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The Kenneth Threadgill
Concert Series
Neal McCoy presents an evening of Classic Standards
and Hits
Neal McCoy has released fifteen studio albums on various labels,
and has released 34 singles to country radio. In 1993, Neal McCoy
broke through with the back-to-back number 1 singles No Doubt
About It and Wink from his platinum-certified album No Doubt About
It.
His commercial success continued into the late 1990s with two
more platinum albums and a gold album, as well as six more Top
Ten hits.
Neal returned in early 2003 with The Luckiest Man in the World,
following it with That's Life in 2005. A seventh Top Ten hit,
the number 10 Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On, came in 2005
from his self-released That's Life.
Music of Your Life, a big band jazz and country amalgam with
Les Brown, Jr. recorded for a public television special, appeared
in 2011, with a new studio album, XII, finally arriving in 2012.
Neal also supports his own charity organization: East Texas
Angel Network, which is committed to the enhancement of the
lives of children of East Texas who are living with terminal
or life-threatening diseases.
With special guest Jason Eady
Although country music was Eady’s first love, he was
exposed to the musical stew of the lower Delta — blues,
soul, R&B and primal swamp rock — while growing up
in Jackson, Mississippi. Eady was performing in local bars by
the time he was 14, singing and playing guitar. He began writing
his own songs, but the live music culture in the Magnolia State
was geared to hits and classics rather than original music.
Eady moved to Nashville to seek a record deal, but he became
disillusioned and headed back to Mississippi, joining the Air
Force on the way home. “Becoming a translator in the Air
Force helped me be a better songwriter,” Eady says. “I
got a much broader view of the world and of other cultures,
which helped me see things from a better perspective.”
After the military Eady got a job in a Fort Worth bank’s
IT department, and he began attending open mic nights to blow
off steam. Soon he developed a following.
Eady says his first two albums, 2005’s From Underneath
the Old and 2007’s Wild Eyed Serenade, “were about
trying to zero in on what I wanted to do. They had singer-songwriter,
country, southern rock and other kinds of songs. With his albums
- AM County Heaven and now Daylight & Dark - Jason has learned
to stop second guessing. “Now I understand that I’m
a country artist. That’s the music I love, and that’s
what I always want to be.”
Kenneth Threadgill Concert
Municipal Auditorium
2821 Washington Street
Downtown Greenville, Texas
one block west of Wesley Street
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