Fred Koller
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Fred Koller is an American
singer-songwriter
. He has been active in the music business since 1973. Fred currently lives and works in Nashville with his wife Trish and their cat Buddy.
Millionaire Performance Award for both Angel Eyes
and She Came From Fort Worth
. Koller also won BMI Awards for This Dream's On Me, Goin' Gone
, Life As We Knew It and Will It Be Love By Morning. He is the former Vice President of The Nashville Songwriters Association International
. Koller has taught for Songwriters Guild of America
and was a staff instructor for both the Kerrville Folk Festival
and the Augusta Heritage Festival
.
in 1975. It was located a few blocks from the ocean on Bay Ave. and was called Words and Music. The shop stocked an eclectic collection of used records, books and sheet music. After two years the store moved to an old fisherman's cottage where Fred and his first wife, majolica artist Farraday Newsome, lived upstairs.
In 1979 Fred sold his bookstore and moved back to Nashville, Tennessee
. He opened Rhino Booksellers in Nashville in Oct. 2001. There are presently two locations.
Koller is the author How to Pitch and Promote Your Songs which is in its third edition. He also contributed to The Homespun Songwriter's Workshop and taught Homespun Tapes: Developing Your Lyrics.
was spending a lot of time on his houseboat in Sausalito, California
and would often visit to write songs and explore Santa Cruz, California
.
In 1974, Silverstein and Koller began writing their first song together. Silverstein was already famous for his Playboy
cartoons, children’s books and several songwriting hits for artists like Doctor Hook and Johnny Cash
. Their collaboration grew into a friendship that would last for the next 25 years.
On one two-week trip together to Santa Cruz, California they wrote a dozen songs like "Don’t Knock The Music (You Were Made To)" and "Lovely Margarita," which features a transvestite strip tease artist unveiling the "secrets of an ancient world's delight." Other encounters produced "Little Green Buttons," which introduces listeners to a woman saving a dying marriage with carefully placed tattoos, and "The Happy Caucasian," which chronicles a modern-day Johnny Appleseed who spreads joy and jubilation all across the nation while "singing out good news." Country singer Bobby Bare
recorded a version of "This Guitar is For Sale," and Robert Earl Keen
, Conway Twitty
and Bare have all recorded versions of the first song Koller and Silverstein wrote together, "Jennifer Johnson and Me". A few more were recorded on Fred's "Night of The Living Fred" release.
United States
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singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
. He has been active in the music business since 1973. Fred currently lives and works in Nashville with his wife Trish and their cat Buddy.
Music career
Koller has written over 300 songs which have been recorded. He was awarded the BMIBroadcast Music Incorporated
Broadcast Music, Inc. is one of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP and SESAC. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed...
Millionaire Performance Award for both Angel Eyes
Angel Eyes
- Music :* Angel Eyes , 1984* Angel Eyes , 1968* "Angeleyes", a song by ABBA* "Angel Eyes" , a jazz standard written by Earl Brent and Matt Dennis* "Angel Eyes"...
and She Came From Fort Worth
She Came from Fort Worth
"She Came from Fort Worth" is a single by American country music artist Kathy Mattea. Released in 1990, it was the fourth single from the album Willow in the Wind. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart....
. Koller also won BMI Awards for This Dream's On Me, Goin' Gone
Goin' Gone
"Goin' Gone" is a 1987 single written by Pat Alger, Bill Dale, and Fred Koller and recorded by Kathy Mattea. "Goin' Gone" was Kathy Mattea's ninth country hit and the first of four number one country singles. The single went to number one for one week and spent fifteen weeks on the country...
, Life As We Knew It and Will It Be Love By Morning. He is the former Vice President of The Nashville Songwriters Association International
Nashville Songwriters Association International
The Nashville Songwriters Association International is a 501 not-for-profit trade organization that works to help songwriters in three ways: through legislative advocacy, through education and advice about the actual craft of songwriting, and through teaching about the music industry, and how to...
. Koller has taught for Songwriters Guild of America
Songwriters Guild of America
The Songwriters Guild of America is an organization founded in 1931, to help "advance, promote, and benefit" the profession of songwriters. It was founded as the "Songwriters Protective Association" by Billy Rose, George M. Meyer and Edgar Leslie...
and was a staff instructor for both the Kerrville Folk Festival
Kerrville Folk Festival
The Kerrville Folk Festival is a music festival held for 18 consecutive days in the late spring/early summer at Quiet Valley Ranch near Kerrville, Texas. The event has run on a yearly basis since 1972. In November 2008, the Kerrville Folk Festival and Kerrville Wine & Music Festival were acquired...
and the Augusta Heritage Festival
Augusta Heritage Festival
Augusta Heritage Festival is a music and heritage festival held each summer at the Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia.Over 20 years old, this five week festival covers music, dance and crafts relating to 10+ themes.These themes include:...
