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George Jones was born on 12 September 1931 in Saratoga, Texas, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for Ad Astra (2019), Only the Brave (2017) and Crazy Heart (2009). He was married to Nancy Sepulveda, Tammy Wynette, Shirley Ann Corley and Dorothy Bonvillion. He died on 26 April 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.(1931-2013, Texas)
By most accounts, George Jones was the finest vocalist in the recorded history of country music. Initially, he was a hardcore honky tonker in the tradition of Hank Williams, but over the course of his career he developed an affecting, nuanced ballad style. In the course of his career, he never left the top of the country charts, even as he suffered innumerable personal and professional difficulties.
George Jones, the man with the heartbreak and the tear in his voice, is considered the greatest country singer of all time and has been a beacon of inspiration to singers of several generations, beginning from singers from his own era through every single trend since then.
Best Songs:
1 - Just One More
2 - She Thinks I Still Care
3 - You Win Again
4 - Sometimes You Just Can't Win
5 - Big Fool Of The Year
6 - My Tears Are Overdue
7 - Least Of All
8 - She Once Lived Here
9 - World's Worst Loser
10 - Heartaches By The Number
11 - Wedding Bells
12 - There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
13 - Yes, I Know Why
14 - Things Have Gone To Pieces
15 - My Favorite Lies
16 - The Lonely Know My Secret
17 - Once A Day
18 - Walk Through This World With Me
19 - When My Heart Hurts No More
20 - He Stopped Loving Her Today- Actor
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Ray Price was born on 12 January 1926 in Perryville, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Guilt Trip (2012), Star Trek: Enterprise (2001) and A Man of No Importance (1994). He was married to Janie Mae and Betty Berthena Greb (Linda Powers). He died on 16 December 2013 in Mount Pleasant, Texas, USA.(1926, Texas)
Ray Price has covered -- and kicked up -- as much musical turf as any country singer of the postwar era. He's been lionized as the man who saved hard country when Nashville went pop, and vilified as the man who went pop when hard country was starting to call its own name with pride. Actually, he was -- and still is -- no more than a musically ambitious singer, always looking for the next challenge for a voice that could bring down roadhouse walls.
Ray Price has left an indelible mark on country music. He redefined the honky tonk sound and gave it a new beat. Price always followed his own instincts, fearlessly bucking trends, sticking with hard country at the dawn of rock'n'roll and later making a successful (if controversial) U-turn into smooth country pop.
Best Songs:
1 - Crazy Arms
2 - You Done Me Wrong
3 - I've Got A New Heartache
4 - My Shoes Keep Walking
5 - Back To You
5 - Invitation To The Blues
6 - The Same Ole Me
7 - One More Time
8 - I Wish I Could Fall In Love Today
9 - Heart Over Mind
10 - I've Just Destroyed The World I'm Living In
11 - Walk Me To The Door
12 - Burning Memories
13 - It Should Be Easier Now
14 - A Way To Survive
15 - I'm Still Not Over You
16 - I Let My Mind Wander
17 - For The Good Times
18 - I Won't Mention It Again
19 - I'd Rather Be Sorry
20 - You Took Her Off My Hands- Actor
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Buck Owens is a true legend in country music. Along with fellow performers Merle Haggard and Wynn Stewart, Buck helped popularize the Bakersfield Sound, or honky-tonk infused with electric instrumentation and rock influences. Growing up in Arizona, Buck picked cotton and learned to play the mandolin, the guitar and horns. He had his first radio program at age 16 and a year later, worked with the Mac's Skillet Lickers, whose lead singer was Bonnie Campbell. Bonnie soon became the first Mrs. Buck Owens; together, they had a son, Buddy. Buck and his young family moved to Bakersfield, California, in the early 1950s, where he worked as a session guitarist and played for a band called the Orange Blossom Playboys. After a few years of recording rockabilly songs (as "Corky Jones"), Buck signed a contract with Capitol Records in 1957. His first recordings floundered, and it wasn't until the spring of 1959 when he hit with "Second Fiddle." That song only reached No. 24 on Billboard magazine's country singles chart, but it was the follow-up, "Under Your Spell Again" (which reached No. 4 in the fall of 1959) that Buck's future in country music was assured--and was it ever. After several top-five songs that flirted with the No. 1 spot (among them, "Above and Beyond," "Under the Influence of Love" and "Foolin' Around"), he finally hit the top of the charts in June 1963 with "Act Naturally." That song's