Sawyer Brown's Break (Out) dancing Opry Style

NASHVILLE, TN. (Sawyer Brown Official Website) - Everybody knows Sawyer Brown's Mark Miller is a pretty crazy dancer. And even though people don't think of over-the-top displays of footwork when they think of the Grand Ole Opry, the kinetic frontman took a turn as the break-out dancer with the Opry Square Dancers during the 10:30 show on Saturday night.
"I was so honored they asked me," says the man who wrote "The Walk," "The Dirt Road," "Some Girls Do" and "Step That Step" humbly. "I've never clogged or buck danced before, so I just didn't wanna look like I didn't respect what the Opry Dancers are doing... and when I got out there, the spirit took over! I just let it go, threw it down - and the crowd WENT crazy. Talk about a good time, oh my goodness..."

After debuting their brand new - and not yet released -- "Mission Temple Fireworks Stand" on the Ricky Skaggs' hosted 7-8:00 pm show, the fiery bluegrasser came out to join Sawyer Brown for the #55 on Billboard debuting Paul Thorn/Billy Maddox celebration of a man who gives up big churches to sell fireworks for the Lord. And with sacred steel man Robert Randolph somewhere on the road, the Grammy-winning mandolinist more than created a whole other kind of pyrotechnics.

"We've known Ricky forever, and aside from being a great guy, he's a killer musician," Miller explains. "To have him sit in with us - like having Robert on the record - just takes it up a notch. It'd been 4 years since we played the Opry, and you just forget what an amazing family place it is.
They make everyone who loves country music feel so welcome and welcomed...
"Carol Lee and the Carol Lee Singers did the exhortations with us during the first show, and they're so good Pete Fisher, who's one of the guys running the place, told our manager it almost sounded like a Lyle Lovett record. There's nowhere else in show business where people are so generous, so willing to just share their gifts like that."

Look for "Mission Temple Fireworks Stand" - with Robert Randolph - December 16th on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." And there's also a 2-page spread, including some pretty explosive pictures, on the video shoot in the current issue of Country Weekly.