{"id":2447571,"date":"2019-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=310192"},"modified":"2019-08-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T06:00:00","slug":"leann-rimes-returns-to-belly-up-aspen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/leann-rimes-returns-to-belly-up-aspen\/","title":{"rendered":"LeAnn Rimes returns to Belly Up Aspen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LeAnn Rimes will headline Belly Up Aspen on Aug. 21.<\/strong>
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LeAnn Rimes has sold tens of millions of records, she\u2019s won Grammys and she\u2019s played on the largest stages to some of the world\u2019s biggest crowds. But on her recent tours, the country-pop star is inviting audiences to see her, and hear her iconic songs, in a new light.<\/p>\n

She and her band have sought fresh approaches to songs she\u2019d grown bored with since her days as a teen star, and concocted fresh arrangements for her beloved, road-worn hits like \u201cHow Do I Live\u201d and \u201cSomething\u2019s Gotta Give.\u201d<\/p>\n

She returns to Belly Up Aspen, where she most recently headlined at a Christmas show in 2017, on Wednesday, Aug. 21.<\/p>\n

These days, \u201cHow Do I Live\u201d is less the anthem you know from Top 40 radio and more of a hushed and personal ballad.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s almost a different song,\u201d Rimes said during a previous stop in Aspen. \u201cIt\u2019s so heartbreaking. You feel everything in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething\u2019s Gotta Give\u201d has become a down-home bluegrass tune in stripped-down performances that put Rimes\u2019 powerhouse voice and lyrics center stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really intimate,\u201d she said. \u201cI love having that with an audience. I think people really have a moment of getting to know me and hopefully it\u2019s a great show of fantastic music.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to believe it\u2019s been more than two decades since a 13-year-old Rimes burst onto the country music scene with her cover of Billy Mack\u2019s \u201cBlue\u201d in 1996, beginning her run of chart-topping records that helped country on its way to dominating the pop landscape. She\u2019s sold more than 40 million records and, with \u201cHow Do I Live,\u201d scored the second-longest charting song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100. She signed her first record deal at 11 and won her first Grammy at 14. So you\u2019ve got to commend her for holding onto a creative vitality and making an effort to see songs she\u2019s been performing for most of her life with fresh eyes.<\/p>\n

In concert, Rimes mines material from her whole catalog \u2014 from \u201cBlue\u201d up through 2016\u2019s \u201cRemnants.\u201d Scaling down the production, she said, rekindled a passion for songs that might seem to have come from another lifetime.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re not bound to having to fit something to radio stations, you can play around and it can become anything,\u201d she said. \u201cSome of them we\u2019ve looked at each other and said, \u2018Why didn\u2019t we do the record like that?\u2019 That freedom, to be able to do something like that live, is really fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Performing on the international stage since childhood, Rimes said she feels like she began to come into her own as a singer-songwriter with \u201cRemnants.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe LeAnn Rimes that\u2019s done all the things I\u2019ve done, it\u2019s fantastic,\u201d she said. \u201cBut there\u2019s this other side that\u2019s just LeAnn, this songwriter that\u2019s just developing. And I think this next record will be the first thing that is what I feel like arriving in my skin, speaking volumes to who I am. I\u2019m so grateful for all I\u2019ve accomplished but there\u2019s more left.\u201d<\/p>\n

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LeAnn Rimes will headline Belly Up Aspen on Aug. 21.Courtesy photo LeAnn Rimes has sold tens of millions of records, she\u2019s won Grammys and she\u2019s played on the largest stages to some of the world\u2019s biggest crowds. But on her recent tours, the country-pop star is inviting audiences to see her, and hear her iconic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 01:23:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}