{"id":6679,"date":"2020-01-04T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2020-01-03T09:49:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T14:49:39","slug":"hot-country-knights-sign-record-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/01\/hot-country-knights-sign-record-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Country Knights Sign Record Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t7keuw5uhAY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The \u201990s influenced country band Hot Country Knights &#8212; fronted by Douglas (\u201cDoug\u201d) Douglason AKA Dierks Bentley &#8212; has inked a worldwide recording deal with Universal Music Group Nashville (UMGN).<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release, &#8220;the Knights are promising to bring real \u201990s country music back to a format that\u2019s been drowning in male sensitivity, cashmere cardigan sweaters and programmed drum loops.&#8221; Douglason said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSome artists out there tried to put the \u2018O\u2019 back in country, that was a thing for a while . . . but what it\u2019s really missing is the \u2018T.\u2019 Country music has Low-T right now . . . it could use a pick me up, if you know what I mean. Those record label people over at Universal finally realized that only the Knights could be up to a task this big and hard.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Hot Country Knights are comprised of lead singer Douglas (\u201cDoug\u201d) Douglason, lead bass player Trevor Travis, lead guitarist Marty Ray (\u201cRayro\u201d) Roburn, keytar\/fiddle player Terotej (\u201cTerry\u201d) Dvoraczekynski, steel guitarist Barry Van Ricky and percussionist Monte Montgomery.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B60r2Vkh_FC\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201990s influenced country band Hot Country Knights &#8212; fronted by Douglas (\u201cDoug\u201d) Douglason AKA Dierks Bentley &#8212; has inked a deal with Universal Music Group Nashville.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[373,3404,3405,3406,3407],"class_list":["post-6679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-dierks-bentley","tag-doug-douglason","tag-hot-country-knights","tag-umgn","tag-universal-music-group-nashville"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 16:26:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/01\/hot-country-knights-sign-record-deal\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6680,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions\/6680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}