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PAVILION
“STILL THE SAME” TOUR
LINDSAY ELL
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FRANKIE BALLARD
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SUGARLAND
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Ravinia debut
SUGARLAND
Founded in
in Atlanta, GA, Sugarland
quickly earned devoted fans with their live
shows and began recording with Mercury Nash-
ville in early
. e 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. e disc featured
two top- 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. A er win-
ning Favorite Breakthrough New Artist honors
at the
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 Mu-
sic Association, as well as a nomination as Best
New Artist at the Grammys.
e duo followed
up with
Enjoy the Ride
in
, featuring two
country number-ones in “Want To” and “Set-
tlin’ ”; the disc rose into
Billboard
’s top ve and
also achieved multiplatinum sales. A subsequent
single, “Stay,” became the group’s rst platinum
seller (having previously notched ve gold sell-
ers), earned Song of the Year honors at both
the ACM and CMA Awards in
, and was
named Best Country Song at the
Gram-
mys. Nettles and Bush moved the production
of their next album,
Love on the Inside
(
),
to their home state—the organic result became
their rst 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- hit and achieved platinum
sales. e 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 re-
leased that year. e ’ s-inspired
e Incredible
Machine
followed in
, introducing the mul-
tiplatinum single “Stuck Like Glue” and becom-
ing the duo’s second number-one album and
fourth straight platinum seller. On hiatus since
, Sugarland returned with “Still the Same” at
the end of
and the release of
Bigger
in June.
Sugarland is making its Ravinia debut.
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