Country Backroads Podcast and Review

Chris Stills has been in music his entire life. He still tours the world playing! In fact, he'll be playing in West Hollywood, CA on June 15th and then he will be playing in La Rochelle, France on July 11th. Chris has performed with Leanne Rimes, Ryan Adams, and Smashing Pumpkins. One of my favorite tracks on his new album, called "DONT BE AFRAID," is criminal mind, and was written by Chris and Ryan. Here's a fun fact, Chris wrote and performs the song "Live to Live" on one of my all time favorite movies, American Hustle, starring my girl, Jennifer Lawrence.

Justin Fabus, 2018 CMA Fest performer and CMA "Emerging Artist" is this week's singer - songwriter guest on the podcast. His new album, "Remedy," is coming out June 22nd, and you can listen to the title track of the record now (link below.)

When you sit down to do collaborative work with someone you've never met, whether that be recording a podcast or writing a new song, you never know how it's going to go. Are you going to get along, will you be able to get some good content? We talk all about this struggle of connection, maintaining authenticity and building a business you can be proud of in this episode of the podcast.

Honey County, powerful girl-band made up of Dani Rose, Devon Jane & Katie Stump, have a huge announcement in this week's podcast! Their song, "Love Someone" will be in the hit tv show, Nashville in the Season and Show finale, airing June 14th! I'd been looking forward to having these ladies on the show for a long time, so it was amazing to finally sit down and talk outfits, travel and the power of teamwork.

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Valerie Morehouse is a vocal expert and coach to artists and actors including Hunter Hayes, Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelly of Florida Georgia Line, Michael Ray, Sia, Drew Taggart of The Chainsmokers, Steve Aoki, Avril Lavigne, Noah Cyrus, Rachel Platten, Ruby Rose, Jeff Bridges, and cast members of the Nashville TV series including Connie Britton, Charles Esten, Hayden Panettiere, and Claire Bowen In this podcast she talks about the importance of sleep, nutrition, moderation of drinking and having balance in life.

James McCoy Taylor is a Texas grown artist and a former cast member on ABC's The Bachelor. This interview happened at the strangest show I've ever experienced. James was so sweet to take some time, literally last minute, to talk to me this night. Every artist has their story about a difficult show and this was definitely that night for James.

Clay Walker, the artist behind legendary songs like "I Could Make a Living" and "This Woman and This Man" talks fishing, hunting, and the love of family. In the 15 minutes I had to talk with Clay, I felt like I got to know him in a really personal way. So glad you get to enjoy this too!

Brett Myers has over 30 songs out and a new single with Colt Ford, Rattlesnake. Rewinding the clock a bit, you may remember Brett from his World Series winning professional baseball career. He played 11 seasons of Major League Baseball and is now in his third year of being a professional country musician. Before he put the baseball down, Brett was writing songs and sharing them with is buddy, Colt Ford, but I'll let him tell you more about that...

The Swon Brothers, Colton and Zach Swon, talk about their experiences with country music icons Blake Shelton and Brad Paisley and share some insight into what they've learned from watching these leaders in country music. We also talk about our favorite podcasts! Let me know what your fav pods are! Send me a message @countrymusicpod on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter! Check out their new music, What Ever Happened.

Colt Ford has sold over a million albums, his songs have been streamed over a billion times, and he has a brand new album coming out May 5th called "Love Hope Faith." Hope you enjoy this little pre-show chat we had when he came to Denver!

It was an honor to speak with singer and songwriter Ned Ledoux about his life of music, and the meaning behind some of the songs on his album, Sagebrush.