Monday, December 28, 2020

Music Minute: Country Music Roundup



Country Singer/Songwriter, Mickey Lamantia, has announced the release of his new song, “Ladies Love Outlaws,” featuring Jamey Johnson and is the second single off his forthcoming project, Honky Honk Confessions: Chapter Four, the fourth and final in the series of EP's. The new song was produced by longtime collaborator Bill McDermott and Buddy Cannon at Omni Studio in Nashville. “Ladies Love Outlaws” is available for streaming and download on all digital music platforms here.

Stay current with Mickey Lamantia on his website
 mickeyml750.com and follow him on social media platforms FacebookTwitter and Instagram

Music is available on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Pandora and YouTube Music

About Mickey Lamantia:  

Mickey Lamantia is an American Country Singer/Songwriter from Cranston, Rhode Island. He has been a Rhode Island state correctional officer for 20 years and has two children with his wife, Amanda.  He is the youngest of five children and is known for using his perspective as a prison guard to pen many of his songs. Mickey knew early on he wanted to be a musician.  His parents listened to Loretta Lynn, George Jones,  Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Boxcar Willie. His uncle, Leroy, played in Honkey Tonks around  New England and Lamantia would be invited to sit in sometimes as a teenager. In 1992, he was heard singing a Randy Travis song at a karaoke bar and was asked to open four shows in  New England for Willie Nelson at just 22 years of age. In 2015, Lamantia began hosting live streams on Facebook calling them Whiskey Wednesdays. The show is sponsored by Sons of Liberty Whiskey Co., and averages  10,000 to 20,000 views each week. He has independently released music and has amassed over 6 million streams and he has opened for artists such as Mickey Gilley, Billy Joe Shaver and Jamey Johnson. 



Country music artist, Ken Wilber, has announced the release of three singles as a gift to his fans during the holiday season, “Bread On The Table, "Freedom Song" and "I Could Get Used To You," are all part of his upcoming compilation project. All three tunes were recorded at Ocean Way Studios in Nashville and engineered and mixed by Tony Cottrill at The DAWg Houze in Hendersonville, TN and mastered by Benny Quinn. The new releases are available on all digital music platforms for streaming and download. “Bread On The Table" is available here"Freedom Song"is available here and "I Could Get Used To You" is available here.

All of Ken’s music is available for streaming on SpotifyApple Music and download on Google Play, Amazon Music and iTunes.

Stay current with Ken Wilber on his website www.kenwilbercountry.com on social media platforms FacebookTwitter and Instagram.

About Ken Wilber:
Ken Wilber was born in Oneonta, NY on October 29th, 1980. His earliest musical influences were Conway Twitty, Merle Haggard, George Jones and Johnny Cash. His family remembers him at a young age staring at the records as they played, trying to understand the music he heard. Ken learned to sing by trying to emulate the people he heard on the recordings and would keep at it, until he could copy every little inflection of the vocal performance. In high school Ken discovered his second love, theater. He made his theatrical debut at the age of 14 in a high school production of “Fame.”  The band Fly By Nite was formed with Ken as lead singer where they played locally every weekend at a local watering hole called “Babcocks.”  Fly by Nite played together for a little over ten years, before dissolving in 2012. Ken Also sang with the southern rock Group J.D. Mistress.  Ken was brought in by guitar player Rich Rogers.  He played with them for about six months, where they played several dates locally and had the opportunity to open for Molly Hatchet and Blackfoot in Albany, NY. After Fly By Nite dissolved, Ken and Kerry Fallot set out to begin writing and arranging music for Ken’s first album “Rollin’ My Own,” and the album was completed in 2017.Ken had the opportunity to play country music Legend Hank Williams in a local theatrical production of “Hank Williams: Lost Highway.”  Tony Cottrill mastered the first project and shortly after the mastering was completed, Tony contacted Ken to come to Nashville to record a demo session for Sonny LeMaire of Exile fame. As a result of the demo sessions, Ken decided to record his second album in Nashville in October of 2018. New music to be released soon, recorded in Nashville, TN at Ocean Way studio and produced by Tony Cottrill and Sonny LeMaire.

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