weekly July 10, 2023, Issue 866
Q&A: All Things Storme
The newly minted face and voice of Sevens Radio Networks’ The Big 615 – alongside some guy named Garth – Storme Warren has a lot going on. Below, he discusses leaving SiriusXM, the many hats he wears and how Brooks almost made him cry. CA: What has surprised you about this new journey? SW: How instantly comfortable it is with a team I could not have more pride in. Garth and Bob handpicked a dream team and somehow included me. There’s no conflict and it has nothing to do with ego. This has to do with having fun, joy, love and spreading country music around the globe. You’re doing a daily show and a countdown. Operationally, what’s Storme Warren that workload? I don’t have to get up at 4am anymore, so that’s a plus. I still do a six-hour daily morning show, but I have to take into account that it isn’t morning everywhere we are reaching. We’re taking the word “morning” out of The Storme Warren Show. I treat it as live as possible until we have our live technology in place – I’m not pre-tracking four shows. Morning of, the first track that goes in is just minutes before air. We track as if it were live. I’ve been doing a live show for so long. I know what it sounds like to be tracked way ahead of time and I just can’t do that. There’s too much happening in social media, news cycles and people’s lives. One of the most important things is listener interaction. As they reach out on socials, with emails or voice memos, they’re thinking in real time and I want to be there with them. Have you gotten any feedback from people who knew you from SiriusXM? Yeah, of course. They’re giving it a shot and seem to be pleased with the product. More importantly, people that have never heard of me are reaching out from Ghana, Barbados, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, the UK, Canada, Mexico, South Africa and South America. (continued on page 5)
Everything I Glove: Big Loud’s Morgan Wallen plays St. Louis’ Busch Stadium. Pictured (top, l-r) are WIL’s Tommy Mattern, Monica, Wallen and WIL’s Marty Brooks; (bottom) Wallen (c) with KSD’s Dusty Panhorst and wife Ashley.
Tour Launch: Sam Hunt
MCA’s Sam Hunt kicked off his Summer On The Outskirts Tour Thursday evening (7/6) at Xfinity Theatre in Hartford, CT. The trek marks Hunt’s first full-fledged tour since 2017’s 15 In A 30 Tour, and iHeartMedia WWYZ/Hartford APD/MD/morning co-host Amanda Jo Parker was there to catch all the sights and sounds for Country Aircheck. Big Loud’s Lily Rose opened the show. “[She] represented wearing a Boston Red Sox hat,” says Parker. “The crowd was singing ‘Villian’ back to her by the end of the set.” Rose was followed by BMLGR’s Brett Young. “He was rocking a Sam Hunt concert Sam Hunt tee and prepped the crowd for a good cry before heading into ‘Mercy.’”
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