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Post by tim on Apr 4, 2014 0:04:46 GMT -5
^Sorry for your loss as well. There's a handful of songs I pull out yearly and the above is one of them.
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 4, 2014 14:35:04 GMT -5
Random Single Of The Day:
Artist: Eli Young Band Single: "Radio Waves" Writers: James Young, Blu Sanders Album: Jet Black And Jealous Label: Republic/Universal South Producer: Erik Herbst, Mike Wrucke Year Released: June 29th, 2009 Mediabase Peak: #35 Billboard Peak: #35
"Radio Waves" was the third single released from Eli Young Band's first major label studio album Jet Black And Jealous. The song was written by James Young and Blu Sanders. Sanders also wrote track #8, "Get In The Car And Drive". The song was released on the heels of the groups first top 10 single "Always The Love Songs" (#11 on Billboard). Though "Radio Waves" hit a wall once it reached the 30's and quickly failed to regain it's bullet once it lost it in early October of 2009. The albums final single was "Guinevere", though that failed to due much on the singles chart, peaking at #45. Eli Young Band would take most of 2010 off the charts, before releasing "Crazy Girl" in early 2011. The song would go on to be their first #1, and also be deemed by Billboard as the year's biggest song. Since then Eli Young Band has had two more #1's with "Even If It Breaks Your Heart", and "Drunk Last Night".
The only single thus far I wasn't crazy about from EYB is "Say Goodnight". Mainly because I thought there were about a half dozen better single choices from Life At Best. "Radio Waves" is in my top 3 from them though ("Crazy Girl" and "When It Rains" being the others). "Guinevere" was also excellent. I'm baffled how relatively quickly "Radio Waves" floundered on the charts. Once it lost it's bullet, which wasn't a huge loss, it was gone from Mediabase two weeks later. Here were the songs #31-#50 on Mediabase the week it had it's final peak appearance.
Week Ending: 10/16/2009
31. Jason Aldean - The Truth 32. Billy Currington - That's How Country Boys Roll 33. Josh Thompson - Beer On The Table 34. Easton Corbin - A Little More Country Than That 35. Eli Young Band - Radio Waves 36. Kellie Pickler - Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You 37. Lost Trailers - Country Folks (Livin' Loud) 38. Steel Magnolia - Keep On Lovin' You 39. Big Kenny - Long After I'm Gone 40. George Strait - Twang 41. Jimmy Wayne - Sara Smile 42. Phil Vassar - Everywhere I Go 43. Lee Brice - Love Like Crazy 44. Steve Azar - Moo La Moo 45. Mallary Hope - Love Lives On 46. Ash Bowers - Stuck 47. Bomshel - 19 And Crazy 48. Michelle Branch - Sooner Or Later 49. Gloriana - How Far Do You Wanna Go? 50. Blaine Larsen - It Did
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Post by Steven on Apr 4, 2014 21:17:02 GMT -5
Nothing special but I guess it's not the worst song ever. It's just another radio friendly tune.
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 5, 2014 13:46:10 GMT -5
Random Video Of The Day:
Artist: Trent Willmon Single: "Dixie Rose Deluxe's Honky-Tonk Feed Store, Gun Shop, Used Car, Beer, Bait, BBQ, Barbershop, Laundromat" Writers: Trent Willmon, Michael P. Henney Album: Trent Willmon Label: Columbia Nashville Video Director: Traci Goudi Year Released: October, 2004 Billboard Peak: #36
"Dixie Rose Deluxe's" was the second single from Trent Willmon's debut self-titled album. The album's first single "Beer Man" peaked at #30, and the album was released in October of 2004. The song is known for having one of the longest titles in modern music history. Though many refer to the song by just simply "Dixie Rose Deluxe's", which is what I'm going to do from now on through this post. The song was co-written by Michael P. Henney. Henney has written many country singles including "Love Your Love The Most", and "Drink In My Hand" by Eric Church, "God Must Be Busy" by Brooks & Dunn, "Have I Got A Deal For You" by Reba McEntire", and "Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo" by Tracy Byrd. The song had a relatively short run on the charts, as it died at #36 on Billboard. It was followed up by the great song "Home Sweet Holiday Inn" in early 2005, which was co-written by Chris Stapleton. It only managed a peak of #49. The last single was "The Good Life" (#38) which peaked that spring.
