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Miranda Lambert to perform at Riverside Casino

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Miranda Lambert (Riverside Casino photo)

The Pistol Annies — Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley — have canceled their June 28 concert at Riverside Casino & Golf Resort.

Instead, Miranda Lambert will bring her show to the resort’s outdoor stage that night, to launch the casino’s Summer Outdoor Concert Series.

All Pistol Annies tickets will be honored at Lambert’s performance. No exchanges are needed for guests who have already purchased tickets. A limited number of additional tickets are available at the casino’s Gift Shop, Riversidecasinoandresort.com or 1-(877) 677-3456. The show is open to all ages.

The details

  • Miranda Lambert in concert
  • 9 p.m. June 28
  • Outdoor stage, Riverside Casino, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside
  • Tickets: $35 to $70 at casino Gift Shop, 1-(877) 677-3456 or Riversidecasinoandresort.com
  • Gates open around 8 p.m. Reserved seating is provided in the VIP sections; guests in the general admission section should bring seating.
  • No outside coolers or beverages allowed. Per the Iowa Smokefree Act, smoking is not allowed on the concert grounds.

Any guests who purchased tickets for Pistol Annies who do not want to attend the Miranda Lambert performance may receive a refund up until the day of the show. Refunds are available for Pistol Annies tickets only, and tickets must be taken to the point of purchase. Refunds cannot be processed without the ticket in hand.

No Pistol Annies ticket refunds will be honored after Lambert’s concert. All Pistol Annies ticket refunds must be requested by 8 p.m. June 28.

In her hit single “Baggage Claim,” Lambert sings about the kind of luggage you wish would get lost. “I have been dragging around your sensitive ego,” she tells an ex-friend or lover — soon concluding, with characteristic swagger, that she’ll “drop your troubles off at the conveyor belt/I hand you a ticket to, go get it yourself.” Mr. Needy is left doing loops on the suitcase carousel while Lambert’s rocking out in the unloading zone.

With the release of Four the Record, Miranda comes bearing some baggage of her own – the precious kind, well-earned over the course of three platinum prior albums. Her accolades could fill a whole set of trunks.

Lambert made history when “Four The Record” debuted at Number 1 making her the first artist in the 47-year history of the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart to have her first four albums debut at that spot. Lambert is country’s reigning female vocalist of the year, as bestowed by both the Country Music Association (for the second straight year) and the Academy of Country Music. She’s won the prized album of the year trophy from both organizations, as well – from the ACMs for her second record, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” and from the CMAs and ACMs for her third, “Revolution.”

She received the top country female vocal performance honor at the most recent Grammy Awards for “The House That Built Me.” In 2010, she finally earned the triple crown – love from industry orgs, critics and radio – when she bagged her first three No. 1 singles with “White Liar,” “The House That Built Me” and “Heart Like Mine.” And, she’s been named one of People magazine’s Most Beautiful People and one of Maxim’s Hottest Women of Country.

Frequent flyers can hardly rack up more awards points than that.

The casino’s Summer Outdoor Concert Series continues with Bad Company at 9 p.m. July 3 and Creedence Clearwater Revisited at 9 p.m. Aug. 24.

Martina McBride charts new course

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With every award nomination under the sun and multiple top female vocalist wins, what’s a country superstar to do?

Chart a new course.

Martina McBride flew in new directions with album number 11, aptly titled “Eleven,” released in 2011. She acquired new management, a new producer, a new recording site — Atlanta instead of Nashville — and for the first time, wrote most of the music.

She’ll bring a blend of new material and fan favorites to the Riverside Casino complex Saturday, June 16, 2012, to launch the venue’s summer series on the outdoor stage.

“We get to play a nice, long show, so we mix in a lot things that we don’t normally get to play,” she says by phone from her home in Nashville. “We’ll do some album cuts, we’ll do some stuff from ‘Eleven,’ and of course we’ll do the hits. It’s a fun show for us to do.”

The Kansas native is looking forward to the summer tour, with stops at the Hollywood Bowl, a couple of California county fairs, an Army base in Georgia, country music festivals and several Midwest stages before heading to Switzerland in September.

She enjoys getting outdoors this time of year.

Find all the details on the concert here.

