Charles Kelley Solo Album to Feature Stevie Nicks on Background Vocals

[WatchChain]

According to Taste of Country, Lady Antebellum singer Charles Kelley's upcoming solo record will feature a cover of the Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers song "Southern Accents". As an added bonus, background vocals on the song will be provided by the high priestess, Stevie Nicks. I can't wait to hear Stevie harmonize on this classic Tom Petty song.

http://tasteofcountry.com/lady-antebellum-charles-kelley-solo-album/?trackback=pinned-post

[Macfanforever]

She's keeping busy.Thats nice to hear.Can't wait to hear it.

Thanks for sharing.

[SisterNightroad]

Stevie and Tom Petty is always a very good combination.

[olive]

She's keeping busy.Thats nice to hear.Can't wait to hear it.

Thanks for sharing.

yes recording with everyone but her own band

[Macfanforever]

yes recording with everyone but her own band

Yea .It seems like it.

[welcomechris]

I LOVE THAT SONG OMG!!!! CANT BELIEVE STEVIE'S DOING THIS

sorry im freaking out this is great!!!

[vivfox]

yes recording with everyone but her own band

I forget what it is right now but there was something that got you real pissed off at Stevie last year and most of your posts since then have had a very anti Stevie effect about them. This is strange because you used to be such a positive group member. Perhaps you should consider taking time off as a FM fan and start posting again when you feel more positive. What do you think?

[olive]

I forget what it is right now but there was something that got you real pissed off at Stevie last year and most of your posts since then have had a very anti Stevie effect about them. This is strange because you used to be such a positive group member. Perhaps you should consider taking time off as a FM fan and start posting again when you feel more positive. What do you think?

"i feel threatened and under attack " :blob1:

[sorcerer999]

yes recording with everyone but her own band

According to a friend of mine who works at "Blackbird", Stevie recorded this with Charles when she was in Nashville recording 24KG two years ago.

[sleepless child]

When does it get released?

[Jondalar]

"i feel threatened and under attack " :blob1:

Get back in your cage!

[nicole21290]

http://www.app.com/story/entertainment/music/2015/11/27/charles-kelley-brings-country-asbury-park/76381276/

Kelley will be singing with another well known vocalist when he covers Tom Petty’s underheralded “Southern Accents,” which is from Petty’s 1985 album of the same name. Stevie Nicks will lend her voice to the tune, which will appear on Kelley’s release.

“I’ve always enjoyed singing with others,” Kelley said. “That’s kind of a lost art today but I love it.”

[vivfox]

“I’ve always enjoyed singing with others,” Kelley said. “That’s kind of a lost art today but I love it.”

Hip Hop singers do it all the time. Maybe he should change the station every now and then.

[Macfanforever]

Charles did great last night on the CMA Country Christmas TV special.

[Macfanforever]

No since starting another thread on Charles Kelley .

I found this news on my Google news Stevie alerts section this morning.
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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/charles-kelley-details-solo-lp-the-driver-20160111

Charles Kelley Enlists Miranda Lambert, Stevie Nicks for Solo LP
Lady Antebellum singer's 'The Driver' features songs written by Chris Stapleton, Tom Petty and others
By Stephen L. Betts January 11, 2016


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Charles Kelley's solo LP 'The Driver' includes appearances by Miranda Lambert and Stevie Nicks. Santiago Felipe/Getty Images

Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley has set February 5th as the release date for his solo debut The Driver and has enlisted rock goddess Stevie Nicks and country superstar Miranda Lambert to ride along with him.


While the latter joins the Augusta, Georgia native on "I Wish You Were Here," penned by Jedd Hughes, Kelley and Nicks take on a cover of the moody "Southern Accents," the title track of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 1985 album. The lead single from The Driver – and its title track – revisits the territory of the three-part harmony of Kelley's Lady A roots, as Dierks Bentley and Eric Paslay accompany him on that track, which they debuted in the fall during an appearance on the The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. Their recording earned the trio a Grammy nomination.

Kelley is a co-writer of four of the LP's nine tracks, and other contributors include Chris Stapleton, Daniel Tashian and Nathan Chapman, while Kelley co-penned "Round in Circles" with his brother, singer-songwriter Josh Kelley, marking the first time the siblings had worked together since Josh's early solo efforts.