Trent has since lost his record deal with Columbia after the failure of "So Am I" (#59) on the singles chart in late 2006. He has since made two more albums. Broken In off Compadre Records, and Little 'Ol Cafe off Feed Store Records. Though he did co-write two top 5 singles since then with Montgomery Gentry's "Back When I Knew It All" (#1) in 2008, and Steel Magnolia's "Keep On Lovin' You" (#4) in 2010.
Second Trent video in this thread. One of those great song that WYRK ignored, but the video was played heavily by both CMT and GAC. Trent's another artist that I have no clue why country radio didn't fully embrace his singles. Now and days I imagine that he would have an even more difficult time finding success on radio than in 2004.
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Post by Andy on Apr 5, 2014 14:28:17 GMT -5
Nice pick, sabre14. Trent Willmon is an artist who really deserved much more commercial success than he got. I absolutely love his debut album. "Dixie Rose Deluxe" is one of those humorous songs that is irresistibly charming, and it's a blast to revisit it.
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Post by Steven on Apr 5, 2014 16:23:04 GMT -5
I've never heard of this guy before. Not a bad tune. Probably the longest song title i've ever come across!
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Apr 5, 2014 16:33:26 GMT -5
I've never heard of this guy before. Not a bad tune. Probably the longest song title i've ever come across! Well for the record this is the longest song title: "The Sad But True Story Of Ray Mingus, The Lumberjack Of Bulk Rock City, And His Never Slacking Stribe In Exploiting The So Far Undiscovered Areas Of The Intention To Bodily Intercourse From The Opposite Species Of His Kind, During Intake Of All The Mental Condition That Could Be Derived From Fermentation" - by Rednex
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Post by Steven on Apr 5, 2014 16:37:10 GMT -5
I've never heard of this guy before. Not a bad tune. Probably the longest song title i've ever come across! Well for the record this is the longest song title: "The Sad But True Story Of Ray Mingus, The Lumberjack Of Bulk Rock City, And His Never Slacking Stribe In Exploiting The So Far Undiscovered Areas Of The Intention To Bodily Intercourse From The Opposite Species Of His Kind, During Intake Of All The Mental Condition That Could Be Derived From Fermentation" - by Rednex Holy crap, now that is a long song title!
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Apr 5, 2014 21:31:40 GMT -5
I really like Trent Willmon and wish he was bigger. One of my favorite songs from him is called Surprise which was never a single, not sure it would have been a bit but I liked it. Home Sweet Holiday Inn, On Again Tonight and There Is A God are three other songs I liked that he released on top of Dixie Rose Deluxe's...
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Post by someguy on Apr 5, 2014 23:58:28 GMT -5
I really like Trent Willmon and wish he was bigger. One of my favorite songs from him is called Surprise which was never a single, not sure it would have been a bit but I liked it. Home Sweet Holiday Inn, On Again Tonight and There Is A God are three other songs I liked that he released on top of Dixie Rose Deluxe's... I liked Trent a lot, too. I have his first two albums and though I haven't listened to them in awhile, I quite liked them, and wished that the singles had done better.
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 6, 2014 13:34:15 GMT -5
Random Album Cut Of The Day:
Artist: Sugarland Song: "Fly Away" Writers: Kristian Bush, Kristen Hall, Corri English, Billy Gewin Album: Twice The Speed Of Life Label: Mercury Nashville Producer: Garth Fundis Year Released: October 26th, 2004
Twice The Speed Of Life was the debut album for at that time trio Sugarland. The album's lead single "Baby Girl" spent over 40 weeks on the singles chart peaking at #2, mainly because of "That's What I Love About Sunday" by Craig Morgan spending 5 consecutive weeks at #1 the same time. "Something More" would end up having a similar fate, peaking at #2 for three weeks in the summer of 2005, while "As Good As I Once Was" by Toby Keith having his massive run at #1 at the same time. "Just Might (Make Me Believe)" was the albums third single (#7), and "Down In Mississippi (Up To No Good)" would round out the singles in 2006 (#17).
