7-18-08 - Texarkana Gazette, by Aaron Brand
Henricks returns to East Texas roots
Fresh off the release of her gospel CD "Sunday Morning," Texas country music singer Rebecca Henricks will soon make a first-ever concert stop at Music City Texas Theatre in Linden.
Henricks, who grew up in Marshall, Texas, plays MCT at 8 p.m. July 26. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
"We just released a country bluegrass album and it's all gospel music," said Henricks in a phone interview from London, where she was attending an air show. Her husband, Tom Henricks, is a four-time space shuttle pilot and commander.
She lived in Dallas her elementary school years, then her family moved east to Marshall when she made it to high school.
"So I really consider Marshall my home," she said.
Last year around this time, Henricks released her second album, "Dance with Me." The title song refers to meeting her husband.
Henricks, a graduate of East Texas Baptist University, came up with the idea to make a gospel album after visiting her mother in the hospital. During visits, Henricks would bring her guitar and sing gospel songs to her mom. Nurses and others on the floor enjoyed it, too, she said.
Henricks said the Music City Texas show should have a mix of country and gospel.
"This is my very first time (playing there). I'm really looking forward to it," she said.
She typically plays larger cities, but she wanted one close to her hometown.
"I wanted to do a show that reached the home crowd," Henricks said.
To check out some of her tunes- which her Website bills as "traditional country with a Texas twist"- visit www.rebeccahenricks.com
3-8-08 - Hilltop News Magazine
Article about Rebecca on Page 17: Hilltop News Magazine, ETBU
3-2-08 - New Gospel CD, SUNDAY MORNING
For the last four months, Rebecca has been in the studio working on a new gospel CD, Sunday Morning. The CD includes 12 classic hymns with an added country/bluegrass beat. Sunday Morning will be released July 2008. If you would like to schedule Rebecca for concert at your local church, please contact txsinger@optonline.net. A press release will be sent out once Sunday Morning is released.
10-18-07 - The Grapevine Sun, by Les Cockrell
Henricks set to perform at Grapevins Opry on Saturday
Anyone who listens to much country music knows that the best performers sing from the heart.
Area residents will have an opportunity to hear some heart-felt tunes from one of their own at 7:30pm Saturday when Rebecca Henricks plays the Grapevine Opry. Henricks, a former Keller resident, recently released her second album, Dance With Me, and the disc features an aray of songs in the traditional mode with touches of bluegrass and gospel. Listen to the CD from start to finish, and it is apparent that Henricks knows how to deliver a song, whether the tune is a tale of a broken heart or a rousing spiritual.
"It was a breath of fresh air to record for her," said Rocky Gribble, who produces the Grapevine Opry shows and played on Henricks' album. I deal with so many young performers who are coming down the pike now, but what strikes me is that so many of them are caught up in that contemporary country thing. They all sound alike."
Gribble said he's known Henricks for quite awhile and likes her spontaneity and mature approach to the music. "She might change the melody of the song if the mood hits her," he said. "It's fun to have someone who's fresh and more mature in their music, who knows what they want and what they're going for."
The album has a definite Texas flavor, and traditionalists should like the overall sound. "I love the traditional style," Henricks said recently during a telephone interview, adding that she's tried to resist Nashville's attemptys to "popify" her sound.
Henricks has been perfroming since she was a child, when she traveled with her parents and sang in churches throughout the South, so her love of more traditional music is understandable. "I was the youngest of three girls," she said, "My daddy could play anything with strings on it, and my mother plays piano without reading a note, My sisters are talented, too."
She enjoys writing songs, too, and penned seven of the tunes on Dance With Me. The title track is about how she met her husband, astronaut Tom Henricks, on a blind date. Her husband, a NASA commander and pilot on four space shuttle missions, encouraged her to focus on her music while the two were living in Houston, and she began to write seriously.
Henricks is scheduled to be on the WFAA-TV (Channel 8) program Good Morning Teas at 9am, Oct. 19.
Tickets to Saturday's show at the Palace Theatre, 300 S. Main St., are $15 for adults and $10 for children 12 and younger. Call 817-481-8733 for more information.
10-12-07 - Dallas Morning News, by Mario Tarradell
THE 411 in THE GUIDE
Hometown: Dallas
Age: "I can't say. A girl's never supposed to tell her age."
Based: Fairview, TX
The second CD: Dance With Me, which follows Ms. Henricks' debut, 2004's Stagecaoch Road, nicely merges traditional country with bluegrass on a batch of well-played, melodically sung tunes, most of which come from her pen. Among the best tracks are "Ridin' the Plains," "Dance with Me" (about meeting her husband of 14 years, retired NASA astronaut Tom Henricks, on a blind date) and covers of Dolly Parton's "Red, White and Bluegrass" and Marty Stuart's "Draggin' My Heart Around."
The knack for songwriting: Ms. Henricks has been putting words and music together since she was 11. Sounds like she was born for this. "It's in my blood," she says by phone. "Both my parents are musicians. My grandmother, my father's mother, was also a musician. She traveled all over. At 11, I just started looking at things around me and I wrote about that. I had to get some years on me to be able to write about things people could relate to. I write about life in general, friends of mine, just what's going on in my life, too."
