The weekend is coming, Valentine’s Day is coming, and our next tour is coming… life is busy.

I need a vacation. Do you? Well now’s your chance to take a vacation with ME, Jason Deere, and Katherine Nelson! The Nashville Tribute Band has partnered with Morris Murdock Travel to bring you an unforgettable Church history tour in September. Watch the video below and click here for more information about Nauvoo: A Nashville Tribute to the Pioneers.

We hope all of you in Southern Utah and Arizona can make it out to one of our upcoming shows! We’re super excited to hit the road again. Click here for tickets and more information.

Feb. 29 – Beaver, UT
Mar. 1 – Cedar City, UT
Mar. 2 – Show Low, AZ
Mar. 3 – Safford, AZ

For those of you who may have missed it… Jason uncovered some of his missionary pictures! (Maybe he’s been listening to The Work too much?)

Thanks again for all of your love and support. We couldn’t do it without you!

Jason Deere
And the Nashville Tribute Band

First off, we wanted to share with you a little behind-the-scenes footage from our fantastic show on New Year’s Eve at Temple Square. The video shows us rehearsing beneath the tabernacle. Check it out!

Thanks again to everyone who came out . . . there were over 9 thousand people listening to music throughout the night in the historic tabernacle.

We are gearing up for our tour in late February and early March. Its going to be a short run, but we will be able to hit some locations we haven’t visited in a while! The show dates include:

February 29 Beaver, UT
March 1 Cedar City, UT
March 2 Show Low, AZ
March 3 Safford, AZ

If you know people in those areas, please be sure you let them know we are coming! Details for each show can be found on the “Shows” page of the website.

2012 is already shaping up to be an exciting and productive year for NTB. We thrilled about the possibilities that lie ahead! First and foremost, we are excited to announce that NTB will be returning to St. George, UT at the incredibly beautiful Tuacahn Amphitheater on November 9th, 2012. Tickets are already available, so get them soon before the best seats are gone! You can get more details and purchase tickets by clicking HERE.

In addition, we are on the verge of announcing a tour through Southern Utah and Arizona the end of February and are also planning another tour through Northern Utah and Idaho toward the end of August. We’ve also got some things in the works for those of you in Washington State and Oregon this summer! Who knows, maybe we will even head East this year!

Before our next blog post, we will have a handful of new concert dates to announce. We hope to see ALL of you on the road in 2012 and look forward to bringing NTB closer to your homes.

We sincerely thank you for your love and support and look forward to the coming year.

Love,

Jason Deere & The Nashville Tribute Band

Christmas. I love it. Always have. Always will. The only problem I have these days is how they come around all too quickly. The older we get the faster those hands of the time seem to catch speed. Anyone who has raised children knows the apprehension felt during the holidays as children get older and parents start to count Christmases left with them living under one roof. Looking back at home movies and seeing them in their little PJs, their eyes sparkling with all the wonder and amazement of the season and your heart cracks a little each time because you miss those beautiful Christmases past. Oh the nostalgia this season brings! Makes us count all of our blessings! Makes me want to give special thanks to my Heavenly Father for the immeasurable blessing of the yearly Christmas Season, when we can reflect on the Savior of the world and stop the high-speed insanity of living in our generation and wrap our arms around those we love and find a moment of rest in their company…hopefully in front of a crackling fire!

As members of the Nashville Tribute Band, we are so thankful this season for all that we have learned and experienced in the past year as we have made music that has changed our lives; music that has created opportunities for us to share our testimonies all over the world singing and playing about those things most precious to our hearts. We love our families. We love the elders and sisters serving in the world. We join you in cheering them on and praying for them…that they will know they are loved and cherished by family, friends, angels and Deity in all that they do. How thankful we are for the unparalleled experience of missionaries in our culture! The preparing, the sending, the going, the serving, the returning, the men and women that walk off of those planes after. There is nothing like it anywhere else on earth!

Enjoy your holidays, soak up every second. We look forward to seeing you all on the road in 2012!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Jason Deere and The Nashville Tribute Band

Happy Holidays!

It’s the time of the year where we all look forward to celebrating the holidays with our family members (some we enjoy, some we tolerate) as well as gorge ourselves with delicious food and set New Years resolutions!

With all of that said, it’s a time of year that those of us that are part of NTB sincerely enjoy. It’s a time for us to reflect upon the tremendous amount of blessings that have been bestowed upon us and to reflect upon the birth of our Savior. What a special time of year!

