NASHVILLE, TN. (Sawyer Brown Official Website) - Talk about a HOT weekend!!! They're heading into the Ryman Auditorium with the original country sparkler'n'cherry bomb combo package
Dolly Parton for the Grand Ole Opry this Saturday, February 5, then the men of
Sawyer Brown mount their buses and head to the Big Easy for the Krewe of Orpheus
Parade and grand Orhpeuscapade Monday, February 7th.
"They tell me there's nothing in the world like it," says full-tilt frontman Mark Miller with a big bring-it-on grin. "It's like the world's biggest good time - with beads and craziness in the streets. All I know for certain is we're gonna ride on a float down St. Charles Street, wind up under the convention center, then rise up and tear the rough off their ball.
"We can't wait. If these people are all about having a good time, then we're gonna see just how far they're gonna go 'cause an audience like that - one that's gonna push us to have fun - is our very favorite kind of audience in the world… Though someone's gonna have to teach me the proper way to say, "Laissez les bon temps roulez." (Lay-zay lay bon tomp ru-lay)
Certainly over the past two decades, Sawyer Brown has propelled plenty of big fun on their way to establishing themselves as America's premiere fun-lovin' band. Whether it was the turbo-shuffle "Betty's Being Bad," the revved-up take on the George Jones' standard "The Race Is On" and Dave Dudley's hard-driving trucker's anthem "Six Days On The Road" or the full-tilt redneck equality and realism anthem "Some Girls Do," they know their way around a good time.
As "Mission Temple Fireworks Stand," featuring Grammy-nominated sacred steel sensation Robert Randolph, hits country radio - and the Sean Silva-directed video also featuring the Fisk Jubilee Singers gains traction at CMT and GAC, the hardest working band in country music is gearing up for their return.
After the single snuck onto the Billboard charts in November at #55 following a leak, Sawyer Brown debuted "Mission Temple" on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" in December. With a quickly filling schedule of colleges, festivals and major fairs, kicking the year off with the Grand Ole Opry and Mardi Gras seems like just the way to start the year.
"Any time you can share a stage with Dolly Parton, you know you're gonna kick it up a notch," says Miller with a big smile. "And given that it's the Ryman, she might just even come out and lead the call & response chorus... which would be awful extra good. What better way to warm up for Mardi Gras than with Dolly Parton?"
