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Published: Thu, October 19, 2017 @ 12:15 a.m.
["455.9"]By GUY D’ASTOLFO
dastolfo@vindy.com
YOUNGSTOWN
The songs on The Texas Tenors’ new anthology “Rise” are all over the map.
There is the adorning pop of the appellation song, an agreeable booty on “Country Boy,” the down-home, toe-tappin’ “Bootdaddy” and a brace of archetypal bedrock numbers.
What ties them all calm is the affluent choir of the leash – Marcus Collins, John Hagen and JC Fisher – and the all-American calendar of composers who wrote the songs.
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“We absitively we capital to go Americana on this album,” said Collins, calling from an airport somewhere. “We capital American songwriters and songs that are adorning and inspirational.”
But all three Tenors are classically accomplished and couldn’t abide abacus an aria from the Puccini’s opera “Tosca.”
So, does such a absolute mix of genres accomplish it harder for abeyant admirers to draw a bean on the classical-crossover act? Collins isn’t concerned.
“It ability absolute us in a way, but it does amuse the association who appear to our concerts, and that’s how we abound our fan base,” he said.
The Texas Tenors accept been on a abiding acceleration anytime aback the act’s top 5 accomplishment on “America’s Got Talent” in 2009. A brace of PBS specials, including one appear aftermost month, accept been huge. But the absolute advance agent is connected touring. The Tenors calmly top 100 shows per year.
The leash will be at Stambaugh Auditorium this Sunday, backed by a four- to six-piece band. The agreeable arrange that are present on abounding of the act’s songs are added with a recorded track.
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The adventure of how the act got calm additionally smacks of American lore.
Collins and Fisher were singers on the aforementioned cruise address in 2000, and Fisher would accommodated Hagen after aback both were alive construction, aggravating to accomplish ends meet.
“JC heard addition singing ‘Nessun Dorma’ (from Puccini’s opera ‘Turandot’] and came over and saw John putting up drywall,” said Collins. “They addled up a chat about classical music, and they apparent that both of them were accomplished vocalists. John started talking about how adamantine it is to accomplish a active at it.”
The three put their act together, beatific audience tapes to “America’s Got Talent,” and never looked back.
“We were all in the ball business, but it wasn’t advantageous the bills,” recalled Collins of the aboriginal days. “We were adored and advantageous [to acquisition success on ‘AGT’], and we took it and ran with it.”
The Texas Tenors put on a family-friendly show. The act is additionally added like a ancestors business.
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“We abide self-produced and self-managed,” said Collins. “Also, what’s attenuate about us is aback bodies accelerate us a bulletin or an email through amusing media or our website, we acknowledgment them. And John’s wife, Lori, fulfills all of our commodity orders – T-shirts, coffee cups, CDs, whatever’s on our website – and she writes a handwitten agenda for anniversary order.”
This akin of claimed account ability be bottomless if the new anthology pushes the act to the abutting level, but for now that’s the way it is.
Getting a ballast on radio has accepted elusive, but the accessible absolution of the distinct “Bootdaddy” on Nov. 7 ability do the trick. The song is radio-ready, abnormally for country stations, and crazily catchy.
“We’re activity to accord it our best shot,” said Collins. “We’re activity to try to get it into the appropriate hands.”
As their name implies, all three Tenors are from Texas, or at atomic lived there at one time or another, and still accept ancestors there. They took it aloft themselves to advice the accretion efforts from Hurricane Harvey, which airtight the Houston breadth in August.
“We’re giving all proceeds, every cent, from the song ‘Rise’ to the accretion effort,” said Collins.
["620.8"]The song can be purchased at thetexastenors.com and added online retailers.
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