Tag Archives: Contemporary Country

Vocalist/bassist Doug Phelps and singer/guitarist Ricky Lee Phelps initial started performing jointly in their young adults, understanding how to harmonize just like the Everly Brothers. After departing the Kentucky Headhunters in 1992, they shaped their own task, Sibling Phelps, which unlike appearances was in fact their minister father’s nickname. They …

The undisputed kings from the ’90s line-dancing craze, Brooks & Dunn aren’t only the biggest-selling duo in country music history, they’ve also sold more records than some other duo period, including Simon & Garfunkel. Ronnie Dunn was the silently intense singer using the soulful tone of voice, while Kix Brooks …

Nation singer Ashley Monroe had been a seasoned display business veteran when she released her self-titled recording in 2007 in the sensitive age group of 19. Given birth to in Knoxville, Tennessee, Monroe grew up in a family group with an excellent love for nation music — she’s kin to …

Albert Lee occupies an unusual market in music — Uk by delivery and upbringing, he spent the mid-’60s seeing that a high R&B guitarist, however in the 1970s became among the best rockabilly guitarists on earth, no slouch in nation music either. In Britain he’s a been home name, and …

Americana vocalist/songwriter Tom Russell was created in LA in 1950. Elevated within the cowboy music from the American Western, he was raised to be always a talented songwriter, and started issuing albums under his personal name in the first ’70s. Russell’s materials, nevertheless, was also documented by such luminaries as …

Brady Seals, the cousin of Jim Seals (of Seals & Crofts) and Dan Seals (of Britain Dan & John Ford Coley) as well as the nephew of Nashville legend Troy Seals, was obviously raised within a music home. He started playing piano and composing songs at age nine, and was …

Traditional western golf swing great Tom “Wolf” Morrell has been around the business of earning music for longer than a lot of today’s warm new famous actors of country have already been alive. Others might discuss country music background, but he was there in the center of a lot from …

Toby Keith spent the ’90s as a good, workmanlike country star who met with significant chart success, yet never quite broke free from the neo-traditionalist pack to become home name like Garth Brooks or Alan Jackson. That transformed in 2002 when he documented “Thanks to the Crimson, Light and Blue …

Miranda Lambert defied all conventional notions of what sort of credible nation profession should proceed. Pursuing an adolescence where she alternated between performing and performing, she found prominence much less the champion but as a runner-up in the 2003 American Idol knockoff Nashville Superstar, a dubious moving rock to stardom …

Vocalist and songwriter Luke Bryan shows up by his nation affects naturally: he was raised in Leesburg, Georgia, a little town 100 kilometers through the Alabama boundary where his dad grew peanuts and sold fertilizer for a full time income. Bryan helped his family members work the plantation when he …