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Brooks and Dunn
The inspiration for the title of Brooks & Dunn�s new album, Tight Rope, came from the rodeo, not the circus. �To a cowboy, a �tight rope� is real tension,� Kix Brooks explains. �It�s a dangerous kind of thing when horses get on either side of a steer and somebody�s fixin� to get his hand tore off!� �But really,� Ronnie Dunn says, ��tight rope� has lots of meanings.� �Right,� Brooks agrees.
Taken literally, �tight rope� could evoke the image of two exciting performers attempting a dangerous high wire crossing together as the crowd below holds its collective breath. Taken figuratively, �tight rope� could make us think of artists taking a bold chance and ultimately finding beauty and balance. Did Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn have all these images in mind when they named their new record? Maybe. But mostly, we suspect, it was a cowboy thing.
Charlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels has been making music for more than twenty years, sticking to one rule and one rule only. If it sounds good, he plays it.
He�s mastered rock and roll, bluegrass and jazz, swirled them all together and created his own unique sound. He�s the Big Daddy of Southern Country Rock; a musical pioneer whose influence on country music remains strong decades after he first came on the scene. He�s won Country Music Association and Grammy Awards throughout his long career. Gold and platinum records line the walls of his den at home. The list of accomplishments go on and on and while music historians will certainly provide a detailed analysis of Daniels� work, the artist himself offers this simple assessment of his career. "Basically I�m an entertainer," he says. "I want my music to entertain people."
Clay Walker
Clay Walker is a young man with an old-hand's savvy about what's important in life. This rare combination of exuberance and wisdom propelled his first two albums to platinum-plus levels and is the power at the core of his third Giant Records collection, Hypnotize The Moon. Produced by James Stroud - as were its predecessors, Clay Walker (1993) and If I Could Make a Living (1994) - Hypnotize The Moon boasts four of Walker's own compositions as well as a brand new one by singer/songwriter Steve Wariner.
Clay Walker's national romance with millions of fans was love at first sight. Now, five years and four albums later, it is clear that the brown-eyed, handsome Texan and his fans have made a commitment to each other. Clay Walker's Greatest Hits, his fifth album for Giant Records, is the celebratory symbol of that commitment.
Diamond Rio
Seven years ago they were just faces in the crowd -- six guys who'd wandered into Nashville with big dreams like thousands of others. Today, those six guys now make up Diamond Rio and they have so many hits they can hardly squeeze them all into one show.
They won't all fit on a single Greatest Hits package either. But some of them will; and that's the album that you hold in your hand. Here are nine tunes that raised the bar for country musicians everywhere, two that send a bolt of new electricity through the band and a sentimental favorite that has been pleasing the act's audiences for years.
Hank Williams Jr.
Quick Facts
Birthplace: Shreveport, LA
Residence: Paris, TN & Victor, MT
Interests/Hobbies: Fishing, hunting, gun collecting
Favorite Food: Italian, Japanese, home cookin�
Instruments Played: Guitar, banjo, piano, keyboards, harmonica, fiddle, drums
First Public Appearance: Grand Ole Opry 1960
Promotions/Endorsements: ABC Monday Night Football
Career Achievements: 5 Entertainer of the Year Awards
4 Emmys
10 #1 Singles
13 #1 Albums
20 Gold Albums
6 Platinum
Joe Diffie
How do you follow a Greatest Hits album and nine No. 1 hits? If you're Joe Diffie, you simply record ten more potential chart toppers.
Diffie has earned a sterling reputation as a singer's singer, a master song craftsman who can deliver great-country lyrics. One of the most liked and respected figures in the country music industry, he has repeatedly demonstrated his prowess on the charts as one of the most consistent hit makers of the '90's. Three Gold albums, two Platinum and one Double Platinum plaque hang on his wall.
Jo De Messina
Passionate about her music and tired of trying to support herself by competing in talent contests, Jo Dee Messina decided to take a chance. When introduced to an executive from Curb Records at Fan Fair a few years ago she jokingly said, "What you guys really need over there is a redhead." Just as he was about to reply, another Nashville icon, producer James Stroud walked up and began to explain how he had just listened to Jo Dee's demo tape and thought she was a promising new talent. The timing could not have been more perfect. As fate would have it, that same executive later signed her to the Curb Recording contract that results in her current self-titled debut, co-produced by Tim McGraw and Byron Gallimore. This album reflects the charisma, enthusiasm and commitment that Jo Dee Messina projects. It chronicles the tales of a young woman in search of freedom, passion, love and adventure.
