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We Are Tonight
''We Are Tonight'' is the fifth studio album by American country music singer Billy Currington. It was released on September 17, 2013 via Universal Music Group Nashville, Mercury Nashville. The album includes the singles "Hey Girl (Billy Currington song), Hey Girl" and "We Are Tonight (song), We Are Tonight". Content Currington told ''Country Weekly'' that he wanted the album to be "completely happy". Unlike his previous four albums, Currington did not write any of the songs on ''We Are Tonight''. Among the tracks are a cover of Jack Johnson (musician), Jack Johnson's "Banana Pancakes", from his album ''In Between Dreams'', and a duet with Willie Nelson on "Hard to Be a Hippie". According to Currington, the song ended up as a duet with Nelson because Currington had told co-writer Scotty Emerick, a mutual friend of the two, that he wanted to record the song; when Emerick said that Nelson wanted to record it, Currington then suggested that they do it as a duet. Critical reception ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Currington
William Matthew Currington (born November 19, 1973) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Universal Music Group Nashville, Mercury Records Nashville in 2003, he has released seven studio albums for the label: his Billy Currington (album), self-titled debut (2003), ''Doin' Somethin' Right'' (2005), ''Little Bit of Everything'' (2008), ''Enjoy Yourself (Billy Currington album), Enjoy Yourself'' (2010), ''We Are Tonight'' (2013), ''Summer Forever'' (2015), and ''Intuition'' (2021). These six albums have produced 18 singles on the U.S. ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, including 11 number one hits: "Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right", "Good Directions", "People Are Crazy", "That's How Country Boys Roll", "Pretty Good at Drinkin' Beer", "Let Me Down Easy (Billy Currington song), Let Me Down Easy", "Hey Girl (Billy Currington song), Hey Girl", "We Are Tonight (song), We Are Tonight", "Don't It", "It Don't Hurt Like It U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Plain Dealer
''The Plain Dealer'' is the major newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio; it is a major national newspaper. In the fall of 2019, it ranked 23rd in U.S. newspaper circulation, a significant drop since March 2013, when its circulation ranked 17th daily and 15th on Sunday. , ''The Plain Dealer'' had 94,838 daily readers and 171,404 readers on Sunday. ''The Plain Dealer''s media market, the Cleveland-Akron Designated Market Area, has a population of 3.8 million people making it the 19th-largest market in the United States. In August 2013, ''The Plain Dealer'' reduced home delivery to four days a week, including Sunday. A daily version of ''The Plain Dealer'' is available electronically as well as in print at stores, newspaper vending machine, newsracks and newsstands. History Founding The newspaper was established in January 1842 when two brothers, Joseph William Gray and Admiral Nelson Gray, took over ''The Cleveland Advertiser'' and changed its name to ''The Plain Dealer''. ''The Cleve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Scott Sherrill
John Scott Sherrill is an American songwriter whose work is primarily in the field of country music. His brother, Donn Sherrill, was a student at Vanderbilt, where he introduced John Scott to his fraternity brother, Scott Siman, who recorded demos of his music. He pitched the music to Bob Beckham at Combine Music, and Beckham signed him to a worldwide publishing deal. He also got a record deal with Portrait Records in the early 1980s and released a few solo singles of his own. He has written songs for such artists as John Anderson (musician), John Anderson, Brooks & Dunn, Jimmy Buffett, Johnny Lee (singer), Johnny Lee, George Strait, Steve Wariner, Patty Loveless, Josh Turner, Waylon Jennings, Alison Krauss, Peter Wolf, Mick Jagger, Michael McDonald (singer), Michael McDonald and Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson.[ allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:3pfqxqegldse~T0] He is the son of Christian writers John and Elizabeth Sherrill. In the 1980s, Sherrill recorded on Reprise Rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Osborne