Of the title track, Kelley tells Rolling Stone Country, "'The Driver' is the last eight years of my life put in a song. That appreciation for the audience, that appreciation for your road family, and doing what you love to do."

The last song recorded for the record was "The Only One Who Gets Me," the fist time Kelley has written a song specifically for and about his wife, Cassie.

"While so many of these songs are something I specifically can relate to, it really is all of our story," Kelley notes. "It is a pure musical left turn, to take myself out of my own head and bring in a fresh perspective when we go back in to make the next Lady Antebellum record."

The Driver is available for preorder at iTunes with the title cut served up as an instant download. Additional tracks will become available each Friday with album preorders leading up to the official release on Friday, February 5th.

The Driver track listing (and songwriter credits)
"Your Love" (Abe Stoklasa, Ashley Ray)
"The Driver" feat. Dierks Bentley & Eric Paslay (Charles Kelley, Eric Paslay, Abe Stoklasa)
"Dancing Around It" (Charles Kelley, Abe Stoklasa, Daniel Tashian)
"Southern Accents" feat. Stevie Nicks (Tom Petty)
"Lonely Girl" (Chris Stapleton, Jesse Frasure)
"The Only One Who Gets Me" (Charles Kelley, Nathan Chapman)
"Round in Circles" (Charles Kelley, Josh Kelley)
"I Wish You Were Here" feat. Miranda Lambert (Jedd Hughes)
"Leaving Nashville" (Abe Stoklasa, Donovan Woods)

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[Jondalar]

She sounds really good on that song!

[Dodfather]

I'm really excited for this album. I'm a country fan and think Charles has one of the best male voices around at the moment. I was surprised just how great he is when I saw lady Antebellum last year. He's a fun guy too. So yeah, that voice, plus songs with Miranda Lambert AND Stevie?! Bit of a man crush, not ashamed to say. I kinda want to be him.

[BLY]

Is a sound bite available anywhere for a listen?

[michelej1]

I'm really excited for this album. I'm a country fan and think Charles has one of the best male voices around at the moment. I was surprised just how great he is when I saw lady Antebellum last year. He's a fun guy too. So yeah, that voice, plus songs with Miranda Lambert AND Stevie?! Bit of a man crush, not ashamed to say. I kinda want to be him.

I do like his voice on Blue Water. I wouldn't want to be him though. The awkward way he was leaning down and hovering over Stevie freaked me out. If I were going to be him, I'd be shorter.

Michele

[KenshiMaster16]

I love his newest released song, 'Lonely Girl.' Insanely catchy to me, been humming it for the past few days.

[Phil]

I just downloaded “Southern Accents” and it sounds pretty good. Stevie is in fine voice and sings the “momma” verse just as I expected. Her harmony, particularly at the end, is gorgeous. Available from iTunes now.

[Phil]

I picked up the cd at lunch time. The album's not as bad as I imagined it might be, but "Southern Accents" is definitely the stand-out track.

[welcomechris]

not bad, i like it. to me, the original is a treasure.

[welcomechris]

http://smarturl.it/SouthernAccentsSN


be a good noodle, buy the track

[Phoenixgypsy]

http://smarturl.it/SouthernAccentsSN


be a good noodle, buy the track

I was a good noodle and just bought the track!! I love Stevie showing up on Don and Charles albums recently. It's great promotion for her by keeping her name in the press.

[BlueDenimLamp]

<iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fKvZTqA-F4c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Here you go!

[James89]

She sounds great in this. It just frustrates me because I can just imagine how amazing a new Mac album would be, especially with her voice in fine form. :(

[paleshadow]

She sounds great in this. It just frustrates me because I can just imagine how amazing a new Mac album would be, especially with her voice in fine form. :(

Glad I checked this thread. I watched the official video and just slightly heard her vocal. I guess they have a version of the song without her vocals, or just minimized. This version is much better IMO.

[Jondalar]

Her vocal is excellent!

[BLY]

Her vocal is excellent!


Amazing it is . Bring on the new MAC album.

[jkmaletic]

Very pretty.

[sorcerer999]

Never one of my favorite songs, and I don't think there's anything all that special about this cover. Still kind of boring.

...BUT...

I wholeheartedly agree that Stevie did a great job here. Her vocal is sublime, just like on the Don Henley song from last year. And again, that was also a song that just wasn't all that great.

