The Pulse of Entertainment: Karen Waldrup Releases ‘Blue Cowboy Boots' Co-Written by Grammy Nominated Ed
Hill
(June 13, 2025)- "Out of the blue...he said I have a song," said
Karen Waldrup, "The Voice" runner up during season 25, about how her new single "Blue
Cowboy Boots" came to be. "My friend Ed Hill (Trish Yearwood)...has written for A-listers. He is so incredible.
He's been writing with me for 10 years."
"He came with the title and concept. He is an incredible songwriter. Then he said,
‘You have to make yourself some blue boots," she laughed a little when we were talking about the single.
Karen Waldrup is a very active Country singer, who made it to the Top Five on NBC's
"The Voice" during season 25. She has seven albums to her credit and has garnered 12 Nashville Industry Music Awards.
"My band that tours with me is the same band on the single," Karen told me
when I asked about her awesome band. "I started building (the band) slowly. First a percussionist, then guitarist. I
had a band tour with me for a long time. That changed during Covid."
I asked about her guitar skills, because sometimes she is on stage playing her guitar and she told me, "I'm
more a rhythm player. My strength is telling stories and connecting with the crowd."
Karen Waldrup is internationally recognized with over one million fans online and over 400 million
video views to her credit. An BMI songwriter, Waldrup has been featured in Billboard and Rolling Stones magazines. She debuted
with the album "Justified" which appeared on four Billboard Charts.
"I always sang in the choir in church...school choirs," Waldrup told me when I asked about her powerful
Country vocals and stage presence. "When I went to college I sang in...college choir. The college choir changed things
for me. I started playing in clubs in the college area. I learned through trial-and-error."
The 2019 Torch Award winner will be on tour starting this month until October, 2025. www.KarenWaldrup.com
The Pulse of Entertainment: Guitarist dee Brown
Releases 6th Album ‘Mister Smooth' on Innervision Records ‘Mayday'
by Dr. Eunice Moseley
(June 10, 2025) - "He is a character...a representation," said Jazz
guitarist dee Brown (Demitris Edwards Brown), with a slight laugh, about the meaning to the title of his
new album "Mister Smooth" (Innervision). "I'm not mister smooth. I started working on it two
years ago watching TV or something and I saw...for some reason a guy....and I said he looks like mister smooth. Whatever this
person was doing, it looked so smooth."
Well, dee Brown's
version of mister smooth is a project that offers 10 selections of smooth produced by Grammy nominated Valdez Brantley (Usher,
Mary J Blige).
"My producer (Valdez) is a long-time friend,"
said the Detroit native. "He is an awesome keyboard player. He played with Mary J Blige and was Usher's music director
for 10 years. We collaborated on a few songs. He made every album except one. He produced this one, every song but one. His
brother plays bass and is the music director for Lady GaGa."
Other
musicians on "Mister Smooth" include guitarist Blake Aaron who also produced the song he is on "Wes 8Mile"
- one of the singles off the album. The first single was "You Already Know." Blake also appears on "The Thing
is..." with horn man David Mann, and keyboardist Tateng Katindig. "Mister Smooth" also includes saxophonist
Mike Parlett; guitarist Wes Montogomery' keyboardist Carnell Harrell; bass player Mel Brown; saxophonist Merlon Devine, and
drummer Tony Moore. Brown includes his Christmas single released last year on the new album a cover of "Have Yourself
a Merry Little Christmas" which features musicians Ron Otis on drums, Lanar Brantley on bass and vocals by Jayla Treasure
- a Praise & Worship leader/singer.
"They all live in Detroit,"
dee said when I asked about the long list of musicians on the project. "There are some people outside of Detroit like
Blake Aaron."
The Jazz guitarist debuted in 2007 with the album
"No Time to Waste." He went on and wasted no time in sharing the stage with or record with George Benson, Al Jarreau,
Stephanie Mills, Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair, Paul Brown, Paul Taylor, Jeffrey Osborne, Aretha Franklin and Bebe Winans.
"Mister Smooth" is dee Brown's sixth studio album. www.deeBrownJazz.com
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Dr. Eunice Moseley
has an estimated weekly readership of over one million with The Pulse of Entertainment. She is also a Business Management/Public
Relations Strategist and Consultant at Freelance Associates and is Promotions Director (at-large) for The Baltimore Times.
www.ThePulseofEntertainment.com. EVENTS: "Uplifting Minds II" Entertainment Conference (ULMII),
founded by Eunice in 1999, is into its 26th year. Next events are coming to Baltimore via Zoom Saturday April 19,
2025, presented by Security Square Mall and The Baltimore Times, and Los Angeles via Zoom Saturday,
November 8, 2025. The ULMII event is a free entertainment conference offering a Professional Panel Q&A Session,
a Professional Talent Showcase and National Talent Competition (vocal, songwriting, dance and acting) where aspiring artists
have a chance to receive over $20,000 valued in prizes/product/services. Log onto www.UpliftingMinds2.com RSVP for Zoom Access
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