August 1st 2008

Many dates are filling in for Lonnies October UK tour. Be sure to check the Tour tab to see where he and Karen Pendley will be appearing.

Lonnie will be in Nashville on the 17th through the 20th of September for the Americana convention week. He'll be hanging with a lot of his friends in the business. It's definately a fun week and a good time to be in Nashville.

Lonnie's latest UK release "I Came In Here Laughing" is just about ready to hit the ECMA charts.

Digital sales of Lonnie's first two albums are doing exceptionally well. Chances are where ever you get your digital downloads you will find Lonnie's material on it.

Lonnie will be back in Austin right up until he leaves for Nashville for the Americana convention.

Lonnie will be starting his third album this winter. Judging by some of the material thats going into the album it is going to be a winner.

June 28th 2008

Much to tell about. XM 13 Willies Place who has been playing a lot of Lonnie's material is doing a grand opening of the new Willies Place studio in Carls Corner Texas on the July 4th weekend. Good Luck guys and knock'em dead....

Mark your calander for all of Lonnie's fans in England for October the 26th for The Halfmoon Putney in London. This will be a show that will also include songwriter and long time friend Karen Pendley. Tickets are £6 adv £8 on the door and can be purchased from www.halfmoon.co.uk or from ticketweb direct on 08700 600 . Check the Tour tab to see all of the latest tour dates.

Lonnie's Latest release to Overseas radio is "I Came In Here Laughing". Lonnie wants to thank all of the radio stations world wide who have picked up on this release so quickly. All indications point to yet another hit for Lonnie on the ECMA charts. It appears he should crest the charts just in time for his October tour in England. Come on out ya'll.

Lonnie Will be back in Austin in September and will be at the Americana convention in October As well as England. Needless to say he his keeping quite busy.

May 10th 2008

PRESS RELEASE

Lonnie has just announced a new European tour slated for October of this year. Most dates will be in England. Details and locations will be coming out soon. He will be appearing with friend and co-writer/artist Karen Pendley.

More to come..........

May 1st 2008

Lonnie has just release a new single to radio. "I Came In Here Laughing" released on the latest Hillcrest CD. This is a release to the world market and ECMA stations.

April 15th 2008

Lonnie has a new release on the Joe Bakers Backforty Roundup CD. He has released "Another Place, Another Time" from his last album. Joe Baker is a legendary Disc Jockey from KNMB radio in New Mexico and a good friend of Lonnies.. Check out his website at http://www.backfortybunkhouse.com .be sure to check him out.

March 8th 2008

Wow.... there is much to write about and to keep up on.

Be sure to click on the underlined names below to link to these sites.

For the XM satallite radio fans Lonnie is now on XM13 Willies Place a big thank you to Eddie Kilroy. More news soon on more XM stations that will be playing Lonnie Spiker material

Lonnie spent some time back in Austin. Had a blast setting in with Dale Watson , had a guitar pull with Justin Trevino , hung out with Music Director and friend Rick Starr with KFAN Texas Rebel Radio, hanging with new friend Michael Ray of Country Shufflemania web radio, Bill Green, Debbie Green and Dorothea Ivy of BGM Studios in San Antonio

Bobby Osborne will soon be releasing "KeyStone Coal" on his next album. Lonnie Co-Wrote that song with artist , writer and friend Karen Pendley . Oh yes you are right Bobby Osborne is half of the Osborne Brothers who had the mega hit "Rocky Top".

Much Much more to come..........

November 13th 2007

Wow some great news for Lonnie. His song "Another Place, Another Time" from his last album has been nominated for song of the year on the ECMA association. We thank everyone who has and hopefully will be voting for it. We'll keep you posted on the results.

September 19th 2007

"I've Got Some Hurtin To Do" is on its way to the top ten on the ECMA charts. This week it is number 13. To see the charts click here.

A great show at the Old Timers Day celebration in La Vergne TN last weekend.

August 29th 2007

Thanks to International Radio Lonnie's "I've Got Some Hurtin To Do" just hit number 25 on the ECMA Country Music Charts........

