Roy Cost
Pat Roden
Pat Roden
Pat Roden’s musical roots were nurtured in her Murfreesboro Tennessee home. Her parent’s back porch served as a gathering place where family and friends shared their love of music. Pat’s artistic ability was recognized early. Pat’s vocal and entertainment ability is unique in the country music business. She appeals to urban, as well as rural audiences and is now a well known International Country Music Artist. She has performed and shared the stage with such acts as Bill Monroe, Little Jimmy Dickens, Jean Shepard, Rascal Flatts, Laura Bell Bundy, Justin Tubb, Tommy Overstreet, Tommy Cash, Dianne Sherrill, Linda Davis, Rob Crosby, Lynn Anderson, Alan Jackson, Clinton Gregory, Tracey Lawrence, Michael Peterson, Razzy Bailey, and performed on the Grand Ole Opry. Her popular appeal and artistic quality convinces audiences around the world that country music is here to stay and deserves at least equal billing in the merchandising halls of the entertainment industry. Pat’s goal remains the same–to be solely and professionally involved as an entertainer in the field of country music. She strives for her success with a combination of talent, hard work, and a sincere belief in grassroots values. She has respect for the audience that find in her music a voice that they want to hear over and over again. She is 90% country, 100% Pat Roden, and a true professional. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Don Mathews
Don Mathews has been signed by Neuse River Entertainment out
of Raleigh, NC. The Recording Academy placed EMT Don Mathews on the Official Ballot for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in the following categories: Best Country Solo Performance EMT Don Mathews - Angels In An Ambulance Best Country Solo Performance EMT Don Mathews - Remember Me The Recording Academy placed Don Mathews on the Official Ballot for the 55th Annual Grammy Awards in the following categories: Best Country Solo Performance Don Mathews - Without You Best Country Song Don Mathews - You're My Miracle Songwriters : Don Mathews and David Harper Nashville, TN The Recording Academy placed Don Mathews on the Official Ballot for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in the following categories: Best Country Solo Performance Don Mathews - Where Do You Go Best Country Song Don Mathews - Where Do You Go Songwriter : Don Mathews Don is the lead EMT for all medicals on the grounds of the US131 Motorsports Park in Martin, MI. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Roy Cost
Roy Cost was born in Gravelly, Arkansas to parents who were farmers. He started music at an early age and in 1957 was invited to sing on a radio show over KWHN, the giant station in Ft. Smith, Arkansas. His favorite radio shows were 'The Louisana Hayride' and 'The Grand Ole Opry' and the local Little Rock stations such as KLRA and KTHS. When the family got a television he began tuning into "Steve's Show" on KTHV, Little Rock, Arkansas which televised an afternoon and Saturday dance party. The show whose host was Steve Stephens was six months ahead of "American Bandstand" and they had live guests such as "Conway Twitty", "Eddy Cash", "Sonny Burgess" and other popular groups. Cost would watch and wish he could be on the show and by 1959 his dream came true.
In 1958 Cost moved to Conway, Arkansas to attend Arkansas State Teacher's College where he and Joe Reeves formed the band, "The Shadows". They recorded "A Red Cadillac And A Black Mustache" in 1959 but the publisher gave it to two mainstream artists instead so they recorded Cost's & Reeves song, "New Heartache" and Cost & Warren Crow's instrumental, "Wind Down". They were honored to pantomine that record on "Steve's Show Dance Party" and they began playing for dances in the central part of the state and for the college. About 1963 three of the former members of "The Shadows" with Jack Nance played at the Silver Moon Club in Newport, Arkansas where legends sometimes just came off the street and were put on stage. There were various other members of "The Shadows" until 1966 when Cost had to make a trip to Vietnam for the USAF & his Uncle Sam
.
Cost did some recordings with Bill Black over on Chelsea Street/Memphis, Tennessee in the old days. It was right across from where Elvis cut "In The Ghetto". Bill Black, Elvis' former bass player was fun to work with and let them do a lot of new innovations. One of those recording sessions Roy produced "You Can Count On Me"/Ketchy" by "The Shadows". Although the "A" side was a # 1 song on KALO of Little Rock, Arkansas they were a few years ahead of their time. The 'B' side, "Ketchy" was just that; a catchy tune programmed on the giant, KAAY of Little Rock. Cost said he was lucky to have had in his band the late, Jack Nance, the writer of "It's Only Make Believe" a hit by Conway Twitty. Nance went on to be the road agent/manager for the legend rock and rollers sponsored by Dick Clark and also for Michael and the "Jackson Five". Nance was a musical geru if there ever was one and played in the first group of "The Pacers". Nance played piano for Roy and "The Shadows" and occasionally Nance and a young Rupert Sims would have a 'battle of the drummers' as Nance had played drums for Conway Twitty in those 'glory days of rock & roll'.
