Miranda Lambert

This Date in Country Music History

• 2022 – Warner Mack died in Nashville
• 2014 – Cole Swindell topped the charts with “Chillin’ It”
• 2013 – Parmalee made their Grand Ole Opry debut
• 2011 – Reba McEntire, Jean Shepard, and Bobby Braddock are announced as the newest inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame
• 2007 – Josh Turner‘s album Your Man was certified double platinum
• 2007 – Miranda Lambert‘s album Kerosene was certified platinum
• 2005 – Jamie O’Neal released her album Brave
• 1990 – Mark Chesnutt signed with MCA Records
• 1983 – Alabama released their album The Closer You Get
• 1980 – Waylon Jennings topped the charts with “I Ain’t Living Long Like This”
• 1979 – Conway Twitty released his single “Don’t Take It Away”
• 1972 – Donna Fargo released her signature hit “The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.”
• 1968 – Johnny Cash and June Carter got married in Franklin, KY

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Today’s Photo Flashback

• Ashley Briggs – 3/1/14 – Sands Harbor & Marina in Pompano Beach, FL
• Charlie Daniels Band – 3/1/14 – Weston Regional Park in Weston, FL
• David Nail – 3/1/12 – Round Up in Davie, FL
• Maggie Baugh – 3/1/14 – Weston Regional Park in Weston, FL
• Tommy Dalton – 3/1/12 – Round Up in Davie, FL

• Artist Name:  Few Miles South
• Hometowns:  Tori – (originally from) Los Angeles, CA; Blake – Blakely, GA

What project(s) are you currently working on?

We just released a new EP, Wiregrass. It’s a country-bluegrass project and Michael Cleveland (2020 Grammy Winner for Best Bluegrass Album) plays fiddle on 4 out of the 5 tracks. We have a lot of unreleased songs too and next up will probably be a country-southern rock album.

What inspired you both to pursue a career in music and when did you know?

We decided to give the country band thing a shot a couple years after we met. We both love traditional country music and initially wanted to write songs for other artists, but it seemed more fun to get out and play them ourselves. We started Few Miles South about 3 – 4 years ago.

If you weren’t pursuing a career in music, what would each of you be doing for a living?

-Blake: I would’ve pursued baseball.

-Tori: I would go back to teaching, music and yoga.

What is your favorite downtime activity?

-Tori: Gardening/trying to make things grow. I haven’t been too successful ’cause we’re gone so much but it’s relaxing.

– Blake: Building stuff around the house, I recently put up a new fence.

Who is your biggest celebrity crush?

-Blake: Jerry Reed, that was one funky Georgia boy.

-Tori: Emmylou Harris, I’d love to meet her, and Linda Ronstadt, and Dolly Parton, all of the Trio ladies.

Who are your favorite sports teams?

-Blake: Atlanta Braves

-Tori: I don’t really follow sports, but I like watching the Winter X Games.

What is the last movie that you both watched?

-Tori: Spencer Confidential. Haha! I tell Blake that he and Mark Wahlberg could be brothers so we always watch whatever he’s in.

What is the last album each of you listened to?

-Blake: Cookin, Jerry Reed.

– Tori: Home, Billy Strings.

If you each could only listen to one album for the rest of your life, what would it be?

-Tori: That’s too hard to pick just one, I’d have to give that a lot of thought. I’d probably cheat and make a compilation. A little country, like Jean Shepherd, a little rock, like Heart, a little soul, like James Brown, etc.

– Blake: Yeah, me too.

What is the greatest country song of all time?

-Tori: “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” by Hank Williams. That song makes me tear up every time.

What has been your favorite city/town that you’ve visited out on the road?

-Tori: My new favorite is Silver City, New Mexico.

– Blake: Jasper, Alberta.

What is your favorite meal?

-Blake : Wings

-Tori: Mac n Cheese

Who is your dream duet partner?

-Tori: How about Vince Gill.

– Blake: Would love to get Michael Cleveland to play a show with us one day.

Who would you guys like to go on tour with?

-Blake: That’s another long list, I’d have to give it more thought but off the top of my head…Billy Strings, Sturgill Simpson, Michael Cleveland, Allison Krauss.

– Tori: Anyone who’d let us haha! Emmylou Harris, The Steel Drivers, Western Centuries, Tyler Childers, Alice Wallace.

What are your ultimate career goals?

-Tori: Pretty simple, pay our bills playing music. Basically just keep doing what we are doing maybe on a more profitable scale haha!

– Blake: Make music full-time. We love touring with our dogs and camping as we go, so if we can keep that up that’d be awesome!

Happy Birthday to today’s Country Music Birthdays!

• Jean Shepard (d)
• Kelsi Osborn (SheDAISY)
• Lisa McCarter
• Teresa McCarter

• Lyric Video:  “Undone” by Joe Nichols
• Video Flashback:  “Big Midnight Special” by Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper
• Video Flashback:  “Second Fiddle to an Old Guitar” by Jean Shepard
• Video:  Kix Brooks’ 16 Minute Peanut Butter Cookies
• Video:  Charlie Daniels Launches “22 in 22:  Bring Hope to Heroes”

Brett Eldredge

Here’s today’s roundup of country music videos from around the web!

• Music Video: “Summer Girls” by Boone
• Video:  Luke Bryan TV:  Behind the Scenes of Kill the Lights
• Video: Kenny Chesney’s “No Shoes TV” Episode 14 from Kansas City, MO
• Audio: “Illinois” by Brett Eldredge
• Live Video: “James Dean” by Alys Ffion
• Opry Video: “Everything in Between” by Michael Ray from the Opry Lounge
• Video Flashback: “Window Up Above” by George Jones
• Video Flashback: “Heart, We Did All That We Could” by Jean Shepard w/ Teddy & Doyle
• Live Video: “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” by Charlie Daniels Band
• Video: Kelsea Ballerini Heads West