Vote For BRYAN!
Help CountryStars.com and Great American Country choose the Top 50 Videos of 2000! Plus enter to win a complete CD library featuring each of the artists from the Top 50 and a VHS copy of the show! All of the videos eligible for the vote premiered this year on GAC's new release show, Fast Forward (How Long is eligible!). So you won't see any of your old favorites from years past, just the new ones from 2000! Start by voting for up to five of your favorites introduced last "winter," then move through the rest of the "seasons" (look for How Long in the Fall list) When you're done, make sure you complete the entry form for your chance to win the CD library and VHS copy of GAC's Top 50 Videos of 2000! ~ November 29, 2000, CountryStars.com

Time Out
Bryan will be taking a break from touring hte first part of 2001 to concentrate on writing and getting ready to record his next studio album. ~ Issue Four 2000, The White Pages

Mini Christmas Tour
Bryan will be doing a small Christmas tour throughout Florida. Watch for him in Tampa, Orlando, West Palm Beach, Davie and Fort Myers. ~ Issue Four 2000, The White Pages

Bryan White's "Big Idea"
At the "ripe old age" of 26, Bryan White has released his first greatest hits package - but tells Country.com that it wasn't exactly his idea. "We had a big meeting and everybody wanted to do it," he admits. "You know, it's not usually the artist who comes up with that idea, because they start thinking, 'Does that mean I don't get to do any more records?' But, once I thought about it, I felt like this might be a great thing to do. Sort of like closing a chapter I guess." Besides being a collection of his hits, the album will also have a few new tracks included. "We wanted to make sure they sounded like they belonged with these other songs," says Bryan. "I didn't want them to be tagged on the end." While Greatest Hits closes a musical chapter in his life, he's opened a brand new one in his personal life - when he married his longtime girlfriend, actress Erika Page. "She really inspires me to have that drive and determination in what I do," he says of his new bride. "Just being together and having someone you know really loves you and wants to take care of you, that's exciting to me. I want to be a good husband." ~ November 20, 2000, T-100

Worth The Wait
The song has been on his mind for several years, but Bryan White says he waited for the right moment to record it. He says his single How Long is a song about a man 'begging and pleading' his significant other to commit. White says he enjoys the song because it's very 'intoxicating and hypnotic.' But he says it has nothing to do with his personal life. White married soap actress Erika Page last month. ~ November 19, 2000, Country 105

      Bryan White Revisit Hits in New Releases
Asylum recording artist Bryan White has released his first "best of" collection at the ripe, old age of 26. Greatest Hits focuses on cuts from his first three albums. The disc's two new cuts find him reunited with longtime producers Kyle Lehning and Billy Joe Walker Jr. Read the full reviews in New Releases. ~ November 14, 2000, Country.com

Bryan White Shows The Look of Love
The new issue of Country Weekly magazine showcases the first photos of Bryan White's October 14 wedding to actress Erika Page and gives the scoop on the romantic affair. "When the first note was struck on the piano and the doors opened to reveal Erika standing there -- I felt like we were the only two people in the room," says Bryan. "It was a fantasy come true." Erika looks radiant in her strapless gown created by New York designer Ann Bowen, and Bryan isn't looking too shabby either in his traditional black tux. He also confesses the emotional impact of the event. "I tried to savor every moment," he admits. "I don't know when I've laughed or cried so much -- she's the best thing that ever happened to me." Erika isn't shy about declaring her love for Bryan either. "The best thing about Bryan is that he gives our relationship 100%," she gushes. "He makes me fall in love with him more every day." The new issue of Country Weekly magazine is on newsstands next Tuesday. ~ November 9, 2000, T-100

This Time, Bryan Gets To Watch Erika With Her Fans
Since Erika Page started dating BRYAN WHITE, she's had to watch his fans come up to him asking for hugs and kisses and autographs. Now, it's Bryan's turn to watch. This weekend, the newly married couple will be attending Super Soap Weekend, which Bryan describes as almost exactly like country music's Fan Fair. Erika, who plays Roseanne Delgado on ABC's "One Life To Live", will be signing autographs and visiting with her fans. Bryan says he's going to just sit back and watch her meet and greet... though since the event is being held at Disneyworld, he may sneak off and ride a few rides. Bryan says it won't bother him to see her interacting with her more ardent fans. He's totally in support of what she does. And besides... he's a fan himself. (By the way, Bryan will be "front and center" on the Crook and Chase Country Countdown, the weekend of November 25 & 26. Click here to see if a radio station in your area carries our show!) ~ November 9, 2000, CountryStars.com

Bryan Front And Center
Bryan White will be front and center on The Crook and Chase Country Countdown the weekend of November 25 & 26th. Lorianne and Charlie will talk to Bryan about his wedding and his new Greatest Hits album. We hope you can tune in!! To see if there's a radio station in your area that carries The Crook and Chase Country Countdown, go to www.crookandchase.com and click on "Where To Hear Us". Thanks! ~ November 7, 2000, BryanWhite.com

Thursday Night Artist Spotlight!
Bryan White took a break from his flag football game to speak with Lia in the Thursday Night Artist Spotlight. Bryan said after his marriage on the 14th of October to soap opera star Erica Page, they honeymooned in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for a week. His "Greatest Hits" CD will be released on October 31 and he's started writing songs and preparing for his next CD. ~ October 30, 2000, RadioLia.com

Gamblin Leaves Glen Campbell Enterprises
Glen Campbell has closed the Nashville office of GC Enterprises, and longtime Campbell executive Marty Gamblin has left the company. Campbell's manager, Stan Schneider, will continue to conduct business from Campbell's Los Angeles office; Schneider also manages Bryan White. Gamblin currently manages South Sixty Five and Katy Benko. "Marty has been a good friend and a valuable asset to Glen Campbell Enterprises for many, many years," Campbell says in a news release. "We wish him great success." ~ October 25, 2000, Country.com

A Message From Bryan!!
Bryan has left a message for you guys. Please check out bryanwhite.exe and download the file to your computer. You'll need Flash to see/hear it! ~ October 23, 2000, BryanWhite.com

How Long Video To Air On, GAC, VH1 Country
CMT: "How Long" was added to CMT in medium rotation. Fans will begin seeing it on the air next Wednesday.
GAC: (Great American Country): "How Long" was added to their FAST FORWARD show (it's kind of like CMT's Delivery Room.) The rotation is considered medium and it will play 12 to 24 times a week.
VH-1 Country: submitted..waiting to be added. ~ October 21, 2000, BryanWhite.com

Bryan and Erika Tie the Knot
Bryan White married actress Erika Page this past Saturday during a lavish ceremony at Royal Lane Baptist Church in Dallas. Bryan's brother, Daniel, served as best man, with actress Lisa Linde Marsden attending as Erika's maid of honor. Erika plays the role of Roseanne Delgado on the ABC-TV daytime drama, "One Life To Live." Her first TV appearance came in the movie, "Without Consent." She also played Roxanna in the ABC-TV series "Second Noah," and has appeared in the "Bold and the Beautiful" and "L.A. Heat." Bryan's Greatest Hits CD arrives in stores on October 31, but the entertainment business is the last thing on the newlyweds' minds as they honeymoon this week in Mexico. ~ October 17, 2000, T-100

Tickets Are Going Fast For Vince's Charity Basketball Game
Tickets are selling briskly for Vince Gill's 11th annual Celebrity Basketball Game and Concert, which takes place November 7th at Nashville's Belmont University. Joining Vince for a night of hoops and music include Brad Paisley, Chely Wright, Sawyer Brown's Mark Miller, the Wilkinsons, Bryan White, the Kinleys, the Warren Brothers, Deana Carter, Chalee Tennison and, of course, Vince's wife -- Amy Grant. The event will also include a silent auction during the game and a live auction just before the concert. Funds raised will be used for scholarships and program enhancement at the university. Vince says, "Our goal has always been to invite a few friends, have a good time and help out a university that I believe is providing a terrific education to a lot of people." Tickets are on sale now and can be ordered by calling (615) 460-VINC. ~ October 31, 2000, T-100

Bryan White Grows Up - Greatest-hits package sets stage for new beginning.
Correspondent Lisa Zhito reports: NASHVILLE - For all the yapping about the youthfulness of today's country stars, the fact that a 26-year-old Bryan White is issuing a greatest-hits collection on Oct. 31 serves as a wake-up call.

If nothing else, it's a reminder that a country "youthquake" is about as old news as the moon landing.

"It was the label's idea, and I was kinda like, 'Eh, I don't know,' you know?" White said, laughing. "But they said, 'Don't worry - every artist freaks out when we tell them let's do a greatest hits.' They think, well ... am I going to get do another record? Is this the end? What's the deal here?"

White, who won the 1996 CMA Horizon Award four years ago this week, has plenty of plans for the future - not the least of which is his October wedding to actress Erika Page - so now seems a perfect time to pause and reflect.

