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[Belle Céline]

I haven't saw that yet, I did see some video's of it on YT just haven't watched em. I'd love to have their Live On The Inside CD/DVD but it's 45 dollars now and originally was 12. I may get a used copy on Amazon at some point.

Comcast finally updated their On Demand Music Video's and added Stuck Like Glue, Settlin', Love, and All I Want To Do. Of course On Demand doesn't work half the time so it's hard to watch them.

Edited by Belle Céline, 11 October 2010 - 10:05 AM.

[pollsy]

Why I'm not seeing this topic till now? *shame* Now I'm in, too ..
I really like them! They have such a beautiful songs

[Belle Céline]

Tomorrow morning 'Little Miss' comes out on iTunes!! First thing I'm doing is buying it before I do anything else in the morning once I'm up!!

[Belle Céline]

Spread the word Sugar fans!!

LIVE ONLINE concert October 18th! On Sugarlands vevo youtube channel!! Live in NY!
Sugarland LIVE October 18th 2010!

Edited by Belle Céline, 12 October 2010 - 09:16 AM.

[Belle Céline]

Sugarland and Little Big Town performing in an exclusive clip of 'Sigh No More'

I love Jenn and Kristian's little guitar battle near the end.

'Sigh No More'

Serve God love me and mend
This is not the end
Lived unbruised we are friends
And I'm sorry
I'm sorry

Sigh no more, no more
One foot in sea, one on shore
My heart was never pure
And you know me
And you know me

And man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing

Love that will not betray you, dismay or enslave you,
It will set you free
Be more like the man you were made to be.
There is a design,
An alignment to cry,
Of my heart to see,
The beauty of love as it was made to be

[pollsy]

Belle Céline, on Oct 12 2010, 06:15 PM, said:

Spread the word Sugar fans!!

LIVE ONLINE concert October 18th! On Sugarlands vevo youtube channel!! Live in NY!
Sugarland LIVE October 18th 2010!

What?? Online concert   Waaaa, that's fantastic .. but what time will be - 9pm? But that for England, USA .. or? I wonder what time will be in Bulgaria?  
Can't wait to watch it  

Edited by pollsy, 12 October 2010 - 11:33 AM.

[Belle Céline]

9 and 6 PM in the USA depending on your time zone.

[CelineAndRene]

1Celine12, on Jan 22 2006, 06:01 PM, said:

I think that "Bayb Girl" is more their signiture song than "Something More."  That's my opinion.

As do I, I highly recommend listening to it if you haven't heard it  

BTW, Jennifer Nettles is an amazing singer really powerful lungs IMO Too bad but can't wait for her solo album  

[Belle Céline]

She pretty much is solo in Sugarland anyway, Kristian does very little singing. He only sings on two of the new songs, the rest is Jennifer only.

[Belle Céline]

So I'm wondering, I've been comparing prices on the deluxe edition of Incredible Machine, so far Best Buy has the lowest price at 11.99 and Wal Mart the most expensive at 15.88 but what I'm wondering is if the deluxe edition is the same at all stores, Wal Mart's site has it listed as having a poster included with it. While Target has nothing listed on the details about it other than it's a CD/DVD combo as does Best Buy and Amazon.com my dad wants me to get it at the store that has it the cheapest, so I'm hoping Best Buy's edition includes the poster as well and it's not an exclusive Wal Mart only thing.

Tuesday morning after I get out of class I'm calling Best Buy to find out what is included in the deluxe edition that they have.

Edited by Belle Céline, 13 October 2010 - 07:32 PM.

[SuperLove4Celine]

Sugarland will be part of the new, upcoming "VH1 Divas Live."  (I'm going to refrain from making any commentary about how I feel about this new "Divas" line-up.)

[Belle Céline]

I was actually just getting ready to post about that, I'm really excited about it. They are doing it as part of a tribute for the troops. I think it's great, Sugarland is also part of the tribute on the CNN Hero's event. They are singing 'Stand Up'. It hasn't been announced what they will sing at the Vh1 Diva's concert.

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Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) - This year’s “VH1 Divas” is going military style. Katy Perry, Sugarland, Keri Hilson, Nicki Minaj, and Paramore have all signed on for “VH1 Divas Salute the Troops.”

For the first time, VH1 has partnered with the USO to bring the iconic event, which has boasted performances from Mariah Carey, Kelly Clarkson, Aretha Franklin, and Celine Dion in the past, and the girls to the troops and their families.

