Nashville, TN (January 31, 2013) — LiveWire jump-started its career in 2012 with a heavy touring schedule, a very successful debut disc for Way Out West Records (LIVIN’), a hit single with “Lies”and signed a booking agreement with William Morris Endeavor (WME) in
Nashville. The group electrified audiences, Country radio, reviewers and
fans with their Ozark Mountain firebrand sound and explodes into the
New Year with a CMA Close Up Debut Spotlight and inclusion in CMA’s Who New To Watch 2013 feature
next month. Bookings are sizzling hot as LiveWire is set for a Casino
Concert Series and numerous fairs, festivals and club dates over the
upcoming months. The group’s lead guitarist and founder Bobby DeGonia notes,”Things
have just exploded for us since we signed with Way Out West and we
couldn’t be happier!” The Joplin, Missouri-based group will also attend
its first CRS in February.
Withits talent, the backing of WME and able industry veteran Clif Doyal in
the manager’s seat, the group’s success was easy to predict. Many
tastemakers agree, noting the band members’ songwriting skills, chops
and vocal strengths:
songs, many of them originals, immediately set them apart. They’ve
worked hard to hone their craft. It’s obvious they’ve succeeded. This is
one strong debut!” – Bill Cody, 650 AM WSM Radio
principal songwriters for the group, have been making the most of any
“down time” available, trekking to Music City to write with hitmakers
Jerry Vandiver (Tim McGraw, Phil Vassar, Lee Greenwood), Johnny Bulford (MusicRow‘s 2012 Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year) and others.
on bass guitar. LiveWire wrapped its first radio tour of the Midwest
in December with visits to hometown station KIXQ/Joplin, MO, as well as
KTCS/Ft. Smith, AR; KVOO/Tulsa, OK; KTTS/Springfield, MO; KVWF/Wichita,
KS; KREK/Bristow, OK; KUSH/Cushing, OK and KKOW/Pittsburg, KS.
Since
forming in the mid-’90s, LiveWire has forged a reputation as one of the
top-draw live acts in the Midwest by regularly packing venues in the
band’s home state of Missouri and in the surrounding states of Oklahoma,
Kansas and Arkansas. Along the way, this homegrown talent has taken
the members of the sextet across America to open for Country superstars
including Toby Keith, LeAnn Rimes, Montgomery Gentry, Diamond Rio and
Kix Brooks. The group honky-tonked The Ryman as finalists in the 2009 Colgate Country Showdown. LiveWire released a self-titled EP in 2011 which included its debut radio single, “Tater Fed,”
a stirring backwoods rocker that quickly became the band’s anthem.
After signing with Way Out West Records in late 2011, LiveWire released a
video for “Tater Fed” and a benefit single and video of “Miracle Of The Human Spirit,”
which benefited the group’s tornado-ravaged hometown of Joplin,
Missouri. LiveWire’s music has found success at Country radio, both in
the U.S. and in Europe, and its videos have received airplay on CMT
Pure, The Country Network, Yallwire and other outlets.