Brett Eldredge and Morgan Evans Entertain Long Island

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New Yorkers were once again lucky enough to have Brett Eldredge close out the summer in Long Island. Last year, only a few days apart, Eldredge opened up for Luke Bryan at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater but this time he was the headliner of the night at the BMHMC Amphitheater at Bald Hill. Opening the show was Morgan Evans, playing the venue for the first time.

Brett Eldredge Long Island

Evans began his set talking to the crowd right off the bat before going into his first song of the night “Day Drunk”. While in the middle of the song he stopped to say, “So I’m here basically to warm you guys for Brett Eldredge tonight, so come on! And I enjoy getting to do that so I want to make sure I do a real good job, are you feeling warm yet Long Island?” Evans continued with the crowd singing along, doing just what he was set out to do. The country newcomer didn’t stop there, he sang his songs “American” and “I Do” along with incorporating covers “Free Fallin’” by John Mayer, “Hey Jude” by The Beatles, “Shut Up and Dance” by Walk The Moon, “Honey, I’m Good” by Andy Grammer, and “Somebody Like You” by Keith Urban to his set.

One of the highlights of the night was when he sang his number one hit song “Kiss Somebody”. Before performing the song he said, “Thanks to MyCountry 96.1 and every other radio station in America and this is the first time I get to say this on stage but this is now the number one song on country music, this is my first single!” The crowd erupted in cheers and of course, sang along to every word. Before the song was over he explained, “This week has pretty much been one of the best weeks of my entire life, thanks to you guys for loving this song, playing this song, turning it up loud when it comes on the radio, so just for this last chorus now if you know the words for this song I don’t want you to sing them I want you to scream them at the top of your lungs, can you do that for me Long Island!?” That’s exactly what the crowd did, screaming the lyrics right back to him on stage, making the first time he performed “Kiss Somebody” after hitting number one extremely memorable to the singer.

Evans accomplished his job for the night, warming up the crowd for Brett Eldredge. He closed out his set with his new song “Young Again”. Before leaving the stage the singer mentioned that his EP came out two weeks ago and his first album will be released this fall. He thanked the crowd once again and said, “I so appreciate the support up here and feeling the love I can’t wait to come back to Long Island to play for you guys again!”

Brett Eldredge Long Island

Next up was the headliner himself, Brett Eldredge. As the band took their places, Eldredge ran out on stage, drink in hand, screaming, “LONG ISLAND! Y’all ready to get down on Thursday night or what?” He started off the night with “Something I’m Good At”, the perfect song to get the crowd fired up. As the song ended he said, “Well my name is Brett Eldredge and we’ve been looking forward to this show, this is the most beautiful night we played all summer long so we gonna break it down, you ready? Let’s Go!”.  The singer was constantly smiling and moving around, never in the same spot for too long and always trying to interact with the crowd. His set list was mixed with songs from every album giving the crowd all his hit songs along with fan favorites. Some of the songs performed were “Love Someone”, “The Reason”, “Cycles”, “Time Well Spent”, “Beat of The Music”, “Lose My Mind”, “Don’t Ya”, “Superhero”, and “Wanna Be That Song”.

Brett Eldredge Long Island

Throughout the night Eldredge talked with the crowd and even brought out a very beloved guest, his dog Edgar Boogie. Edgar took the stage to perform a trick right before his owner began the Bedhead Jams portion of the show. During his Bedhead Jams, he sang songs, “Mean To Me” and “Raymond,” his first single expressing his grandmother’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Another portion of the show saw some very lucky fans join the singer on stage. He sang his hit “Haven’t Met You Yet” to a little girl who had a sign pointing to her saying, “Brett’s Girl”. This wasn’t all for the night, Eldredge always brings fans up to the stage for a drink and this night was no exception. He brought up 3 fans, who were a part of Edgar Boogies fan club holding up giant pictures of him.

As the show was coming to an end the country superstar said, “So we’ve been traveling all over and this is our last weekend of the summer touring so I hate to see summer go, I hate to see it go but this is a hell of a place to watch it go right here, I wanna thank all of y’all for showing up the way you have!” This night was bittersweet for him, making the show one of the best he’s ever done. He continued his set in high energy with a cover everyone knows, “Gold Digger” by Kanye West and closed out his set with his hit song “Drunk on Your Love”. As the song came to an end he said, “Thank y’all so much, y’all better come back and see us some time! I wanna thank all of y’all for being so good to me!”

