We had a
last minute cancellation. Rebecca Lynn Howard found out today that she has to
shoot a television show on the 6th! Karen Staley came to the rescue! Bless you
Karen!
It's been an amazing year for JPSS and I owe every success to you, my fans
and my sponsors for which I am deeply grateful. The first show for 2012 is
coming up very soon, next Friday, Jan. 6th. I have a great lineup of performers:
Rebecca Lynn Howard, Michael Anthony Curtis and Kurt Fortmeyer, with special
guest Keith Elder, from Birmingham.Season tickets and a few tables are still available. If you're interested
in a table contact me directly at 256-337-6006.
I hope to see you next Friday!
Wishing you a Happy and Healthy New Year!
Jim
Weirton, Virginia, USA. Karen Staley is a singer-songwriter whose credits
include a number of songs for Faith Hill (‘Take Me As I Am’ and ‘Let’s Go To
Vegas’), Patty Loveless and Tracy Byrd (‘Keeper Of The Stars’). Raised in
Georgetown, Pennsylvania, Staley claims to have been attracted to a career in
music through the boredom she endured at the Methodist church meetings her
parents took her to. In October 1984, she relocated to Nashville. Kathy Mattea
recommended her to Bob Doyle at ASCAP, later Garth Brooks’ manager, who
introduced her to various publishers. Within a month she had a staff publishing
deal. Her first big hits came with Patty Loveless - ‘Lonely Days, Lonely Nights’
and ‘Wicked Ways’. After establishing herself as a songwriter she signed with
MCA Records, but lost her way when the label was taken over by Universal. She
moved to Warner Brothers Records instead, and received rave reviews for her 1998
debut for the label, Fearless. Karen is commited to charitable work and is a
humorist as well as a hit singer/songwriter and performer.
Curtis was raised in Lewisburg, Tenn., but has lived most of his adult life
in Alabama. He began writing songs at the early age of 12, and, by the time he
turned 19, he was signed to ASCAP by Garth Brooks' manager Bob Doyle.
Curtis has written and co-written such great songs as "Drive Another Nail"
by Randy Travis; "Father Knows Best" by Ricky Skaggs; "Get Up In Jesus Name" by
Lee Ann Womack; and "Carpenters Son" by Sawyer Brown. He also wrote seven of the
10 songs recorded by Marty Raybon (former lead singer of Shenandoah), and began
producing, which resulted in several No. 1 hits, that garnered Dove and GMA
nods.
Kurt Fortmeyer was born in a barn and raised in a stable environment, or so he might tell an unwitting listener in one of his sillier moments. His life was changed irreparably at a tender and impressionable age when he was subjected to Roger Miller, Allan Sherman, Chubby Checker, and Trini Lopez.
His first solo show was at the HOLE IN THE WALL SALOON in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the late '70s, influenced by Jack Kerouac, Jesse Winchester, and Townes Van Zandt, he hitchhiked coast-to-coast...
Singer, songwriter, retreat
leader--Keith Elder has spoken and performed for over thirty years in a wide
variety of church, conference, and community settings. While serving local
churches in North Alabama as a youth director then as a pastor, Keith continued
to write and record, play small concert venues, and provide leadership for
special events.