Roy Cost had records with "The Music Shoppe" during the late 60s into the 70s. Many of the songs were on his own record label "Vega Records". With this group he had his most popular country/cross-over phonograph record song in "East Of Tulsa" from the record "East Of Tulsa" /"Are You Really My Girl". "The Music Shoppe" also had "Family Man"/"Everytime I'm Kissing You"/ "Drinking Beer & Shooting Pool"/"Your Love's Here To Stay". The Tulsa song got Cost into Nashville and on WSM radio shows with Grant Turner & Ralph Emery. And again the song was promoted on the giant, KAAY. Back then if a band could get played on KAAY they never worried much about the others. Cost said, "Music was fun back then and when he saw a radio tower on the side of the road he would walk into station and they would put me on a live microphone. Back then the phone lines would light up as the kids supported the larger local stations and would call in a request or comment on a song they just heard.
Cost did one record in the 70s with "Autumn Mist" # 1 entitled "Anchorage Coal Fields"/"My Kind Of Woman" and in the 90s with "Autumn Mist" # 2 he did a cassette album entitled, "Steppin' Out". It was interesting that he recruited his son, Alan out of the acid rock band, "Axis". Alan is a very good musician, singer/songwriter in his own right.
Cost did a solo record in 1975 on Pyramid Records Of Nashville entitled "Susie Jones"/"Run Ruby Run". When asked if he would move to Nashville he said, "No, I've worked to hard to get this principal's job in Mayflower, Arkansas". He continued to write and perform in central Arkansas.
In 1983 Cost began playing and singing with recording artist, Dixie Harrison. The duo travelled the nation doing rodeos and shows from North Carolina to Montana. Ms. Harrison had her own "Arkansas Opry" in the 80s where Cost was a staff musician and a featured artist. Harrison had a top 200 Billboard record song, "Yes Mam He Found Me In A Honky Tonk" on Air International Records and appeared many times on TNN's "Nashville Now" hosted by Ralph Emery and directed by Dixie's husband, "Jim "Moose" Sowards.
In recent times Cost has done several duets with Joyce Ramgatie of Middelburg, Holland but they have never met personally. Some of Ramgatie & Cost's duets are "A Country Christmas"; "Going Home For Christmas"; "Shannon Bay"; "Lordy, Lordy I'm Going Home To Jesus"; "I'll Just Keep On Loving You". Ramgatie has recorded one of his songs, "I Just Can't Stand To Lose You". Cost recorded Ramgatie and Fred Irving's song, "Old Huntin' Dawg'".
Kitty Houston and Roy Cost have written songs together and had duets such as "The Land Of The Sweet Forever" but have never met personally either. Houston has recorded Roy Cost songs such as "I Won't Be Coming Home For Christmas"; "The Children Sang Hark The Herald Angels Sing"; "The Only One In My Dreams:; "Just In Case You Change Your Mind"; "The Waitress" and "One More Kiss Before I Go". They wrote "Forever Raining"; "Look To Calvary"; and The Land Of The Sweet Forever" together.
Donna Ray of the Lousiana Hayride has recorded Cost's song, "Our Son And Your Famous Name" and the late Judy Cupit recorded his "Santa Bring Daddy Home To Me"; "I Just Can't Stand To Lose You"; "The Texas City Man"; "If Anybody Calls My Name"; "Night Time Man" and "Hook Line And Singer".
In 2010 Cost as the music director and Dixie Harrison as the producer helped Allen Karl produce three TV Pilots at the North Star Studios in Nashville. Harrison and Cost wrote, "The Cherokee Trail Of Tears" that she performed on the show and they wrote the theme song, "Buffalo Dancer". Allen Karl performed one of Cost's songs, "Please Don't Play South Of The Border". Karl's special guests were Ms. Harrison, Stonewall Jackson, Bobby G. Rice, Jerry Foster, and Jan Howard. In those days the rockabilly man produced "The Dixie Harrison Radio Show" over KQIX in Perryville, Arkansas; KMTL, North Little Rock and NBRN in Nashville. Occasionally they still do personal appearances together and have co-written such songs as "The Cherokee Trail Of Tears"; "Whatcha Gonna Do My Friend"; "You Come On Like A Storm"; "You Can Sleep With Your Old Bottle: "Indian Cowboy"; "Run To Jesus"; "He Thought Of You And Me" and others.
