Carey Edwards had new country artist Devin Dawson on The Morning Bull Ride Monday morning (April 29). If you missed it, you can click on the play buttons below to hear each segment. Dawson, who is a NorCal native, is in the midst of his "California Smoke" tour which supports area firefighters and benefits the CA Fire Foundation. He will be in San Francisco May 1, in addition to other NorCal locations.

The Chief is back on tour for 2019 and he’s killing it.  The Double Down tour with Eric Church has sold out in 13 out of 14 markets already since the January 18 launch date. The Box Office data at Pollstar says E.C. has brought in $36.5 million at the box office. And he’s just getting started. 
A staggering 379,800 fans have seen the Chief in concert on his new tour this year, making Church the number one artist on the Pollstar Live75, a chart that ‘ranks the average tickets sold by Active Tours.’ No other Country artist, besides Kenny Chesney, comes close to having as much success on tour right now. Chesney is ranked number 5 behind Church’s concert metrics. To put the massive Double Down numbers into perspective; Luke Combs, arguably the hottest New Country artist touring right now averages $276,418 per show currently. Impressive. Until you scale Eric Church’s nightly gross at over $1.26 million! Yeah. The newly minted Chase Center in San Francisco announced, only days ago, that Church’s Double Down tour was coming to the brand new high end arena, September 28 for one show only. So before they peel the plastic back on the new box office, 106-3 The Bull is giving away a-lot of tickets to this show. When you hear The Bull “Double Down” and play two Eric Church songs in a row, back to back, caller 6 to The Bull @ 707-285-1063 wins a pair to this show. And right now it doesn’t get any hotter than Eric Church and the Double Down tour. Winning starts Monday morning, April 29 and continues all week. Be sure to listen between 6am to 10am daily. There will be many winners and only residents of Sonoma County are eligible to win this contest. Many listeners will not catch our Eric Church “Double Down” fast enough, so this a good opportunity for real Eric Church fans out there. And as a *huge* Eric Church fan myself, I will definitely be pulling for you!   -Carey & The Morning Bull Ride.

The Bull's Commercial-Free Country Cash contest has put $100 bills in the hands of a whole bunch of listeners over the past four weeks...and the contest isn't over yet. In fact, next week the prize amount jumps to $1000! If you haven't already, sign up for The Bull Pen and listen for your name. Then, call back within 10 minutes to win!

In case you missed some of them, we have had winners from all over Sonoma County including Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park, Guerneville, Windsor, Sebastopol, Petaluma, and on and on. Here is the current list:

Sabrina Brummer

Victoria Garrigus

Geena Gelvin

Gustavo Martin

Jessica Pellegrini

Georgia Mueller

Montana Schobert

Amanda Wall

Jenna Thomas

Leslie Winter

Kelly Clark

Mikayla Musco

Ryan Franceschi

Mateo Sarmiento

Jamie Englund

Forrest Smith

Lauren West

Stacie Walker

Shannon Buerck

Mindy Clark

There were winners, losers, highlights, lowlights and another ACM is in the books.  This year's show from Las Vegas had five stand out rarities too.

1)  Keith Urban took entertainer of the year for the first time. He's the second artist who was born outside of the U.S. to win in that category. The other?  Shania Twain way back in 1999!

2)  Kacey Musgraves won Album of The Year for "Golden Hour'' which makes it a trifeca for all award shows: Best Album for the ACM's, the CMA's, and the Grammy Awards. The only other projects that have been able to score a triple knockout between all three major award shows: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack and Taylor Swift's "Fearless".  

3)  A first for this decade...Miranda Lambert did NOT win Female Artist Of The Year for the first time in TEN years.  That award went to Musgraves.

4)  Dan + Shay's "Tequila" became the first hit to win single and song of the Year in the same year since Miranda Lambert's "Over You" six years ago.

5)  "Tequila" won single of the year and that award has only been won by a duo three other times in history.  Brooks and Dunn did it in 1992. Sugarland won it with "Stay" in 2007. And, three years ago, F.G.L. got the award for "H.O.L.Y."

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