Merely my own opinion, but I wish when other singer/songwriters (these days) ask her to be a guest on their songs that they actually choose songs that are exciting and "worthy" of her. I haven't heard anything of the sort in the last three decades. In all honesty I can only think of three (Whenever I Call You Friend, Insider and Gold) that are any good.

[BLY]

Never one of my favorite songs, and I don't think there's anything all that special about this cover. Still kind of boring.

...BUT...

I wholeheartedly agree that Stevie did a great job here. Her vocal is sublime, just like on the Don Henley song from last year. And again, that was also a song that just wasn't all that great.

Merely my own opinion, but I wish when other singer/songwriters (these days) ask her to be a guest on their songs that they actually choose songs that are exciting and "worthy" of her. I haven't heard anything of the sort in the last three decades. In all honesty I can only think of three (Whenever I Call You Friend, Insider and Gold) that are any good.


It's age. Her voice is not the same as is it was in the 70's/80's.

[Phil]

I have always loved "Southern Accents" and consider it one of Tom Petty's best songs (and I'm a major fan of his work). Considering how badly this could have been reinterpreted, I'm actually quite pleased with the outcome.

I think Stevie should have been featured earlier on with her harmony beginning at the start of the second verse and I don't like that Charles cuts in on the line "Got my own way of praying" during Stevie's verse, but it's not enough to destroy the track.

Stevie sounds great, if slightly mannered, but she generally offers up polite performances on other's tracks these days.

The overall production is pleasant, but slightly too slick and over the top towards the end.

I'd love Stevie to consider "Southern Accents" for inclusion in her next solo live show - I'd much prefer just her vocal on this song.

I note that Stevie instigated her inclusion on the recording:
http://theboot.com/charles-kelley-southern-accents-video/

As an aside, I'd love to hear Stevie's take on Tom Petty's "A Face In The Crowd" - that could really be something.

PS Does Charles actually sing "praying" in the third verse? It sounds like "traying", whatever that might be.

[vivfox]

In all honesty I can only think of three (Whenever I Call You Friend, Insider and Gold) that are any good.

Did you ever hear the song Tunnel O' Love?

[WildHearted]

Stevie sounds great. Love it.

[sorcerer999]

It's age. Her voice is not the same as is it was in the 70's/80's.

I wasn't complaining about her voice. Like I said in my original post, I think she sounds GREAT here.

It's this version of the song itself that I don't like.

[BLY]

I wasn't complaining about her voice. Like I said in my original post, I think she sounds GREAT here.

It's this version of the song itself that I don't like.



Sorry about that.......my bad!

[welcomechris]

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8UR_dF_t_gk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

stevie + tom petty = always good

[Artemis]

In all honesty I can only think of three (Whenever I Call You Friend, Insider and Gold) that are any good.

What about Midnight Wind? Her vocal on that song blows the rest of her duets out of the water.

That being said, I LOVE this song. Not a massive fan of Tom Petty so I've never heard the original (Don't shoot me...) but I'm loving this. Stevie sounds sublime as well.

[BlueDenimLamp]

The legendary Stevie Nicks adds her touch on Kelley’s cover of Tom Petty’s “Southern Accents.” He tells Billboard that one doesn’t have to necessarily share a microphone with Nicks to be enchanted by her mere presence. “Every time I've ever been lucky enough to be in the same room as Stevie, it feels like a dream," he said. "I first met her while filming the CMT Crossroads special with Lady Antebellum. She is such an open book and incredibly refreshing that you forget for a moment that you're hanging out with your hero. She was very open to suggestions I made but she also had very strong convictions of her own as to what she thought would make for a great performance. The process was very collaborative.”

Kelley admitted the two found some common ground on the track. “We're both giant Tom Petty fanatics so we wanted to make sure that we did the song justice. She is also a close friend of Tom's, which I can't say for myself. I can only hope that Tom hears our version and it brings a smile to his face.”

Billboard (http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/country/6867204/charles-kelley-the-driver-stevie-nicks-miranda-lambert)

[Jondalar]

What about Midnight Wind? Her vocal on that song blows the rest of her duets out of the water.

That being said, I LOVE this song. Not a massive fan of Tom Petty so I've never heard the original (Don't shoot me...) but I'm loving this. Stevie sounds sublime as well.

Midnight Wins is her best vocal f all time.

[vivfox]

Midnight Wins is her best vocal f all time.