The album's producer was Garth Fundis who was best known for his work producing the likes of Trisha Yearwood, Don Williams, and Alabama. "Fly Away" was track #7 and was helped written by American actress/singer and fellow Atlanta native Corri English. Other highlights of the album was the autumn feeling track "Hello", along with the radio love song "Tennessee". It also featured slower more sentimental type songs with "Small Town Jericho", and the album's close "Stand Back Up". Other than "Fly Away", the other song on the album that many would have liked to seen released was "Speed Of Life". The song is a energetic throw caution to the wind song, and was extremely radio friendly. At this time Twice The Speed Of Life has sold over 3 million copies.
"Fly Away" is a song I adore, and might be the most upset I've personally been that was never released as a single. To me this had #1 written all over it. I also would have liked to see "Speed Of Life" released, but rarely do you see a debut album go at least five singles deep. Sugarland would have gotten their first #1, or at least their third top 5 single easy, if this had followed "Just Might (Make Me Believe)". Twice The Seed Of Life remains among my top 5 all-time favorite albums and is definitely some of the best $11 I've ever spent.
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Post by Sean on Apr 6, 2014 13:42:53 GMT -5
Love love love love looooove "Fly Away"!!!!!! Twice The Speed Of Life is just perfect!
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Post by Andy on Apr 6, 2014 14:14:50 GMT -5
Nice one, sabre14. Twice the Speed of Life is indeed a very strong album. I've mentioned before how strong I think 2004 was for good album releases.
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Post by Steven on Apr 6, 2014 19:43:48 GMT -5
Good tune. I'm not too familiar with Sugarland besides Stay, Baby Girl and Stuck Like Glue. Stuck Like Glue was so overplayed and it really annoyed me. That's probably why I never got into them. Perhaps that will change.
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 7, 2014 14:16:47 GMT -5
Random Single Of The Day:
Artist: Craig Morgan Single: "Almost Home" Writers: Craig Morgan, Kerry Kurt Phillips Album: I Love It Label: Broken Bow Records Producer: Craig Morgan, Phil O'Donnell Year Released: November 4th, 2002 Billboard Peak: #6
Craig Morgan is a 49 year old singer/songwriter from Kingston Springs, Tennessee. Craig's first record deal was with Atlantic in 2000, and he released his self-titled album that year. The highest charting single was "Something To Write Home About" (#38). After Atlantic closed it's Nashville branch, Craig would sign with Broken Bow in 2002. After the single "God, Family, And Country" (#49), Broken Bow released the song "Almost Home" in November of 2002. The song would prove to be Craig's breakthrough single and peaked at #6. The last two singles from his I Love It album were "Every Friday Afternoon" (#25), and "Look At Us" (#27). Then in late 2004, he would release the song that he is best known for with "That's What I Love About Sunday". The song would go on to become a five week #1 single and finish as the #1 song of 2005.
It was at this time Craig would have the most success. He would go on to have six more top 5 singles from 2005 to 2009. "Redneck Yacht Club" went to #1 on Radio and Records in October of 2005. "Little Bit Of Life" would peak at #7, "Tough" would peak at #9 on Mediabase, "International Harvester" reached #10, "Love Remembers" got to "#8 on Mediabase, and finally "Bonfire" would peak at #4 in late 2009. He had a brief stint with BNA for his That's Why album, but would part ways with the label after the disappointing chart run of "Still A Little Chicken Left On That Bone" (#37). He signed with Black River Entertainment (co-owned by Sabres owner Terry Pegula) with whom he is still with in 2011. His lead for the label was the long lasting "This Ole Boy" (#13). The song was off his album of the same name. The other two issued singles were "Corn Star" (#50), and "More Trucks Than Cars" (#27). His latest single is the top 20 hit "Wake Up Lovin' You" which is off his The Journey (Livin' Hits) album.
