‘Bo Duke’ coming to Dunlap for concert
If you’re looking for a cool place to hang out on Wednesday to celebrate the Fourth, Dunlap might be the place. The fourth annual Fourth of July Free Music Festival will take place there at Harris Park and it will feature some good local music and actor/singer/songwriter John Schneider.
Carolina Calling will kick things off at 10:30 a.m. followed by Shawn Cooley & Time Truck and Stallion Band playing until 3:30 p.m. Schneider will sign autographs from then until 5:30, with The Zachary Paul Band playing at 4, Cody McCarver at 5:30 and then Schneider hitting the stage at 7:30. (All times Central.)
The General Lee from Schneider’s “Dukes of Hazzard” show will be there as well.
Schneider said in phone interview that he’d gotten out of the music side of things for awhile, and that he didn’t realize how big “a hole it left where my soul used to be.
“I’m delighted with the relationships it has rekindled and opened up. I’m really looking forward to playing in Dunlap with Cody and everyone else. We haven’t even rehearsed, which is always fun. We’ll just hit the stage, say, ‘Hello’ and have some fun.”
Schneider will forever be known as Bo Duke, but he has recorded nine albums and dozens of songs, including a remake of Elvis’ “It’s Now or Never,” which remains the highest-charting cover of an Elvis hit, topping out at No. 4 on the U.S. Country Billboard chart in 1981. “That was a lot of fun,” he says of the recording and subsequent tour. “We used to travel around to the radio stations trying to get them to play it. In a lot of ways, that’s what we are doing these days and I like it.” ›
The year continues to be a good one for Mitch Rossell. Previously, the Silverdale Baptist Academy graduate wrote “Ask Me How I Know,” which became a No. 1 hit for his friend and sometimes writing partner Garth Brooks.
Rossell also performed at Riverbend this month. Earlier this week, it was announced that he had scored again with a new song that Brooks recorded. Rossell co-wrote “All Day Long” with Brooks and Bryan Kennedy and it debuted at No. 21 on Billboard and No. 28 on Mediabase.
It is the most-added single with the biggest first week of any country radio track since 2015.
Having a six-time CMA Entertainer of the Year record your music is nice, but it also helps that Rossell is talented.