David Ball (country singer)

David Ball ( born July 9, 1953 in Rock Hill, South Carolina) is an American country music singer and songwriter.

Life

David Ball grew up as the son of a Baptist priest and a professional musician in Rock Hill, the southern suburbs of Charlotte ( North Carolina). As a boy he played ukulele, but switched to guitar at age 12. After high school, he moved with his childhood friends Walter Hyatt and Champ Hood to Nashville and founded both a music group called Uncle Walt 's Band. As they were not fated little success, they tried their luck in Austin (Texas ).

There she worked as a musician and gave well-known folk and country classics for good, by the way David wrote his own plays. He played bass guitar, worked as Gesangsvokalist and sang in choirs professional background performer. In the Texas Country metropolis Austin, where many stars of the independent country scene take their plates to young people offered a good chance to work on her career.

David's band played with emerging singer Lyle Lovett in well-attended dance halls and released three successful albums Indepent before they broke up in 1983. From now on, pursued David Ball his own career.

Career

During the 1980s, he made ​​his way as a singer in Nashville and got through after his first deal with RCA in 1994 the long-awaited contract with the Warner label. The album Thinkin ' Problem was full of mostly written by himself honky tonk songs and was a real bestseller.

The album achieved double platinum status and produced three hit singles, which came two in the top 10. The title song Thinkin ' Problem was immediately ranked 2, the ballad When the Thought of You Catches Up With Me debuted at number 7, Honky Tonk Healin ' managed only the top 50 with Look What Followed Me Home finally he was ranked 11. 1995 he was nominated for " Male Vocalist of the Year".

After a slight career slump he brought with Warner which also traditionally held album Starlite Lounge out in 1999, he published again at Warner Play, which was awarded the " Music City Shine", but like its predecessor, did not attract large circles.

In 2001 he succeeded to the published by Dual Tone album Amigo the big comeback. The hit Riding With Private Malone took the number two of the country singles charts. Appeared in 2004 at Wildcatter Records Album Free Wheeler, 2007, he published Heartaches by The Number ( Shanachie Records).

David Ball is considered neo- traditionalist, the Texas country music in a modern guise.