"Almost Home" is well known for going recurrent before re-bulleting and going on to become a top 10 single. This wouldn't be the last time that Craig would have this happen to him. "More Trucks Than Cars" would also go recurrent during it's chart run, but it wouldn't last much longer, as it only reached a peak of #27. "Almost Home" is my favorite song by Craig and one of my absolute favorites from 2003. To me Craig is at his best with songs like "Almost Home", "Every Friday Afternoon", and "This Ain't Nothin'". I enjoyed some of his fun songs like "Redneck Yacht Club" and "Look At Us", heck even "International Harvester". But he really has had some duds lately with "Still A Little Chicken Left On That Bone", "Corn Star", and one of my least favorite singles from the past 5 years "Bonfire". Hopefully he can have a few more hits with Black River still. I know he's nearly 50 and is on a independent label that's still trying to gain a name for itself, but I'm optimistic that he will deliver some quality singles in the next couple years.
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Post by Andy on Apr 7, 2014 17:46:06 GMT -5
Flat-out great song. Craig Morgan is a very solid vocalist, and he's at his best when he's singing strong ballads like this one.
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Artist: Rebecca Lynn Howard Single: "That's Why I Hate Pontiacs" Writers: Brandy Clark, Liz Rose, Mark Narmore Album: Alive And Well (Unreleased) Label: Arista Nashville Year Released: January 6, 2005 Radio And Records Peak: #55 Billboard Peak: Did Not Chart (Below Top 60) I only ever knew Amanda Wilkinson's version and did not know that another existed. I love the song!
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 8, 2014 13:58:34 GMT -5
Random Single Of The Day:
Artist: Brice Long Single: "Anywhere But Here" Writers: D. Vincent Williams, Wendell Mobley Album: Brice Long Label: Columbia Nashville Year Released: November, 2005 Radio And Records Peak: #49 Billboard Peak: #51
Brice Long is a 42 year old singer/songwriter from Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Brice was mainly a songwriter, and he was soon signed to a publishing deal by Reba McEntire's entertainment company Starstruck. Long's first cut came on Gary Allan's Smoke Ring In The Dark album entitled "Sorry" with Shawn Camp, and Wynn Varble. Long had met Varble through former roommate Darryl Worley. He would then have cuts by Randy Travis and John Michael Montgomery. He actually sang background vocals on Gary Allan's single "Smoke Rings In The Dark". Brice also co-wrote "Nothing On But The Radio" and "Today" by Gary and "Anything Goes" by Randy Houser.
He signed his own record deal in 2005 with Columbia. His first single "It's Only Monday" never charted. His second single was "Anywhere But Here" which Brice actually did not write. It was co-written by D. Vincent Williams who had his won charting single in 2012 called "Down By The River. The song was later released by Chris Cagle in 2006, but Chris' didn't fare any better on the singles charts. Brice's last release was 2006's "Meat And Potato Man" which also didn't chart and he was soon dropped from Columbia's roster. Brice did get his self-titled album out digitally in April of 2006.
I thought Brice's version of "Anywhere But Here" was much better than Chris Cagle's. This goes down as one of the biggest should have been a hit songs I've ever heard. Her were the songs around "Anywhere But Here" the first official chart week in January of 2006 on Radio And Records.
