Justin Crider Music

Justin brings his award winning songs to audiences throughout the South. Real Country Music you love!

Justin Crider writes earthy, Appalachian, authentic Country Music, His album, I'm Your Man, is available for streaming on most music streaming platforms. Check out his group page, The Rancher's, for even more information.

Operating as usual

11/18/2023

Some NEW, previously unreleased Justin Crider Music in about an hour on 96.3 The Possum with my buddy “Canjoe” John on Mountain Matinee on FM 96.3 "The Possum", every Saturday afternoon !! Tune in won’t ya? 🙏🏼🤠 ~J

Have A Little Faith Official Music Video 6 29 2022 07/01/2022

Some of my best friends- Quentin Horton and Benny Wilson, commercially known as “Q and B” and (percussion, tech and production extraordinaire) Chris Ryan with this fantastic song, track and Official Video! Ya best keep “a weathered eye” on these folks...believe it! ...”I’VE got faith in you...” fellas! Go get it!

Y’all do me a favor and watch/like/share/subscribe... you know how it goes lol...all the things that’ll help these guys out! (...and P.S. take it from me- the watch you give it will help YOU out too! 😊)

Great Job Quentin, Benny and Chris! Much love guys! 💜🤠 -Jc

Have A Little Faith Official Music Video 6 29 2022 Lots of fun to make this video with Audioasis. Beauty Spot in Erwin.

03/03/2022

Spring will be here soon. Have a great day!

02/25/2022
Timeline photos 02/10/2022

Congratulations to all the winners.

(L to R) Brent Treash (emcee/BCM Board Member), Logan Fritz, Clint Holley (judge), Noah Spencer, Teri Dosher (judge), Audrey Rose, Dallas Wayne (judge), Ari Silver, Dave Jones (Tennessee Dept. of Tourist Development)

02/03/2022

…Long long time ago…

At 12:55am, Central Time, Feb.3, 1959, the plane departed, It was 63 years ago today.

The Winter Dance Party tour played at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, IA on the night of Feb. 2, 1959. The show featured The Big Bopper (JP Richardson), Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Dion.

The tour was having its problems. One of them was the distance between venues and the conditions prevalent aboard the poorly equipped tour buses adversely affected the performers. The heat on the bus had stopped working and many of the people on the bus had got sick. Frustrated by the conditions, Holly decided to charter a plane when they stopped for their performance in the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, to reach their next venue in Moorhead, Minnesota. Carroll Anderson, owner of the Surf Ballroom, chartered the plane from the Dwyer Flying Service to fly them to Fargo ND.

Richardson, who was affected by the flu, swapped places with Buddy Holly's bass player Waylon Jennings. Ritchie Valens, who had once had a fear of flying, asked Buddy Holly's guitarist Tommy Allsup for his seat on the plane. Allsup and Valens decided to toss a coin to decide. Bob Hale, a DJ with KRIB-AM, who was working the concert that night and flipped the coin in the ballroom's sidestage room shortly before the musicians departed for the airport. Valens won the coin toss for the seat on the flight.

Dion DiMucci (of Dion and the Belmonts fame) had been approached to join the flight, although it is unclear exactly when he was asked. Dion decided that since the $36 fare (equivalent to US $291.20 in 2018) equaled the monthly rent his parents paid for his childhood apartment, he could not justify the indulgence.

The chartered plane sat three passengers and the pilot. When Holly learned that Jennings was not going to fly, he said in jest, "Well, I hope your ol' bus freezes up." Jennings responded, "Well, I hope your ol' plane crashes," a humorous but ill-fated response that haunted Jennings for the rest of his life.

When the show ended, Carroll Anderson drove Holly, Valens, and Richardson to the airport. The plane departed from the ramp and taxied to then-Runway 17 at around 12:55 a.m. Central Time on Tuesday, February 3. The weather report indicated light snow with a ceiling of 3,000 feet (910 m) MSL and winds from 20 to 30 mph (32 to 48 km/h). Though there were indications of deteriorating weather along the route, the weather briefings Peterson received failed to relay the information.

Just after takeoff, Peterson became disoriented due to the unfamiliar way the aircraft's attitude indicator depicted pitch, combined with an inability to find a point of visual reference on a starless night with no visible lights on the ground and the inability to detect the horizon. He lost control of the plane. The plane hit the ground and the aircraft cartwheeled across a cornfield belonging to Albert Juhl. The plane was at a slight downward angle and banked heavily to the right when it struck the ground at around 170 mph (270 km/h). The plane appears to have crumpled and then skidded another 570 feet (170 m) across the frozen landscape before the broken wreckage came to rest against a wire fence at the edge of Juhl's property.

The plane wasn't reported missing until the next morning.

There were no survivors.

To many, it was the day the music died. At least that is what the song says. In reality, the music they had made has lived on. We all just wonder about the music they would have made had they survived.

02/03/2022

Get your tickets!

So excited that I am attending the Tennessee Songwriters qualifying round at Birthplace of Country Music Museum this Saturday!

02/02/2022

I can't wait for Saturday!

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“Nothin like the Blues” on the radio ❤️
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Justin's acoustic cover of Conway Twitty's classic "The Rose"- JCM
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