Faith Hill helps kick off NFL season
Tuesday, August 7, 2007 – Faith Hill will participate in a free concert to celebrate the kickoff of the National Football League's 88th season Sept. 6 in Indianapolis. Others joining in the festivities are John Mellencamp and Kelly Clarkson.
There will be simulcast coverage of the 30-minute pre-game show at 8 p.m. eastern on NBC and NFL Network. The performances are part of the celebration to kick off the 2007 season and to honor the Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts and the city.
The show leads into the season opener between the Colts and the New Orleans Saints at the RCA Dome (NBC, Westwood One Radio Sports, 8:30 PM eastern).
Mellencamp will perform from the RCA Dome. Hill and Clarkson will give a free concert at Monument Circle. Hinder will also perform.
This is the fourth consecutive year the NFL has saluted the Super Bowl champions with the opening game in their stadium on a Thursday in primetime.
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CD reviews for Faith Hill
Faith Hill's first Christmas album is an uptown affair, rather than any down home celebration. Making this point from the very outset, the opening title cut features a full adult choir and orchestra. Furthermore, Hill is dressed for the ball in a beautiful red gown on the disc's front cover.
The first time Hill steers away from overly philharmonic-ready material, she heads straight for swing town with horns a plenty on both Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town. and Holly Jolly Christmas. ...
Finally, after 14 years in the recording business and more than 30 charting songs, Faith Hill released a greatest hits plus package. The songs go all the way from "Wild One" and "Piece of My Heart," her first two singles ever from 1993 and 1994 with both going number one up to "Mississippi Girl" from 2005 plus a few new songs.
Hill had more of a country vibe starting out, but grew progressively pop (the new and catchy, but not very country "Red Umbrella"). ...
Faith Hill stayed so far from her country roots with 2003's "Cries" that she laid an egg on country radio. The album was so pop that there was nothing for radio to play.
Hill did not make the same mistake twice as there is a significant amount of country instrumentation starting with the Dan Dugmore banjo and Stuart Duncan mandolin on the lead off "Sunshine and Summertime." The autobiographical and well delivered hit single, "Mississippi Girl," written in part by John Rich, who had a hand in 3 of ...
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