Week Ending: 1/13/2006
43. Jamie O'Neal - I Love My Life 44. Tracy Lawrence - If I Don't Make It Back 45. Cross Canadian Ragweed - Fightin' For 46. Wynonna - Attitude 47. Shannon Brown - Corn Fed 48. Kenny Rogers - I Can't Unlove You 49. Jeff Bates - No Shame 50. Lonestar - I'll Die Tryin' 51. Brice Long - Anywhere But Here------ :) 52. Rodney Atkins - If You're Going Through Hell (Before The Devil Even Knows) 53. Susan Haynes - Drinkin' In My Sunday Dress 54. Carolina Rain - Let's Get It On 55. John Pierce - I'd Still Have You
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 9, 2014 14:22:16 GMT -5
Random Video Of The Day:
Artist: Miranda Lambert Single: "Bring Me Down" Writers: Miranda Lambert, Travis Howard Album: Kerosene Label: Epic Nashville Video Director: Kristine Barlowe Year Released: April, 2005 Radio And Records Peak: #26 Billboard Peak: #32
"Bring Me Down" was the second single from Miranda Lambert's debut album Kerosene on Epic Nashville. It was preceded by "Me And Charlie Talking" (#22) and followed by "Kerosene" (#12) (Both Mediabase peaks). It would take Miranda almost 4 years to achieve her first top 10 single with "Gunpowder And Lead" (#7) in 2008. It would be her late 2009/early 2010 single "White Liar" that proved to be her breakthrough song that put her into superstar status. Her three latest chart toppers are "Heart Like Mine", "Over You", and "Mama's Broken Heart" ("Mama's Broken Heart" was a mediabase only #1).
I thought this was a good song by Miranda, but not the best single choice, especially for a newcomer during the summertime. But #26 peak was pretty good I thought looking back on it. Another disproportionate peak difference between R&R and Billboard. The Billboard rule back then was for a song to fall below top 15 back then. So there were many songs hanging on in 2005 that were off already on R&R. Here were songs #21-40 on R&R the week "Bring Me Down" peaked in August of 2005.
Week Ending: 8/12/2005
21. Gary Allan - Best I Ever Had 22. Lee Ann Womack - He Oughta Know That By Now 23. Hot Apple Pie - Hillbillies 24. Jo Dee Messina - Delicious Surprise (I Believe It) 25. Neal McCoy - Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On 26. Miranda Lambert - Bring Me Down--------------------- :) 27. Phil Vassar - Good 'Ole Days 28. Shooter Jennings - 4th Of July 29. Ryan Shupe and the Rubberband - Dream Big 30. Chris Cagle - Miss Me Baby 31. Dierks Bentley - Come A Little Closer 32. Blaine Larsen - The Best Man 33. Little Big Town - Boondocks 34. Billy Currington - Must Be Doin' Something Right 35. Keith Urban - Better Life 36. Tracy Lawrence - Used To The Pain 37. Aaron Tippin - Come Friday 38. Terri Clark - She Didn't Have Time 39. George Strait - Texas 40. Catherine Britt & Elton John - Where We Both Say Goodbye
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Post by Steven on Apr 9, 2014 14:34:59 GMT -5
Nice choice, Sabre. I don't think i've heard her debut. Definitely need to get on that.
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Post by carriekins on Apr 9, 2014 15:26:03 GMT -5
You know, I don't recall EVER hearing Bring me Down on the radio (though I very clearly remember the first time I heard - and fell in love with - Me and Charlie Talking), so to see that it peaked where it did on both charts surprises me. Her debut and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend are my favorite Miranda records. Nothing so far has held a candle to them, for me.
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Post by Steven on Apr 9, 2014 16:11:11 GMT -5
You know, I don't recall EVER hearing Bring me Down on the radio (though I very clearly remember the first time I heard - and fell in love with - Me and Charlie Talking), so to see that it peaked where it did on both charts surprises me. Her debut and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend are my favorite Miranda records. Nothing so far has held a candle to them, for me. ''Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'' is a really solid album. Definitely one of my favorites from her.
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Post by McCreerian (Harris 2024!) on Apr 10, 2014 12:25:26 GMT -5
This is one of the first "Country Rap" songs released to radio. It never was a hit, but a Neal McCoy fan favorite. Personally I'll take this over today's "Country Rap" song any time!
