BILL ENGVALL: FAREWELL TOUR

Help us send off this LEGEND of comedy in style! Bill Engvall is retiring from stand up comedy and taking his "Here's Your Sign, It's Finally Time" tour on the road. This great entertainer has always been successful in connecting with audiences. It's the quality of sharing the humor in everyday situations that made Bill Engvall one of the best comedians ever. He was working as a disc jockey in Dallas and one night, while in a nightclub, he decided to try his hand at comedy. The rest, as they say, is history. From "Here's Your Sign" and the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" to The Bill Engvall Show and Dancing with the Stars, Bill has been there, done that. And if you want to see him doing live stand up one more time, here's your sign your last chance.Bill Engvall Comedy: Married Bathroom Etiquette - YouTubeBill Engvall Comedy: Apparently I Need My Wife For Directions - YouTube

BILL ENGVALL: FAREWELL TOUR

Help us send off this LEGEND of comedy in style! Bill Engvall is retiring from stand up comedy and taking his "Here's Your Sign, It's Finally Time" tour on the road. This great entertainer has always been successful in connecting with audiences. It's the quality of sharing the humor in everyday situations that made Bill Engvall one of the best comedians ever. He was working as a disc jockey in Dallas and one night, while in a nightclub, he decided to try his hand at comedy. The rest, as they say, is history. From "Here's Your Sign" and the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" to The Bill Engvall Show and Dancing with the Stars, Bill has been there, done that. And if you want to see him doing live stand up one more time, here's your sign your last chance.Bill Engvall Comedy: Married Bathroom Etiquette - YouTubeBill Engvall Comedy: Apparently I Need My Wife For Directions - YouTube

Ronnie MilsapBorn blind (his family thought it was retribution for sin), Ronnie Milsap’s grandparents gave the boy over to the North Carolina State School for the Blind hoping for a better chance.  There, Milsap discovered music – deviating from the school’s classical curriculum to explore the nascent realms of race music, rock & roll and jazz. Being the brilliant kid he was, it wasn’t long until he’d found his way into the local clubs and the tiny indie labels.Suddenly, he was sharing bills with Ray Charles (who took the Ashford & Simpson-penned B-side to Milsap’s Scepter single “Never Had It So Good” and scored his own hit with “Let’s Go Get Stoned”), and James Brown on a circuit that included the Howard Theater, the Royal Peacock, and more. It was Ray Charles who told the young pianist when he was offered a scholarship to Young Harris College’s law program, “Son, I can hear the music inside you…” It settled Milsap’s fate. Living in Atlanta, playing clubs and doing sessions the future Country Music Hall of Famer caught wind that JJ Cale was looking for a keyboard player. Cale hired him. Ronnie went on to work at the Whiskey for a good while. From Atlanta, Ronnie moved to Memphis where he was doing sessions with Chips Moman, where Elvis famously commanded, “More thunder on the keys, Milsap,” during the recording of “Kentucky Rain.” It was there he was asked to play the Whiskey on the famed Sunset Strip in LA. While staying at the notorious Hyatt House, Charley Pride, a famous man in country music, saw the white kid playing rock & soul and suggested giving Nashville a try. Forty #1s. Five decades of charted singles. Creating a new way of recording (being blind his hyper-attuned hearing led him to create/build what is now known as Ronnie’s Place, where the new album, the Duets, was captured), he broke genre rules and became one of the biggest pop/AC and even R&B artists of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.Six Grammys. CMA Entertainer of the Year and four Album of the Year Awards. The first country video played on MTV (the ironic “She Loves My Car”).

