Palo Duro Records

We are excited to announce the musical lineup for the debut Chattahippie Music Festival, featuring the best talent in Americana, Rock, Blues, Jam, Country, Folk and Bluegrass from around the nation! With over thirty artists from ten states, this promises to be a great celebration of peace, love and music!

Northwest Georgia Bank presents the 2008 Chattahippie Music Festival featuring: Pure Prairie League, Chris Knight, The Derailers, Charlie Louvin, Walt Wilkins & The Mystiqueros, Two Tons of Steel, Elizabeth Cook, Dallas Wayne, The Gougers, Gary Nicholson, Jason Eady & The Wayward Apostles, Laura Cantrell, Buzz Cason & The Love Notes, Beggars’ Caravan, Lou Wamp, Roger Alan Wade, Dane Varese, Joe Moss, Trent Summar & The New Row Mob, Jimmy Davis, Michael Johnathon, Band of Heathens, Doug & Telisha Williams, Miles from Nowhere, Michael Hearne & South by Southwest, Tommy Alverson, Billy Block, Whitey Johnson, Penguin, Tressie Seegers, Darryl Lee Rush, and The New Binkley Brothers.

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Trent Summar will be joined by Jay Knowles, Odie Blackman and Fred Wilhelm at the legendary Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. These talented performers will share songs, laughs and inspiration at 9:00 P.M. on Wednesday, June 11th.

Bluebird Cafe  4104 Hillsboro Pike  Nashville  615-383-1461

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Peter Cooper writes about country music for The Tennessean

“In a just and righteous world, Trent Summar would be a big ‘ol country star. He’s charismatic, his music rocks with abandon and twangs with ferocity, and his songs are smart and true. How can a song about writing a loved one’s name on a race car (”Paint Your Name In Purple”) not be in heavy rotation at country radio? We dunno.”

Trent Summar will perform on Saturday, June 7th at 2:00. His performance will take place outside the Sommet Center at the Chevy Stage.

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The Americana Music Association released its list of the Top 100 Albums of 2007, and we’re proud to have several artists in the lineup. Congrats to these fantastic artists and their stellar recordings!

• Trent Summar & The New Row Mob, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades
• Walt Wilkins & The Mystiqueros, Diamonds in the Sun
• The Derailers, Under the Influence of Buck

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Popmatters.com reviews The Best Of the 2007 Americana Music Festival

November 20, 2007

Palo Duro Records artists Trent Summar & Dale Watson listed among the best!

PopMatters attended the 8th annual Americana Music Festival in Nashville, which ran from 31 October until 3 November. The showcases and Awards Ceremony, held in various, cozy venues, including the famed Ryman Auditorium ran from good to oh, so damn good. The entire event is comfortable, unassuming, and high-quality. It had us thinking we might just pack up everything and move down to Nashville, just to be close to this sweet music and delectable food on a daily basis. Below are our hard-to-pare-down picks from this year. We’ll be back, next.

1. Buddy Miller

2. Lyle Lovett

3. Trent Summar and The New Row Mob

Trent Summar and his New Row Mob put on a smoking show the first night of the festival and he was an absolute revelation. Summar is all hillbilly cool with a cocksure swagger and electrifying performance chops. His music is best described as cowpunk and Summar has called it “farm rock,” but even that doesn’t do this consummate performer justice. Summar penned the Gary Allen hit, “Guys Like Me,” and yet as I raved about him to anyone who would listen at the festival, I kept hearing “Trent who?” That needs to change and right now, mister.—Sarah Zupko

4. Patty Griffin

5. Dale Watson

Honky tonk as pure as the driven snow from this Austin, Texas mainstay, Dale Watson’s smooth baritone brings to mind Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash and his crack band could give Willie’s crew a run for their money. Watson’s set was one of the finest of the festival and brought traditional country music to an adoring, appreciative crowd. If you want to experience this for yourself, pick up 2002’s Live in London, England for a bit of what Don Walser would call “pure Texas”.—Sarah Zupko

Read the entire list at popmatters.com

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