“It just feels like summer when you’re outside playing music, and there’s an audience and everybody’s having a good time. I can remember going to shows outside when I was a kid and it just feels like that. It feels like summer,” she says.

Now 45, she hit the scene in 1992 with her debut album, “The Time Has Come.” Her hits stretch from “Valentine” with Jim Brickman and “A Broken Wing” in the 1990s to “This One’s For the Girls and “In My  Daughter’s Eyes.”  After 20 years, the time has come to try new things with “Eleven.”

“It just felt like a good time — a time creatively to find a new sound,” she says. “I took the time and dedicated myself to writing for the first time, really. I made time to do it and gave myself the space to do it. I used a new producer, and that was really great, because it gave me a different perspective. I just felt like it was time to change things up a little bit. After making 10 studio records, it was just important to see what else I could do.”

As a writer, she turned to some of the topics she knows best, including the bouncy, wistful ”Teenage Daughters,” a natural choice since she and husband John McBride, a sound engineer, have three teenage daughters.

“It’s kind of tongue-in-cheek,” she says. “It’s more about the fun way to talk about the way your life changes and the way relationship changes. That song is more about my journey than the girls. It’s more about how you go from being everything, sort of the center of their universe to just more of a role of giving advice and guiding. They grow up and they’re more independent, making their own decisions, so that’s an adjustment for a parent. That song was really easy to write and a lot of fun.”

And the girls like the song, she says. They’ve grown up with the family business, when everyone piled on the bus to run out for weekend concerts. Even though the girls are musically inclined, McBride says they don’t aspire to the spotlight.

She, on the other hand, knew from age 8 or 9 that music was her life’s calling.

Her father, a farmer in Sharon, Kansas, “had a country band when I was growing up, as a hobby,” she says, ”so I grew up around music and performing.” The first time she sang in public was around age 5, when she sang “Away in a Manger” at church.

These days, she hopes her audiences have a good time and hear “something that moves them or makes them feel something, that they make a memory and walk away feeling  like they know me a little bit better. Those are my goals — that we make a connection.”

When she’s offstage, she likes cooking, reading, going to movies and shopping — like everyone else. But now that she’s gotten a taste of songwriting, she also finds ideas spinning in her head and is turning her thoughts toward album number 12.

“I’ve written down several starters for songs,” she says, “but I haven’t finished them yet. I’ve become much more aware of thoughts and things around me and ideas for songs. It’s really exciting.”

 

Billy Gardell is a standup guy

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Billy Gardell is a standup comedian and a standup guy.

Comedian Billy Gardell will take the stage Saturday at Riverside Casino and Golf Resort as part of the All Star Laughs weekend.

 

The guy you see on TV is the same guy you’d see at the grocery store or the apartment he and his wife have shared the entire time they’ve been in Los Angeles.

His public and private personas are one and the same: “A working-class kid who landed a great job through luck and perseverance. That’s the gift of getting success at 41 — I realize it’s a blessing, not an entitlement,” says Gardell, 42, who plays one-half of the title team in the CBS comedy, “Mike and Molly.”

“We both have big hearts, but Mike’s more patient than I am,” Gardell says of his character, a Chicago cop who heads to Overeaters Anonymous to lose some weight. He gains a girlfriend instead, in an Emmy-winning turn from Melissa McCarthy.

Now in their second season, Gardell shrugs off some early, unkind comments about Mike and Molly’s weight.

“It’s grown into what the (show’s) creator wants it to be,” he says. “Two people fall in love who don’t look perfect and thought they wouldn’t get to fall in love. That’s why people root for our show.”

If it’s picked up for a third season, he’ll buy a house. For now, though, the practical guy from Pittsburgh is saving his pennies.

“It’s nice to know there’s a little money in the bank,” he says. “I hope to one day have a house with my wife and get my son to college.”

All those values are reflected in the standup act he’ll bring Saturday night to Riverside Casino’s All-Star Laughs weekend, sandwiched between Kathleen Madigan on Friday and Vicki Lawrence on Sunday.

For Gardell, art imitates life.

He says his standup show “comes from the working-class background, lessons I’ve learned trying to step into fatherhood, being a husband and trying to be a good example. That doesn’t always work out.”

He writes his own material, in a process that starts at home.