New Yorkers, can catch Morgan Evans on the Losing Sleep tour with Chris Young and Dan + Shay on December 7th at Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum. For those willing to travel you can catch Brett Eldredge on The Long Way tour with Devin Dawson at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City on October 12th.

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Nash Fm 94.7 Presents Mitchell Tenpenny Stage 17

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Mitchell Tenpenny Nash FM

Hours before Mitchell Tenpenny played his first ever sold out show in New York City at the Mercury Lounge, he took the stage at Nash FM 94.7 Hackensack Meridian Health Stage 17 to play an intimate acoustic set for some lucky fans. Backed by a guitarist and a background vocalist who just so happens to be his younger brother, Tenpenny was strumming along to his own acoustic guitar. Tenpenny played four songs from his self-titled debut EP, as well as a brand new song off of his upcoming full-length album, which he revealed is just about done and just has to be put through the proper steps before it can be released.

Introducing his first song, Tenpenny gave a backstory on how this song came to be and that he wrote this song with fellow singer/songwriter Devin Dawson. “I remember we were just kinda talking about that first car or truck you get where it might be a piece of junk but you still think you’re king of the world and you get to drive, get away from mom and dad, get in a little trouble and so we wrote a song about that and it’s called “Truck I Drove In High School.”

“Mixed Drinks” was up next on his setlist and Tenpenny told the audience he had written this song with Walker McGuire member, Jordan Walker when they were fresh out of a writing session in Nashville and decided to go to a bar called Losers to kill some time while traffic dispersed. “We saw this girl sitting in the side by herself and she kept looking at her cell phone and she’d put it down and rip a shot of vodka and I could tell she was dealing with heartbreak, she was dealing with something and we wanted to write a song about that.” The very next day, they went into the writer’s room and this song was written.

Tenpenny then decided to give the audience a little taste of what’s coming on his full-length album by playing a brand new song called “Telling All My Secrets.” This song was written with his buddy Dallas Wilson, conveying the message that guys will always find a girl who finally makes them open up. He said, “Guys try to play tough all the time but we know who runs the world and the house, especially. It’s about that one girl where you can finally just let loose.”

Mitchell Tenpenny Nash FM

Nash FM 94.7’s DJ, Katie Neal, chatted with Tenpenny about the reason he got into songwriting in the first place. The singer-songwriter shared the story of his grandmother being the president of Sony publishing for thirty years. Growing up and seeing his grandmother work in that side of the business, made him fall in love with it. His grandmother even introduced him to a few songwriters when he was just a kid. Sharing a sweet memory with the audience: “I remember her introducing me to Bobby Braddock and Carly Putnam, who wrote “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” as a kid and saying ‘these are the guys that wrote that song’ and I just thought that was the coolest thing in the world. I remember after that day, I just wanted to be a songwriter.” He gives all of the credit getting to where he is today to his grandmother, she filled him with the knowledge he needed to succeed in each step, teaching him to learn how to play all of his own instruments and recording his own demos before anybody else in the industry was doing that.

Before playing his last two songs, Neal has artists leave a message to their future selves when they predict the artists will play the world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden as a bit called Garden Goals. Tenpenny’s message to himself was “Mitchell, don’t mess up, don’t fall down or off the stage and have fun man, enjoy it.”
“Alcohol You Later” was up next and so he told the backstory of this song as well. He was sitting in a bar in Nashville when a guy with a very country accent said “I’ll call you later” to his buddy and he thought it sounded like alcohol you later. “I wrote it down really quick and went into the room the next day and we ended up writing this song.”

Before ending his set, Tenpenny took a moment to thank his fans for showing up and supporting him and his music, “Getting to hear your song and people sing it back all over the country has been the most humbling experience in the world, such a thing that I am so grateful for.”  Ending the show with his first ever single to county radio, “Drunk Me,” Tenpenny shared, “I wrote this song about a heartbreak. I wanted to put a different twist on it, why someone might not have to stop drinking forever, but just for a little bit to stand a chance of getting over somebody, where every time you pick up that bottle, all you do is make another mistake.” The single is currently about to enter the top 20 on the country radio charts.

