Brad Paisley

 

Brad Douglas Paisley was born October 28, 1972 in Glen Dale, West Virginia. His mom and dad Douglas and Sandra Paisley, a worker for the West Virginia Department of Transportation and a teacher, respectively. He gained his love for country music from his grandfather, who gave him his first guitar, a Sears Danelectro Silvertone around the age of eight. He first performed in public at the age of ten for his church. He was soon performing regularly on Jamboree USA. For eight years he opened for established country singers and became the youngest person inducted into the Jamboree USA Hall of Fame.

He graduated from high school in 1991 and went to West Liberty State College for two years before being awarded a full scholarship to Belmont University in Nashville Tennessee. After a series of internships he signed a songwriting contract with EMI publishing and wrote several singles. In 1999 he released his debut album Who Needs Pictures, which became certified platinum in less than two years.

 

            At the end of 2000 he had a relationship with a fellow singer, who without his knowledge had moved in with her female lover had moved into their own home. She felt absolutely no attraction to him, or any other man for that matter, had a relationship with him and quoted saying “he’s wickedly smart, which is one of the reasons why I made the decision to spend time with him. I loved Brad. I never had the capacity to fall in love with him, but I figured if I’m gonna live a less than satisfied life, this is the guy I could live my life with. If I’m gonna be with a boy, this is the boy." She was even nice enough to show remorse for her actions to him in her autobiography. He met his current wife, Kimberly Williams in Father of the Bride he attended with a former girlfriend. He went to the sequal alone and watched Williams. She began appearing in one of his videos and after a nine month engagement they were married and had a sun William Huckleberry on February 22, 2007.

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Jake Owen

Joshua Owen and his twin brother Jarrod were born on August 28, 1981 in Vero Beach, Florida. Both turned out to be athletic and played various sports through high school. Josh eventually settled on playing golf.  He began a promising career winning his first tournament at the age of fifteen. They both graduated from Vero Beach High School and began attending Florida State University. There he was involved in a wakeboarding accident that left him unable to play gold. While going through recovery, he borrowed a guitar from a neighbor and taught himself to play.

He practiced and began performing at a local bar and soon became well-known in the area. He began writing his own music and moved to Nashville. His first stop was a bank where he opened a savings account, when he mentioned he was a music artist she asked him for a cd which she sent to the Warner/Chappell producing company. The company did not sign him but he met Jimmy Ritchey who he wrote a song entitled ghosts for Kenny Chesney. Although Chesney did not end up recording the song, it did catch the attention of the Sony BMG who signed him in 2005. The company asked him to change his name to Jake to avoid confusion with Josh Turner and Josh Kelley.

On May 7^th, 2012 he married Lacey Buchanan in Vero Beach. He proposed to her on stage, without a ring, but after having performed “Don’t think I Can’t Love You.” They had a daughter on November 22, 2012, also known as Thanksgiving Day, and named her Olive Pearl. When he tours he enjoys traveling with his English bulldog, Merle, saying that “He stays up front; he likes it there.” He also has an interesting tattoo. He has the lips of his wife, at the time girlfriend, tattooed on his right bicep so that he can carry her lips with him. To help keep it discreet he had it placed on the upper-right inside of his bicep.

 

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The Band Perry

The Band Perry is made up of three siblings, Kimberly, Reid, and Neil Perry. At first it was only Kimberly who actually participated in a band. She recruited her brothers to serve as her roadies, cleaning cymbals and tuning guitar strings for her and her band. Her brothers eventually formed their own band and even their sister had to admit that they were better than her own band. It occurred to the group, while Kim was serving as the bands musical director, and they realized they would end up performing together as a three-part family band. They were officially formed in 2005.

In 2005, they also joined the Coke and Wal-Mart sponsored New Faces of Country Music. After this publicity they began performing at concerts and radio stations. Although, it took three years before they were actually noticed. In 2008, they encountered Garth Brooks’ manager Bob Doyle. They later spent time writing music in Nashville where they were found by label executives Jimmy Harnen and Scott Borchetta.

 

In 2009 they received a record deal with Republic Nashville and they released their debut single “Hip to my Heart.” This song awarded new attention and the song peaked at number 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs list. The primary single, “If I Die Young,” from their first album, “The Band Perry,” soon rose to number one, while the album sold over 50,000 copies. After being awarded the best new artist at the Country Music Association Awards in November 2011, they were invited to the White House Country Night.

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Miranda Lambert

Miranda Leigh Lambert was born in Longview, Texas on November 10, 1983. Her father was a police officer who turned private investigator and partnered with his wife Beverly June Lambert. Lambert had experiences with guns and gun safety at an early stage and grew into an avid deer hunter. When she was nine she attended a Garth Brooks concert with her parents and this became the start of her country music interests. Her father was a song writer and performer and she began singing in talent shows under his guidance, and soon moved to playing in small restaurants.

At the ripe old age of sixteen she began appearing in the Johnnie High Country Music Revue held weekly in Arlington, Texas. This same show helped jumpstart the musical career of LeAnn. Lambert soon received a recording session in Nashville, but soon returned home after being frustrated with the “pop” sound of music. Her father taught her to play the guitar allowing her to write her own songs. She had plenty to write about, when she was fifteen her family opened their home to an abused mother and her child. She had heard about domestic abuse but this experience really opened her eyes to it. She is currently licensed to carry a handgun and has a tattoo of two crossed revolvers emblazoned with angel wings.

On May 14, 2011 she married fellow country artist Blake Shelton (sorry Haylee) at the Don Strange Ranch in Boerne, Texas. The two live in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. She once stated that she enjoys watching the show “Snapped” which illustrates the stories of female killers. She saw one episode where one woman had been abused by her husband for several years. One day she shot him in the bedroom and left him lying there for two years. The road it happened on was County Road 233, which is the same road featured in her song “Gunpowder and Lead.” When asked if she felt responsible she said the best compliment she can get is when a woman says that Lambert has given her the courage to leave after years of abuse and she said not to shoot him or if you do don’t blame her.

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Country Music Intro.

The world of American Country music is an ever expanding source of music. With each release of a song or album it becomes a more expansive genre of music sometimes overlapping with a range of other music such as southern rock, bluegrass, hip hop, and even some rap.  This can include anything from the ever expressive Taylor Swift to the faster more hyped music of Luke Bryan and the hick-hop of Colt Ford or even Jason Aldean. This is not necessarily music about a bunch of guys singing sad songs about losing women and in life. There are plenty happy songs about how good life is.

Every week I plan to describe a different artist. This will include their basic information, including where they grew up and how they got into music and their subsequent rise to fame, families they have started. Also pictures, top selling albums, singles and any other interesting facts that I come across. Since country artists tend not to make the news as much for the things they do,(uhh Chris Brown anyone?) maybe I will be able to find some occurring or past drama to be very interesting.