Chuck Wicks announces the CMA Broadcast Awards finalists during the final nominees news conference for "The 42nd Annual CMA Awards" Sept. 10 at the Sommet Center in Nashville. Photo courtesy of the Country Music Association.
Jan. 14, 2009 — Friday marks one year since Chuck Wicks performed for the first time at an arena, a show that marked a new level of education for the "Stealing Cinderella" singer.
That concert came at the Pepsi Center in Denver during Brad Paisley’s Bonfires & Amplifiers Tour, and it was one of some 200 performances that Chuck gave during the course of 2008. Not surprisingly, he knows a little more about working live now than he did before that public schooling took place.
"You [learn] your limits real quick, especially if you’re playing in a smoky bar sometimes and you’re singing in that atmosphere," he told the national radio show GAC Nights: Live From Nashville. "It’s amazing what three days rest will do for your voice, you know, and I never really knew that until [last] year. But it has gotten stronger. I mean, once you push through all those limits and you figure out your boundaries as a singer and what your voice can handle and take, when you do get that three- or four-day rest, it comes back that much stronger. And now looking back on a new touring schedule, we’ll figure out, ‘Okay we need to do three days in a row, but then we definitely need to get a day off and then come back to make sure I can keep up with that rhythm.’"
Chuck begins a four-day jaunt, according to Pollstar.com, Jan. 20 in West Palm Beach, Fla. His 2009 itinerary also includes an appearance on the New Faces Show at the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville March 6. That industry event also features Lady Antebellum, the Zac Brown Band, James Otto and Kellie Pickler.
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