![]() ![]() Barnes saw her perform at Nashville club The Broken Spoke. Valierie Ellis was one of the artists who took the Bluebird stage and was eventually signed with Warner Bros. “I wanted to say, if only for one moment in their lives, they felt like a star, and it happened on an industry stage in Nashville, Tennessee,” she said. She continued to knock on doors eager to find a way for Black country artists to be heard in a meaningful way and eventually linked up with the historic Bluebird Cafe for a showcase for Black country musicians from all over the United States. “Sometimes in life you have to wait, even when people want you to get up and walk away, you have to stay when everyone is screaming no,” she said. “It was Music Row that always stopped me.”īut she persevered. Though she found work at the Brass Rail in Printer’s Alley, she could not get a toehold with any facet of the recorded music industry, “I was able to perform as a live performer all over ,” she says. ![]() 47.)ĭarius Rucker Hoists 'Beers and Sunshine' to No. There was no one who would touch me.” (Francis’s highest charting single, “You Do My Heart Good,” reached No. We released two more songs and they fell on their faces,” Francis said. ![]() The label sent Francis on a radio station tour across the country and he garnered press in national publications, including The Washington Post and People, but “the record fell on its face. There’s a need for another voice in country music… you have a natural voice like Charley Pride does,’” Francis recalled. The CMT play prompted Liberty head/producer Jimmy Bowen in 1991 to sign Francis, who, at that time, became the only Black artist signed to a major label in Nashville. ![]() More Than Words: Can Nashville Heed the Morgan Wallen Wakeup Call & Actually Diversify?Ī cardiologist who sang on the side, Francis’ music attracted the attention of CMT, which played the video of his remake of Glen Campbell’s “Lovelight.” ![]()
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