 

Watch the full live video from Nash FM 94.7’s Facebook below:

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Lee Brice Performs His Latest Single “Rumor” on Fox & Friends

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Lee Brice stopped by the Fox & Friends’ New York City stage this morning as part of the network’s All-American Concert Series. While on the show, he performed his latest single, “Rumor,” the follow-up to his Top-20 hit, “Boy.”  Click here to watch his performance from earlier today.

“Rumor, released July 16, was co-written by Brice with country hit-makers Ashley Gorley and Kyle Jacobs. The mid-tempo track tackles a small-town rumor of a big-time romance, in which Brice invites his supposed love interest to turn the rumor into reality.

During his appearance on Fox & Friends, Brice discussed his induction to Pandora’s Billionaire Club, having received over 2 billion career spins on the streaming platform. Watch the interview here. He also opened up about the difference in raising his one-year-old daughter, Trulee, in comparison to his sons, Takoda and Ryker, and how he makes valuable family time while at home. Brice admitted that, while at home, he doesn’t like to work, so he’s installed a studio on his tour bus so he can record and write while on the road.

Brice also chatted about his other hits, including his record-breaking first single, “Love Like Crazy,” which was on the charts for 57 weeks, beating out a record previously held by country legend Eddy Arnold. He also opened up about “I Don’t Dance,” admitting he only dances at the request of his wife, but that he once appeared on stage in the fifth grade, dancing like MC Hammer.

The live audience was in luck, as Brice continued the show after the live broadcast, turning the Fox and Friends’ plaza into a “Parking Lot Party.”  During Brice’s interview, the hosts discussed Brice’s “I Drive Your Truck,” recalling a special moment from 2016 where Brice helped return a truck to the family of a fallen soldier. The moment was so special that the Fox & Friends’ hosts recalled it as “perhaps one of the top five most emotional moments.”

For upcoming tour dates head to www.leebrice.com

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Mitchell Tenpenny Sold Out NYC Show at Mercury Lounge

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Mitchell Tenpenny Mercury Lounge

As his debut single “Drunk Me” heads into the top 20 on the charts, Mitchell Tenpenny traveled to New York City to perform at Nash FM 94.7 as well as at his very first headlining New York City show at Mercury Lounge, which just happened to sell out completely.  New York Country Swag was there to experience something really magical happening for the rising artist.

His full band took the stage and right from the get-go played “Truck I Drove in High School” which is one of the featured songs on his debut EP.  The precedent was set at that moment, if the song was released, the audience knew every word and sang along.  He played all five songs from the EP as well as some classic country covers, Blake Shelton’s “Ole Red” and mashed his single “Mixed Drinks” with Marc Cohn’s “Walking In Memphis”.  He also told the audience he wanted to play his favorite Billy Currington song, “Good Directions” which the sold-out venue loved.

He revealed three brand new songs that he is recording for his debut full-length album including “That’s How She Goes”, “Telling All My Secrets”, and “Goner”.  He ended his set by singing three fan favorites, “Alcohol You Later”, “Drunk Me” and “Bitches”. He stopped to acknowledge that his single is currently climbing the charts “That’s a dream come true seriously…cheers everybody…thank you so much for coming tonight my name’s Mitchell Tenpenny and I really appreciate it”

Before his final song, he explained a little disclaimer, “I don’t mean to offend anybody but if I do, I don’t give a shit… this song isn’t about calling girls bitches or guys bitches…it’s about calling bitches, bitches”.  The audience laughed and then sang every word back to the singer-songwriter who was clearly humbled.  Head to our Instagram for exclusive videos from his show and check out our live Swag Session with Tenpenny from December 2017, before he was signed to his record deal with Sony and before he was played on the radio.

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New Music Friday – The Playlist

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This week our New Country Music Playlist features new songs from Luke Pell, Florida Georgia Line, Lucie Silvas, Brandon Ray, Randy Houser, Olivia Lane, Clayton Anderson, an entire album of live music from Aaron Watson and plenty more. Give us a follow and take a listen below.

