Carrie Underwood: STORYTELLER Media Blitz

If you’re a Country/Pop fan Friday 23rd October 2015was officially 
CARRIE UNDERWOOD DAY!

We take a look at the album roll out  #Media Blitz!

Yes 19 Recordings/ARISTA Nashville’s Carrie Underwood released STORYTELLER (Columbia), her fifth studio album on Global Release Day.

For those that simply couldn’t wait a few hours, a virtual album bookcase went live, offering previews of the entire album.

You could: Choose A Book from The Shelf to Listen, plus, look for “View More” buttons inside some of the books linking to additional content! - storytelleralbum.com

OK, Let’s get the important stuff out of the way first! 
Here are the ways to purchase the album, Click on Graphic above or:

Amazon UK CD – Amazon UK MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com

** Smart Choice Music ** (US Exclusive Deluxe) Target Store Product (Deluxe)

Storyteller
hits the shelves in HMV!

In addition to the October 23 digital and CD release of Storyteller, a limited-edition version of the album will be released on 150-gram vinyl on December 4. 

The vinyl edition will also include special etched artwork featuring Carrie’s name and the album name on one side of the two-LP set.  The vinyl edition is currently available for pre-order at Amazon.com

CARRIE is offering fans an added bonuswhen purchasing the album.

Any purchase of "Storyteller" made >> online << will include a code to purchase pre-sale tickets for her forthcoming 2016 tour. Complete tour details will be announced in coming days. For more information, head over to UNDERWOOD's website.

If you’re a Carrie Underwood super-fan, you needed to clear out some space on your DVR! 

The season 4 American Idol 2005 champ kicked off a media blitz behind her new album Storyteller on the day of the release.

She performed "Choctaw County Affair" outdoors Friday morning (Oct 23) on NBC’s Today show - Twitter Photo

She planned to tell a whole new tale and a performance to light up the TODAY plaza (Photo) for the Citi Concert Series!

Over the weekend, the new mummy was slated to take over CMT, with special episodes of CMT Instant Jam, CMT Crossroads and a co-hosting gig on CMT Hot 20.

Tuesday (Oct 276) she sits down with both Ellen and Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Not only will the following week find Carrie hosting the CMA Awards (Wednesday November 4th at 8p (ET) on ABC-TV) with Brad Paisley, she’ll also flex her vocal chords on Countdown to the CMA Awards: Country’s Greatest Crossover Hits with Robin Robertson that Monday evening, before guesting on The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS later that night.

She closes out her TV takeover as a guest judge on Project Runway’s season finale November 5 on Lifetime.

Target released two videos of Carrie performing songs that are available on the special Target edition of the album:
Target Store Product

A stripped version of 
>> “Heartbeat” and 
>> “Little Girl Don’t Grow Up Too Fast”.

Just Wow! She certainly hit the bullseye wearing a red and black beaded mini-dress with sheer panels!

STREAM THE ALBUM IN FULL

• Apple Music (first 3 months FREE if you sign up, then £9.99/ month). Open you iTunes application, Select “New”, Enter “Carrie Underwood” in Search
• Stream in full on SPOTIFY

If you have Spotify Installed & the application open listen here:

Our Top Tracks:

Like I'll Never Love You Again (** Best Track), The Girl You Think I Am, Heartbeat, Smoke Break, What I Never Knew I Always Wanted.

Carrie Underwood opened up about her new Target exclusive single >> YouTube

Storyteller was produced by Jay Joyce, Mark Bright, and Zach Crowell with six of its 13 songs co-written by Carrie, including the record-breaking first single, “Smoke Break.”

A complete track listing, with writer and producer credits, is as follows:

Storyteller

1. “Renegade Runaway” (Carrie Underwood/Chris DeStefano/Hillary Lindsey) Rock/ Country

2. “Dirty Laundry” (Zach Crowell/Ashley Gorley/Hillary Lindsey) Country/Rock

3. “Church Bells” (Zach Crowell/Brett James/Hillary Lindsey) Country/Rock

4. “Heartbeat” (Carrie Underwood/Zach Crowell/Ashley Gorley) Country/Pop

5. “Smoke Break” (Carrie Underwood/Chris DeStefano/Hillary Lindsey) Country/Rock

6. “Choctaw County Affair” (Jason White) Rock

7. “Like I’ll Never Love You Again” (Hillary Lindsey/Lori McKenna/Liz Rose) Country/ Ballad x

