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Backroad Anthem keeps driving after singer's death
About two weeks before Christmas, Backroad Anthem singers Toby Freeman and Craig Strickland made their final songwriting trip of the year to Nashville. Their Arkansas-based country band typically spent a week or more each month working in Music City, inching closer to the dream of a record deal.
On this trip, the men wrote songs with their producer Jody Stevens and hit songwriter Bart Butler. They were supposed to meet with fellow country singer/songwriter Jaren Johnston, but the appointment fell through and they started the eight-hour drive back to Fayetteville, Ark., near the Oklahoma border.
The trip was the last work engagement the band had for the year — and the last drive the men would make to Nashville. The day after Christmas, Strickland, 29, went duck hunting with 22-year-old friend Chase Morland on Kaw Lake in Oklahoma. Morland tweeted before the trip: “In case we don’t come back, @BackroadCRAIG and I are going right through Winter Storm Goliath to kill ducks in Oklahoma.”
They didn’t come back. Their simple flat-bottomed John boat capsized sometime on Dec. 26 or 27 in the lake that was pummeled with strong wind gusts and high water levels. Morland’s body was found Dec. 28, and Strickland's remains were locat
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Backroad Anthem Talks Pushing on Without Craig Strickland & Honoring Him as They Go
Nearly two months after Backroad Anthem singer and acoustic guitarist Craig Strickland was killed in a severe storm during a hunting trip in Oklahoma, his bandmates are carrying on keeping their fallen brother in their hearts.
Strickland’s presence is an integral part of the Arkansas-based band’s just-released EP, Torn, which is led by a single by the same name. Speaking with Billboard at the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville last week, the band’s singer and electric guitarist Toby Freeman said, “He’s on every track, singing some lead parts — ‘After Midnight’ is a song that he co-wrote. He also does harmony on a few of the other songs.”
Craig Strickland Mourned by Backroad Anthem Bandmates: ‘Today We Lost Our Brother’
Fiddler player Eric Dysart said the band has been deeply affected by the loss of their partner and friend, as well as uplifted by the response from their fans regarding Strickland’s passing. “It’s been awful. We still can’t believe it,” he said. “The outpouring of prayers through it all has been simply amazing. When we found out about it, it was definite
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