August 19th 2007

Thank you ECMA and International Radio. Lonnies latest release "I've Got Some Hurtn To Do" just hit number 32 on the ECMA charts. Could this be a 5th consecutive number 1 for Lonnie?

August 14th 2007

Well Great News, Lonnie just got word that Bluegrass Legend Bobby Osborne just recorded a song written by Lonnie and Karen Pendley called "Keystone Coal". It is on Rounder records and will be released in the coming months.

This puts the number of songs recorded by Lonnie and other artists written or co-written by Lonnie at 34. Keep'em going Lonnie

August 8th 2007

"I've Got Some Hurtin To Do" penned by Tecia Mckenna just debut at number 79 on the ECMA charts!!!!! It looks like Lonnie is taking another run up the ECMA chart. Thanks to the airplay by the folks overseas it looks like this single will be heading up the charts fast. Lonnie has been doing a few personal appearances over the summer but mostly writing for his next CD. The material is really great and if that will be any indication of his how good his next CD will be it's going to be a MONSTER!!

Lonnie is very interested in booking an overseas tour for next spring. We will keep you posted on how that works out. It also appears that he is ramping up for a much busier tour schedule for next year. On The Road Again so they say.

Keep in touch. Lonnie does read every email that comes in and he really loves to email his fans.

May 11th 2007

Big news Lonnie has just inked a deal with CHIPSTAR MUSIC in Nashville to handle all of Lonnies booking dates. He is ready to hit the road again and CHIPSTAR MUSIC is going to be a great addition to Lonnies camp.

You can conatact Marilee Chipoletti of CHIPSTAR MUSIC at 615-646-2447

Lonnies latest release "I've Got Some Hurtin" to do written by Tecia McKenna is getting a ton of airplay on overseas radio. Thank you DJ's and presenters. We love you. We should see this one hit the charts in about two weeks.

March 8th 2007

Well its time to start another great year of shows and releases. Another Place Another Time is still on the ECMA charts. We want to thank EVERYONE who requested it and played it. It is now at 71. And as we speak Lonnie's Newest release is coming out on HILLCREST this month. Click on HILLCREST and check them out. They are the only way to go for European Releases. Oh and tell Ross we said howdy!!!!

Lonnies next release is "I've Got Some Hurtin To Do" off of his latest album "Unapologetically Honky Tonk" .... The hits keep racking up on it. It will be on HILLCREST 35 due to hit European Radio this month.

Lonnie was at the CSR... Country Radio Seminar a few days ago. Had a blast at the Texas Music suite with Will Payne and the crew...

Keep coming back for more really cool things that are happeining for Lonnie.

November 19th 2006

ANOTHER FIRST FOR LONNIE....That's right folks Lonnie has scored a 4th week at number one on the ECMA charts. He has had two number ones last for 3 weeks but this is a first, 4 weeks so far with "Another Place Another Time"...... Needless to say Lonnie is exstatic and A BIG THANK'S to ALL of the radio stations around the globe for bringin Lonnie's music to a much appreciated audience.

November 6th 2006

Wow what a run on the ECMA charts. Last week Lonnie came off of 3 weeks at number 1 and dropped to number 3, however this week he is back to number 2 and a GOOD possability of picking up the number 1 spot once again. A BIG THANK YOU to Lonnies Fans on the International scene and a BIG thanks to Hillcrest records for making it possible.

October 15th 2006

Well once again "Another Place Another Time" holds the #1 position on the ECMA charts. Thats 3 weeks in a row...... We'll keep you posted.

October 10th 2006

Well once more Lonnie has charted #1 on the ECMA music charts with "Another Place Another Time" knocking Kenny Chesney out of the #1 spot. That is four #1's and five consecutive top 10's on the ECMA charts. Check them out by clicking Here. Oh and a big congratulations for Ross Allen at Hillcrest label for Country Promoter of the Year.... Way to go Ross.

In other news Lonnie has been writing material for his next album and doing a lot of demo work. From the looks of things is next album is going to be a killer and mostly written on his own. Not bad.