8. “Chaser” (Carrie Underwood/Mike Elizondo/Hillary Lindsey) Arena pop/EDM

9. “Relapse” (Ben Caver/Sara Haze/Brett James) Pop/ Rock

10. “Clock Don’t Stop” (Blair Daly/Chris DeStefano/Hillary Lindsey) Pop

11. “The Girl You Think I Am” (Carrie Underwood/David Hodges/Hillary Lindsey) Country x

12. “Mexico” (Kathleen Higgins/Jamie Moore/Derrick Adam Southerland) Rock

13. “What I Never Knew I Always Wanted” (Carrie Underwood/Brett James/Hillary Lindsey) Country x

Tracks 1, 2, 5-8 produced by Jay Joyce

Tracks 3, 10-13 produced by Mark Bright

Tracks 4, 9 produced by Zach Crowell

"Storyteller" Carrie Underwood Explained Why "Choctaw County Affair" Was Her Album's First Tale

Carrie Underwood admitted to ABC News that when she started working on her new record after giving birth to son Isaiah almost eight months ago, the direction she would take wasn’t immediately apparent. But once she found the song “Choctaw County Affair,” the album started taking shape.

“There was just something so, like it was simple but it was like swampy and twangy and it was a story and there was just something laid back and cool about it. That was kind of the door opener,” she recalled. “So it was like, this is our direction, here we go!”

Another important ingredient in the making of Storyteller was producer Jay Joyce, known for his work with Eric Church, Little Big Town and Emmylou Harris, among others. Carrie believes recording with him helped her grow, because his approach is very different than hers. 

“[Working with him is] a little more unpredictable, and I am honestly in life not good with unpredictability. I like schedules, I like rules, I like knowing what’s gonna happen...” she confessed. “So it was really something I needed to do, I think, working with him. And he’s just so creative, just does things in such a different way that I needed that to just get out of my routine.”

In the end, Carrie was confident you’ll hear her progress in the finished record. “As a whole, I feel like it ended up being just a little more traditional, I guess. And a little more laid back,” she muses, “but it still had a little bit of a rock edge sometimes and a little bit of an R&B edge sometimes, and it all works together.”

Ultimately, Carrie said “Choctaw County Affair” even influenced the album’s cover.

Carrie Underwood‘s Storyteller is less dramatic than previous albums, but that doesn’t means it’s without drama. “Church Bells” is a mini-movie that one imagines as a music video along the lines of “Two Black Cadillacs.”

The singer recently told Taste Of Country about song No. 3 on the album, a track she describes as “Fancy’s little sister,” referring to Reba McEntire‘s “Fancy.”

“She’s young, she’s pretty, she’s poor, doing what she can to survive,” Underwood explains in the video above, describing her “Church Bells” heroine. “(She) Meets a man that has a lot of wealth and is supposed to take care of her.”

The guy ends up being a jerk, and things get very ugly, very quickly. The church bells represent different things at different points in the song.

“She could hear those church bells ringing, ringing / And up in the loft that whole choir singing, singing / Fold your hands and close your eyes / Yeah it’s all gonna be alright / Just listen to the church bells ringing, ringing.” - Read More: Carrie Underwood's 'Church Bells' Is 'Fancy's Little Sister'  

STORYTELLER the REVIEWS

Carrie Underwood - STORYTELLER

Allmusic (Rating: 4 STARS) …the title isn't a feint; she spends a good chunk of the album reiterating, singing about heartbreak, hair triggers, red wine, dirty laundry, and smoke breaks, the mundane details that turn life so joyous and tragic. Subtlety isn't Underwood's strong suit so the songs tend to be a bit on the nose, whether she's pledging devotion to her newborn son on the sweet closer "What I Never Knew I Always Wanted" or streamlining Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billy Joe" via the stomping "Choctaw County Affair," but that directness is key to her appeal: there are no greys in Carrie's music, only blazing primary colors. ..She is, as she says in her album title, a Storyteller, and there's an unmistakable distance between her theatrics and the subjects of her tunes; she isn't living these songs, she's performing them. Like a skilled actor, Underwood chooses her roles wisely -- she's comfortable swaggering through the leadoff pair of "Renegade Runaway" and "Dirty Laundry," while she eases into the comforting melancholy of "The Girl You Think I Am" -- and she knows how to deliver the essence of each song, modulating her performances not only so they match the grand productions but so they always are the focal point. That's no small feat and Storyteller is no small album: it demands attention and it deserves it, too.

