Lady Antebellum Tickets: The Group Ventured Into The Studio To Begin Recording For Their Third Album

Lady Antebellum is an American country music group composed of Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott and Dave Haywood. The group's discography comprises two studio albums and eight singles, not counting guest appearances or digital-only releases.
Lady Antebellum was formed in 2006,in Nashville, Tennessee, by Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood and Hillary Scott. Scott is the daughter of country music singer Linda Davis, and Charles Kelley is the brother of pop and country artist Josh Kelley. It was these family connections and music industry ties that helped launch the band.

Kelley moved to Nashville in mid-2005 from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he had been working construction with his brother John. Trying to become a successful solo country artist, Kelley convinced his old middle-school classmate, Haywood, to move to Nashville from Georgia in 2006 so they could write music together. Shortly thereafter, Scott recognized Kelley from MySpace, and they started to talk at a Nashville music club. Kelley invited Scott to join him and Haywood in the new group, which assumed the name Lady Antebellum.

On the BBC Radio 2 Drivetime Show on the 9 August 2010, the band explained to the host, Liza Tarbuck, that the name Antebellum comes from when the group were photographing "antebellum" homes. The antebellum architectural style describes the large plantation homes in the American South. "Antebellum" more commonly refers to pre-Civil War America, especially the pre-Civil War culture in the slave holding southern states. While photographing the houses one of the group said that there's a great band name in there, and they adopted the Lady Antebellum name shortly after.

The trio then began performing at local venues in Nashville before being signed in July 2007 to a recording contract with Capitol Records Nashville. In an interview with Sirius Satellite Radio, Scott claimed she was rejected from the hit show American Idol two times, not even making it past the first round.The trio's self-titled debut album was released in 2008 via Capitol Records Nashville.

It included the singles "Love Don't Live Here", "Lookin' for a Good Time" and "I Run to You", which became the group's first Number One on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts as well as the Number One country music song of the year according to Billboard Year-End charts. It was followed by "Need You Now", the title track to the group's second album.

This song reached number-one on the country, Adult Contemporary, and Adult Pop Songs charts, as well as number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Canadian Hot 100.
After it came the number-one country hits "American Honey" and "Our Kind of Love", followed by the top 10 "Hello World".The band's third studio album, Own the Night, will be released on September 13, 2011. Its lead-off single, "Just a Kiss", became the trio's fifth number one.

The week of January 9, 2011, the group ventured into the studio to begin recording for their third studio album. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Charles Kelley said, "We actually just went ahead and decided we are gonna take two, two and a half months straight in the studio to create this thing and not have all this distraction. Hopefully that will be a good thing". He goes on to say that the group has around 50 songs which they plan to choose from along with songs from other songwriters.

On May 2, 2011, the group released the first single from their upcoming album, titled "Just a Kiss". The group performed the single on stage on American Idol's result show on May 5, 2011. On June 7, 2011, they announced the title of third album; called Own the Night, it was released on September 13, 2011. The album cover and track listing was released on July 18, 2011.Lady A released a "Lady Hazed" version of Jason Aldean's song "Dirt Road Anthem" entitled "Country Club Anthem" on their installment of Webisode Wednesdays on August 10, 2011.