Katy Perry, Sugarland, Keri Hilson, and Nicki Minaj will all perform for the troops at San Diego’s Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Paramore, fronted by “Airplanes” singer Hayley Williams, will head to an undisclosed military base in the Middle East to visit with the Marines, soldiers, airmen, and more.

"VH1 Divas Salute the Troops" will also be broadcast internationally for the service men and women and their families stationed outside the U.S., courtesy of the Armed Forces Network.

"The USO is thrilled to be partnering with VH1 and honored to be a part of delivering such an uplifting event to our nation's troops," said Sloan Gibson, USO President.

"The holidays are especially tough for our men and women in uniform and their families, and having the opportunity to touch so many troops stationed around the world at a time of year that matters most lets them know that America still cares about their welfare,” Gibson continued. “There is no better time to celebrate our armed forces and support their efforts than now."

“VH1 Divas Salute the Troops” will premiere Sunday, December 5th at 9pm ET/PT on VH1.

Edited by Belle Céline, 14 October 2010 - 09:15 PM.

[Belle Céline]

Sugarland will be going back out on tour sometime in 2011. They mentioned it on their website, I think they are starting their new tour in the spring of '11 was what I read.

[Belle Céline]

Belle Céline, on Oct 12 2010, 11:15 AM, said:

Spread the word Sugar fans!!

LIVE ONLINE concert October 18th! On Sugarlands vevo youtube channel!! Live in NY!
Sugarland LIVE October 18th 2010!

Little Big Town and Ronnie Dunn are going to be some of the special guests and they have ALL kinds of special surprises, guests and things for the show! Check out their official website sugarlandmusic.com their twitter which is sugarlandmusic or their offician facebook profile http://www.facebook....om/#!/sugarland for more details on things!

[CelineDionFan710]

^^ i cant wait

[Belle Céline]

me either, I'm going full out for it, dinner, popcorn and watching with my brothers gf who is a Sugarfan too I hope the pre-show things don't start till at least a little after 7 or later. I get out of class at six thirty and its seven or after when I get home on Monday's.

[pollsy]

Awwwww.. I also can't wait till tomorrow ....   So sadly that around me nobody is Sugarfan

[Belle Céline]

Aww pollsy! I'll be your online Sugarfan friend!

Edited by Belle Céline, 17 October 2010 - 03:04 PM.

[Belle Céline]

New interview with Jenn. Pay close attention to the part I put in bold.

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Sugarland  releases its fourth studio album, “The Incredible Machine,” on Tuesday, Oct. 19. On it, vocalist Jennifer Nettles once again deploys one of the most potent female voices in contemporary country music, even as she and guitarist and co-writer Kristian Bush flash influences far afield of Nashville. (Remember late-‘80s rock band the Alarm? Nettles does.)
sugarland pr shot.jpgPhoto by Dana TyanSugarland's Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush

Former Better Than Ezra drummer Travis McNabb handles most drums on “The Incredible Machine”; he’s also a member of Sugarland’s touring band, along with fellow New Orleanian Annie Clements, a bassist and backing vocalist. Better Than Ezra frontman Kevin Griffin co-wrote two songs on “The Incredible Machine,” “Tonight” and the first single, “Stuck Like Glue.”
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Nettles called from a recent tour stop to discuss the new record, the influence of John Cusack and the Cure, and why she’d like to take a mulligan for Sugarland’s set at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz at Heritage Festival presented by Shell.


TP: What do drummer Travis McNabb and bassist Annie Clements bring to the band?

Nettles: They are wonderful people and bring a great gift of their personalities. Musically, they have something. We’re affected by where we are from. It’s much like wine and the concept of terroir, where the land and everything in the soil ultimately influences the grape and consequently the wine. Music is the same thing. You can feel the New Orleans in both of their music styles. There’s a nice Southern back beat to it, there’s a fatness to it, that is Southern and specifically New Orleans. I love that flavor.

Do you feel the tug of that rhythm section influencing the way you write?

Travis recorded the majority of the tracks on the new record with us; he’s a wonderful studio musician as well as a live musician. Where we are as writers right now, his drum stylings are well-suited for that. I don’t know that it necessarily informs or guides where we go. But as it is a nice fit, it was a good place to have him come in and join us on the record.

That is not the norm in Nashville, to use the road band in the studio. Did you think he was specifically suited to this material?

We thought he was specifically suited for this new material. Kristian has known him for years and played with him on other projects (specifically Billy Pilgrim, an Atlanta-based acoustic rock duo, in the early ‘90s). He really was a great match for this new material.

