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Join Bryan for Mix 92.9 Valentine's Day Lunch & Concert
Mix 92.9 is celebrating Valentine's Day with a very special lunch concert on February 12, and the only way in the door is to win tickets from the Mix Listener Club. You will join us for some amazingly delicious food at The Standard Restaurant in The Standard Event Space and enjoy an acoustic performance by Nashville's own platinum recording artist, Bryan White.
The event will take place on Friday, February 12 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM. There are a very limited number of tickets available to give away. We kindly ask that you only enter this contest if you can attend on this date and time.
Bryan White and his wife, actress Erika Page, are doing an admirable job balancing two careers and two young sons, Justin and Jackson. Bryan is now on a long radio tour promoting his new album, 'Dustbowl Dreams,' while Erika has been focusing on her family since leaving the daytime soap 'One Life to Live' ... although she worked briefly on 'Days of Our Lives' last year and plans to film a drama entitled 'The Singing River' this year.
Given her line of work, which sometimes requires doing steamy love scenes, it wouldn't be surprising if Bryan received a visit from the green-eyed-monster from time to time, but the singer says that's not the case.
"No, I don't get jealous," Bryan tells The Boot. "I don't see any reason for me to watch [those love scenes] so I don't choose to watch it. When I get to a point like that, I kind of know it's coming, I'll flip to another channel. One time we were working on vocals, and we took a break and turned on TV, and there was my wife in a steamy love scene, and we all looked at each other and went, 'Wow!' and just turned it back off. We said, 'Maybe we should just get back to work.'"
Bryan and Erika, who will celebrate 10 years of marriage in October, make an effort to keep their love alive without taking each other for granted.
"We try to shake things up and keep surprising each other," Bryan explains. "Life can become mundane and just feeling like you're going through the motions sometimes. For one, with our kids, there's never a dull moment. But, we have to take time to go do fun things for us. So we make a strong point to get a babysitter."
For Bryan and Erika, a night out doesn't have to be glamorous. Sometimes simple fun is best. "We take time to do something fun together -- which is just going out and grabbing a bite to eat. We're nerds too. Sometimes we'll go to Borders with a cup of coffee, and we'll just grab a pile of magazines and sit in a corner. I think that's the important thing -- shaking it up and making sure you're spending quality time with each other. Because sometimes you can feel like you're just passing each other in the hallway doing all the stuff we've got to do. You've got to stop and look up."
Bryan's latest album, 'Dustbowl Dreams,' is in stores now.
Bryan White, who has co-written hit songs for the likes of Diamond Rio ('Imagine That') and Sawyer Brown ('I Don't Believe in Goodbye'), has also charted 17 singles himself, including six No. 1's such as 'Someone Else's Star' and 'Rebecca Lynn.' The Boot caught up with Bryan at his home in Nashville to find out where he was when he heard his first record on the radio.
This would have been, I'm guessing, '95 ... and I was maybe all of 20 [years old] at the time. I was on an independent label, and we were on a real extensive radio tour on the west coast. We were on our way to Tucson to visit a radio station. On the way, I heard my single, which was a song called 'Eugene, You Genius.' It was an uptempo, fun kind of thing -- a tongue-in-cheek kind of song.
I heard it on the radio, and I freaked out so much so that I made the label rep find a convenience store to pull over because we didn't have cell phones then. We pulled over, and I got the number from my rep and went in and called the station from the pay phone, and they put me on the air. I was so jazzed, because that was literally the first time I had heard my voice on the airwaves. I thanked them and just told them how much I appreciated that. I made sure that they knew that was the literally the first time I heard myself just driving down the road! I wish I still had a copy of that audio of me calling in. That would be so special to have. I can visually see it. I can still see where I'm at, what the gas station looked like, and the rep who was with me was smiling.
Honestly, still today, it never gets old. I don't care how many hit records you have, when you hear your song on the radio or in the mall or in the grocery store, part of you is so excited, you want to go tap everybody on the shoulder [and say]: 'Do you know who that is?' [laughs]
BRYAN WHITE JOINS LINEUP AT 2010 re:create SEMINAR
Bryan is proud to join the linup of great artists for the 10th Anniversary of the re:create Seminar 2010 on February 2-5 in Franklin, TN! For more information on how to register click here!
Just a few of the artists you'll see: Bryan White, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Steve Guthrie, Ian Morgan Cron, Matt Boswell, Aaron Shust, Travis Cottrell, Chris Sligh, Carl Tartee, Meredith Andrews, Michael Farren aand more!
Click here for the schedule of Events, Artists and Speakers (subject to change).
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DUSTBOWL DREAMS PICKED AS ONE OF THE BEST COUNTRY SONGS OF 2009
2009 offered up a treasure trove of high quality country music, and we’ve compiled a list of the year’s 50 best country songs.
In order to a be considered for this list, a song must have appeared on an album released during the 2009 calendar year. Radio singles that appeared on 2008 albums but which were primarily promoted to radio in 2009 remained eligible so long as they did not appear on the previous year’s list.