“I like to come home and pick a fight with my wife,” he says. “No, not really. Sometimes I get an idea I think is funny, jot it down, take it onstage. If it gets a laugh, I say it the same way, every time. If I change a word, it doesn’t get a laugh. You have to say it the same way every time — that’s a great mystery of the universe. If it gets a laugh, I try to build upon it.”

He does bounce ideas off his wife, Patty.

“If she stares at me and doesn’t think it’s funny, it’s usually going to make everyone else laugh,” he says. “My wife keeps me very grounded. I’m very impressed at how unimpressed she is. … We’ve been together 12 years and just celebrated 10 years of marriage.”

They have a son, Will, 8, and Gardell is grateful to be able to film “Mike and Molly” in the city where he lives. His schedule generally is two weeks on, one week off while shooting the show. That’s a far cry from his nomadic standup days.

He worked the scenes in Orlando, New York, Atlanta and Chicago before landing in Los Angeles in 1997.

“I lived the first 15 years out of a suitcase, in a different city or state every week,” he says. “The beauty of this, now that I have a son, one of the blessings is that I get to come home every night. He’s the absolute joy of my life.”

Gardell and his wife are very careful, however, to keep their son rooted in reality amid the surreal aspects of show business.

“He knows about (the sitcom) and thinks it’s cool,” Gardell says. “When it first started and we started seeing the billboards, I sat down with him and made sure he was very clear that this is not who Daddy is, this is what Daddy does for a living. I’m Daddy. Just because Daddy has a great job does not mean we’re different from anyone else, we’re courteous and grateful. I don’t want him to confuse the two.”

Gardell’s real-life role also influences his standup values.

“I’m a fan of the older generation of comics — Richard Pryor and George Carlin. I’m a huge Jackie Gleason fan, John Candy, Abbott and Costello, The Three Stooges. I like the generation that could do sarcasm without filth,” he says.

“I sprinkle a little in there, but I don’t like to get dirty. I’m the guy next door and somebody’s dad. I try to hold onto that.”

And even though he’s found in niche in comedy — with an hourlong “Halftime” special on Comedy Central last February, a memorable turn in the movie “Bad Santa” and guest roles such TV shows as “My Name is Earl,” “Yes Dear,” “Monk” and “Lucky” — he’d like to tackle a meaty drama, too.

“I would love to,” he says. “I’d love to get the chance to get a character part in something serious and stretch and see what I can do.”

— Diana Nollen

 GET OUT

 

Things to do this weekend (8/25 to 8/31)

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Peter Frampton
Saturday, Aug. 27

The legendary live album “Frampton Comes Alive!” is living again in all its glory as Peter Frampton travels around the world on a 35th anniversary tour. He’s singing the entire 1976 collection in each concert, along with other highlights from his Grammy-winning career. Among those hits are “Show Me the Way,” “Baby, I Love Your Way,” “Shine On” and the Rolling Stone’s “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.” The whole event will light up the outdoor stage at the Riverside Casino for three hours Saturday night. The British rocker hit the scene more than 40 years ago. He went to school with David Bowie and at age 18 formed the supergroup, Humble Pie. His latest disc, “Thank You Mr. Churchill,” is an autobiographical trip right back to his birth. We’re glad he’s survived and is still coming alive.

Peter Frampton
7 p.m. Saturday (8/27), Riverside Casino outdoor stage, $30 and $50. Riversidecasinoandresort.com

 

Brucemore Garden & Art Show
Saturday, Aug. 27

Art will bloom among the flora and fauna Saturday when Brucemore stages its annual Garden & Art Show on the grounds of the historic Cedar Rapids. Visitors can stroll among the 60 artists and garden vendors, watch demonstrations on the main stage and dive right into crafts projects and food tastings. Kids can decorate flower pots, play with clay and get a taste of old-fashioned lawn games like watermelon seed-spitting. All guests can pick up some free compost to take home with their treasures, to boot.

