Ravinia 2019, Issue 2, Week 4

7:30 PM SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 2019 PAVILION NOAH SCHNACKY † –Intermission– SUGARLAND † Ravinia debut SUGARLAND Founded in 2002 in Atlanta, GA, Sugarland quickly earned devoted fans with their live shows and began recording with Mercury Nash- ville in early 2004. The twin singles “Baby Girl” and “Stand Back Up” heralded the arrival of the band’s now multiplatinum debut album, Twice the Speed of Life , later that year. The disc featured two top-40 hits and dueling country-chart num- ber twos in “Something More” and “Baby Girl,” which was the highest-peaking debut single on the country chart in over a decade. After win- ning Favorite Breakthrough New Artist honors at the 2005 American Music Awards, Sugar- land’s Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush gath- ered armfuls of award nominations from the Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association, as well as a nomination as Best New Artist at the Grammys. The duo followed up with Enjoy the Ride in 2006, featuring two country number-ones in “Want To” and “Settlin’ ”; the disc rose into Billboard ’s top five and also achieved multiplatinum sales. A subsequent single, “Stay,” became the group’s first platinum seller (having previously notched five gold sellers), earned Song of the Year hon- ors at both the ACM and CMA Awards in 2008, and was named Best Country Song at the 2009 Gram- mys. Nettles and Bush moved the production of their next album, Love on the Inside (2008), to their home state—the organic result became their first chart topper, and they scored three straight country chart toppers with “It Happens,” “Already Gone,” and “All I Want to Do,” which also became a top-20 hit and achieved platinum sales. The following year, Sugarland appeared on a primetime network TV special entitled Live on the Inside , which was subsequently released as a live CD/DVD and also charted at number one; a Christmas album, Gold and Green , was also released that year. The ’80s-inspired The Incredible Machine followed in 2010, introducing the multiplatinum single “Stuck Like Glue” and becoming the duo’s second number-one album and fourth straight platinum seller. After a 2012 hiatus, Sugarland returned with “Still the Same” at the end of 2017 and the release of Bigger last summer, when Sugarland also made its Ravinia debut. MARGARET GLASPY A Red Bluff, CA, native, Margaret Glaspy began working her music in New York and Boston, where for a time she attended the Berklee Col- lege of Music. With a few years gigging as a tour- ing musician alongside other people’s bands un- der her belt, she tightened up the light on herself with her first EP, Homeschool , in 2012. Glaspy re-recorded a couple of its tracks and added a couple new strokes of the pen and guitar on another brief collection, If & When , a year lat- er, setting herself apart from the DIY indie pack with a slick bluesy command. While demoing a long-playing set she recorded at home in Brook- lyn, Glaspy inked a deal with ATO Records and entered New York’s Sear Studios to recut its dozen songs for the 2016 debut disc Emotions and Math . She wrote and produced each track herself, imbuing each with intensely person- al specificity that nonetheless speaks to life at large. The disc was featured on many top year- end lists, including those of NPR, Billboard , and the New York Times , and Glaspy toured its music across North America, Europe, and Asia. While on the road—in hotels, on planes, and at sound checks—she put pen to paper again for three new songs about the different sides of love: love gone wrong, love gone right, and love at a dis- tance. These tracks, again self-produced, com- pose her latest EP, Born Yesterday , also released by ATO, and represent a bookend to the chapter of life that led to Emotions and Math and mark the start of new journeys. Maragret Glaspy is making her Ravinia debut. RAVINIA MAGAZINE | JUNE 24 – JUNE 30, 2019 96