Travis has a pedigree that isn’t necessarily Nashville, but neither are all the influences on this record. The guitar on “Find the Beat Again” is like a Fountains of Wayne song, and there’s your dancehall reggae breakdown on “Stuck Like Glue.” Having players that aren’t strictly Nashville players….

….feels authentic. If the music is leaning in that direction, then it feels authentic to have the players that also lean in those directions.

And Travis is a fine dresser.

He is a sporty, dapper dresser.

You've said that one advantage of having Annie in the band is she can render judgment on whether you look good in a certain pair of jeans.

(Laughs). Absolutely. Outside of her huge talent as a player and singer, it’s also nice to have a girl in the band so you can play girl every once in a while and say, “Ooo, what do you think about this?” or “Would you like to wear this?” I offer things her way and she offers things my way. It’s fun.

Did you write “All We Are” thinking it could be a concert opener? It sounds like it, with the invocation followed by the big kick-off.

It's a little bit chicken or egg. I don’t know if we were thinking of opening the show with it and then wrote it, or if once we wrote it said, “Ooo, let’s open the show with this.” It does have the grandeur of that fanfare at the top of it, which was a nod to the Alarm. They used to have that going on.

Some people might think that’s an obscure late’80s band. But if you like it, you like it. Good music is good music. To have those influences and be able to insert those into our writing….you can’t help it. What you put in, you put out.

What else did you channel overtly?

I was going through a big Cure revival at the time. On the track “Tonight,” there is some of that dark, brooding, longing. It’s in a different part of my range, which is lower, which allows for a different emotional expression.

Also, do you remember the movie “Say Anything,” with John Cusack? There’s a scene where John’s character Lloyd Dobler is holding up the boombox outside of Diane Court’s house and playing Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes.” We were thinking, “If that movie was now, let’s right a song that could be played on that boombox in that moment.” “Tonight” is the song we wrote from that inspiration.

On “Every Girl Like Me,” did you intentionally sing a bit like Alanis Morissette?

No, but I’ll have to go back and listen with that in my brain.

The ability to wail like you do in “All We Are” must be very….

…liberating. So liberating. It’s an on top of the mountain moment, so fun to do as a singer.

How does the breakdown in “Stuck Like Glue” go down with audiences?

They love it. They get their groove on. They’re breaking it down themselves out there.

What was the inspiration for “Shine the Light,” the piano ballad that closes the album?

I wrote “Shine the Light” as a gift for Kristian. He was going through a hard time personally. We were having a conversation about that time in his life and in the course of the conversation, I said, “There are places that we have to go on our own. No matter how much the people we love want to help, we can only go there by ourselves. We have to go into those woods, and hopefully when we get there, we will see the lights of all the people that love us along the periphery to guide us out.” Consequently, that became the inspiration behind that song. I hope it’s one people play for people they love who are going through a hard time.

The relationship between you and Kristian seems like a very close brother and sister situation.

It’s very familial in that way, and very much brother and sister in that way. We create together, which is bonding. Creating is such a vulnerable experience. You have to put yourself out there and be willing to put your ego aside or at times be willing to have that ego questioned and put in check. That builds trust, and that trust builds a strong relationship.

Do you have veto rights on each other’s writing?

Yeah. We are totally open in that way: “No, how about this?” “How about we do it this way?” Or, if we feel strongly about it, to say, “I’ll arm wrestle you for this one. I feel like it’s right.” We have a nice flow and a deep respect for each other in that way.

Has the way you write together changed with the success of the band? You have more ears listening now, the stakes are higher.

If anything, I would say it’s more liberating. When we were first starting out and you’re trying to prove yourself and get your foot in the door and figure out your sound, you have some hits and you have some misses. What we’ve found is where we stretch and offer something that’s fresh and different and pull from our other influences are the things for which we are most rewarded. I don’t know if it’s because it sounds fresh and different, or because it is authentic to us and has the emotional connection. I don’t know what that alchemy is. But that’s where we’ve been strongly embraced.

What that’s done is encourage us to continue to stretch, evolve, grow and offer our fans new things as writers, which is such a gift. Especially because I get bored with the same things over and over again. I’ve written “Stay.” Why would I want to write it again? We’ve written “Baby Girl.” Why would we want to write it again?

Some people, from a business standpoint, can get scared and box themselves in, and that’s a shame. They continue to try to repeat the same pattern and formula over and over again. I feel very grateful and lucky that our success has informed our writing in such a way to continue to encourage our growth.