Lonnie will start a production project with a new artist to soon be announced. He will be producing a female artist and we're looking forward to that project.

So we'll keep you posted on how that comes along. We really appreciate you stopping by and checking the news.

June 6th 2006

Well Lonnie's voice is keeping him very busy lately as a demo singer in Nashville. He now has several writers asking him to use his voice to shop thier songs. This is a great advantage since other labels, artists and management companies are starting to hear his voice much more often.

Lonnie is also starting to demo the first half of his NEXT album. This is the very beginning of how an album begins. From what we hear his next album will show much more of his own writing ablilities but you can bet it will still be TEXAS HONKY TONK!!!

"Unapologetically Honky Tonk" is STILL working out to be a stellar album for him. "Let's Face The Music and Dance" is now sitting at number 18 on the ECMA charts. It appears that this may be heading to yet another number one for Lonnie. If so that would give him his THIRD CONSECUTIVE #1. "A Little Lonlier Than This" is still on the chart at 83 for 19 weeks so far.

Lonnie is planning another TEXAS release in August of this year. Keep checking the news. It can only get better from here.

TIP!!!!!! Many people have asked how they can find more info on what Lonnie is up to. Well we recommend to go to a search engine like Google and type in "Lonnie Spiker" (be sure to use the quotes) and you'll find tons of pages of info from all over the world on Lonnies career. GIVE IT A TRY!!

April 22nd 2006

Well things are moving right ahead .... Lonnie's ECMA release "A Little Lonelier Than This" is dropping to 50 this week with 14 weeks on the chart and 2 weeks at number 1. "Fallin" had dropped to 92 after an incredible 27 weeks on the charts and 3 weeks at number one. Lonnie's newest ECMA release "Let's Face The Music" should hit the charts next time. That would put 3 songs on the ECMA top 100.

On Nashville news Lonnie and The Unapologetically Honky Tonk Band are doing every Wednesday night at the world famous Roberts Western World. Keep checking the news Lonnie will be doing a bunch of touring this year and already lining up dates for next year.

On the Texas front Lonnie should have a new release in June along with a bunch of dates down there this year.

On the Cowboy circuit thanks to our good friend Joe Baker in Riudoso, NM Lonnie will be releasing "A Little Lonelier Than This" for the June Anniversary Issue of the Back Forty Bunkhouse.... We love ya Joe.

And finally on May 24th number 1 UK Recording Artist Lucie Diamond will be appearing on stage with Lonnie at Roberts Western World.

Things are really ramping up folks and are only going to go up from here. We thank you for checking the news page. Keep in contact because there are some more neat things to come.

April 9th 2006

Wow what a last couple of weeks. Lonnie was in Linden TX attending the Texas Music Awards. Nominated for three awards but no wins. Which was great since had chance to perform on the show with Micheal Martin Murphy and catch up with of his Texas artist friends. He even stayed the same B&B as TC Smythe and Gary Taylor so of course there was a guitar pull the next morning lasting several hours and so he left late in the day.

Lonnie wants to thank all the folks at the TMA for the great hospitalitly and great freinds and kindness to Texas Artists you can only find in Texas.

It was a total blast and Lonnie Hopes his next release will lead him back there again.

On the overseas charts Lonnies last release "A Little Lonilier Than This" is at 39 on the International Country Charts and his release before that "Fallin" is still on the charts at 74 and on the charts for an incredible 26 weeks.

Now for the Best Part Lonnie's Latest single "Face The Music" should show up on the next charts and at a very high number since so many stations have picked it up so quickly. Keep an eye out on our news so you can see where it enters and where it goes.

Right now Lonnie is working in Nashville a lot due to a writing project on two albums for other artists. The future shows many more shows back in Texas (thank God) and several overseas trips plus many other gigs in the SouthEast. Much is happening in the background right now which we will be free to tell you about Lonnie hopefully in the next few months. Thankyou for checking in and Lonnie hopes to see each and every one of you soon.

