Rain or shine, people loved River & Roots

RANDY HOUSER

The River & Roots Festival took over the Paris Fairgrounds on July 5th and 6th featuring some big named musicians who brought lots of energy. Friday night’s headliner was Dallas Smith.

The Paris Independent’s Michelle Malvaso captured these moments during Saturday’s show with headliner Russell Dickerson.

Randy Houser has racked up over half a dozen hits and 1 billion streams. His How Country Feels album topped the charts with the title track, “Runnin’ Outta Moonlight” and “Goodnight Kiss” (also his first No. 1 as a songwriter) and earned critical acclaim for his powerful delivery of the Top 5 smash and nominated CMA Song of the Year, “Like A Cowboy.” Houser has since added a fourth No. 1 to his catalogue with “We Went” from his 2016 album, Fired Up. Houser’s sixth studio album Note To Self is available now via Magnolia Music Group and features 10 tracks all co-written by the Mississippi native, with his lead single and title track “Note To Self” marking his “powerful return” following 2019’s critically-acclaimed album Magnolia.

– Bios from Paris Fairgrounds River & Roots page

JAMES BARKER BAND

James Barker Band have fueled an incredible story over the last eight years, largely on their own, from opening for local bands in dive bars to charting multiple No. 1 singles and hundreds of millions of global streams to headlining festivals and playing stages across North America and Europe. After notching their record-setting gold-certified fourth No. 1 in Canada with "New Old Trucks" feat. 14x Grammynominated and multi-PLATINUM selling artist Dierks Bentley the group currently holds the title of the most #1s for a Canadian country group in the BDS/Mediabase era. This latest spot at the top of the charts follows-up their “dynamic countryrock” single (MusicRow) “Over All Over Again,” which also went #1 in 2021.