50. “Devil’s Best Dress” – Corb Lund 49. “These Cowboys Born Out of Their Time” – Gretchen Peters and Tom Russell 48. “Midnight At The Movies” – Justin Townes Earle 47. “Circles Around Me” – Sam Bush 46. “Cattleman’s Gun” – Dean Brody 45. “A Long Time Ago” – Chuck Mead 44. “Give Me Jesus” – Sara Watkins 43. “Warm Kentucky Sunshine” – Adam Steffey and Allison Krauss 42. “Money, Compliments, Publicity (Song Number 10)” – Todd Snider 41. “Angels Like Her” – Trent Tomlinson 40. “Taste Of The Truth” – Gene Watson 39. “Anything Like Me” – Brad Paisley 38. “Without Jesus Here With Me” – Holly Williams 37. “Only Prettier” – Miranda Lambert 36. “Someday When I Stop Loving You” – Carrie Underwood 35. “American Saturday Night” – Brad Paisley 34. “Long After I’m Gone” – Big Kenny 33. “Fifteen” – Taylor Swift 32. “Rose in Paradise” – Chris Young and Willie Nelson 31. “The Guitar” – Guy Clark 30. “Tell My Mother I Miss Her So” – Ryan Bingham 29. “Seeing Stars” – Jack Ingram with Patty Griffin 28. “Dustbowl Dreams” – Bryan White 27. “I’ll Have What She’s Having” – Reba McEntire 26. “Sissy’s Song” – Alan Jackson 25. “Closer To The Bone” – Kris Kristofferson 24. “Promises in Pieces” – Jason Eady 23. “Mama” – Holly Williams 22. “Need You Now” – Lady Antebellum 21. “A Little Revival” – Radney Foster and The Confession 20. “Has Anybody Ever Told You” – Ashley Monroe 19. “Three Minutes At A Time” – Gene Watson 18. “Gettin’ You Home (The Black Dress Song)” – Chris Young
17. “Busted” – Patty Loveless
16. “Maggie Creek Road” – Reba McEntire 15. “Ellis County” – Buddy and Julie Miller 14. “Staying Together” – Gene Watson with Rhonda Vincent 13. “On The Other Side” – Dailey and Vincent 12. “Gasoline and Matches” – Buddy and Julie Miller 11. “White Liar” – Miranda Lambert 10. “Hemingway’s Whiskey” – Guy Clark 9. “Cry Pretty” – Jason Eady 8. “Arkansas Dave” – George Strait 7. “Pretty Flowers” – Steve Martin, Vince Gill and Dolly Parton 6. “My Way To you” – Jamey Johnson 5. “Mama’s Eyes” – Justin Townes Earle 4. “An Old Friend Of Mine” – Joe Nichols 3. “Reconsider” – Charlie Robison 2. “Hesitation Blues” – Asleep at the Wheel and Willie Nelson 1. “The House That Built Me” – Miranda Lambert
"Over the river and through the woods, to grandmother's house we go ..."
What could be better for a child than spending Christmas at grandma's house and the North Pole at the same time? Impossible you say? Not if your name is Bryan White.
"Hopefully you won't think I'm weird when I tell you this," Brian explains to The Boot, recalling a favorite childhood Christmas memory. "My grandparents had this huge house shaped like a horseshoe. There was this snow white carpet that my grandmother had in the living room where the Christmas tree was. She had one of those old trees that had the fake snow on it, and the tree was white. You remember those ... (and under it) it's like this stain glass plastic circle thing with different color shades. It was like a little gel in front of a light, and it went in circles, and it projected a colorful image onto your tree. It made this squeaky sound from this wheel turning.
"I remember one Christmas night I just felt this real warm, cozy feeling by the tree with that thing going. When everybody went to sleep, I would get up out of bed and go get under the tree with that little thing going, and I would just sleep under the tree. I know that's weird. But as a kid, I felt like I was at the North Pole. There was something neat about it.
"You might want to Google what that little thing is called – the little light crank."
Good news, Bryan. We did indeed look up the "stain glass plastic circle thing with different color shades" and here you go. It's called a Penetray Rotating Lighted Christmas Color Wheel. Sweet memories are made of this.
BRYAN WHITE - SEEING CHRISTMAS THROUGH CHILDREN'S EYES
Bryan White just finished writing a Christmas song -- 'Finding Christmas' -- inspired by his sons Justin, 6 and Jackson, 4.
"The song is about becoming jaded as we get older and when we become adults, there's really no mystery any more," Bryan tells The Boot. "The element of surprise and mystery is gone and ... I'm finding it all again through their eyes. I feel like I am seeing it all again the second time around through them, and it's awesome. They've been really anticipating Christmas since October. As soon as Halloween was over, their Christmas questions were just being fired at me right after that."
Bryan's own childhood recollections of Christmas serve as a blueprint for the memories he wants his children to have.
"I remember when I was a kid [my parents] knew we were just bursting at the seams, so most of the time we got to open one gift on Christmas Eve just to kind of tide us over until the morning. We'll probably do that. We've had our tree up since Thanksgiving. That was a fun process, just getting the tree down and them helping us. They're old enough now that they want to have a purpose with everything, they want to be a part of it."
And before the kids go off to bed on Christmas Eve, they'll have one more task to complete.
"We'll write a note to Santa, and we get the cookies and milk and set that out," Bryan says. "Then the next morning, I'm up before them with the video camera. I got them last year really good coming down the stairs. They were still kind of half asleep, kind of wiping their eyes, but you could tell as soon as they walked in the living room and saw the gifts, they were just so excited. It was just awesome!"
Bryan and his wife, actress Erika Page ('One Life to Live'), also feel it's important to bring the 'real' meaning of Christmas to the forefront.
"I would say we probably spend more time devoted to Christ being born ... why we're celebrating, more than the Santa Claus. We sort of make sure they know -- we try to just let them know that Santa is just one of God's helpers."
Bryan's been busy chasing Donner and Blitzen on his radio tour for the last few months, promoting his latest studio album 'Dustbowl Dreams.' He plans to record his new Christmas song in 2010.
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