ICYMI “Gentlemen Start Your Weekends” – JAMES ROBERT WEBB – Official Music Video!

While many successful professionals opt to pursue their creative and musical dreams as part-time hobbyists and “weekend warriors,” James Robert Webb has, over the past decade, drawn on the strong work ethic of his blue-collar roots to master an artful balance between being a top, well-respected musculoskeletal radiologist (specializing in osteoporosis treatment and interventional pain management) in Tulsa, OK and developing his career in Nashville as a chart-topping singer/songwriter and recording artist.

By choice and because of his trademark sense of humility, the humble Webb tends to downplay the medical side of his life when performing at iconic Music City venues like the Ryman Auditorium, Bluebird Café where he sold out his debut show while playing alongside country greats like Marshall Tucker Band, Ray Stevens and Montgomery Gentry. Yet he has made an extraordinary impact on his community, starting the first comprehensive clinic treating vertebral compression fractures and the underlying condition of osteoporosis that causes these fractures.

The practice Dr. Webb & Associates is focused on pain intervention and supporting long-term bone health to reduce patients’ risk for getting fractures in the future. He is one of the Top 20 MDs in the country that performs the specialized procedure known as kyphoplasty.

The term “Top 20” is also very familiar to Webb in a very different way as an ever-evolving, often highly charting singer/songwriter and artist. Named the 2022 Country Breakout Awards’ Independent Artist of the Year, an honor bestowed by the Nashville’s Music Row Magazine), the singer has scored nine Top 40 hits on Music Row’s Country Breakout chart, five consecutive Top 40 appearances on Billboard’s Country Indicator chart and four Top 20 hits on the influential Texas Regional Radio Report, including the #1’s “Stealing Home” and “Lovesick Drifting Cowboy.”

In addition, the video for Webb’s 2021 single “Okfuskee Whiskey,” a semi-biographical tune about a moonshining great grandfather which reached #32 on Billboard’s Country Indicator chart and #14 on MusicRow Magazine’s Country Breakout chart, has 1.2M+ views on YouTube. Its multi-platform success has inspired a partnership between Webb and Tulsa’s Red Fork Distillery to create a new, regionally distributed whiskey with that name.

Working with GRAMMY-winning producer Buddy Cannon (Kenny Chesney, Willie Nelson, Reba McEntire), Webb’s music has an aggregate total of 4.2M+ streams and views over Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, Shazam and YouTube. His songs have also received regular spins on terrestrial radio across the country as well as on SirirusXM. In addition, Webb has been featured in American Songwriter magazine, Country Music People magazine and Taste of Country.

Since launching his recording career in 2013, Webb has released four full length albums, Born This Day (2013), Pictures (2016), Honky Tonk Revival (2017) and a self-titled collection in 2020, in addition to numerous singles. His recent tracks include “Local Participatin’ Honky Tonk” (a Top Ten and his fourth Top 20 hit on the Texas Regional Radio Report) and a beautiful rendition of the Willie Nelson/Elvis Presley popularized classic “Always on My Mind.” Webb’s latest release is the upcoming freewheeling barn burner anthem “Gentlemen Start Your Weekends.” He is also making a powerful headway as a songwriter outside of country, placing tunes with other indie artists ranging from R&B, soul and gospel.

Growing up on a small farm outside of Tulsa, Webb learned piano and in addition to listening to and being inspired by fellow Oklahomans like Bob Wills, Garth Brooks and Leon Russell, was a fan of jazz greats Oscar Peterson, Count Basie and Gil Evans. He later became the All-State jazz pianist who played in his high school and college marching, symphonic, jazz and concert bands. It should come as no surprise that in addition to developing his songwriting and multi-faceted country rock aesthetic, he’s contemplating some bebop-driven piano projects.

“The impact I have with my individual patients is massive. It’s very rewarding seeing people who were in great
pain and using wheelchairs being able to walk and live pain free following procedures that I get to perform,
” Webb says. “As a songwriter, my goal is the same, to impact people’s lives, but on an emotional
and spiritual level. There’s nothing like hearing how one of my songs helped change someone’s life.
As much as I love writing and recording in the studio, there’s something even more
magical about performing in front of an audience, becoming part
of their lives even just for a few moments.”– James Robert Webb

LYRICS: GENTLEMEN START YOUR WEEKENDS
You can feel it in the air, man, this work week’s all but done
There’s excitement everywhere
The boys have got their horses and they’re ready to run
And it’s a quarter to five, and we’re comin’ alive, yeah, 3, 2, 1 let’s go
And when that whistle blows
Ya punch it like ya caught a white flag comin’ off pit row

Gentlemen, Start Your Weekends
I’ve got that finally Friday feelin’, that I’ve been needin’
So fire those engines up, let’s have a little fun
All the folks like us are dying to feel that thunder roar
It’s what we’re living for
Gentlemen, Start Your Weekends

We got our new boots on, about to put a dent in that payday money
Hearts revin’ along, just got a green light from a hometown honey
And she’s sliding over, gets a little closer, says “Take me out for a spin.”
Time to show her what’s under the hood
Headed to a little juke joint way back in the woods

Gentlemen, Start Your Weekends
I’ve got that finally Friday feeling, that I’ve been needin’
So fire those engines up, let’s have a little fun
All the folks like us are dying to feel that thunder roar
It’s what we’re living for
Gentlemen, Start Your Weekends

She’s got that ’84 Corvette red dress on
She’s hotter than a little Bristol pistol
Boy’s I’m as good as gone

Gentlemen, Start Your Weekends
I’ve got that finally Friday feelin’, that I’ve been needin’
So fire those engines up, let’s have a little fun
All the folks like us are dying’ to feel that thunder roar
It’s what we’re living for

So put the top down, goggles on, push the pedal to the floor
Gentlemen, Start Your Weekends
Gentlemen, Start Your Weekends
G-G-G-Gentlemen, Start Your Weekends
Weekends, Weekends, Weekends

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