Shenandoah (Band)
Shenandoah is a native of Muscle Shoals, Alabama Country Music lineup.
Career
Beginning of the eighties, came together in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the musician Jim Seales, Stan Thorn and Mike McGuire. All three are from southern states of the USA and had experience in other groups. In 1985 they were the house band of the MCM - clubs and called themselves accordingly MGM band. Increasingly she were by singer Marty Raybon and bassist Ralph Ezell. One day she invited the fellow songwriter Robert Byrne one at a show. This was impressed and brought it with Rick Hall, head of the famous Fame Studios, together. It was produced with seven songs a demo tape, which eventually led to a recording contract with Columbia label.
Career
First, it was changed by the record company, the group name in Shenandoah. In 1987, her debut album of the same name, which consisted mainly of the seven songs on the demo tape. Some uncoupled singles reached middle places of the country top 100. Their first top- 10 ranking, they managed a year later with Mom Knows, which was the second album, The Road Not Taken removed. 1989 you get three number - one hits: Church On Cumberland Road, Sunday In The South and Two Dozen Roses.
The next singles were successful. In 1990, she was honored by the Academy of Country Music as the " Group of the Year ". A year later it came to litigation because of the name " Shenandoah ," which was claimed by several other bands. The processes they brought to the brink of ruin, as they simultaneously lost their recording contract, but could eventually be won. But her down-home country music that was different from the mainstream soothing their competitors, was still in demand, and so you could already go on Label 1992 at RCA.
From their first album for the new label, Long Time Comin ', two top 20 singles were released. 1994 succeeded with If Bubba Can Dance ( I Can Too) another number 1 hit. In the same year, the band moved to the Liberty label. Although there were some early successes, the sales figures were soon after. A joint production with Alison Krauss in 1996 brought a CMA Award and a Grammy. A little later the lead singer Marty Raybon left Shenandoah.
Marty Raybon founded together with his brother Tim, a country duo with the obvious name Raybon Brothers. With their single Butterfly Kisses in 1997 they reached number 22 on the country charts, but a further success was not granted to them, so that Marty to care about their solo career. In addition to the typical mixture of Shenandoah New Traditionalist and rockabilly, he also mastered the Bluegrass trade and soon made a name in the Christian country music scene. Since its separation from Shenandoah, he released three albums, which were highly prized by critics.
The remaining band members committed while Brent Lamb as the lead singer and guitarist Rocky Thacker for admissions. Brent, who is from the Christian music scene, had already taken the mid-1990s with No Excuses, No Regrets a chart relevant country album and worked again with different country groups. For a smaller record company they produced the album Shenandoah in 2000, which contained outweigh country-pop ballads. The single What Children Believe reached a chart listing. 2002 returned guitarist Ralph Ezell and Curtis Wright, a new Lead Singer was committed.
Curtis Wright, who had also tried a solo career in the early 90s, wrote earlier for the hits Shenandoah Next to You, Next to Me and My Baby skirt and was as a backing singer, among others Vern Gosdin worked for. The band toured across the States and in 2006 published the album Journeys
On 30 November 2007 bassist Ralph Ezell died aged 54 following a heart attack in South Dakota.
Discography
Albums
Singles ( selection)
- They Do not Make Love Like We Used To (1987); # 54 U.S. Country
- Stop the Rain (1987); # 28 U.S. Country
- She Does not Cry Anymore (1988); # 9 U.S. Country
- Mama Knows (1988); # 5, U.S. Country
- The Church on Cumberland Road ( 1989); # 1 U.S. Country
- Sunday in the South (1989); # 1 U.S. Country
- Two Dozen Roses ( 1989); # 1 U.S. Country
- See If I Care (1990); # 6, U.S. Country
- Next to You, Next to Me ( 1990); # 1 U.S. Country
- Ghost in This House (1990); # 5, U.S. Country
- I Got You (1991); # 7, U.S. Country
- The Moon Over Georgia (1991); # 9 U.S. Country
- When You Were Mine ( 1991); # 38 U.S. Country
- Rock My Baby ( 1992); # 2, U.S. Country
- Leavin 's Been a Long Time Comin ' (1992); # 15 U.S. Country
- Hey Mister (I Need This Job ) (1992); # 28 U.S. Country
- Janie Baker's Love Slave (1993); # 15 U.S. Country
- I Want to Be Loved Like That (1993); # 3 U.S. Country
- If Bubba Can Dance ( I Can Too) (1994); # 1 U.S. Country
- Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart ( with Alison Krauss) (1994); # 7, U.S. Country
- Darned If I Do not ( danged If I Do ) ( 1995); # 4, U.S. Country
- Heaven Bound ( I'm Ready ) ( 1995); # 24 U.S. Country
- Always Have, Always Will (1995); # 40 U.S. Country
- All Over But the Shoutin ' (1996); # 43 U.S. Country
- What Children Believe ( 2000); # 65 U.S. Country