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Be As You Are (Songs From An Old Blue Chair)
''Be as You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair)'' is the ninth studio album by American country music singer Kenny Chesney, released on January 25, 2005. The album debuted at number one album on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart. The album's opening track was originally recorded by Chesney on his ''When the Sun Goes Down'' album. This album was intended by Chesney to be a side project, and it produced no singles, although "Guitars and Tiki Bars" reached number 53 on the Hot Country Songs charts based on unsolicited airplay. Track listing Personnel As listed in liner notes * Wyatt Beard – background vocals * David Briggs – piano, keyboards, B3 organ * Mat Britain – steel drums * Pat Buchanan – electric guitar, harmonica * Buddy Cannon – background vocals * Murray Cannon – background vocals * Kenny Chesney – acoustic guitar, lead vocals * J. T. Corenflos – electric guitar, gut string guitar, nylon string guitar * Chad Cromwell – drums * Eric Darken – percussio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Chesney
Kenneth Arnold Chesney (born March 26, 1968) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He has recorded more than 20 albums and has produced more than 40 Top 10 singles on the US ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, 32 of which have reached number one. Many of these have also charted within the Top 40 of the US Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' Hot 100, making him one of the most successful crossover country artists. He has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Chesney has received twelve Country Music Association Awards (including winning their top Country Music Association Award for Entertainer of the Year, Entertainer of the Year honor four times) and eleven Academy of Country Music Awards (including four consecutive Academy of Country Music Award for Entertainer of the Year, Entertainer of the Year awards from 2005 to 2008), as well as six Grammy Award nominations. He is one of the most popular touring acts in cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stylus Magazine
''Stylus Magazine'' was an American online music and film magazine, launched in 2002 and co-founded by Todd L. Burns. It featured long-form music journalism, four daily music reviews, movie reviews, podcasts, an MP3 blog, and a text blog. Additionally, ''Stylus'' had daily features like "The Singles Jukebox", which looked at pop singles from around the globe, and "Soulseeking", a column focused on personal responses in listening. Even though they never reached the readership of other music magazines such as PopMatters or Pitchfork, they still had a very consistent and fired-up audience. In 2006, the site was chosen by the ''Observer Music Monthly'' as one of the Internet's 25 most essential music websites. ''Stylus'' closed as a business on 31 October 2007. The site remained online for several years, but did not publish any new content. On 4 January 2010, with the blessing of former editor Todd Burns, ''Stylus'' senior writer Nick Southall launched ''The Stylus Decade'', a web ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gut String Guitar
The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the modern acoustic and electric guitars, both of which use metal strings. Classical guitars derive from the Spanish vihuela and gittern of the fifteenth and sixteenth century. Those instruments evolved into the seventeenth and eighteenth-century baroque guitar—and by the mid-nineteenth century, early forms of the modern classical guitar. For a right-handed player, the traditional classical guitar has twelve frets clear of the body and is properly held up by the left leg, so that the hand that plucks or strums the strings does so near the back of the sound hole (this is called the classical position). However, the right-hand may move closer to the fretboard to achieve different tonal qualities. The player typically holds the left leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Buchanan (musician)
Patrick "Pat" Jay Buchanan is an American guitarist, known for his work with the band Cameo and as a Nashville-based session musician. Biography Early years Buchanan grew up in Jacksonville, Lake City, and Tallahassee, Florida. His father played bass in jazz bands and his mother is a singer. Buchanan started playing guitar while in second or third grade, and played his first gig while attending fourth grade. In the mid 1980s, Buchanan began recording on radio and television jingles in Atlanta, Georgia. Buchanan worked with the band Cameo, touring and participating in the recording of their '' Word Up!'' album. He also toured with Hall and Oates and Cyndi Lauper on her A Night to Remember World Tour. Session and recording After being urged by producer Ed Seay, Buchanan moved to Nashville in 1994. As a session musician, he recorded with many artists, including Rodney Crowell, Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, Don Henley, Dolly Parton, Travis Tritt, and Amy Grant. He als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steel Drums
The steelpan (also known as a pan, steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago. Steelpan musicians are called pannists. Description The modern pan is a chromatically pitched percussion instrument made from 55 gallon industrial drums. ''Drum'' refers to the steel drum containers from which the pans are made; the steel drum is more correctly called a ''steel pan'' or ''pan'' as it falls into the idiophone family of instruments, and so is not a drum (which is a membranophone). Some steelpans are made to play in the Pythagorean musical cycle of fourths and fifths. Pan is played using a pair of straight sticks tipped with rubber; the size and type of rubber tip varies according to the class of pan being played. Some musicians use four pansticks, holding two in each hand. This grew out of Trinidad and Tobago's early 20th-century Carnival percussion groups known as ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B3 Organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated sound by creating an electric current from rotating a metal tonewheel near an electromagnetic pickup, and then strengthening the signal with an amplifier to drive a speaker cabinet. The organ is commonly used with the Leslie speaker. Around two million Hammond organs have been manufactured. The organ was originally marketed by the Hammond Organ Company to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, or instead of a piano. It quickly became popular with professional jazz musicians in organ trios—small groups centered on the Hammond organ. Jazz club owners found that organ trios were cheaper than hiring a big band. Jimmy Smith's use of the Hammond B-3, with its additional harmonic percussion feature, inspired a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Briggs (American Musician)
