SUGARLAND TACKLES BIGGER ISSUES
AHEAD OF JUNE 8 RELEASE

DUO BRINGING TOUR TO CHAIFETZ JUNE 30

 

“Sugarland has found a way to stay in touch, with their audience and the broader world, by enlarging their scope on Bigger, and that's no small feat.” – NPR Music

 

Empathetic “Tuesday’s Broken” Inspires Conversation-Evoking Album


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Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez
 

NASHVILLE, TN (June 1, 2018) – NPR Music offers a preview of the long-awaited album from one of Country music’s most celebrated duos, SUGARLAND, and opens a wider conversation on the culture of humanity. BIGGER is available for streaming now across the platform: https://www.npr.org/2018/05/31/615247730/first-listen-sugarland-bigger ahead of the June 8 release on Big Machine Records/UMG Nashville.

NPR’s Jewly Hight muses, “the duo has reunited for its fifth proper studio album, BIGGER, with the magnified bravado of a pop act mounting a comeback (see: the lead single). But the new set also represents a conscious scaling up of the perspectives that Bush and Nettles' explore in their songs and honing of their awareness of how they come across to various audiences.”

The pair began with a simple meeting to see how their creative energies would mesh after six years apart and nearly 10 million albums sold domestically, seven No. 1 singles to date and more than 330 million on-demand streams. What resulted was a collection of songs that coupled familiar musical acrobatics alongside poignant lyrics and “[addressed] social crises in a grounded, unpretentious way” (NPR Music).
 
Sugarland’s empathetic view of the modern world resulted in tracks like “Tuesday’s Broken."  Commenting on the track, Hight says “they distilled parental concerns, horror at the rise of school shootings, the influence of Civil Rights activist Ruby Sayles and  socially conscious Irish rock into the poignant ballad "Tuesday's Broken," borrowing Sayles' inquiry into human pain: "Where does it hurt?"

Lyrics from the song pose:

But what if we tried to reach him with words
What if we looked in his eyes and asked where does it hurt
Would he find all he was worth
Monday was hoping
But Tuesday’s broken

 

Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush penned all but one track – “Babe” featuring Taylor Swift – and produced the project with Grammy-Award winner Julian Raymond. BIGGER’s also now available for pre-order and fans can experience the new music live as their STILL THE SAME 2018 TOUR rolls through 48 cities in the U.S. and Canada. For tour dates, visit https://sugarlandmusic.com/.
 

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SUGARLAND DEBUTS POIGNANT NEW SONG
AHEAD OF MOTHER’S DAY
 

Experience “Mother”: https://sugarland.lnk.to/MotherLyric

  

 

Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez
 

NASHVILLE, TN (May 8, 2018) – Superstar Country duo SUGARLAND has released a touching tribute aptly titled “Mother,” ahead of Mother’s Day this Sunday (5/13). Kristian Bush and Jennifer Nettles penned the song that embraces a mother’s love with emotionally charged lyrics: 

 

She fixes all the broken things,
When you’re in love, she’s got a ring
 To give to you she hopes you give away
She don’t care who you give it to
Where they’re from, if they pray like you
As long as they are good to you, that’s enough
First thing she taught you was love is love. 
 

Watch the official lyric video now: https://sugarland.lnk.to/MotherLyric.
 

A mother herself, Nettles shares, “We wanted to celebrate what we feel is so beautiful about mothers. What we shared with our own mothers and what we see is beautiful about that relationship and that kind of unconditional open-ended love.”

As someone who has lost his mom, Bush explained, “This song is about a lot of things, our families, our lives, our country, but mostly, it is about my mom and what she was like. Now you see why it says what it says, especially in the lyric ‘As long as she’s alive you’re not alone’.”
 
The GRAMMY® Award-winning pair performed today their new single “Babe” on ABC’s Live with Kelly and Ryan which can be seen here.Their new album BIGGER is available now for pre-order and will be jointly launched under their new joint venture with Big Machine Records and UMG Nashville on June 8.
 
Since the band’s inception in 2002, Sugarland has sold nearly 10 million albums domestically, earned seven No. 1 singles to date and amassed more than 320 million on-demand streams, making Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush one of the most popular Country music duos of all time. Sugarland will kick off their highly-anticipated STILL THE SAME 2018 TOUR May 25, traversing 48 cities in the U.S. and Canada. For tour dates, visit https://sugarlandmusic.com/.

 

 
Sugarland will perform at the Chaifetz Arena, St. Louis on June 30.

Tickets at www.tickemaster.com

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