Pardi officially joins the Opry
"This is me and you joined in holy matrimony shared by our love of country music," said Garth Brooks as he stepped into the circle with Pardi to hand him the official Opry member award.
"It's full circle to watch my hero, from flying around an arena in concert to right now," said Pardi. "I love the Opry and being a part of its family. The future is so bright."
Pardi's Opry induction and performance will air as a Saturday night Opry Live on November 18 on the Opry's television broadcast home, Circle Network, Circle All Access Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
While performing at country music's Stagecoach festival in April, Pardi was surprised on stage by his friend and restaurateur Guy Fieri, and directed to a video on the big screen where Opry member and Country Music Hall of Famer Alan Jackson appeared with the official Opry ask to the country star. Pardi became the first California native inducted into the Opry.
Pardi will release his first Christmas album, "Merry Christmas From Jon Pardi," this Friday. He is currently headlining the Mr. Saturday Night World Tour.
More news for Jon Pardi
- 01/17/25: Pardi announces "Honkytonk Hollywood"
- 01/07/25: Pardi's "Friday Night Hearbreaker" gets video treatment
- 12/04/24: Pardi returns to the road
- 10/27/23: It's Xmas in October with Pardi plus Judds tribute, Flatland Cavalry, Springsteen deluxe
- 10/02/23: Pardi announces first Xmas disc
- 04/29/23: Pardi receives huge surprise at Stagecoach - an Opry invite
- 03/20/23: Pardi, Mr. Saturday Night, returns to action
- 02/21/23: Pardi becomes a dad
CD reviews for Jon Pardi
You know from the first notes of Jon Pardi's "All I Want For Christmas" that this is going to be good album as it starts off with a steel guitar intro. Later, there is also a twin fiddle solo. These elements reveal how this track is a true country version. It's also executed well, which makes this old holiday warhorse of a song somehow sound fresh and new. It's one of 12 winners and proves once again what a gift Pardi is to us all.
The content is consistently secular, ...
Jon Pardi's "Mr. Saturday Night" sounds as though most of its stories take place on the weekend at an idealized country honky tonk. Many of these drinking holes also feature swinging doors and jukeboxes. They don't seem like citified bars, but they perfectly fit Pardi's enjoyable neo-traditional song cycle.
Although the drums pound much harder on the single "Last Night Lonely" than they do on truly traditional country music, Pardi incorporates far more fiddle ...
Jon Pardi may sing about heartache medication with this collection of songs, but his focus on arrangements filled with traditional musical elements (fiddle, steel guitar and twangy electric guitar) is joyfully medicinal for anyone sickened by so much mainstream country music that lacks many (if not all) of these essential country instruments.
These songs read as well as they sound, though. For example, the drinking song "Me and Jack" begins with a thumping, Johnny Cash-inspired country groove. ...
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