by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Jennings didn’t write many songs, but his music — which combined the grittiest aspects of honky tonk with a rock & roll rhythm and attitude, making the music spare, direct, and edgy — defined hardcore country, and it influenced countless...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Will Jennings is an American songwriter, who is popularly known for writing the lyrics for “My Heart Will Go On”, the theme for the film Titanic. He has been inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame and has won several awards including...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Souther was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Amarillo, Texas. As a musician and songwriter, he was greatly influenced in his formative years by fellow Texas rock and roll icon, Roy Orbison. Souther is probably best known for his well-honed songwriting...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Ely spent his formative years from age 12 in Lubbock, Texas, and attended Monterey High School. He has had a genre-crossing career, performing with Bruce Springsteen, Uncle Tupelo, Los Super Seven, the Chieftains and James McMurtry in addition to his early work...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Roy Orbison was an Americansinger-songwriter, best known for his trademark sunglasses, distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country and western band in high school...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
A leading figure of the progressive country movement of the 1970s, singer/songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard remains best known for authoring the perennial anthem “Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother.” Born November 13, 1946, in Soper, Oklahoma, Hubbard and his...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Rose began writing songs with Taylor Swift on Swift’s 2006 self-titled debut album, on which Rose had seven co-writer’s credits. Among those cuts were the album’s first two singles, “Tim McGraw” and “Teardrops on My Guitar,”...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
In 1959, Mickey joined the Air Force and was assigned to England for three years. When he returned to the United States, he pursued his dream of being a songwriter. He lived in a ’54 Pontiac and traveled around Texas, Tennessee, and Louisiana playing gigs and working...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
A successful entrepreneur who syndicated his own television show before he spent seventeen years as co-host of television’s Hee-Haw, Owens was also a prolific writer of accessible country songs that consistently crossed over into pop, as was the case with the classics...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
A master of writing number-one hits – 31 to be exact – Waldon, Texas, native Bob McDill has been no stranger to country and American pop music. His hits include “I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can,” “Shot Full of Love,” “Runaway Hearts” and “Falling in Love” by Juice...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Recognized as a musician, singer, songwriter, producer and actor, Houston native Billy F Gibbons has unquestionably established himself as one of the finest blues-rock guitarists to ever emerge from Texas. Gibbons has most notably served as guitarist and lead vocalist...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
A definitive Americana artist, Steve Earle, who grew up primarily in the San Antonio area, has turned many musical corners during his illustrious career. Equally acclaimed as a folk troubadour, rockabilly raver, bluesman, honky-tonk rounder and rocker, he has won...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Texas’ self-styled culture is unique in ways that are respected and envied around the world, and so is its songwriting. Virtually defining adult contemporary radio, San Antonio native Christopher Cross most notably won five Grammy Awards with his 1979 self-titled...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
There’s a photo on the back of a long-out-of-print Jerry Jeff Walker album that kind of sums it all up. In the picture, Jerry Jeff is outside an old roadhouse on a lonesome highway. It’s night, and his collar is turned up against the chill breeze as he...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Jim’s numerous hit singles are a great example of this consistency, quality and diversity. Jim’s hits include the multi week #1 smashes “Big Green Tractor” (Jason Aldean) “Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven” (Kenny Chesney) “ and “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not” by...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
The late Larry Henley of Arp, Texas, first reached success as the lead singer of pop group Newbeats, charting two hits in the top 20 of Billboard magazine with one of the two, “Bread and Butter,” reaching No. 2 and selling over a million copies. Henley...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Born in Atlanta, Texas, Susanna Clark was an American artist and country/folk songwriter. She wrote the No. 1 hit “I’ll be Your San Antone Rose,” recorded first by artist Dottsy. She co-wrote “Come From the Heart,” which Don Williams...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Gary Nicholson is a #1 hit songwriter, two-time Grammy winning producer, world-traveling performer, recording artist and session guitarist. In 2006 he was nominated to the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame. There are over five hundred recordings of his songs...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Clark’s character-driven songs full of unforgettable images caught the attention of RCA’s Sunbury Music and he moved to Nashville in 1971. The following year, his eponymous album, featuring “L.A. Freeway,” was released and became an FM radio...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Armed with fourteen carefully-crafted gems, Shamblin decided to try his luck in Nashville. His “story songs” with vivid detail and honest, earthy lyrics quickly caught the ear of the Nashville music establishment. In short order, Randy Travis took...
