Ken Mellons

A citizen of Nashville because the age of three, Ken Mellons found a Music Town agreement with Epic in 1994, after many appearances in the Grand Ole Opry pass on the term about his abilities. Delivered in Kingsport, TN, on July 10, 1965, Mellons shortly moved along with his family members to Nashville, where he was raised on the typical honky tonk heroes: Merle Haggard, George Jones, and Lefty Frizzell. He performed electric guitar and sang at college talent displays, and shifted to the night clubs after high-school graduation. Impressed by one functionality, the general supervisor from the Grand Ole Opry asked Mellons to produce a visitor appearance. He was asked back many times — actually, his Opry home lasted from 1989 to 1992. Some kids his age group were learning in university, Mellons was honing his build alongside future nation superstars like Chely Wright and Lonestar’s Dean Sams. After slugging it from the Opry’s Nation Music USA present, Mellons caught the interest of impresarios Hal Durham and Bud Wendall, who bumped him up to Friday night place on the Opry. Manufacturer Jerry Cupit had taken see, and a cope with Epic was proffered in 1993. Mellons’ self-titled debut record was released twelve months later; the solo “Jukebox Junkie” was popular and continued to get airplay for all of those other decade. Mellons adopted up his debut’s achievement in 1995 with Where Forever Starts. He was wedded that same 12 months and also relocated from EMI to Curb, where he released the confusingly entitled Greatest of Ken Mellons in 2001. The record was in fact made up of most new material, but also for a “dance remix” of “Jukebox Junkie.” In early 2003, Mellons released the successful solitary “Mr. DJ,” but parted methods along with his Curb before an recording could possibly be released. Mellons wasn’t in label limbo for lengthy though. In 2004 he released Nice on the house label, which presented the solitary “Color Me a Birmingham.”