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Tim McGraw
Excited to announce that the new album âStanding Room Onlyâ will be released on August 25! Listen to the title track Standing Room Only, and Hey Whiskey available now.
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Tim McGraw has sold over 90 million records worldwide, achieved 46 worldwide No. 1 singles and 19 No. 1 albums, won numerous awards, including 3 Grammy Awards, and holds the record for being the most played country artist at radio since his debut in 1992.
Waylon Jennings
The essence of outlaw countryâhard living, broken hearts, and a life led rambling, among other thingsâis distilled in Waylon Jenningsâ booming baritone. Born in Texas in 1937, Jennings dropped out of school at 16 with the dream of becoming a musician, and got his chance when rock ânâ roll pioneer Buddy Holly tapped him to play bass in his band. After giving up his seat for the infamous 1959 plane ride that would end the lives of Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens, Jennings established the honky-tonk roots of what would become his signature sound in the â60s with songs like the toe-tapping âOnly Daddy Thatâll Walk the Line.â But it wasnât until the â70s that Jennings became the outlaw iconâa scruffy, towering cowboy in a wide-brimmed hatâof legend. Jennings made this version of himself known with 1973âs Honky Tonk Heroes, a record dense with electrifying twang and hardcore country that stood in stark contrast to the genreâs mainstream offerings in Nashville. While Music City mightâve had its issues with Jennings, he was in good company with songwriters, including fellow Texan Willie Nelson, a longtime collaborator he eventually joined in country supergroup Highwaymenâalongside Johnny Cash and Kris Kristoffersonâin the â80s and â90s. Jennings passed away in the early 2000s, but his influence looms large over country music, particularly in its 2010s outlaw resurgence through artists like Sturgill Simpson and Chris Stapleton.
Darius Rucker
Rucker achieved multi-Platinum status as lead singer & rhythm guitarist of the GRAMMY Award-winning band Hootie & the Blowfish, who have sold more than 25 million albums worldwide. Since releasing his first Country album in 2008, Rucker has earned four No. 1 albums on the Billboard Country chart, including RIAA Platinum-certified Learn to Live & True Believers, plus 10 No. 1 singles at Country radio & 11 Gold, Platinum or multi-Platinum certified hits. Rucker was inducted as a Grand Ole Opry member in 2012 & in 2014 he won his third GRAMMY Award for Best Solo Country Performance with his version of Old Crow Medicine Showâs âWagon Wheel". He topped the charts at Country radio once again with âBeers And Sunshineâ in 2021. New songs âMy Masterpieceâ & âSame Beer Different Problemâ are available everywhere now.
As a philanthropist, Rucker co-chaired the capital campaign that generated $150 million to help build the new MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital & has raised over $3 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through his annual Darius & Friends benefit concert & golf tournament. Rucker has also advocated for over 200 charitable causes supporting public education & junior golf programs in South Carolina through the Hootie & the Blowfish Foundation & serves as a National Chair for the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville.
For more information, visit www.dariusrucker.com & follow on social media @DariusRucker.
Richard Marx
Pop singer Richard Marx was the king of adult contemporary in the late 1980s and early â90s, when he amassed 14 Top 20 singles, including three No. 1 hits.
⢠In addition to his own songs, Marx has written for other artists, including Luther Vandross, *NSYNC, Barbra Streisand and Vince Gill, and Keith Urban, among many others. His song with Vandross, 2004âs âDance with My Father,â was a Top 40 hit that won Grammys for Song of the Year and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.
⢠Marx was five when he began singing jingles for his fatherâs advertising company. When he was 17, a tape of his songs made its way to Lionel Richie, who encouraged Marx to move to Los Angeles. He got his start there as a backing vocalist and songwriter for other artists.
⢠His self-titled 1987 debut album yielded a pair of No. 3 singles, a No. 2 hit, and a chart-topper with âHold on to the Nights,â making Marx the first male artist to land four singles from a debut in the Top 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. His first single, âDonât Mean Nothing,â featured Joe Walsh of the Eagles on guitar.
⢠Marxâs second album, 1989âs Repeat Offender, was even bigger, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and putting five singles in the upper reaches of the Hot 100 chartâincluding the No. 1 hits âSatisfiedâ and âRight Here Waiting.â His father, Dick Marx, did horn arrangements, and his mother, Ruth Marx, sang backing vocals.
⢠His subsequent albums and singles had a bigger impact on the Adult Contemporary charts, where 1991âs âKeep Cominâ Back,â the first single from Marxâs third album, held the top spot for four weeks.
⢠Marx wrote and produced *NSYNCâs 2000 hit single âThis I Promise You,â which reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
⢠In 2006, Marx toured as part of Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, along with Sheila E, Edgar Winter, and Billy Squier.
⢠Marx has continued to release albums at a steady pace, including 2020âs Limitless, which features songwriting and production from his son, Lucas Marx.
Billy Ray Cyrus
Billy Ray Cyrus is a left-handed guitar player, singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist from Flatwoods, Kentucky.
Raised in a musical background ranging from Southern Gospel four-part harmonies to Southern Rock with full-on smokinâ guitars and honky-tonk piano. Cyrusâs roots run deep in his Appalachian upbringing of Bluegrass, Country, Rock ânâ Roll, Rhythm and Blues, and all genres of music. This multitude of mastering and bending genres is exemplified by Cyrusâs Grammy, CMA, BET, VMA, Billboard and American Music Awards.
Cyrusâs musical mantra is two fold. 1. âMusic changes everything.â 2. When it comes to creating; âDonât try to make music that fits inside the box, donât try to make music that fits outside the box⌠make it like there is no box.â
The multi Grammy award winning artist says, âMusic is my motivation. Life is my inspiration. I bought a guitar and started a band for that reason.