Brucemore Garden & Art Show
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday (8/27), Brucemore estate, 2160 Linden Dr. SE, Cedar Rapids; $6 at the gate, kids 10 and under free with adult, parking off-site, food and beverages sold on site; no coolers, pets, outside food allowed; (319) 362-7375 or www.brucemore.org

 

Meskwaki Rockfest
Saturday, Aug. 27

Get ready to rock ’n’ roll the dice when Bret Michaels, Saliva, Foghat and Slaughter hit the Meskwaki Outdoor Arena on Saturday. Gates open at 3 p.m. and the music starts at 4 with this lineup of heavy hit makers. Pick your poison — Michaels has bounced back from his glam metal days and several serious health scares to grab headlines on reality TV. Maybe you saw his “Rock of Love” dating shows or his winning bid to be the season 3 “Celebrity Apprentice.” Or maybe you just mellow out to “Every Rose has its Thorns” or “Nothing to Lose,” his duet with Miley Cyrus. We just want to hear him rock on.

Meskwaki Rockfest
4 p.m. Saturday (8/27), Meskwaki outdoor arena, 1504 305th St., Tama; all-ages show, $20 or $45 at Club Meskwaki, www.meskwaki.com or 1-(800) 728-4263, Ext. 2230; no coolers or lawn chairs allowed

Gretchen Wilson, Big & Rich are outside the box

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GRETCHEN WILSON WITH BIG & RICH

Gretchen Wilson and Big & Rich, with special guests Cowboy Troy and Two Foot Fred, have built their country careers on both breaking and exploiting country stereotypes. Big & Rich mix traditional country sounds with hip hop and rock. Their shows break the mold as well, with a painter who works on a canvas during the shows and the a former Foot Locker salesman, called Cowboy Troy, who’s become the most prominent black country performer since Charley Pride — with one major difference. Troy raps. Gretchen Wilson is what she sings. Her first single, “Redneck Woman,” spent six weeks at No. 1; her debut album, “Here For The Party,” sold more than 5 million copies. She won across-the-board awards including a Grammy and ACM, CMA and AMA nods for best female vocalist and she continues to perform for large and raucous crowds around the world.

Riverside Casino and Resort Outdoor Concert, 8 p.m. July 30; $35 to $65; www.riversidecasinoandresort.com

Best bets April 28 to May 4

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Divapalooza
Sunday, May 1

 

Close your eyes and hear Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin and Bette Midler together onstage. Then open your eyes and see Cedar Rapids-based divas Janelle Lauer, Jane Pini and Lynne Rothrock belting out the blues, jazz, rock and rhythms, backed by an all-star band. They generate enough power to electrify a small city for days. The Divas are hitting the road, landing first in Manchester on Sunday, then in Fairfield’s Sondheim Center on May 14 and Maquoketa’s Ohnward Fine Arts Center on June 17 before heading home to bring a new show to Brucemore’s Cabaret in the Courtyard from Aug. 11 to 13.

Divapalooza
3 p.m. Sunday (5/1), Hanson Auditorium, West Delaware High School, 701 New St., Manchester; $15; (563) 927-3515 Ext. 390; www.hansonauditorium.com and www.lynnerothrock.com/divapalooza.html

Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class
Friday, April 29, through May 22

Actress Molly Hammer of Kansas City, Mo., is making a habit of appearing on Eastern Iowa stages. This time, she’s making her first foray with the Iowa Theatre Artists Company in another installment of the “Nunsense” musical comedy series. Her one-nun show features Sister Robert Anne, the Brooklyn street-wise nun with stars in her eyes, communing with her audiences as she teaches them how to stage a cabaret. No use sitting alone in your room — come hear the music and play.

Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class
Friday (4/29) through May 22, Iowa Theatre Artists Company, 4709 220th Trl., Amana; 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Fridays; 7:30 p.m. Saturdays; 1:30 p.m. Sundays; $20 adults, $10 students; (319) 622-3222; www.iowatheatreartists.org

Tony Orlando
Saturday, April 30

Since the dawn of the ’70s, old oak trees have been sporting ribbons, thanks to Tony Orlando. His 1973 hit single continues to launch ribbon brigades as people await the return of loved ones or embrace other causes, branching out in a rainbow of colors. He’ll be steppin’ out at the Riverside Casino, hopefully bringing along his string of hits from radio, TV, Broadway, Vegas and Branson days. From “Candida” and “Knock Three Times” to “Sweet Gypsy Rose” and “Who’s in the Strawberry Patch with Sally,” his catchy tunes put the fizz in pop music.