.
Books and Bookselling
Koller opened his first bookstore in Capitola, CaliforniaCapitola, California
Capitola is a city in Santa Cruz County, California, United States, on the coast of Monterey Bay. The population was 9,918 at the 2010 census.-History:...
in 1975. It was located a few blocks from the ocean on Bay Ave. and was called Words and Music. The shop stocked an eclectic collection of used records, books and sheet music. After two years the store moved to an old fisherman's cottage where Fred and his first wife, majolica artist Farraday Newsome, lived upstairs.
In 1979 Fred sold his bookstore and moved back to Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
. He opened Rhino Booksellers in Nashville in Oct. 2001. There are presently two locations.
Koller is the author How to Pitch and Promote Your Songs which is in its third edition. He also contributed to The Homespun Songwriter's Workshop and taught Homespun Tapes: Developing Your Lyrics.
Fred and Shel
Children's author Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein
Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein , was an American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter and author of children's books. He styled himself as Uncle Shelby in his children's books...
was spending a lot of time on his houseboat in Sausalito, California
Sausalito, California
Sausalito is a San Francisco Bay Area city, in Marin County, California, United States. Sausalito is south-southeast of San Rafael, at an elevation of 13 feet . The population was 7,061 as of the 2010 census. The community is situated near the northern end of the Golden Gate Bridge, and prior to...
and would often visit to write songs and explore Santa Cruz, California
Santa Cruz, California
Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...
.
In 1974, Silverstein and Koller began writing their first song together. Silverstein was already famous for his Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
cartoons, children’s books and several songwriting hits for artists like Doctor Hook and Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
. Their collaboration grew into a friendship that would last for the next 25 years.
On one two-week trip together to Santa Cruz, California they wrote a dozen songs like "Don’t Knock The Music (You Were Made To)" and "Lovely Margarita," which features a transvestite strip tease artist unveiling the "secrets of an ancient world's delight." Other encounters produced "Little Green Buttons," which introduces listeners to a woman saving a dying marriage with carefully placed tattoos, and "The Happy Caucasian," which chronicles a modern-day Johnny Appleseed who spreads joy and jubilation all across the nation while "singing out good news." Country singer Bobby Bare
Bobby Bare
Robert Joseph Bare is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr., also a musician.-Early career:...
recorded a version of "This Guitar is For Sale," and Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen, Junior is an American Texas Country singer-songwriter. He is popular with fans of traditional country music, folk music, college radio, and alt-country. Keen currently resides in Kerrville, Texas and maintains a ranch in Medina, Texas.-Early life:Growing up in Houston, Texas,...
, Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006...
and Bare have all recorded versions of the first song Koller and Silverstein wrote together, "Jennifer Johnson and Me". A few more were recorded on Fred's "Night of The Living Fred" release.
Discography
- Night of the Living Fred, Alcazar (1989)
- Songs From the Night Before, Alcazar (1994)
- Where the Fast Lane Ends, Alcazar (1994)
- Sweet Baby Fred, Appaloosa (1998)
- No Song Left To Sell, Gadfly (2001)
Songwriting Credits
| Song Title | Artist |
|---|---|
| Ain’t It Been Love | Vern Gosdin Vern Gosdin Vern Gosdin was an American country music singer. He idolized The Louvin Brothers and The Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called The Gosdin Brothers. An inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard, Gosdin was nicknamed "The Voice" by his... |
| Alabama Bad | Marshall Chapman Marshall Chapman Marshall Chapman is an American singer-songwriter and author.Chapman, the daughter of a cotton mill owner, was taken to an Elvis Presley concert in 1957 and says the experience changed her from a southern debutante to a nascent rock and roller... |
| Angel Eyes Angel Eyes - Music :* Angel Eyes , 1984* Angel Eyes , 1968* "Angeleyes", a song by ABBA* "Angel Eyes" , a jazz standard written by Earl Brent and Matt Dennis* "Angel Eyes"... |
Jeff Healy Band, New Grass Revival New Grass Revival New Grass Revival was an American progressive bluegrass band founded in 1971, and composed of Sam Bush, Courtney Johnson, Ebo Walker, Curtis Burch, Butch Robins, John Cowan, Béla Fleck and Pat Flynn. They were active between 1971 and 1989, releasing more than twenty albums as well as six singles.... , John Hiatt John Hiatt John Hiatt is an American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave, blues and country. Hiatt has been nominated for several Grammy Awards - although he has never won- and has been awarded a variety of other... |
