March 1, 2013 Eli Young Band returned to their hometown of Denton (Texas) to film a bonus video for their title track 'Life at Best.' The song reflects everything that has happened to them since the group met and formed what is now one of the biggest bands in music.
February 15, 2013 Texas country took over late night with two of its biggest acts performing on late night shows. Eli Young Band performed on 'The Tonight Show' with Jay Leno, and East Texas' own Kacey Musgraves made her television debut on 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.'
February 13, 2013 It's a great day to be from East Texas. The nominees of the 48th Academy of Country Music Awards were announced this morning, and two of our favorite East Texans were nominated for a total of nine awards, including one of the biggest of the night.
Rita Ballou joins Radio Texas, LIVE! each week to keep us up to date on all the happenings in the Texas and Red Dirt Music scene. This week Rita gave us the scoop, this week we get a Rita review of Eli Young Band's new video, plus the first ever "All the Dirt in Red Dirt -- in Reverse!"
Our friends from the Eli Young Band have released a video for the song "Skeletons." The song can be found on their album "Life at Best," and is the follow up to the fan-slammed video for their current single "Say Goodnight." If you haven't seen it, that video featured an alien robot falling from the sky, then in love with a human girl. Yeah, it was the first ever sci-fi country music video.
Rita Ballou joins Radio Texas, LIVE! each week to keep us up to date on all the happenings in the Texas and Red Dirt Music scene. This week Rita gave the scoop on Earl Dibbles Jr.'s bloody forehead, Sunny Sweeny's "Click in the Box" campaign, her TRRMA predictions plus Josh Abbott's new video. Here’s All the Dirt in Red Dirt.
Check out the Eli Young Band TONIGHT on The Bachelor, Eli Young Band will be accompanying a one on one date in tonight's (Jan. 21) episode of The Bachelor on ABC. The episode will feature a special “one-on-one date” where two chronically ill teenage girls will get a surprise of a lifetime with the newest Bachelor, Sean Lowe.
FacebookRita Ballou joins Radio Texas, LIVE! each week to keep us up to date on all the happenings in the Texas and Red Dirt Music scene. This week we talked about a couple Texas ladies up for an ACM, Ray Wylie Hubbard's and Eli Young Band's late night television appearances plus she even worked in J WOWW and Snooki, some how. Here’s All the Dirt in Red Dirt.
He's been writing and performing songs for fifteen years, and even though Will Hoge is a name you might not yet know -- you are definitely familiar with his work. Hoge penned Eli Young Band's No.1 smash "Even if it Breaks Your Heart," a song that has earned him a Grammy nomination. He called into Radio Texas, LIVE! last week and we found out what the nomination means to him, discussed his twitter "war" with Richard Mark plus debuted his new single, a song that features Texas powerhouse Wade Bowen.
This Saturday on Radio Texas, LIVE! we welcome the writer of Eli Young Band's No. 1 smash "Even if it Breaks Your Heart," Will Hoge. The single and Hoge are nominated for "Country Song of the Year" at the upcoming Grammy Awards. Unfortunately, it seems, this monumental accomplishment will take a back seat to Hoge's Twitter battle with Richard Marx.
Since the TRRR has been on hiatus the last couple weeks there is no change in the chart. But since I haven't posted the top songs in the same amount of time, let's get caught back up. This week Kyle Park enjoys his third week on top courtesy of his first-career No. 1 with “The Night is Young” off his “Make or Break Me” album. Let's see where everyone else lines up.
Congratulations are in order for Eli Young Band's Jon Jones, who welcomed his first child -- a boy named Hudson Lennon Jones -- on Dec. 31 just outside of Fort Worth, Texas.
