Ingram heads to Cuba
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 – Jack Ingram is playing Cuba. The singer is touring U.S. military outposts in Cuba, playing four shows over five days through the USO. When he returns, look for Ingram to head to Las Vegas for the ACM Awards.
"The amazing thing about music is the places it'll take you if you're open to it," Ingram said. "I've been to inaugurations, the biggest rodeos in the world, scrappy little bars, on tour with everyone from Brad Paisley to Toby Keith to Sheryl Crow - and now Cuba. It's crazy the way music connects such different kinds of people, but then...it also makes a pretty strong case for how music - if you'll let it - is the great equalizer."
More news for Jack Ingram
- 02/28/24: Ingram, Randall, McBride join Texas Music Hall
- 04/29/21: Lambert, Randall, Ingram plan film on "The Marfa Tapes"
- 03/05/21: Lambert, Ingram, Randall to release 15 songs
- 03/04/21: Lambert, Ingram, Randall team up for surprise recording
- 03/10/16: Ingram returns with Rounder
- 10/26/10: Ingram checks into Acoustic Motel (tour)
- 04/08/10: Ingram readies Early Show gig
- 01/26/10: Jack Ingram goes Free
CD reviews for Jack Ingram
Jack Ingram tells a crazy story about the inspiration for "Blaine's Ferris Wheel" at the end of another song, "I Feel Like Drinking Tonight." It's one of a few places where Ingram can be heard just talking. In part, this story concerns a time when Ingram was asked to open for the late Merle Haggard. But as great a storyteller Ingram is, he's even a better songwriter and "I Feel Like Drinking Tonight" ranks right up there with all those great Haggard drinking songs. ...
Jack Ingram spent much of the '90s polishing his star in the organic, stripped-down Texas music scene before leaving it behind for the allure (and chance for a larger career) that comes with Nashville's pop-country sound. Ingram's music has become sleeker, with drums and electric guitar thrown to the forefront in true Nashville style, but even that can't hide his slightly rugged vocals.
A bitter, darker version of honky-tonk rocker Barbie Doll was released on his 1999 album "Hey You. ...
Before slapping the sellout tag on Jack Ingram for recording Hinder's poppy power ballad "Lips of an Angel" or chalking it up to a new record company's desperate move to make its star male sound hip and contemporary, give it a listen. Like Ingram says in the liner notes, a good song is a good song.
Problem is, if it becomes his trademark song, much like Mark Chesnutt just can't shake "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" despite everything else he's done, ...
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