David Paul Briggs (born March 16, 1943 in Killen, Alabama, United States) is an American keyboardist, record producer, arranger, composer, and studio owner. Briggs is one of an elite core of Nashville studio musicians known as "the Nashville Cats" and has been featured in a major exhibition by the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2015. He played his first recording session at the age of 14 and has gone on to add keyboards to a plethora of pop, rock, and country artists, as well as recording hundreds of corporate commercials. Career In May 1966, he was given the opportunity of recording on sessions for Elvis Presley's album ''How Great Thou Art'' when Floyd Cramer was running late. Briggs continued to record and tour with Presley until February 1977. Briggs and Norbert Putnam opened Quadrafonic Studios in the late 1960s. It was sold in 1976 and Briggs opened House of David. Briggs was a recording artist on Decca, Polydor and Monument records in the mid to late 1960s and member of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotty Emerick
Walter Scott Emerick (born July 11, 1973, in Hollywood, Florida) is an American country music artist, known primarily for his work with Toby Keith. In addition to penning several of Keith's singles, Emerick has also written for Sawyer Brown, George Strait, Kenny Chesney and several other artists. In 2004, Emerick was named "Songwriter of the Year" by the Nashville Songwriters Association. He recorded an album, ''The Coast Is Clear'', for DreamWorks Records in 2003, and has charted four singles on the country charts, including a No. 24-peaking duet with Keith, "I Can't Take You Anywhere", which Keith had previously recorded on his 2001 album ''Pull My Chain''. "What's Up with That", performed by Emerick, was featured in the soundtrack to the film ''Broken Bridges''. Biography Emerick is best known for his songwriting association with Toby Keith. Amongst his co-writing credits are the Number Ones "I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight," the Willie Nelson duet "Beer for My Horses," " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Anderson (singer)
James William Anderson III (born November 1, 1937), known professionally as Bill Anderson, is an American country music singer, songwriter, and television host. His soft-spoken singing voice was given the nickname "Whispering Bill" by music critics and writers. As a songwriter, his compositions have been covered by various music artists since the late 1950s, including Ray Price and George Strait. Anderson was raised in Decatur, Georgia, and began composing songs while in high school. While enrolled in college, he wrote the song " City Lights", which later became a major hit for Ray Price in 1958. His songwriting led to his first recording contract with Decca Records the same year. Anderson began having major hits shortly thereafter. In 1963, he had released his most successful single in his recording career, "Still". The song became a major country pop crossover hit and was followed by a series of top ten hits. These songs included "I Love You Drops", "I Get the Fever" and "W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skip Ewing
Donald Ralph "Skip" Ewing (born March 6, 1964) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Active since 1988, Ewing has recorded nine studio albums and has charted 15 singles on the ''Billboard'' country charts. Career Ewing was born in Redlands, California, United States. He first began to gain national attention during the mid-1980s, both as a songwriter and recording artist for MCA and Capitol Records. His 1988 debut, ''The Coast of Colorado'', produced the number 3 hit " Burnin' a Hole in My Heart" and four other top 20 country hits. ''The Will to Love'' included the top 5 hit "It's You Again". Although none of Ewing's subsequent chart entries made the Top 40, he released eight more albums from 1990 to 2009. Ewing is a notable attendee of Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, and Redlands High School in Redlands, California. In 1990, Ewing wrote two songs for Kenny Rogers' album ''Love Is Strange'': "Listen to the Rain" and "If I Were a Painting". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Vassar
Phillip George Vassar Jr. (born May 28, 1962) is an American country music artist. Vassar made his debut on the country music scene in the late 1990s, co-writing singles for several country artists, including Tim McGraw ("For a Little While", " My Next Thirty Years"), Jo Dee Messina (" Bye, Bye", " I'm Alright"), Collin Raye ("Little Red Rodeo"), and Alan Jackson ("Right on the Money"). In 1999, he was named by American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) as Country Songwriter of the Year. Later that same year, Vassar was signed to Arista Nashville as a recording artist. His debut album, ''Phil Vassar'', was released in early 2000, producing five hits on the U.S. ''Billboard'' country singles charts and earning a gold certification in the United States. He followed it in 2002 with '' American Child'', ''Shaken Not Stirred'' in 2004, and finally '' Greatest Hits, Vol. 1'' in 2006 before Vassar left the label for Universal South Records (now Show Dog-Universal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Dillon
Dean Dillon (born Larry Dean Flynn; March 26, 1955) is an American country musician and songwriter. Between 1982 and 1993, he recorded six studio albums on various labels, and charted several singles on the '' Billboard'' country charts. Since 1993, Dillon has continued to write hit songs for other artists, most notably George Strait. In 2002, Dillon was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2020, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Early life Dean Dillon was born Larry Dean Flynn on March 26, 1955 in Lake City, Tennessee, where he was raised. He began playing the guitar at the age of seven, and when he was 15 he made his first public appearance as a singer and performer in the Knoxville variety show ''Jim Clayton Startime''. After completing Oak Ridge High School in 1973 he hitchhiked to Nashville with hopes of starting a music career. Dillon first recorded on the Plantation label as Dean Rutherford, and then as Dean Dalton. Upon moving to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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