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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Home to Scandinavia |
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"I think people realize that. I`m not so different from them, they hear it in the songs -- and I`m like their buddy. You know, it`s not a bad way to make friends." For Kenny Chesney, of the nearly 8 million albums sold, the soon-to-be arena-sized headliner, the inevitable chart-climber, that`s all cake. For him, it`s about the guy in the baseball hat and the girl that guy thinks is pretty. Real life the double platinum boy, who finds his solace in the ocean, realizes doesn`t always show up with the gilded edges and profound pronouncements -- you gotta find the truth as it rolls by with tan lines, an easy smile and a twinkle in its eye. And you know, so far, that`s worked just fine. |
Signing a record deal with Rounder Records at age 14, Alison Krauss's first release, "Too Late To Cry" came out when she was 16. A Grammy nomination came at 18, and she has gone on to win, collectively & individually, 13 Grammy awards. Since her teens, she has toured with Union Station,though the band membership has changed several times since she joined at the invitation of bassist and songwriter John Pennell. |
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Born on May 4, 1959, Randy Bruce Traywick was the second of six children. His father Harold, raised turkeys, bred horses, and ran a construction business, and his mother Bobbie, worked in a textile plant. Randy's father always wanted him to become a country singer, filling the house with the sounds of Hank Williams and Stonewall Jackson albums. Harold bought his four sons western outfits and guitars, and promoted them locally as the Traywick Brothers. By the time Randy was ten years old, he and his brother, Ricky, had their own duo, playing throughout the South at fiddler's conventions, private parties, VFW halls and anywhere and everywhere they could draw a crowd. Even at his young age Randy's voice startled people with its resonance. He dropped out of school in the ninth grade, and after that-fast cars, drinking and drugs lead to a series of scrapes with the law. |
"Tanya was trying to sing as
a child," her father, Beau Tucker, said. "I never even thought about her singing
till one day she walked up and said, 'Daddy, you wanta hear me sing a song?' I
said, 'Sweetheart you couldn't sing your way out of a paper sack.' She backed up
about ten foot and showed me she could sing. She let me have
it." |
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Gary Allan is Nashville’s best-kept
secret. And maybe that’s because this, Orange County, California-born cowboy
surfer who still makes his home in Huntington Beach, finds his frequent touring
takes him far from Music Row. |
Critics call her a legend, fans a heroine, but the names she loved most are what she was first: Tammy Wynette, a wife and a mother. Born Virginia Wynette Pugh on May 5, 1942, on a cotton farm in Itawamba County, Mississippi, she spent her youth picking cotton, working as a beautician, a waitress, and a shoe-factory employee before her rise to stardom. |
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The breathtaking soprano of Martina McBride is one of the greatest vocal instruments in contemporary popular music. That she applies it to songs of uncommon integrity makes its impact all the more thrilling. The proof is presented on her landmark Greatest Hits collection. This super-sized serving of music offers 13 of the performances that have made her one of the most cherished artists in country music, revives one of her favorite prior album tracks and offers four new recordings that place her at the forefront of the style in the new millennium. |
Golden Road |
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TOBY RECEIVES AWARD |
Tim McGraw says of Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors, his eighth album and his most ambitious recording project to date. "It has every element I've always wanted to have in my music. It sounds real and it sounds soulful, and it's a lot more me than any record I've ever made." |
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In an era when every success in country music is hard-won and breakthrough
debuts have become almost non-existent, the story of Rascal Flatts has been
nothing short of astounding. Their first CD became one of only three platinum
debuts in the past five years. It spawned four top-10 singles, including the
chart-topping "Prayin’ For Daylight" and the multi-media smash "I’m Movin’ On,"
and stayed on the charts for two years. |
"I once heard George Jones say in an interview that country music was like
religion to him. I couldn’t agree more. It’s where I turn when times are tough
and I need answers and it’s where I go when I want to cut loose and have fun. As
a singer and songwriter, it’s not only how I make a living but what gives me
direction and purpose in life.” |
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When it comes to his success, Alan Jackson’s disbelief can’t help
but ride shotgun to his appreciation. Selling over 40 million records, earning
30 number one singles (22 of which he either wrote or co-wrote), winning more
than 80 major industry awards and gracing pages that bridge The New York Times
to the Newnan, Georgia Times-Herald, is, in a word, overwhelming. Consequently,
