January 13, 2012 For all of us die-hard Eli Young Band fans, the wait is over. The guys debuted their video for their new single "Even If It Breaks Your Heart" this morning on CMT.
Organizers of the 2012 Tyler Cattle Barons Gala announced the lineup of performers for the June 9 event -- and it's a good one.
January 4, 2012 It finally came to an end.
After several successful defenses as Daily Duel champion, 'Even If It Breaks Your Heart' from the Eli Young Band falls by a 60-40% margin to the new song from Tim McGraw.
So, McGraw now moves into the champion's seat and competition is gonna be tough from the outset as he'll be taking on the new song from Blake Shelton.
January 3, 2012 'Even If It Breaks Your Heart' from the Eli Young Band took 73% of the vote against 'Time is Love' by Josh Turner on the last daily duel.
Now, EYB will go on to face the latest release from Tim McGraw.
It could happen, "Crazy Girl" after all was Billboards Number 1 Country song for 2011. The song also spent a record 41 weeks on the Texas Music Chart, was downloaded over 1.3 million times and their album "Life At Best" debuted as the #3 top album in the country and #1 for Country Music all that plus a tour with Dierks Bentley later, I could see it happening. Not bad for the guys from Denton. If you've yet to hear Eli Young Band's new single (due to hit radio January 23rd) "Even If it Breaks Your Heart" we've got your first listen right here.
December 30, 2011 The Eli Young Band keeps right on rolling on the Daily Duel.
In yesterday's battle, it looked like Brantley Gilbert was getting the lion share of the votes on our Facebook page, but, in our Country Club survey section, EYB comes away with a little over 60% of the vote.
Now, the Eli Young Band will take on the latest from Josh Turner.
December 29, 2011 The Eli Young Band continues as the Daily Duel champion as their latest single defeated the new release from Taylor Swift in yesterday's competition.
Now, the Eli Young Band will take on an artist who, like EYB, also scored their first number one single in 2011 - Brantley Gilbert.
Wow, 2011's been a big year in Texas and Red Dirt Music -- we started out the year with quite a few late night TV appearances (which continued throughout the year) Granger Smith was literally "Sleeping on The Interstate" there were multiple Live at Billy Bob's recordings, Pat Green's back -- if you hadn't heard, Josh Abbott and Brandon Rhyder teamed up to to help out with Texas wildfires and despite all this and more it was undoubtedly the year of Eli Young Band's "Crazy Girl." Recap 2011 in it's entirety after the jump
December 28, 2011 Congratulations to the Eli Young Band, their latest single gets the victory over Ronnie Dunn in yesterday's Daily Duel...taking 63% of the vote.
Now, EYB will go up against the latest from Taylor Swift.
December 27, 2011 Thanks for all your help in selecting the top song of 2011, which by the way went to Justin Moore with 'If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away'.
Now, we're back to featuring battles between the newest songs from Nashville.
Our newest challengers are Ronnie Dunn and the Eli Young Band.
Rita Ballou joins The RTX Crew each week to bring us all the Dirt in Texas and Red Dirt Music. She tends to ruffle feathers but that’s only because people are paying attention. And do not forget besides being a blogger she is also
I've heard it referred to as "being Pat Greened" and every time I hear about Texas Music fans turning on the bands they've help build, I'm reminded of something I heard as a kid about lobsters. Did you know lobster tanks don't need lids? Because according to the story -- with lobsters, if one manages to start making it's way over the glass, out of the aquarium the other lobster will always pull it back down. I don't know how true it is and Google didn't confirm it for me but it's interesting.
