Shane Wooten Band

Shane Wooten Band’s Backyard BBQ Contest Giveaway!!!

// January 31st, 2012 // No Comments » // News

Shane Wooten Band loves BBQ and good times spent with their fans/friends, which is why the boys decided to offer their fans the chance to have a private concert in their own backyard with all their family and  friends! Meet n Greet with Shane Wooten and guitarist Nic Ward before they take the stage to perform their hit songs off the new 6 pack album.

How to Win:

• Send all your friends to the Shane Wooten Band’s Facebook page
• Have them “Like” the page
• Ask them to leave a comment; example:  Sent by “your name”

When the band gets 1000 new likes, they will add up the comments, if you sent the most people, you win its just that easy!

SWB 2011 Year End Review

// January 2nd, 2012 // No Comments » // News

While looking back on 2011, the Shane Wooten Band has been on the move! Jan 1, 2011 – The band celebrates their new #1 hit Florida single “Running with a Redneck Crowd” featuring the Bellamy Brothers written by Clyde Howell and produced by Bellamy Brothers’ Records. The single was released only a few months prior in November of 2010; however it quickly was added to radio stations worldwide. For example, Clear channel’s Weekly top 30 featuring  the red hot spotlight hosted by Dave Darrel on Kix Country added the song, the station’s 2010 year end voter’s choice listeners voted the single into the #1 spot,  and the song was featured on the 2010 New Year’s Eve Countdown as the top Florida single.

Jan 8, 2011 – After, the Shane Wooten Band gets the call from Gator Harley Davidson, they open for the Southern Rock Allstars, which is a band made up of some of Southern rock’s legendary players from Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, Lynyrd Skynyrd and more. The band rocks the stage and catches the attention of the Southern Rock Allstar’s drummer Mark “Bam Bam” McConnell, which is the former drummer for Sebastian Bach and Blackfoot. Since then Mark and Shane have stayed in close contact throughout the 2011 year.

Jan 28, 2010 – Shane Wooten and Nic Ward (Guitar player) dared to do something that hardly anyone on the planet has ever done; walk across Florida! Shane conceptualized the event he appropriately titled “Walk Across Florida” starting in Daytona Beach and crossing the great state ending up in Clearwater Beach. The walk took 5 days and 167 miles raising money for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Florida.

In addition, the boys shot live video, while on the walk and meet with friends/fans along the way at different planned stops. Along the walk they chased wild turkeys through the woods and had many adventures along the trail, which some of  can be seen on Shane Wooten Band’s YouTube Channel.

Next, the band is offered a spot playing at “Countryfest 2011″ presented by Kix Country and Budweiser as the opening act for headliner Marty Stuart, which spurs a small tour through the State of Florida. Countryfest 2011 was held in Port Charlotte, FL on Sunday April 3, 2011 and drew a large crowd of 15,000 spectators, which to date was one of the largest events the band has performed in front of.

However, the band was anything less than shy, captivating the crowd by pulling out all the stops, such as throwing out beads to the crowd, Shane kicking a giant beach ball from the stage, and then Shane running out into the crowd to slap hands and dance during the show.

Furthermore, video footage from this show was used to make an unofficial video of their new hit single “Running with a Redneck Crowd” featuring the Bellamy Brothers and is posted up on YouTube and has already logged over 1,000 hits to date.

April 9, 2011 – Another date on the tour  the band returns home to North Central Florida to play the Levy County Fair in Williston, FL as the headlining act and rocks the stage for a large crowd of thousands that are attending the long running event. Shane was excited to play the event because he had thrown watermelons in the area with his cousin during summers growing up. And, the Williston Pioneer published a great article on Shane Wooten about his consistent growth in the Country music industry over the last several years since the band started. However, the fun stops when the touring van breaks down after the show leaving the band in the middle of no where in late at night, which Shane records the breakdown on his phone and uploads it to YouTube breakdown.

June & July, 2011 – The “Corndogs & Ferris Wheels” tour stared to slow down; however during the year Shane had been talking with a new start up organization, known as Justice for All Revolution, which website helps people worldwide with psychological illness, psychical/mental abuse, and much more. The organization’s CEO Patty Cummings asks Shane to be their 2011 celebrity spokesperson for the org due to Shane’s motivational attitude, past success as a State and World karate champion, undergraduate degree in Psychology/Master’s in Business, and ability to connect with his fans in the music industry. The partnership will take Shane and the band on a whirlwind tour across the Midwest with stops at some of the biggest fairs and festivals in the Midwest.

