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RADIO CONTACT
Garre LaGrone
prairiegrassrecords@gmail.com

https://www.grassdaddies.com


"The Grass Daddies music takes me back to a place in time that I love and miss! Garre LaGrone’s songwriting and the Traditional Bluegrass and Country Gospel Roots music of the Grass Daddies will touch the heart of every listener. You won’t just hear their songs... you’ll see and feel them!”

-Jeannie C. Riley,“Harper Valley PTA”


"From the Panhandle of Texas come The Grass Daddies, a new bluegrass outfit armed with more than just a cool band name. Based around the singing and songwriting of Garre LaGrone, who plays guitar, they offer a unique bluegrass style with a rough and tough sound that may remind some listeners of Dave Adkins. Garre has a tight-throated vocal style that imparts intense power to his lyrics, which shows clearly on their current single, “Missin’ That Drawl”

-John Lawless, Bluegrass Today Magazine


“Garre LaGrone and The Grass Daddies have a unique collection of songs on this debut album. Garre’s writing and singing are spot-on for today’s Bluegrass listener. I am grateful to have worked on it with them!”

-Scott Vestal, Award winning Banjo Player and Producer


"We have a passionate audience for Bluegrass and Bluegrass Gospel out there. I love the Grass Daddies' Music and I'd like to thank them for creating music that really adds to the enjoyment of my listeners in Australia and other countries around the world."

-Ron King, Mountain District Radio 97.1 FM, Victoria Australia



MISSIN' THAT DRAWL

Single Release- Missin' That Drawl: August 25, 2024

Album Release- Missin' That Drawl: August 25, 2024


Texas-based Bluegrass and Country Roots Artist The Grass Daddies debut album, MISSIN' THAT DRAWL is a heartfelt and poignant collection of twelve original songs, all written or co-written by Texas singer-songwriter Garre LaGrone. Each song is a reflection of Garre's love of God, Family, and his country. His strong clear lead vocals are pure and rich and draw the listener into every song on the album. His lyrics are filled with colorful imagery that pour out from a million life experiences and are married-up to sweet and memorable melodies that are sure to capture your heart.

The song MISSIN' THAT DRAWL which is the title-track from the album, is also the debut Single Release. This driving, up-tempo Bluegrass anthem is sure to have you tapping your foot and singing along in agreement, that with country folks, there’s no place like home and being surrounded by the people you love and understand!



CREDITS

Produced by Garre LaGrone
Mixed and Mastered by Scott Vestal at Digital Underground Studio
Acoustic Guitar-Garre LaGrone, Wassim Rhamani
Banjo-Scott Vestal, Jayton Runn
Dobro-Reggie Duncan
Fiddle-Adam Haynes, Dayna Bee, Davis West
Mandolin-Adam Haynes, Garre LaGrone
Background Vocals-Jayton Runn, Garre LaGrone



THE SONGS

1. MISSIN' THAT DRAWL (3:04)

I grew up in a small town in the Texas Panhandle and pretty much knew everyone in town. I wrote Missin' That Drawl after a week-long trip to a well-known Metropolitan area. This is simply our anthem that says, There's no place like home Ya'll and being around the people you know and love."

Written by Garre LaGrone
© Copyright 2024 'Bout Dang Time Music, BMI
ISRC: TCAIN2463792


CLICK BELOW TO WATCH THE OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO

2. OLD YELLER (3:05)

When my son Matt was little, he and I watched the movie Old Yeller together over and over and over. He never got tired of it. It touched his heart because it has a moral to it. After Travis had to shoot Old Yeller, his Pa comforted him and encouraged him with some sage and wise advice... "Life's like that sometimes son. For no good reason on earth a man can figger, life'll just haul off and knock you flat, and slam you against the ground so hard it'll like all your insides is busted. But it's not all like that, most of its mighty fine... so, you gotta look at the good, 'cause if you dwell on the bad it makes it all bad... sometimes son, you just gotta go on bein' a man." We still watch it every now and then. It's a Classic! This song just kinda expresses how I look at life. And my reference to Merle Haggard and his song, "The Fightin' Side of Me" is exactly how I feel... I love our country and the blessings and freedoms we have because of those who paid the ultimate price for each of us to be free!

