There is a familiar face and voice back in the valley as Jaydee Bixby reignites his country music career in Wayne.
Bixby is back working on a new album, has a new record label and is back on the road touring. Part of his western Canada swing begins this Thursday at Wayne, where a guitarist will accompany him, and his parents might even make it onto the stage.
It has been about two years since his last appearance on stage in Drumheller.
“I’m excited for this,” he said. “ For this tour I was set up with an agent through my new record company. She has been doing a fantastic job with bookings.”
“The big jump off starts with Wayne, and then we are going all the way to Ontario. I won’t be back until the end of September.”
This is part of his new relationship with Mid South Music, his new record company based in Memphis.
Bixby said he is working on an album that he is aiming to drop in the fall. He is in a unique position because while he has been busy recording new material, he also has an extensive Canadian catalogue.
“Basically none of my material has been released in the States before, so I am taking a couple of the best songs from my three albums, along with some new songs I have written and we are going to make a whole new album for international release,” Bixby tells The Mail.
Along this tour through Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario, he will be introducing his new material on radio along the way.
Along with his music career getting busier by the day, there were more life changes for Bixby, who became a father, coincidentally on Father’s Day.
“My son will be here, I‘m excited for that, it will be his first time in my home town, he said adding that his family will accompany him along some of this tour.
The life change also affects him artistically.
There is a whole new group of songs I can get away with singing now,” he chuckles. “It is a new experience with little ones, and I could sincerely sing about it without knowing what I was talking about.”
Bixby performs at the Last Chance Saloon, Thursday, July 30.