In 2001 Cost was inducted into the 'Rockabilly Hall Of Fame" and recently has been featured in two hardback books, "We Wanna Boogie" and "The Memphis Garage Rock Yearbook" . His legendary garage song, "Are You Really My Girl" was recently featured on a compilation CD called "Lost Souls" and he continues to write songs and records them to CD. He manufactures and donates a full length CD album every week to the Conway Senior Citizen's Center in Conway, Arkansas.
In 2005 Cost had a double # 1 song, "The Real You" on Soundclick. It was # 1 on their 'Big Country Chart' out of 22,056 songs and at the same time it was # 1 on their 'Country General Chart' out of 2,222 songs. He has had several songs on the Euro Chart and on Ramgatie's TOP 200 World Chart. He and Ramgatie have had their duet "Going Home For Christmas" a top song on some of the Euro-countries individual country chart. Other Cost songs making the Euro Chart are "Rockabilly Baby" and "That Old Shaggy Dog written by Cost and "That Old Martin Guitar" written by Ed Gowens. He has been promoted by EHKING Records with "Rockabilly Baby". "It's My Memory Thinking"; and "Your Love's A Sweet Song Baby". Also he did "If I Beat You Home" and "Five More Miles To Tulsa" on T.J. Murr's "Roadshow Records".
These days Cost is an artist on WWW.REVERBNATION.COM featured with his own penned songs, "The Real You"; "Little Girl"; "The Man In The Moon"; "Thunder And Lightning" and "Rockabilly Baby". You can also find him at WWW.SOUNDCLICK.COM and on his own personal website, WWW.ROYCOST.COM
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TJ Leonard.
Roy Cost was born in Gravelly, Arkansas to parents who were farmers. He started music at an early age and in 1957 was invited to sing on a radio show over KWHN, the giant station in Ft. Smith, Arkansas. His favorite radio shows were 'The Louisana Hayride' and 'The Grand Ole Opry' and the local Little Rock stations such as KLRA and KTHS. When the family got a television he began tuning into "Steve's Show" on KTHV, Little Rock, Arkansas which televised an afternoon and Saturday dance party. The show whose host was Steve Stephens was six months ahead of "American Bandstand" and they had live guests such as "Conway Twitty", "Eddy Cash", "Sonny Burgess" and other popular groups. Cost would watch and wish he could be on the show and by 1959 his dream came true.
In 1958 Cost moved to Conway, Arkansas to attend Arkansas State Teacher's College where he and Joe Reeves formed the band, "The Shadows". They recorded "A Red Cadillac And A Black Mustache" in 1959 but the publisher gave it to two mainstream artists instead so they recorded Cost's & Reeves song, "New Heartache" and Cost & Warren Crow's instrumental, "Wind Down". They were honored to pantomine that record on "Steve's Show Dance Party" and they began playing for dances in the central part of the state and for the college. About 1963 three of the former members of "The Shadows" with Jack Nance played at the Silver Moon Club in Newport, Arkansas where legends sometimes just came off the street and were put on stage. There were various other members of "The Shadows" until 1966 when Cost had to make a trip to Vietnam for the USAF & his Uncle Sam
.
Cost did some recordings with Bill Black over on Chelsea Street/Memphis, Tennessee in the old days. It was right across from where Elvis cut "In The Ghetto". Bill Black, Elvis' former bass player was fun to work with and let them do a lot of new innovations. One of those recording sessions Roy produced "You Can Count On Me"/Ketchy" by "The Shadows". Although the "A" side was a # 1 song on KALO of Little Rock, Arkansas they were a few years ahead of their time. The 'B' side, "Ketchy" was just that; a catchy tune programmed on the giant, KAAY of Little Rock. Cost said he was lucky to have had in his band the late, Jack Nance, the writer of "It's Only Make Believe" a hit by Conway Twitty. Nance went on to be the road agent/manager for the legend rock and rollers sponsored by Dick Clark and also for Michael and the "Jackson Five". Nance was a musical geru if there ever was one and played in the first group of "The Pacers". Nance played piano for Roy and "The Shadows" and occasionally Nance and a young Rupert Sims would have a 'battle of the drummers' as Nance had played drums for Conway Twitty in those 'glory days of rock & roll'.
