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A Father’s Day Tweet!
Late yesterday afternoon, David provided a greeting to all the fathers and father figures:
A link to the video in this tweet here
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A Deere Music Session!
While in Nashville, looks like David had a session with Jason Deere. Who is Jason Deere, you may ask? From his website: www.jasondeere.com
Songwriter, Producer and Remixer
Jason Deere has made a career out of writing hit songs and developing hit artists. He has written songs recorded by Little Big Town, LeAnn Rimes, Jessica Simpson, Jim Brickman, SHeDAISY, Be Be Winans, Natalie Grant, Point of Grace, Wanessa Camargo, Leonardo, Luiza Possi, The Wreckers, James Wesley, Chad Brock and Due West, and he has a lengthy list of film and television credits (including Tim Allen’s Santa Clause 2, The Nativity Story and Letters To God). When he’s not writing, Deere is devoted to helping other artists become major label recording successes such as SHeDAISY, Due West, Ryan Shupe & the Rubberband and Little Big Town.
Deere’s career had quite a springboard in 1999 when the first act that he had extensively worked with (SHeDAISY) was signed to Disney’s Lyric Street Records. Deere co-wrote five songs on their platinum debut album The Whole SHeBANG, including three top ten hits. He spent more than five years working with one of the most successful songwriters of our generation, Diane Warren, producing demo recordings on her songs. He has also produced music with American Idol Season 5 Winner Taylor Hicks, Wanessa Camargo, Ryan Shupe & The Rubberband (Hey Hey Hey, 2004 Pearl Award for Contemporary Album Of The Year), Due West, Carmen Rasmusen and Eric e Henrique. With his remixing partner Silvio Richetto, Deere had a run of hit single remixes for artists like Jamie Johnson, Joe Nichols, Lady Antebellum and the best known being Trace Adkins’ Honkytonk Badonkadonk.
Brazil
In 1999 Deere produced BMG’s Brazilian Recording artist Wanessa Camargo’s self-titled debut album. The success of this album led to Deere producing six consecutive albums on Camargo. Deere also wrote many of her hits over the years including O Amor Não Deixa, Tanta Saudade, Gostar de Mim, Um Dia…Meu Primeiro Amor, and Sem Querer. Deere had more than 50 songs recorded in the Brazilian market and 9 hit singles with Camargo, Leonardo and Louisa Possi.
Nashville Tribute Band ®
Between 2005 and 2007 Deere wrote, recorded and produced two best-selling and award winning albums about the history of the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (Joseph: A Nashville Tribute to the Prophet and Trek: A Nashville Tribute to the Pioneers). Deere’s latest CD in the LDS trilogy, The Work: A Nashville Tribute to the Missionaries, was released on August 4, 2011. Deere regularly invites a revolving cast of talented artists and musicians that he calls the Nashville Tribute Band ® to join him in touring the world performing the stories and songs from the Nashville Tribute albums. Over the years Dan Truman (of the country group Diamond Rio), Brad Hull, Matt Lopez and Tim Gates (of the country group Due West), entertainer David Osmond, actor and recording artist Katherine Nelson, country artist Billy Dean, Ron Saltmarsh, pop artist Mindy Gledhill and Dyer Highway are all among those who have often walked on stage with the band. The band has done over 500 shows for audiences in the U.S., Canada, Australia and China since 2004.
Interesting tour idea.
Here is one project from Jason and the Nashville Tribute Band geared for LDS missionaries. The “My Call to Serve 2014″ project is the first album in a series of yearly missionary inspired music produced by Jason Deere and The Nashville Tribute Band. A product description and more information here
You can even find David Archuleta on Jason’s Photo’s Page. Wait, I see Taylor Hicks and Larry King too lol
Want to hear a snippet of Jason’s music? Click below and go to the bottom of the page to use the player. I’m not able to embed it here Definitely a country flair to it. Wonder if we will get to hear this collaboration one day!
David has been busy in Nashville!
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The Future of American Idol, and 80% of the other TV programs
Vulture ran a rather depressing article on the percent change in viewership in TV programs from this season compared to last. I wouldn’t normally post these things but since we cover American Idol periodically on this site, I thought it is interesting to point out that even with a new judge, continued focus on their lives and new music videos, a new mentor-in-residence, and new weekly themes, American Idol is still struggling, along with 80% of the other programs in their second season or higher. In fact, American Idol lost over 25% of its viewing audience in one year alone! This is why the article is entitled:
The 2013-14 TV Season in One Really, Really Depressing Chart
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Makes me wonder if American Idol would be the best place for a David Archuleta TV appearance, should he wish to do this. Can’t say.
Read the article and let us know your thoughts!
Bonnaroo revisited!
The Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee wrapped up on Sunday. Do you remember that in 2011, David attended and was interviewed by Billboard? You can read our original post from Vicki by clicking here. She explains what the festival is about as well.
David tweeted a few times about the festival, and came back again.
Here is the short, but sweet interview. It was hot hot hot! I recall he had backstage access too.
And a few screencaps for you….
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“Demanding” is such a strong word
We want David to perform at some point, don’t we?
It’s been awhile since I got this in my email. A respectable number of requests for David! Hmm, I’m pretty sure I never “demanded” the Adele or Bruno Mars lol.
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Congrats to Kate!!!
I LOVE this screencap!
Screencap from Cambiochat w/ Kate , Nov 6, 2010
Kate Calebe got married this past weekend! She’s the sweetest and has been a good friend to David since her days of touring with him on the the Demi/David tour. Love her tweets and posts on IG, as well as her sweet blog; what a special soul she is. Follow her @katedangerous on Twitter.
FOD wishes you and your husband the very very best, Kate!
Just because
NGL, it’s often not the easiest thing to dig DEEP into the vault for pictures that we have shared on various occasions, but in this case, I actually was there when Roberta “found” these pics on her ipad, and sent them to us at FOD. They are awesome!
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I know we had asked you just after David went on his mission if you have any hidden gems on those hard drives or memory cards. If you find them, please send them in and we will watermark them for you.
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Your Monday Smile
Three years ago today …
Who says low budget isn’t funny?
I’m out of town today but if anything important comes up, I’ll pop back on to update you all! See you tomorrow!