(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) People always say country music tells stories. And it does. But Kellie Pickler is going way beyond the storytelling. What she is doing in the first track (“Where’s [...]
Kellie Pickler says she approached her third album, 100 Proof, with one goal in mind: “I really wanted to take people back to the roots of country music, the music that I grew up on.” And her new album proves that she meant it. 100 Proof leans heavily on traditional [...]
Kellie Pickler will host the Nashville Humane Association’s second annual Unleashed: Dinner With Your Dog fundraiser taking place Saturday (Jan. 21) at the Hutton Hotel in Nashville. In addition to dinner with your canine companion, the event will also include a pet fashion show featuring local fashion designers, jewelry designers [...]
Kellie Pickler will release her third album, 100 Proof, on Jan. 24, she announced Monday (Oct. 31). The project features her latest single, “Tough.” She co-wrote six of the 11 songs, including “Long as I Never See You Again” with Dean Dillon and Dale Dodson. The album opens with a [...]
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) Making it big in the music business after winning American Idol is tough enough. So imagine how hard it would be to sell millions, or even thousands, of [...]
In 2005, North Carolina born-and-raised singer Kellie Pickler landed a spot in the fifth season of American Idol. Though she finished sixth, the former waitress and Miss North Carolina contestant charmed American audiences with her Southern twang and blonde ambition, resulting in a contract with BNA Records that yielded her debut album, Small Town Girl, in the fall of 2006 and an eponymous sophomore release in 2008. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide