Emerson Drive

This week I thought that I would write a blog about one of my favorite country band. Emerson Drive.

Emerson Drive is a canadien country music band established in Alberta but each member of the band is born from a different province. The band has been making great country music for about a decade, and before that they made their living playing in bars hoping that they would make it big, and well they did and today they are a very well known band in North America. The band has 5 members, the lead vocalist Brad Mates, Dale Wallace keys and back ground vocalist, Danick Dupelle lead guitar and back ground vocal, David Pichette on the fiddle and Mike Melancon on drums.

 "We have been playing music our entire lives," explains lead vocalist Brad Mates. "None of us can imagine doing anything else. We belong together on that stage each night. It's exciting for us to see what we have accomplished so far and to be planning for the next decade. This is still just the beginning!"

Emerson Drive have won their share of awards during the decade that they have been performing. As well as some top of the charts songs in country music, such as the songs: Beleive, Moments, Fall into me, Good man, and their latest song Sleep it off. The band is doing well in all of North America. The band is performing here in Windsor in June at Beaverfest.

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Concerts

Concerts, they can be alot of fun and allot of hell. Sometimes you get some of those rock concerts that get a little out of control, like in some concerts they have these moshpits, moshpits are usualy these huge brawls, trusts me you do not want to be in the verry middle of a moshpit you will get really mested up. But there are alot of concerts that are alot of fun, some that are just all about a huge party that just gets more and more fun as the night goes by, those are some of the concerts that I love the most.

Here are some of the concerts around in this area. First of all, there's the Rock n' Rodeo in Essex with Dean Brody performing, Beaverfest in coming to windsor river front in june there will be the following bands playing: Three Days Grace, The Trews, Puddle of Mud, Honneymoon Suite, Doc Walker and Emerson Drive. Beaverfest is going to be a great concert, I can't afford the tickets so I'm probably going to be one of those peoples trying to get as close as I can to the concert to be able to hear the music. Oh, and i almost forgot about that one Nickelback concert at Ford Feild in Detroit.

Ok, well thats it for this week, thanks and bye. 



  

Results

This week I'll be blogging about the results of the Academy of Country Music Awards, different styles of both rock and country and maybe about my personal favorite types of music.

The results for the A.C.M.A were unexpected to me, I personaly thought that the winners of the group of the year were going to be Zack Brown Band, but instead it ended up going to Lady Antebelum there also a good band, but i personnaly like Zack Brown Band's music alot better. Male entertainer of the year went to Blake Shelton, Blake is also a judge on the hit show The Voice as well as being married to this years female entertainer Miranda Lambert. One of the highest awards of the A.C.M.A, entertainer of the year went to Taylor Swift.

On to styles. Styles are what separate artists from other artists. Styles are what make the different moods in every song. For example: In rock, different older musician such Led Zeppelin, Guns N Roses, and Beattles, have all their own styles. Same goes with country music, there are different styles such as Western, Rock Country, Folk Country and many others.

Well now, we're coming to the end of this week's blog. I hope you enjoyed it, I'd love to read comments about my blog.

Thank you all and see you next week.

country :)

Well my last blogs have been talking a lot about rock and I feel that I've been neglecting country a bit, and I can't do that. After all, country is my favorite genre next to rock. so this blog will be completally dedicated to the wonderfull creation that is country music.

Let's start off with what country means to me, well I grew up listening to country, from the time I was a little boy all the way to now. Country music is not really as popular as other genres are in this part of North America, I barely even hear the music anywhere, theres not much teens that listen to it unfortunetaly for those who do like country. But have no fear there are still places down hear in Essex that still love country music and proudly play it in there bars such as the famous Bowl 'n Barrol bar and grill downtown, the bar is a hot spot for country music concerts and it also plays country all night long on the radio. But unfortunetly for me I'm not old enough to get into the bar. So they have other places in Essex that have concerts like the annual rock 'n rodeo in Essex May 18, 19 and 20,I expect to attend this event. 

Just a little news for those people whom do like country, the Academy of Country Music Awards are on April 2. I'll be watching I hope that Zack Brown Band wins group of the year. 

Well thats it for today, I'm so glad that I finally got to write about country. Thanks for reading, and I hope to read some of your comments. Thanks :)        

guitar solos

In every good song in both types of music, rock and country, their is a section that is made to be the biggest bang of the song, and is used to showcase the great talents of the musician. The guitar solo. The guitar solo is usually played on an electric guitar but can also be played on an acoustic guitar. The electric guitar is more commonly used in both rock and country music because it makes a bigger impact in the song, the solo is usually filled with passion, skill and the musician's own unique style.

Some of my favorite rock guitar solos are Eruption by Van Halen, Stairway to heaven by Led Zeppelin, Novembre rain by Guns n' Roses, Heart breaker by Led Zeppelin. Rock is usually more known as having the best guitar solos but country does have its own amazing guitar solos. Country solos are a bit different from the rock solos because of the style that is used in the solos, in some solos there is more of a western feel to the solo such as the song Eastwood by Brad Paisley.

So thats it for todays blog, thanks for reading. I look forward to reading your comments. The next blog will be more about country music, news updates and the all around genre of country music. Again, thanks for reading.