CLEARFIELD – The Clearfield Fair & Park Board is proud to announce Chris Daughtery will rock the stage on Saturday, Aug. 2.
Daughtry and RCA Records put together a rock group that took his surname as the band’s name as well as the title for its first album. Bassist Josh Paul from Los Angles, guitarist Brian Craddock from Virginia, guitarist Josh Steely from San Diego and drummer Joey Barnes from Daughtry’s home state of North Carolina back up the lead singer /guitarist Daughtry.
Since its release in November of 2006, the album “Daughtry” has gone triple-platinum selling over seven million copies worldwide and spinning off six singles that continue to get heavy rotation on radio. The album spent two weeks at the illustrious No. 1 spot of Billboard’s “Top 200” and stayed a top the music business magazine’s “Top Rock Album” chart for 14 weeks. The band’s first single, “It’s Not Over,” was nominated for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance by a Group or Duo at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. The second single, “Home,” was nominated for Best Pop Performance by a Group or Duo and won the People’s Choice Award for Best Rock Song. “Home” was featured as the “walk off” song for contestants eliminated from the Idol competition last year.
Daughtry’s most significant honor came with a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album vying against formidable artists Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, John Fogerty, Wilco, and the eventual winners, the Foo Fighters. Last fall the band took home prizes at the 2007 American Music Awards winning for Best Pop/Rock Album, Best Adult Contemporary Artist and Breakthrough Artist. On the road, Daughtry has been headlining some dates as well as supporting such notables as Nickelback and currently Bon Jovi on their tours. The band’s last two singles “Crashed” and “Feels Like Tonight” are getting major airplay on both Pop and Rock formats while the group is on tour. The band’s been testing some new songs on tour that presumably will be on its sophomore album including “Where You’re Standing,” “Back to Me,” and “You’re in My Hands.”
Country sensations Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert will perform on Wednesday, July 30th, at the 2008 Clearfield County Fair.
Aldean’s first single for record label Broken Bow was “Hicktown,” which, like “Johnny Cash,” was co-written by John Rich of Big & Rich. It established Aldean as a musical presence and became his first Top 10 song. “Why,” the next single, went to No. 1 in May 2006, and “Amarillo Sky,” the follow-up, peaked at No. 4 in February 2007. In March 2007, Jason Aldean, the album, was certified platinum for shipments of 1 million copies. Aldean’s newest album, Relentless, which, fittingly enough, is paced by the supremely attitudinal single “Johnny Cash.”
Relentless presents a wide emotional spectrum — from the breaking-loose defiance of “Johnny Cash” to such snagged-by-love laments as “Who’s Kissing You Tonight,” “Back in This Cigarette” and the title cut. Miranda Lambert joins Aldean on another lover’s complaint, “Grown Woman.” But there are spiritually triumphant pieces here as well, among them “Laughed Until We Cried” and “I Use What I Got.” There’s not been a lot of swagger in country music. Maybe that’s because an imperious pose tends to rankle the common folk who’ve come to expect their stars to act like them. But copping an attitude served Cash and Waylon, Paycheck and Toby Keith well. And it seems to be working just fine for Jason Aldean, who strides the stage like it’s a papal balcony.
Miranda Lambert first exploded onto the scene as a finalist in the 2003 season of the Nashville Star television series. She didn’t win – a result she has described as a blessing.
“I was hoping not to win,” she once said. “The winner had to go in right after the contest and make a record in a couple of weeks, and I wasn’t ready.”
Instead, she got the best of both worlds – Columbia Nashville, which had right of first refusal on the show’s performers – signed Lambert to a deal, but she had the time and opportunity to make the album that she really wanted to make. Her confidence and firepower were evident in Kerosene: it debuted at Number One on the country charts (only the sixth time a new artist entered in at the top), and went on to earn Lambert nominations for the CMA’s Horizon Award and the ACM’s Top New Female Vocalist Award. It also earned her a Grammy nomination. Kerosene garnered critical praise from countless outlets and was named one of the best albums of the year by New York Times, Rolling Stone, Blender Magazine, itunes, Tennessean and many more. Now the two-time CMA Horizon Award nominee returns with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, on which she raises the stakes both musically and emotionally.
Miranda Lambert received three ACM nominations, Top Female Vocalist, Album of the Year with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Single Record of the Year for “Famous in a Small Town.”
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