Seems that David Letterman’s Montana ties are paying off once again for area musicians. Readers might recall the night a couple of years ago now when the Great Falls tribute act Cold Hard Cash appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman.
Tonight, another Montanan, Andrew Petroff, will appear on Letterman’s show as bassist in the band, Steel Magnolia. Here’s a press release I received about it.
BOZEMAN NATIVE ON LETTERMAN TONIGHT
Andrew Petroff, son of local Bozeman, MT musician, Reeves Petroff, will be playing bass in the band Steel Magnolia on The Late Show With David Letterman, Monday (Feb. 7).
The winners of CMT’s Can You Duet in 2009, Steel Magnolia released their debut full-length album in January on Big Machine Records. They are nominated for ACM Awards in the categories of top vocal group and top new vocal duo or group. Their other hits include “Keep on Lovin’ You” and “Just by Being You”. Andrew has been touring with them since early 2010 opening for bands such as Brad Paisley, Darius Rucker, and Josh Turner. Steel Magnolia is currently on tour with Blake Shelton promoting their current single “Last Night Again”.
Paisley’s show just graced Bozeman’s Brick Breeden Fieldhouse last September but Andrew said, “Steel Magnolia’s last show on the Brad Paisley tour was just two days before the Bozeman show. It would have been fun to come home and play the Fieldhouse but I’ll catch it next time around.”
Andrew is a Bozeman native who attended Bozeman High School and worked at Music Villa during his high school years. Just out of high school he joined the Bozeman based band The Clintons in 2002 until he moved to Nashville in 2006 to finish college and pursue a career in music. He earned a bachelors degree in Entertainment Industry Studies with a minor in Music Business from Belmont University in Nashville, TN while at the same time working his way through the ranks of the Nashville music scene.
Petroff says that in addition to playing recording sessions in Nashville and being the touring bassist for Steel Magnolia, he’s an aspiring music producer. He played a role in the production of Steel Magnolia’s Christmas single “Christmas Time” and is currently producing the next Clintons record due out this summer. “I’m super pumped to be back with the Clintons crew for this album. It’s going to be a lot of fun!” Andrew says regarding the project.
Tune in to CBS tonight to watch Andrew perform live with Steel Magnolia on The Late Show With David Letterman. Check local listings for the show time. ###
should be called Nickell’s fat ass gut, from the picture. and who made this guy the supreme in Msla for music, what are your credentials pal? do you even play an instrument? just curious.
The comment above made me almost spit out my coffee laughing. Are there truly people so full of curmudgeonous rancor-in-search-of-a-target that they post to any and every blog they encounter without having the slightest idea of what they’re talking about? Dumb rhetorical question, I know (shakes head in tired disbelief.)
Wow! Not sure what I did to spit in your oatmeal this morning, but I’ll try to answer your questions.
Not sure what picture you’re talking about. The one that sometimes rotates into the header, with the fluffy dog? Not me. It looks like my “About” page, which had a picture of me on it, died during my recent blog update, so I suppose I’ll have to look into fixing that so you can judge my BMI more accurately.
I personally don’t feel that it takes credentials to care about and share about music; and I’d be the last person to call myself “the supreme in Msla for music.” But since you asked, I attended Indiana University as a percussion performance major, and played in a few professional orchestras before deciding to chase a writing career instead. In my free time, I’ve been in a couple of local bands here over the years, including Tin Can Genie, Two Year Touqe, and Andrea Harsell and the Night Lights. (Separately, I co-produce ROX, noted by Time Magazine as the first television series on the Internet and by Wired as “the best TV show in America” back in 95.)
I became the arts & entertainment beat reporter for the Missoulian in 2003, which I guess is the closest thing to a direct answer to your question: They’re the ones who hired me to, among other things, produce this blog. In recent years, I’ve received fellowships to attend two NEA Institutes on Arts Journalism — one on classical music; the other on theatre. After attending the latter, I came back the following year as a lecturer. I’ve won a couple of Society of Professional Journalists NW first place awards for arts & arts criticism; the little lucite awards make fine paperweights.
I don’t generally talk about this stuff because I find it unseemly to toot one’s own horn; moreover, I figure if people like or hate what I do, I’d want that to be because of what I do, rather than what I’ve done.
I’m sorry that this blog (and, particularly strangely, this post, which seems pretty darn innocuous by comparison) inspired you to hurl insults toward a guy you’ve presumably never met; but I guess that’s what the Internet was built for, um, right?
I reread your post three times trying to figure out why this random douche got so worked up and couldn’t find anything to inspire such invective, so I assume he’s just one of those miserable assholes. Lucky him!
(Joe) you are the man… touché . Comment was spurred from this.. I am newer in town, and have heard that Joe Nickell is the guy to kiss ass to around town if your a musician, which I don’t believe in kissing ass at all, obviously. Just wondering if the people saying this were tools, or were being serious. either way, just curious. Small towns are funny, you don’t have to have skills to make music, you just have to kiss ass and be friends with the right people. it happens everywhere i guess. the masses have lost touch with real music, so I wonder how Joey got so damn experienced. thanks for the clarity..
(Aaron) if people can’t take what others type on blogs, they shouldn’t have them. you don’t even know me and your calling me an asshole, sounds like a douche move to me, so I guess were equal on that front. peace
Huh, well, okay. Seems like you might be playing the pot calling the kettle black with Aaron — “you don’t even know me and your calling me an asshole” is pretty much what I was pointing out to you regarding your initial comment. You might want to contemplate how you went about finding out the answer to your question from me. Insulting my physique based on a misinterpretation of a photograph probably isn’t your most productive first move. It doesn’t take insults to get me to respond.
As to whether folks have to kiss my ass to get coverage, I would hope that people I’ve written about would differ on that point. When I see or hear about news in the arts & entertainment beat, I report it to the extent that I can given limited time and resources. I don’t care if I’m friends with the subject or not.
But if kissing my ass is code for “you have to tell Joe about it,” then yeah, it definitely helps when people tell me what’s happening. To this day it amazes me how many people think that I have time to go out every day looking for stories to write. This week alone, there is a far greater number of interesting and arguably newsworthy events going on that people have told me about than I can possibly write about. That’s the case most of the time. If it helps and if you actually care, here’s a little primer on the most productive ways to catch my attention.