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Randy Rogers Band is an American
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band from
San Marcos, Texas San Marcos () is a city and the county seat of Hays County, Texas, United States. The city is a part of the Greater Austin, Greater Austin Metropolitan Area. San Marcos's limits extend into Caldwell County, Texas, Caldwell and Guadalupe County, T ...
. The band is composed of Randy Rogers (lead vocals), Geoffrey Hill (guitar), Jon Richardson (bass guitar), Brady Black (fiddle), Les Lawless (drums), and Todd Stewart (guitar, fiddle, mandolin, keyboards). They have recorded seven studio albums and two live albums, and have charted seven singles on the ''
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charts.


Biography

Randy Rogers was born in
Cleburne, Texas Cleburne ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Johnson County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 31,352. The city is named in honor of Patrick Cleburne, a Confederate general. Lake Pat Cleburne, the reservoir that ...
. At the age of 6 years, he learned to play the piano from his grandmother, and later started playing the guitar. The Randy Rogers Band recorded its debut album, ''Live at Cheatham Street Warehouse'', at a music hall of the same name in
San Marcos, Texas San Marcos () is a city and the county seat of Hays County, Texas, United States. The city is a part of the Greater Austin, Greater Austin Metropolitan Area. San Marcos's limits extend into Caldwell County, Texas, Caldwell and Guadalupe County, T ...
. By 2002, the band was signed to the independent Downtime record label, on which they released the album ''Like It Used to Be''. It was around this time that the band began performing outside of San Marcos, primarily at Nutty Brown Cafe and Amphitheatre in nearby Dripping Springs, Texas. Two years later, the album ''Rollercoaster'' was released, producing two minor entries on the ''Billboard''
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charts in early 2005. Rogers also co-wrote "Somebody Take Me Home", a song recorded by
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, on his 2005 album, '' The Road and the Radio''. Several of the songs on ''Rollercoaster'' were co-written by
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, who also co-produced the album. '' Just a Matter of Time'', the band's first major-label album, was released on
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in 2006. The band also released their self-titled album on September 23, 2008, also on Mercury Nashville Records. The first single "In My Arms Instead", was released in August. The band's fifth album, '' Burning the Day,'' was released on August 24, 2010, on
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. The album's first single was "Too Late for Goodbye." It debuted at 55 on the U.S. ''Billboard''
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chart and after four weeks on the chart, it peaked at 47. "One More Sad Song" was released in late 2012. The song became the band's first Billboard Top 40 hit, and the first single from their sixth album, ''
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''. ''Dreamer: A Tribute to Kent Finlay'', released in 2016 on Austin-based Eight 30 Records, features Randy Rogers and Sunny Sweeney's duet "Between You and Me".


Pop Culture

Randy Rogers Band and their song “Speak of the Devil” referenced in Showtime TV series ''Billions'' (“STD” 21:04).


Discography


Studio albums


Live albums


Singles


Other certified songs


Music videos


References


External links


Official websiteRandy Rogers Band on Facebook
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