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Tool Box (Aaron Tippin Album)
''Tool Box'' is the fifth studio album from American country music artist Aaron Tippin. It features the singles "That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You", "Without Your Love", "Everything I Own" and "How's the Radio Know". "That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You" reached Number One on the ''Billboard'' country charts in 1995, giving Tippin the second Number One of his career. "Without Your Love" reached #22, and the other two singles both missed Top 40 in the U.S. The album was certified gold by the RIAA. The album was recorded at Woodland Sound Studios' Studio A and Sound Emporium Studios' Studio A, both in Nashville, Tennessee. "You've Always Got Me" was previously recorded by Pearl River on their 1994 album ''Pearl River'', and "Ten Pound Hammer" would later be recorded by Barbara Mandrell on her 1997 album '' It Works for Me''. Additionally, "I Can Help" is a cover of a song originally released by country-pop artist Billy Swan in 1973. "Country Boy's Tool Box" is also rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Tippin
Aaron Dupree Tippin (born July 3, 1958) is an American country music singer, songwriter and record producer. Initially a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music, he gained a recording contract with RCA Nashville in 1990. His debut single, " You've Got to Stand for Something" became a popular anthem for American soldiers fighting in the Gulf War and helped to establish him as a neotraditionalist country act with songs that catered primarily to the American working class. Under RCA's tenure, he recorded five studio albums and a Greatest Hits package. Tippin switched to Lyric Street Records in 1998, where he recorded four more studio albums, counting a compilation of Christmas music. After leaving Lyric Street in 2006, he founded a personal label known as Nippit Records, on which he issued the compilation album ''Now & Then''. A concept album, '' In Overdrive'', was released in 2009. Tippin has released a total of eleven studio albums and five compilations, with six gold certifications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Linde
Dennis Linde (pronounced LIN-dee, March 18, 1943December 22, 2006) was an American musician and songwriter based in Nashville who has had over 250 of his songs recorded. He is best known for writing the 1972 Elvis Presley song, "Burning Love", an international hit that has been featured in at least five motion pictures. In 1994, Linde won BMI's "Top Writer Award" and received four awards as BMI's most-performed titles for that year. He never liked publicity, and shunned awards shows to the extent of having family members collect his awards for him. He wrote both words and music for most of his songs, rarely collaborating with co-writers. He earned 14 BMI "Million-Air" songs (a song played on the air one million times). In 2001, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Linde wrote the following top-5 U.S. country hits: "Long Long Texas Road" ( Roy Drusky, 1970), " The Love She Found in Me" (Gary Morris, 1983), " Walkin' a Broken Heart" (Don Williams, 1985 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Aldridge
James Walton Aldridge Jr. (born November 12, 1955, in Florence, Alabama) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, engineer and record producer. Aldridge is known primarily as a Muscle Shoals songwriter, having had songs recorded by a diverse group of artists from Lou Reed to Reba McEntire over a period of six decades. His hit country songs include the Number One hits " (There's) No Gettin' Over Me" by Ronnie Milsap (1981), " Holding Her and Loving You" by Earl Thomas Conley (1982), " Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde" by Travis Tritt (2000), and " I Loved Her First" (2006) by Heartland. He has been inducted to both The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and The Alabama Music Hall of Fame. In the late 1980s, Aldridge also sang lead vocals in the band The Shooters, a country band which charted seven singles for Epic Records. He worked for 17 years at Fame Recording Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama Muscle Shoals is the largest city in Colbert County, Alabama, United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Regan
Robert Joseph Regan is a Grammy nominated American country music songwriter. His chart credits include "Til Love Comes Again" by Reba McEntire, " Busy Man" by Billy Ray Cyrus, " Your Everything" by Keith Urban, "Soon" by Tanya Tucker, " Thinkin' About You" by Trisha Yearwood, " Running Out of Reasons to Run" by Rick Trevino, "Something About a Woman" by Jake Owen, "Dig Two Graves" by Randy Travis, and many others. His songs have been recorded by artists ranging from cowboy legend Roy Rogers to Kenny Rogers, from Hank Williams Jr. to Andy Williams. Regan was a recording artist on Curb Records in the early 1980s, a studio musician in Nashville, Tennessee, a guitarist on the Grand Ole Opry (with Jeanne Pruitt,) and was a three-term President of the Board of the Nashville Songwriters Association International as well as their Legislative Chair. In that role in 2006, he helped pass the Songwriters Capital Gains Tax Equity Act. Regan also taught as an adjunct professor at Belmont Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Can Help
"I Can Help" is a rockabilly song written and performed by Billy Swan. Released in July 1974, it became a big crossover smash some four months later, reaching No. 1 on both the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and Hot Country Singles charts in November. Although Swan had other charting singles on both the Hot 100 and country charts, the song is generally recognized as his only major hit single release. However, Swan had continued success as a songwriter for other artists and as a session musician. Production Billy Swan secured his own recording deal with Monument Records, after his return to Nashville in August 1973. From the time he secured the deal, Swan began the composition of "I Can Help" in a music room which his wife, Marlu, had converted from a closet inside the small duplex that they shared close to Centennial Park.Buskin, RichardClassic Tracks: Billy Swan "I Can Help" Sound on Sound. November 2007. Accessed from December 21, 2012. Swan has revealed that he used a "Rock" preset, fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Martin (songwriter)
