Little Big Town Celebrates Career Milestones
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New album release, The Reason Why, Debuts at #1 on Billboard’s Country Albums Chart; Band Garners Eighth CMA Awards Nomination
Nashville, Tenn. — (September 1, 2010) — When Howard Cohen of The Miami Herald called Little Big Town’s new album The Reason Why, “country’s album of the year for 2010,” he sensed a landmark release in the making. According to Soundscan’s album sales chart, there’s no doubt his inkling was right. The band is celebrating their fourth studio album’s, The Reason Why, debut this week at #1 on the Billboard Albums Chart and #5 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart across all genres with 41,940 albums sold– making The Reason Why the highest debuting album of the country band’s career. In addition, the band is celebrating a 2010 CMA Awards nomination in the Vocal Group of the Year category–marking Little Big Town’s eighth nomination and fifth in that category from the prestigious organization. Read more ›
AOL’s The Boot: Little Big Town Take Fans ‘On the Road’ — Exclusive Video
Little Big Town Take Fans ‘On the Road’ — Exclusive Video
Posted Aug 30th 2010 3:00PM by The Boot Staff
New York Times: Little Big Town “The Reason Why” Critics’ Choice
Critics’ Choice
New CDs
By JON PARELES, JON CARAMANICA, NATE CHINEN and BEN RATLIFF
Published: August 29, 2010
LITTLE BIG TOWN
“The Reason Why”
(Capitol Nashville)
“Rain on a Tin Roof” was buried deep on Julie Roberts’ magnificent 2004 debut album, the 10th track of 11, and maybe only the seventh best. But it had teeth as an ambivalent declaration of love for a fickle man and sung with a weighty sigh.
A version of that song appears late on “The Reason Why,” Little Big Town’s fourth album. But where Ms. Roberts’ version was damp and lonely, this one is uncommitted, and almost comfortable, as if there’s not a single cloud looming in the sky.
So it goes with Little Big Town, a country group that almost always chooses politesse over tension, letting its precise, sometimes clinical harmony stand in for feeling. The group comprises two women, Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman, and two men, Phillip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook, with vocals distributed in roughly equal measure among them — when they’re not all singing together in heavily compressed, anodyne harmony. Read more ›
Julie Roberts Aids ABC’s Good Morning America Anchor Robin Roberts in “The Road To Recovery”
Julie Roberts Aids ABC’s Good Morning America Anchor Robin Roberts in “The Road To Recovery”
(air date: Thursday, August 26, 2010)
The Repository: Darius Rucker at home in country
Darius Rucker at home in country
By Brian Mackey
GateHouse News Service
Posted Aug 19, 2010 @ 12:06 PM
Darius Rucker may be one of the few people who turned to country music and only then decided to stop wearing a cowboy hat.
“I wore a cowboy hat with Hootie for the last six years we played,” Rucker said, referring to his first band, Hootie and the Blowfish. “But coming over to country, I consciously decided not to do that over here.”
For people like George Strait, Brad Paisley and Justin Moore, Rucker said, wearing a cowboy hat is a reflection of who they really are.
“When I was wearing a cowboy hat with Hootie, it was just a fashion thing,” Rucker said. Read more ›
AP-TV: New Album, Outlook for Survivors Little Big Town
After a 3-year-wait, Little Big Town releases ‘The Reason Why.’ The band explains how they used Feng Shui in the studio and compares their song ‘Little White Church” to Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies.’ (Aug. 26)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – If ever there was a group with plenty of reason to pitch it in and give up, it’s Little Big Town.
The quartet with the sweet harmonies, uncommon versatility and Job-like bad luck released its fourth album, “The Reason Why,” this week. Its members have been rocked by a personal difficulties and unfortunate business twists and turns that always seemed to come just as the group appeared to be gaining momentum on its move to the loftier reaches of country music.
Yet as Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook and Phillip Sweet approach their 12th year together, they’ve never felt more positive that all their troubles are behind them and the best times are near. They’ve been opening for Sugarland in front of big crowds and they hope their fourth record on their fourth label, “The Reason Why,” will push them to their own headliner status. Read more ›
Little Big Town on “Good Morning America”
GMA’s Robin Roberts chats with Little Big Town
Little Big Town performance of “The Reason Why”
Little Big Town’s performance of “Little White Church”
LITTLE BIG TOWN’S “THE REASON WHY” HITS STORES TODAY
Fourth studio album from celebrated country group garners critical acclaim
Nashville, Tenn. — (August 24, 2010) — Platinum-selling country group Little Big Town is celebrating the release of 
their new album, The Reason Why (Capitol Records Nashville), which has been met with immediate praise from critics and fans alike. Marking the group’s fourth studio album, The Miami Herald’s Howard Cohen calls the new project “country’s album of the year for 2010,” and Michael McCall of the Associated Press says the project warrants the group to “regain their swagger as one of country’s most distinctive acts.” Brian Mansfield of USA Today calls them “a combination that’s impossible to resist,” noting their rustic groove and ‘70s pop-rock harmonies as stand-out attributes. Moreover, the Boston Globe’s Sarah Rodman says, “The Reason Why does what all good records should do: It makes you laugh, cry, hoot, holler, and breaks your heart.” Read more ›