| Bachelor Girl | Baillie & The Boys Baillie & the Boys Baillie & the Boys is an American country music group that gained prominence in the late 1980s. The band's original lineup consisted of Kathie Baillie , her husband, Michael Bonagura , and Alan LeBoeuf . Baillie & the Boys has recorded five studio albums and charted ten Top-40 singles on the U.S... |
| Blind Luck | Peter Case Peter Case Peter Case is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has had a wide-ranging career ranging from new wave music to folk rock to solo acoustic performance.-Early career:... |
| Boomtown | Lacy J. Dalton Lacy J. Dalton Lacy J. Dalton , is an American country and western singer and songwriter, known for her gritty, powerful vocals, which a number of critics likened to a country equivalent to Bonnie Raitt . She had a number of hits in the 1980s, including "Takin' It Easy," "Crazy Blue Eyes" and "16th Avenue." ... |
| Breaking Up This Happy Home | Brendan Croker Brendan Croker Brendan Croker is a musician from Leeds who has recorded albums under his own name and with occasional backing band The Five O'Clock Shadows. He was also a member of The Notting Hillbillies... |
| Caught in the Spotlight | Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Robert Joseph Bare is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr., also a musician.-Early career:... & Lacy J. Dalton Lacy J. Dalton Lacy J. Dalton , is an American country and western singer and songwriter, known for her gritty, powerful vocals, which a number of critics likened to a country equivalent to Bonnie Raitt . She had a number of hits in the 1980s, including "Takin' It Easy," "Crazy Blue Eyes" and "16th Avenue." ... |
| Circumstantial Evidence | Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis's career faltered after he married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a career extension to country and western music. He is known by the nickname 'The... |
| Count the Days | Don Dixon |
| Daddy Was a Sensitive Man | Reverend Billy C. Wirtz Reverend Billy C. Wirtz Reverend Billy C. Wirtz is an American blues musician and comedian. His material consists of irreverent comedy routines set to music. His humor is somewhat raunchy and thus is not normally considered suitable for children... , Ironweed |
| Don’t Knock The Music | Sean Seman |
| Don’t The Good Times | Rosemary Clooney Rosemary Clooney Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian , which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 –... |
| Drink American | Peter Stampfel |
| Driving You Out Of My Mind | Joyce Woodson |
| Eli Whitney | Kay Adams |
| Elvis Was A Narc | Pinkard and Bowden |
| Everytime The Whistle Whines | Tony Sarno |
| Everything You’d Never Want to Be | Joe Brock |
| Exactly What I Thought She’d Do | Omar & The Howlers Omar & the Howlers Omar & the Howlers is a Texas based electric blues and blues rock band, formed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1973 by the blues guitarist and singer Omar Kent Dykes. Three years later they moved to Austin, Texas. The band has regularly toured European countries.-Early years:Dykes grew up in McComb,... |
| Fan The Flame | Benita Hill |
| Feels Real | Afrikan Dreamland |
| Fool Like That | Gina Jeffreys Gina Jeffreys Gina Jeffreys is an Australian country singer. She was born on 1 April 1968 at Toowoomba, Queensland. She has often been called Australia's "Queen of Country" and has won numerous Australian country music awards.... |
| Fourth Wife Blues | Reverend Billy C. Wirtz Reverend Billy C. Wirtz Reverend Billy C. Wirtz is an American blues musician and comedian. His material consists of irreverent comedy routines set to music. His humor is somewhat raunchy and thus is not normally considered suitable for children... |
| Gauloise Blue | Jonathan Pointer |
| Give Me Some Of That | Fred James, C. J. Chenier, Jr. |
| Giving Up The Ghost | Don Dixon, Darlene Love Darlene Love Darlene Love is an American popular music singer and actress. She gained prominence in the 1960s for the song "He's a Rebel," a #1 American single in 1962, and was part of the Phil Spector stable that produced a celebrated Christmas album in 1963.... |
| Goin' Gone Goin' Gone "Goin' Gone" is a 1987 single written by Pat Alger, Bill Dale, and Fred Koller and recorded by Kathy Mattea. "Goin' Gone" was Kathy Mattea's ninth country hit and the first of four number one country singles. The single went to number one for one week and spent fifteen weeks on the country... |
Pat Alger Pat Alger Pat Alger is a country music songwriter, singer and guitarist.-Biography:Alger attended Georgia Tech studying architecture but decided to concentrate on writing songs. He started as a solo folk performer at folk clubs... , Mary Black Mary Black Mary Black is an Irish singer. She is well known as an interpreter of both folk and contemporary material which has made her a major recording artist in her native Ireland, and in many other parts of the world.... , Forester Sisters, Nanci Griffith Nanci Griffith Nanci Griffith, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas.-Biography:... , Kathy Mattea Kathy Mattea Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot... , Alison Krauss Alison Krauss Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in... (live versions exist), Woodstock Mountain Revue |