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NYCS First Impression: Aaron Watson ‘Live at the World’s Biggest Rodeo Show’

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Aaron Watson Performs Live At Rodeo Houston

Aaron Watson is lending a helping hand to his fellow Texans with his upcoming album, Aaron Watson Live at the World’s Biggest Rodeo Show. Today, Aug. 24, marks the one year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey hitting south Texas. Impacting the singer-songwriter’s friends and fans, he was determined to make a difference by raising money for the relief.

The Category 4 storm caused over $125 billion in damage and impacted 13 million people. Watson is donating $1.41 from each album sold that will benefit the Rebuild Texas Fund, in recognition of the widespread devastation across the Lone Star state. The Rebuild Texas Fund works alongside organizations within the impacted communities that are working towards economic development; health; housing; education and childcare; transportation and workforce; and capital for rebuilding small businesses in the areas that were hit the hardest.

This live album was recorded during the Houston Rodeo, in front of 65,000 fans on opening night. The album includes 13 songs from Watson’s previous albums, including “These Old Boots Have Roots”, “That’s Why God Loves Cowboys”, and his hit song “Outta Style”.  It also includes the acoustic bonus track, “Higher Ground,” which he wrote while Hurricane Harvey was destroying his home state. “Seeing that on the news and the people there struggling to escape, rescue each other and recover was the inspiration for writing the song ‘Higher Ground,” he says in a recent press release.  We hosted Waston and his band at Opry City Stage earlier this year on Texas Independence Day. Check out the Live Swag Session below.

“We had planned on releasing this album in the second half of 2017, but after the storm, it just didn’t feel right,” he commented.  “I’ve always wanted my music to do good in the world and it became clear that there was a real opportunity to hold onto this project and release it on the one year anniversary of the hurricane. So much of my home state of Texas was affected. Hopefully, by bringing the recovery efforts back to the forefront, it will remind people that there is still so much work left to do. I’m also extremely proud to partner with the Rebuild Texas Fund, which makes sure every dollar goes back into the local communities, and help them raise money by donating a portion of the live album sales.”

Aaron Watson Performs Live At Rodeo Houston

Aaron Watson Performs Live At Rodeo Houston Photo credit: Bradford Coolidge

Watson will play a special Houston-area show with Gary Allan tonight at the Smart Financial Centre.  Aaron Watson Live at the World’s Biggest Rodeo Show track listing is listed below.

  1. “These Old Boots Have Roots” (Aaron Watson)
  2. “Freight Train” (Aaron Watson, Troy Olsen, Tim Nichols)
  3. “Real Good Time” (Aaron Watson)
  4. “Raise Your Bottle” (Aaron Watson)
  5. “That’s Why God Loves Cowboys” (Aaron Watson, Troy Olsen, Sarah Buxton)
  6. “That Look” (Aaron Watson)
  7. “Outta Style” (Aaron Watson)
  8. “Bluebonnets” (Julia’s Song) (Aaron Watson)
  9. “They Don’t Make Em Like They Use To” (Aaron Watson)
  10. “Fence Post” (Aaron Watson)
  11. “Wildfire” (John Mayer)
  12. “Getaway Truck” (Aaron Watson)
  13. “July in Cheyenne” (Song for Lane’s Momma) (Aaron Watson)

  14. “Higher Ground” (Acoustic Bonus Track) (Aaron Watson)

You can help Aaron Watson and people affected by Hurricane Harvey by visiting his store to purchase his new album and packages or www.rebuildtx.org.

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New Music: Luke Pell Releases New Single “Radio”

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Country Music rising artist Luke Pell first captured our hearts when we hosted a LIVE Swag Session with him back in March.  Pell began his journey into the country music world with the release of his debut single “Pretty Close” and a cross-country tour. He kicked off 2018 with a self-titled EP release and single “Ball Caps and Blue Jeans.”

Fast forward to today, Pell has debuted his latest single “Radio” and it can be streamed and downloaded everywhere music is available.  During our Swag Session, which you can watch below, Pell explains how when he was helping out on his family’s farm when he was younger, there was a small FM Radio that needed aluminum foil on the antenna to get a good signal to hear the two country stations.  Clearly, the music he heard on the radio back then has shaped his musical decisions in his career.

