Little Big Town
Little Big Town is an American country band from Homewood, Alabama.
Band History
The two college girlfriends Kimberly Roads and Karen Fairchild of Georgia in the 1990s laid the foundation for the band, which was completed in 1998 with the two coming from Arkansas singers Jimi Westbrook and Phil Sweet. A first recording contract with Mercury was disbanded due to musical differences again, first with the label Monument, which had previously been already successfully with the Dixie Chicks, the career of Little Big Town began. The debut album with the band name as the title and the first singles Do not Waste My Time and Everything Changes brought moderate success. The breakthrough came in 2005 with the album The Road to Here, which although the Top 10 on the country charts narrowly missed, but sold over a million copies and was certified platinum, as well as the single release Boondocks. Both also brought them each a nomination for a Grammy four times they were nominated for the CMA Awards for an award.
With the album A Place to Land they could two years later, although the success did not repeat, but they had now established itself as a solid country size. Due to extensive tours side projects and it took until 2010 until the fourth album The Reason Why was completed. So they came for the first time at number one on the country charts and reached the official Billboard 200 in fifth place. The song Little White Church was her third hit in the Top 10 on the country charts.
Your biggest success so far had Little Big Town then in 2012 with the song Pontoon. It was not only their first country number one hit single, the song sold over two million copies. For this purpose, a Grammy Award for Best Country performance of a group as well as the CMA Award for Single of the Year came. 2012 and 2013 they were also honored by the CMA as Vocal Group of the Year. The character following the single album Tornado her was so far successful and again a million seller.
Members
- Karen Fairchild
- Kimberly Schlapman
- Phillip Sweet
- Jimi Westbrook