NASHVILLE, TN (June 16, 2015) – Country band, LiveWire, won “New Duo/Group/Band of the Year” at the 2015 Texas Regional Radio Music Awards show, which was held at the Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, OK, on Saturday, July 11th.
“Winning this award is huge for us,” states band founder, lead guitarist and harmony vocalist, Bobby DeGonia. “We have worked for years refining our touring act and releasing music to radio. This is a real validation that we are breaking through.”
Prior to their win, LiveWire demonstrated their claim to the title by bringing the crowd of industry professionals and fans to their feet with an electric performance of their breakthrough 2014 Way Out West Records’ hit, “Drivin’ You Outta My Mind.”
LiveWire’s latest single, “Quit You,” dominated the Top 10 of Texas Regional Radio Report for five consecutive weeks, and was Top 15 on the Texas Music Chart for six weeks.
Their success at radio is helping to grow LiveWire’s busy touring schedule including a well-received featured guest slot at the OilPatch Festival in Drumright, OK, on July 4 where they opened for Reckless Kelly. The band is presently preparing for their first international performance at the Festival Country Rendez-Vous in Craponne-Sur-Arzon, France on July 24, where they will share the bill with Country star, Craig Morgan and Texas Country veterans, Micky & The Motorcars.
LiveWire features lead singer/acoustic guitarist, Andy Eutsler; lead guitarist/harmony vocalist, DeGonia; fiddle/harmony vocalist, Cory Shultz; drummer, Brad Allen and bassist, Ryan Allen. They are joined in the studio and onstage by pedal steel guitarist, Scott Kwapiszeski.
For more information about LiveWire, visit their Official website at www.livewirecountry.com.
ABOUT LIVEWIRE:
Edgy, honest and passionate, LiveWire’s unique sound blends elements of working man’s Country and rootsy Southern Rock. The band’s music has found success at Country radio, both in the U.S. and in Europe, and its videos have received airplay on CMT Pure, ZUUS Country, The Nashville Network and Yallwire. Major media outlets including Billboard, the Texas Music Chart, Maverick and MusicRow magazine have all touted LiveWire’s talents. Since forming in the mid-’90s, the group’s reputation as a top-shelf live act has been honed by years of opening for, and performing on the same bill with, Toby Keith, LeAnn Rimes, Mark Chesnutt, Kix Brooks and Texas/Red Dirt artists Cody Canada and The Departed, Brandon Jenkins, Casey Donahew Band, Kyle Park and Bo Phillips, among many others. The sextet has performed across America and on the hallowed stage of The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville as national finalists in the 2009 Colgate Country Showdown. LiveWire released a self-titled EP in 2011 which included its debut radio hit single, “Tater Fed.” After signing with Way Out West Records, LiveWire released a video for “Tater Fed” and a single and video of “Miracle Of The Human Spirit,” which benefited the group’s storm-ravaged hometown of Joplin, Mo., struck by an EF-5 tornado in the spring of 2011. LiveWire released its debut album LIVIN’ on Way Out West in late 2012. The critically-acclaimed album produced the hit singles “Lies” and “Whiskey Sunday.” The group followed with two additional hit singles, “Drivin’ You Outta My Mind” and “Quit You.”
ABOUT WAY OUT WEST RECORDS:
Way Out West Records is an independent record label helmed by music industry veteran, Clif Doyal, and maintains offices in Nashville and Oklahoma. Since its founding in 2008, Way Out West has placed singles by LiveWire and Shawna Russell on the Texas music charts, MusicRow, Billboard “New and Active” and European Hotdisc charts. For more information, click here: www.wayoutwestrecords.net.
