GAC's Origins Premieres with Phil Vassar

 

 

 

Origins, a new show on GAC exploring the lives of some of country music's more well-known artists before their careers in the music industry, premieres on May 3 at 9 PM ET with Phil Vassar as the first featured artist.

 

Vassar’s episode includes him performing in-the-round before an audience at Ocean Way Studios in Nashville. The studio is a remodeled church.  Phil tells his audience, "I cut my first two records at Ocean Way Studios and I've always wanted to come back and perform a concert here.  I'm just so happy GAC let us do this."

 

Origins: Phil Vassar- Prayer of a Common Man, follows country's leading piano man back to his roots in Lynchburg, VA.  Back home, Vassar returns to his childhood home- 419 Lakewood, a location he writes about in his hit "American Child."  As he walks around the town he recounts the hometown memories that were inspirations for his songs: his hard-working father ("Prayer of a Common Man"), a song inspired by Cindy Crawford and a fellow female classmate ("Carlene"), his high school buddies and their cars ("My Chevrolet"), and much more.  

  

"Even though many of the songs I write are fiction, they are historical fiction because they are based upon real emotional sparks-- if only a small one -- from a long, long time ago," explains Vassar. "I wrote "Crazy Life" about 14 years ago and I put it on the new album as the last song.  It just seemed like where I am and what I feel right now."

 

For more information on GAC's original series Origins, visit www.gactv.com.