Journey continues for Ty Herndon
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Journey continues for Ty Herndon

Thursday, December 16, 2010 – Ty Herndon has not been on the air for a while, but his video for Journey On sure is getting watched.

For the week ending Dec. 12, the video garnered enough views on CMT.com to make it one of the 5 most-watched videos on the website, allowing it placement on CMT's High 5 Video Countdown. Journey On is the first video to land on the countdown without already being in rotation on the network.

Journey On is the signature song for The Kevin Turner Foundation in its campaign to fight ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. The video opens with a personal message from Turner, a former Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots NFL football player who was diagnosed with the disease in May. Herndon and Turner first met earlier this year at an ALS benefit, which resulted in a music video being shot in Nashville by directors Flick Wiltshire and Steven Goldmann.

The video is available for purchase at iTunes, with all proceeds benefiting the Kevin Turner Foundation and its efforts to fund research for an ALS cure. Donations are also accepted at www.KevinTurnerFoundation.org.

Herndon's "Journey On" album was recently nominated for a 2011 Grammy Award in the "Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album" category. The inspirational country project has earned Herndon a 2010 Dove Award for the song, When We Fly. The disc marks Herndon's debut as a songwriter, having co-written every song.


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Steam
Ty Herndon appears to be making a play to become the next Tom Jones - only with a drawl. But while songs like the title cut, and the striptease of Randy Newman's "You Can Leave Your Hat On" work up a light sweat, don't expect all of Jones' fans to suddenly start throwing their hotel keys Herndon's way. That's because this man, who began as a childhood gospel singer, is just too darn polite to come right out and demand sex. Besides, he sounds way too conflicted. He opens with a song that warns ...
Big Hopes
Country music now resembles early Sixties American pop, with producers the real artists and singers merely interchangeable faces on record sleeves. As long as Ty Herndon's nice voice and face can front a hit, he's good for another 100,000 miles of touring and audio tape. Byron Gallimore, who produced Tim McGraw's smashes, helms 6 of 11 cuts here, while Doug Johnson, Herndon's first producer, handles five. Gallimore scores bigger with a "smaller" sound. On the title track and "Thinkin' With My ...

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