EW.com (Rating: A-) ….Underwood still retains an essential part of the sweet Checotah, Okla., farm girl Idol viewers watched blossom on stage 10 years ago. Aside from her powerhouse voice, it’s possibly the most defining thing about her.

Storyteller Photoshoot
Credit: RANDEE ST NICHOLAS

Her music is faultlessly personable if not exactly personal—unusual in a genre that builds superstars in part by deliberately blurring the lines between public and private....And even when she doesn’t pen these tales she knows how to sell them, whether she’s coolly dismantling a two-timing man on the tart kiss-off “Dirty Laundry,” playing Mississippi Bonnie to her Clyde on roadhouse stomper “Choctaw County Affair,” or boomeranging back to a bad romance on the fevered “Relapse.”Unlike Nashville’s most notable recent defector, Underwood isn’t making any sudden Swift-ian shift toward pop. She’s always had rock in her DNA...Jesus also takes the wheel less often, or at least less explicitly, than on her previous releases (even the twangy roof-raiser “Church Bells” contains at least four of the seven deadly sins). Story may not tell listeners much about Underwood’s inner life, but she’s never owed or offered that. She makes good songs sound great, and that’s enough.

NY Times (Rating 50/100) ‘Storyteller’ Values Power Over Finesse: At the country vocal Olympics, she’s a gold medalist. She had a victorious turn scream-singing on “American Idol” and has extended it into a victorious scream-singing career in Nashville, in which she has sold approximately 15 million albums, been inducted into the Grand Ole Opry and acted as the longtime co-host (with Brad Paisley) of the Country Music Association Awards. All she’s missing is the one thing Ms. Swift and Ms. Lambert have down cold: a fixed identity. “Storyteller” is her fifth album, and even though a decade has passed since her debut, Ms. Underwood is still preoccupied with power, not texture or finesse. She largely picks songs that serve as launch platforms for her ballistic-missile voice, but they don’t cohere into a whole identity....If Ms. Underwood has developed a thematic specialty, it’s the woman-done-wrong anthem. The ones on this album are some of the better songs here. “Dirty Laundry” finds her catching her man in lies, and “Church Bells” is a worthy addition to country’s proud line of songs about domestic violence:

Exclaim.ca  (Rating 6/10) ...But, too often, it is more than halfway boring. It isn't uninspired or weakly performed. Rather, it is boring in spite of the overwhelming bombast, the booming bass and pounding drums, the huge vocals, the wailing guitars; it is boring because rather than electrifying you, it distances and anaesthetizes. I was on my third listen to this record before I found the energy to pierce the sheen, to get at the songs underneath. The good news is that those songs are, most of them anyway, pretty great. The leadoff single "Smoke Break" offers an incisive look at small town America ala Miranda Lambert or Kacey Musgraves, and rides a clever lyrical turn through a satisfying chorus. "Chaser," a gorgeous melody lifted even higher by an irresistible rush-drag vocal line (and a soulful performance), is destined to be sung into hairbrushes in front of mirrors for years to come. But the best track on the album is "Relapse," a tangle of ideas about addiction, love and sex that features a moving, tension-breaking chorus that you'll want to hear on repeat.