four-week stay at No. 1 paled in comparison, though, to his incredible 16-week stay that fall with "Love's Gonna Live Here." Eighteen more No. 1 hits, all in the Bakersfield tradition, followed during the next nine years. Many of them featured Buck's chief guitarist, right-hand man and close confidant, Don Rich. Together, Owens and Rich (the leader of Buck's backing band, the Buckaroos) polished their sound, which graced AM radio throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Buck parlayed his popularity on two country music TV shows: the syndicated "Buck Owens Ranch Show" and CBS' (and later syndicated) Hee Haw (1969). Through it all, he was an astute businessman, keeping control of his publishing rights and master tapes, purchasing several radio stations and forming a booking agency among them. He also recorded a live album in 1969 in London. Then, in 1974, Rich was killed in a motorcycle accident and Buck's life faltered. He recorded for Warner Bros. for a time in the mid- to late-1970s, but only one song, 1979's "Play Together Again, Again" (a duet with Emmylou Harris) was a substantial hit. Then, in 1988, he found renewed popularity when new country star Dwight Yoakam (whose own Bakersfield Sound was strongly influenced by Owens) asked him to duet on "Streets of Bakersfield," which soared to No. 1. He still performs occasional shows at his Crystal Palace, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996. Buck Owens remains one of country music's most respected (if not underrated) legends.(1929-2006, Texas)
Buck Owens, along with Merle Haggard, was the leader of the Bakersfield sound, a twangy, electricified, rock-influenced interpretation of hardcore honky tonk that emerged in the '60s and provided an edgy alternative to the string-laden country-pop that was being produced during the '60s. Bakersfield was the music that Nashville forgot. It came where the beer halls of Texas and Oklahoma migrant workers. In the vast melting pot of southern California these migrants kept their music alive as a statement about their roots. And this was the music of Buck Owens. He kept country music's honky tonk roots alive when Nashville saw them as an embarrassing throwback. But the raw hillbilly feel of his music successfully competed with the string-laden "countrypolitan" so popular in the hands of Eddy Arnold, Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves
Best Songs:
1 - Act Naturally
2 - Under Your Spell Again
3 - Foolin' Around
4 - My Heart Skinps A Beat
5 - Together Again
6 - Close Up The Honky Tonks
7 - I've Got A Tiger By The Tail
8 - Crin' Time
9 - Before You Go
10 - Only You Can Break My Heart
11 - Excuse Me (I Think I've Got A Heartache)
12 - Second Fiddle
13 - Don't Let Her Know
14 - Hello Trouble
15 - Mirror, Mirror On The Wall
16 - Heartaches For A Dime
17 - Lyin' Again
18 - A-11
19 - Back Street Affair
20 - The Band Keeps Playin' On- Music Artist
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He is known for many styles of music - pure honky-tonk, rockabilly, gospel, straight-ahead pop, blues and Hawaiian. But fans remember Marty Robbins best for his cowboy songs. Songs like "Big Iron", "Running Gun", "The Hanging Tree" and of course "El Paso" established Robbins as the master of the style of country music.
He and twin sister Mamie were born near Glendale, Ariz. As a child, Robbins (born Martin David Robinson) was fascinated with El Paso, Texas since childhood - both the name and the city itself. Marty's parents divorced when he was 12 and his mother moved the family to Phoenix. Robbins joined the Navy in 1943, where he learned to play guitar and began singing and songwriting during the three-year stint. After his discharge, he returned to Phoenix and held down a series of jobs. Eventually, he began singing in nightclubs, filling in one night as guitarist for a friend's band. Quite often, he performed under the pseudonym Jack Robinson (because his mother objected to his performing in nightclubs and he didn't want her to find out).
By 1950, he was performing regularly on Mesa, Ariz., station KTYL, and starred in the local TV series "Western Caravan" on KPHO in Phoenix. One night, country singer Little Jimmy Dickens appeared on the show and was so impressed with Robbins that he urged his record label, Columbia Records, to sign the young star. Robbins' first song, "Love Me or Leave Me Alone", was recorded in 1951. Although the song failed to chart on any of Billboard magazine's country singles chart (the magazine had separate sales, radio airplay and jukebox to monitor the performance of country songs at the time), Robbins was on his way to country stardom; one of the follow-up singles, "I'll Go On Alone", went No. 1 in early 1953. Robbins became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in February 1953.
