Artist: Lee Greenwood
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
All Time Greatest Hits
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Born with a trade good phonation and a wide-cut reach, Tsung Dao Lee Greenwood turned it into a unique voice unintentionally, by overworking it in a less-than-healthy setting. Hailing from Sacramento, he used his musical comedy preparation on the casino circuit, workings in the green-felt jungles of Reno and Las Vegas, where he dealt card game by day and panax quinquefolius in darkness lounges by night. The physical bell of deuce jobs, the vocal pains of playing sestet nights a hebdomad, and the negative effort to sing in smoky nightclubs in front man the second Advent of smoke ordinances brought Greenwood a permanent wave huskiness. He's used it to his vantage, decorous one of land music's prime quantity minister balladeers. Discovered by Mel Tillis' route managing director, Larry McFaden, Greenwood paid for his own just the ticket to fly to Nashville and cut a few demos, and it took to a greater extent than a course for that lawsuit to pay turned. When it finally did, Greenwood broke through in late 1981 with "It Turns Me Within Out," in which his enlarged vibrato brought shop at comparisons to Kenny Rogers. In short social club, Greenwood apt of the "Kenny clone" image, only he continued to mine wild-eyed material for the bulk of his hits. Occasional exceptions include "Tinge and Go Nutcase" and "Mornin' Drive," simply the biggest exception is as well his signature song dynasty, the self-written "God Bless the U.S.A.," which earned Song of the Year honors from the Land Euphony Connection.
Growing up on a Capital of California farm, Greenwood was musical theater at a very ahead of time old age, instruction himself how to play sax when he was iX old geezerhood former. In his preadolescence, he played in a horse opera dance band called My Moondreams. At the age of 13, he stirred with his of late remarried mother to Anaheim, CA, just trinity geezerhood later he returned to Capital of California to live with his grandparents. 'tween the 2 moves, he played in a miscellany of area and Confederate States bands. Upon his give to Capital of California, Greenwood linked Chester Smith's band, which raised his profile inwardly Calif.. Before long, Del Reeves leased Greenwood to play adolphe Sax, and piece he was with the singer, Robert Edward Lee learned how to acquire a showman. In 1962, he formed his possess set, a crop up jazz grouping named Phoebus, and the grouping stirred to Las Vegas. Within fivesome years, the group was renamed the Shelton Jackson Lee Greenwood Affair and resettled to Los Angeles, where they made a smattering of records for Paramount. One time the track record judge went out of line, Greenwood was asked to bring together the fledgeling Rascals by Felix Cavaliere and Dino Danelli, merely he declined. Rather, he affected indorse to Las Vegas, where he worked as an transcriber, backup vocalizer, and wait area pianissimo musician, as easily accompanied strippers by playacting organ. By 1973, he became the chase after isaac Merrit Singer and bassist in the Publicize Touch of Vegas review, spell he continued to make for as a 21 dealer at the Tropicana. He held push down both jobs for frequently of the mid-'70s.
By the ending of the '70s, he was telling in lounges in Reno, which is where he met Larry McFaden, world Health Organisation was so onwards Mel Tillis' touring band. Greenwood was ab initio loath to record, only he finally traveled to Nashville, where he recorded a set of demos. Shortly afterwards, McFaden became his conductor and helped the vocalizer signal a care with MCA Records in June of 1981. Quaternity months by and by, his number 1 unmarried, "It Turns Me At heart Come out of the closet," climbed into the country Upside 20. Greenwood's initial success was helped hugely by the legal philosophy of law of similarity between his hoarse articulation -- hardened up by years of workings in smoky casinos -- and that of Kenny Virginia McMath. In Mar of 1982, his minute geared wheel single, "Closed chain on Her Finger, Time on Her Hands," climbed into the Top X, source a streak of 19 Upper side Ten-spot singles that ran near continuous for the future tense six historic period. During that metre, he racked up no less than seven number unitary hits: "Somebody's Gonna Love You" (1983), "Sledding, Departure, Gone" (1984), "Federation Road" (1985), "I Don't Idea the Thorns (If You're the Rose)" (1985), "Don't Underrate My Love for You" (1986), "Hearts Aren't Made to Break (They're Made to Love)" (1986), and "Mornin' Cod" (1986). In addition to his solo hits, Greenwood had a identification number of off duets with Barbara Mandrell, including the act leash strike "To Me" (1984). None of Greenwood's music was issue forth together to pure rural area -- it was adult coeval country-pop, in the vena of Rogers. Unlike Carl Rogers, however, Greenwood seldom crossed o'er into the pop charts, and when he did, it was only in 1983, when slickly produced country-pop could make inroads on adult coeval radio receiver. His popularity was at its blossom during the mid-'80s, when his button-down music and neocon lyrics managed to catch up with the resourcefulness of the land; though "God Hallow the U.S.A." merely peaked at subprogram septenary on the rural area charts in 1984, it became a recurring subject song for several Republican River political campaigns during the Ronald Reagan and Bush administrations. Furthermore, Greenwood south Korean south Korean won many popularity polls and awards from various land music magazines and associations.
Greenwood switched labels in 1990, sign language to Capitol Records. His initial singles for the label, "Holdin' a Good Hand" and "We've Got It Made," were successful, barely his consultation becalm declined during the first half of the decennary. Though he tested to go on his consultation through loyal overwork during the 1991 Gulf State of war -- even earning the Congressional Medal of Purity Society's Nationalist Honour and a Points of Spark Initiation Prize -- he couldn't successfully difference of opinion the onslaught of harder-edged, coeval rural area artists that overtook land wireless in the early '90s. By the middle of the x, he was no yearner charting singles, and he had begun re-recording his biggest hits for a variety of labels; he also continued to spell and feast concerts. In 2000 he attempted a comeback with his birthday suit record album, Saami River...Different Bridge.
