from what's au courant.
Young's go to has always been his full-sounding, big-bodied voice, and that remains intact here throughout these 11 songs, 9 of which he had a hand in writing. His voice is front and center (that's apparent »»» |
Editorial: Walking the talk –
When names like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Waylon and the Hag are invoked, you're talking hard core country. These are the touchstones of country , the guys who made country music what it was and still is (or maybe can be). When these folks would sing about being down-and-out and the rough-and-tumble, they knew of what they were singing about. Fast forward a few years to the country singers of today. »»»
Concert Review: With or without band, Isbell satisfies –
Usually, when an artist performs without his regular backing band, it becomes about mathematics of subtraction. That artist is armed with far fewer artistic weapons at his/her disposal, after all. In Jason Isbell's case, though, when he performed with just his wife and fiddler Amanda Shires, it was more about substitution than subtraction.... »»»
Concert Review: Grammy nominations aside, Yola, Kiah are the real deal –
Grammy nominations do not make the artist, but Yola and opener Amythyst Kiah underscored time and again on this night that the honors were well deserved.
In fact, Yola and Kiah's other group, Our Native Daughters, are nominated in the same category - Best American Roots. Yola has three other nominations as well.
The clear winners... »»»
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