A steady string of hits followed, ranging in styles from rockabilly ("That's All Right" and "Singing the Blues"), teenage love songs ("A White Sport Coat (and a Pink Carnation)") and of course, cowboy songs. He had already appeared in several B-westerns and had scored a country hit with "The Hanging Tree" (the title track to the movie starring Gary Cooper) when, in 1959, he began writing and recording songs for his legendary album "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs"). The all-time classic from the album of songs was "El Paso", the story of a gunfighter who dies after being shot at the end of the song. The song went No. 1 on Billboard magazine's country singles chart in December 1959, where it spent seven weeks; it also became his only No. 1 Hot 100 hit and became the first country song to win a Grammy. At just over 4:40, radio programmers were reluctant to play such a long song (most songs were half as long), but demand won out, and it soon became one of country music's all-time most popular songs on fan surveys. His 1976 No. 1 hit, "El Paso City", revisited the gunfighter's legend.
During the 1960s and 1970s, his career continued, with a second Grammy coming in 1970 with his No. 1 ode to his wife, Marizona, "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife." He also dabbled in television ("Marty Robbins' Spotlight") and stock car racing. He left Columbia Records in 1972 to begin a three-year stint at Decca (later MCA) Records; though he had some success there, he returned to Columbia in late 1975.
During his 31-year recording career, Robbins had 94 songs make Billboard's country charts, with 16 going to No. 1; 31 of his songs also placed on the Hot 100. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1982, just two months before suffering his third heart attack (he had also suffered heart attacks in 1969 and 1981). He underwent a quadruple bypass at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., but died Dec. 8, 1982. His only posthumous country hit came in 1983, when he scored a No. 10 hit with "Honkytonk Man", the title track to Clint Eastwood's film. While cowboy and western songs were his trademark, it was Robbins' style, grace and dignity, plus his on-stage ability to communicate with his audience and understated sense of humor that made him one of country music's most beloved performers.(1925-1982, Arizona)
No artist in the history of country music has had a more stylistically diverse career than Marty Robbins. Never content to remain just a country singer, Robbins performed successfully in a dazzling array of styles during more than 30 years in the business. Although his earliest recordings were unremarkable weepers, by the mid-'50s Robbins was making forays into rock music. By the late '50s, he had pop hits of his own with teen fare. In 1959, he stretched even further with the hit single "El Paso," thus heralding a pattern of "gunfighter ballads" that lasted the balance of his career. Robbins also left a legacy of gospel music and a string of sentimental ballads, showing that he would croon with nary a touch of hillbilly twang.
His ability to make each genre his own was nothing short of phenomenal. Voice and lyric seamlessly melded on his records. His musical and personal integrity were admired throughout the industry.
Best Songs:
1 - Tomorrow You'll Be Gone
2 - I'll Go On Alone
3 - I Couldn't Keep From Cryin'
4 - I Never Let You Cross My Mind
5 - Mister Teardrop
6 - The Story Of My Life
7 - Just Married
8 - El Paso
9 - A Little Sentimental
10 - Don't Worry
11 - Smokin' Cigarettes And Drinkin' Coffee Blues
12 - Ghost Riders In The Sky
13 - I'm Beginning To Forget You
14 - Hello Heartache
15 - Begging To You
16 - Among My Souvenirs
17 - No One Will Ever Know
18 - Sing Me Something Sentimental
19 - Do Me A Favor
20 - Count Me Out- Music Artist
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Patsy Cline was born Virginia Patterson Hensley on September 8, 1932 in Winchester, Virginia. Her brush with show business came at age four when she won a prize in an amateur tap dancing contest. By the time she entered grade school, her family was fully aware of her musical talent. On her eighth birthday, her mother presented her with a piano, on which Patsy learned more music patterns. On Sundays, she sang with the local church choir, and at age 14, was singing regularly on local radio station WINC (she got the job by walking fearlessly into the station and asking for an audition). When Patsy was 15, her parents divorced, reportedly due to her father's heavy drinking. Without her father around to pay the bills, Patsy helped her mother earn money by singing in local clubs in the evenings, and by day, was working at the local drug store, which led to her dropping out of high school a year later. In 1948, Patsy maneuvered herself backstage when 'Wally Fowler' brought his music show to her hometown. Patsy impressed Fowler with her singing, and he gave her the opportunity to audition to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. However, to her disappointment, the Opry reps said that she would not be ready for big-time country radio.
