June Newsletter - City of Alabaster

LONESTAR TO HEADLINE CITYFEST JUNE 2ND
(CON’T FROM PAGE 12)
Now." The 2001 release I'm
Already There topped the
country album charts, as did
the band's 2003 retrospective
From There To Here: The
Greatest Hits, which produced
yet another #1 single,
"My Front Porch Looking In."
For all their record and
ticket sales, the biggest
accomplishment of the band's
storied career has been witnessing
the impact of
Lonestar songs in the lives of
others. "Music is a very powerful
tool and can help people
going through both good
and bad times," observes
McDonald. Nowhere has this
been more evident than in
the group's performances for
U.S. armed forces stationed
overseas in Iraq and Kuwait,
where classics like "I'm
Already There" have elicited
powerful emotional displays
from men and women
who've put their lives on the
line defending America.
"When you can truly say
that what you do can make a
difference, that it really can
impact somebody's life in a
positive way, that's the greatest
thing," admits Sams.
That timeless appeal transcends
nationality, too. A
recent string of European
dates with Reba McEntire,
Ricky Skaggs, and Little Big
Town found Lonestar thrilling
audiences in England, Ireland,
Switzerland, and Germany. In
a four-star review of their performance
at Wembley Arena,
UK daily The Guardian noted
that Lonestar "got an even
bigger welcome than
McEntire," and praised how
"they reminded us of country’s
greatest strength: picture-painting,
story-based,
tear-your-heart-out lyrics that
are the most direct and lucid
in popular music."
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Lonestar is currently hard
at work making a new, selfproduced
album. "It's kind of
a no-brainer for us to come
along at this stage in our
careers and say, 'Yes, we can
produce our own music.'
After all, nobody knows what
Lonestar should sound like
better than Lonestar," says
drummer Keech Rainwater.
"I'm proud that as a band,
collectively, we're smart
enough to know what we
need to do and how to get it
done."
The new material sounds
as thrilling as any of the
band's classics. "The songs
we've already recorded, I'm
more proud of those than
anything we've recorded in
our careers," says guitarist
Michael Britt. "
And not just because
they're new. I feel like we're
as good or better now than
we've ever been." The as-yetuntitled
full-length is the follow-up
to 2010's Party Heard
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Around the World, which
was recorded with singer
Cody Collins, who stepped
in after McDonald left to
pursue a solo career in 2007.
Parting ways with an original
member—even temporarily—could've
spelled the end
for many bands, but not
Lonestar.
"We've been very fortunate
that a lot of our fans
have stuck with us through
the good and the bad," says
Sams. "You know who your
true friends are by who
stands by you during the low
times, and we found out we
have a lot of friends."
With McDonald now back in
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