“Radio” pays homage to the radio and how it is the reason behind the things we love. So many things would not be the same if it wasn’t for it, from tailgating and bonfires to even just the simple everyday car rides. The radio is what gives artists like Pell a platform to release new music for the world to hear. The track was written by Pell along with Brock Berryhill, Jay Brunswick, and Taylor Phillips.  Take a listen to his new single below.

We partnered with Pell during the month of July to help raise money for Wounded Warrior Project, an organization he chose. Our Hero Collection honors the men and women of the Fire, Police, and Military Departments, and at the end of the month, a portion of the sales is donated to the organization.

Pell has a very exciting end of the year coming up. He will continue to tour throughout the fall and plans to spend the rest of the year writing for his next project. You can expect to hear more from the artist very soon. His follow up single to “Radio” will be a collaboration with Kalsey Kulyk and is anticipated to drop within the next few months. The future is looking very bright for this talented, rising artist and we can’t wait to see what he has in store for us in the future.

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Have a Laugh with Brothers Osborne in New Music Video

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Earlier this week, CMA Vocal Duo of the Year, TJ and John Osborne of Brothers Osborne, combined their musical and comedic skills in their newly released music video for their single “Shoot Me Straight.” Check out the unique and hysterical video, directed by Wes Edwards and Ryan Silver below.

Pushing the envelope yet again, the musicians poke fun at the cliches in “Bro-Country,” music, such as scantily-clad girls in daisy dukes, as well as, jabbing at the current President’s military proposals. When asked by the press how they came up with the idea for the “Shoot Me Straight” video, the musicians shared, “This idea genuinely spawned out of us not being able to come to an agreement on what we wanted the video to be about.”

Against their will, the brothers are showcased in a series of questionable, but humorous circumstances geared towards epitomizing the music video cliches. The scenes show the singer/songwriter siblings being forced, under the influence, to act out music video ideas, suggested by the video’s directors. The brothers current tour mate, Dierks Bentley even makes a guest appearance in the video!

“Shoot Me Straight” is the first single from their sophomore album, Port Saint Joe. Brothers Osborne will continue touring with Dierks Bentley on the Mountain High Tour through October, stopping at New York City’s Iconic Madison Square Garden on September 8th. Find tickets for the NYC Show here.

The duo will move up to headlining status with their own multi-country tour, accompanied by, musicians, Lucie Silvas and The Wild Feathers. The headlining tour will get underway on August 26th in Charlottesville, Virginia. Find a full list of tour dates here.

 

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NYCS Woman of the Month: Basak Kizilisik

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“The music is the reason I am in this business, music changes lives, one song can alter the course of a life and I believe that wholeheartedly.”

Basak Kizilisik

Each month we focus on one woman working in the music industry to highlight her journey, ask for advice and to showcase the difference women are making in the music business.  For August we turn our attention to Basak Kizilisik, Vice President of Marketing for Morris Higham Management, a boutique management firm in Nashville, representing Kenny Chesney, Old Dominion, Michael Ray, Ryan Griffin, Walker County, and Brandon Lay.  In a recent interview with New York Country Swag, Kizilisik explains how her untraditional, round about upbringing landed her in Nashville.

Born in Turkey and spending her childhood there until she was four years old, she recalls her grandmother telling her stories about how she knew from an early age that she was going to grow up to have an intimate relationship with music.  “She found me glued to the TV and the local symphony was on, I was standing three feet away from the TV swaying to the sound of the symphony and that is how she would calm me down,” she tells us. Her father was a surgeon and they traveled during her childhood, living in Saudi Arabia, Canada, and Memphis, ultimately moving to Nashville where she finished high school.  She attended college in Orlando but her love for Nashville had already seeped in. “I fell in love with Nashville, as most people nowadays do, I fell in love with the town, the culture the people and the music I fell in love with all of it,” Kizilisik explains.

After graduating college she worked for Shaun Silva, a prominent director, and video music producer who asked her on her very first day to drop off tapes to Kenny Chesney’s home. She remembers how genuine Chesney treated her, even though he didn’t have to. After her internship with Silvas ended, she worked for a publishing company, a startup label, and the digital marketing world.  “I made it my goal to learn about every single facet of the business, knowing that eventually I would want to take those skill sets and apply them in management with my own artists and that is what I did, I couldn’t have planned my path, I don’t think I could have planned it, it’s extremely difficult to do in this business.”

