Midland’s vintage-shopping style to their sound is the key to their success
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| Title: | Midland’s vintage-shopping style to their sound is the key to their success |
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| Authors: | Carlo Rotella |
| Source: | Washington Post, The. 07/08/2020. |
| Abstract: | n the highway out to Goliad, Tex., driving through open country past chemical plants and horse-head oil derricks and the occasional scatter of pastured cattle, Midland's "Cheatin' Songs" came on a Houston country radio station. It was March 2, Texas Independence Day. Midland would be playing a dance hall outside Goliad that night, and on the following night would play the opening of the Houston Rodeo at NRG Stadium. Other stars lined up for subsequent nights at the rodeo included Lizzo, Chance the Rapper, Willie Nelson - big-time company. This would be Midland's biggest headlining gig to date, though the coming of covid-19 cast a shadow over it. The pandemic still felt far away at the moment, a coastal crisis that hadn't really hit the heartland yet, but Nashville's Cassandras were already foretelling a long hiatus in live shows brought on by the imminent national shutdown. (Midland's Washington-area tour stop in Bristow, Va., scheduled for July 18, has been canceled.) The music industry's touring-centered business model would crash, at least temporarily interrupting Midland's unlikely rise to the top. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
| Database: | Regional Business News |
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| Abstract: | n the highway out to Goliad, Tex., driving through open country past chemical plants and horse-head oil derricks and the occasional scatter of pastured cattle, Midland's "Cheatin' Songs" came on a Houston country radio station. It was March 2, Texas Independence Day. Midland would be playing a dance hall outside Goliad that night, and on the following night would play the opening of the Houston Rodeo at NRG Stadium. Other stars lined up for subsequent nights at the rodeo included Lizzo, Chance the Rapper, Willie Nelson - big-time company. This would be Midland's biggest headlining gig to date, though the coming of covid-19 cast a shadow over it. The pandemic still felt far away at the moment, a coastal crisis that hadn't really hit the heartland yet, but Nashville's Cassandras were already foretelling a long hiatus in live shows brought on by the imminent national shutdown. (Midland's Washington-area tour stop in Bristow, Va., scheduled for July 18, has been canceled.) The music industry's touring-centered business model would crash, at least temporarily interrupting Midland's unlikely rise to the top. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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