Oh By The Way be sure to email your email address on the fanclub page because that will be firing up real soon. DON'T FORGET OK???????

NEWS FLASH !!!!!!!!!

Lonnie has been nominated for Male Vocalist of the Year and .... for Record Of The Year and .... Bill Green for Producer of the Year for "Unaplogetically Honky Tonk"..... For:

The date is Saturday, March 25th, 2006
The red-carpet limo entrance begins at 12:30pm
The show begins promptly at 2:00pm
The location is: Music City Texas Theater
The address is: 108 Legion Street, Linden, TX, 75563

MARCH 8TH 2006

A big thankyou to Clifton and John in Austrailia. They had an on air interview with Lonnie last Saturday. It was a world wide broadcast but the interview took place a 5 am!!!! I'm not too sure if he remembers much of it but it sounded great.

Lonnies latest release "Lets Face The Music And Dance" just hit overesea's radio this week. We're hoping he can get 3 number ones in a row.

Just a few more weeks til the TEXAS MUSIC AWARDS. We want to thank you for your votes and we're looking forward to the show.

FEBRUARY 18TH 2006

Well Lonnie had a great time visiting with friends, artist and air personalities at CRS this week and it wrapped up with a packed show at "Judge Beans" on Friday night....those who missed the packed house and romping good time really missed quite a show. Ranger Doug dropped by as did Wade Hayes and Tecia McKenna. This was a kick off to a great year.

FEBRUARY 10TH 2006

Well we got another review for our overseas release "A Little Lonlier Than This" from Robert K Oerman in the Music Row Magazine. He says:

LONNIE SPIKER/A Little Lonelier Than This
Writer: L. David Lewis/Monty Holmes/Kim Williams; Producer: Bill Green; Publisher: Sony Cross Key/Opryland Music Group, ASCAP; Magalith (track) (www.lonniespiker.com)
— Spiker’s new CD is titled Unapologetically Honky Tonk. And that’s just what its debut single is, right down to the bounced fiddle bows and steel guitar flourishes. I do love a country shuffle, and this rings with the authenticity of a classic Ray Price record.

FEBRUARY 8TH 2006

Wow and the excitement keeps building in Lonnies Camp...... The ECMA (click on the red ECMA to see the chart), chart this week shows Lonnies latest overseas single "A Little Lonlier Than This" as Number 1 !!!!!!!!!!!!! AND Lonnies last release "Fallin" has leaped back to the Number 11 position after 19 weeks on the chart. A BIG thank you to Lonnies overseas Fans, Radio Personalities and to HillCrest Records for helping Lonnie start taking his music to the world.....

FEBRUARY 1ST 2006

Had a great time in Houston for the Best In Texas seminar. Lonnie ran into a lot of old friends and new ones too. A quick howdy to Gerrie McDowell, Bill and Debbie Green, Katy Key, Ed and Pam Shane, Rick Starr, Chance Cody, Allen Reynolds, Clayton Brooks, James Jennings, Ken Murray and a cast of Thousands!!!!!!!!!!!!

JANUARY 27TH 2006

Well it's starting to shape up to be a banner year for Lonnie already.

On the new ECMA top 100....... Lonnies new release "A Little Lonlier Than This" has screamed up the charts to number 5 this week AND Lonnies previous release "Fallin" has moved up 2 notches to number 47. Thats right two songs in the top 50 and more to come......

A special thanks to the CMA Spain for the article about Lonnie and his last two albums click the link below to see it.

http://www.cmaspain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=471

Lonnie will be doing an on air interview with Clifton Burnett for his network in Australia, New Zealand and several other countries on March the 6th.

And don't forget CRS week Lonnie will be performing with his "Unapologettically Honky Tonk Band" at Judge Beans on Friday the 17th for the folks at CRS in Nashville. Show starts at 7pm and goes to 10pm. Be sure to stop out if your in Nashville that week.