Your voice will always be the touchstone for the country music world.

It’s still us, it still sounds like us because it’s still me singing, even if I allow myself to explore other parts of my range or other ways of emoting. It’s still us and what we do.

Even if you detour into Cure territory.

Exactly, darling.

The “hey, hey” chorus in “Find the Beat Again” is very rock ‘n’ roll, almost Bon Jovi-like.

It’s very anthemic. It’s made for big crowds through big speakers. We wanted to write something that was anthemic because of the natural fit for arenas, stadiums and amphitheaters. It allows people to get involved into the live show. We’re very conscious of the live show whenever we’re writing. Not in a way to box us in but in a way to inspire us.

While it’s great that we have the technology to capture music and listen to it over and over again in our headphones or our cars, really music is a performing art and it’s meant to be experienced live. We are respectful of that aspect of it as a medium.

During Sugarland’s set at the 2009 Jazz Fest, you had Mardi Gras Indians on stage, a huge crowd…

That was a hard show for me because I was dealing with some vocal problems. I was definitely enjoying it and trying my best to be in the moment, but also dealing with some outside challenges. I’d love to go back and do it now in healthy voice. It was definitely an experience.

It was a show must go on moment. You skipped songs you didn’t think you could sing properly, such as “Stay.”

We were calling audibles and making hard choices. But at the end of the day, we were there for the fans and wanted to be able to go out there and give it our best. They seemed to appreciate it and have a good time.

So if you get the chance, you’d like to come back to Jazz Fest and do it full-voiced.

Do it full-voiced and do it where I’m not playing the next night, so that I can go out and wave my own flag in the crowd, you know what I’m saying?

Lyrics for 'Shine The Light'

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"Shine The Light"

When you walk into the edge of those dark and lonely woods
And when I ask "How was your day?"
You answer "Not so good"
And when nothing seems to be working out quite the way it should....
I will shine the light
When the skies up above you fill with gray and stormy clouds
And there's not a single face you know in the maddening crowd
When you know that you will make your way, but you just can't see how....
I will shine the light
I will shine the light
I will shine the light
I will hold you in my arms until everything's alright
I will shine the light
And when your worries, they won't let you sleep and rob you of your days
And you've looked in all directions but you still can't find your way
Or when you just need someone to remind you that it's all gonna be okay
I will shine the light
I will shine the light
I will shine the light
When you're staring down your demons waiting in your darkest night
I will shine the light
Sometimes we jump into the great unknown
Some roads we're on, we'll have to walk alone
But waiting there in the end is a heart that calls you a friend....
That's me.
Clapping the loudest, welcoming you home
So when your heart is heavy like a stone
From carrying it's load
And you look into the mirror and see someone you don't know
Or when the shadows are closing in on you like a hand around your throat
I will shine the light
I will shine the light
I will shine the light
When you've given into your fear
When you've lost your will to fight
Let me know that I can do
Let me try to make it right
And I will shine the light
I will shine the light

Edited by Belle Céline, 18 October 2010 - 11:24 AM.

[Belle Céline]

Two of the only video's I can find from when I saw Sugarland last month


^^Everyday America with remix.


^^It Happens

Edited by Belle Céline, 18 October 2010 - 12:03 PM.

[Belle Céline]

Some screencaps from the live show I just watched, fyi anyone who wants to catch it get to youtube.com/sugarlandvevo right now they are re-broadcasting it!

[Belle Céline]

Some HQ's of the West Palm Beach Show October 165th 2010. Courtesy of Messias at Mansion Of Celebs. Many thanks to him for these!

[pollsy]

Belle Céline, on Oct 18 2010, 12:03 AM, said:

Aww pollsy! I'll be your online Sugarfan friend!

Thank you for HQ's .. so good photosssssss

[pollsy]

[Belle Céline]

I like,hot french fries and red balloon ties too, your hoodie hangin down, the street lamp on the corner of a one way, one way or another gonna get you too, Two times I take another look at the hat in the seat and the wrapper you found and the flavor beneath of the tootsie pop drop don't stop cause I'll be your favorite, Are you free tonight, stop by if you like, if you might want to I don't mind.

[Belle Céline]

Pollsy some more HQ's for you Atlanta, GA show 10/14/10. Putting them in a spoiler because there are 199 of them.

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[Belle Céline]

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[Belle Céline]

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[Belle Céline]

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[Belle Céline]

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