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Marty Brown Is From the Country But Sings From the City This Week

Marty Brown Kentucky State Fair

Marty Brown returns to the America’s Got Talent stage this Tuesday. As Marty Brown has continued his comeback with the help of America’s Got Talent, fans have been lucky to see him performing in a variety of places. Recently, he opened for Montgomery Gentry at the Kentucky State Fair. At the show, Brown played “I’m from the Country,” a song he co-wrote that became a hit for Tracy Byrd. It’s great to see him performing his hit at a sold-out show. Check it out.

Marty Brown will be back on America’s Got Talent this Tuesday, September 3, so make sure to watch and check out our previous post on how to vote by phone, Internet, and Twitter. To vote by phone, call the number they show on your screen for Marty Brown, which looks like it will be 1-866-602-4802 but double-check your TV. To vote by Internet, go here. To vote on Twitter, tweet using the hashtag #voteAGT followed by “Marty Brown.” You get one vote on Twitter but can vote up to ten times each on the phone and on the Internet (for each email address).

Voting begins 10:55 p.m. Tuesday, and the phone voting goes until 1 a.m. EST while the online and Twitter voting goes to 6:00 a.m. Wednesday. For more information and details on the voting times for your time zone, check out AGT’s website.

For another original Marty Brown song, check out “I’m Gonna Make It Fly” below, and make sure to catch the show on Tuesday, where Brown will continue to make his comeback fly. [October 2014 Update: Unfortunately, the video is no longer available but we hear that “I’m Gonna Make It Fly” is going to be a new single, so we will post a video once it becomes available.]


What song would you like to hear Marty Brown sing? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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    Marty Brown Gives Emotional Performance in NY: Still the One

    Marty Brown Still the One

    Tonight, Marty Brown sang Shania Twain’s “You’re Still the One” on America’s Got Talent.  I thought it was a good choice to go with a band this time around on the large stage.  The song is not one of my favorites, but the song selected by America’s Got Talent (not the performer) had the benefit that a lot of people know it.

    Brown was a little choked up at the beginning of the song after seeing his father on the lead-in video and calling out a dedication to his father. But on watching the segment a second time, one may see Brown recovers pretty well.  The judges were still tough on him, though mostly respectful. Howard Stern genuinely seemed to be rooting for Brown. Mel B mistakenly called Brown “Dave” and told the audience not to beat her up for it. But she showed less mercy for Brown, Tweeting a few minutes after the performance, “Ok.ok. I got his name wrong!! He blew it anyways, so what!!”

    But it was Mel B who made the biggest mistake. Yeah, Brown’s voice faltered at the start of his song, but he showed something rare by giving the audience real emotion in a performance. The radio and Internet are full of Auto-Tune and perfect sounding meaningless lyrics.

    What Brown did tonight was better than most “perfect” performances on these competition shows. With his heart on his sleeve, he showed how he felt after decades of struggle to finally be on stage in New York, thinking of his ailing father in Kentucky, his mom in the audience, and his wife dancing in her seat. The song’s words “looks like we made it” clearly had meaning for him at that moment. He gave real heart to the song, and that’s what we want out of our music. No matter what happens with the votes, Marty Brown is still the one.

    Check out our post on how to vote in “America’s Got Talent.”

    [Update: For a post on Brown’s entire run on America’s Got Talent, check out our post on The Great AGT Rebirth of Marty Brown.] How did you vote on America’s Got Talent? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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    Help Marty Brown Live Out His “Wildest Dreams”

    On Tuesday, Marty Brown will be performing before a live audience at Radio City Music Hall on America’s Got Talent. As his long-term fans and regular Chimesfreedom readers know, it is a great story for the country singer to be making a comeback. Two decades ago in 1992, Marty Brown was a young man with a dream traveling the country performing in a tour of Wal-Marts. Check out the young Marty Brown singing “Wildest Dreams” in the shoe section of the retail store in 1992.

    Help make the wildest dreams of the Brown family come true Tuesday night by picking up the phone, logging onto the AGT website, and/or Tweeting your votes. To vote by phone, call the number they show on your screen for him. To vote by Internet, go here. To vote on Twitter, tweet using the hashtag #voteAGT followed by “Marty Brown.” You get one vote on Twitter but can vote up to ten times each on the phone and on the Internet (for each email address).

    Voting begins 10:55 p.m. Tuesday, and the phone voting goes until 1 a.m. EST while the online and Twitter voting goes to 6:00 a.m. Wednesday. For more information and details on the voting times for your time zone, check out AGT’s website. Or you may listen to Brown explain the voting system:

    How will you vote? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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    Marty Brown’s AGT Las Vegas Performance of “When You Say Nothing At All”

    Marty Brown AGT Las Vegas

    As Chimesfreedom previously reported, country singer Marty Brown advanced to the New York rounds of “America’s Got Talent.” Below is a video of what they showed on television from the Las Vegas rounds, including a part of his performance of Keith Whitley’s “When You Say Nothing At All.”

    Howard Stern and Howie Mandel noted that they did not like the performance as much as Marty Brown’s San Antonio performance of Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love.” On the other hand, if you saw the entire episode, you would see the show is edited to create drama so it shows the judges saying something negative about everyone. Meanwhile, one of the other competitors noted about Brown, “He makes me like country music.” Most importantly, the judges liked the performance enough to send Brown to the live performances at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. What will Marty Brown do next to win over the judges and America?

    [Update: For a post on Brown’s entire run on America’s Got Talent, check out our post on The Great AGT Rebirth of Marty Brown.]

    What would you like to hear Marty Brown sing next? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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    Marty Brown Advances to Radio City Music Hall on AGT!

    Regular readers of Chimesfreedom know we have been following country singer Marty Brown and his comeback trail for some time. After advancing through the first round on America’s Got Talent, he competed in the Las Vegas rounds tonight as his wife Shellie looked on. And Judges Howard Stern, Heidi Klum, Mel B, and Howie Mandel put him through to the live rounds of the competition in New York City.

    Brown sang Keith Whitley’s “When You Say Nothing At All” tonight. I got the impression the judges’ may not know the great song, but they were sufficiently impressed to put Brown through. He did a great job with the song. His performance on America’s Got Talent is not yet available online, although the episode will be available on the America’s Got Talent website (Update: We posted his Las Vegas performance here). But for now here is a video he posted about two months ago of him singing “When You Say Nothing at All.”

    What did you think of “America’s Got Talent” this week? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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