Roy Cost had records with "The Music Shoppe" during the late 60s into the 70s. Many of the songs were on his own record label "Vega Records". With this group he had his most popular country/cross-over phonograph record song in "East Of Tulsa" from the record "East Of Tulsa" /"Are You Really My Girl". "The Music Shoppe" also had "Family Man"/"Everytime I'm Kissing You"/ "Drinking Beer & Shooting Pool"/"Your Love's Here To Stay". The Tulsa song got Cost into Nashville and on WSM radio shows with Grant Turner & Ralph Emery. And again the song was promoted on the giant, KAAY. Back then if a band could get played on KAAY they never worried much about the others. Cost said, "Music was fun back then and when he saw a radio tower on the side of the road he would walk into station and they would put me on a live microphone. Back then the phone lines would light up as the kids supported the larger local stations and would call in a request or comment on a song they just heard.
Cost did one record in the 70s with "Autumn Mist" # 1 entitled "Anchorage Coal Fields"/"My Kind Of Woman" and in the 90s with "Autumn Mist" # 2 he did a cassette album entitled, "Steppin' Out". It was interesting that he recruited his son, Alan out of the acid rock band, "Axis". Alan is a very good musician, singer/songwriter in his own right.
Cost did a solo record in 1975 on Pyramid Records Of Nashville entitled "Susie Jones"/"Run Ruby Run". When asked if he would move to Nashville he said, "No, I've worked to hard to get this principal's job in Mayflower, Arkansas". He continued to write and perform in central Arkansas.
In 1983 Cost began playing and singing with recording artist, Dixie Harrison. The duo travelled the nation doing rodeos and shows from North Carolina to Montana. Ms. Harrison had her own "Arkansas Opry" in the 80s where Cost was a staff musician and a featured artist. Harrison had a top 200 Billboard record song, "Yes Mam He Found Me In A Honky Tonk" on Air International Records and appeared many times on TNN's "Nashville Now" hosted by Ralph Emery and directed by Dixie's husband, "Jim "Moose" Sowards.
In recent times Cost has done several duets with Joyce Ramgatie of Middelburg, Holland but they have never met personally. Some of Ramgatie & Cost's duets are "A Country Christmas"; "Going Home For Christmas"; "Shannon Bay"; "Lordy, Lordy I'm Going Home To Jesus"; "I'll Just Keep On Loving You". Ramgatie has recorded one of his songs, "I Just Can't Stand To Lose You". Cost recorded Ramgatie and Fred Irving's song, "Old Huntin' Dawg'".
Kitty Houston and Roy Cost have written songs together and had duets such as "The Land Of The Sweet Forever" but have never met personally either. Houston has recorded Roy Cost songs such as "I Won't Be Coming Home For Christmas"; "The Children Sang Hark The Herald Angels Sing"; "The Only One In My Dreams:; "Just In Case You Change Your Mind"; "The Waitress" and "One More Kiss Before I Go". They wrote "Forever Raining"; "Look To Calvary"; and The Land Of The Sweet Forever" together.
Donna Ray of the Lousiana Hayride has recorded Cost's song, "Our Son And Your Famous Name" and the late Judy Cupit recorded his "Santa Bring Daddy Home To Me"; "I Just Can't Stand To Lose You"; "The Texas City Man"; "If Anybody Calls My Name"; "Night Time Man" and "Hook Line And Singer".
In 2010 Cost as the music director and Dixie Harrison as the producer helped Allen Karl produce three TV Pilots at the North Star Studios in Nashville. Harrison and Cost wrote, "The Cherokee Trail Of Tears" that she performed on the show and they wrote the theme song, "Buffalo Dancer". Allen Karl performed one of Cost's songs, "Please Don't Play South Of The Border". Karl's special guests were Ms. Harrison, Stonewall Jackson, Bobby G. Rice, Jerry Foster, and Jan Howard. In those days the rockabilly man produced "The Dixie Harrison Radio Show" over KQIX in Perryville, Arkansas; KMTL, North Little Rock and NBRN in Nashville. Occasionally they still do personal appearances together and have co-written such songs as "The Cherokee Trail Of Tears"; "Whatcha Gonna Do My Friend"; "You Come On Like A Storm"; "You Can Sleep With Your Old Bottle: "Indian Cowboy"; "Run To Jesus"; "He Thought Of You And Me" and others.
In 2001 Cost was inducted into the 'Rockabilly Hall Of Fame" and recently has been featured in two hardback books, "We Wanna Boogie" and "The Memphis Garage Rock Yearbook" . His legendary garage song, "Are You Really My Girl" was recently featured on a compilation CD called "Lost Souls" and he continues to write songs and records them to CD. He manufactures and donates a full length CD album every week to the Conway Senior Citizen's Center in Conway, Arkansas.