both on and off the public stage, Alan can’t help but be a bit confounded by the
idea that he connects with so many by simply being himself. Luckily, the
byproduct of this is an ever-fortified sincerity, present throughout his
Greatest Hits Volume II collection (Arista Nashville, release date August 12,
2003). |
Did you know that Pat Green's last album Three Days
debuted on the Billboard Country Albums Chart at #7? (It then proceeded to stay
on that chart for over a year) |
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Dreams come true. We’ve all heard that. So, after winning the Dallas regional ALABAMA June Jam Talent Search and a couple of wins as Male Vocalist Champion on Ed McMahon’s StarSearch, Buddy Jewell packed up his family and headed to Nashville to make his dream come true. |
Country music legend George Strait's performance before a record-breaking audience of 68,266 at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo last March, including former President Bush and wife Barbara, marked the event's final appearance at the historic Astrodome after 37 years. It also proved to be the perfect occasion for his first-ever live album. |
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What could a recording artist who has sold millions of albums, performed for sellout crowds and racked up hit after hit possibly have left to prove? For Clay Walker, the answer is nothing. And everything. Interesting, then, that a singer and songwriter who has been one of country’s most consistent hit-makers over the last decade is preparing for the most important release of his career. Could it be because the Texan finds himself working with a new record company after the abrupt closure of his previous label? Or is it the deepening maturity of a young man (33) who has experienced enough of life to realize who he is…but how much he still doesn’t understand? |
Reba McEntire never wanted to take four years between albums. But along the way she encountered a couple of diversions - including garnering commanding reviews for her starring role in the hit Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun and launching her successful new TV series, Reba. As much as she missed recording and singing, her absence allowed her a chance to recharge her musical batteries. Now she's ready to return to her first love with a renewed perspective and a stronger-than-ever commitment. In doing so, she's turned Room To Breathe into a celebration of the sum of her strengths, creating a stunningly emotional, wide-ranging album that underscores why she's the most remarkable and accomplished female country singer of her generation. |
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"I'll never be anybody's hero |
“This is worse than any drug,” Montgomery concludes. “You can give up a woman or
partyin’ or whatever, but that scratch to make music. It gets in your veins –
and it ain’t coming out. And the more you do it, the more you connect with the
people, with the friends we’ve made through these songs, well, the deeper the
addiction gets. |
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The members of Lonestar have no idea how many awards they have been given. At some point along the way each has lost count, which is an indication of how much Lonestar has achieved in seven years, or just what they have come to mean to American music and culture. The members of Lonestar say they feel fortunate and blessed to have received the many accolades, but they are more passionate about making music than they are about being recognized for it. |
In the bleakest part of the winter of 1989, there was something fresh on the radio airwaves, a song called "A Better Man" that looked at a failed relationship through optimistic eyes. That summer, "Killin' Time" was a darker vision, a lyric loaded with metaphor and levels of meaning that took you to the scary edge of alcohol abuse. They were the opening salvos of an extraordinary career and the introduction to a troubadour so prolific he would fill six complete albums with original songs in as many years to come. |
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Lane Brody has the voice,
visage and spirit of an angel and a natural gift for singing and performing.
Through a career that has defied easy classification she has consistently
succeeded at the highest levels in a variety of contexts, from country to pop to
jazz. |
The title track from Byrd’s third album on RCA (his ninth overall, beginning with his self-titled MCA debut in 1993) is a hit already. Men and women alike have been singing along with the anthem to gender differences when Tracy performs it live. Andy Griggs, Blake Shelton and Montgomery Gentry join him on the hit record. But there’s more fun where that one comes from. Tracy points to “Drinking Bone,” “How’d I Wind Up in Jamaica,” “Baby Put Your Clothes On,” and a rollicking, live version of “Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo,” captured in El Paso, as evidence that he’s back in the good-time niche his fans love best. |
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Danni Leigh's new album, Divide And Conquer, is her third release on her third
label. That's quite a track record for a new artist. Decca Records, her initial
label, folded in the midst of her album 29 Nights hitting the street. Her second
release on Monument Records, A Shot Of Whiskey And A Prayer was not going to be
released at all, but due to fan demand, the album eked out in February of 2001.