"It's time to open a new door and head down a new path," he said. "It's sort of like saying to the fans, 'Hey - let's go embark on something new here; you guys come with us.' "

White's retrospective includes two new songs, "How Long" and "The Way You Look at Me," both of which will be released as singles. Both tunes also are classic Bryan White: heartfelt love songs radiating with sunny acoustic strings and '70s-style folk harmonies. ~ October 4, 2000, SonicNet.com

A Lightning Rod For Discontent
Indeed, White's sound has caused him almost as much grief as it has success. For starters, White has always been low on the twang scale; his biggest hits, such chart-toppers as "So Much for Pretending," "Rebecca Lynn" and "Someone Else's Star", are cut squarely from the cloth of James Taylor and Dan Fogelberg. It's not the slick pop-country that has caused so much carping of late, but that hasn't stopped critics from holding him up as the poster boy for country's decline into pop.

White takes such criticism in stride. One of the nicest artists working in Nashville, he chooses to be at all times an optimist - even on a cold, wet day, in the full throes of a cold, with eight hours of interviews looming.

"Music is constantly ever-changing, not just country music but everything is changing; you can hear the progression every year," White said. "I think there's room for everybody to do what they do. I wish people would take it as a compliment that I do want to be in country music. I don't want to be anywhere else. I could go to any other market, any other genre of music and make records, but I want to be here because of the way the whole atmosphere of country music makes me feel. It makes me feel at home."

That said, White's bum rap didn't help the fortunes of his fourth album, 1999's How Lucky I Am. It marked White's first step into producing, and making that record was a true labor of love that he says gave him a real understanding of the term "blood, sweat and tears." Lucky finally brought him some good reviews, but radio ignored the single "You're Still Beautiful to Me", and it became White's first release that failed to reach gold sales.

"Throughout the whole process of it, I got critiqued a lot," he recalled. "It was hard to really focus when I was doing that record. But I think the songs are really good, I think the production was really cool. Yeah, there's a stretch on the envelope a little bit, but it's not any fun unless you do that. What's the point if you're not going to have fun? I don't want it to be totally like a job."

Lucky was also released just as his record label, Asylum, underwent a major upheaval. "The team I was used to working with at my record label all got let go and a new team came in," he said. "I'm not saying it was their fault, but because they were probably trying to get in gear and get their whole vibe happening, before we knew it the album had sorta fallen by the wayside."

Tellingly, White's current retrospective doesn't include any songs from that release. But he said he's grateful for the experience and is ready to move on. White has been writing a more personal crop of songs lately, and a greatest-hits release will buy him some extra time to focus on his craft. ~ October 4, 2000, SonicNet.com

Unorthodox Ticket Sales On Tour
More immediately, a "telemarketing tour" is planned for October. The outing is a series of benefit concerts for various charities, with ticket sales handled solely by telemarketers and on the Internet. White's manager, Stan Schneider, has used telemarketing tours for years for such clients as Glen Campbell.

"It's a good way to tour when you don't have an album out," Schneider said, noting that Greatest Hits won't be released until Oct. 31, while the first single, "How Long," goes to radio Oct. 21. It takes some of the pressure off White as the headliner to fill a venue; on the flip side, White said, "we don't know from night to night whether there will be 500 people there or 5,000 people." Following that is a Christmas tour, with ticket sales handled in the usual way. ~ October 4, 2000, SonicNet.com

Bryan White To Marry In Late October
Bryan White and his fiancee, actress Erika Page, will marry at the end of next month in Page's hometown of Dallas. Plans for the nuptials have been ongoing for quite a while, but things have finally come together.

"We've been planning this wedding for about two years," White tells LAUNCH. "We've been the longest engagement in history, but we wanted it to be this way. We weren't ever in a big hurry, 'cause we're not going anywhere. We just wanted more time to grow together and learn more about each other, but it's all planned. The only thing we've got left to do is pick the music and that's it."