Tony Orlando
8 p.m. Saturday (4/30), Riverside Casino Event Center, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside; $25; http://tickets.riversidecasinoandresort.com

Singing the blues

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A jackpot of winners will be singing the blues at the Riverside Casino this weekend. Some will wail over their guitars, others will be pouring out their souls in lyrics to beats bouncy and brazen.

Robert Cray leads the way, bringing his band’s eclectic sound to the Event Center stage at 8 p.m. Friday night. Seats are selling quickly, so don’t count on being able to buy them at the door.

Saturday night, you’ll be singing the blues if you haven’t already purchased a ticket to hear Jonny Lang in action. The one-time guitar prodigy is now a full-fledged guitar god. If you do have a ticket, you’ll be needing a way to cool off after this hot show.

British blues legend John Mayall rounds out the weekend with a concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, with rising star Shemekia Copeland. Daughter of the late Texas blues guitarist Johnny Clyde Copeland, she’s barely in her 30s and already has shared the spotlight with Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Taj Mahal and John Mayer.

That’s the kind of route Cray’s career took in its early days. With his father in the Army, Cray grew up moving around the Pacific Northwest, California and Germany, listening to Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Bobby Bland, B.B. King, Sam Cooke and gospel music on Sundays.

“When I played with B.B. King, it was like I’d known him a long time, having listened to his music growing up,” Cray, 57, says by phone from his home near Santa Barbara, Calif. “It was pretty cool.”

Hearing The Beatles, however, set him on his life’s journey. “That’s what inspired me to get a guitar,” he says.

He started playing at age 12 and had his first paying gig when he was in junior high, living in Virginia. He’s worked with the best of the best over the years, including Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, John Lee Hooker, Tina Turner, Keith Richards, Chuck Berry, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Willie Dixon.

He’s going to be officially recognized as one of the elites, too, when the five-time Grammy winner is inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in May. He’s at the head of a class that includes John Hammond, Denise LaSalle, J.B. Lenoir and Alberta Hunter.

“It’s pretty exciting to think that getting involved with the blues, listening to all my favorite players, having the chance to make music, travel and record — after all these years of being inspired by all my favorite guitar players, be in a band and play music, I’m going to enjoy being honored alongside these guys,” he says. “It’s a real honor.”

He admits his brand of the blues is hard to describe.

“Our music is a combination of just about everything I’ve listened to: blues, rock, gospel and a little jazz,” he says. “It’s everything under the sun. It’s Caribbean flavored and Latin flavored. We just call it ‘Crayband music.’

Live performances “give me the opportunity to just bare my soul,” he says. “You get up onstage and see where you can go at that particular moment, where you can take the song. We improvise all the time. Songs, tempos, solos are not going to be the same.”

— Diana Nollen

 

LISTEN UP

  • What: Blues Weekend
  • When: March 25 to 27
  • Where: Riverside Casino Event Center, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside
  • Tickets: Reserved seats sold at the Casino Gift Shop and http://tickets.riversidecasinoandresort.com
  • Friday: The Robert Cray Band, 8 p.m., $25
  • Saturday: Jonny Lang, 8 p.m., SOLD OUT
  • Sunday: John Mayall with Shemekia Copeland, 4 p.m., $25 and $35
  • Show Lounge: Free shows Friday: Corey Stevens, 6 p.m., Bob Dorr & The Blue Band, 9:30 p.m.; Saturday: Avey Brothers, 5 p.m., Chicago Bluz Brothers, 9:30 p.m.; Sunday: Duke Tumatoe, 1 p.m.
  • Information: www.riversidecasinoandresort.com/events.php

 

Kenny Wayne Shepherd brings blazing blues to Riverside

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kenny-wayne-shepherdWith only a couple of guitar lessons under his belt, learning by doing has served Kenny Wayne Shepherd well.

He picked up a toy guitar at age 4, switched to a real guitar at age 7 and started learning the licks by listening to the records his father, a deejay, had amassed. Among his early influences were Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and country stars from Hank Williams Jr. and Sr. to Willie Nelson.

At age 13, Shepherd was invited to join New Orleans bluesman Brian Lee on stage. It was a pivotal moment. The Shreveport, La., native knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.

