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SUMMARY:RONNIE MILSAP
DESCRIPTION:Born blind (his family thought it was retribution for sin), Ronnie Milsap’s grandparents gave the boy over to the North Carolina State School for the Blind hoping for a better chance.  There, Milsap discovered music – deviating from the school’s classical curriculum to explore the nascent realms of race music, rock & roll and jazz.\nBeing the brilliant kid he was, it wasn’t long until he’d found his way into the local clubs and the tiny indie labels.\nSuddenly, he was sharing bills with Ray Charles (who took the Ashford & Simpson-penned B-side to Milsap’s Scepter single “Never Had It So Good” and scored his own hit with “Let’s Go Get Stoned”), and James Brown on a circuit that included the Howard Theater, the Royal Peacock, and more.\nIt was Ray Charles who told the young pianist when he was offered a scholarship to Young Harris College’s law program, “Son, I can hear the music inside you…” It settled Milsap’s fate.\nLiving in Atlanta, playing clubs, and doing sessions the future Country Music Hall of Famer caught wind that JJ Cale was looking for a keyboard player. Cale hired him. Ronnie went on to work at the Whiskey for a good while.\nFrom Atlanta, Ronnie moved to Memphis where he was doing sessions with Chips Moman, where Elvis famously commanded, “More thunder on the keys, Milsap,” during the recording of “Kentucky Rain.” It was there he was asked to play the Whiskey on the famed Sunset Strip in LA. While staying at the notorious Hyatt House, Charley Pride, a famous man in country music, saw the white kid playing rock & soul and suggested giving Nashville a try.\nForty #1s. Five decades of charted singles. Creating a new way of recording (being blind his hyper-attuned hearing led him to create/build what is now known as Ronnie’s Place, where the new album, the Duets, was captured), he broke genre rules and became one of the biggest pop/AC and even R&B artists of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.\nSix Grammys. CMA Entertainer of the Year and four Album of the Year Awards. The first country video played on MTV (the ironic “She Loves My Car”). An early champion of NFL star Mike Reid, who wrote many of Ronnie’s #1 hits and who’d go on to write Bonnie Raitt’s second most enduring classic “I Can’t Make You Love Me.”\nAlways chasing the music, always hungry for the songs, he is now an inspiration for a new generation of country stars from critical standard-setters Kacey Musgraves and Little Big Town to CMA/ACM Entertainers of the Year Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean, as well as a standard-setter for friends like Dolly Parton, George Strait, Willie Nelson and even groundbreakers Leon Russell and Billy Gibbons.\nIn a world of marketing match-ups, the Duets is an homage to blurring lines, great songwriting and vocals that celebrate soul over product – something rare in today’s flashcard jingle country.\nBut just as importantly, Ronnie Milsap is a testament to going where you don’t belong with an open heart and a true sense of music as a compass. A rebel blind boy often at odds at school for following the music in his heart, that music took him to places white people didn’t go… brought him a wife who would be not just a steadfast companion, but a fellow traveler in the songs (they’re still together!!)… give him stages from the chitlin circuit, soul clubs, rock rooms to the biggest arenas, “Solid Gold,” the White House and beyond.\nHe saw racism inside out. He led with an open mind, and a hunger to play. He created action in songs instead of words without tangible works. He’s the same guy today, but all these years later, he’s still a man who lives to play.\nAnd man, can he tell a story.\nTickets – $39, $49, $59 ($6 additional per ticket day of show)\n\n***Rescheduled from:\nFriday, July 17, 2020 at 7:30 PM\nFriday, March 5, 2021 at 7:30 PM\nAll tickets for the original date will be honored for the new date.\nIf you purchased tickets for a previous date and have a conflict with the rescheduled date, please contact the Box Office for ticketing options by emailing boxoffice@wctrust.net ( mailto:boxoffice@wctrust.net ) or calling 724-836-8000. The Box Office is open Monday – Friday 9 AM to 5 PM for phone and email inquiries.\n
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CATEGORIES:Country/Southern Rock,Pop,R&B/Soul
LOCATION:The Palace Theatre
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