Boston Globe (Rating 8/10) ..On “Storyteller” she embraces even more, co-writing and choosing a clutch of tracks that chronicle tales of deadly romantic triangles, the perils of social climbing, cheatin’ hearts, and familial bliss, alongside more

typical love songs. That she chooses to tell these stories in her usual fashion — employing quieter verses and belting out anthemic choruses — doesn’t obscure the growth on

Storyteller Photoshoot
Credit: RANDEE ST NICHOLAS

display...No doubt some of the evolution results from Underwood expanding her collaborative base, chiefly to include producer Jay Joyce (Eric Church, Little Big Town). 
Joyce brings his atmospheric touch to the album’s best six tracks, including the one-two punch of ominous opener “Renegade Runaway,” a nervy rocker with a Wild West motif — and deliciously dark revenge number “Dirty Laundry,” in which the narrator threatens to hang her unfaithful partner’s shirt out to dry — with the wrong shade of lipstick on the collar — for everyone to see...There’s plenty on “Storyteller” that will sound familiar to Underwood fans, and a few filler tracks. But a little stretching goes a long way, and this might be her most interesting album yet.  ESSENTIAL “Dirty Laundry”

For The Country Record (Rating: Positive) …Storyteller is arguably Underwood’s strongest overall record. Musically it’s very innovative, incorporating influences from a variety of genres, but despite that it feels very much rooted in country. That’s thanks mainly to Underwood’s voice and the stories themselves. It’s a lesson many of her peers could stand to take to heart: how to incorporate other influences while still remaining true to country music. The stories and characters on this album are incredibly well fleshed-out, and there are no glaring plot holes. Sure, some songs are stronger than others, but everything feels like it has a place here…

PROMOTION

On Thursday October 22^nd she talked it up on The Elvis Duran Z100 Morning RadioShow in New York.

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BACKSTAGE IN THE OPRY LOUNGE

Carrie Underwood talked about her new album Storyteller, and revealed the story behind a few tracks on the album including her hit song "Smoke Break" published on Oct 23, 2015:

IHEARTCOUNTRY ALBUM RELEASE PARTY

Carrie Underwood took a smoke break backstage with Paul Costabile for an >> interview

She gave an exclusive performance at the iHeartRadio Theater presented by P.C. Richard & Son on Thursday, October 22nd in NYC

AMERICA’S MORNING SHOW

Carrie paid a visit at the NASH campus to talk “Storyteller” and what baby Isaiahwill be for HALLOWEEN.

For the full interview, visit the show’s website or listen to the audio on Soundcloud

NEW YORK CITY OFFICIALLY WENT COUNTRY

The 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville artist appeared on NBC-TV's "The TODAY Show" (Fri Oct 23rd) to discuss her life as a mother, her new album and the news of a forthcoming 2016 tour. Carrie performed her new single, "Smoke Break," for the TODAY Plaza for the CITI Concert Series. 
Check out the photos and performances here.

Carrie Underwood at rehearsal for her TODAY appearance

Setlist for our Citi Concert Series:
Before He Cheats , Smoke Break, Choctaw Country Affair, Blown Away

She kicked off with Before He Leaves and followed that with Smoke Break, Choctaw County Affair and Blown away before signing off.

The Grammy Award-winner glittered in a jacket covered in black, silver and copper beads and sequins in geometric and swirling patterns worn over a black beaded cardigan, a black vest, black leggings and black high-heeled pumps.

With her long blonde hair tumbling over her shoulders, the hitmaker, who is the face of skincare range Almay, highlighted her eyes with liner and mascara and wore pale pink lipstick. Read more: Daily Mail

Thx @CarrieUnderwood for a very happy Friday - Tweet

There are NO words....#CarrieToday #Storyteller - Tweet

There appeared to be concerned look on Carrie's face (Image) whilst she watched Adele’s comeback and brand new video 'Hello' (released the same day on iTunes) from forthcoming album "25" which also delighted her worldwide army of fans.

Carrie launches 'Storyteller' on Voice of America (Entertainment News)

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL

Carrie was a guest on Up Close & Personal, exclusively aired on Today’s Best Country!

Carrie spoke about living a “normal” life in Nashville, which is great for her family, how she came up with the album name “Storyteller”, the fun telling a story in song and how it can connect to her fans and told them about Smoke Break and how she loves to tell stories of strong women. She spoke about country music outside of America playing In London and the C2C Country to Country Festival.