Patsy returned to Winchester and continued to sing in local clubs. She met and married Gerald Cline in 1952. That same year, she was featured in Bill Peer's Melody Playboys of Brunswick, Maryland. Peer got Patsy her first recording contract with Four Star Records in 1954. In late 1955, Patsy became a regular on the radio show "Town and Country Jamboree", a country-western program that broadcast in Washington, D.C. In 1957, Patsy finally got her big break when she appeared as a contestant on the television variety show Talent Scouts (1948), hosted by Arthur Godfrey. For her first television appearance, she selected a torch song she sang a year earlier, "Walkin' After Midnight". She won first place and became a regular on the show for the next two weeks. "Walkin' After Midnight" was released as a single and put Patsy on the top ten charts of country and pop music. However, her determined drive and ambition put a large strain her marriage and kept her away from her husband; as a result, Patsy and Gerald divorced soon after her television debut. In the late 1950s, Patsy put a hold on her career and married a second time, to Charlie Dick, and together they had two children. However, when she returned to singing, the long hours that kept her away put another strain on the marriage.
In 1960, Patsy was finally invited to join the Grand Old Opry and the following year she scored with her second single, "I Fall to Pieces". Producer Owen Bradley took advantage of Patsy's rich voice and backed her with lush string arrangements rather than the twangy sound of steel guitar, which was typical for country-western singers at the time. Anxious to be true to her roots, Patsy often expressed a desire to yodel and growl on her records, but she understood that this smoother sound was giving her career a major boost and used it during the next two years of album recordings. In March 1963, Patsy traveled from Nashville to Kansas City, where on March 5, 1963, she appeared at a benefit concert for the family of disc jockey Jack McCall, who had been killed in a traffic accident earlier that year. Immediately after her performance, she boarded a small plane back to Nashville along with country-western performers Cowboy Copas, Harold Hawkshaw Hawkins and pilot Randy Hughes. Approximately 85 miles west of Nashville, the plane ran into turbulence and crashed. There were no survivors. Shortly before her death, Patsy recorded the single "Sweet Dreams", which became #5 on the country charts after her untimely death at age 30 (her best-known song, "Crazy", was written by future country-western legend Willie Nelson). Ten years after her death, Patsy Cline was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the first female soloist chosen for the honor.(1932-1963, Virginia)
One of the greatest singers in the history of country music, emotive yet distant and cool, and an influence on countless female singers after her. Patsy Cline helped blaze a trail for female singers to assert themselves as an integral part of the Nashville-dominated country music industry. Cline has the most legendary aura of any female country singer.
Patsy Cline is one of an exclusive band of performers whose talents are so unique that they transcend the original genre that first made the famous to become musical icons revered worldwide. Patsy Cline's roots may well have been in country, but she was an aspiring pop artist at the time of her tragic death in 1963.
In any case, she was a very charismatic artist unaffected by the whims of fashion or the passing of time and she became closer than anyone to personify the soul of country pop. Unfortunately, an early death cut her off just after she had entered her prime, at age 30.
