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There are many ways to describe Tracy Byrd, but unique, talented, and charismatic just seem to scratch the surface. However, there is one word that ties them all together and is true to their character: Tracy Byrd is Real. Few people sing so honestly from their heart and soul. Tracy Byrd does so in just the right way, combining art, story, and song in perfect unison.

There are many things that Darryl Worley has come to know in his 15-year career in country music. One of those things is how to recognize a hit song, scoring nearly 20 hit singles and three chart-topping hits with the self-penned “Awful, Beautiful Life” and the poignant “Have You Forgotten,” which spent an astonishing seven weeks at No. 1 as well as “I Miss My Friend” which came to him via a songwriter friends in Nashville. He also recognizes the importance of giving back every opportunity that he can through his annual charities that has funded organizations such as the Darryl Worley Cancer Treatment Center in Savannah, Tenn.

In his music career spanning more than 25 years, Dean has claimed eleven top ten Billboard country singles, including five #1 hits: “I Miss Billy The Kid,” “Somewhere In My Broken Heart,” “If There Hadn’t Been You,” “You Don’t Count The Cost” and “It’s What I Do.” Dean recorded eight major label studio albums, three of which have been certified gold by the RIAA, as well as a greatest hits album which is also certified gold. Earlier in his career, the Academy of Country Music named Dean Top New Male Vocalist and also awarded him Song of the Year for “Somewhere In My Broken Heart.” In 2000, Dean sang harmony vocals alongside Alison Krauss on Kenny Rogers’ rendition of “Buy Me A Rose,” which earned a GRAMMY®. In addition to his successful recording career, Dean has also acted in several movies and appeared in numerous television shows.

Jim Stafford is an American comedian, musician, singer-songwriter, and actor. Best known for his humorous country novelty songs of the mid-70's, Jim Stafford also enjoyed a lengthy career as a television personality and live entertainer. He was born in the Florida town of Eloise, near Winter Haven. He grew up in a musical family and taught himself how to play a variety of instruments, including the guitar, fiddle, piano, harmonica, and banjo . After high school, Jim moved to Nashville and joined Jumpin' Bill Carlisle's backing band

Stafford was performing in Clearwater, FL, when he ran into Lobo and asked if he would consider recording Jim's original "The Swamp Witch." Lobo suggested that Stafford record it himself, and helped him land a contract with MGM; he would later produce many of Jim's singles as well. "The Swamp Witch" reached the Top 40 in 1973, but it was the following year's "Spiders and Snakes" -- a song co-written with David Bellamy of The Bellamy Brothers -- that brought Jim Stafford into the big time. The song peaked at number three on the pop charts, was certified Gold by the RIAA, and helped make him a household name.

His sense of humor was also showcased on the follow-up hits "My Girl Bill" and "Wildwood Weed," the latter another Top Ten pop hit. He charted in the Top 40 again in 1975 with "Your Bulldog Drinks Champagne" and "I Got Stoned and I Missed It."

By that time, Jim was enough of a celebrity to get his own prime-time variety show, "The Jim Stafford Show" on ABC. In 1981, Stafford appeared in the Clint Eastwood movie, "Any Which Way but Loose" and contributed the chart single, "Cow Patti," to the soundtrack. The following year, he wrote three songs for Disney's animated feature The Fox and the Hound. He hosted two television programs, Those Amazing Animals and Nashville on the Road. In the early '80s and later in the decade, he served as a writer for the Smothers Brothers return to prime-time television. In the meantime, he continued to tour and record.

Stafford has headlined at his own theater in Branson, MO since 1990. He continues to entertain there and at venues all across the country.

Leona Williams was destined to become a Country Music Entertainer. She landed her first radio show at the age of 15, simply called “Leona Sings” in Jefferson City, Missouri. That journey would take her all over the world and allow her to sing before thousands upon thousands of Country Music fans.

Leona moved to Nashville in the late 1960s from the small town of Vienna Missouri , and was soon recording for Hickory Records with such hits as “Once More” and “Yes Ma’am, He Found Me In A Honky Tonk”. Since then, Leona has traveled worldwide and opened shows for some of country music’s top entertainers and made numerous personal appearances at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.

Leona has had her songs recorded by some of Country music’s most popular artists including George Jones, Moe Bandy, Randy Travis, Hank Thompson, The Forester Sisters, Tammy Wynette, Gene Watson, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Ray Price, Johnny Bush, Willie Nelson, Connie Smith and many others.

Leona, a Missouri native, has been inducted into the Missouri Country Music Hall of Fame , the Country Music Association of Texas Hall of Fame , the North American Country Music Hall of Fame (N.A.C.M.A.) in Tennessee , and the Mobile Alabama Country Music Hall of Fame . She was honored with the prestigious George D. Hay Award . and was also given the “Honky Tonk Female Singer of the Year” award at the Ameripolitan Awards in Austin Texas.

Twice , Leona was honored with the “Entertainer of the Year” award by R.O.P.E. (Reunion of Professional Entertainers).  Recently , Leona was honored at the Leinster Entertainment Awards in Naas , Ireland with the ” International Singer and Songwriter of the Year ” award.

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Ronnie McDowell has an amazing string of hit songs that he has amassed over the years, but it is his riveting stage presence and genuine warmth that fills the seats again and again. He charted a string of hit singles and albums for Epic between 1979 and 1986 including the chart toppers “Older Women” and “You’re Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation.” Other hits during his Epic years included “Watchin Girls Go By,” “Personally,” “You Made A Wanted Man Of Me,” “All Tied Up,” and “In A New York Minute.” Like all great entertainers, Ronnie McDowell has a personality that remains luminous long after the lights go dim. These qualities have inspired a nationwide network of fan-clubs with thousands of members, each one a devoted promoter of everything McDowell does.

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Called the “Nashville Sound Chanteuse” (Music Row) and “the Judy Garland of our time” (American Songwriter), Grand Ole Opry member Mandy Barnett has built a reputation for her commanding voice and unwavering devotion to classic country and popular standards. Mandy has enchanted listeners around the globe with her world-class vocals and musical chameleon qualities. A Tennessee Music Pathways historical marker in Mandy’s Tennessee hometown honors her contributions in making Tennessee the “Soundtrack of America.” Of this singer’s singer, songwriter’s dream, and audience favorite, renowned songwriter/artist Jimmy Webb states simply, “Mandy Barnett has a voice for the ages.”

Mandy first gained national notice as the original star of the jukebox musical Always…Patsy Cline at Nashville’s famed Ryman Auditorium. She is the only actress to have played the role of Cline on the stage where Cline’s legend began.

Mandy’s critically applauded albums include her self-titled debut, I’ve Got A Right To Cry (produced by the iconic Owen Bradley), Winter Wonderland, Sweet Dreams, I Can’t Stop Loving You: The Songs of Don Gibson, Strange Conversation, A Nashville Songbook, and Every Star Above (which Variety named one of the best albums of 2021). In addition, her music has been featured in many major film and television soundtracks (starring Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Martin Sheen, Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Broderick, Sigourney Weaver, Ellen Burstyn, Bill Paxton, SpongeBob SquarePants, and others), and she often contributes tracks to multi-artist compilation albums of all genres—from country to Great American Songbook collections (such as duetting with Great American Songbook Ambassador Michael Feinstein on his 2022 Gershwin Country project).

Barnett’s television appearances include “The Tonight Show,” “The Late Show,” “CBS Sunday Morning,” PBS’s “Sessions at West 54^th,” PBS’s “Bluegrass Underground,” and numerous other programs.

Reviewers have extolled Barnett’s “pipes of steel” (Los Angeles Times), “natural musicality” (People), and “vocal finesse” (New York Times). USA Today calls Barnett one of Nashville’s “finest classic country and torch singers,” while the Chicago Tribune calls Barnett “a torch singer in the grandest sense of the word.”

McBride & the Ride is an American country music band consisting of Terry McBride (lead vocals, bass guitar), Ray Herndon (background vocals, guitars), and Billy Thomas (background vocals, drums). The group was founded in 1989 through the assistance of record producer Tony Brown. McBride & the Ride's first three albums —  Burnin' Up the Road , the gold-certified  Sacred Ground , and  Hurry Sundown , released in 1991, 1992, and 1993, respectively — were all issued on MCA Nashville. These albums also produced several hits on the  Billboard  country charts, including the Top 5 hits "Sacred Ground" (their highest-peaking, at No. 2), "Going Out of My Mind", "Just One Night", and "Love on the Loose, Heart on the Run".

In February 2022, the band had their first Nashville concert in 20 years. On November 4, 2022, the band released a new single titled "Marlboros & Avon". This was followed in March 2023 by a second single titled "Along Comes a Girl".

Billy Yates is a Nashville based, Grammy-nominated, singer/songwriter whose songs have been recorded by artists such as George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Chris Young, Sara Evans, Gary Allan, Joe Nichols, John Michael Montgomery, Daryle Singletary, The Oak Ridge Boys, Mark Chesnutt, Gene Watson, Sammy Kershaw, Doug Stone, Rhonda Vincent, Willie Nelson, Leonard Cohen, and more. Yates also co-wrote the George Jones classics, “I Don’t Need Your Rockin’ Chair” and the Grammy-award winning, “Choices”.

A seasoned entertainer, Billy Yates also tours Europe extensively where he was recently named the European CMA Male Vocalist of the Year. With 13 number 1 singles on the European charts. Here at home, Yates has been featured on the world-famous Grand Ole Opry 50 times and has also appeared on TV shows such as Larry’s Country Diner and Country’s Family Reunion. In addition, Billy holds the distinct honor of being one of the first American artists to perform in China's former Capitol city, Xian. He is also the first American artist to be featured on the popular Irish TV documentary, Opry an luir and is the first American artist to record in the traditional Irish Gaelic language.

As a record producer, Yates has produced a number of major European and Australian artists, plus a few US artists including country music legend, Charley Pride's last record, "Music in My Heart".

Yates was recently honored by his home state of Missouri as they named a stretch of federal highway that runs through his hometown the "Billy Yates Highway".