country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
artist. Between 1991 and 1993, Mowrey recorded two studio albums, both on major labels: 1991's ''Honky Tonk'' on Capitol Records Nashville, and 1993's ''Dude Mowrey'' on
Arista Nashville
Arista Nashville is an American record label that serves as a wholly owned division of Sony Music, operated under the Sony Music Nashville division. Founded in 1989, the label specializes in country music artists, including Alan Jackson, Brooks ...
. These albums produced four singles for Mowrey on the Hot Country Songs charts. The first of these, "Cowboys Don't Cry", was later a Top 40 hit when
Daron Norwood
Daron Jay Norwood (September 30, 1965 – July 22, 2015) was an American country music singer. He released two albums for Giant Records and charted six times on Hot Country Songs.
Musical career
Signed to Giant Records in 1993, he released tw ...
recorded it for his debut album three years after Mowrey's version. Another cut, "Fallin' Never Felt So Good", was later recorded by both Shawn Camp and
Mark Chesnutt
Mark Nelson Chesnutt (born September 6, 1963) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Between 1990 and 1999, he had his greatest chart success recording for Universal Music Group Nashville's MCA and Decca branches, with a total of ei ...
.
Country singer
Mel Tillis
Lonnie Melvin Tillis (August 8, 1932 – November 19, 2017) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s as part of the outlaw country movement, ...
discovered Mowrey in the mid-1980s while Mowrey was still in his mid-teens; Tillis also served as Mowrey's manager, and helped the singer sign to Capitol in 1991. Mowrey's debut album, ''Honky Tonk'', was released in 1991. Included on it was the single "Cowboys Don't Cry", as well as "Honky Tonk Song", a song which Tillis initially wrote for
Webb Pierce
Michael Webb Pierce (August 8, 1921 – February 24, 1991) was an American honky-tonk vocalist, songwriter and guitarist of the 1950s, one of the most popular of the genre, charting more number one hits than any other country artist during the ...
. By 1993, Mowrey had transferred to Arista Nashville, releasing a self-titled album that year, as well as three more singles. Arista label mate Lee Roy Parnell made a guest appearance in Mowery's music video for the song "Hold on Elroy" which was filmed at an old cabin just outside Nashville, TN.
Discography
''Honky Tonk'' (1991)
Track listing
#"Honky Tonk Song" (
Mel Tillis
Lonnie Melvin Tillis (August 8, 1932 – November 19, 2017) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s as part of the outlaw country movement, ...
, Buck Peddy) – 1:57
#"It Could've Been Me" (Curt Ryle, Johnny Park) – 3:38
#"
Cowboys Don't Cry
"Cowboys Don't Cry" is a song recorded by American country music artist Dude Mowrey. It was the only single from his 1991 debut album ''Honky Tonk''. Mowrey's version charted at number 65 on the Hot Country Songs chart that year. The song was writt ...
" (Jim Allison, Bob Simon, Doug Gilmore, Jeff Raymond) – 2:34
#"Heartbreak Train" (
Roger Murrah
Roger Alan Murrah (born November 20, 1946) is a songwriter and independent music publisher who has written hits for artists including Waylon Jennings, Alan Jackson, Al Jarreau, and Alabama.Fallin' Never Felt So Good" ( Shawn Camp, Will Smith) – 2:22
#"If I Ever Love Again" (
Curtis Wright
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, Billy Spencer) – 3:41
#"Good Lookin'" (Mickey Jupp, Chris East) – 2:49
#"The Rest of Forever" (Jim Martin) – 3:24
#"We Got Love" (
Kent Robbins
Kent Marshall Robbins (April 23, 1947 – December 27, 1997) was an American country music songwriter.
Robbins was born in Mayfield, Kentucky. He began writing for Charley Pride's Pi-Gem music in 1974. Between then and his death, he wrote song ...
) – 3:00
#"Do You Want to Make Something of It?" (Wright, T.J. Knight) – 2:53
''Dude Mowrey'' (1993)
Track listing
#"Maybe You Were the One" (Robert Bruce Landis, Hunter Moore) – 3:28
#"Dr. Wurlitzer" (Jeff Crossan) – 2:37
#"Walk Away" (
Marc Beeson
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Life and career
Beeson moved to Nashville, T ...
Allen Shamblin
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After graduating from Sam Houston State University he worked in Austin as a real estate appraiser. In 1987, he quit his job and move ...
,
Jon Vezner
Jon Vezner (born June 6, 1951) is an American country music songwriter. He is best known for his work with Kathy Mattea, to whom he has been married since 1988.
Vezner began working as a songwriter in Minnesota and later moved to Nashville, Tenne ...
) – 2:55
#"Happy Ever After (Comes One Day at a Time)" ( Gary Nicholson,
Kevin Welch
Kevin Stephen Welch (August 17, 1955) is an American country music artist. He has charted five singles on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs charts and released eight studio albums. He is also one of the cofounders of the Dead Reckoning Recor ...
) – 3:35
#"What Kind of Memories Remain" (Joe Doyle, Rick Peoples) – 2:52
#"Hold On, Elroy" (
Dennis Linde
Dennis Linde (pronounced LIN-dy, March 18, 1943December 22, 2006) was an American music songwriter based in Nashville who has had over 250 of his songs recorded. He is best known for writing the 1972 Elvis Presley hit, "Burning Love". Rarely w ...
) – 2:59
#"View from the Bottom" (Dude Mowrey, Ralph Murthy) – 3:35
#"I'll Never Listen to That Fool Again" (Larry Martin, Stan Munsey) – 3:36
#"Turn for the Worse" (Frank Dycus, Kerry Kurt Phillips, Billy Yates) – 2:38