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 10, 2014 13:39:03 GMT -5
Random Single Of The Day:Artist: The Road Hammers Single: "I Don't Know When To Quit" Writers: Ashley Gorley, Dick Simpson Album: Blood, Sweat and StealLabel: Montage Music Group Producer: Scott Baggett, Michael Knox, Jason McCoy Year Released: December, 2007 Mediabase Peak: #47 Billboard: #51 The Road Hammers are a 3 member country group that originally was a 4 member group from Canada. Their comprised of Jason McCoy (Lead Vocals), Clayton Bellamy (Vocals, Lead Guitar), and Chris Byrne (Bass Guitar, backing vocals). There was also drummer Corbett Frasz who has since left the band. Jason McCoy has been a solo artist for much of his career in Canada. The 43 year old's first single was all the way back in 1989 with "Slow This World Down". He has had numerous top 10 hits up north including "This Used To Be Our Town", "Candle", "A Little Bit Of You", "I Feel A Sin Comin' On", and "She Ain't Missin' Missin' Me". Clayton Bellamy has also made two solo records recently in Canada, and has experience in both Country and Rock music. In 2004 McCoy formed the band with Byrne and Bellamy in a effort to make trucker country style music with a southern rock influence. They signed with Open Road that year and released their debut single entitled "I'm A Road Hammer" in 2005. It was followed by the remakes of "East Bound, And Down", and "Girl On The Billboard", along with "Nashville Bound". In 2006 the group won Vocal Group of the year at the 2006 Canadian country music awards. In 2007 they re-up'd with a second season of their own reality show, but this time they moved to Nashville in pursuit of an American record deal. They signed with Montage Music Group and with their reality show filming while they went about their business, they recorded an album with Montage. "I Don't Know When To Quit" which was co-written by Ashley Gorley was pitched to McCoy and Bellamy after some writers discovered what kind of country music they would want to record. The song reached #47 on Mediabase and was off their album Blood, Sweat And Steel. Their would be two more American singles with a re-release of "Girl On The Billboard" (#54), and "I've Got The Scares To Prove It" (Did Not Chart). They left Montage in 2009. They would make one more album in 2009 before temporarily disbanding. They returned in late 2013 with new music and a new single called "Get On Down The Road". The Road Hammers music is certainly on the rockin' side of country which could go either way with me, but I personally love their music. It was cool seeing them take a shot at Nashville and did have some minor success. Some have pointed to the creative differences with McCoy and Bellamy, and that's the reason they broke up for nearly 4 years. Here was some of the chart when "I Don't Know When To Quit" had it's highest chart peak on Mediabase. BTW: Never mind who's on the picture of the video. No idea who that is. Week Ending: 1/25/200843. Jypsi - I Don't Love You Like That 44. Tracy Lawrence - Til I Was A Daddy Too 45. Big & Rich - Loud 46. Taylor Swift - Picture To Burn 47. Road Hammers - I Don't Know When To Quit48. Dolly Parton - Better Get To Livin' 49. Star De Azlan - She's Pretty 50. Dierks Bentley - Trying To Stop Your Leaving
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 11, 2014 13:46:00 GMT -5
Random Single Of The Day:
Artist: Blaine Larsen Single: "Spoken Like A Man" Writers: Ed Hill, Josh Kear, David Frasier Album: Rockin' You Tonight Label: Giantslayer/BNA Producer: Rory Lee Feek, Tim Johnson Year Released: November, 2006 Mediabase Peak: #45 Billboard Peak: #42
Blaine Larsen is a 28 year old singer/songwriter from Tacoma, Washington. He had his first demo made at just 13 and by 2004 he was signed by Rory Feek and Tim Johnson's label Giantslayer. He charted with "In My High School" (#60) and made an album of the same name. He was then recommended to Joe Galante of BNA, and was soon signed by the label in 2004 and made new tracks for his original album that included his debut major label single "How Do You Get That Lonely". The song peaked at #18 in early 2005 and was off his Off To Join The World album. The other single from the record was "The Best Man" (#30 on R&R).
His second album's lead single was shipped to radio in early 2006 called "I Don't Know What She Said". The song would peak at #21 on Mediabase in the late summer of 2006 and was included on his Rockin' You Tonight album. "Spoken Like A Man" was the only other single from the album, but it only reached #42 on Billboard and unfortunately Blaine would be dropped in 2008. He signed with Treehouse Records in 2009 and released the singles "It Did" (#50), "Chillin' (#38), and "Leavin' (#47). After Stroudavarious closed in 2011 with Treehouse already merged into it, Blaine was left labelless. In addition to his solo artist work, he did write George Strait's #2 peaking single in 2010 "I Gotta Get To You".