Josh Osborne (born c. 1980) is an American songwriter with several number-one singles to his credit. Early life Josh Osborne was born in Pike County, Kentucky, and raised in Virgie, Kentucky. Osborne grew up on US 23, renamed Country Music Highway by the state of Kentucky in honor of the many country music artists who had come from the area, and developed a deep love of country music, particularly artists like Keith Whitley and Dwight Yoakam. Josh graduated from Shelby Valley High School in 1998 and moved right after graduation to Nashville where he signed his first publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music. Career Josh Osborne signed a publishing agreement with Black River Entertainment in 2010. In 2015, Osborne announced he was joining Shane McAnally's company, SMACKSongs as a partner and songwriter. SMACKSongs currently represents McAnally, as well as Josh Jenkins, Ryan Beaver, Aaron Eshuis, and Walker Hayes among other writers. Osborne is a multi-platinum, GRAMMY Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Hunt
Sam Lowry Hunt (born December 8, 1984) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Born in Cedartown, Georgia, Hunt played American football, football in his high school and college years and once attempted to pursue a professional sports career before signing with Universal Music Group Nashville#MCA Nashville, MCA Nashville in 2014. Prior to his successful solo career, Hunt was credited for writing singles for Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Billy Currington, and Reba McEntire. His debut studio album, ''Montevallo (album), Montevallo'', broke several chart records with five singles spawned from the record, including three consecutive Hot Country Songs chart and four Country Airplay chart number ones. The lead single from the album, "Leave the Night On", peaked concurrently on the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, making Hunt the first country artist in 22 years, since Billy Ray Cyrus, to reach the top of three country charts simultaneously in the Luminate (compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Beeson
Marc Beeson (born December 20, 1954) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Beeson has co-written several singles which have reached the Hot Country Songs charts. Life and career Beeson moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1990. One of his first co-writes was " Even Now", a top 20 hit for Exile. In 1992, he co-wrote Restless Heart's " When She Cries", which won him Country Song of the Year and Pop Song of the Year awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Beeson signed to BNA Records in 1994, charting at number 70 with "A Wing and a Prayer". In 1997, Beeson founded the group Burnin' Daylight with former Exile member Sonny LeMaire and former Southern Pacific member Kurt Howell. This group recorded one album for Curb Records and charted three singles, as well as receiving a nomination for New Vocal Group or Duo from the Academy of Country Music. Beeson has returned to songwriting, including Pat Green's 2008 single " Let Me". Marc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordie Sampson
Gordon Francis Sampson (born July 30, 1971) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and producer from Big Pond, Nova Scotia. Beginning his career as a performer on his hometown island of Cape Breton, both in bands and on his own, Sampson has gone on to achieve international success as a songwriter in Nashville. He has written songs for Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, and Rascal Flatts. He has also released albums as a solo performer. Sampson has received a Grammy Award, a Juno Award, two ASCAP Awards, East Coast Music Awards, and honorary degrees from Cape Breton University and St. Francis Xavier University. Background Sampson was born in 1971 to Francis Xavier Sampson (1946–2007) and Florence Ley. Sampson's only musical training as a child were piano lessons he took from his mother. He remembers being surrounded by fiddlers, who were very common in Cape Breton. Initially, he had no interest in fiddle music, but only wanted t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillary Lindsey
Hillary Lee Lindsey (born August 11, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter. She has written songs with or for a number of artists including Michelle Branch, Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Shakira, Lady A, Gary Allan, Sara Evans, Carrie Underwood, Kellie Pickler, Bon Jovi, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Tim McGraw and Luke Bryan. In 2006 and 2016, respectively, Lindsey won two Grammy Awards for Best Country Song for Carrie Underwood's " Jesus, Take the Wheel" and for Little Big Town's " Girl Crush". In 2011, Lindsey received an Academy Award nomination for "Coming Home", recorded by Gwyneth Paltrow for the soundtrack of '' Country Strong'', in the Best Original Song category. "Coming Home" also received a Golden Globe nomination that same year for Best Original Song along with " There's a Place for Us", making Lindsey a double nominee in 2011. , she has had 20 number-one singles as a writer. She won her third Grammy Award for the song " I'll Never Love Again" from the soundtrack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Douglas (songwriter)
