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Carrie Underwood Releases Storyteller This Friday, October 23
On Friday, October 23 Carrie will headline a special outdoor performance on NBC’s Today, as part of their Citi ConcertSeries. On Tuesday, October 27 Carrie is set to chat and perform on The Ellen DeGeneres Show as well as make a guest chat appearance and an outdoor concert performance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!
This weekend CMT will celebrate Storyteller with a special takeover October 24-25 timed to the release of the album featuring “CMT Instant Jam,” “CMT Crossroads,” and a Carrie co-hosted “CMT Hot 20.”
On Monday, November 2 Carrie will appear and perform as part of the pre-CMA Awards special, Countdown to the CMA Awards: Country’s Greatest Crossover Hits with Robin Roberts, on ABC. That same evening Carrie will make a special appearance on The Late, Late Show with James Corden on CBS. On November 5, Carrie will appear on Lifetime’s Emmy-nominated Project Runway. Carrie will join Emmy Award winners Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn along with Nina Garcia and Zac Posen as a guest judge for the season finale.
In addition to the October 23 digital and CD release of Storyteller, a limited-edition version of the album will be released on 150-gram vinyl on December 4. The vinyl edition will also include special etched artwork featuring Carrie’s name and the album name on one side of the two-LP set. The vinyl edition is currently available for pre-order at http://smarturl.it/amzstorytellervinyl.
Fans can read more about Carrie in the recent People magazine cover story, as the cover subject of Shape’s November issue out now, the Country Weekly cover feature on stands this Friday, and the December cover of Cosmopolitan due on stands in a couple of weeks. This Sunday’s Parade magazine cover features Carrie, with her dogs Ace and Penny, on why she loves Halloween and scary movies.
Fans purchasing music at Target will receive two exclusive tracks, “Heartbeat (stripped)” and “Little Girl Don’t Grow Up Too Fast.” Earlier today, Carrie debuted a special performance of the track, “Heartbeat (stripped).” Watch it here.
Storyteller was produced by Jay Joyce, Mark Bright, and Zach Crowell with six of its 13 songs co-written by Carrie, including the Top-10-and-climbing record-breaking first single, “Smoke Break.”
Storyteller
- “Renegade Runaway” (Carrie Underwood/Chris DeStefano/Hillary Lindsey)
- “Dirty Laundry” (Zach Crowell/Ashley Gorley/Hillary Lindsey)
- “Church Bells” (Zach Crowell/Brett James/Hillary Lindsey)
- “Heartbeat” (Carrie Underwood/Zach Crowell/Ashley Gorley)
- “Smoke Break” (Carrie Underwood/Chris DeStefano/Hillary Lindsey)
- “Choctaw County Affair” (Jason White)
- “Like I’ll Never Love You Again” (Hillary Lindsey/Lori McKenna/Liz Rose)
- “Chaser” (Carrie Underwood/Mike Elizondo/Hillary Lindsey)
- “Relapse” (Ben Caver/Sara Haze/Brett James)
- “Clock Don’t Stop” (Blair Daly/Chris DeStefano/Hillary Lindsey)
- “The Girl You Think I Am” (Carrie Underwood/David Hodges/Hillary Lindsey)
- “Mexico” (Kathleen Higgins/Jamie Moore/Derrick Adam Southerland)
- “What I Never Knew I Always Wanted” (Carrie Underwood/Brett James/Hillary Lindsey)
Tracks 1, 2, 5-8 produced by Jay Joyce
Tracks 3, 10-13 produced by Mark Bright
Tracks 4, 9 produced by Zach Crowell
Physical copies of the Storyteller CD are available for pre-order at Amazon.com here: http://smarturl.it/amzstoryteller. Digital pre-orders of Storyteller at http://smarturl.it/custoryteller will immediately receive not only the current single, “Smoke Break,” but also the songs “Heartbeat,” “Renegade Runaway,” and “What I Never Knew I Always Wanted.”