Blaine had great talent as an artist. He had the songwriting ability and the strong voice that matched it. I'm blown away he never got another major label deal after BNA. This is still my favorite song from him, though "How Do You Get That Lonely" was also a strong powerful song. Here were the songs around Blaine the week he peaked on Mediabase in early 2007.
Week Ending: 3/16/2007
40. Alison Krauss and John Waite - Missing You 41. Dustry Drake - Say Yes 42. Donovan Chapman - House Like That 43. Little Big Town - A Little More You 44. Luke Bryan - All My Friends Say 45. Blaine Larsen - Spoken Like A Man 46. George Strait - Wrapped 47. Catherine Britt - What I Did Last Night 48. Bomshel - Bomshel Stomp 49. Mark Wills - Take It All Out On Me 50. Hank Williams Jr. - A Country Boy Can Survive (Remix) 51. Randy Rogers Band - One More Goodbye 52. Craig Morgan - Tough 53. Wreckers - Tennessee 54. Terri Clark - Dirty Girl
Along with Blaine, Donovan Chapman wold also find this week to be his peak week as well.
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Post by kw9461 on Apr 12, 2014 0:12:25 GMT -5
Random Single Of The Day:Artist: Blaine Larsen Single: "Spoken Like A Man" Writers: Ed Hill, Josh Kear, David Frasier Album: Rockin' You TonightLabel: Giantslayer/BNA Producer: Rory Lee Feek, Tim Johnson Year Released: November, 2006 Mediabase Peak: #45 Billboard Peak: #42 Blaine Larsen is a 28 year old singer/songwriter from Tacoma, Washington. He had his first demo made at just 13 and by 2004 he was signed by Rory Feek and Tim Johnson's label Giantslayer. He charted with "In My High School" (#60) and made an album of the same name. He was then recommended to Joe Galante of BNA, and was soon signed by the label in 2004 and made new tracks for his original album that included his debut major label single "How Do You Get That Lonely". The song peaked at #18 in early 2005 and was off his Off To Join The World album. The other single from the record was "The Best Man" (#30 on R&R). His second album's lead single was shipped to radio in early 2006 called "I Don't Know What She Said". The song would peak at #21 on Mediabase in the late summer of 2006 and was included on his Rockin' You Tonight album. "Spoken Like A Man" was the only other single from the album, but it only reached #42 on Billboard and unfortunately Blaine would be dropped in 2008. He signed with Treehouse Records in 2009 and released the singles "It Did" (#50), "Chillin' (#38), and "Leavin' (#47). After Stroudavarious closed in 2011 with Treehouse already merged into it, Blaine was left labelless. In addition to his solo artist work, he did write George Strait's #2 peaking single in 2010 "I Gotta Get To You". Blaine had great talent as an artist. He had the songwriting ability and the strong voice that matched it. I'm blown away he never got another major label deal after BNA. This is still my favorite song from him, though "How Do You Get That Lonely" was also a strong powerful song. Here were the songs around Blaine the week he peaked on Mediabase in early 2007. Week Ending: 3/16/200740. Alison Krauss and John Waite - Missing You 41. Dustry Drake - Say Yes 42. Donovan Chapman - House Like That 43. Little Big Town - A Little More You 44. Luke Bryan - All My Friends Say 45. Blaine Larsen - Spoken Like A Man46. George Strait - Wrapped 47. Catherine Britt - What I Did Last Night 48. Bomshel - Bomshel Stomp 49. Mark Wills - Take It All Out On Me 50. Hank Williams Jr. - A Country Boy Can Survive (Remix) 51. Randy Rogers Band - One More Goodbye 52. Craig Morgan - Tough 53. Wreckers - Tennessee 54. Terri Clark - Dirty Girl Along with Blaine, Donovan Chapman wold also find this week to be his peak week as well. You had me at Blaine Larsen. Great song, and I echo your sentiments about how shockingly short his career was. As much as I like Easton Corbin, I consider Blaine to be a notch better. I remember being a bit surprised that this was chosen as the second single off of Rockin' You Tonight, and it turned out that it was probably the wrong choice. The title cut or the great Let Alone You might've done better and given Blaine a chance at the success he deserved.
