MusicRowPics: LiveWire

LiveWire visit

Way Out West Records band LiveWire recently visited MusicRow’s offices to perform their fiddle-soaked new single, “Drivin’ You Outta My Mind,” which currently sits at No. 49 on MusicRow’s CountryBreakout chart. “The song came together in a Nashville hotel room. It was one of those songs that fell onto the page and in the right structure,” says lead singer Andy Eutsler. The song was co-written by Eutsler, Johnny Bulford, Danny Bell and Landon Rolfe.

LiveWire is composed of members Eutsler, Bobby DeGonia, Brad Allen, Cory Shultz, and Scott Kwapiszeski. “I met Andy at a show in 2003, and I asked if he could play bass,” said DeGonia. “He said he couldn’t, but he could sing really well, so we transitioned him to take over some lead vocal duties.” Fiddle player Cory has been in the band since he was 15, after a chance meeting with one of the members in a music instrument shop. From there the band worked tirelessly, playing up to 300 dates per year. LiveWire steadily climbed the ranks from local bar band to in-demand concert band.

During their three-song set at the MusicRow offices, the band also offered their 2013 single, “Whiskey Sunday,” and a preview of the not yet recorded “Quit You,” which compares a love obsession with alcohol addiction. Eutsler says has solid potential as their next single.

The video clip for “Drivin’ You Outta My Mind” was led by the team of Nashville director Flick Wiltshire and Clif Doyal, and recently shot in the Gloss Mountains and the Little Sahara State Park in western Oklahoma. It features Eutsler’s 1967 candy apple red GTO, which was lovingly customized just for the video.

“Months before, I had started building the car from scratch, from just the parts,” said Eutsler. “We knew the car would look good in the video, but I thought, ‘It’s not going to happen in time.’” Dangerous Motors of Cushing, Okla., stepped in, completing the job in four months. “I was impressed,” said Andy. “It looked like it rolled off the showroom floor.”

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