Best Songs:
1 - Sweet Dreams
2 - Walking After Midnight
3 - Crazy
4 - I Fall To Pieces
5 - He Called Me Baby
6 - She's Got You
7 - When You Need A Laugh
8 - Heartaches
9 - So Wrong
10 - Strange
11 - Leavin' On Your Mind
12 - Why Can't He Be You
13 - You're Stronger Than Me
14 - I Can't Help It
15 - I Love You So Much It Hurts
16 - Anytime
17 - Lonely Street
18 - Your Cheatin' Heart
19 - Three Cigarettes In An Astray
20 - A Church, A Courtroom And Then Goodbye- Soundtrack
Lefty Frizzell was born on 31 March 1928 in Corsicana, Texas, USA. He was married to Alice Harper. He died on 19 July 1975 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.(1928-1975, Texas)
Lefty Frizzell was the definitive honky tonk singer, the vocalist that set the style for generations of vocalists that followed him. Frizzell smoothed out the rough edges of honky tonk by singing longer, flowing phrases -- essentially, he made honky tonk more acceptable for the mainstream without losing its gritty, bar-room roots. In the process, he changed the way country vocalists sang forever. From George Jones, Merle Haggard, and Willie Nelson to George Strait, Randy Travis, and Keith Whitley, hundreds of artists have emulated and expanded Lefty's innovations. Frizzell's singing became the foundation of how hard country should be sung
Best Songs:
1 - I'm Not The Man I'm Supposed To Be
2 - Just Passin' Through
3 - Don't Let Her See Me Cry
4 - A Few Steps Away
5 - How Far Down Can I Go
6 - You Don't Want Me To Get Well
7 - Heart Don't Love Her Any More
8 - Everything Keeps Coming Back (But You)
9 - Preparations To Be Blue
10 - You Don't Have To Be Present To Win
11 - There In The Mirror
12 - I Must Be Gettin' Over You
13 - If She Just Helps Me Get Over You
14 - Running Into memories Of You
15 - A Song From A Lonely Heart
16 - I Feel Sorry For Me
17 - The Long Black Veil
18 - If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time
19 - Look What Thoughts Will Do
20 - I Love You A Thousand Ways- Music Department
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Bill Walker was born on 28 May 1937 in New South Wales, Australia. He was a composer, known for Kimberley Jim (1963), Going Home (1971) and Little Laura and Big John (1973). He was married to Jeanine Ogletree. He died on 26 May 2022 in the USA.(1929-2006, Texas)
A native of west Texas who was active on The Grand Ole Opry, Billy Walker emerged from the talent-rich Dallas scene of the late '40s and early '50s. After a brief stint on Capitol, he was signed to Columbia in 1951 at almost exactly the same time as Ray Price. For a while, Walker, Price, and Lefty Frizzell were all recording at the legendary Jim Beck studio in Dallas, which did for '50s honky tonk what Sun Studio in Memphis did for rockabilly. Nevertheless, Walker enjoyed his greatest success ten years later in Nashville, where the studio sound was perhaps more suited to his smooth tenor voice.
Best Songs:
1 - The Storm Within My Heart
2 - Circumstances
3 - I've Got A New Heartache
4 - Down To My Last Cigarette
5 - Heart Be Careful
6 - I Care No More
7 - These Arms Of Mine
8 - On My Mind Again
9 - Mr Heartache
10 - Charlie's Shoes
11 - Ancient History
12 - Give Back My Heart
13 - The Image Of Me
14 - Pretend You Don't See Me
15 - I Know I'm Lying
16 - Especially For Fools
17 - You Can Talk Me Out Of Anyting (But You)
18 - Thow Me Out
19 - Yes, I've Made It
20 - Just Call Me Lonesome- Actress
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Widely regarded as one of country music's finest female vocalists, Connie Smith had a blockbuster smash right off the bat with her first record release in 1964, "Once A Day", a song that remained at number one on the charts for several months. Virtually every other record Smith released for the next decade was a top ten smash for her and she also racked up numerous Grammy award nominations. Smith remained one of country's top female stars into the late 1970's when she decided to step back a bit from the limelight. Her personal life has been less smooth than her career at times with three failed marriages although she has been happily married to country star Marty Stuart, seventeen years her junior, since 1997. Her powerhouse vocals thrill audiences as much as ever as she enters her seventies and moves toward 50th anniversary of career in music.(1941, Indiana)
In less than a year, Connie Smith moved from being a small-town Ohio housewife to country stardom with a number one single to her credit. Perhaps overly compared to and identified with Patsy Cline, Smith is still considered by many to be one of the best and most underrated vocalists in country history. Her lonely desperation came straight from the heart; also, her father was abusive when she was a child, causing Smith to suffer a mental breakdown while she was in her teens.
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Jessie Keith Whitley was born July 1, 1955, in Sandy Hook, Kentucky. Learning to play guitar at age 6, he appeared on Buddy Starcher's regional TV show at age 8 and formed a bluegrass band with his friend Ricky Skaggs a few years later. When they were 15, Skaggs and Whitley were asked to play a local show when Ralph Stanley's entourage was running late. When Stanley heard them, he hired them for his band. They stayed for two summers until Whitley went to work for Carl Jackson in 1972. By 1974, he was back with Stanley, this time singing lead vocals. By then, Whitley had already survived a car crash (at 120 mph) and driving a car off a cliff into a river.
