Bucky Covington on stage at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville, 11/17; photo by the very kind Honeygirl, who shares more of her beautiful concert shots in her newly-expanded Flickr photoset. Thanks again for the stunning images! Bucky Covington's debut CD is in stores now, and his music videos for "It's Good to Be Us" and "A Different World" are available for online viewing at CMT.com and Yahoo Music. You can buy Bucky's album at Amazon, Best Buy , iTunes, WalMart Music and Target, hear the full version of his singles at CMT and GAC, or enjoy samples of songs from the CD at Bucky's official MySpace. A copy of Bucky Covington can be ordered at his official site or via his official fan club.We'll post this ticket alert right up top--tickets to Bucky's show at the Voodoo Lounge at Harrah's St. Louis on December 20th are available now at Ticketmaster.com. We'll keep you posted on details about the December 21st show at Voodoo Lounge in Harrah's Kansas City, which will benefit the Sunshine Center building fund. Stay tuned!
Friday starts off with this fun "Five Questions for Bucky Covington" article in today's Charlotte Observer. Among other things, Bucky reveals that his Coyote Joe's Raisin' the Bar concert tonight with Jason Michael Carroll and Cole Deggs & the Lonesome (tickets available here) is a return gig--sort of:
My first time at Coyote Joe's was when I was on the "American Idol" tour (in 2006). A band called LiMBO, which was actually Taylor Hicks' old band, was playing over there and we all went.
This was, of course, that legendary Coyote Joe's aftershow featuring most of the Season 5 "Idol Rat Pack"--besides Taylor Hicks' full and fantastic set with his brilliant band, Bucky did a killer "Superstition" that evening with Ace Young on backup vocals, and Elliott Yamin brought the house down with a mini-set of his own. If you're feeling retro-nostalgic, here's a vintage photo gallery to kick start your memory...
Aside from a break to record his excellent debut album, Bucky Covington (informercial alert--it's available at Bucky's official site, Amazon, Best Buy and iTunes and it makes a great holiday gift, y'all!) , Bucky's spent most of the year touring and pleasing his long-time and new fans from coast-to-coast. He'll be back on stage tonight in Charlotte, then the Raisin' the Bar tour heads to Greenville, SC before heading to the Midwest for shows in Nebraska and Missouri. Here's that list of remaining dates again--this is one amazing lineup. Bucky, Jason and Cole rocked our socks off in Nashville--now it's your turn!November 23 Coyote Joe’s Charlotte, NC [tickets]
November 24 The Blind Horse Saloon Greenville, SC [tickets]
November 28 Uncle Ron's, Lincoln NE (402) 474-2332
November 30 Beaumont Club Kansas City, MO [TM]
December 1 Billy Bob’s Texas Fort Worth, TX (11/5 at [TM])
December 5 Northern Lights Clifton Park, NY [tickets]
December 6 Pepsi-Cola Roadhouse Burgettstown, PA [TM]
December 7 Crocodile Rock Café Allentown, PA [TM]
December 8 Rams Head Live! Baltimore, MD [tickets]
But that's not all--Bucky's also got some off-tour shows on his official schedule in November and December. The first of these is coming up very soon; the WIL Jinglefest happens on 11/29 at the Family Arena in St. Charles, MO, with Bucky and Eric Church sharing the bill with headliner Taylor Swift. Your next chance to score tickets to this free concert happens today between 12 noon and 1 p.m. local time at Shop n' Save, 175 Flower Valley Shopping Center in Florissant. Listen to WIL for more Jinglefest updates, and good luck to Bucky's fans from the Show Me state--have fun! (See the ticket alert up top for the just-released tickets for Bucky's show at Harrah's St. Louis ...)
Bucky's "It's Good to Be Us" is standing tall at #31 on both the Mediabase weighted and Top 500 charts today--and just look at the size of those bullets! Does that mean some sweet momentum is building? Sure looks that way. Let's keep it going--request "It's Good to Be Us" at your favorite local or streaming country station (phone calls work better than emails) vote in those local "Top X at X' countdowns, and tune in Lia, After Midnite, The Big Time with Whitney Allen, or your own favorite nationally syndicated country radio show and give them a ring. I see some good news on the horizon...Bucky's exciting motocross themed video for this song is worth watching over and over again--click here to see it at CMT (and show it to your co-workers and family, too!), then vote for him on at GAC's Top 20 Country Countdown, at CMT's Top 20 Countdown, at the GAC Top 50 Videos of the Year poll and at CMT's Pure Country Pure 12-Pack.
And for a bonus treat today, be sure to stop in at Rocky Covington's official site, where his video answers to some of those great questions you asked him a while back have just been posted. Rocky's as charming--and revealing--as ever, and the answers will give you a "backstage view" of his life on the road and his good times with the bigger band, among many more topics. Thanks to Rocky for taking the time out to talk to his fans--you can also thank him right there in his guestbook, if you're so inclined. Enjoy!
Have a beautiful Friday--and be careful out there in the stores! See you later today--Winnie