JANUARY 24TH 2006

Well things are looking great on the ECMA top one hundred charts. Lonnies release "Fallin" spent three weeks at number one and is STILL on the charts at number 49 after 17 weeks on the chart MEANWHILE his latest release "A Little Lonelier Than This" has been on the charts for 4 weeks and is already at number 18..... Could this be another number one for Lonnie??

This just in for CRS week Lonnie will be performing with his "Unapologettically Honky Tonk Band" at Judge Beans on Friday the 17th for the folks at CRS in Nashville. Show starts at 7pm and goes to 10pm. Be sure to stop out if your in Nashville that week.

JANUARY 13 2006

Well Folks the year is starting off great for Lonnie so far. His new band called "The Unapologetically Honky Tonk Band" has been reformed and sounds absolutely fantastic. The memebers are Karen Pendley on Fiddle and vocals who also has a distinguished recording and writing career, Carco Clave on Steel Guitar who among his many accolades are that he worked with Asleep At The Wheel for a few years, Steve Underwood Drummer extrodinaire and on Upright Bass and Vocals an extremely talented Louisiana boy Scott Icenogle.

The bands Friday night home when not on the road will be every Friday at Nashvilles ONLY REAL TEXAS HONKY TONK called JUDGE BEANS from 7 pm to 10 pm.

I think Lonnie Finally got the sound he's been looking for and will be bringing it to a town near you!!!

December 26 2005

Well we said 2006 would be a great year for Lonnie and its already started. Lonnies last release "Fallin'" has been holding for 14 weeks on the ECMA (European Country Music Association) charts and this week is holding at number 14 after 3 weeks at number 1, and now his next single "A Little Lonlier Than This" just enters the charts at number 76.

For Lonnies Nashville audiences you will be seeing him LIVE at the world famous Roberts Western World and a soon to be famous Texas Honky Tonk in Nashville (Yes Audrey the owner is from Austin so it's the real deal folks, Lone Star Beer and all) called Judge Beans. Check the tour dates for times.

Lonnie will be back in Texas in the spring with a bunch of new dates.

Hold on this is going to be a great year!!!!!!!!

December 20 2006

Well Lonnie has been busy as usual. He will be in Nashville working on writing projects for two artists next albums. Karen Pendly and James Hedden both have new albums to start recording in March. Lonnie was asked to write with both of them for thier upcoming projects.

Of course he will still be appearing for shows so be sure to keep an eye on the Tour page to see if he's in your area.

Joe Baker and his Back Forty Bunkhouse show will be featuring Lonnie's release called "Fallin" in January for all of his Western Swing fans and audiences.

Next year looks like a lot of exciting things for Lonnie and the band so hang on and HAPPY HOLIDAYS for every one of Lonnie's fans out there.

November 4 2005

Hey Folks great news Lonnie has scored #1 for three consecutive weeks on the European CMA Chart!!!!!!!!!!! With Fallin'. Toby Keith is hot on his heals at #2. Check the chart out for yourself at: http://www.europeancma.com/chart.htm

Things are really moving fast. We should have some more interesting news to follow.

November 2 2005

Hey Folks don't forget to be at Hills Cafe in Austin on November the 13th starting at 2:00 I'll be hanging with a bunch of my friends at the TEXAS MUSIC CHART 5 YEAR B'DAY BASH.... It's going to be a whole lot of fun .......

October 21 2005

"FALLIN'" #1 for 2 weeks in a row on the ECMA (European Country Music Association).

This is an especially great honor since this counts the broadcasts from all over the world. This is Lonnie's first single off of his new album and his second release "A LITTLE LONLIER THAN THIS" is already on its way to radio by way of HILLCREST records.

Lets see if he can go for three.

October 9 2005

Trailer bandits strike. Yes Lonnie's sound trailer was broken into in Austin TX and half his sound gear went missing however, Lonnie said that all of his show dates will be honored and he'll be back up and running in a few weeks.

AUGUST 30

FALLIN' #27 THIS WEEK

Wow things have been busy... we've been working hard to chart on the Texas Music charts and have finally hit and are now just working at pushing it up the charts.

Call your local station in TX for spins.

