GONE WEST (featuring Colbie Callait) DEBUTS ON THE
MEDIABASE COUNTRY CHARTS @#49 IN 3 WEEKS
OPENING FOR REBA MCENTIRE AUGUST 17th AND
GEORGE STRAIT JANUARY 31 & FEBRUARY 1
Listen to debut single, “What Could’ve Been” HERE
UPDATE:
- Gone West (featuring Colbie Caillat) just made the second ballot for the 53rd Annual CMA Awards in the category of Vocal Group of the Year!
- What Could’ve Been Spotify Streams Up: 45.3 % (Listen HERE)
- MediaBase Country Current Position: #49
- Billboard Country Airplay Current Position #48
- Opening for Reba McEntire at the Treasure Island Resort & Casino August 17th
- Opening for George Strait at the T-Mobile Arena Vegas January 31 & Feb 1
- Single Premiere on People: HERE
- Billboard called “stunning”: HERE
- Rolling Stone: HERE
- Watch Gone West Perform on Live with Kelly and Ryan: HERE
- GONE WEST’S Billboard Live Performance: HERE
- Billboard Country Update – Makin’ Tracks – August 19th
- BMI Rooftop on The Row Performance August 20th
(Gone West at The Grand Ole Opry on August 2nd)
WHO: Nashville based band Gone West, comprised of Multi Grammy-winner Colbie Caillat, multiplatinum songwriter, Grammy winning songwriter & Caillat collaborator Jason Reeves, Hawaiian recording artist Justin Kawika Young (11 #1s in Hawaii) and Academy of Country Music and CMT Award nominee Nelly Joy.
Gone West’s single What Could’ve Been was added to over 45 major market radio stations the day it went to radio on July 15, the same day they performed on Kelly & Ryan, making it the song with the most first week adds by a debut artist this year.
All songs on their project are written by the band plus occasionally a songwriter like Liz Rose (with whom Colbie collaborated before this project). This is a very new country/Americana project…song and story driven. Produced and co-produced by the band, Gone West’s music brings a new freshness to modern country, straddling singer/songwriter vulnerability, Iowan humility, Lone Star tenacity and Hawaiian steel guitar. The playing is spare enough the instruments and voices shine, while the lyrics, which offer a heart-positive embrace of life, stand-out in the mix.