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 12, 2014 14:18:18 GMT -5
Random Videos Of The Day:
Artist: Darryl Worley Single: "A Good Day To Run" Writers: Darryl Worley, Bobby Tomberlin Album: Hard Rain Don't Last Label: DreamWorks Nashville Video Director: Trey Fanjoy Year Released: September 25th, 2000 Billboard Peak: #12
"A Good Day To Run" was the second career single from Darryl Worley in 2000. It was coming off his top 15 debut "When You Need My Love" (#15). The song was off his album Hard Rain Don't Last, and also featured the singles "Second Wind" (#20), and "Sideways" (#41). The song would also be on Darryl's compilation album Have You Forgotten? in 2003. The album featured songs from Darryl's first two albums, along with 4 new songs including the singles "I Will Hold My Ground" (#57), and "Tennessee River Run" (#31). The greatest hits album also featured a civil war salute song called "Shiloh". The song was co-written by Wynn Varble who is a close friend of Worley's and a well credited songwriter. Some of his single credits include "When You Need My Love", "Thing's That Never Cross A Man's Mind", "Waitin' On A Woman", and "A Little More Country Than That".
Good summertime type song here from Darryl. Figured it's a great day where I am right now and is a song that is best driving down the thruway. Decided to also feature the song from his Have You Forgotten? album Shiloh. :)
Artist: Darryl Worley Song: "Shiloh" Writers: Wynn Varble, Darryl Worley, Don Poythress Album: Have You Forgotten? Label: DreamWorks Nashville Producer: Frank Rogers, James Stroud Year Released: April 15th, 2003
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Post by kw9461 on Apr 12, 2014 22:30:19 GMT -5
Second day in a row you've picked a song that came on my iphone at work today. Great song too, still one of my favorite Darryl Worley songs, probably third only to When You Need My Love & I Miss My Friend.
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Post by sabre14 on Apr 13, 2014 14:29:12 GMT -5
Random Video Of The Day:
Artist: Faith Hill Single: "Cry" Writers: Angie Aparo Album: Cry Label: Warner Bros. Nashville Video Director: Mike Lipscombe Year Released: September 30th, 2002 Billboard Peak: #12
"Cry" was Faith Hill's late 2002/early 2003 lead single from her album with the same name. It was also a cross over hit, as it peaked at #19 on the Pop charts and #33 on the Billboard to 100. The song was written by Angie Aparo who is an artist himself. He has made 7 albums with the first being in 1996 called Out Of Everywhere. His second album The American in 1999 included his original version of "Cry". His latest album was in 2006 called Praise Be. Faith followed "Cry" with "When The Lights Go Down" (#26). There was only one other country charting single from the album with "You're Still Here" (#28). "One" was a AC hit after "Cry" as well. This would be the last album before her comeback Fireflies which included four top 10 singles including "Mississippi Girl", and "Sunshine And Summertime". Her latest single was "American Heart" in late 2012 which only peaked at #26. I was supposed to be from her upcoming album Illusion which due to under performing singles, as yet to be released.
I didn't like "Breathe" at all, and wasn't the biggest fan of the other singles from her Breathe album. But "Cry" I really enjoyed and proved that pop/country ballads can be well done. I also have crazy flashbacks to middle school when I hear this song as it seemed to be everywhere back then, even though it didn't go top 10.
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Post by someguy on Apr 13, 2014 14:38:51 GMT -5
I love "Cry". Radio wise, probably the beginning of the end for Faith, but I love it. I remember it shooting up to the top 15 at warp speed, and then radio seemed to brickwall the song. There was a big backlash against her and Shania at the time for going too mainstream, and I think this song got the brunt of that. The funny thing is, it sounds 'countrier' than so much of what shoots to #1 these days, but at the time, she was condemned as being too pop.
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