| Goodnight Little Houseplant | Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Robert Joseph Bare is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr., also a musician.-Early career:... , Shel Silverstein Shel Silverstein Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein , was an American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter and author of children's books. He styled himself as Uncle Shelby in his children's books... |
| Habits of The Heart | The Woodys |
| Heart To Heart | Gail Davies Gail Davies Gail Davies is an American country music singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of country singer Tex Dickerson.... |
| Heart Of A Woman | Terri Gibbs Terri Gibbs Teresa Fay "Terri" Gibbs is an American country music artist who was born blind. Between 1980 and 1990, she recorded seven studio albums, including four for MCA Records and one for Warner Bros. Records... |
| House of Cards | The New Seekers The New Seekers The New Seekers are a British-based pop group, formed in 1969 by Keith Potger after the break-up of his group, The Seekers. The idea was that the New Seekers would appeal to the same market as the original Seekers, but their music had rock as well as folk influences... |
| I Don't Have The Right | J.T.Hall |
| I’d Rather Wear Out Than Rust | The Hard Travelers The Hard Travelers The Hard Travelers is a folk rock band formed to perform the music of Woody Guthrie, by Dave Sharpe from The Alarm and Henry McCullough. Their first lineup also included keyboardist Zoot Money, bassist Gary Fletcher and drummer Colin Allen. They performed only a few times before the band dissolved... |
| If Love Hurts | Mary Ann Brandon, Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women was a three-woman blues musical ensemble in the Washington, D.C. area. It was founded in 1987 by Ann Rabson, Gaye Adegbalola and Earlene Lewis. Lewis separated from the band in 1992 and was replaced by Andra Faye... |
| I Get The Picture | Keith Whitley Keith Whitley Jackie Keith Whitley , known professionally as Keith Whitley, was an American country music singer. Whitley's brief career in mainstream country music lasted from 1984 until his death in 1989, but he continues to influence an entire generation of singers and songwriters... |
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| If You Came Back Tonight | Lorrie Morgan Lorrie Morgan In 1996 Morgan married Jon Randall, a singer/songwriter now credited with writing the 2004 Brad Paisley/Alison Krauss hit "Whiskey Lullaby"; they divorced three years later in 1999.... |
| I’ll Be There For You | Brendan Croker Brendan Croker Brendan Croker is a musician from Leeds who has recorded albums under his own name and with occasional backing band The Five O'Clock Shadows. He was also a member of The Notting Hillbillies... , Celeste Krenz |
| I’m Going To Town | Robert Earl Keen Robert Earl Keen Robert Earl Keen, Junior is an American Texas Country singer-songwriter. He is popular with fans of traditional country music, folk music, college radio, and alt-country. Keen currently resides in Kerrville, Texas and maintains a ranch in Medina, Texas.-Early life:Growing up in Houston, Texas,... |
| I’m Still Feeling Blue | J. D. Myers |
| In My Dreams | Asleep At The Wheel Asleep at the Wheel Asleep at the Wheel is a American country music group that was formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia, but based in Austin, Texas. Altogether, they have won nine Grammy Awards since their 1970 inception. In their career, they have released more than twenty studio albums, and have charted more than twenty... |
| I Never Got To Say Goodbye | Bill Staines Bill Staines Bill Staines is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from New England, who writes and performs in a traditional vein. He has also written and recorded children's songs.... |
| It Doesn’t Matter What The People Say | Peter Case Peter Case Peter Case is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has had a wide-ranging career ranging from new wave music to folk rock to solo acoustic performance.-Early career:... |
| It Makes No Difference Now | Joyce Woodson |
| I Wanna Live | Annie Hughes |
| I Want My Rib Back | Charlie Sizemore, Keith Whitley Keith Whitley Jackie Keith Whitley , known professionally as Keith Whitley, was an American country music singer. Whitley's brief career in mainstream country music lasted from 1984 until his death in 1989, but he continues to influence an entire generation of singers and songwriters... , Gene Watson Gene Watson Gary Gene Watson is an American country singer. He is most famous for his 1975 hit "Love in the Hot Afternoon," his 1982 hit "Fourteen Carat Mind," and his signature song "Farewell Party." Watson's long career has notched six number ones, 23 top tens and over 75 charted singles.-Biography:Watson... , Kenny Chesney Kenny Chesney Kenneth "Kenny" Arnold Chesney is an American country music singer and songwriter. Chesney has recorded 15 albums, 14 of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA. He has also produced more than 30 Top Ten singles on the U.S... |
