Business Wire
November 08, 2006 05:46 PM Eastern Time
Country Singer/Songwriter Woody Bradshaw Catches ”˜Lightning In A Bottle’ with “The Last Thing You Do,” the Heartfelt First Single from His Debut on Primoris/Universal
by Guy McCain
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Even when that proverbial overnight success takes ten years, things happen fast in the music business when the movers and shakers encounter a future superstar. In the case of country singer/songwriter Woody Bradshaw, George Burton, President of Primoris/Universal Records, truly felt he was capturing Lightning In A Bottle – the name of Bradshaw’s debut album, set for release on November 21.
It’s already happening, as the label began shipping Bradshaw’s first single, the heartfelt mid-tempo ballad “The Last Thing You Do” to major and secondary country stations all around U.S. in mid-October. The singer has been on a major radio road trip ever since, visiting stations in Texas (Dallas, Waco, Fairfield, Corpus Christi), Louisiana and Alabama and planning to stop in Pensacola/Panama City, Florida and surrounding areas where he will have his first of 3 album release parties”¦since Pensacola is hometown for Woody”¦as well as outlets in Georgia and Tennessee over the next few weeks. He will follow-up with album release parties in Nashville on November 15 and in Findlay, Ohio on November 17, hometown of Burton.
Bradshaw, whose album was co-produced by Jeff Bryant (of the country group Ricochet) and Dennis Dearing, was also the only celebrity guest to be featured at the IEBA Golf Tournament on October 15, and will be the only celebrity guest of this season on Campfire Café on November 7 and 14, which will reach 14 million viewers. He is also scheduled to be featured in the National Examiner in the November 20 issue. Over 5,000 people a day have been checking out his site through the banners on www.allaboutcountry.com and his www.myspace.com/woodybradshaw is being flooded with new fans daily.
Long before he even approached labels in hopes of securing a record deal, Bradshaw was a hardworking part of the country music scene. Aside from playing at the legendary Bluebird Café among other venues in Nashville, he’s opened shows for genre stars such as Darryl Worley and Craig Morgan. Festival appearances include the Georgia Festival in Washington, Georgia, the Frank Brown Festival in Perdido, Florida and Pensacola’s Gracefest, where he performed alongside many of today’s top artists.