Now comes her new project, produced by Pete Anderson and judging from all who
have heard it, will be named her album "most likely to succeed." |
Born Hubert Neal McGaughey, Jr. When he first got his record deal, Neal changed the spelling to McGoy, and then to McCoy. McCoy got his start as an opening act for Charley Pride, soon earning his own slot on the show. "Charley was so good onstage, making people feel relaxed, " McCoy recalls. "And offstage, he was still the same guy, very approachable. I tried to learn that from him." Entertainer of the Year, 1998 & 1999 TNN/Music City News Country Awards. Video of the Year "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye," 1997 TNN/Music City News County Awards. |
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Like the title of
Trick Pony’s sophomore Warner Bros. release says, country music’s best-selling
new group of 2001 is On A Mission. It’s a simple one, really: to play
music—their kind of music—and have fun doing it. It just so happens that in
fulfilling that hedonistic goal, they’re breaking down taboos about what you can
and can’t sing about in country music, thumbing their noses at the current
gender double standards. And they are, it seems, country’s happiest
honky-tonkers. |
"When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me," says Travis Tritt with a laugh. "And really, I feel that that's pretty much what I was put here on earth to do. It's like Chet Atkins used to say when he talked about musicians and their instruments, that when they're not holding their instruments, they feel like a part of them's missing. There's a black hole there somewhere that can only be filled by that. And it's the same way for performing, and for writing, and all the creative process. When you're not making music and you're a musician, you really, really miss it." |
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There was a moment when Chely Wright knew for certain that Never Love You Enough was everything it could be, that it was ready for release to her expectant fans and to a wider country audience waiting to see how she would follow up her breakthrough smash, "Single White Female. "Months earlier, with ten songs already completed, she had decided to keep working, following an ever-more-demanding internal barometer honed over a lifetime of music making. "I just wanted to make sure it was right," she says. So, in addition to the groundwork she had laid with producers Tony Brown and Buddy Cannon, she recorded some sides with friend and co-writer Brad Paisley, and with producers Paul Worley and Dann Huff, to be sure she had fully explored her own artistic possibilities. |
For a guy who doesn't care much about the idea of "stardom," Blake Shelton has made quite a name for himself during the past couple of years. Awards from Billboard, Country Weekly and Music Row magazines, a No. 1 smash single, a chart-topping video and a Gold record all ensued from his astonishing album debut. But for Blake Shelton, those are just happy accompaniments to his main mission, making country music that matters. 'I'm not about some image or standing for some issue and pounding my fist on the table,' says the handsome hit maker. 'It's not about being a celebrity. All I'm about is good songs. All I want to be known as is a guy who sings for the people. I want to be remembered for singing songs that you couldn't forget.' |
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Erin was born and raised in Southern California. Born to Edward (who sadly passed away from Cancer when Erin was only six years old) and Patricia Hay on November 25, 1970, she has always been a performer and has always loved music. In fact, if you listen to her mom, she'll tell you Erin "sang" her first song at 3 months old. She was exposed to all kinds of music growing up, from her mother's Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney and Judy Garland albums to her two older brothers (Joe and Ken) playing Rock and Roll to her Dad's favorite, Marty Robbins. But at age seven, when Erin heard Dolly Parton sing for the first time, her love and admiration for traditional Country Music began to grow. She discovered Loretta Lynn after the film Coal Miner's Daughter came out and soon after discovered Tammy Wynette. |
ERICA BROOKE is a young and refreshing new performer in the music industry and
has a very energetic appeal to both country and pop audience. Her love of music
began at a very early age. When she was six, she sang in her dad's gospel group,
The New Hope Gospel Quartet, and also joined in her church’s youth choir. With
her continued determination in the music industry, at age 14, she recorded her
first CD, Jealous. She received rave reviews from many music magazine critics
and had international radio play of her songs. |
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