Saturday
OCT 22
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7:30 pm
One of country music’s brightest stars
This event is made possible through the generous support of Robert K. and Dale Jellison Weary. Sponsored by
Giving back in the communities where we live, work and play is one of the best ways we put people first at U.S. Bank. The building blocks of all thriving communities where all things are possible include: stable employment opportunities, a home to call your own and a community connected through culture, recreation and play. U.S. Bank is proud to support the Lied Center of Kansas’ goal of providing people of all walks of life with rich and diverse performing arts experiences.
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OCT 22 | Clint Black
There will a 20-minute intermission. Sets will be announced from the stage.
Clint Black To date, Clint Black has sold more than 20 million albums worldwide and racked up 57 charted singles, 31 top-10 hits and 22 number-one smashes. Recordings such as A Better Man, Killin’ Time, Like the Rain, When I Said I Do and Nothin’ But the Taillights have led to honors from from the Country Music Association, The Academy of Country Music, The Grammys and the American Music Awards, as well as membership in the cast of the Grand Ole Opry. Raised in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, Clint Black is the youngest of four brothers. He began performing with brother, Kevin at the family’s backyard barbecues. After high school, he worked construction for a year and spent 10 years on the local nightclub circuit. He auditioned for a Nashville recording contract in 1988. The following year, he led a movement of young talent that transformed country music into a multi-million dollar industry in the 1990s. “I don’t really feel like I was leading a change in country music,” he remarks. “It just felt like big success to me. I would hear things like, ‘So-and-so is going to record and they’re using their own band because you did.’ Or, ‘So-and-so wants to write more of their own songs, because you did.’ But I don’t feel like I changed anything, other than contributing my work to the big picture. That’s my humble assessment of it. It’s hard to look at myself and see the impact I’ve had. I do know that my songs have touched a lot of people.” He married fellow Houstonian and actress Lisa Hartman in 1991. Their daughter Lily Pearl was born in 2001 and the family subsequently relocated from Los Angeles to Nashville. Black took on new challenges in addition to producing records, touring and writing songs by becoming an actor and a video director. He has founded several song publishing companies. He has been a musician recording and playing live with Kenny Loggins, Toto, Billy Joel, Jimmy Buffett and others. His vocal collaborators have included Martina McBride, Wynonna, Roy Rogers, The Pointer Sisters, Waylon Jennings, Bruce Hornsby, Eric Idle and Steve Wariner. His songwriting partners have been Wariner, Merle Haggard, Michael McDonald, Marty Stuart, Bill Anderson and Jimmy Buffett. In 2004, he scaled the top of the charts by trading lines with Buffett, Alan Jackson, George Strait, Toby Keith and Kenny Chesney on the Hank Williams classic Hey Good Looking. He contributed The Great Mississippi Flood to the 2005 post-Katrina charity album Hurricane Relief: Come Together Now. He released albums in 2004, 2005 and 2007. But his interest in releasing new music waned when his record label closed its doors in 2008.
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“We had great success at Equity breaking Little Big Town as a platinum act, but after the group decided to leave us for a bigger company, Equity closed its doors. Since then, I have had interest from major companies to sign deals, but declined.” Clint Black has hardly been idle since then. He’s written and produced songs for Hasbro’s children’s shows, competed for his charity on Celebrity Apprentice and in 2010 and 2012 starred in the films Flicka 2 and Flicka: Country Pride, the latter with his wife and daughter. In 2013, the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain began marketing an album of Black’s hits, which continues to sell strongl and in early 2015, he collaborated with Joe Nichols on a Superstar Duets NBC-TV special for the Academy of Country Music. In the past, Black has produced records for artists such as Buddy Jewell and Carolina Rain. Black’s love of finding and recording new talent led to his latest venture, Chideo’s online Clint Black Dream Recording Session Contest, the winner of the contest will be produced by Black himself. The aim of this endeavor is to bring attention to Chideo. com and to raise funds to find a cure for Rett Syndrome, a neuro-disorder afflicting up to ten thousand children each year. He is the honorary chair for the International Rett Syndrome Foundation’s Research to Reality: Funding Process and his 2015 contest has led to his own primetime TV special, highlighting the charity and the finalists. “I love producing and being in the studio. That joy drove the Chideo contest. About a year ago, I came up with the idea for the talent contest for their website and they figured out how they could make it work. As a way to give opportunity to new artists while bringing attention to this devastating disorder, it has far exceeded my greatest hopes. We never know which event will get us past the threshold of discovering a cure for Rett Syndrome, so we push hard for donations and opportunities like these!” In the midst of this, Clint Black has been crafting On Purpose. During his years away from releasing records, he says he has accumulated a large backlog of songs. “For almost every album I have made, I had two or three albums worth of material written,” he comments. “I’ve always had an abundance of songs, probably 30 to choose from for the 10 that I would need to make the best album. For this one, I probably had more like 40 songs to narrow down.” The new album is dedicated to his father, who died in late 2012. “My dad was a huge country fan and is the first reason I listen to country music. He is probably the reason I’m a songwriter today. He was my introduction to “who’s behind the music.” I grew up wanting to be the writer behind the song. That really all started with him. “To him, country music was a sacred thing. From time to time, I imagine him out there just beyond the spotlight, listening. So I dedicate this album to him, wishing we could share one more release together but alas, the clock ran out. I’ll just live with the faith that somehow, he’s able to hear it.”
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Bryton Stoll Bryton Stoll is a 21-year-old singer/songwriter from Marysville, Kansas. He has been playing the guitar since the age of 11 and writing his own music since 14. At 16, Stoll recorded his first album and his music career has since flourished. Stoll has performed at hundreds of shows across Kansas and Nebraska. He recently took home second place in KU’s Got Talent and is working on his debut, full-length studio album Finger on the Trigger. In addition to being a musician, Stoll is a student at the University of Kansas where he studies mechanical engineering. Stoll calls himself a jack of all trades. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, spending time with his family and friends and visiting the lake. brytonstollmusic.com