11'o Clock News: Monday August 5th

Riley Green will release his full-length debut album,Different ‘Round Hereon Sept. 20 on BMLG Records. The 14-track album was produced by Dann Huff and executive-produced by Jimmy Harnen. The album features Green’s current single, “In Love By Now,” which Green penned alongside Marv Green, Ben Hayslip and Rhett Akins.

“That guy in the song I think plays pretty well the aw shucks I lost her kind of thing,” Green recently told Music Row. “I grew up listening to that kind of country music, but also I was writing with a lot of ‘90s country guys and that doesn’t hurt at all. It just gives a different way to write a song that’s been written a lot of times.”

Source: https://musicrow.com/2019/08/riley-green-sets-full-length-bmlg-album-debut-for-september/

The Country Music Hall of Fameand Museum is launching Season 2 of its Voices in the Hall podcast on Aug. 16. Season 2 features interviews with Jimmie Allen, Kane Brown, Sam Bush, Nick Lowe, Buddy and Julie Miller, Linda Ronstadt and The War & Treaty.

Museum Senior Director, Producer and Writer Peter Cooper hosts the series and conducts the interviews for Voices in the Hall,which presents conversations with some of country’s most fascinating and influential figures.Voices in the Hall is co-produced by veteran broadcasters Ben Manilla and Jennie Cataldo of BMP Audio.

source: https://musicrow.com/2019/08/jimmie-allen-kane-brown-linda-ronstadt-set-for-voices-in-the-halls-second-season/

Brantley Gilbert shared a new song and the release date of his new album.Fire & Brimstone will drop this fall — he wasn't kidding when he said it'd come soon after his baby girl was born.

Speaking to Taste of Country earlier this week, Gilbert only hinted at the album's release date, but share information about the title track to Fire & Brimstone, set to drop on Oct. 4.

source: https://tasteofcountry.com/brantley-gilbert-fire-and-brimstone-new-album/

What started out as some simple pledges by Texas country artist Casey Donahue to help a few Texas teachers fulfill their supply lists for the upcoming school year has morphed into a cultural phenomenon in Texas music and beyond, with artists and fans signing on to the cause to get classrooms filled with the items teachers need.

Like many Texas teachers are doing ahead of the school year, Air Force Veteran and 3rd Grade teacher Lori Wroblewski reached out on Twitter to solicit for help clearing her school supplies list she posted with the help of a special Amazon program.“You can help my students who come hungry, abused, and neglected. I get to be the best part of their day,”she posted on August 2nd, tagging both regional and national celebrities such as Ariana Grande, Ivanka Trump, The Texas Rangers baseball team, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott in the post. She also tagged Casey Donahew, one of her favorite music performers. Casey was the one who responded.

source: https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/texas-country-artists-stepping-up-to-help-teachers-w-school-supplies/


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