Steve Wariner

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Steve Wariner1954年圣誕節(jié)出生于印第安納州的諾波斯韋爾，17歲時加入巡回樂隊Dottie West。1977年,Chet Atkins把他帶進了RCA，但直到1981年他打進前10后才真正跟Chet Atkins(巨人阿~)共事。一年后，他以"All Roads Lead to You."問鼎冠軍，1984年在他轉(zhuǎn)到MCA Nashville前還有另外兩首歌打進了前五。以一個強勢姿態(tài)出現(xiàn)的創(chuàng)作人，Wariner那過于圓滑的唱腔和商業(yè)化的旋律導(dǎo)致有些人抨擊他的音樂太沒感染力，但這并沒能夠在MCA其間的18首單曲沖入前10，其中更有8首占據(jù)了冠軍寶座。
一時間，在那個鄉(xiāng)村音樂賣的最好的時候， WARINER與1991年離開了巨星堆積的MCA NASHVILLE加入了當時剛剛起步的ARISTA公司幾年間，WARINER再次發(fā)現(xiàn)自己又成為了一堆巨星中的一員，這包括了Brooks & Dunn, Diamond Rio, Alan Jackson 和 Pam Tillis.在貢獻了4首TOP10歌曲和一張純樂器專輯后，WARINER再次成為了自由人。
在職業(yè)生涯的暫時呆滯時期， WARINER與1996年加入了Grand Ole Opry，他參與了Anita Cochran的民謠 "What If I Said." 盡管COCHRAN在此之前并沒能證明自己而且WARINER也被認為已經(jīng)是一個過時表演者，但這次合作還是震動也業(yè)界并且最終于1998年成為冠軍，同年，WARINER參與創(chuàng)作的另外兩首歌：與GARTH BROOKS的LONGNECK BOTTLE和CLINT BLACK的NOTHIN’BUT THE TAILLIGHTS也都成為冠軍。（很有意思的是那個時候正是GARTH BROOKS和CLINT BLACK掐的正死的時候，BLACK當時風頭一時無兩，橫掃所有頒獎典禮。他跟兩方都插一腳不能不說很有意思。--譯者注。）
隨著自己元氣的恢復(fù)，1998年WARINER簽約CAPITOL公司并且風險了"Holes in the Floor of Heaven," 并贏得了CMA最佳單曲和年度最佳歌曲。1999年與Asleep at the Wheel的合作幫助WARINER贏得了個人第二做格來美獎項。在為CAPITOL奉獻了另外3首TOP10歌曲后，WARINER開辦了自己的公司， SELECTONE RECORDS。隨后發(fā)行的第一張碟包含了新歌和他最經(jīng)典的歌曲精選。
One of country musics most versatile performers, Steve Wariner grew up in suburban Indianapolis, interested in the Beatles on the radio as well as Chet Atkins and George Jones, the artists his father listened to most frequently. He started playing music in his dads band, and by his high school years, he was playing local clubs. At age 17, he caught the ear of Dottie West, who persuaded him to join her band, and in that position he ended up playing bass on her classic 1973 single Country Sunshine. He moved on to work as a sideman for Bob Luman and signed a singles deal with RCA Records in 1976. His career developed slowly, and in the beginning, the low-tuned guitars and wide range of his singles brought frequent comparisons to the early Glen Campbell hits. His first really successful single was Your Memory, which peaked in the country Top Ten in early 1981, followed by By Now and All Roads Lead to You, which topped the country charts in December. RCA released another couple of singles before finally issuing his debut album, Steve Wariner, in the fall of 1982. He returned to the country Top Ten in 1983 with Midnight Fire, which became the title track of his second album, and Lonely Women Make Good Lovers.
Wariners career really took off when he left RCA for MCA in late 1984. His first single for the new label, What I Didnt Do, made the country Top Five in early 1985, setting off a string of 18 consecutive Top Ten hits that included the chart-toppers Some Fools Never Learn, You Can Dream of Me, Lifes Highway, Small Town Girl, The Weekend, Lynda, Where Did I Go Wrong, and I Got Dreams (the last two Wariner compositions). This run took him into 1990, when he switched to Arista Records. He had considerable initial success on the new label, with his first Arista album, I Am Ready, going platinum (none of his previous albums had even gone gold) and his first three Arista singles making the Top Ten. And he shared a 1991 Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Collaboration with Ricky Skaggs and Vince Gill for Restless, a track on Mark OConnors album The New Nashville Cats.
Wariner scored a country Top Ten hit with If I Didnt Love You in the summer of 1993, but his record sales were declining. His 1996 instrumental album No More Mr. Nice Guy, his first release in three years, did not chart, but that year he joined the Grand Ole Opry. In 1997, he sang with Anita Cochran on What If I Said, and the single topped the country charts in early 1998, just after Garth Brooks recording of Wariners composition Longneck Bottle had gone to number one. This twin success reinvigorated his career. He signed to Capitol Records, Brooks label, and released Holes in the Floor of Heaven, which made the country Top Five, winning the Country Music Associations awards for Song of the Year and Single of the Year. Burnin the Roadhouse Down, his debut album for Capitol, reached the country Top Ten, went gold, and crossed over to the Top 50 of the pop charts. He followed it with 1999s Two Teardrops, which also went gold; the same year, he shared his second Grammy for Best Country Instrumental for the Asleep at the Wheel track Bobs Breakdown. His third Capitol album, Faith in You, was released in May 2000.