{"id":1061356,"date":"2017-10-19T10:05:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T14:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/?p=1061356"},"modified":"2017-10-19T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T14:06:27","slug":"tracy-lawrence-to-bring-the-good-ole-days-of-country-music-to-the-weinberg-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/2017\/10\/19\/tracy-lawrence-to-bring-the-good-ole-days-of-country-music-to-the-weinberg-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy Lawrence to bring &#8216;good ole days&#8217; of country music to the Weinberg stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P2BfYlKGh_w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The following is written by the fabulous Sue Guynn and it appeared in this week\u2019s edition of 72 Hours.\u00a0Enjoy!\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Country music fans from the 1990s through early 2000s know the name Tracy Lawrence. (It was the \u201chat\u201d era of male country music artists, soon to be replaced by the \u201ccap\u201d era.)<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s won a slew of CMA and ACM awards, a Grammy nomination, and had 22 songs on the Billboard Top 10 charts, including \u201cTime Marches On,\u201d \u201cAlibis,\u201d \u201cCan\u2019t Break It to My Heart,\u201d \u201cIf the World Had a Front Porch,\u201d \u201cTexas Tornado\u201d and his first No. 1 song (25 years ago), \u201cSticks and Stones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 1980s and \u201890s were \u201csuch a great era for country music,\u201d said Lawrence in a recent phone interview. \u201cIt was the era of Randy Travis, George Strait &#8230; country music still had that traditional sound but was a little bit progressive. I was really a fan of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence will bring his neo-traditional country music to the Weinberg Center for the Arts, 20 W. Patrick St., Frederick, for one show at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22. Tickets are $40 to $55.<\/p>\n<p>That era of music is also the focus of his radio show, Honky Tonkin\u2019 with Tracy Lawrence, syndicated in 80 markets around the country. \u201cIt\u2019s a way to stay connected to that music,\u201d he said. The show sometimes includes interviews with artists, like Reba McEntire and John Anderson. It\u2019s produced by Silverfish and distributed by Compass Media Networks, and is taped on Tuesdays in the same studios as Big D and Bubba.<\/p>\n<p>A new album, \u201cGood Ole Days,\u201d is slated for a Nov. 10 release and it relives the good ole hits of Lawrence re-recorded as duets. He sees this project as an \u201copportunity to bridge the gap between neo-traditional and today\u2019s country music fans.\u201d Joining Lawrence in duets are longtime friend Tim McGraw on \u201cTime Marches On,\u201d Jason Aldean on \u201cCan\u2019t Break It To My Heart,\u201d Justin Moore on \u201cAlibis,\u201d and Chris Young on \u201cIf The Good Die Young.\u201d New country artist Luke Combs is featured on \u201cIf The World Had a Front Porch.\u201d Kellie Pickler is the only female artist on the album because, as Lawrence explained, he felt he had only one song suited for a woman\u2019s voice, \u201cStars Over Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The album also has two new songs, \u201cGood Ole Days,\u201d featuring 3 Doors Down\u2019s Brad Arnold and Big &amp; Rich, and \u201cFinally Home,\u201d with pal Craig Morgan. \u201cCraig is the celebrity spokesman for Finally Home,\u201d a nonprofit organization that provides mortgage-free, custom-built homes to wounded, ill and injured veterans or widows of the fallen, through a network of builders, suppliers and supporters. A portion of the proceeds from \u201cFinally Home\u201d will be donated to the organization.<\/p>\n<p>The Arkansas native is well-known for his humanitarian work. In 2016, the no-frills Lawrence was honored by the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals as its Philanthropist of the Year for his work on behalf of Nashville Rescue Mission. Funds raised through his annual Mission: Possible Turkey Fry and benefit concert have helped provide more than 75,000 meals to those in need.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, he\u2019s still creating music, keeping a notebook of song ideas, lyrics and writing new songs. \u201cI enjoy that process. It\u2019s very healthy for me,\u201d Lawrence says. \u201cWriting is so therapeutic. I jokingly say writing a song is kind of like going to a shrink, only you don\u2019t have to pay for it!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is written by the fabulous Sue Guynn and it appeared in this week\u2019s edition of 72 Hours.\u00a0Enjoy!\u00a0 Country music fans from the 1990s through early 2000s know the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1061357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1061357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}