MAX STRENGTH? Singer/songwriter Max T Barnes will perfom in Matt Molloy’s on Wednsday, August 10.
Nashville country-songwriting legend Max T Barnes will be making a one-off visit to Westport in Matt Molloy’s tomorrow night (Wednesday), August 10, to perform in The Acoustic Yard Summer Concert Series.
Max T wrote his first hit song at the age of 19 – Vern Gosdin’s ‘Way Down Deep’ – and he’s been topping the charts ever since. His well-known songs include ‘Let Go of the Stone’, by John Anderson; ‘At the Sound of the Tone’, by John Schneider; ‘Before You Kill Us All’, by Randy Travis; ‘That’s How Your Love Makes Me Feel’, by Diamond Rio.
His song ‘Love, Me’, launched the career of Colin Raye, spent three weeks at the top of the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, and was nominated for Song of the Year in the 1992 Country Music Association (CMA) awards. Ironically, his father Max D Barnes, another songwriting legend, took home the award that night with ‘Look At Us’, a song he wrote with Vince Gill.
“My poor mom didn’t know who to root for,” Max T remembers. “I am proud to have been a part of the only father/son competition in CMA history.” His father had also won in 1989 with ‘Chiseled In Stone’. Between them, Max T and Max D have written hit songs and sold nearly 70 million records.
It’s safe to say that when Max T plays live, he’s in no danger of running out of material. In the past 18 months Max T has toured Australia twice, Ireland five times, Belgium, Scotland, England, Canada and the US, both performing and doing songwriting seminars.
The singer/songwriter has just signed a new publishing deal with Eleven Eleven Music in Nashville, and scored a cut on Trace Adkins new album called “I’m Gone”.
In 2015 Max T released a single in Ireland, a duet with Antrim singer Johnny Brady, titled ‘The Craic’, for which the pair received a nomination for Single of the Year from IrishTV.
His new single, ‘Lookin’ For A Girl’, recorded with Lisa Stanley, just reached No 1 on Downtown Radio’s Hot 7 in Ireland.
Max T’s Westport show will be supported by Warren Attwell, who has just released his fabulous new EP ‘Holding on for Something’.
The show starts at 8.30pm, and there will be a cover charge at the door.