| I Want To Know | Robert Earl Keen Robert Earl Keen Robert Earl Keen, Junior is an American Texas Country singer-songwriter. He is popular with fans of traditional country music, folk music, college radio, and alt-country. Keen currently resides in Kerrville, Texas and maintains a ranch in Medina, Texas.-Early life:Growing up in Houston, Texas,... |
| I Was Going Home | Hundred/Seventy Split |
| I’ve Loved Enough To Know | Jim Rushing |
| Jennifer Johnson and Me | Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Robert Joseph Bare is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr., also a musician.-Early career:... , Mac Davis Mac Davis Mac Davis is a country music singer, songwriter, and actor originally from Lubbock, Texas who has enjoyed much crossover success... , Dr. Hook, Goose Creek Symphony Goose Creek Symphony The Goose Creek Symphony is an American rock band with roots in Arizona and Kentucky. They were formed in 1968 in Phoenix, Arizona as an outlet for the songs of Charlie Gearheart, aka Ritchie Hart, and were best known for their 1972 cover of Janis Joplin's song, Mercedes Benz... , Paul Overstreet Paul Overstreet Paul Lester Overstreet is an American country music singer and songwriter. He recorded 10 studio albums between 1982 and 2005, and charted 16 singles on the Billboard country charts, including two #1 hits... , Conway Twitty Conway Twitty Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006... , Robert Earl Keen Robert Earl Keen Robert Earl Keen, Junior is an American Texas Country singer-songwriter. He is popular with fans of traditional country music, folk music, college radio, and alt-country. Keen currently resides in Kerrville, Texas and maintains a ranch in Medina, Texas.-Early life:Growing up in Houston, Texas,... |
| Juanita | David Allan Coe David Allan Coe David Allan Coe is an American outlaw country music singer who achieved popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He has written and performed over 280 original songs throughout his career... , Burl Ives Burl Ives Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an American actor, writer and folk music singer. As an actor, Ives's work included comedies, dramas, and voice work in theater, television, and motion pictures. Music critic John Rockwell said, "Ives's voice ..... |
| King Gets A Day Job | Reverend Billy C. Wirtz Reverend Billy C. Wirtz Reverend Billy C. Wirtz is an American blues musician and comedian. His material consists of irreverent comedy routines set to music. His humor is somewhat raunchy and thus is not normally considered suitable for children... |
| Lady Jane | Max D. Barnes Max D. Barnes Max D. Barnes was a country music singer and songwriter.As a songwriter, Barnes composed many familiar songs of the '80s and '90s, receiving 42 songwriter awards in his career... |
| Last Time I Looked | Peter Case Peter Case Peter Case is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has had a wide-ranging career ranging from new wave music to folk rock to solo acoustic performance.-Early career:... |
| Let’s Talk Dirty In Hawaiian | Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian," and one of America's greatest intellectuals... , John Prine John Prine John Prine is an American country/folk singer-songwriter. He has been active as a recording artist and live performer since the early 1970s.-Biography:... , Wild Jimbos, Tom Rush Tom Rush Tom Rush is an American folk and blues singer, songwriter, musician and recording artist.- Life and career :Rush was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His father was a teacher at St. Paul's School, in Concord, New Hampshire. Tom began performing in 1961 while studying at Harvard University after... , Those Darlins' |
| Life As We Knew It | Kathy Mattea Kathy Mattea Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot... |
| Little Green Buttons | Lui Collins Lui Collins Lui Collins is a contemporary folk singer-songwriter. She attended the University of Connecticut and played her first gigs as a student there. She began touring in the mid-1970s as part of a duo with Horace Williams, Jr.. Her first two albums consisted of cover songs, after which she moved on to... |
| Lone Star State of Mind | Pat Alger Pat Alger Pat Alger is a country music songwriter, singer and guitarist.-Biography:Alger attended Georgia Tech studying architecture but decided to concentrate on writing songs. He started as a solo folk performer at folk clubs... , Nanci Griffith Nanci Griffith Nanci Griffith, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas.-Biography:... , Don Williams Don Williams Don Williams , is an American country singer, songwriter and a 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame. He grew up in Portland, Texas, and graduated in 1958 from Gregory-Portland High School. After seven years with the folk-pop group Pozo-Seco Singers, he began his solo career in 1971,... |
| Love Can Be a Dangerous Thing | Pat Alger Pat Alger Pat Alger is a country music songwriter, singer and guitarist.-Biography:Alger attended Georgia Tech studying architecture but decided to concentrate on writing songs. He started as a solo folk performer at folk clubs... |
| Love Will Always Find It’s Way | Pierce Pettis Pierce Pettis - Biography :A former staff writer for PolyGram Publishing in Nashville, Pettis' musical career was started in 1979 when Joan Baez covered one of his songs, "Song at the End of the Movie", on her album Honest Lullaby... |
