CMA Flashback: Male Vocalist of the Year (2017 Edition)
Our CMA Flashback series continues with the Male Vocalist of the Year category.
John Conlee
CMA Flashback: Album of the Year (2017 Edition)
Here are all of the nominees and winners for CMA Album of the Year, starting with a look at this year’s contenders and stretching back to the first ceremony in 1967.
Terri Clark’s Podcast is Pretty Much the Greatest Thing Ever
Terri Clark launched a podcast earlier this year of unedited interviews recorded for her Country Gold radio show.
A Country Music Conversation, Day 20: “She Can’t Say That Anymore” to “The Sound of a Million Dreams”
Day 20 features tracks from John Conlee, Chely Wright, Alan Jackson, Ricky Van Shelton, and David Nail.
A Country Music Conversation: Introduction and Index
This post will serve not only as the introduction, but also as the ongoing index of the feature.
Daily Top Five: Favorite Songs by Your Favorite Songwriter
There’s a cool Guy Clark documentary Kickstarter campaign happening right now that I encourage country music lovers to check out and, perhaps, make a pledge […]
Single Review: Toby Keith, "I Like Girls That Drink Beer"
An awesome throwback that recalls the great class-crossed lovers anthems without borrowing too heavily from them.
100 Greatest Men: #53. Brooks & Dunn
100 Greatest Men: The Complete List
The very definition of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts, two struggling solo artists came together in the nineties and became the most c0mmercially successful duo in music history.
100 Greatest Men: #77. John Conlee
100 Greatest Men: The Complete List
One of the greatest vocalists of his generation, John Conlee powered to stardom on the strength of a self-written hit that would provide both his musical and fashion signature for the rest of his career.
He’d been singing and playing guitar since early childhood, but his first career was as a mortician, followed by a stint as a radio deejay. He moved to Nashville in 1971, and five years later, he earned his first recording contract with ABC Records.
Searching for Gary Harrison
Written by Bob Losche (Music & More)
Google “Gary Harrison songwriter” and you won’t find a website or MySpace. There’s not even a Wikipedia article. Don’t know where he’s from, how he got into songwriting or what he likes to eat for dinner.
As far as I know, he has never made an album. When he co-writes a song, does he write the music or the lyrics or a little of both? Don’t know. He’s a Grammy nominated songwriter as co-writer of “Strawberry Wine”, the 1997 CMA Song of the Year, and has penned many BMI Award-Winning Songs. It appears that his first big hit was “Lying in Love with You”, written with Dean Dillon for Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius. The duet went to #2 in 1979.