In 2005 Cost had a double # 1 song, "The Real You" on Soundclick. It was # 1 on their 'Big Country Chart' out of 22,056 songs and at the same time it was # 1 on their 'Country General Chart' out of 2,222 songs. He has had several songs on the Euro Chart and on Ramgatie's TOP 200 World Chart. He and Ramgatie have had their duet "Going Home For Christmas" a top song on some of the Euro-countries individual country chart. Other Cost songs making the Euro Chart are "Rockabilly Baby" and "That Old Shaggy Dog written by Cost and "That Old Martin Guitar" written by Ed Gowens. He has been promoted by EHKING Records with "Rockabilly Baby". "It's My Memory Thinking"; and "Your Love's A Sweet Song Baby". Also he did "If I Beat You Home" and "Five More Miles To Tulsa" on T.J. Murr's "Roadshow Records".
These days Cost is an artist on WWW.REVERBNATION.COM featured with his own penned songs, "The Real You"; "Little Girl"; "The Man In The Moon"; "Thunder And Lightning" and "Rockabilly Baby". You can also find him at WWW.SOUNDCLICK.COM and on his own personal website, WWW.ROYCOST.COM
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TJ Leonard.
Tj Leonard got his first guitar from his grandfather when he was eight. He taught his grandchild to play swedish folk music and evergreens. Soon TJ was introduced to pop and blues through his cousin that was a little bit older and played in a famous swedish pop band. At eighteen he became lead singer and guitar player in a dance band. A lot of genres passed through TJ:s life. Jazz, hard rock, gospel, soul/r&b but not until country music came along it felt like home. Together with Tex Taylor he started CHESTNUT band in 2010 and later that year they released their first single 110% Country followed by the EP American Dream. CHESTNUT band played at most of the country festivals all around Sweden and even in Denmark and in both 2012 and 2013 they were nominated in Swedish Country Music Championships.
Sometimes things change and it´s time to write a new chapter. Therefore TJ decided late 2013 to release his songs under his own name TJ Leonard.
Band Interests
Truckin´, huntin´, fishin´.
Artists We Also Like
Travis Tritt, Craig Morgan, Brad Paisley, Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Tim Mcgraw
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J.K Coltrain
Sometimes things change and it´s time to write a new chapter. Therefore TJ decided late 2013 to release his songs under his own name TJ Leonard.
Band Interests
Truckin´, huntin´, fishin´.
Artists We Also Like
Travis Tritt, Craig Morgan, Brad Paisley, Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Tim Mcgraw
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J.K Coltrain
J. K. Coltrain was born in Columbus, Ohio. J.K. grew up surrounded by music & musicians. He first cracked the country music charts in 1987 with a self-penned song, West Virginia You're Still My Home on the Studio 7 label. Since then he had enjoyed a number of chart successes including being shown in the Top 40 in Europe for 41 straight weeks. He also has made many appearances on radio & TV including The Nashville Showcase, The Midnight Jamboree, Nashville On Stage, The Jerry Lewis Telethon & Stars of Tomorrow Show. J. K. has toured worldwide and worked with some of the greatest names in country music including Jerry Reed, Loretta Lynn, The Bellamy Brothers, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens, George Jones, Tammy Wynette & Jerry Lee Lewis to name just a few. In addition to still recording and performing on his own J. K. is now helping the new up & coming young artists serving as the President of Colt Records Nashville, Chairman of The Traditional Country Opry and hosting The Country Star Showcases. He was recently awarded The Texas CMA Entertainer and Best Country Album of The Year awards.
J. K. Coltrain is a member of:
Traditional Country Hall of Fame
Country Music Association
Academy of Country Music
Country Legends Association
Americana Music Association
J. K. Coltrain Trivia Page
Trivia
For the true J.K. fanatics things you should know that many don't.....
Between music and the entertainment biz J.K. found time to spend 7 years in the U.S. Army, 3 years on active duty, with the 101st Airbourne Division. During the 4 years as a reservist he attended the Ohio Peace Officers Training Academy and served 1 year as a city police officer and 3 as a deputy sheriff. He also played 2 seasons of minor league baseball and earned himself a 2nd degree black belt in Tai Chi.
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J. K. Coltrain is a member of:
Traditional Country Hall of Fame
Country Music Association
Academy of Country Music
Country Legends Association
Americana Music Association
J. K. Coltrain Trivia Page
Trivia
For the true J.K. fanatics things you should know that many don't.....
Between music and the entertainment biz J.K. found time to spend 7 years in the U.S. Army, 3 years on active duty, with the 101st Airbourne Division. During the 4 years as a reservist he attended the Ohio Peace Officers Training Academy and served 1 year as a city police officer and 3 as a deputy sheriff. He also played 2 seasons of minor league baseball and earned himself a 2nd degree black belt in Tai Chi.
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