Working for clients such as Lady Antebellum, Eric Church, Dierks Bentley for Capitol Records and then eventually UMG working closely on George Strait’s 60 for 60 Campaign, she dove head first into the digital marketing strategy including working towards the Entertainer of the Year win for Strait in 2014.  After that accomplishment, she got a call from Morris Higham, a boutique management firm, offering her an incredible position to oversee the digital marketing department and growing their team’s reach.  “I am so grateful to be in a position where I can truly mold the marketing of this company and of our roster into whatever it needs,” Kizilisik tells us.

When listing for us her day to day responsibilities, there is almost no part of the music industry that she isn’t involved in when it comes to her roster.  From managing digital strategy and social media content to collaborating with the streaming sites to album planning and marketing to touring and album launches, she has the chance to oversee every aspect of an artist’s career and work very closely with the artists and their teams.  One of her biggest full circle moments came when accepting the job with Morris Higham, she had the ability to work with Kenny Chesney so many years after first meeting him on her first day on the job right out of college.  “It is honestly one of the biggest honors of my life,” she says of the country megastar.  “I can hand on heart say Kenny Chesney is everything that you’d hope that he is, and then some, all of it is completely authentic and genuine. There is a reason that he is where he is in his career and there is a reason that he has been able to accomplish what he has accomplished, the man leads with his heart in everything that he does and it’s just evident in all of it.”

Her advice to young women wanting to pursue a career in the music industry is: “Surround yourself with the people that fire you up, that lift you up, that fuel you and that build you up in every sense of the term.” She makes it a point to meet with young people that reach out to her to help guide them in this industry. “This business can be the wild west in a lot of ways and my advice is to work as hard as you can and lift people up whenever you can.

 

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Old Dominion Takes Over The Frye Company in SoHo

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Old Dominion The Frye Company

Academy of Country Music Vocal Group of the Year, Old Dominion, shut down Frye’s SoHo store in downtown New York City on Tuesday night. The group played an hour-long acoustic set for some fans who were lucky enough to win their way in. This was part of the company’s Fryedays event, a live music program that features intimate performances from established and emerging artists. This was the company’s first ever Fryeday in New York City, previous locations included Las Vegas, where Brothers Osborne played in April, as well as Nashville, where artists such as Langhorne Slim, Rayland Baxter, and A Thousand Horses performed.

The Frye Company is an American leather boot, shoe and bag company and the oldest continuously operated shoe company in the United States. Fryedays was created to speak to the brand’s deep-rooted history of connecting quality craftsmanship and music.

The band entered the stage waving to the crowd as frontman Matthew Ramsey said, “Hey guys, let’s play a song,” going straight into the show with “No Such Thing as a Broken Heart” from their sophomore album, Happy Endings. The guys were sporting their new Frye leather boots on stage which they received as a gift from the company before the show. Lead singer, Ramsey, asked the crowd, “Do you guys wanna hear anything in particular?” Without hesitation, audience members yelled out “Say You Do”, which was written by Ramsey and the band’s keyboard and guitar player, Trevor Rosen, for multi-platinum singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley. The frontman was shocked to hear that particular song as he continued to explain, “We don’t play this one that much because it’s a song that we wrote for Dierks Bentley so he usually plays it” then jokingly, began to introduce Bentley which made the crowd burst into laughter before playing the requested song. The band continued to play ten more songs, their current single “Hotel Key,” and other major hits including “Break Up with Him,” and “Snapback,” as well as a brand new song, called “Make It Sweet.”

After each song, the band paused to ask if the audience had any more song requests and of course, they did. Two songs from their debut album Meat and Candy, “Wrong Turns” and “Crazy Beautiful Sexy” were requested and played as well as three others from Happy Endings, “Not Everything’s About You,” “Be with Me” and “New York at Night.”

The band continuously cracked jokes with each other and the crowd all night which gave the show a special, intimate feel. “Thank you guys for showing up here tonight, one more song and we’re out,” Ramsey said before playing their last song, “Snapback.”

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