Posted on October 23, 2015:

TWEETS

Carrie tweeted Good morning boys and girls! We're up bright and early for the @TODAYshow sleepy but excited!!! Now, somebody pass me the coffee!!! - Instagram Photo

Carrie tweeted Today's the day! #Storyteller selfie #newmusic #happyfriday -

Today's the day! #Storyteller selfie #newmusic #happyfriday pic.twitter.com/vJtMlS58im

— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) October 23, 2015

Carrie tweeted Oh, just hanging out @Target picking up some new music! #tradition #Storyteller

Oh, just hanging out @Target picking up some new music! #tradition #Storyteller pic.twitter.com/QJxtvKMtkW

— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) October 23, 2015

MAGAZINES

November 2, 2015  
Carrie Underwood: The Next Chapter: Carrie Underwood appropriately taps into the art of telling tales on her latest album, Storyteller. 

A few of the tracks, she says, might be a little surprising even for longtime fans.

Cover Feature in Country Weekly to hit newstands - Country Weekly

Maverick Magazine

In their November/ December Bi/monthly magazine the UK publication have a Carrie Underwood Cover Feature titled “All Of Nothing Kinda Gal” (by Editor Laura Bethell)

It’s available in W.H.Smith High Street stores or online whsmith.co.uk

Preview it here:

Read Maverick November - December 2015
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IN OTHER NEWS

(21 Oct 2015) Carrie Underwood has represented Almay as the global brand ambassador since she signed with them in January 2014. The 32-year-old looked picture perfect as she attended the Almay Fresh-Faced Beauty Day in New York City on Wednesday. Read more: Daily Mail

(21 Oct 2015) Carrie Underwood Among First Acts Announced as American Music Awards Performers which will air on ABC on November 22.  Selena Gomez and Australian pop/rockers 5 Seconds of Summer are the other two acts on the bill.

Nominees were announced last week, with Taylor Swift leading the way with six nods.

The Shires & Cam to support Carrie Underwood at Apple Music Festival

Leading UK Country duo THE SHIRES and US newbie Cam to support fellow country superstar Carrie Underwood at Apple Music Festival on Monday 21 September

First Ever Country Night at Apple Music Festival 2015, London 

The Shires continue to have chart success and will support US country music superstars Little Big Town in America!

(Sept 17, 2015) UK Country superstars, The Shires (made up of the beautiful Crissie Rhodes and Ben Earle; from Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire), who this year became the first ever UK Country act to break the Official UK Top 10 Album Chart, have announced that they will be performing alongside headline act Carrie Underwoodand Arista Nasville artist Cam (scroll down for Press details) at this year’s Apple Music Festival London, at the Roundhouse on Monday 21 September 2015.

9 Recordings/Arista Nashville artist Carrie will become the first Country artist to headline at the Apple Music Festival in London. 

"Playing in the UK is always such a thrill! I'm really looking forward to heading back and being a part of such an amazing lineup at this year's Apple Music Festival," said Underwood. "What a unique concert experience, not only for the fans at the Roundhouse, but also for fans across the globe who can stream it live!" Apple will, in fact, broadcast all performances to fans around the world free of charge via Apple Music and in HD with Apple TV. 

Note: Carrie will also appear on ITV’s Loose Women (12:30pm) on the Tues 22nd Sept and will be a guest on an upcoming episode of Ricky Ross BBC Radio Scotland show.

Apple will broadcast all performances to music fans around the world for free, live or on-demand via Apple Music and in stunning HD with Apple TV.

Apple hosted the iTunes Festival in London for eight years and renamed the event after the launch of Apple Music.  This year’s performers previously announced include Carrie Underwood, Pharrell Williams, One Direction, Florence + The Machine, The Weeknd, The Chemical Brothers, Take That, and Disclosure.

For updates, tickets and additional information visit: www.applemusicfestival.com.

 

The Shires 
Crissie Rhodes (L) and Ben Earle (R)

The Shires said: “We are absolutely thrilled to be added to the Apple Music Festival London line up. We are huge fans of Carrie, so to be sharing the stage with her will be an incredible experience. Country music is continuing to become more and more popular in the UK, and it’s great that Apple are acknowledging the genre with an evening devoted exclusively to country music at the festival." 

On Facebook they shared: “We are supporting Carrie Underwood at the Apple Music Festival on Monday. It is so exciting that such a huge star like Carrie is coming back to the UK to perform - we can't wait to fly the flag for British Country”.

