Oak Ridge Boys Down Home Christmas
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~ by Ryan Stacy
Vince Gill. Tanya Tucker. Clint Black. Some of country music’ s biggest names have come through the“ other” Nashville since the Brown County Music Center opened its doors this past August, and the hits keep coming. On December 10, legendary Country Hall of Famers the Oak Ridge Boys bring their Down Home Christmas show to town, and long-time Oaks fans— and fans of Christmas in general— won’ t want to miss this celebration of great music and the seasonal spirit.
One stop among twenty-eight on the current tour across the nation, the show at the BCMC features the multiple-Grammy, CMA, and Dove winners doing what they love most: performing for an audience with a deep connection to the Oak Ridge Boys’ brand of country and gospel. The group’ s lineup( Duane Allen, lead vocal; Joe Bonsall, tenor; William Lee Golden, baritone; Richard Sterban, bass) is the longest-running in their forty-five-plus year history together, and the same one that recorded the Oaks’ biggest hits.
Hits that you’ re sure to hear on December 10, says Richard, who put the famous“ Oom Papa” in the quartet’ s smash single“ Elvira.”“ We’ ll play a good number of our country songs, and then do a Christmas set,” he says. Newer songs on the Down Home Christmas tour come from the album of the same name released in October, as well as 2018’ s 17th Avenue Revival.
Both the newest albums were produced by another award-winner: Dave Cobb, who works out of Nashville, Tennessee’ s RCA Studio A.“ Dave’ s got such
62 Our Brown County • Nov./ Dec. 2019