<p><strong>Jack Ingram’s New Video, “</strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6DRTLOFanI"><strong>I’m Drinking Through It</strong></a><strong>” Premieres </strong><strong>on Texas Monthly, Added to CMT Rotation</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.countrymusicnewsblog.com/?attachment_id=33264"><img class="size-medium wp-image-33264 alignright" src="http://www.countrymusicnewsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/image002-3-168x120.jpg" alt="" width="168px" height="120px" /></a>Texas icon and country star <strong>Jack Ingram</strong>’s new video for “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6DRTLOFanI">I’m Drinking Through It</a>” premiered as part of Texas Monthly’s Music Monday online series and is now part of CMT’s video rotation. It’s not only the first single from Ingram’s upcoming album <i>Midnight Motel (Rounder Records, 8/26), </i>it’s his first new music in the seven years since his departure from Big Machine Records.</p>
<p>“After being on the planet for a long time – and on the road for half of that – I’ve learned a few things…” said Ingram, with his signature sly smile. “I am not suggesting that ignoring your problems is <i>always</i> the best way to solve them&#8230;I&#8217;m just saying that maybe sometimes it is!”</p>
<p>The video, directed by Michael Tully and co-starring Heather Kafka, explores a tumultuous relationship. As the two struggle, viewers recognize the type of frustration that can only be caused by love. Exasperated, Ingram sings, “sometimes you’re thirsty and sometimes you just need a drink.”</p>
<p>After passionate squabbles and a lot of storming around, Ingram downs a few rounds and takes to the stage. As he sings, both realize that sometimes taking a step back provides perspective. Finally, Ingram recruits the crowd to sing the chorus, “I’m drinking through it,” as the lovers reconcile. (For now.)</p>
<p>“I’m Drinking Through It,” is the first single on <i>Midnight Motel, </i>Ingram’s first album in seven years. <i>Midnight Motel</i> is a Texas-tinged guided meditation through liquor-fueled melancholy. It’s a night at the bar with Ingram on stage – songs, shots, spoken riffs and all. (FULL ALBUM STREAM UPON REQUEST).</p>
<p><center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h6DRTLOFanI" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>“Ingram’s is a singular voice, an artist adept at sharing the broader insights that reflect on the minutiae of everyday experience,” says writer Lee Zimmerman for Elmore Magazine. “In a very real sense then, this is Ingram’s most authentic effort to date, and not surprisingly, it’s also his best.”</p>
<p><strong>Link for “I’m Drinking Through It” premiere: </strong><a href="http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/music-monday-jack-ingram-dealing-problems-way-exclusive-video-premiere-im-drinking/">http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/music-monday-jack-ingram-dealing-problems-way-exclusive-video-premiere-im-drinking/</a></p>
<p><strong>ABOUT JACK INGRAM:</strong> Throughout a recording career that has spanned more than 20 years, Jack Ingram has maintained a reputation for uncompromising, personally charged song craft and energetic, charismatic performances, earning him prominent stature in a prestigious tradition of iconoclastic singer-songwriters. Ingram&#8217;s prior work has won him a fiercely devoted fan base as well as reams of critical acclaim, and now Midnight Motel marks a creative milestone for the veteran artist, his sound ever evolving while showcasing some of his most expressive, emotionally raw songwriting to date.</p>
<p>His eighth studio album, and his first since his 2009 smash Big Dreams &; High Hopes, Midnight Motel features spare, stripped-down instrumental arrangements that highlight the intimacy and urgency of such new originals as &#8220;I&#8217;m Drinking Through It,&#8221; &#8220;Nothing to Fix,&#8221; &#8220;Can’t Get Any Better Than This,&#8221; and &#8220;All Over Again.&#8221; The album&#8217;s organic late-night vibe is perfectly suited to the material, and brings out the emotional edge in Ingram&#8217;s deeply felt vocals.</p>
<p>The road to Midnight Motel has been a long and sometimes rocky one for Ingram, who was named Best New Male Vocalist by the Academy of Country Music in 2008, despite the fact that he&#8217;d already been rocking honky tonks, theaters, and stadiums for a decade and a half by then. He began writing songs and playing gigs while studying psychology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and quickly earned a rabidly devoted audience while performing high-energy live shows in bars and roadhouses throughout his home state. In 2006, the title track off of Ingram’s album <i>Wherever You Are</i>, earned him his first Number One single and its follow-up, &#8220;Love You,&#8221; earned him another Top 20 hit. His next studio effort, 2007&#8217;s <i>This Is It</i>, hit the Top Five on the U.S. country charts and produced a trio of hits in &#8220;Lips of An Angel,&#8221; &#8220;Measure of A Man,&#8221; and &#8220;Maybe She&#8217;ll Get Lonely.&#8221; Big Dreams &; High Hopes followed two years later, spawning five chart singles, including the Top 10 &#8220;Barefoot and Crazy&#8221; and the Top 20 &#8220;That&#8217;s A Man.&#8221;</p>
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Website: <a href="http://jackingram.net/">http://jackingram.net/</a></p>
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Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jackingram/">https://www.facebook.com/jackingram/</a></p>
<p>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jackingram/">https://www.instagram.com/jackingram/</a><br />
Youtube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy8KtwvxP5wZ5zix7AujPvQ">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy8KtwvxP5wZ5zix7AujPvQ</a></p>
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