Charlie Daniels Band Headlines Ziegfest 2010
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CORPUS CHRISTI - Grammy Award-winning musician Charlie Daniels and his band headline Ziegfest 2010 at Whataburger Field on Saturday, October 2.
In addition, The Toadies, Jack Ingram, Bob Schneider, The Reverend Horton Heat and Jason Boland & The Stragglers have been confirmed for the event, which runs from 3-11:45 p.m. The show is presented by Ryan-Sanders Entertainment, the Corpus Christi Hooks, L&F Distributors, ZiegenBock, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and K-99.
Three additional regional/local acts will also perform.
The 73-year-old son of a lumberjack, Daniels' diverse musical menu encompasses country, rock, bluegrass, blues and gospel. He's partly Western and partly Southern, which makes him the perfect fit for a truly Texan event. By the late 1950s, Daniels was already skilled on the guitar, fiddle and mandolin. It was then he first formed a rock and roll band and hit the road.
Over the next half-century, Daniels toured, wrote for his band and various performers (including Elvis Presley and Tammy Wynette), worked as a Nashville session musician (for Bob Dylan among others) and produced albums (for the Youngbloods). As a record-maker, he broke through with 1973's Honey In the Rock and its hit hippie song, "Uneasy Rider." Daniels' rebel anthems "Long Haired Country Boy" and "The South's Gonna Do It" propelled his 1975 collection Fire On the Mountain to Double Platinum status.
In the summer of 1979, Daniels delivered "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," which became a No. 1 country hit and Platinum single. It topped both country and pop charts, won a Grammy Award, became an international phenomenon, earned three Country Music Association trophies, became a cornerstone of the "Urban Cowboy" movie soundtrack and propelled his Million Mile Reflections album to Triple Platinum.
His yearly Volunteer Jam concerts, musical extravaganzas that served as a prototype for many of today's annual day-long music marathons, always feature a variety of current stars and heritage artists and are considered by some historians as Daniels' most impressive contribution to Southern music.
He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on January 24, 2008.
The Charlie Daniels Band is comprised of Daniels, Bruce Brown, Taz DiGregorio, Charlie Hayward, Pat McDonald and Chris Wormer.
Ziegfest 2010 tickets go on sale this Friday, June 18, at whataburgerfield.com and the Whataburger Field box office. Phone purchasers may call 361-561-4665. All tickets are General Admission and $25 in advance, $30 the day-of. Hooks season-ticket holders and sponsors enjoy ticket options at a discounted rate.
Several Texas-themed events are planned for Ziegfest, including a mechanical bull, jalapeno-eating contest, armadillo races, video tributes from notable Texans and a longhorn steer for picture taking.
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The Toadies
Todd Lewis, Mark Reznicek and Clark Vogeler are The Toadies. The band debuted in 1994 with Rubberneck. The Texas rock band is characterized as raw and commanding. Notable early singles were "Possum Kingdom," "Tyler" and "Away." After Hell Below/Stars Above and the departure of bassist Lisa Umbarger, members went their separate ways. They reconvened in 2006 for sold-out shows and No Deliverance featuring the title track, "So Long LoveyEyes" and "Man of Stone."
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Jack Ingram
Jack Ingram won the 2008 Academy of Country Music Award for Best New Male Vocalist. Big Dreams & High Hopes is the seventh studio disc for the Texas-born writer and performer. It features "Seeing Stars" with Patty Griffin, "Barefoot & Crazy" and "That's A Man." Ingram has relentlessly toured venues large and small since 1997. The album Wherever You Are, a mostly live project, was followed by 2008's This Is It. "Wherever You Are" was his first single to reach No. 1. Ingram grew up in Houston and attended SMU.
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Bob Schneider
Bob Schneider is a working-class musician with faithful followers nationwide and a huge Austin fan base. The independent artist has released five albums, hundreds of digital singles and simultaneously fronted three bands. Lovely Creatures is a polished record with quintessentially diverse musical styles. "40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet)" is Americana pop and dance tunes "Tarantula" and "Bombonanza" are Schneider show favorites making their studio-recording debuts. Schneider's Lonelyland is the top-selling Waterloo Records album. His bands provide the latitude to explore and perform the music he loves: funk, pop, bluegrass, jazz, soul, blues, hip-hop and bar rock.
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The Reverend Horton Heat
Jim "Reverend Horton" Heath, Jimbo Wallace and Paul Simmons have produced Laughin' and Cryin,' a record full of country-heavy tunes about bad habits, well-meaning but clueless husbands, expanding beer guts and the State of Texas. This album is a departure from the band's 2004 hard-driving punkabilly Revival. Heath's goal was to capture the feelings of music from the late 1950s and early '60s. Over 20 years, the Reverend has won a cult following with an almost endless touring ethic and musical style. A mythic stage presence turns rock clubs into psychobilly tent revivals across America 300 times a year.
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Jason Boland & The Stragglers
High in the Rockies: A Live Album is Jason Boland & The Stragglers' most recent release. A collection of red-dirt country by the Texas-based quintet, High in the Rockies was recorded on four consecutive nights at January, 2010 performances in Colorado and Wyoming. Boland and The Stragglers, comprised of lead guitarist Roger Ray, fiddler Noah Jeffries, bassist Grant Tracy and drummer Brad Rice, have become one of the fastest-rising forces in contemporary country. Influenced by legends like Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard, High in the Rockies is a blend of the progressive and traditional.
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