Hank Williams Jr., Jamey Johnson, Grascals coming to Tulsa’s BOK Center
Hank Williams Jr.
Jamey Johnson (Associated Press file photo)
The Grascals
Country music icon Hank Williams Jr. will team up this spring with Jamey Johnson and The Grascals for an outing dubbed the “Rowdy Friends Tour 2010.” The tour will make a stop at Tulsa’s BOK Center on May 7, the venue announced today.
Tickets for the Tulsa show will go on sale at 10 a.m. Feb. 27. Prices are set at $27, $51.50, $61.50 and $127.
Tickets will be available online at www.bokcenter.com, at Arby’s Box Office and all Tickets.com outlets, or by calling (866) 7BOKCTR.
The tour’s initial round of dates will kick off April 2 in Charleston, W.V.
Throughout his career, Hank Williams Jr. has helped shape our country’s cultural landscape with his unbridled creativity, from-the-gut honesty and unwavering personal convictions. His music not only reflects his own life, but the common experiences that unite us.
His music has long been a barometer reflecting both our nation’s challenges and the resilience of the human spirit in such anthems as “A Country Boy Can Survive.” And he managed to perfectly capture the country’s sense of fun and competitive drive every Monday night as he looked into the cameras before ABC’s Monday Night Football and roared “Are You ready for Some Football?” Those words not only won him a legion of new fans during the last decade, they also earned Williams the distinction of being the first country artist to ever to win an Emmy, a feat he repeated from 1990 through 1993.
Those familiar with Hank Jr.’s legend know it hasn’t been an easy road. Every life and career has its peaks and valleys, but Williams has had more than his share. When he sings “A Country Boy Can Survive,” there’s an authority in his voice, because he’s done just that. He fell from a mountaintop, yet lived to tell the tale. He’s battled his own demons and now on the other side of 50, it’s obvious he has been the victor.
In April 2009, Williams released a new single, “Red, White & Pink-Slip Blues,” which reached No. 43 on the country charts. The song was the lead-off single to Williams’ album,” 127 Rose Avenue.” The album debuted and peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
Jamey Johnson is the co-writer of the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music’s 2007 song of the year, “Give It Away,” recorded by George Strait. Trace Adkins, George Jones and Joe Nichols have also recorded his songs. But instead of sitting at home counting his royalty checks, Johnson recorded more than 40 songs during the past year.
Not content with providing hits for others, the singer-songwriter has a powerful drive to sing, record and perform. “Writing is not enough for me,” he says in a news release. “I did not come here to just be a writer. I live to play. … I’m not here to take a stab at it. I am going to DO it.”
Following a deep period of isolation and introspection, Johnson entered the recording studio in April 2007. Within months, Jamey emerged with “That Lonesome Song,” a collection of compositions that is equally noteworthy for its lyrical craftsmanship and its strikingly original sound. At the heart of “That Lonesome Song” is a trio of great story songs. The frank lyric of “High Cost of Living” paints a dramatic portrait of a man who hits bottom and winds up in prison. “Mary Go Round” is the cautionary tale of a woman who goes through a divorce and loses her moral compass. “In Color,” the collection’s first single, is the moving depiction of a man looking back at his life in black-and-white photographs.
Contemporary bluegrass band the Grascals consists of six professional Nashville musicians who each had been playing bluegrass for roughly two decades before forming the Grascals. When founding the group, the bandmates all knew each other either from childhood or professional gigging with artists like the Osborne Brothers, Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire and Jimmy Martin, according to AllMusic.com.
The group first rose to national attention while touring with Parton in 2004. In 2005, the band won the International Bluegrass Music Association emerging artist of the year award, as well as the song of the year prize for “Me and John and Paul”. In 2006 and 2007, the Grascals won the bluegrass association’s entertainer of the year title.
-BAM
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TO WHOME IT MAY CONCERN ; just found out about concert i have a disabled wife an, i need to order tickets asap, close to stage an out side setting do to blatter an syatic nerve its hard for her to get around i appreciate anything you can do for us
THANK YOU ,IN ADAVANCE AN WILL BE WAITING ON REPLY TO ORDER TICKETS ASAP