The Shires will perform at the Apple Music Festival on a night when Country stars from both the UK and the US for one spectacular evening of country music. The show will mark a new date in the UK country music calendar and give fans another chance to see the fast-rising country superstars, The Shires, whose meteoric rise has seen them become one of the biggest breakthrough artists of 2015 and score a Top 10 for their debut album BRAVE which has since gone on to scan SILVER selling over 60,000 copies.

#ukcountry4top10

Successful charting British country acts are a very rare commodity, but The Shires fit the bill, and rounded off the week’s Top 10 (dated March 14, 2015) when BRAVE (Decca Nashville) redolent in parts of Lady Antebellum. It opened at No.10 with first week/ pre-order sales of  9,516 copies. 14 Tracks Time: 47:30 BUY: AMAZON UK - UK iTunes - Test Drive on SPOTIFY 

To put that into perspective BRAVE sold more copies in 17 chart frames (45,600) in UK than Grammy Winning CMA nominated Kacey Musgraves SAME TRAILER, DIFFERENT PARK (43,500) in 26 months since its UK April 2013 release.

After 24 chart frames BRAVE sold another 3,928 copies with a official cumulative tally of 59,294 copies and then swept past the 60,000 mark which is enough to earn a Silver Award certification which is administered by The BPI. The album has logged 24 weeks at No.1 atop the Official UK Country Album Chart.

The Shires "Brave" Official UK Top 100 Album Chart 26-week run (beginning week March 14, 2015):

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Official Charts Company Chief Executive Martin Talbotsaid: “This is a fantastic feat by this young British country duo. No country act has ever made this kind of impact on the chart before – it is truly remarkable.”

BBC Radio 2’s “Country King” Bob Harrisadded: ‘I’ve been doing the country show for 15 years now, and in the whole of that time I’ve never known things to be quite as exciting as they aretoday.

The Shires were recently made UK Artist of the Year with votes from paid subscribers and radio presenters from Internet radio station UKCountryRadio.comAlong with Ward Thomas they were also nominated for Duo of the Year but  lost out out to Glasgow duo Raintown. However the consolation prize for England’s spearheading country acts was that they were added to the “guestlist” and got to play to a 55,000 crowd at BBC Radio 2’s Live in Hyde Park concert on Sun Sept 13, 2015

The lovely Ward Thomas (L) Bob Harris OBE (centre) &
The Shires (R) at BBC Radio2's Live in Hyde Park 

Setlist: Guest List, Push For the Stride, Friday Night, State Lines, I Ain't Leaving Without Your Love (Striking Matches cover), 'Everywhere' (Fleetwood Mac cover) 
Watch the whole set HERE

FYI: Crissie Rhodes was wearing a lined white sleeveless Free People UK  ankle length maxi gown with mesh detailing which was just perefect for such a special occasion!

Related Article: How Ward Thomas and The Shires brought UK country music to Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park -

Since their Top 10 in March, The Shires have gone from strength to strength, supporting Tom Jones on tour, securing high rotation at BBC Radio 2, and playing Country music’s most important stage: Nashville’s The Grand Ole Opry (June 6^th). Whilst in Music City they played The Global Live Show by the Bridgestone Arena during the CMA Festival.

The sound of the summer 2015 was definitely UK country as The Shires also made their debut on the UK festival circuit, performing exclusively across countless high profile festivals including Glastonbury, Isle Of Wight, Larmer Tree and Camp Bestival.

The Shires will not be taking a rest after their packed summer schedule and plan to go straight back out on the road again, touring the UK through October. The tour will begin at Bedford Corn Exchange on 1 October and will culminate in a headline show at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 24 October. Full dates detailed on the bands official website.

Island Records Jonathan Jeremiah has been confirmed to support The Shires on their tour.

Imagine a young London born singer songwriter working night-shifts for seven years to get the money together to hire legendary brass players, soulful string orchestras, and Questlove, one of music’s most influential figures to drum on five of the tracks, and record them in a little studio in Dollis Hill. Born to an Anglo-Indian father and a Tipperary born Irish-Catholic mother, Jonathan inherited his name from his mother’s brother, a priest, and a boy in love with the idea of the American dream, who died in a car crash in Jefferson City, USA at the age of 23....Read More

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The Shires will also support US country music superstars Little Big Town on their PAIN KILLER tour in the USA this year, marking another significant landmark moment in their domination of the UK country scene and also their rapidly developing profile in the United States. Back in February 2015  The Shires opened for Little Big Town on their UK dates Shepherds Bush Empire, London (Tues 10th Feb) , The Ritz, Manchester (Wed 11th Feb) and at the O2 ABC, Glasgow (Thur 12th Feb).
The band will now support Little Big Town, whose monster hit 'Girl Crush' has dominated the Billboard Charts this year, at key shows including: the Taco Bell Arena in Boise, Idaho on 13 November 2015 and also Little Big Town's show in Canada, at the Abbotsford Centre, in British Columbia on the 19 November 2015. 