In celebration of the Christmas season, we are offering 20% off of EVERYTHING in the NTB store. So, don’t waste any time and make sure that every missionary you know has a copy of the new album, “The Work: A Nashville Tribute to the Missionaries”. Oh, and need we remind you that technically, ALL of us are missionaries, so all of us should have a copy! When checking out of the store, simply type in the special code “SANTA” and 20% of your total bill will be deducted. Merry Christmas from us!

As a second Christmas present, Katherine Nelson just recorded a brand new Christmas song and is offering it as a free download. You can check out the music video as well as download the song for free by visiting her at www.katherinenelson.com. Keep in mind that Katherine has a new album coming out that is due to be released in March of 2012. It’s going to be spectacular and we are all sincerely excited for her!

Jason recently mentioned how much he misses being on the road as a group and how difficult it is to not be on stage testifying of those things we believe so strongly. Fortunately, neither Jason nor any of you have to wait too much longer before we head on out again! We can’t announce solid dates yet, but we are in the process of solidifying shows in southern Utah and several locations in Arizona that will happen the very end of February or first of March. You can expect for us to announce those dates before our next blog post in 2 weeks.

Lastly, check out the video that was just edited. It’s a conglomeration of footage captured at our Sandy Amphitheater show last August. We have a ton of cool stuff from that show that we will share with you in the future. But for now, you can check out the video above.

Again, happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!

Love,

The Nashville Tribute Band

A lot has been happening over the last few months. We returned from a long tour in August that started with the release of our new album in Sandy, UT and ended nearly 2,000 miles and 2 weeks later in Coos Bay, OR. In September, we had our annual tour through Utah in Ogden, Logan, and Ephraim. We want to thank the thousands of you that came out to support us over those 2 months. The new album was a long time in the making and we couldn’t be more happy with the reception and amazing feedback we have received.

Some of you may already know, but we are excited to announce that we will be headlining the New Years Eve celebrations on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, UT this year. We will be taking the stage in the Tabernacle on Temple Square at about 10:30 p.m. and will play until almost midnight. Following the show will be some incredible fireworks outside in downtown Salt Lake. We’d love to have a loud crowd there to support us and bring in the new year with some great music! The show is free and tickets aren’t required, so just show up early enough to get a seat. It’s sure to be packed!

Lastly, we wanted to share the video that is posted above. A lady by the name of Shelley Tucker made the video and the views and reception it has received online has been fantastic. We wanted to thank her for her efforts and for supporting us and our music. Check out the video . . . It’s sure to bring a tear to your eye!

It’s been a while since we have posted a blog update . . . we promise this will happen more often. We’ve set some pretty lofty goals when it comes to communicating online with our fans and we think you will like some of the changes we are going to make. We promise to be giving you all some pretty exciting material and some fun video’s to watch much more frequently.

Until next time . . .

Friends, the time has come! If you’ve been keeping up with us on Facebook or here on the website, you know that our new CD, The Work: A Nashville Tribute to the Missionaries has been in the works for a while. Well, it’s finished, and ready for folks to hear! We’re thrilled with how it turned out, and we’re completely caught up in the missionary spirit. You can buy the album right here on the website, or look for it wherever great LDS music is sold starting on August 4th.

The news of the new album is plenty exciting, but there’s even more! The whole band is hitting the road, to spread the good word about the new album on a CD release concert tour!

It all begins on August 4 in Sandy, Utah, for a kickoff concert in the beautiful Sandy Amphitheater. Get tickets right here on the website, and join us for an unforgettable evening! We’ll be joined by special guests David Osmond, Michael McLean, pop superstars The Jets, and more! Don’t miss it!

From Sandy, we’re hitting the road for a number of other shows. Check out our “Tour” page for details on these other shows and to get tickets! We are excited to be out on the road playing as much as we are!

We’re so excited about what’s coming up that we may just need to sit down for a breather. If the news is having the same effect on you, unwind for a sec by enjoying the video posted above. Not too long ago, we got back from an amazing trip to play music for a special Youth Conference in China. Mormon Times did a beautiful piece on our visit and we’d love to share it with you! We’re very thankful to have had that opportunity.

Thanks friends, as always, for your support of the things we’re doing here. We couldn’t do it without you.