| Lovers On the Rebound | Marie Bottrell Marie Bottrell Marie Bottrell is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter. Eighteen of Bottrell's singles made the RPM Country Tracks charts, including five which reached the Top Ten... , The Younger Brothers James & Michael Younger James & Michael Younger, also known as The Younger Brothers, were an American country music group from Edinburg, Texas composed of brothers James and Michael Williams. Their eponymous debut album was released in 1983 by MCA Records... |
| Make It Pretty For Me | Lilian Askeland, Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Robert Joseph Bare is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr., also a musician.-Early career:... , Tom Bresh, Suzanne Klee, Helen O'Conner, Tex Williams Tex Williams Sollie Paul Williams , known professionally as Tex Williams, was an American Western swing musician from Ramsey, Illinois.... |
| Man's Best Friend is His Automobile | Barry and Holly Tashian Barry and Holly Tashian Barry and Holly Tashian are an American country, folk and bluegrass duo. They are both singer-songwriters and musicians. They have performed and recorded together since 1972... |
| Margarita Hell | Reverend Billy C. Wirtz Reverend Billy C. Wirtz Reverend Billy C. Wirtz is an American blues musician and comedian. His material consists of irreverent comedy routines set to music. His humor is somewhat raunchy and thus is not normally considered suitable for children... |
| Mary Goes Round | Stu Stevens |
| Melancholy Moon | Tim O'Brien Tim O'Brien (musician) Tim O'Brien is an American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to singing, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and mandocello... |
| Midnight Chauffeur | Marshall Chapman Marshall Chapman Marshall Chapman is an American singer-songwriter and author.Chapman, the daughter of a cotton mill owner, was taken to an Elvis Presley concert in 1957 and says the experience changed her from a southern debutante to a nascent rock and roller... |
| Missionary Ridge | Claire Lynch Claire Lynch Claire Lynch , is an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, and session vocalist who joined her first band, then called Hickory Wind, in 1973... |
| Monroe's Mule | John Cowan John Cowan John Cowan is an American soul music and progressive bluegrass vocalist and bass guitar player. He was the lead vocalist and bass player for the New Grass Revival... |
| My Baby’s Like a Jukebox | Jason Sever, Bub Tyler |
| Niagra Falls | Bill Lloyd |
| Neutral Ground | Pierce Pettis Pierce Pettis - Biography :A former staff writer for PolyGram Publishing in Nashville, Pettis' musical career was started in 1979 when Joan Baez covered one of his songs, "Song at the End of the Movie", on her album Honest Lullaby... |
| Never Be The Same | Pam Tillis Pam Tillis Pamela Yvonne "Pam" Tillis is an American country music singer-songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of country music singer Mel Tillis.... |
| New Day | Laurie Lewis Laurie Lewis Laurie Lewis , is an American bluegrass musician.- History :Lewis fell in love with American folk music as a teenager, at the sunset of the 1960s folk revival. She says of the Berkeley Folk Festivals where she first caught the folk bug:"Oh, it was so exciting... |
| New Old Friend | The New Seekers The New Seekers The New Seekers are a British-based pop group, formed in 1969 by Keith Potger after the break-up of his group, The Seekers. The idea was that the New Seekers would appeal to the same market as the original Seekers, but their music had rock as well as folk influences... , The Hard Travelers The Hard Travelers The Hard Travelers is a folk rock band formed to perform the music of Woody Guthrie, by Dave Sharpe from The Alarm and Henry McCullough. Their first lineup also included keyboardist Zoot Money, bassist Gary Fletcher and drummer Colin Allen. They performed only a few times before the band dissolved... |
| Not To Old To Cry | Kenny Serrat |
| Off To A Crawling Start | Keith Whitley Keith Whitley Jackie Keith Whitley , known professionally as Keith Whitley, was an American country music singer. Whitley's brief career in mainstream country music lasted from 1984 until his death in 1989, but he continues to influence an entire generation of singers and songwriters... |
| Old Blues Singer | Lowell Fulsom |
| On Grafton Street | Frances Black Frances Black Frances Black is an award-winning Irish singer. A pure vocal tone and an energetic stage presence has made Black one of Ireland’s most popular singers... , Nanci Griffith Nanci Griffith Nanci Griffith, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas.-Biography:... |
| Open Your Eyes | Brian Austin |
| Pale Wind | Larry Crane |
| Piece of Paper | Larry Crane |
| Pretty Painted Ladies | Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Robert Joseph Bare is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr., also a musician.-Early career:... , Chris Ledoux Chris LeDoux Chris Ledoux was an American country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor and rodeo champion.During his career LeDoux recorded 36 albums which have sold more than six million units in the United States as of January 2007... , Plainsmen, Sons of the Pioneers Sons of the Pioneers The Sons of the Pioneers are one of America's earliest Western singing groups whose classic recordings set a new standard for performers of Western music. Known for the high quality of their vocal performances, musicianship, and songwriting, they produced finely-crafted and innovative recordings... |
| Pull Together | David Mallett David Mallett David Mallett is a singer-songwriter best known for his authorship of the popular tune "Garden Song," made famous by John Denver and Arlo Guthrie. He has recorded for independent record labels for most of his career. A resident of Maine for most of his life, in the 1980s he relocated to Nashville,... |
| Red Neck State of Art | Brendan Croker Brendan Croker Brendan Croker is a musician from Leeds who has recorded albums under his own name and with occasional backing band The Five O'Clock Shadows. He was also a member of The Notting Hillbillies... |
| Rock In My Shoe | Tim O'Brien |
| Rock Stars Lament | Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Robert Joseph Bare is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr., also a musician.-Early career:... |
| Room 309 | Reverend Billy C. Wirtz Reverend Billy C. Wirtz Reverend Billy C. Wirtz is an American blues musician and comedian. His material consists of irreverent comedy routines set to music. His humor is somewhat raunchy and thus is not normally considered suitable for children... |
| Sassafrass | Coon Creek Girls Coon Creek Girls The Coon Creek Girls were a popular all-girl "string band" in the Appalachian style of folk music which began in the mid-1930s... |
| She Came From Fort Worth She Came from Fort Worth "She Came from Fort Worth" is a single by American country music artist Kathy Mattea. Released in 1990, it was the fourth single from the album Willow in the Wind. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.... |
Kathy Mattea Kathy Mattea Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot... , Pat Alger Pat Alger Pat Alger is a country music songwriter, singer and guitarist.-Biography:Alger attended Georgia Tech studying architecture but decided to concentrate on writing songs. He started as a solo folk performer at folk clubs... |
| She Loves Me She Loves Me Not | Hal Ketchum Hal Ketchum Hal Michael Ketchum is an American country music artist. He has released ten studio albums since 1986, including nine for the Curb and Asylum-Curb labels. Ketchum's 1991 album Past the Point of Rescue is his most commercially successful, having been certified gold by the Recording Industry... |
| She’s Just a Place To Fall | Vern Gosdin Vern Gosdin Vern Gosdin was an American country music singer. He idolized The Louvin Brothers and The Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called The Gosdin Brothers. An inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard, Gosdin was nicknamed "The Voice" by his... |
| Shop Shop | Bama Band, Erin’s Pride, James White James White -In the military:* James White , American pioneer who founded Knoxville, Tennessee* James White , World War I Royal Naval Air Service fighter ace-In politics:... |
| Sidestepping The Blues | Stonewall Jackson |
| Skip A Stone | Beccy Cole Beccy Cole Beccy Cole is an Australian country music singer and songwriter. She has released six albums and won seven Golden Guitar awards.... |
| Somebody Else’s Tune | Marge Calhoun |
| Some of That | Fred James, C. J. Chenier |
| Something To Hold On To | Joyce Woodson |
| Stand Still | Brothers Brooks |
| Stars on The Water | Priscilla Herdman Priscilla Herdman Priscilla Herdman is an American folk singer. Although she has written songs, sheis notable chiefly for her interpretations of other artists' work.... |
| Stolen Art | Jeff Wilkinson |
| Strong Young Breeze | Sean Seman |
| Summer Melody | Stoney Edwards Stoney Edwards Stoney Edwards was one of the first black singers to have a significant presence in country music. He is best known for the song, "She's My Rock," a Top 20 country hit that was later a hit song for Brenda Lee and then for George Jones.-Biography:... , The Kendalls The Kendalls The Kendalls was an American country music duo, consisting of Royce Kendall and his daughter Jeannie Kendall . Between the 1960s and 1990s, they released sixteen albums on various labels, including five on Mercury Records... |
| Taking My Chances With You | The New Seekers The New Seekers The New Seekers are a British-based pop group, formed in 1969 by Keith Potger after the break-up of his group, The Seekers. The idea was that the New Seekers would appeal to the same market as the original Seekers, but their music had rock as well as folk influences... |
| Tell Me I'm Mistaken | J.T. Hall |
| The TV Tells Me So | The Smothers Brothers |
| Tell Me What You Want | Brendan Croker Brendan Croker Brendan Croker is a musician from Leeds who has recorded albums under his own name and with occasional backing band The Five O'Clock Shadows. He was also a member of The Notting Hillbillies... |
| The Town With No Downtown | Jeff Wilkinson |
| The First Time | Danny O'Keefe Danny O'Keefe Danny O'Keefe is a U.S. based singer-songwriter, born in Spokane, Washington, in 1943. O'Keefe's musical career has spanned four decades from his early days playing in the Minnesota coffee houses to his present station in the Seattle area... |
| There’s No Guarantee | Al Anderson |
| This Dream's On Me | Gene Watson Gene Watson Gary Gene Watson is an American country singer. He is most famous for his 1975 hit "Love in the Hot Afternoon," his 1982 hit "Fourteen Carat Mind," and his signature song "Farewell Party." Watson's long career has notched six number ones, 23 top tens and over 75 charted singles.-Biography:Watson... |
| This Guitar is For Sale | Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Robert Joseph Bare is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr., also a musician.-Early career:... , Wes McGee, John Prine John Prine John Prine is an American country/folk singer-songwriter. He has been active as a recording artist and live performer since the early 1970s.-Biography:... |
| This Time I'm Gonna Be Loved | J.T. Hall |
| This Town | Pat Alger Pat Alger Pat Alger is a country music songwriter, singer and guitarist.-Biography:Alger attended Georgia Tech studying architecture but decided to concentrate on writing songs. He started as a solo folk performer at folk clubs... |
| Til The Coast Is Clear | Hal Ketchum Hal Ketchum Hal Michael Ketchum is an American country music artist. He has released ten studio albums since 1986, including nine for the Curb and Asylum-Curb labels. Ketchum's 1991 album Past the Point of Rescue is his most commercially successful, having been certified gold by the Recording Industry... |
| True Western Movie | Chris Ledoux Chris LeDoux Chris Ledoux was an American country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor and rodeo champion.During his career LeDoux recorded 36 albums which have sold more than six million units in the United States as of January 2007... |
| Twenty-Nine | Todd Dereemer |
| Walking With My Memories | Loretta Lynn Loretta Lynn Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he... |
| We’re History | Atlanta |
| Wheel of Fortune | Peter Rowan |
| When It’s Gone | Tom Paxton Tom Paxton Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years... |
| When The Sun Comes Up | Tammi Fassert |
| When You Ran With Me | Hank Flamingo Hank Flamingo Hank Flamingo was an American country music band founded in the late 1980s. Its membership comprised Trent Summar , Philip Wallace , Eddie Grigg , Ben Northern , Stuart E. Stuart , and Roy Watts . The band recorded one major-label studio album in 1994, before disbanding not long afterward... |
| Where The Fast Lane Ends | Sonny Throckmorton Sonny Throckmorton James Fron "Sonny" Throckmorton is an American country music singer and songwriter. Known primarily for his songwriting, Throckmorton has had more than 1,000 of his songs recorded by various country singers... , Oak Ridge Boys |
| Where the Blue Began | Hundred/Seventy Split |
| Whicita Way | John Cowan John Cowan John Cowan is an American soul music and progressive bluegrass vocalist and bass guitar player. He was the lead vocalist and bass player for the New Grass Revival... |
| Whiplash Will | Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Robert Joseph Bare is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr., also a musician.-Early career:... |
| Will It Be Love By Morning | Michael Martin Murphy |
| Winding Down | Lacy J. Dalton Lacy J. Dalton Lacy J. Dalton , is an American country and western singer and songwriter, known for her gritty, powerful vocals, which a number of critics likened to a country equivalent to Bonnie Raitt . She had a number of hits in the 1980s, including "Takin' It Easy," "Crazy Blue Eyes" and "16th Avenue." ... |
| With Out The Love | The New Seekers The New Seekers The New Seekers are a British-based pop group, formed in 1969 by Keith Potger after the break-up of his group, The Seekers. The idea was that the New Seekers would appeal to the same market as the original Seekers, but their music had rock as well as folk influences... |
| Words Said In The Dark | Pierce Pettis Pierce Pettis - Biography :A former staff writer for PolyGram Publishing in Nashville, Pettis' musical career was started in 1979 when Joan Baez covered one of his songs, "Song at the End of the Movie", on her album Honest Lullaby... |
| Yard Sale | Jonathan Pointer |
| Yes Mr. Rogers | Bob Gibson Bob Gibson Robert "Bob" Gibson is a retired American professional baseball player. Nicknamed "Hoot" and "Gibby", he was a right-handed pitcher who played his entire 17-year Major League Baseball career with St. Louis Cardinals... , Shel Silverstein Shel Silverstein Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein , was an American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter and author of children's books. He styled himself as Uncle Shelby in his children's books... |
| You Can’t Take The Texas | Lacy J. Dalton Lacy J. Dalton Lacy J. Dalton , is an American country and western singer and songwriter, known for her gritty, powerful vocals, which a number of critics likened to a country equivalent to Bonnie Raitt . She had a number of hits in the 1980s, including "Takin' It Easy," "Crazy Blue Eyes" and "16th Avenue." ... |
| You Don’t Mean A Thing | Al Anderson |