ICYMI: Nashville superstars Little Big Town were in session on Bob Harris Country (Thurs Sept 17), ahead of the UK release of their record breaking US chart topper "Girl Crush": LISTEN BACK BBC Page

Follow The Shires on Apple Music Connect, please visit https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/the-shires/id840956112
For more information about Apple Music Festival, please visit applemusicfestival.com

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The Shires UK October National Tour:

The ticket prices for all the venues, apart from London are Standing £14.85(£13.50 + Fees)-

October dates:

Wed, 14 October 2015 - Empire, Middlesbrough (Corporation Road, Middlesbrough TS1 2RT)

Thurs, 15 Oct 2015 -The Leadmill, Sheffield (6-7 Leadmill Road, Sheffield, S1 4SE)

Fri, 16 Oct 2015 - Roadmender, Northampton (Lady Lane, Northampton NN1 3AH)

Sun, 18 Oct 2015 - The Institute, Birmingham (78 Digbeth High Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 6DY) Ticketmaster UK

Mon, 19 Oct 2015 - O2 Academy Liverpool (11-13 Hotham Street, Liverpool L3 5UF)

Tues, 20 Oct 2015 - J1, Cambridge Junction, Cambridge (Clifton Way, Cambridge CB1 7GX)

Thurs, 22nd Oct 2015 - Bath Pavilion, Bath (North Parade Road, Bath, Avon, BA2 4EU)  

Sat, 24th Oct 2015 - O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London (O2 Shepherds Bush Green, London, London, W128TT) - (Presale SOLD OUT) £17.60 (£16.00 + £1.60 fees; Ticketmaster UK) 

Little Big Town Support Tour:
Nov 12^th, 2015 - Adams Center, Missoula, Montana
Nov 13th - Taco Bell Arena, Boise, Idaho
Nov 14th - Keller Auditorium, Portland, Oregon
Nov 19th - Abbottsford Centre, Abbotsford, Canada
Nov 20th - Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington
Nov 21st - INB Performing Arts Center - Spokane, Washington

Cam to Perform at Apple Music Festival 2015

Arista Nashville/RCA Records singer/songwriter Cam (Camaron Marvel Ochs; known simply as Cam) was also announced to perform at this year’s Apple Music Festival in London. 

Cam attends the 50th Anual
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With the news, Huntington Beach, California native Cam shared, “I’ve been hearing from fans in the UK all year over social media and I’ve been looking for a chance to get over there to play for them.  What an incredible opportunity to make my UK debut

at Apple Music Festival!”

The announcement of Cam’s appearance comes in tandem with the growing success of her breakthrough hit, “Burning House,” which vaults into the Top 20 at country radio this week, advancing to #19 and #20 respectively on the Billboard and Country Aircheck country airplay charts.

Cam’s first Top 10 on Billboard’s airplay/sales/streaming-based Hot Country Songs, “Burning House” this week jumps to #8 as the digital single logs its fourth consecutive week inside the Top 5 of Billboard’s Country Digital Songs sales chart.

“Burning House” is featured on Cam’s four-song Welcome to Cam Country (EP) (Sony Music Entertainment) available to download 4 Tracks/ Time: 13:18 UK iTunes - MP3 - Amazon.com  >> Test Drive on SPOTIFY or enjoy on iTunes or listen to on Apple Music.

Cam’s EP and upcoming full-length album are produced by GRAMMY®-winner Jeff Bhasker (Bruno Mars, Beyoncé, FUN., The Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift) and Tyler Johnson (Ed Sheeran, OneRepublic, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Mikky Ekko), with “Burning House” co-written by Cam, Bhasker, and Johnson.  (Source: Sony Press Release)