Written by Garre LaGrone
© Copyright 2024 'Bout Dang Time Music, BMI
ISRC: TCAIO2467211


3. HANGIN' ON and LETTIN' GO (4:07)

My wife's Daddy Bill Young passed away suddenly when she was 21. He was 43 at the time of his death. She has spent the vast majority of her life without him in her life. That has always made me sad for her. But I didn't truly understand her grief until recently when my Dad passed away. She and I wrote this song together. Immeasurable love and respect Bren! Life's about hangin' on and Lettin' go.

Written by Garre LaGrone and Brenda Scott-LaGrone
© Copyright 2024 'Bout Dang Time Music, BMI
ISRC: TCAIN2467224


4. A MAN CAN'T DO ENOUGH (2:50)

I wrote this several years ago when I lived in Nashville. It was inspired by good ol' Country Boy humor, when I heard a guy say, "I don't know why my wife's griping so much, I took her fishin; on her birthday." I wrote this in about an hour that same day. Fun to play and sing!

Written by Garre LaGrone
© Copyright 2024 'Bout Dang Time Music, BMI
ISRC: TCAIN2463922


5. I STILL CLING TO AN OLD RUGGED CROSS(2:59)

This song was inspired by my Mother. My love and knowledge of the old Gospel Hymns is because of her. She'd play all the old traditional Hymns on our old upright Story and Clark piano at all our family get-togethers and we'd all gather around and sing. The song is inspired by the lyric in "The Old Rugged Cross", "I will cling to the Old Rugged Cross and exchange it some day for a crown." Yes she will!

Written by Garre LaGrone
© Copyright 2024 'Bout Dang Time Music, BMI
ISRC: TCAIO2467278


6. SONGBIRD(2:46)

This is for all the songwriters out there! My older brother Dr. Michael LaGrone had a band when they were in High School back in the late 60's and I was about 10 at the time. They practiced in our garage and they left all their gear set up during the week. After their jam sessions were over, I'd sneak out there and pick around on his Fender Stratocaster and I would figure out and play chords on his friend's old VOX keyboard. That was the beginning of an exploration and a journey that's still going today. "So, I'm perched behind this flattop, waiting for another line to come along... yeah I'm a Sonbird, just'a singin' my song!

Written by Garre LaGrone
© Copyright 2024 'Bout Dang Time Music, BMI
ISRC: TCAIO2467231


7. BESIDE MYSELF AGAIN (1:54)

This song was originally titled I'm Beside Myself. I co-wrote the original version back in 1991 as a Country Ballad with my ol' buddy David Wood from Winston-Salem NC. We were both traveling with Country Star Lorrie Morgan. My cousin was her Tour Manager, and I was Lorrie's T-Shirt guy. I'll always be grateful to Lorrie for giving me that opportunity! She signed a couple of my songs to her publishing company and it allowed me to move to Nashville and pursue songwriting. David played lead guitar and steel guitar for Lorrie. He is a tremendous classical guitarist and extremely accomplished musician, but he is an even better person! God bless you David! I found these lyrics a while back and re-wrote it as a Bluegrass song.

Written by Garre LaGrone and David Wood
© Copyright 2024 'Bout Dang Time Music, BMI
ISRC: TCAIN2467238


8. CAN'T YOU JUST PRETEND (2:23)

We were given a writer's challenge at a Songwriter's workshop I attended in Nashville several years ago and this is a title I came up with for it. I wrote the lyrics back then but never could nail the Melody. I picked it back up last year and here it is as a Bluegrass Song with a touch of Texas Western Swing.

Written by Garre LaGrone
© Copyright 2024 'Bout Dang Time Music, BMI
ISRC: TCAIN2467250


9. UP ON THE LLANO ESTACADO (3:22)

This song is dedicated to all the goodhearted, decent, honest and hardworking people of The Texas Panhandle, The Texas South Plains and Eastern New Mexico. The Llano Estacado is the 2nd Largest Mesa in North America, covering over 500,000 square miles. From the Spanish, it Means "Staked Plain". In 1541, the Spanish explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, in a letter to the king of Spain, became the first man to describe the vast Llano Estacado. "I reached some plains so vast, that I did not find their limit anywhere I went, although I traveled over them for more than 300 leagues ... with no more landmarks than if we had been swallowed up by the sea .... There was not a stone, nor bit of rising ground, nor a tree, nor a shrub, nor anything to go by." Yeah, it's my home... up on the Llano Estacado!

