{"id":67315,"date":"2017-10-13T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=67315"},"modified":"2017-10-13T12:00:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T17:00:26","slug":"cole-swindell-toasts-flatliner-at-tootsies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/cole-swindell-toasts-flatliner-at-tootsies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole Swindell Toasts \u201cFlatliner\u201d at Tootsie\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Cole Swindell Toasts \u201cFlatliner\u201d at Tootsie\u2019s<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Nashville Honky-Tonk Turns 57 with Swindell No. 1 Party<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Cole Swindell and his \u201cFlatliner\u201d co-writers Jaron Boyer and Matt Bronleewe took over Tootsie\u2019s Orchid Lounge on Tuesday (Oct. 10) to celebrate their hit Dierks Bentley collaboration. The song went at No. 1 on the Mediabase chart and peaked at No. 2 on\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u2018s country airplay chart in August.<\/p>\n

\"\"Bentley couldn\u2019t make it to the party to see Swindell, Boyer and Brownleewe get showered in congratulations, praises and plaques. But several members of the Music Row community packed into Tootsie\u2019s third floor bar to help them celebrate over drinks, hot wings, chips and salsa. The event preceded the honky-tonk\u2019s 57th Birthday Bash, which Swindell headlined.<\/p>\n

Sony\/ATV\u2019s Josh Van Valkenburg, peermusic\u2019s Kim Wiggins and Warner Music Nashville\u2019s Cris Lacy each spoke about their clients\u2019 achievements and the success of \u201cFlatliner\u201d before giving the floor to the night\u2019s honorees.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a hit because people freakin\u2019 liked it,\u201d Lacy said. \u201cAnd you would think that it wouldn\u2019t need to be said \u2026 I stood in the middle of a crowd of 20,000 people in Virginia Beach, Virginia, who were raising their beers and screaming and clapping and losing their minds on a Friday night when Cole and Dierks came out to sing \u2018Flatliner.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere have been so many articles written about what is and what isn\u2019t country music. I read them. They criticize our music. I want to tell you, that\u2019s not an insult to Cole. I\u2019ve got a bunch of stats that tell you how amazing he is. That\u2019s an insult to the people who buy our music. Those people are the backbone of our industry.\u201d Swindell agrees. Before the party, he told CMT.com his career wouldn\u2019t be what it is today without his fans. His No. 1 priority is making them happy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s about honoring those that didn\u2019t make it home that night [in Las Vegas] for me and knowing that these fans, we wouldn\u2019t have a career without them,\u201d he said. \u201cOur music brings people together and as a songwriter and as an artist, I want to try to put a smile on people\u2019s faces.<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowing that I\u2019m in the situation to write songs that can help people through tough times, that\u2019s what I think about when I think of country music,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s those songs that got me through tough times as a kid and as an adult.\u201d<\/p>\n

In just over three years as an artist and a songwriter, Swindell has accumulated six No. 1s on\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u2018s country airplay chart, five platinum singles, one gold single, a platinum debut album and a gold sophomore album.<\/p>\n

Lacy surprised Swindell with a platinum plaque commemorating \u201cMiddle of A Memory.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cStay Downtown\u201d is the fourth single from Swindell\u2019s sophomore album\u00a0You Should Be Here<\/em>. He told CMT.com plans for a third album are in the works.<\/p>\n

– CMT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cole Swindell Toasts \u201cFlatliner\u201d at Tootsie\u2019s Nashville Honky-Tonk Turns 57 with Swindell No. 1 Party Cole Swindell and his \u201cFlatliner\u201d co-writers Jaron Boyer and Matt Bronleewe took over Tootsie\u2019s Orchid Lounge on Tuesday (Oct. 10) to celebrate their hit Dierks Bentley collaboration. The song went at No. 1 on the Mediabase chart and peaked at No. 2 on\u00a0Billboard\u2018s country airplay chart in August. Bentley couldn\u2019t make it to the party to see Swindell, Boyer and Brownleewe get showered in congratulations, praises and plaques. But several members of the Music Row<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}