It’s a great pleasure to welcome you to the new Nashville Tribute Band website! We hope you visit often, and we promise to have all sorts of NTB goodies for you to see and hear. Look for new and exclusive multi-media content right here every two weeks. Click the “like” button (link) to join us on Facebook. It’s a great way to interact with us, and we’d love to see you there.

There’s so much going on right now that we hardly know where to begin. The message of the Restoration is one that we’ve had so many incredible experiences sharing with you, wherever you are. It’s been exciting for us to be able to share that message through the music of Joseph: A Nashville Tribute to the Prophet, and Trek: a Nashville Tribute to the Mormon Pioneers. And of course, as we’re on the road making music, we get to see the work of an incredible army of full-time missionaries. We’re humbled and inspired by the work they do, and right this second, we’re putting the finishing touches on an album we’re very excited about: The Work: A Nashville Tribute to the Missionaries.

The CD will be all ready for you to hear on August 4. We hope you’ll join us that evening in Utah, at the beautiful Sandy Amphitheater, to celebrate that new release. You can get tickets by clicking right here. But we thought you might like to get a glimpse of what we’re cooking up, right now! Just sign up for our email list and we’ll send the single from the new album right to your desktop, for free. The song is called “I Was Born.” We felt such a wonderful spirit writing and recording this tune, and we hope you enjoy the recording as much as we enjoyed making it.

August 4 will be a big day for us, but even between now and then, we’ve got all sorts of exciting stuff going on. Watch this space for news about all of it, including the incredible experience we had touring Hong Kong and Beijing! Watch this space for news. We love doing this, and we’re thankful right down to our socks for the way you’ve embraced this music and its message.

We’ve had an amazing experience bringing the music of our first two albums to fans all over the world.

My dearest friends and family of the Nashville Tribute Band,

We all hope that your holiday season was blessed in every way and that each of you is recharged with a spiritual energy to triumph in your potential in 2011. We wish this for you! 2010 was an incredible year for all of us. We had the treasured opportunity to tour to many wonderful places and share the gospel NTB style in many different situations. We love our friends out on the road!

In 2010 I personally had the opportunity to finish the writing of the album THE WORK: A NASHVILLE TRIBUTE TO THE MISSIONARIES, which I am thrilled to say that we are recording as we speak. My heart is filled beyond the rim as I am steeped in this project and it’s subject! We love the missionaries, both past, present and future and we love what it means to our culture to send missionaries throughout the world.

This spring I will also be producing another project that will be coming out later this year under the Nashville Tribute umbrella. I will have to fill you in on details shortly, but I couldn’t be more excited about this project. It will be very different and wonderful. I’m smiling now as I write this! Stay tuned J

OK, I promised two announcements, so here we go:

First, I can’t imagine anything I would rather do more in July of 2011 then to hang with my NTB friends on a bus tour of church history sites. IT’S HAPPENING! My friends at Murdock Travel have added an NTB / Church History sites tour to their Escorted Tours for this summer. There are two tours available. The first will be the Palmyra/Kirtland tour: “Join us on this unforgettable tour to the Palmyra and Kirtland Church History sites. The highlight on the trip will be attending the Hill Cumorah Pageant and traveling with the Nashville Tribute Band. Other highlights include the Peter Whitmer Farm, Sacred Grove, Palmyra Temple, Susquehanna River, Niagara Falls, Kirtland Temple, Morley Farm, Whitney Store, and the John Johnson Farm to name a few.” NTB will do concerts along the way. Here is the link: http://www.morrismurdockescortedtours.com/STW/STWProduct.aspx?Theme=MURDOCK&ProductCode=NA-NTBPAGNT11. The second is the Nauvoo / Missouri / Winter Quarters tour. The two tours will be back to back so if you wanted to join us for the entire journey that would be incredible. “This tour is the 2nd leg of our CHURCH HISTORY TOUR with The Nashville Tribute Band. We start in St Louis and travel to Nauvoo, Carthage, Adam-ohdi-Ahman, Far West, Independence, Liberty and Winter Quarters. In these special, sacred places we will get to hear our featured historians tell the stories and then listen as the members of the Nashville Tribute Band share their testimonies of these sites through their songs. In addition to the Nauvoo Pageant and the other fun musical performances that are planned for the summer in Nauvoo that we will get to see, while in Nauvoo and Winter Quarters we will be treated with specially planned concerts from the Nashville Tribute Band for the local wards and investigators.” Here is a link: http://www.morrismurdockescortedtours.com/STW/STWProduct.aspx?Theme=MURDOCK&ProductCode=NA-NTBNAUVOO. So excited! These bus seats will fill up fast so get yours booked today and we’ll see you this summer for an experience of a lifetime, back where it all began J