Rachel HoltJoin Rachel at The OBT next door afterward for a free extended performance!Rachel is an American Bluegrass - Country singer/songwriter and musician. Rachel comes from a small Southeastern Indiana town called Milan. Milan may be small but Rachel‘s voice is anything but that. Her voice is soft like silk with a sweet innocence that is captivating. rooted in Bluegrass, Rachel follows in the footsteps of her father Tony Holt (Wildwood Valley Boys). Rachel’s mother Jackie Lee Holt, also recorded a country gospel Album in the mid Nineties. Grand father, Singer/Songwriter Aubrey Holt of the Boys from Indiana, has had songs recorded by such Artists as Alison Krauss, Bobby Osborne, Rhonda Vincent, and the Grascals!  Let’s just say music is a family tradition for the Holts. 

JOHN ANDERSON (A special acoustic evening with)Straight Tequila Night, the lead-off single from Seminole Wind, went to number one across the board on every country chart.  It was his first bona-fide chart-topper since Black Sheep in 1983.  When It Comes To You, the second single, reached number two, while Seminole Wind, the heartfelt title tune soared to number one when released later in 1992.  Jay Orr, a noted music writer for the Nashville Banner, was one of several critics to list Seminole Wind in a top-ten album round-up for 1992.

Seminole Wind is a vivid personal statement which Anderson wrote after visiting his 95-year old grandmother, and after driving around Florida observing the drastic ecological changes that time and progress wrought on his native state.  Its accompanying video was shot at a cypress preserve in the Florida Everglades with assistance and participation of the region's native Seminole Indians. Those of us who've followed the vicissitudes of Anderson's recording career aren't particularly surprised at his "rediscovery" in the wake of Seminole Wind.  This is, after all, the vocal genius who won the Country Music Association's 1983 Horizon Award and helped lay the cornerstone for the late 1980's neo-traditionalist boom with his aforementioned early '80's stone-country hits.  Those hits which showcased Anderson's arresting, instantly recognizable vocal style; a provocative mixture of honky tonk fervor, rockabilly/outlaw gusto, sly, tongue-in-cheek humor, and just a hint of rock n' roll swagger.  The Anderson we hear today is merely the new and slightly mellowed adult version of the stylistically headstrong, fiercely determined 17-year old who hit Nashville running in 1972.  He clawed his way up the ladder one rung at a time, from $5-a-night gigs in the honky tonk closets of lower Broadway and a day job tacking shingles on the new Grand Old Opry house at Opryland.

John followed Seminole Wind with five more critically acclaimed albums, spawning hits like, Money In The Bank, I’ve Got It Made, I Wish I Could Have Been There, Let Go Of The Stone, Bend It ‘Til It Breaks, Mississippi Moon and Somebody Slap Me.

John Anderson… a colorful character and truly a country music treasure!Rye Davis

THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND

Don't miss The Marshal Tucker Band, 50th Anniversary Tour live at The New Barn Theatre, on Friday,  October 14th.The Marshall Tucker Band came together as a young, hungry, and quite driven six-piece outfit in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1972, having duly baptized themselves with the name of a blind piano tuner after they found it inscribed on a key to their original rehearsal space — and they’ve been in tune with tearing it up on live stages both big and small all across the globe ever since. Plus, the band’s mighty music catalog, consisting of more than 20 studio albums and a score of live releases, has racked up multi-platinum album sales many times over. A typically rich MTB setlist is bubbling over with a healthy dose of hits like the heartfelt singalong “Heard It in a Love Song,” the insistent pleading of “Can’t You See” (the signature tune of MTB’s late co-founding lead guitarist and then-principal songwriter Toy Caldwell), the testifying “Fire on the Mountain,” the wanderlust gallop of “Long Hard Ride,” and the explosive testimony of “Ramblin,’” to name but a few.

BACK BY OVERWHELMING DEMAND! A POWER HOUSE COUNTRY CONCERT YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS!  Renfro Valley is thrilled to welcome 3 of country music's BIGGEST STARS to the New Barn Theatre!Aaron Tippin, Collin Raye, and Sammy Kershaw join forces to present:The Roots & Boots 90's Electric Throwdown Tour!This will be an evening filled with stories and songs as they get back to the roots of their music.  Aaron, Collin, and Sammy have amassed almost 70 combined Top 40 hit singles.  Some of Aaron’s songs are “You’ve Got to Stand for Something,” “There Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong with the Radio,” and “Kiss This.”  Collin is known for “Love Me,” “In This Life,” and “That’s My Story.”  Sammy’s hits include “Queen of My Double Wide Trailer,” “She Don’t Know She’s Beautiful,” and “Third Rate Romance.”