Tony Martin is a country music songwriter who has had fifteen number-one hits as a songwriter. Among his compositions are "Third Rock from the Sun" by Joe Diffie, " Just to See You Smile" by Tim McGraw, "You Look Good in My Shirt" by Keith Urban, and "No Place That Far" by Sara Evans. Martin received a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1986. His degree emphasized journalism, he was a reporter for "The Daily Journal" in Chicago after he graduated from BYU. His song " Baby's Gotten Good at Goodbye" was recorded by George Strait in 1988. Its success made Martin decide to go to Nashville. When he first moved there, he worked as a correspondent for ''The Tennessean'' to help support himself and his wife Amethea. In 2001, Martin signed an exclusive contract with Sony/ATV Music Publishing. He is the son of another Nashville-connected songwriter Glenn Martin. Martin is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Among other callings in the LD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael P
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Craig Wiseman
Craig Michael Wiseman is an American country music songwriter and producer, and the owner/founder of the Big Loud enterprise. He has been writing since the late 1980s, and his songs have been recorded by Lorrie Morgan, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Dolly Parton, Blake Shelton, and numerous other acts. He has written twenty-six No. 1 songs on the '' Billboard'' Hot Country Songs music charts, and has won a number of industry awards. In 2009, he was named "Songwriter of the Decade" by the Nashville Songwriters Association International, and in 2015, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Early life Michael Wiseman was born and raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He began playing music while still a child, and later began playing drums professionally. In 1985, he moved to Nashville to pursue a career in songwriting. Music career Songwriting At age 24, Craig had his first chart success with the track "The Only One" from Roy Orbison's '' Mystery Girl'' albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Anderson (NRBQ)
Alan Gordon ("Big Al") Anderson (born July 26, 1947) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In the 1960s, Anderson was the frontman of Connecticut-based band the Wildweeds, whose song "No Good To Cry" (written by Anderson) was a regional success in 1967. From December 1971 until December 1993, he was the lead guitarist in the band NRBQ, and released several solo albums. He also played electric guitar on Jonathan Edwards's 1973 album '' Have a Good Time for Me''. In the 1990s, Anderson's career shifted from touring musician to country music songwriter, settling in Nashville and writing hit songs for such artists as Carlene Carter, Vince Gill, Diamond Rio and Trisha Yearwood, as well as Tim McGraw's number 1 hit " The Cowboy in Me" and several album cuts. Anderson also reunited onstage with NRBQ on occasion, for 30th anniversary shows in 1999, and at reunion concerts held in Northampton, Massachusetts with all past and present members of the band in 2004 and 2007. He h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Without Your Love (Aaron Tippin Song)
"Without Your Love" is a song recorded by American country music artist Aaron Tippin. It was released in February 1996 as the second single from the album '' Tool Box''. the song reached #22 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was written by Al Anderson and Craig Wiseman Craig Michael Wiseman is an American country music songwriter and producer, and the owner/founder of the Big Loud enterprise. He has been writing since the late 1980s, and his songs have been recorded by Lorrie Morgan, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesn .... Chart performance References 1996 singles 1996 songs Aaron Tippin songs Songs written by Al Anderson (NRBQ) Songs written by Craig Wiseman RCA Records singles {{1996-country-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Shapiro
Tom Curtis Shapiro (born in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American songwriter and occasional record producer, known primarily for his work in country music. To date, he holds four Country Songwriter of the Year awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated, as well as the Songwriter of the Decade award from the Nashville Songwriters Association International. He has also written more than fifty Top Ten hits, including twenty-six Number Ones. Musical career Since the 1970s, Shapiro has been a prominent songwriter, doing most of his work in country music. His first big hit was the international smash " Never Give Up on a Good Thing" by George Benson, released as a single in December 1981, which was a top-five record in 13 countries. Shapiro signed to a publishing contract with Tree International in the 1980s, with Eddy Raven, Crystal Gayle, Marie Osmond and Lee Greenwood being among the first country acts to cut his material. In 1978, The Shadows released their cover of Shapiro's song "L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Leyers
Jan Anna August Leyers (born 16 May 1958 in Wilrijk, Belgium) is a Belgian singer, songwriter, and television personality. He was a member of the group Soulsister and later became a solo musician and host of various television series. Music career Jan Leyers was born in Wilrijk, in Antwerp. When he was about 10 years old, he found an acoustic guitar in his attic, and his father, an architect, taught him how to play. 10 years later, he started the group Beri-Beri with Hugo Matthysen, Bart Peeters, and Marc Kruithof. The group tried for some years to become successful, but failed. After Beri-Beri, Leyers spent a few years singing in theaters. In 1986, he met singer Paul Michiels in a café in Heist-op-den-Berg. Together, they recorded a single, "You Get to Me," which impressed Guy Brulez, an executive for EMI in Belgium. Brulez persuaded them to form a duo, which they named "Soul Sisters'". They recorded "Talk About It" and "Like a Mountain." The group, now under the name Soul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |