Today, The Grandma has been listening to some country music. She has chosen PattyLoveless, the American country music singer, who was born on a day like today in 1957.
Patty Loveless (born Patricia Lee Ramey,January4, 1957) isan Americancountry music singer.
She began performing in her teenaged years before signing her first recording contract with MCA Records' Nashville division in 1985.
While her first few releases were unsuccessful, she broke through by decade's end with a cover of George Jones's If My Heart Had Windows.
Loveless issued five albums on MCA before moving to Epic Records in 1993, where she released nine more albums. Four of her albums -Honky Tonk Angel, Only What I Feel, When Fallen Angels Fly, and The Trouble with the Truth- are certified platinum in the United States.
Loveless has charted 44 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including five which reached number one: Timber, I'm Falling in Love, Chains, Blame It on Your Heart, You Can Feel Bad, and Lonely Too Long.
Loveless's music is defined by a mix of sounds, including neotraditional country, country pop, and bluegrass music, with her singing voice garnering favoUrable comparisons to Loretta Lynn and Emmylou Harris. Recurring songwriters whose work she has recorded include Matraca Berg, Kostas, Jim Lauderdale, and Steve Earle. She has collaborated with Vince Gill, George Jones, and Dwight Yoakam, among others.
Nearly all of her albums were produced by her husband, Emory Gordy Jr. Although she largely retired from performing in 2009, Loveless has sporadically contributed to other artists' works in subsequent years. She has won five awards from the Country Music Association, two from the Academy of Country Music, and two Grammy Awards.
Loveless was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on October 22, 2023.
Patty Loveless was born Patricia Lee Ramey on January 4, 1957, inPikeville, Kentucky to Naomi (née Bowling; 1921-2006) and John Ramey (1921-1979). She is the sixth of seven children.
Through her patriline, Loveless is a distant cousin of country singers Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle. She was raised in nearby Elkhorn City, Kentucky, where her father worked in a coal mine. He contracted black lung disease as a result of the job, forcing the family to move to Louisville, Kentucky, to facilitate his medical treatments. John Ramey died of the disease in 1979.
By the time she was 11, she began playing guitar and writing songs with her brother Roger, which led to the two of them performing together at local events.
Loveless spent much of the late 1970s playing rock cover songs at various venues in the Midwestern United States. By the mid-1980s, she moved back to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a career as a country artist.
At the time, Loveless said she was inspired by the rise of neotraditional country in the mid-1980s through such acts as Dwight Yoakam, The Judds, and Randy Travis. In Nashville, she sang demo recordings for other artists and signed a songwriting contract with Acuff-Rose Music in 1985.
Loveless recorded five of her own songs on a demo tape, which her brother Roger sent to MCA Records' Nashville division. Tony Brown (a record producer who was also serving as that label's president of artists and repertoire) helped sign Loveless to the label in July 1985.
Although she largely retired from performing in 2009, Loveless has sporadically contributed to other artists' albums. She provided vocals to the track Dear Diamond on Miranda Lambert's 2010 album Four the Record. The same year, she joined with Danica Patrick, Caitlyn Jenner, and Michael Strahan in a program started by NASCAR titled Drive, which was done to raise awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Loveless chose to join the program as her sister Dottie had died of the disease. She also appeared on albums by Angaleena Presley, Elizabeth Cook, Trisha Yearwood, and Carly Pearce.
The editors of Country Music: The Encyclopedia describe Loveless as having a straight-from-the-heart, strong yet vulnerable vocal style, which they compared favorably to Loretta Lynn and Kitty Wells.
The same entry noted that Loveless had commercial success with both upbeat songs and ballads, and stated that she may not be one of the more flashy personalities around; nevertheless, the songs she chooses to sing and the way she chooses to sing them are some of the best of what modern 'traditional' country music is all about."
I look for songs that the listener, when they hear it, they believe what I'm singing about, that I know what I'm singing about. That's my whole deal. I try to choose songs that a male or a female can perform and relate to.
Today, The Grandma has been listening to some country music. She loves it, and she has wanted to remember Lynn Anderson, the American country singer who died on a day like today in 2015.
Lynn Rene Anderson (September 26, 1947-July 30, 2015) was an American country singer and television personality.
Her crossover signature recording, RoseGarden, was a number one hit in the United States and internationally. She charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country songs chart.
Anderson is regarded as one of country music's most significant performers.
Born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States, she was raised in California by her mother Liz Anderson, who was also a country music artist. Daughter Lynn was signed to a recording contract to Chart Records in 1966 when she was heard singing along with her mother at an industry function. Previously she had recorded some demo tapes of her mother's songs and appeared on television in California on regional country music shows.
In 1967, she had her first top ten hit with the single If I Kiss You (Will You Go Away). Soon after, Anderson joined the cast of The Lawrence Welk Show where she performed country music weekly to a national audience.
In 1970, Anderson signed with Columbia Records where she was produced by her first husband, Glenn Sutton. She had her biggest commercial success with Rose Garden. The song reached positions on the Billboard country, pop, and adult contemporary charts, also charting in other countries and earning her a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
Throughout the decade, Anderson also had number-one hits with You're My Man, How Can I Unlove You, Keep Me in Mind, and What a Man My Man Is. She also became a television personality, with appearances on The Tonight Show, specials with Bob Hope and Dean Martin, and her own prime-time specials.
After a brief hiatus, Anderson returned with the studio album Back (1983). The album spawned three singles, including the top ten hit You're Welcome to Tonight, with Gary Morris. She continued recording sporadically throughout the 1980s. This included a revival of the pop hit Under the Boardwalk and the studio album What She Does Best (1988).
Anderson continued releasing new albums into the new millennium, such as 2004's The Bluegrass Sessions. Towards the end of her life, Anderson struggled with alcohol addiction, but continued performing until her death in 2015. For her work as a crossover artist, she was ranked on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time and CMTs 40 Greatest Women of Country Music.
Lynn Rene Anderson was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, on September 26, 1947, to Casey and Liz Anderson. Her grandparents were Scandinavian immigrants who established a North Dakota saddle club. According to Anderson, she could ride horses before she could walk. While she was still a young child, the family relocated to a subdivision in Fair Oaks, California.
Anderson died on July 30, 2015, at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 67.
Anderson's music is rooted in the country genre. It is also rooted in the sub-genres of the Nashville Sound, Countrypolitan, bluegrass, western and gospel. Early on, Anderson had a traditional country style that featured instruments such as the steel guitar and the banjo. These recordings also incorporated some elements of the Nashville Sound style.
I don't play music very well, so I've always surrounded myself with people who played a lot better than I did. I'm a loyal person, and I just tend to leave it to the experts.
Today, The Grandma is still relaxing at home. She has been listening to some music, and she has chosen LeAnnRimes's songs. TheGrandma loves country music, and LeAnnRimes, who was born on a day like today in 1982, is one of the most beautiful female country vocalists of all time.
Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian (born August 28, 1982) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and author.
Rimes rose to stardom at age 13 following the release of her version of the Bill Mack song Blue, becoming the youngest country music star since Tanya Tucker in 1972.
Rimes made her breakthrough into country music in 1996 with her debut album, Blue, which reached No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart and was certified multi-platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album's eponymous lead single, Blue, became a Top 10 hit, and Rimes gained national acclaim for her similarity to Patsy Cline's vocal style. When she released her second studio album in 1997, You Light Up My Life: InspirationalSongs, she moved towards country pop material, which set the trend for a string of albums released into the next decade.
Rimes has won many awards, including two Grammys, three ACMs, a CMA, 12 Billboard Music Awards, and one American Music award. She has a total of 8 Grammy Award nominations.
She has released ten studio albums and three compilation albums and two greatest hits albums, one released in the U.S. and the other released internationally, through her record label of 13 years, Curb Records, and placed over 40 singles on American and international charts since 1996. She has sold over 37 million records worldwide, with 20.8 million album sales in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan. Billboard ranked her 17th artist of the 1990–2000 decade.
Rimes has also written four books: two novels and two children's books. Her hit song How Do I Live was ranked as the most successful song of the 1990s by Billboard magazine.
Margaret LeAnn Rimes was born in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the only child of Wilbur Rimes and Belinda Butler. The family moved to Garland, Texas, when she was six. She was enrolled in vocal and dance classes, and was performing at local talent shows at the age of five.
Rimes began her career in musical theatre, performing in a Dallas, Texas, production of A Christmas Carol, and almost landing the lead part in the Broadway production of Annie. After appearing on the network television competition show Star Search, where she clearly charmed host Ed McMahon in addition to being a one-week champion, Rimes decided to go into country music. Rimes appeared a number of times on Johnnie High's Country Music Revue in Arlington, Texas, which gained the attention of national talent scouts.
After signing with Curb Records, Rimes re-recorded a new version of Blue for her debut studio album, and as a single. However, Rimes told a BBC radio program in October 2016 that the record company accidentally released the version she had recorded as an 11-year-old.
In 1997, Rimes released a compilation of previously recorded material under the Nor Va Jak label, Unchained Melody: The Early Years. The album mainly consisted of remakes, ranging from Country to pop, including songs originally recorded by The Beatles, Whitney Houston, Bill Monroe, and Dolly Parton.
Rimes released her third album for Curb in May 1998, Sittin' on Top of the World.
Rimes released her fourth studio album for Curb, LeAnn Rimes, in October 1999, a collection of country standards.
In 2000, Rimes made her full crossover into pop music. On March 8, 2000, Rimes contributed to the soundtrack from the 1999 TV film Jesus, called Jesus: Music From & Inspired by the Epic Mini Series. The song, I Need You, would be released as a single from the soundtrack on July 18, 2000.
In mid-October 2001, Curb released a compilation of patriotic and inspirational songs, titled God Bless America, in order to benefit the disaster recovery for the September 11 attacks. It included the title track, which she released as a single, as well as inspirational songs such as The Lord's Prayer and The Sands of Time.
In March 2002, Rimes reissued the I Need You album with nine of the songs originally released on the album, an extended version of the song You Are, the song Light the Fire Within, which she sang at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and four bonus remixes.
Rimes would later that year release her fifth studio album, titled Twisted Angel,which contained more adult material.
The following year, when Rimes turned 21, she released her first children's book, titled Jag, in July, and she also released the Greatest Hits compilation in November.
In 2004, Rimes released her second-greatest hits album, The Best of LeAnnRimes, internationally in February.
In January 2005, Rimes released her seventh studio album, This Woman, her first album of contemporary country music in many years.
In summer 2006, Rimes released the studio album Whatever We Wanna, which was released exclusively outside the United States and Canada.
In October 2007, Rimes released her ninth studio album, Family. The album was a mix of country, pop, and rock music, and included the duet with Bon Jovi, Til We Ain't Strangers Anymore.
Despite singing new material at several live shows earlier in the year, it was announced, on May 24, 2010, by Rimes via her Twitter account, that her new studio album would be a cover album of country songs, titled Lady & Gentlemen.She also stated that her next studio album is already done and will be released next year. Rimes went back into the studio in March to record fifteen more songs for her new album, Spitfire.
Today Is Christmas, Rimes's most recent holiday album, was released on October 16, 2015, as a full album rather than an EP.
Rimes is scheduled to release a live album titled Rimes: Live at Gruene Hall on April 13, 2019, in honour of Record Store Day.
Since her debut in 1996, Rimes's soprano voice and vocal style have often been compared to and identified with Patsy Cline. Cline showed distinctive emotional expression in most of her material.
Rimes has also used distinctive emotional expression in many of her songs, most notably her first single, Blue, which was sung in the style of Cline. Rimes's vocal similarities to Cline had brought wide interest to the idea that Rimes was the successor to Cline's legacy, and brought her novelty appeal.
Rimes has given credit to artists from various music genres, mainly country and pop. She has stated that Barbra Streisand, Wynonna Judd and Reba McEntire were primary influences on her career. Rimes has also stated that Judy Garland was an influence as well.
Today, The Grandma has decided to listen to some music, and she has chosen one of her favourite genres, country music, and one of the best singers, MartinaMcBride, who was born on a day like today in 1966.
Martina Mariea McBride (born July 29, 1966) is an American country music singer-songwriter and record producer known for her soprano singing range and her country pop material.
McBride signed to RCA Records in 1991, and made her debut the following year as a neo-traditionalist country singer with the single, The Time Has Come. Over time, she developed a pop-styled crossover sound, similar to Shania Twain and Faith Hill, and had a string of major hit singles on the Billboard country chart and occasionally on the adult contemporary chart. Five of these singles went to No. 1 on the country chart between 1995 and 2001, and one peaked at No. 1 on the adult contemporary chart in 2003.
McBride has fourteen studio albums, two greatest hits compilations, one live album, as well as two additional compilation albums. Eight of her studio albums and two of her compilations have an RIAA Gold certification, or higher. In the U.S., she has sold over 14 million albums. In addition, McBride has won the Country Music Association's Female Vocalist of the Year award four times, tied with Reba McEntire for the third-most wins, and the Academy of Country Music's Top Female Vocalist award three times. She is also a 14-time Grammy Award nominee.
McBride was born in Sharon, Kansas, on July 29, 1966. She has two brothers, Martin and Steve, who play in her concert band as of 2017, and a sister, Gina.
McBride's parents, Daryl and Jeanne Schiff, owned a dairy farm. Daryl, who was also a cabinetry shop owner, exposed her to country music at a young age. Listening to country music helped her acquire a love for singing. After school, she sang for hours along to the records of such popular artists as Reba McEntire, Linda Ronstadt, Juice Newton, Jeanne Pruett, Connie Smith, and Patsy Cline.
Around the age of eight or nine, Martina began singing with a band her father fronted, The Schiffters. As she grew older, her role in the band progressively increased, from simply singing, to also playing keyboard with them. She enjoyed performing in her early years.
McBride began performing with a local rock band, The Penetrators, in Wichita instead. Then, in 1987, Schiff gathered a group of musicians called Lotus and started looking for rehearsal space; she began renting space from studio engineer John McBride. In 1988, the two married.
After marrying, the couple moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1989 with the hope of beginning a career in country music. John McBride joined Garth Brooks'ssound crew and later became his concert production manager. She occasionally joined her husband on the road and helped sell Garth Brooks souvenirs.
In 1990, impressed by her enthusiastic spirit, Brooks offered her the position as his opening act provided she could obtain a recording contract.
During this time, while her husband was working with country artists Charlie Daniels and Ricky Van Shelton, he also helped produce her demo tape, which helped her gain a recording contract with RCA Nashville Records in 1991.
McBride released her debut studio album by RCA Records in 1992, titled The Time Has Come. The Way That I Am was McBride's second album.
Released in 1995, Wild Angels accounted for another top five hit in its lead single Safe in the Arms of Love, which had previously been recorded by both Wild Choir and Baillie & the Boys, and was concurrently released in Canada by Michelle Wright at the time of McBride's version.
Still Holding On, a duet with Clint Black which was the lead-off single to her album Evolution and his album Nothin' but the Taillights, and Valentine, a collaboration with pop pianist Jim Brickman which appeared on his album Picture This.
McBride's sixth studio album, Emotion, was released in 1999.
In 2003, McBride released her seventh studio album, Martina, which celebrated womanhood.
In 2004, McBride won the CMA's Female Vocalist award for the fourth time, following the wins in 2003, 2002 and 1999, which tied her for the most wins in that category with Reba McEntire.
After finding success in country pop-styled music, McBride released her next studio album, Timeless, in 2005, which consisted of country covers.
In 2007, McBride released her ninth studio album, Waking Up Laughing. McBride wrapped up production of her tenth studio album in late 2008.
McBride exited RCA in November 2010 and signed with Republic Nashville. She began working on a new studio album with producer Byron Gallimore.
In July 2017, McBride revealed she is planning on releasing a Christmas album, of which she said It won't have as many hymns on it. It will be more things like 'Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town' and 'It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas'.
I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that
we've built one step at a time and a family I know that I'm in a good place.
Today, The Grandma is relaxing at home. She has decided to listen to some music, and she has chosen Wynonna Judd, one of her favourite American country music singers, who was born on a day like today in 1964.
Wynonna Ellen Judd, born Christina Claire Ciminella (May 30, 1964) is a multi award-winning American country music singer.
She is one of America's most widely recognized and awarded female country singers of the 1990s.
Her solo albums and singles are all credited to the single name Wynonna.
She first rose to fame in the 1980s alongside her mother Naomi in the country music duo the Judds. They released seven albums on Curb Records in addition to 26 singles, of which 14 were number-one hits.
The Judds disbanded in 1991 and Wynonna began a solo career, also on Curb. In her solo career, she has released eight studio albums, a live album, a holiday album, and two compilation albums, in addition to more than 20 singles.
Her first three singles were She Is His Only Need, I Saw the Light, and No One Else on Earth. All three reached number one on the U.S. country singles charts consecutively, and To Be Loved by You also hit number one in 1996, her fourth number one and top ten hit. Three of her albums are certified platinum or higher by the RIAA.
Her most recent recording was Wynonna & the Big Noise, released on February 12, 2016, and she released the single Cool Ya' that same month.
Wynonna is most recognized for her musical work, although she has also pursued other interests starting in the 2000s, including writing, acting, and philanthropy.
Wynonna was born Christina Claire Ciminella in Ashland, Kentucky, on May 30, 1964. She was given the last name Ciminella after Michael Ciminella, the man her mother quickly married after being abandoned by her boyfriend and Judd'sbiological father, Charles Jordan, who died in 2000.
Her younger half-sister is actress Ashley Judd. Naomi and Ciminella moved with the girls to Los Angeles in 1968 but were divorced by 1972.
By 1976, Wynonna and Naomi were living in Kentucky, where Wynonnatook inspiration from the country music that her mother listened to and learned to play guitar after receiving one for Christmas. The two of them moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1979 in pursuit of a musical career.
Wynonna and Naomi were signed to RCA Records in 1983 as the duo the Judds.
On January 27, 1992, Wynonna performed solo on television for the first time at the American Music Awards. She unveiled She Is His Only Need, the first single from her self-titled solo debut album. This album, Wynonna, was released in 1992 via MCA/Curb, under the production of Tony Brown.
She Is His Only Need went to number one on the Billboard country singles charts that year, as did the album's next three singles, I Saw the Light and My Strongest Weakness. No One Else on Earth, was also the number one country song of 1992 according to Billboard Year-End.
She Is His Only Need and No One Else on Earth were also minor Adult Contemporary hits, and the latter peaked at No. 83 on the Billboard Hot 100. My Strongest Weakness,
the album's final single, was a No. 4 country hit. The album shipped
five million copies in the United States, earning a 5× Multi-Platinum
certification from the RIAA.
Her second album, Tell Me Why,
was released by MCA/Curb in 1993. Also, a platinum-selling album, it
accounted for five consecutive Top Ten hits on the country charts: the
title track, Only Love, Is It Over Yet, Rock Bottom, and Girls with Guitars, which was written by Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Tell Me Why was her third crossover hit, peaking at No. 77 on the pop charts and No. 24 on the Adult Contemporary charts. Between Tell Me Why and Only Love, she sang guest vocals on Clint Black's 1993 single A Bad Goodbye, from the album No Time to Kill, which became her biggest pop hit at No. 43. The success of this song led to a tour called the Black & Wy tour, featuring Black and Wynonna as headliners.
In 1994, she also made an appearance on the Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute album Skynyrd Frynds, on which she covered their song Free Bird. She also sang duet vocals on pop-Christian singer Michael English's debut single, Healing, which peaked at No. 120 on the pop charts.
After Girls with Guitars fell from the charts, Wynonna became the subject of negative publicity, as she had a child out of wedlock.
She was absent from the country charts for all of 1995. In 1996, she married Arch Kelly, the father of her daughter and son.
Revelations was the title of her third album, released by MCA/Curb in 1996.
Also certified platinum, this album was led off by her fourth and final number one hit, the Mike Reid/Gary Burr co-written To Be Loved by You. Despite this song's minor Adult Contemporary success, the album's other three singles did not fare as well.
Wynonna's fourth and final album for MCA was titled The Other Side.
Unlike her previous country pop-oriented albums, this album focused on a
more blues and rock sound. It was released in 1997 and produced four
singles. The album did not sell as well as her first three, however,
only earning a gold certification.
Its singles were not as successful on the charts, either: although When Love Starts Talkin' and Come Some Rainy Day reached No. 13 and No. 14, respectively, Always Will fell short of Top 40 and Love Like That became the first single of her career not to chart at all. After the release of the greatest hits album called Collection, Wynonna left MCA in favor of Mercury Records.
In 1999, Wynonna decided to reunite with her mother for a tour beginning on New Year's Eve. A month later, Wynonna released her fifth solo album, New Day Dawning. This album, the first of her career that Wynonna co-produced, included a four-song bonus disc entitled Big Bang Boogie composed of four new Judds songs.
What the World Needs Now Is Love, her sixth studio album, was released in August 2003, on Curb records.
Lead-off single What the World Needs reached the Top 15 on the country charts, followed by the lesser singles Heaven Help Me and Flies on the Butter (You Can't Go Home Again), at No. 37 and No. 33 respectively.
This latter song, originally recorded by Lari White on her album Stepping Stone,featuredbacking vocals from Naomi, and was credited on the charts as Wynonna with Naomi Judd instead of The Judds.
Judd had success on the Hot Dance Airplay charts with a cover of Foreigner's I Want to Know What Love Is. Her rendition peaked at No. 12 on that chart in 2005. Also included on What the World Needs Now Is Love were two songs from soundtracks: a cover of the Elvis Presley hit Burning Love, which Wynonna recorded for the animated film Lilo & Stitch, and You Are, co-written by Judd,which was included in the film Someone Like You, a film starring half-sister Ashley Judd.
Her second release for Asylum-Curb was a live CD/DVD package called Her Story: Scenes from a Lifetime, released in 2005 which was concurrently released by with her best-selling autobiography, Coming Home to Myself. The album included one new studio track, Attitude.
Written by Wynonna and John Rich of Big & Rich, this song was issued as a single, peaking at No. 40 on the country charts. That same year she released her first solo Christmas album called A Classic Christmas that included a Latin version of Ave Maria. She also sang an overdubbed duet with Elvis Presley on the late 2008 RCA album Christmas Duets.
Sing: Chapter 1,
her first studio album in six years, was released on February 3, 2009
on Curb Records. This album is largely composed of cover songs, except
for the title track, an original composition by Rodney Crowell. It also
reunites her with producers Brent Maher and Don Potter, who produced all
the Judds' 1980s albums.
This album's lead-off single is I Hear You Knocking,
a blues standard first recorded by Smiley Lewis. On May 9, 2009 a
seven-song EP containing dance remixes of the title track was released.
On September 14, 2010, the Judds appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show where Wynonna discussed her recent weight loss, her year of living dangerously and what it's like going back on stage as part of the iconic duo, the Judds.
The Judds also performed their new single I Will Stand By You, released October 4, 2010. I Will Stand By You was released as the title track to the Judd's 2011 Greatest Hits collection, I Will Stand by You: The Essential Collection.
In 2011, the New York Times bestselling author released her first novel, Restless Heart.
A new single, Love It Out Loud was released in May 2011. On November 27, 2011 Wynonna debuted her new band Wynonna & The Big Noise in Nashville, TN at 3rd and Lindsley.
In March 2013 Wynonna released Something You Can't Live Without, the first single off her forthcoming full-length album, produced by her husband/drummer Cactus Moser and set for release 2013 on Curb Records. This album -her first with all new material in over four years-was recorded in her own home studio and is deeply personal, especially noting the life-changing events the couple experienced in 2012.
Judd released a new studio album, Wynonna & the Big Noise, on February 12, 2016. The album produced Two singles Jesus And A Jukebox and Things I Lean On.
In October 2020, Wynonna released a new extended play titled Recollections via Anti Records.
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