During the tour in the the Midwest, the band is asked to headline 2 of the biggest festivals in Florida, the Williston Independence Day festival  and fireworks on July 2, 2011 in Williston, FL. And, God and Country Day’s Independence Day festival and fireworks on July 4, 2011 Ocala, FL. Both prove to be huge shows with 15,000 attendees in Williston and over 20,000 in Ocala, FL.

Furthermore, the band makes an unofficial video for “Pitbulls and Chainsaws” featuring the Bellamy Brothers written by David Bellamy produced by Bellamy Brothers’ Records with some of the footage from the 4th of July show where they introduced a chainsaw on stage for the first time. The video had been a fan favorite since it was released and continue to be  a favorite on tour  and on FM radio across the world.

Shane goes back into the studio during the fall of 2011 and begins working on several new songs with the Bellamy Brothers, such as “Get a Little Crazy” and “White Trash” which will be featured on the upcoming 6 pack album to be released in 2012. During that time the band’s booking agent 3LDR books a small tour across Florida with a stop in a brand new city to the state, known as Ave Maria, FL, which is a town based on Catholic religion. The band has a great time in the city and inspired Shane to write an article titled Finding the Lost City of Ave Maria 

With the year winding down Shane receives an invitation from the American Country Music Chart to be part of an article titled “Country Music’s Holiday Favorites and Recipes” featuring some of Nashville’s biggest stars. Shane submits his holiday favorite Pecan Pie recipe for the story without knowing that the article will become the most viewed article on the ACMC website, grabbing national attention from fans, radio stations, and more.

Lastly, Shane decides to put pen to paper and wrote his first Christmas song titled “Man I Love Christmas Time” which he co-produced with his band-mate Nic Ward set to the instrumental track from “Shovel’n Sushine” an earlier Florida hit single for the band in ’09. Shane states the song was inspired after reading some new’s articles and hearing television commentary that continues to surround the Christmas tradition over the last several years calling to rename some of the holiday’s items, such as a Christmas tree being renamed Holiday tree. Shane releases the song late in December; however the song was quickly picked up and placed in rotation by internet and FM radio stations worldwide and the American Country Music Chart decided to feature Shane’s press release on his first Christmas single along with a link to the video.

However, the year was not officially over because on New Year’s Eve, Shane gets a surprise call, when Clear Channel’s Dave Darrel host of Kix Country’s Top 40 Countdown and Red Hot Spot Light contacts Shane and requests a copy of “Man I Love Christmas Time” and an interview, which was featured on the the station’s 2011 Year end Countdown.

Shane Wooten Stands Up for Christmas!

// December 19th, 2011 // No Comments » // News, Videos

Ocala, FL December 19, 2011 Shane Wooten stands up for the Christmas holiday and states we have the freedom to call it Christmas and we should not have to call our Christmas tree a Holiday Tree! While working in the studio with the Bellamy Brothers producing his last 2 singles, which will make the 6 pack of songs 4 of which are featuring the Bellamy Brothers, Shane decided to pen his first Christmas tune titled “Man I Love Christmas Time”. The song is written to the instrumental from his Florida hit “Shovel’n Sunshine” and incorporates the message of Christmas time through the journey of the season.

Furthermore, Shane states I wanted to write a tune that conveyed that Christmas is a holiday that has been celebrated for as long as I know in my family as it is in many other families throughout the world. The name Christmas is here to stay along with the Christmas tree, which will be standing in my house come Christmas morning. While I have no problem with other folks celebrating their holidays, I do have a big problem with folks trying to tell me how to celebrate mine!

“This is a great tune and the message behind it is even better, Shane states that its Christmas time and a Christmas tree and he has the right to celebrate it. And, call it what it is because he is American and has the right to! We like that here at the American Country Music Chart!” – ACMC

“This is a brilliantly written song that really bring out the Christmas spirit! – Paddy N IMRadio

P.S. We want to give you a free copy just email shane@3ldr.com for a free copy our gift to you!

Shane Wooten Band’s Recipes Featured on American Country Music Chart’s Holiday Favorites and Recipes

// November 23rd, 2011 // No Comments » // News

We are so excited to be involved with the American Country Music Chart’s “Country Music Holiday Favorites and Recipes” article along side of Nashville’s biggest stars! We had to bring a preview of it over to our site!

