BENEFIT NEWS: Tracy Lawrence’s 15th annual Mission Possible Turkey Fry & Benefit Concert is set for November 24. Since it’s conception in 2006, Mission:Possible has raised nearly $1 million and made approximately 97,000 meals for the homeless community around Nashville, TN. Funds raised by the event go to Nashville Rescue Mission to help continue their incredibly important work. This year, the two-part event will begin with the turkey fry kicking off the day in the parking lot of Nashville Rescue Mission. Due to current health and safety guidelines, this year’s concert portion will be a virtual livestream event from the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville via streaming platform, Talk Shop Live. The star-studded benefit concert will feature Tracy with special guest performers and will livestream at 7:00 PM CST, November 24. The Benefit Concert livestream will be free to watch. Go to https://www. turkeyfry.org/ and scroll down to the link. Click ‘purchase’ and select ‘Mission Possible Concert’ to watch free of charge. Exclusive merchandise is also available on the Talk Top Live platform where proceeds will go to feeding the homeless.
BOOK NEWS: “All my greatest gifts have come wrapped in ribbons of pain.” This tantalizing quote is mega-hit songwriter Aimee Mayo’s favorite line from her upcoming memoir Talking to the Sky, available Dec. 1. Aimee is one of the few female songwriters to receive both BMI’s Country Song of the Year and BMI’s Country Songwriter of the Year, putting her in the elite company of Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and Taylor Swift. Her songs, recorded by Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride and Faith Hill, among countless others, have spent 26 weeks in the #1 spot on the Billboard charts. But it was the love song “Amazed,” recorded by Lonestar — which Aimee co-wrote with Marv Green and her future husband Chris Lindsey, as she and Chris were falling in love — garnered a BMI Eight Million Plays Award, an ACM Song of the Year nod and becoming NSAI’s Song of the Year while also crossing over to the pop charts, where it spent two weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100. More about Aimee and her book at https://www.talkingtothesky.com/
CD RELEASES: For KING & COUNTRY, known the world over for its grand re-envisioning of the classic “Little Drummer Boy” is bringing that signature style to a brand-new, 13-song album, A Drummer Boy Christmas, available now. It is the duo’s first-ever, full-length studio Christmas album. “It all started on a dreary winter’s night in our American hometown of Nashville, TN. It was the end of 2012, the year the band began. We piled ourselves into an old factory – cellos, brass, bass, guitars and of course, a load of drums. We began to frantically rehearse and prepare for an incumbent Christmas tour that we frankly, due to the fact that we’d yet to release a Christmas album or song, had no right to embark on,” shares Joel and Luke Smallbone of for KING & COUNTRY. A Drummer Boy Christmas includes 13 tracks and features two original Christmas songs titled “Heavenly Hosts” and an emotionally moving ballad from Joseph’s perspective, “The Carol of Joseph (I Believe In You).” More details at https://www.forkingandcountry.com/ Shenandoah’s new album, Every Road, was released Friday, November 13 via Foundry Records. The album includes star power collaborations with Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Ashley McBryde, Dierks Bentley, Lady A, Zac Brown Band, Carly Pearce, Cody Johnson and Brad Paisley. Every Road will be Shenandoah’s 10th studio album, and first album of all-new music since 1994, after notching 13 No. 1 hits and charting 26 singles on Billboard country charts throughout their career. Wide Open Country’s Bobby Moore described Every Road, produced by industry veteran Buddy Cannon, as “a thank you from Nashville for such influential Shenandoah hits as ‘Next to You, Next to Me,’ ‘The Church on Cumberland Road,’ ‘Sunday in the South’ and ‘Two Dozen Roses.’” Album details and more at https://www.shenandoahband.com/
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