The second announcement, and one that I am humbled and thrilled to tell you, is that NTB is booked in late April to perform for the Saints in Hong Kong and in Beijing. We will be performing at the annual youth conference for all of the youth living inside the Republic of China. Wow! Are you kidding me! We will then travel into Beijing for a performance for the foreign members of the church living there. The tour will be sponsored by the Apple Corporation and we will be doing a few in-store live performances at Apple Stores in the region while there. We have traveled to several countries to share the message of the gospel, but to do so in this region of the world was something that we never dreamed of. Smiling ear to ear J

Well, there you go. Hope to see you all along the trail from Palmyra to Winter Quarters with us this summer, and we would love your prayers for China and for our trip over there, that the Lord’s will be done.

2011 will be exciting, in so many ways, so I will definitely have more to come. Until then, “KEEP ON TREKKIN’!” J

“Hi Jason,

So glad to hear from you, hope things are going well with the boys (Due West) & the Tribute Band. I REALLY enjoy the Trek cd and Joseph as well and am looking forward to the new album. Anyway you wanted to hear our story for “I Get That All The Time” so here goes!

Last year I was working at a country station in Potsdam, NY and had a segment where I looked for up & coming country artists that had a song out to radio. I’d play the song along with telling a little about the singer/band and if possible set up an interview to go along with what I could come up with. One evening my wife told me about this new group she’d found out about called Due West. She’d found them through my stepson’s twitter account and was directed to their myspace page. So I decided to check them out for myself, I was impressed with what I’d heard on their site. Out of all the songs “I Get That All The Time” really grabbed me, it was the story in the song that really resonated with me and what I believed a marriage should be and they just killed it too!! So I decided to highlight that on my show and sent a message through the myspace page to try and set up an interview. Little did I know that it’d be their first radio interview, they sounded like seasoned pros when we spoke and really got across in the interview what they were about and what they wanted to get across with the song. After that my wife Heather & I started following them on twitter as a band and then individually when they got their own accounts. Well Heather got talking with Tim’s sister Cary and started talking religion and their beliefs. We at the time were looking for a church that would feed our children and us and Cary asked if she could send some missionaries to our house and Heather said go ahead. So 2 weeks later Sister Hansen & Sister Hacking showed up at our door and started meeting with Heather and when I was home, me too. Well this was October and at the end of September I’d left the radio station as numerous cuts were being made. So I was working a job for a month to make ends meet before it just wasn’t working out. Before this I’d never been out of work more than a week, well this time it was from November to the end of February!! But it was because Heavenly Father wanted me to learn more about his true church with my wife. I admit at first I was a little reluctant, but as I sat in on the lessons they’d give I’d hear about the things I’d learned as a child growing up in the Wesleyan Church. The difference was when Heather or I had questions about things we’d wondered for years…there were answers to them! Some many holes were filled in, and as we prayed about the church and the Book of Mormon we knew it was definitely true. So we started attending the LDS Branch in Ogdensburg, NY and immediately felt welcomed and at home. The kids told us they loved it and it felt right too! We have been blessed so much by Heavenly Father since we stared attending and getting baptized on Feb. 14th 2010! In fact 2 weeks after I was offered a full-time radio job again out of the blue after applying for a part-time position and some many other things to mention. Heather is the Primary President for our branch which she and the kids are enjoying. We made it to the Palmyra temple to do baptisms for our family & others and got to see Joseph Smith’s home, the Hill Cummorah and where the Book of Mormon was first printed…but walking in the Sacred Grove was indescribable! We plan on being sealed September 7th, 2011 on our 4th wedding anniversary in the St. George Temple. I look forward to becoming an Elder and doing my part for Heavenly Father whatever that may be…and it all started with Due West’s “I Get That All The Time”. We have a special place in our hearts for the boys and that song and pray for them and the message the song has for everyone that listens to it and really gets it!!

Well hope I didn’t bend your ear too much! I really enjoy the work you do and SO hope to be able to see the Nashville Tribute Band in person someday soon. Hope you enjoyed my backyard…the writers retreat was less than an hour from where we were living before we just moved. Well continued success to you and the boys and I hope to one day get to meet them and you as well. Until then, God bless!!!

Dave Williams”

– Jason Deere – Post From My iPhone