Equal parts vintage Nashville, Texas swing, and Bakersfield bravado, The Shootouts’ sophomore album Bullseye draws heavily from the music on which the band’s members were brought up, packaging all of country music’s classic subgenres in their modern, signature sound. Produced by former BR459 lead singer Chuck Mead, Bullseye shows The Shootouts mining their roots and expanding the territory they explored with their debut album, Quick Draw.
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The Shootouts Announce Sophomore Album Bullseye
Before the pedal steel sneaks in, with a flurry of Telecaster picking and an earnest, pure country voice, The Shootouts new album Bullseye doesn t waste time getting to the point; they ve done their homework. Equal parts vintage Nashville, Texas swing, and Bakersfield bravado, The Shootouts sophomore album draws heavily from the music on which the band s members were brought up, packaging all of country music s classic subgenres in their modern, signature sound. Produced by former BR459 lead singer Chuck Mead, Bullseye shows The Shootouts mining their roots and expanding the territory they explored with their debut album, Quick Draw. The songs invoke a wide array of country music s most important contributors, lassoing the band s classic influences and bringing them straight into the present.
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Ryan Humbert s Holiday Extravaganza goes online this year with proceeds benefiting the National Independent Venue Association.
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For more than a decade, Ryan Humbert’s Holiday Extravaganza brought some seasonal cheer to the Akron Civic Theatre and raised money for a worthy cause.
This year, he’s taking the extravaganza to 17 locations or at least their Facebook pages and the cause couldn’t be more important to the musicians participating.
“This summer when everyone started realizing concerts weren’t coming back in the traditional sense, my longtime singing partner and co-conspirator Emily Bates and I started talking about what might the Christmas show look like,” Humbert said. “Should we cancel or pivot in another direction?
For the past three years, Ryan Humbert has been a hosting a lively radio show, The Americana Roundup for two hours Sunday mornings on Akron public-radio station The Summit.
Now, Humbert s personally curated menu of eclectic and rootsy American music is available 24/7 at AmericanaRoundup.com, a commercial-free streaming radio station. This is a way to take that brand I started three years ago and expand it for folks, Humbert said. It s a passion project for me. I believe in the genre, I believe in the music, and I believe in the power of radio as a place to discover new artists.