In 1978 he joined J.D. Crowe and the New South but finally chased a career in country music, which had always been closer to his heart. RCA issued a single, "Turn Me to Love" in 1984 with Patty Loveless singing harmony. At that time, Whitley's excessive drinking made him unreliable, but it did give him a hardened, honky-tonk voice, and he then only needed the right song.
In 1986 he married rising star Lorrie Morgan and cracked the Top 20 for the first time with "Miami, My Amy." After three Top 10 singles ("Ten Feet Away," "Homecoming '63" and "Hard Livin'"), Whitley finally reached No. 1 in 1988 with "Don't Close Your Eyes." He continued his streak with "When You Say Nothing at All" and "I'm No Stranger to the Rain." But in the midst of his newfound success, he died from alcohol poisoning at his home on May 8, 1989.
Nevertheless, Whitley's music remained in the spotlight for several years beyond that. His next two singles reached No. 1, and a duet with Morgan peaked at No. 13 in 1990. "Brotherly Love," a duet with Earl Thomas Conley, reached No. 2 in 1991. Morgan organized Keith Whitley - A Tribute Album in 1994 which included several previously unreleased Whitley tracks. Released as an unlikely single, Alison Krauss & Union Station's version of "When You Say Nothing at All" surprisingly reached No. 3 on the country charts, introducing Krauss--and Whitley--to listeners who had only discovered country music in the early 1990s. The song has since become a wedding standard.(1954-1989, Kentucky)
The late Keith Whitley was probably the finest honky-tonk singer of country music's modern era and none have come close to matching the pathos, soul and emotion that was Whitley's very own. In his lifetime he never received the media hype of say George Strait or Garth Brooks, but quietly he made his mark as probably the New Country Movement's greatest talent. He is definitely the last of the great old-time country singers. Country music means songs with guts, heart, body and soul. And Keith's spine-tingling voice conveys every emotional nuance embedded in the lyrics.
Keith Whitley died of an alcohol overdose in 1989 at age 33. It seems like in order for singers like him to feel these kinds of songs there has to be something dark inside. Every few years there's a great singer who comes along who's going to destroy himself. He was the total package as a singer. This will be forever one of country music's greatest losses.
Best Songs:
1 - I Never Go Around Mirrors
2 - Don't Close Your Eyes
3 - I'm No Stranger To The Rain
4 - When You Say Nothing At All
5 - If A Broken Heart Could Kill
6 - I'm Over You
7 - I'm Losing You All Over Again
8 - Somewhere Between
9 - Sad Songs And Waltzes
10 - Dance With Me Molly
11 - Miami, My Amy
12 - Between An Old Memory And Me
13 - Don't Our Love Look Natural
14 - Tennessee Courage
15 - On The Other Hand
16 - Kentucky Bluebird
17 - A Hard Act To Follow
18 - Til A Tear Becomes A Rose
19 - Living Like There's No Tomorrow
20 - Talk To Me Texas- Music Artist
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Vince Gill was born on 12 April 1957 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for Maverick (1994), For Love of the Game (1999) and Borat (2006). He has been married to Amy Grant since 10 March 2000. They have one child. He was previously married to Janis Oliver.(1957, Oklahoma)
Vince Gill paid nearly a decade-and-a-half of dues en route to becoming one of the most popular country stars of the '90s. Starting out as a bluegrass singer and multi-instrumentalist, he initially made his name with country-rockers and spent the '80s as part of country's new traditionalist movement before finding massive success as a contemporary country hitmaker. Gill had strong mainstream appeal, yet enough songwriting chops and grounding in tradition that he could maintain his artistic credibility without being branded a crossover-happy hack.
Best Songs:
1 - Kindly Keep It Country
2 - If You Ever Have Forever In Mind
3 - Trying To Get Over You
4 - Take Your Memory With You
5 - Never Knew Lonely
6 - How Lonely Looks
7 - Go Rest High On That Mountain
8 - The Key To Life
9 - Don't Come Cryin' To Me
10 - If You Ever Leave Me
11 - Maybe Tonight
12 - All Those Years
13 - I Can't Let Go
14 - This Memory Of You
15 - He Don't Deserve You Any More
16 - Holdin' Things Together
17 - Nobody's Fool But Yours
18 - I'll Take Texas
19 - When I Call Yor Name
20 - I Still Believe In You