2023 Douglas County Rodeo & Concert

Easton Corbin has been gracing stages with his memorable baritone and unique blend of traditional and modern country music for more than a decade. The Florida native, who boasts two No. 1 singles with “A Little More Country Than That” and “Roll With It,” embarks on a new musical chapter with his recent signing to Stone Country Records. Corbin teams with industry veterans Benny Brown, Paul Brown and Jason Sellers as the label’s flagship artist.nnCorbin says he and Music Row mainstay Benny Brown initially met and bonded over their mutual love of traditional country music. No stranger to the writing room himself, Corbin has penned songs with Sellers ahead of signing with the independent label. The singer, who has spent several years as an independent artist following nearly a decade with Mercury Nashville, says he’s in a great position being Stone Country’s flagship artist.nn“They let me do what I want to do and let me be me, which is very important,” the singer says.nnCorbin’s neotraditional sound shines through on “I Can’t Decide,” his debut single for the label. Soaring pedal steel and ear-grabbing fiddle accompaniment combined with a driving beat, plucked guitar rhythms and Corbin’s warm baritone further accentuate the up-tempo song. nnCorbin wrote “I Can’t Decide” three years ago with producer Wade Kirby and esteemed songwriters Ashley Gorley and Rhett Akins. The singer, who American Songwriter has praised as “one of those rare, glorious voices that was made for singing country,” has been performing the song on the road since he wrote it and says “I Can’t Decide” always grabs the audience’s attention.nn“I immediately knew it was something special,” he says. “It’s very contagious. I love the melody; I love the lyrics and to me it just feels like a hit.”n

A staple in the Texas music scene since forming in 2006 at Lubbock's Texas Tech University, Josh Abbott Band has weathered many storms together including divorces, burying fathers, the Route 91 Harvest shooting and a pandemic. Country fans have been singing JAB songs for more than a decade already. The seven-piece group's relentless on-stage attitude quickly made it a successful touring act, building out from a Texas band to a regional act to a national crew with a devout following from coast to coast. Concurrently, JAB developed its own label, Pretty Damn Tough Records, before that was an accepted practice in country circles. Two of their projects, Small Town Family Dream and Front Row Seat, scored top 10 debuts on the Billboard country albums chart, while five titles cracked the Billboard country singles lists, including a pair - Oh, Tonight with Kacey Musgraves; and Wasn't That Drunk, with Carly Pearce - that represented their first chart appearances. Led by the true-to-life cycles in Abbott's life, Abbott ambitiously documented the dissolution of first marriage in Front Row Seat. And the expansive Until My Voice Goes Out, recorded as Abbott tended to an ailing father, mixed elegant strings and a Memphis-tipped horn sound. In 2020 Jab released their 6th studio album The Highway Kind, the band's follow-up to 2017's string and horn-infused Until My Voice Goes Out, the uplifting 10-track album was recorded at Sonic Ranch in El Paso and produced by Marshall Altman (Marc Broussard, Frankie Ballard, Aaron Watson).

Jake Jacobson is a 25 year old “throwback kid” from the mountains. Country music has been in his blood since the beginning. Watching his Dad’s honkytonk band in the late 90’s and early 2000’s inspired a career in music for Jake. Born in Reno, NV and raised in a rural logging and ranching town in Northern California, his homegrown, small town roots are felt in his throwback style storytelling. 
No stranger to hard work, his dedication to trampoline landed him a spot on Team USA and in the Olympic Pipeline.nWith a boot-stomping sound combining that of cowboy crooners, honky tonk, traditional country sounds, and a hint of southern rock; Jake draws influence from artists like Keith Whitley, Randy Travis, George Strait, Justin Moore, and Cody Johnson.nnJake released his debut EP titled “Lovin’ and Leavin’” in June of 2022, full of traditional country instrumentation and his smooth baritone vocals. Produced by Trent Willmon (Cody Johnson), Jake’s brand of neo-traditional style country is sure to leave you reminiscent of the 1990’s sounds from years past. In August of 2022, Jacobson was recognized as Country Top 40 with Fitz’s Launchpad Artist featuring his lead single from the EP titled “Speed of Neon Light”. He has headlined numerous shows across the western US in addition to opening for National Touring acts such as Clay Walker, Kip Moore, Ben Haggard, Morgan Evans, Randall King, Travis Denning, Ian Munsick, and Logan Mize.

The true- to- her- roots hat act is part of Nashville’s growing wave of female artists who are rewriting the rules and charting their own paths. Ranching alongside my granddad and uncle taught me to rise to the occasion, they always expected me to be able to get the job done,” Paulette says. “In a lot of ways that prepared me to move to Nashville and pursue music where I now expect myself to be able to get the job done regardless, no matter the limitations.”nnHer finely calibrated blend of toughness and sensitivity is on full display in tracks like “Country In The Girl” and “Pretty Ugly,” which wraps a gorgeous melody around lyrics reflecting the realization of a relationship gone cold, while current single “Bless Her Heart” unleashes the sass and storytelling that Paulette gleaned from those who precede her: The Chicks, Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves.