NEWS IN BRIEF Collin Raye's Managers Create Starpointe Records Tue. May 22.2007 6:00 PM EDT
Collin Raye's managers have established Starpointe Records specifically as a vehicle for his new single, "A Soldier's Prayer." Ken Kragen and Pat Melfi made the announcement Monday (May 21) at a press conference in Nashville. The track will be featured on Selected Hits, a six-song CD containing live versions of several of Raye's Top 10 singles. Kragen and Melfi were in the final stages of negotiating a deal for Raye with a small independent label when Raye recorded "A Soldier's Prayer" and gave an early mix of it to country radio programmers in Denver, Los Angeles and Milwaukee. Just as the song was gaining momentum at radio, the label negotiations fell through, leaving Raye with a potential hit and no label. "We were driven by the music and the moment," said Kragen. Stressing that the song is not in defense of America's current wars, Raye said, "The beautiful thing about 'A Soldier's Prayer' is that it doesn't matter which political side of the aisle you're on." The album, co-produced by Alabama bassist Teddy Gentry and Michael Curtis, will be released in late June. Net proceeds from sales of the single will be donated to the Wounded Warrior Project, a charity that provides supplies, benefits counseling, family assistance and adaptive sports programs to injured soldiers. Sugarland Seeks Fan Videos Tue. May 22.2007 6:00 PM EDT Sugarland and CMT are calling on country music fans to be the music video star as part of the "Everyday America" video contest hosted exclusively at CMT.com. The user-generated competition allows fans to provide their own video interpretation of Sugarland's new single, "Everyday America." The fan-created music video will premiere later this summer on CMT's Top Twenty Countdown, and Sugarland will feature the winning entry onscreen during their summer concert tour. Submissions will also be featured on CMT Loaded, the network's broadband channel. Learn more about the contest. Montgomery Gentry, Rimes Set for Hannity's Concert Series Tue. May 22.2007 6:00 PM EDT Montgomery Gentry will headline five concerts presented by Sean Hannity during the radio and television talk show host's Freedom Concerts series. Lee Greenwood and Oliver North will appear on all six of the patriotic shows, and LeAnn Rimes will also perform at two of the events. The concerts will take place in Atlanta (July 10), San Diego (July 26) and Dallas (Aug. 14). Rimes will be on the bill at the other two shows in Cincinnati (Aug. 9) and Jackson, N.J. (Sept. 11). The shows raise money for the Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund for the Children of America's Fallen Heroes. Kay --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
