Nashville Unplugged

Posted on 13 July 2010

If you like country music, then Nashville Unplugged: The Story Behind the Song is made for you. Friday, July 16, 2010 at Green Valley Ranch Casino head to Ovation for a great show. The cover is only $5 and includes your first beer.

Doors at 7:15 pm featuring “Songs from a Hat” and the show starts at 8 pm.

Aptly called Nashville Unplugged, this show is based on the concept of getting to know what’s behind the song, similar to the famed Bluebird Café in Nashville .

Each month features a songwriter who goes through the process of what went into writing a particular song and then performs it at the show.

July’s songwriters are Shane McAnally and Monty Holmes. McAnally has had a successful career as both a singer and songwriter. His self-titled debut album in 2000 netted him in Billboard’s Top 10 debut albums and three songs charted on Billboard’s Top 40 country charts, including the song “Are Your Eyes Still Blue?” He has also written and co-written several hits by fellow country artists, including LeeAnn Womack’s “Last Call” and John Michael Montgomery’s “Addicted,” among others. Holmes is also a singer/songwriter and has released both a solo album and another with the band Pythons. He has written hit songs, including George Strait’s “When Did You Stop Loving Me?,” Montgomery’s “What I Do The Best” and Womack’s “Never Again, Again.”

The show is hosted by singer/songwriters Brian McComas who wrote and sang “99.9% Sure (I’ve Never Been Here Before)” and Aaron Benward of Blue County who wrote and sang “Good Little Girls.” Another fun aspect of Nashville Unplugged is “Songs from a Hat” where guests that arrive between 7:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. can make up a title to a song and place the suggestion in a hat. The songwriters will pick one title from that hat and then pen a song throughout the course of the evening, to be performed at the end. Must be 21+.

Green Valley Ranch Resort – Ovation Lounge
2300 Paseo Verde Parkway
Henderson, NV 89052
(702) 617-7777