That and Sore Loser are some of her favorite poker games.

[Danielle]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brianhernandez1/2016/02/14/charles-kelley-stevie-nicks-southern-accents-tom-petty/#460c7dea2015

Like when Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks decided to go her own way in the 1980s, Charles Kelley has gone solo this year, taking some time away from his Grammy-winning trio Lady Antebellum to release new music individually.

Nicks, 67, and Kelley, 34, recently combined their solo powers to record a cover of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ rawly reflective “Southern Accents” for Kelley’s debut album, The Driver. Kelley flew from Nashville to Los Angeles to meet Nicks at The Village, a famous recording studio with early 1900s stained-glass windows leftover from its Masonic temple days. Once inside a room, Kelley remembers Nicks saying, “Tom used to record in here a lot.”

“It was the same exact studio Tom Petty cut his version of ‘Southern Accents’ — it was so eerie,” Kelley told Forbes. “What a wild coincidence. It was a cool moment, man. She added this really cool element of vulnerability and haunting thing because the verse she sings is ‘There’s a dream I keep having where my mama comes to me,’ and who better than Stevie Nicks to sing a line like that.”

Her distinctive pining paired with his gravelly modern country vocals give the Southern roots ballad a refreshing twist, one not even Johnny Cash could provide when he covered it live in concert 10 years ago. Maybe it was the storied history of The Village, where Nicks and the rest of Fleetwood Mac famously in 1979 recorded the most expensive albums ever at the time (Tusk), that elevated the duet. Back then, the room was decorated with animal tusks and beads, exuding the hippie, rock-star vibe that defined Fleetwood Mac’s compelling aesthetic.

Nearly 40 years later, getting Nicks into the room with Kelley came together smoothly. Kelley’s producer Paul Worley was collaborating with Chris Isaak, who is managed by Nicks’ manager, Karen Johnston. “Paul played Karen a couple things and ‘Southern Accents’ was one of them and she was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve got to play this for Stevie Nicks’ because she’s a huge Tom Petty fan and they’re friends,” Kelley remembered. “Southern Accents” is the title track from Petty and the Heartbreakers’ sixth studio album, which also spawned “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” a song about Nicks breaking up with Eagles rocker Joe Walsh.

“Stevie came back to me and said she’s so proud of [my rendition of ‘Southern Accents’] and loves how I did it, so I used it as an opportunity to ask her if she’d like to sing harmonies on it,” Kelley added. “I’m hoping Tom Petty gets to hear the song because I’m proud of it and maybe having Stevie Nicks on there will give him more incentive to listen to it.”

Kelley originally recorded his verses for “Southern Accents” and other songs on his debut solo album in a modest Nashville basement setting, which reminded him of the non-gaudy Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama.

More on the link.

[Danielle]

Guys, look at these... I don't think I could love her more...
From the recording of Southern Accents

http://s20.postimg.org/pkfwvkllp/1_1.jpg

http://s20.postimg.org/urwemact9/6_1.jpg

Many more on the photographer's page:

http://www.philipmacias.com/stevie-nicks/syxjw6m8bxzwpul52cw2pochfkovus

[James89]

These photos are beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing. :D

[michelej1]

Those are wonderful. Thanks for posting.

Her hair has a lot of body. More than I would expect for a "casual" day. Michele

[wheart]

she looks radiant and so relaxed. That photographer really captured her essence

[michelej1]

The Press Enterprise

By FIELDING BUCK / STAFF WRITER
Published: March 2, 2016 Updated: March 3, 2016 11:13 a.m.

http://www.pe.com/articles/little-795920-songs-lady.html

Q: You have some neat collaborations on that album as well, don’t you?

A: Yeah, they all came about pretty naturally. “The Driver,” well Eric and I wrote together, and I asked Dierks to be a part of it. The Stevie Nicks collaboration, that is a really cool story. We cut this Tom Petty song, “Southern Accents,” and her manager happened to be in Nashville and talking with Paul back and forth about different stuff. And she said, “Oh, you’re working with Charles? You got to play me a couple of songs.” So anyways, he played her “Southern Accents.” We were like, “Oh my gosh, Stevie Nicks is like the biggest Tom Petty fan, we’ve got to play this for her.” Next thing you know, she reaches out to me and says she loves it. And I reach back saying, “I’d love you to sing on it.” We were out in L.A. and cutting her vocal. It’s just the coolest thing in the world to have someone like that be a part of that record. And then Miranda Lambert and I are good friends, and she’d come to a little industry event in Nashville for the project. And she came backstage and said how proud she was of me and loved the music. So when we went back in and finished the record, I sent her a song and she said yes. And here we are.