Bryan White
Bryan White is inspiring proof that nice guys do finish first. Country music's newest and youngest star has an open honesty, genuine innocence and a purity of spirit that have made him one of the most appealing personalities in his field. And his heartfelt sound simply can't be denied.
Armed with little more than determination, talent and optimism, White rose from obscurity to gold record status with the release of his self-titled debut album last year. His songs took him step by step to fame during one remarkable 12-month timespan--"Eugene You Genius" cracked the top 40 in late 1994; "Look At Me Now" ascended into the Top 20 at the dawn of 1995; White's performance at the Country Radio Seminar made him the talk of the industry that spring; "Someone Else's Star" hit No. 1 as summer became fall; Bryan White went gold by Christmas; and "Rebecca Lynn" became the first No.1 country hit of 1996.
The Judds
Kathy Mattea
You can never step into the same river twice because the river moves on. So said the ancient philosopher Heraclitus, and Kathy Mattea agrees. Why even try? Everything flows and life's elements are always in flux.
If Mattea's new album, Love Travels, has one consistent theme, it is to step into the river of life and let it carry you where it will. The risks are there, but the rewards are many--growth, movement, hope, grace, and the thrill of reaching for the highest star. It was advice that Mattea herself decided to follow during the making of this latest leg on her ever-evolving musical journey. While her last album, the gold-selling Walking Away A Winner, demonstrated a commercial sensibility, Mattea decided to take a risk and follow her intuitions. Consequently, the resulting album was shot straight from the heart.
Kenny Chesney
Everywhere We Go
It�s time.
It�s time for Kenny Chesney to be taken seriously. It�s time for people to realize that he�s not just some new singer who strolled into town yesterday. He�s a bonafide star � and Kenny Chesney is here with his fifth album, Everywhere We Go, to prove it.
"The first 3 albums that I did, I really think I was just a part of a bunch of guys out there making records," muses the 30 year old East Tennessee native. "Don�t get me wrong, I�m very proud of those records. They were good for me not only because of where I was at that time in my career, but they have ultimately brought me to the point where I am now. Looking back though, I don�t necessarily think I had defined my own sound. But with time and consistency, slowly but surely, I�ve been able to separate myself from that bunch and build a career as opposed to just having some songs out there that do well and that�s it."
Kenny Rogers
"I think success is not a reason to quit," says Kenny Rogers, "I happen to love what I'm doing."
Is it any wonder then, that after a quarter of a century of dominating American music, Kenny Rogers is still working very hard to continue that domination into the next millennium? The multi-talented superstar has achieved the amazing distinction of selling over 100 million units (including albums, singles) worldwide. His track record thus far makes for one formidable resume: three Grammy's, eleven People's Choice Awards and eight Academy of Country Music Awards; nine platinum albums (six are multi-platinum), one platinum single and enough gold albums and singles to stock Fort Knox. Kenny has received Top Country Artist nods from the reader polls of magazines like People and Rolling Stone; and even the title of "Favorite Singer of All Time," earned in a "PM Magazine"/USA Today poll in 1986. In 1989, readers of People Magazine voted Kenny "Favorite Male Vocalist." He was also named "Top Adult Contemporary Artist" of the 80's by Radio and Records and "Decades Hottest Cross over Star" by Billboard Magazine. He was also honored as a "Jukebox Legend" by the American Jukebox Association at their awards show in New Orleans.
Lori Morgan
She sings of tears and dreams, of heartbreaks and hope never defeated. She knows all about fame, beauty, life and their oppositions.
Lorrie Morgan's to get to you - GREATEST HITS COLLECTION on BNA Records, is no sentimental journey. To profess an understanding of emotions that one has never experienced would be acting. But when Lorrie sings, she gives shape to a truth that can only be brought to life through circumstance.
Martina McBride
Martina McBride has always been known for her incendiary delivery and impeccable sense of song. With Emotion, her 5th album for RCA Nashville, the slim keg of vocal dynamite raises the artistic stakes by creating her most diverse and challenging work ever.
Emotion, again co-produced by McBride and longtime collaborator Paul Worley, certainly ups the ante with a collection of songs that maintains McBride's strong woman take on modern living, but it's tempered with a newfound intimacy. McBride has forged a collection of songs that explore smaller relationships in deeper terms. This is an album about what people feel, and it starts with the most important connection of all: one-on-one.
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