The mix of bluegrass and country: "It just seemed natural for me. I grew up listening to all kinds of music. I grew up on rock 'n' roll, gospel groups, R&B choirs. We had a bluegrass quartet at the church. My father is a retired minister. He was the associate pastor at Berverly Hills Baptist Church in Oak Cliff. I would write music and hear certain instruments in my head. Growing up, I tried to fit into categories: pop, rock, country. I didn't fit into anything. But in my head it was a mix of bluegrass and country. We go to the studio and record things, and I say specifically that I want a fiddle here, a honky-tonk piano here. I didn't mean for it to come out traditional country and bluegrass. But that's just what I hear.
The gospel roots: At the age of 5, she hit the road with her parents and sisters to perform gospel music in churches. "My mother was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and Daddy has a lot of relatives in the Tyler area, so in the summer he would take my two older sisters, mother and me to every small church from Tyler to Shreveport. Daddy, being a minister, knew all the miisters in that area, and he would ask if we could come and sing. Daddy was our booking agent. We just sang as a family. It was a mix of "kumbaya" all the way to hymns. Mother would play the piano, and Daddy would play the guitar. We did this for about four years."
The local performances: She has three coming up: Saturday at 9:30pm at the River Ranch, 500 NE 23rd St. in Fort Worth. That's a benefit for the Rocky Top Therapy Center. For more information and ticket packages, go to www.rockytoptherapy.org. Ms. Henricks will be on the WFAA-TV (Channel 8) program Good Morning Texas on Oct. 19 at 9am. She also has a gig Oct. 20 at 7:30pm at the Grapevine Opry, in the Palace Arts Thatre, 300 S. Main St. in Grapevine. Tickets ar $15 for adults adn $10 for children 12 and under. Call 817-481-8733
10-3-07 - Southern Vanity Magazine
6-20-07 - Press Release
Texas Country Artist Rebecca Henricks Releases Dance With Me, July 14th
"A modern day June Carter Cash..." "... a little bit of heaven on earth"
Dallas, Texas- Country singer-songwriter Rebecca Henricks will be in Dallas-Fort Worth for a live performance in support of her sophomore country CD release Dance With Me on Saturday, July 14, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. at Ozona Grill and Bar. She and her band The Slackers, featuring Milo Deering, Jerry Matheny, Kerry Huckaba and Josh Rogers will perform all the songs from the new album. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. and the show will follow with a meet and greet and autograph signing. "Dance with Me" will be available for $15. This is an all ages show with a $5 cover. A full menu and bar is available for dinner before, during or after the show.
Co-produced by Henricks, Milo Deering, Mike McClain, and Jeff Teague, "Dance With Me" is a traditional country album with touches of bluegrass and gospel. Those who know Rebecca will recognize the album's title track, the remixed "Dance With Me" that was written about the first blind date with her husband, Astronaut Tom Henricks, commander and pilot of four space shuttle missions.
The album offers other songs from great writers like Claude Ely's "Ain't No Grave (Gonna Hold My Body Down)" along with covers like "Crazy" by Willie Nelson. Album highlights include the upbeat single by Nashville songwriter Chad Smith "Rubbin' It In." "Moon Shadows" penned by Henricks, is an ode to a beautiful moonlit night in Keller, Texas. "The Day I Met You" written after Henricks recalled her love of the Red River while strolling through Central Park in NYC. "Too Late," a tribute to her late grandmother who said that those were the two saddest words in the dictionary, and "Ridin' The Plains" which tells tales of what her Daddy's life must have been like picking cotton in Southland, Texas. Henricks is very patriotic and has written songs to commemorate many of our fallen heroes who served in the military and with NASA, so it is fitting that the CD closes with Dolly Parton's "Red, White and Bluegrass."
Playing on the album with Rebecca are some of Dallas and Nashville's most accomplished musicians including Milo Deering (LeAnn Rimes, Steve Holy, Trout Fishing in America, Beatlegras), Rocky Gribble, Mike McClain, guitarist J.T. Corenflos (Tim McGraw, Trace Adkins, Sara Evans, Dierks Bentley), steel guitarist Dan Dugmore (Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Pam Tillis), drummer Greg Morrow (Sugarland), and Grammy Award-Winning fiddle player Larry Franklin (Asleep at the Wheel). Dallas' Annagrey Labasse, Kevin Bailey and Patty Wilson sing backing vocals.
"Creating the album was a great experience. We recorded in Dallas, Garland, and Nashville... and every musician was beyond superb. Singing was the easy part! This is a collection of songs about this crazy life of lost love, mistakes, new love and just plain fun... with a few added traditional country classics. I hope that everyone enjoys it as much as Stagecoach Road," said Henricks.
Make plans to attend the anticipated CD Release event of "Dance With Me" on July 14th! For more information, please contact (817) 692-0254.
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