[Macfanforever]

From RS..........................Nice photos in this article.Never seen them before.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-charles-kelley-stevie-nicks-southern-accents-20160714

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Inside Charles Kelley & Stevie Nicks' 'Southern Accents'
Country singer shares stories and exclusive photos from his recording session with the Fleetwood Mac legend


By Chris Parton July 14, 2016


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Stevie Nicks and Charles Kelley recorded a duet of Tom Petty's "Southern Accents." Philip Macias

Charles Kelley has always been a huge Tom Petty fan and holds a special love for the 1985 song "Southern Accents," part of an album of the same name. He says he thought the homesick ballad would make a great country song and had long wanted to cut it with his band, Lady Antebellum, but they never got the chance.
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In an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone Country, though, the expressive singer and native son of the South explains how an opportunity finally presented itself with his first solo project, The Driver. . . but it turned out much different than expected.

"Growing up in Georgia, it reminded me a lot of my dad," Kelley says. "He's a very spiritual person and the way he works, the way he prays, it's definitely that old-school Southern thing. So I always thought it would be a cool little homage to him."

Kelley recorded a demo version of the song in straightforward fashion and was happy with the result, but then fate intervened in the form rock legend Stevie Nicks. The Fleetwood Mac singer had become friends with Kelley and his Lady A bandmates through their CMT Crossroads collaboration and the song "Golden" — a Lady A track that spoke to Nicks so much she asked to re-record it with the trio — and during a trip to Nashville, Nicks heard Kelley was working on a solo album. After hearing the early cut of "Southern Accents" she felt inspired once again to join in, and although Kelley didn't envision his version of the song as a duet, you don't turn down Stevie Nicks.
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Stevie Nicks covers Tom Petty's "Southern Accents" with Charles Kelley. Philip Macias

The pair wound up at the Village Studios in Los Angeles, and their remarkable session was captured on film for a new video and intimate photo series. Coincidentally, they recorded Kelley's "Southern Accents" redo in the very same room where Petty cut his original version.

"It was pretty spooky," Kelley says. "It was one of those moments where it's like, 'Alright, we've gotta do this thing right and do him proud.'"

Nicks had also done some work at the Village (including the double album, Tusk in the midst of Fleetwood Mac's decadent heyday) and during a session that lasted from 7:00 p.m. until 3:00 a.m., Kelley says she only actually sang for about an hour-and-a-half — because that was all she needed. The rest of their time together was spent deep in conversation as the free-spirit regaled him with story after story of star-crossed hookups and drug-fueled all-night recording sessions.

"She was like, 'We had all these animal tusks around and animal prints covering the studio, and this is where we would throw down the coke,'" he says with a laugh. "And as I'm drinking my Starbucks coffee, I'm thinking, 'The times sure have changed.' But just to hear those stories was so funny.

"She's really sweet, and she's a very wise person," he continues. "She's very mystical. Conversations always drift into spiritual, mystical worlds when she's talking about music and how it moves you and the colors of it. It's very much what you would think Stevie Nicks would talk about, but on the flip side, we'll have a 30-minute conversation about how much she loves her dog and how she was watching something like The Voice and talking about Adam [Levine] and Blake [Shelton], very normal things. But man, she's still Stevie Nicks."
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Charles Kelley and Stevie Nicks recorded "Southern Accents" in Los Angeles. Philip Macias

Around midnight, Kelley says Nicks found a creative spark and the song took off, with her entering as a ghostly voice in the second verse, all about a recurring dream the narrator has of his mother.

"She became very opinionated in a good way, like, 'This is how I want it to sound,' so it was cool to see her take some pride in it," he says. "She was talking about picking takes and how it's not always about the perfect note, it's about the emotion. She has a thing and she knows what her thing is. And she does it so well."

In the end, Kelley says the track helped pull The Driver together. After getting the final mix, he played the desolate, haunting track for his wife, Cassie, whose smile was all he needed to see.

"I was in the [Driver] project for so long and was very self-conscious about it," he says, "so to have my wife be like, 'This is really special,' I was really proud."

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