Please visit: www.americancountrymusicchart.com and spread the word on your Facebook page and tell them Shane Wooten Band sent you so that we will be asked to do more of these projects… Thanks in advance for your help!

Thanks for Believing – SW

Seven men. Seven soldiers. Seven stories of war, commendations and valor!

// November 11th, 2011 // No Comments » // News

Finding the Lost City of Ave Maria

// October 28th, 2011 // No Comments » // News

While touring through Florida last week, we performed at the 1^st Annual Rocktober Roundup Festival located in the town of Ave Maria, FL. I did not know any think about Ave Maria except what I could find on their website and an undeveloped Facebook page. However as the band and I made our way down I-75 South towards Alligator Alley my mind began to wonder where we were going to end up.

We took an exit, which lead us East through what appeared to be the middle of nowhere for about 30 miles and felt like forever. I had just called my contact with the festival, when we came to a stop sign across the street was a cow pasture as far as the eye could see and not much else.  Again, where are we?

As we made our way down the road we began to drive into a little city, known as Immokalee, FL which HGTV Frontdoor.com states the name was submitted by settlers to the Postmaster General in 1895, suggested by the woman who would become the first Immokalee postmistress in 1898, Mary Burrell. It comes from the Creek language and means my home.  Although there is a Seminole reservation there and casino, there is not much of anything else. The place looks like you stepped in a town in Mexico due to the large population of migrant workers and what appears to be a large concentration of low income housing. I wish I would have snapped a few photos at the time; however it was my turn to drive so was not able to.

As we left Immokalee, FL in the rear view we began to get into some real Florida marsh land looking area complete with Coyotes. As we traveled down the road to what appeared to be BFE I was wondering if we would ever find this lost city of Ave Maria. However, just as we began to feel lost we saw a large structure appear from the landscape and it must have been what people felt like back in the day during explorations because to be surrounded by nothing but nature and to see the sign of humanity spring up from the landscape is magical.

We entered the city and one of the crew quickly stated that the large church took on the shape of the Pope’s hat. The town was immaculate and was a postcard in the making as we turned into the town’s center the streets were lined with people and shops as if it were a lost city that no one knew about resting here in the middle of the swamp. Additionally, luxury condos lined the tops of the shops in the town square that made you feel as though you were in standing in a very contemporary city. Also, there was a College located in the community, a new Publix, and talk of a College of Law coming.

The people that we meet there where all super nice and very accommodating as we began to explore around the city we quickly came to the conclusion that this city was entirely faith based on the Catholic religion and its roots showed in the architecture with the center piece begin the church. I do not know if that was a symbolic gesture to the thought that religion is at the center of life or not; however it made a great focal piece. On one hand the outside of the church was one of the nicest I have ever laid eyes on. On the other hand the inside was equally as nice as something that one may see in Europe only contemporary and new with awesome stone work and statues.

We set up our sound equipment and sound checked in, while listening to the sound of the band bounce around the town it left me the feeling that we were the first to perform a Country music set here let along the first to sign a song, such as “Mudslinger” or “Country Bad Ass”! However, the audience was very receptive to our songs and I really felt like the song “Dirt” written by Eddie Kilgallon of Montgomery Gentry struck a chord, which was cool because we had only played that song for the first time the night before. The song has a line “this is my dirt, here on my shirt, from day’s work, I’m diggin that livin again” and I could not help but feel as though the people that lived here connected to the song due to their daily activity to build an awesome city out of the ground of what appeared to a be a cow pasture in the past. When we rolled out of the town and back into the Florida wilderness that surrounds Ave Maria, I felt like I could have stayed and became a settler of a new township!

Shane Wooten and Bellamy Brothers Racing in Land O Lakes, FL

// October 20th, 2011 // No Comments » // News

Shane Wooten Band at Porky’s Roadhouse

// October 20th, 2011 // No Comments » // News

WIN VIP Meet N Greet Passes for Rocktober Round-Up Oct 22, 2011

// October 19th, 2011 // No Comments » // News

Shane Wooten Judges for Culinary Combat

// October 10th, 2011 // No Comments » // News, Videos

Culinary Combat is a cooking competition benefiting Shriners Hospitals for Children. Congratulations to the winner, Chef James Schumann of Cuvee Wine & Bistro.

Shriners Hospitals for Children is an international healthcare system dedicated to improving the lives of children by providing pediatric specialty care, innovative research and outstanding teaching programs. The hospitals focus on orthopedic care, burn care, spinal cord injury, and cleft lip and palate care.