“I feel like this is what I’m here to do,” says Shepherd, now 32 and living in Los Angeles. “At that point, it was still kind of a fantasy. Nobody knows what they want to do at that age, but it showed me I could get on a stage and do it. It gave me the motivation to actually do it and see what would happen.”

It didn’t take long to find out. He was signed to Giant Records at 16 and released “Ledbetter Heights” at 17.

His debut album turned gold, then platinum.

And he was off — blazing a rock and blues trail that has racked up multiple Grammy nominations, two Billboard Music Awards and several other industry honors, including the Blues Foundation’s “Keeping The Blues Alive Award.”

He’ll bring his fiery sound to the Riverside Casino’s Event Center at 8 p.m. Friday.

He’s no stranger to Eastern Iowa venues, having played a string of concerts in the Corridor since 1999. And he vividly recalls his BBQ Roundup concert in Cedar Rapids on June 27, 2008, shortly after the floods.

“I remember driving through there and seeing water levels marked on the sides of houses, and all the trash of things ruined by the floodwaters. As we played that night, a storm rolled through,” he says, “but we were able to play.

“I had driven through there a week or two before, on a multistate hot rod caravan, and saw lots of standing water. It definitely stands out in my mind.”

His current tour has taken him from San Luis Obispo and St. Louis to Seattle and Vancouver, from small clubs and ballrooms to casinos and cruises.

“I like playing all kinds of venues,” he says by phone from a tour stop in Asbury Park, N.J. “We really try to mix it up a lot. Last night and the night before, we did some club dates. It’s a different experience — smaller and much more intimate. The more intimate a venue, the more the fans like it. We can feed off the energy of the fans in theaters, amphitheaters on major tours. Every one’s a unique experience and it’s all good.”

He’s also working on a new album, after his ambitious “10 Days Out (Blues from the Backroads)” project released in 2007. Recorded on DVD and CD, Shepherd spent 10 days traveling to the homes of old-school blues pioneers. He jammed with such greats as B.B. King and the now-deceased Etta Baker, a guitar player who in her 90s, gave Shepherd “a run for my money.”

When he’s writing his own music, Shepherd looks for inspiration in “life in general.” That’s taken a new turn, now that he’s a dad. He’s married to Mel Gibson’s daughter, Hannah, and they have a daughter who’s 1 1/2 years old and a son who’s 3 1/2 months old.

“I’ve written a couple of songs for the new record for my children,” he says. “They’re not children’s songs — they’re about the whole experience of falling in love with your children. It’s the most profound experience of my life and motivates me, inspires me about who I want to be, with their innocence. I want to emulate that.”

Being a parent also has changed his approach to his live shows.

“My stage performances used to be wild,” he says. “I don’t want my daughter looking at me and saying, ‘What is Daddy doing up there?’ I find myself toning it down a little, especially with the stage antics.”

And is his famous father-in-law a good father-in-law?

“Absolutely,” he exclaims. “He’s a great grandfather, too. He really has a good time with the children.”

So does Shepherd.

“When I’m at home, I’m playing with my kids more than I’m playing with my guitar,” he says. But with his heavy tour schedule, he still gets plenty of guitar time.

And even though he’s been on the road half his life, it hasn’t gotten old.

“I’ve really gotten to a place where I can really appreciate it,” he says. “I can truly appreciate all the things I’ve been blessed with.

“Having family is the most immediate, then my career and fans. My professional life is a very unique blessing — something I truly feel like I can appreciate now, that allows me to give it all that I have. I thank God for the privilege to play and bring some light into their lives.

“I cherish that opportunity every night.”

— DIANA NOLLEN, The Gazette

Merle Haggard w/ Trailer Choir @ Riverside Casino

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merle-haggardCountry music legend Merle Haggard will headline at Riverside Casino Friday, July 10 as part of their summer outdoor concert series. With 40 #1 hits and countless Top Ten songs, Haggard is the recipient of almost every msuic award imaginable, as a performer and songwriter, and was inducted into the County Music Hall of Fame in 1994. Opening for Haggard will be Trailer Choir, a trio of rising country artists, described as fun loving entertainers who rocked thousands on Toby Keith’s tour.

Gates open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $35 and $65 and are available at the Riverside Casino Gift Shot or online at www.riversidecasinoandresort.com.

To read more about Trailer Choir and their new album, “Off the Hillbilly Hook,” click here.