White and his bride-to-be will have three attendants each, including the singer's younger brother as best man. After the wedding, the couple will take a short vacation to Mexico. According to White, he and Page will delay their honeymoon until after the first of the year, when they can spend a few months traveling together in Europe. ~ September 25, 2000, LAUNCH.com

CountryCool.com Presents Fin Fair Cayman Islands
Bryan White and Larry Stewart are hanging out in the Cayman Islands, fishing, golfing and singing! Shannon and the Country cameras went along too, check out Shannon's five part series - a CountryCool exclusive! ~ September 25, 2000, CountryCool.com

Bryan Teams With Telemarketers For New Tour
Even though we all hate those telemarketers who call our homes at the worst possible times, you should pay attention if the voice on the phone mentions Bryan White's name. With his new Greatest Hits album in the works, Bryan is touring the U.S. for the first time since 1998. While some of the dates on the 28-city tour are regular concerts with tickets available at the usual outlets, many of the shows are being publicized only through telemarketers. If you get a call from a telemarketer who's soliciting donations to a local charity, you could win tickets to Bryan's show when he visits your town. Over the years, Bryan has been active is raising money for several charities, including United Cerebral Palsy, the T.J. Martell Foundation, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Native American Clothing Drive and the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Bryan isn't saying where his charity shows will take place, but we can tell you that his "regular" ticketed concerts are set in Georgia, Colorado, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. ~ September 21, 2000, T-100

Celebrities Set For ACM Golf Tournament
Brad Paisley, Tracy Lawrence, Ty Herndon, Collin Raye and Andy Griggs are among the celebrities set to participate in the 18th annual Academy of Country Music/Bill Boyd Golf Classic in Burbank, California. Kenny Chesney hosts the October 9 event which will also feature Chad Brock, Craig Morgan, Rascal Flatts, Phil Vassar, Bryan White, John Rich, Mark Wills, Chalee Tennison and Coley McCabe. During the past 17 years, the tournament has raised more than $1 million for charities. This year's event will benefit the T.J. Martell Foundation, the Neil Bogart Memorial Laboratory; the Los Angeles Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children and the Bill Boyd Memorial Fund. Since each year's host also gets to designate a charity, Kenny has asked that a portion of the proceeds is earmarked for the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. ~ September 12, 2000, T-100

New Music on The Way!!!
Bryan White was at a Nashville soundstage yesterday to shoot the video for his new single, "How Long." It's one of several new songs featured on Bryan's upcoming Greatest Hits CD. ~ September 11, 2000, T-100

Greatest Hits
As you already know, Bryan is putting the finishing touches on his Greatest Hits package. Look for it later this year! ~ Issue Three 2000, The White Pages

A New Delivery
Congratulations are in order for Brinson and Lisa. They are expecting their first child early next year. The Strickland household just got a little larger! All the best to the happy family! ~ Issue Three 2000, The White Pages

Wedding Bells
Wedding congratulations to Derek and Leslie. They tied the knot in a beautiful ceremony on August 27th. Many blessings to both of them as they begin their new life together! ~ Issue Three 2000, The White Pages

BryanWhite.com
We are working on the website AGAIN! Please check back often to see changes! ~ Issue Three 2000, The White Pages

1-615-301-1111
The Bryan White info line is now up and running and has news and tour schedules. It's been recently updated so call and listen! ~ Issue Three 2000, The White Pages

Radio Waves
Let's keep requesting Bryan's music at radio! Till the new music is ready let's continue to request all those great songs we love so much ~ Issue Three 2000, The White Pages

Vince Plans For Annual Basketball Game and Concert
Some of Vince Gill's most talented friends will hit the basketball court and the stage for his 11th annual Celebrity Basketball Game and Concert, set for November 7 at Belmont University in Nashville. As always, Vince's friends are anxious to help out for the event which raises money for scholarships and program enhancement at the university. This year's list of celebrities includes Bryan White, Mark Wills, Sawyer Brown's Mark Miller, Deana Carter, Susan Ashton, Julie Reeves, Billy Dean, Ray Benson, Linda Davis, Cledus T. Judd, Mac McAnally, Sonya Isaacs, Chalee Tennison and Coley McCabe. It probably goes without saying that Vince will be there, decked out in gym shorts and basketball shoes with his wife, Amy Grant. In addition to the basketball game and concert, the event will include a silent auction of autographed items and then a live auction just before the music begins. The concert is always amazing, with Vince adding his vocal and guitar skills as a backing musician for many of his friends. Vince says, "Our goal has always been to invite a few friends, have a good time and help out a university that I believe is providing a terrific education to a lot of people." Tickets -- priced at $50 and $25 -- will be available October 9 by phoning (615) 460-VINC. ~ September 7, 2000, T-100

Ricochet Jam
Ricochet has announced the date of their 5th annual homecoming, The Green Country Jam. Keeping with tradition, the Jam will be held in Vian, Oklahoma, hometown of Heath Wright and Greg Cook. The guys also called upon native Oklahoman Bryan White to perform on the benefit show. Proceeds from the Jam will go to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. ~ July 14, 2000, T-100