The following night, Paul Overstreet, Kathy Mattea, Trick Pony, Mel Tillis and his band The Statesiders continued the music in the Club Med Theater. 27 with an opening guitar pull featuring Gary Morris, Chuck Cannon, Lari White, Suzy Bogguss, Mandy Barnett, Jessi Alexander and Jon Randall. Wright PinsonĬountry in the Rockies (CITR) kicked off Tuesday, Jan. Raymond Hicks, Mimi Wallace, BMI's Joyce Rice, Deborah Allen, Vanderbilt's Dr. During this popular event, teams of singers, songwriters and others work hard to raise the most money in a two-hour period in five watering holes downtown this year, they brought in more than $200,000 in exchange for singing favorite songs, signing autographs and posing for photos. "One in two of us in this room will face cancer in our lifetimes, so this is really important," Gary Chapman said, coaxing members of the audience to fill a passing pitcher with cash during the Celebrity Happy Hour. Hal Moses, BMI's Frances Preston, and Tom Gross toast CITR's 10th Anniversary However, the cause behind the event was never far from mind. Ski races, outdoor activities like snowshoeing and sleigh rides, all-star concerts, informal late-night guitar pulls, a Celebrity Happy Hour fund- raising competition and much more gave participants entertainment options virtually round-the-clock. Tim Rushlow, Trick Pony's Ira Dean, CMT's Lance Smith, Trick Pony's Keith Burns and Heidi Newfield, Bill Johnson
The event directly supports the Foundation's Frances Williams Preston Laboratories at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, a facility named for BMI President & CEO Frances Preston. Martell Foundation for Cancer, Leukemia and AIDS Research.
Tom Annastas, Frances Preston, Kenny Loggins, Lari White, Suzy Bogguss, Chuck Cannon, Jeffrey Steele, Tom GrossĪ record-setting crowd of nearly 400 people gathered for the 10th anniversary of the signature fund-raiser for the T.J. The event, chaired by BMI's Tom Annastas and Paul Corbin, is held at Club Med in Crested Butte, Colorado. James recorded a variation of the song, "The Sun Is Shining", in April 1960, five months after the recording date of "The Sky Is Crying" (although some places "Sun" as a precursor to "Sky", possibly because the bulk of James' recordings for Fire/Fury/Enjoy took place after the Chess recordings).Country In the Rockies X lived up to its billing as "The Ultimate Backstage Pass," bringing legendary artists like Mel Tillis, Charlie Daniels and Kenny Loggins together with a new generation of singers and songwriters to make music and make money for cancer research. The song, listed as "Elmo James and His Broomdusters", reached number 15 on Billboard magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart in 1960, making it James' last chart showing before his death in 1963.
James' unique slide guitar sound on the recording has generated some debate Homesick James attributed it to a recording studio technique, others have suggested a different amplifier or guitar setup, and Ry Cooder felt that it was an altogether different guitar than James' usual Kayacoustic with an attached pickup. Brown on saxophone, Johnny Joneson piano, Odie Payne on drums, and Homesick James on bass. The original version of "The Sky Is Crying" is a slow-tempo twelve-bar blues notated in 12/8 time in the key of C. An impromptu song inspired by a Chicago downpour during the recording session, it features James' slide guitar work and vocals. Accompanying James is his longtime backing band, the Broomdusters: J. King, with his "B.B." moniker, and a fellow Texan, Freddie King On many occasions, Coleman undertook multi-instrumentalist duties in the recording studio. He issued several other albums and produced most of Ichiban's blues catalogue until his death, in 1994. Originally a local musician turned blues promoter and session musician, Gary B B Coleman recorded his debut album in 1986, which was re-released by Ichiban Records. The song is a fantastic blues standard written originally by 'the king of slide guitar' Elmore James, which he first released in 1960. Called "one of his most durable compositions, it became a R&B record chart hit and has been interpreted and recorded by numerous artists. This week's LCM classic is an excellent super smooth cover of 'The Sky Is Crying' by Gary B B Coleman.
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