Written by Garre LaGrone
© Copyright 2024 'Bout Dang Time Music, BMI
ISRC: TCAIO2467267


10. A LITTLE FIDDLIN' (2:39)

My Grandaddy Jake LaGrone was a sandy land Cotton farmer and an Old-Time Texas Fiddler. His was born in 1905 in Comanche County Texas. He started playing the fiddle when he was 13 and his older brother Tom made the first fiddle he ever played. His music's in my blood and it's a way of life I love... he'd say. "Boy, ever' now'n then... you gotta do a little fiddlin'."

Written by Garre LaGrone
© Copyright 2024 'Bout Dang Time Music, BMI
ISRC: TCAIN2467283


11. BY GRACE (4:15)

Ephesians 2:8-9 says, "For by grace are you saved through faith, and not of yourselves, it is a gift of God, not of works that anyone should boast." Yes, grace, unbelievable grace saved a wretch like me... Thank you Lord!!

Written by Garre LaGrone
© Copyright 2024 'Bout Dang Time Music, BMI
ISRC: TCAIN2467288


12. GRANDMA'S CHRISTMAS TREE (3:21)

This is dedicated to both of wonderful grandmothers. My Grannie, Lillie Tom Davis LaGrone and My Mamaw Nonalea Spear Thompson. They both lived lives of unwavering faith in Christ, despite unimaginable heartache. There was love around both my Grandma's Christmas Trees!

Written by Garre LaGrone
© Copyright 2024 'Bout Dang Time Music, BMI
ISRC: TCAIO2467352



ABOUT THE GRASS DADDIES
The Grass Daddies were founded by Texas Singer-Songwriter Garre LaGrone in 2023. Garre was born and raised in Canyon, Texas and has had a passion for writing and playing Traditional Bluegrass, Acoustic Country and Country Gospel Music as long as he can remember. His Grandaddy Jake LaGrone was a sandy land cotton farmer and an Old-Time Texas fiddler back in the 1940s and 50s. His Grandaddy's Bluegrass Music and fiddle playing has always been the biggest influence on his music and his songwriting.

Some of his other musical influences include Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe, Porter Wagoner, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Ray Price, Marty Robbins, Mel Tillis, Charlie Pride, Tommy Jackson, Chubby Wise, Ricky Scaggs and many other old-time traditional Country Singers and Musicians.

Garre started playing in local country bands around his hometown when he was 15 and played with the country band Young Country for 13 years. In 1990 he moved to Nashville to pursue his Songwriting and singing Career. His cousin Jake LaGrone was Country Star Lorrie Morgan's tour manager at the time and he pitched a couple of Garre's songs to Lorrie and she signed them to her publishing company. Garre traveled with Lorrie and her band and handled her merchandising for almost three years. When they weren't on the road, He spent time writing and developing songwriting relationships back in Nashville. He has co-written with hit songwriters David Chamberlain, Wynn Varble and Jill Wood. In 1995 he worked on a Singer-Songwriter Artist Development deal under Jake and Cliff Williamson at Starstruck Music Group but was never signed to a major label.

He moved back to Texas in 1996 to be closer to his kids and family. He rededicated his life to Christ in 1999 and began writing Gospel and Christian Country Music. He had a single that reached #17 on the Christian Country Charts in 2006 with his song "Hallelujah, He's Alive!" He was also co-host of a Television program on God's Learning Channel from 2006-2008 called "Out of the Dark", which was named for one of his songs. He has also done Prison Music Ministry for years throughout Texas.

One morning in 2018 Garre was dialing across Sirius XM Radio in his pickup and came across Channel 77-Bluegrass Junction. His radio has pretty much stayed on Bluegrass Junction non-stop ever since. He says, hearing all the old Bluegrass music and traditional country he grew up on was like a spark for him! He began writing Bluegrass and traditional Country Roots acoustic music again and recording demos in his Home Studio. He had "come home" to his true Bluegrass and Traditional Country roots and the writing and singing are more natural and more meaningful than ever!

With a passion for creating and sharing traditional Bluegrass and Country Roots music this album showcases a wholesome and heartfelt message of Faith, Family and love of our Country.


Radio Contact Garre LaGrone
prairiegrassrecords@gmail.com