Ingram readies Early Show gig
"Playing on TV shows with the world 'early' in the title isn't something that many touring musicians look forward to playing," joked Ingram. "But I'm actually really excited about it. I'm even excited about killing myself to get to Vegas for the ACM Awards to perform again the next day...it's a big deal to me. It's an especially big deal because I get to perform a song that I wrote over 10 years ago, and do it in front of 15 million people. Just another lesson to 'keep on, keeping on.'"
Ingram, the 2008 ACM "Best New Male Vocalist," is a double nominee as artist and producer this year for Vocal Event of the Year for his song Seeing Stars, a collaboration with Patty Griffin.
The 45th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards are scheduled to air live from Las Vegas on Sunday, April 18 at 8 p.m. eastern on CBS.
Following the ACMs, Ingram will open for Gary Allan before jumping on the Country Throwdown tour in May.
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)
- 01/26/10: Jack Ingram goes Free
- 08/27/09: Ingram gets with the sauce
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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