Thomas Stevenson Douglas (born January 27, 1953) is an American country music songwriter. He has written Top 10 ''Billboard'' Country hits for John Michael Montgomery, Martina McBride, Tim McGraw, Collin Raye, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Kenny Chesney and others. Early life Tom Douglas was born in Atlanta, where he grew up with musical influence from his father, who sold steel by day and played the piano and ukulele at night. Douglas describes, “There was always music in the house” and describes his father as being an artist at heart. Tom took piano lessons in second grade, but didn't find real interest in the instrument until he first heard “Your Song” by Elton John. He would often practice and learn by playing Glen Campbell hits, especially those written by Jimmy Webb, who is Douglas’ idol. Douglas graduated from Oglethorpe University in 1975, and from Georgia State University in 1977 with an MBA. He worked in Atlanta selling advertising, but decided to q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Gelbuda
Chris Gelbuda is an American singer-songwriter who is a staff songwriter and producer for Big Yellow Dog Music. Chris was the writer and vocalist on the German dance #1 hit "Bad Ideas" by Alle Farben, which went platinum. Gelbuda co-wrote and produced "3 A.M." and "Just A Friend" with Meghan Trainor. He also produced her hit single, " Like I'm Gonna Lose You", featuring John Legend, which was certified quadruple Platinum in the U.S. and has reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 (as of December 3, 2015). Both songs appear on Meghan Trainor's multi-platinum debut album, "Title". Other notable cuts include "You Could've Loved Me" by Frankie Ballard, "Love Me Or Leave Me Alone" by Dustin Lynch, "Love Do What It Do" By Robert Randolph feat. Darius Rucker, "Small Town Saturday Night" by Wheeler Walker, Jr., " Can't Blame a Girl for Trying" recorded by rising Disney star, Sabrina Carpenter (Co-written with Meghan Trainor and Al Anderson, and "Win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Silbar
Jeff Silbar is a songwriter. Silbar, a native of Los Angeles, won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1990 for co-writing Bette Midler's " Wind Beneath My Wings" with Larry Henley. Notable compositions *" All My Life" (Kenny Rogers) *" He's a Heartache (Looking for a Place to Happen)" ( Janie Fricke) *" I Know What I've Got" ( J.C. Crowley) *" Then Again" (Alabama) *" Tie Our Love (In a Double Knot)" (Dolly Parton) *" Til I Loved You" (Restless Heart) *" Where Were You When I Was Falling in Love" ( Lobo) *" Wind Beneath My Wings" ( Roger Whittaker, Perry Como, Willie Nelson, Colleen Hewett, Sheena Easton, Lou Rawls, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Gary Morris, Bette Midler, et al.) *" Hard Feelings" (Fleetwood Mac) *" You've Got a Good Love Comin'" (Lee Greenwood) *" Zoom In" (Ringo Starr Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris DeStefano
Christopher Michael DeStefano is a Grammy Award-winning American singer/songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist currently living in Nashville. As a songwriter, he has multiple #1 songs with artists Carrie Underwood ( “Good Girl”, " Little Toy Guns"), Billy Currington ( “Hey Girl”), Brett Eldredge (" Don't Ya"), Luke Bryan (" That's My Kind of Night", " Kick the Dust Up" ), Miranda Lambert & Carrie Underwood (" Somethin' Bad," later reworked as the opening theme for ''NBC Sunday Night Football''), Rascal Flatts ( "Rewind") and Jason Aldean (" Just Gettin' Started"). DeStefano was raised in Mount Laurel, New Jersey and graduated from Lenape High School in 1993. He was in the school's music program while playing with a progressive rock band in the area. Underwood's " Good Girl", which DeStefano co-wrote, reached number 1 on Hot Country Songs in 2012. He also co-wrote and produced Brett Eldredge's number 1 single " Don't Ya". He co-wrote “ Something in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