Carrie Underwood to Perform at the 2015 American Music Awards®
Fans can vote for each category once per day, per platform in any (or many) of the below ways:
- Via AMAvote.com – Voting available for all categories
- Posting a status on Facebook that includes the nominee’s name and the category’s hashtag within the post(s) – Voting available for all categories except New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl’s and Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile
- Posting a Tweet on Twitter that includes the nominee’s name or Twitter handle, the category name and #AMAs within the post(s) – Voting available for all categories
For more information on how to vote, please visit http://www.theamas.com/vote/voting-faq/
“Sinatra 100 — An All-star Grammy® Concert” to Be Broadcast Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, on CBS
In close partnership with the Sinatra family, “Sinatra 100 — An All-Star GRAMMY Concert” is the only televised concert special celebrating Sinatra’s centennial. Through the generosity of the family, the concert will feature artists performing instantly recognizable arrangements originally orchestrated for “the Chairman of the Board” by renowned arrangers Don Costa, Gordon Jenkins, Quincy Jones, and Nelson Riddle. The special will keep the honoree center stage throughout the night by integrating tribute performances of Sinatra classics with rare archival footage narrated by Sinatra himself.
“Frank Sinatra is a voice for all generations. His showmanship and artistry have remained unmatched since he began performing professionally in the 1930s to his last recording 21 years ago,” said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy. “Today, he continues to gain popularity for his classic sound and signature style. It’s only fitting that we join the global celebration in honor of his 100th birthday.”
“My personal memories of Frank remind me that he was a class act who also knew how to have fun. That’s what this celebration will be,” said executive producer Ken Ehrlich of AEG Ehrlich Ventures. “By partnering with Steve Wynn and featuring Las Vegas as the backdrop, the evening will be a party the Rat Pack would be proud of.”
“The name Frank Sinatra is synonymous with excellence that is timeless. As a performer, he possessed undeniable charisma and masterful artistry that resonate throughout generations,” said Jack Sussman, executive vice president, specials, music and live Events, CBS Entertainment. “To have the opportunity to celebrate the life and art of The Chairman of the Board on his 100th birthday, and witness the lasting effects his music has had on artists today with a star-studded GRAMMY concert, is a true honor.”
Among Sinatra’s nine GRAMMY wins are three for Album Of The Year for Come Dance With Me (1959), September Of My Years (1965), and A Man And His Music (1966). Additional recognition from The Recording Academy includes a Lifetime Achievement Award, GRAMMY Legend Award™, and 13 recordings inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame®.
“Sinatra 100 — An All-Star GRAMMY Concert” continues the tradition of previous Emmy Award®-winning TV specials presented by The Recording Academy, AEG Ehrlich Ventures, and CBS: “Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life — An All-Star GRAMMY Salute” and “The Beatles: The Night That Changed America — A GRAMMY Salute.”
“Sinatra 100 — An All-Star GRAMMY Concert” is produced by AEG Ehrlich Ventures, LLC. Ken Ehrlich is the executive producer, Lou Horvitz is director, and David Wild and Ehrlich are writers.
For ticket sales information, please email ticketing@grammy.com.
Carrie Receives AMA Nomination for Favorite Female Artist – Country! Vote Daily!
Listen to the new song “Heartbeat”
Carrie Underwood to Celebrate Release of “Storyteller” with Outdoor Performance on NBC’s “Today”
Making the lyric video all the more fun, Underwood asked her fans to share images of what they like to do when they need a break. In return, selected photos are highlighted throughout the video.
Produced by Jay Joyce, Mark Bright, and Zach Crowell, Underwood’s 13-song Storyteller album will be available at all music sellers on October 23 and also available in a Target-exclusive version with two additional tracks. The album can be pre-ordered now on Target.com at http://smarturl.it/targetstoryteller.
Carrie Underwood to Headline 2016 Country to Country Festival
“Country to Country is delighted to welcome Carrie Underwood back to the event as headliner in our fourth year. In addition to London O2 we are delighted to have her help launch our inaugural Glasgow event and our third year of C2C in Dublin.
Carrie Underwood helped establish the event in our first year and the creation of the biggest celebration of country music outside North America. Country to Country is proud to have event partners BBC Radio 2 and the CMA.” –Chris York, SJM
The full event line up and on-sale details will be exclusively revealed during a C2C Launch Party at Brooklyn Bowl on Tuesday 6th October. There will also be a special guest performance on the night.