SECOND DATE ADDED!!! BACK BY OVERWHELMING DEMAND! A POWER HOUSE COUNTRY CONCERT YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS!  Renfro Valley is thrilled to welcome 3 of country music's BIGGEST STARS to the New Barn Theatre!Aaron Tippin, Collin Raye, and Sammy Kershaw join forces to present:The Roots & Boots 90's Electric Throwdown Tour!This will be an evening filled with stories and songs as they get back to the roots of their music.  Aaron, Collin, and Sammy have amassed almost 70 combined Top 40 hit singles.  Some of Aaron’s songs are “You’ve Got to Stand for Something,” “There Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong with the Radio,” and “Kiss This.”  Collin is known for “Love Me,” “In This Life,” and “That’s My Story.”  Sammy’s hits include “Queen of My Double Wide Trailer,” “She Don’t Know She’s Beautiful,” and “Third Rate Romance.”

“The most electric combination of Country and Bluegrass today!” - Billboard

Grammy Award-nominated Grand Ole Opry stars Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent. Backed by one of the best bands on tour today, Dailey & Vincent blend traditional country, gospel and bluegrass with the fantastically instinctive vocals of Dailey's tenor and Vincent's reedy harmonies. 

Dubbed by Country Music Television as “the rockstars of bluegrass,” Dailey & Vincent have been hailed as one of America’s most exciting and elite bluegrass bands. They have garnered worldwide attention with The Dailey & Vincent Show on RFD TV and the PBS special Dailey & Vincent ALIVE In Concert. Over the years, they have received numerous honors including 13 International Bluegrass Music Awards, three Grammy Award nominations, including Bluegrass Album of the Year, and four Dove Awards for Bluegrass Album of the Year.

Easton Corbin has been gracing stages with his memorable baritone and unique blend of traditional and modern country music for more than a decade. The Florida native, who boasts two No. 1 singles with “A Little More Country Than That” and “Roll With It,” embarks on a new musical chapter with his recent signing to Stone Country Records. Corbin teams with industry veterans Benny Brown, Paul Brown and Jason Sellers as the label’s flagship artist.

Corbin’s neotraditional sound shines through on “I Can’t Decide,” his debut single for the label. Soaring pedal steel and ear-grabbing fiddle accompaniment combined with a driving beat, plucked guitar rhythms and Corbin’s warm baritone further accentuate the up-tempo song. 

Throughout his career, Corbin has amassed seven top 10 singles and three American Country Awards. Named Billboard’s 2010 Top New Country Artist, Corbin has never shied away from his traditional roots with Your Big Sky complimenting his “unapologetic and unwavering traditional country sound.” His self-titled debut album was named Country Breakthrough Album of the Year by iTunes Rewind Best of 2010 while American Songwriter has complimented the singer’s “warm, smooth-as-gravy-southern drawl.” Along the way, Corbin hasn’t forgotten his roots. The young boy who grew up listening to Merle Haggard and Hank Williams with his grandparents remembers where he came from.“I do love traditional country music,” he says. “That sound is what drew me to country music as a genre. One of my very first records was a Merle Haggard album when I was a kid. The way he delivered a song, the emotion in his songwriting and in his voice, he was just the whole package.” As Corbin embarks on his next chapter with Stone Country Records, the singer promises to honor those roots and says “I Can’t Decide” is just a taste of what’s to come. “I think it's a good mixture of the traditional and modern,” he says of the upcoming project. “It's a good mixture of that up-tempo, midtempo, a few ballads here and there. That song is a good representation of what’s coming. I’m really fired up about this brand new opportunity.”