On the world front FALLIN' is now #50 on the top 100 ECMA charts....

We'll be in London for two dates so be sure to check our tour schedule. This is our first time overseas so we are really looking forward to this.

Keep listening to the Chuck Taylor TX Country Countdown we will be on it in a couple of weeks.

Next week we'll be at the AMERICANA MUSIC get together in Nashville.

Hope to see some of you out there. And thanks for keeping in touch by email. Our Fan Club base is growing so be sure you get on it too.

Til next time..... we have a lot more coming up.

JULY 18TH

Well the show in Saltsville VA w/ Skyla Spencer went very well and had a chance to meet some new fans. We just want to howdy to all of them.

34 On the BEST IN TEXAS charts this week. Big jump but wait til next week........ thats all I'll say about that for now. That way you'll check next week.

A big thankyou to DR Bruce of KFTX in Corpus Christi Texas for adding our latest single.

On the European front "FALLIN'" is at number 7 on the EMS charts.

We would like to say howdy to all the stations in Belgium, Australia, Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden, The UK has been very very good to us.

Sales on "Unapologetically Honky Tonk" are exploding. We're excited obviously

We'll have more info for you by next week and thankyou for reading the news page.

JULY 5TH

Well interesting news from around the world we just hit number 5 on the EMS charts in Europe and 15 in Australia. I want to thank all of you responsible for that.

I taped the CD-TEX RADIO SHOW with Cowboy Bob Lopez last week and I think it airs this week. so keep your ears open we had a blast

We made an impressive leap on BEST IN TEXAS and I want to thank the stations that jumped on "FALLIN'". #38 ALREADY......

If you're not on it yet, please give a listen our live listeners, reviewers and radio stations magazines and newspapers are all raving about it. NOT ONE NEGATIVE!!! I guess there is a huge audience out there for HONKY TONK when you give it to 'em.

JUNE 27TH

"FALLIN'" DEBUTS AT 44 ON THE BEST IN TEXAS CHARTS AND IS RISING VERY VERY FAST.......

GREAT SHOW ONCE AGAIN AT BLAINES PUB IN SAN ANGELO TX

JUST FINISHED TAPING THE CD-TEX RADIO SHOW. LISTEN FOR IT ON YOUR FAVORITE TEXAS STATION OR WWW.COUNTRYBEAR.COM, TWANGCAST.COM WWW.TCB.COM, WWW.WMTR.COM FROM 10PM TO 12PM CENTRAL TIME.......

June 7th

"Fallin'" should hit BEST IN TEXAS charts by next week..We hope.

News outside of TX. "Fallin'" hit the EMS (European Music Chart) at number 9 out of thier top 50.......Will be touring over there for sure in addition to our US dates. And thanks to Eddy & Ria Veldkamp for thier Texas Radio show and featuring "Unapologetically Honky Tonk" as thier album of the week.

Things are cooking up fast this week folks ending May 28.

1week out with our TX single we have 10 stations put the single "Fallin'" on immediate rotation and next week looks even better.

Music Row Magazine in Nasvhille did a review. Robert K Oermann.... THE REVIEWER in this business said this...........LONNIE SPIKER/Fallin’
Writer: Bobby Jenkins/Jody Jenkins; Producer: Bill Green; Publisher: Trey West, BMI; Megalith (track) (www.lonniespiker.com)
— The album is titled Unapologetically Honky Tonk, and that’s what I call truth in advertising. Fiddle? Check. Steel? Check. Shuffle beat? Check. And a barroom baritone who sings you out onto the dancefloor? Check that, too. My kinda reckid.

Click here for the first review on My Texas Music mag

Click here for the Texas Music Theatre Radio in Waxahachie TX. We are playing there and will be doing a live interview in a few weeks.

To all of our UK Fans "Fallin'" releases next week. Be sure to call your favorite station for it.

Lonnie's next Single

FALLIN'

Coming to radio in May 2005

from his latest album
Unpologetically Honky Tonk
Listen by clicking Music

Press here to read Lonnies article in BEST IN TEXAS.