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Setting out to create the most authentic Journey experience anyone  has ever witnessed, Vic, Ryan, and the band spent countless hours  discussing the look, sound, production, and FEEL needed for this Journey  tribute to deliver a live experience that would resonate on the highest  level with the most avid Journey fan. Over two rehearsals, the newly assembled musicians learned eight of  Journey's greatest hits for a promotional video shoot. On March 10,  2014, at Gray's on Main in Franklin, TN, the band struck its first notes  in front of a live audience. The response quickly validated the passion  Vic and Ryan had poured into the project for half a year and cemented  the reality that this was going to be much more than a rehearsal to  cover two shows scheduled for Branson Landing that summer.

Oct 8th, 2021  Memphis TN  |  Agri-Center Show Place Arena

7777 Walnut Grove Rd, Memphis TN 

Twenty-Five years – a huge career accomplishment, especially in the  music business. Aaron Tippin – who marks his silver anniversary as a  recording artist this year – admits that he looks at his career  longevity with a little bit of amazement.

“I think about it and  go ‘Wow. What am I doing still here?’ I look at the flight that we took  off in,” referring to his fellow newcomers at the time of his career  launch. “A lot of them are gone, it seems. Some quit by choice. Some ran  out from under it, but to be here twenty-five years doing it, I am the  luckiest hillbilly that ever lived.”

In the past decade, Tippin has recorded several musically diverse  projects – including a well received 2009 truck driving album, In  Overdrive. He also partnered with restaurant chain Cracker Barrel for  the release He Believed. To celebrate his 25th anniversary making  records, he plans to celebrate in a big way. “We’re looking at putting  together a project that has ten old songs, ten new ones, and five  recordings that you never thought you would hear Aaron Tippin do. We’ll  probably do some big band stuff, like “The Way You Look Tonight” -  that’s a song I love. Thea and I love Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and  Tony Bennett. Her dad was a jazz and big band guy. That was our dance  song at the wedding. I would also love to do a little bit of bluegrass –  most people probably don’t know that I came from bluegrass back in  Traveler’s Rest, SC, where I grew up. Nobody’s ever heard me do any  Gospel, so this gives me a chance to do that. I grew up in the south, so  southern rock is big in my world. I’d like to take a shot at some of  that. I don’t know what the fifth cut is going to be. We’ve got the hits  cut, and we’re fine tuning the new ones. We just want to make sure that  it’s everything I want it to be, It’s important to me, because I don’t  know if I will make fifty years or not!”

The Aaron Tippin 25th Anniversary Celebration promises to be an  unforgettable year of music and fun – After all, he ‘wouldn’t have it  any other way,’ would he?

Dec. 3. 2021 Dalton Convention Center | Dec 4 2021 Knoxville Civic Collseum  | Dec 5 22021 Freedom Hall Johnson City  

    Celebrating Sixty Three Years of Magical Music Moments  1953 – 2016 

  THE  LEGACY CONTINUES! 
Music’s Drifters represent more than the story of a single  group’s success.  Changes in personnel and management have led over the  years to the sprouting    of many Drifters permutations, but BILL  PINKNEY used the name / mark THE ORIGINAL DRIFTERS® since the 1950s, and  his legacy continues. Organizer  Clyde McPhatter, BILL PINKNEY  ), and Gerhart and Andrew Thrasher met while singing gospel.  When  Atlantic Records rejected McPhatter’s first offering of singers, these  men joined forces, signed with the company, and established in 1953 the  foundation upon which a music legacy was subsequently built.

Thirty  five years later in 1988, originals MCPHATTER, PINKNEY, GERHART  THRASHER and four later Drifters were inducted into the Rock and Roll  Hall          of Fame, which filmed PINKNEY’s oral history in 2001 for  its Legends Series. 

Music Icon BILL PINKNEY was a Negro  Baseball League sandlot pitcher, a     World War II Presidential  Citation recipient with five Bronze Stars, a Rhythm         & Blues  Foundation Pioneer Award recipient, a member of the United Group Harmony  Hall of Fame, Vocal Group Hall of Fame, Beach Music Hall of Fame,  and a  Gospel Hall of Fame Stellar Award recipient.  

June 16th 2021 | Memphis TN 

It  was one of the most vibrant and exciting time periods in Country Music  history – the mid-1980s. A new and exciting crop of talents were  springing up all over the place – and T. Graham Brown remembers it like  it was yesterday. 

“I  remember Randy Travis and I hit at about the same time,” he recalls.  “Our first singles were so close to each other. I’m not sure if it was  the same week or not. Then you had Marty Stuart, Billy Burnette – who  went on to Fleetwood Mac. Steve Earle was there, too. I saw him at the Grand Ole Opry a  few weeks ago, and we talked about that year. We had a great year. We  called our club ‘The Great Credibility Scare of 1986.’ All of us were  having fun, there was no competition between us, and we all loved each  other. Keith Whitley was one of my best friends, as well, and we were  touring together a lot. It was a great time.” 

Brown’s  initial entry to Country Radio was the sad and soulful “Drowning In  Memories.” That Top-40 single helped him to establish himself, and by  the winter of 1986, he had warmed up to audiences with the bluesy hit “I  Tell It Like It Used To Be.” Other hits quickly followed, with his  first self-penned release “Hell And High Water,” which became his first  number one song. “I Wish That I Could Hurt That Way Again” and “Don’t Go  To Strangers” were the next releases, which all became chart-toppers. 

The soulful vocal stylings of T. Graham Brown were all over the airwaves, as his sophomore release Brilliant Conversationalist added  more titles to his arsenal of hits, such as the seductive “The Last  Resort,” and “She Couldn’t Love Me Anymore.” It was a time period that  Brown sums up as something of a blur. 

“Doing  shows, visiting radio stations and promoting our records, kept me out  on the road over 300 days a year and that was a lot of traveling! This  was when I was on tour with Kenny Rogers, who was the biggest thing  going back then. I was learning so much about the business and having  the time of my life. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world!” 

Oct 16th 2021 | Nashville Speedway & Fairgrounds  @ 8pm