Have you ever wanted to know about a famous West Virginian? West Virginia has a rich amount of history of music. It has Appalachian folk music, styles of fiddling, and ballad singing. Many of West Virginians love country music; one of the many country singers is Brad Paisley. Brad Paisley is one of the biggest country singers today. Brad paisley always loved country music. He has been playing guitar since eight years old.
Brad Paisley was born in Glen Dale West Virginia. He was born on October 28, 1972. Brad paisleys current age is 41, he is a singer and song writer and he is also a guitarist. Paisley’s home state is West Virginia. Paisleys parents are Sandra Jean Jarvis and Doug Paisley. Paisley is a brother in law of Ashely Williams, Neal Dodson, and Jay Williams. Paisleys love for country music stems from his grandfather, Warren Jarvis, who gave Paisley his first guitar, a Sears Dan electro Silverstone at eight years old, and taught him how to play. At age 13, paisley wrote is first song titled “Born on Christmas day”. He had been taking lessons with local guitarist Clarence "Hank" Goddard. While in junior high, his principal heard him perform "Born on Christmas Day" and invited him to play at the local Rotary Club meeting. Paisley graduated from John Marshall high school in Glen dale West Virginia, in 1991. Paisley studied for 2 years at west liberty state college. He earned his degree in music business there. Paisley also met Kelley Lovelace, who became his songwriting partner. Within a week after graduating from Belmont, Paisley signed a songwriting contract with EMI Music Publishing. Brad Paisley released “Who needs pictures” on February 22, 1999. Paisley released his third album, Mud on the Tires in 2003.
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...d in one of Brad’s music videos. Brad hired her to play in his video so he could get to know her. Brad was hoping she would date him after they got to known each other. In Brad’s childhood he was raised in Glen dale West Virginia. Brad Paisley now lives in Franklin Tennessee farm. Their house is 65,500 square feet and it’s a log cabin.
Brad is really in to bulldozers and stuff he likes to knock stuff over. He has a hundred year old farm house on the property and that is where he composed his new album “American Saturday Night”. Brad Paisley was very smart at making music. He loved doing what he had had become. His family loved to watch him perform up on stage. Brad Paisley is one of the famous country musicians in America today. Brad Paisley is not just a singer. Brad has another job. Brad works night shifts so he is at home all afternoon playing his guitar.
Born on December 1, 1977 in Miami, FL, Bryan's first musical influence was his mother, Pamela Cox, an instrumentalist who played the flute. It was her love and passion for the art that gave him his first taste of the music scene. "My mother would buy music instead of food when I was little. We would spend her entire paycheck at the record store." (Cox, 2008) At the age of seven, Bryan unveiled to his mother his musical aspirations and she began to prepare him for an eventual life and career in the field of music. She later moved the two of them to Houston, TX where she enrolled Bryan into the High School for the Performing Arts. While in his senior year, Bryan met then Freshman, Beyoncé Knowles, and young and talented girl who would later grow up to be worldwide megastar. It is with Beyoncé that Bryan created his first demo tape and with a budding nod of approval from Beyoncé's father, Matthew Knowles, Bryan set out on his musical path.
The “king of Western swing,” Bob Wills, was a prominent figure from the 1930s through 1950s. At at a young age he learned to play the fiddle and he and his father performed at dances and other social gatherings. He was exposed to other genres of music as a young boy such a blues, conjunto and mariachi, but it was the new sounds of jazz that inspired him to experiment with traditional country music. In 1929 Wills moved to Fort Worth, Texas, were he formed a band, the Wills Fiddle Band, which would soon change to Light Crust Doughboys. Their music was played was played on the Fort Worth radio station, KFJZ radio, and their unique sound quickly spread which is what the radio advertisers needed during the economic downfall. However, in 1933 Wills left the band and formed a new one called Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys and they toured together over the next forty years. In 1945 Wills appeared at the Grand Ole Opry and insisted that there be a horn and drum section on stage. The audience was surprisingly pleased with this unwanted change by the directors. Despite his somewhat strained relationship with Nashville, the local country music establishment formally recognized Wills and his important overall impact on country music when the Country Music Association Hall of Fame inducted him in 1968 (Hartman, 146). Bob Wills died in 1975, but was still a major influence in up and coming young country artists like Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, George Strait and Lee Ann Womack.
Many would argue that country music isn't country anymore; straying too far from the older generation of fiddles, violins and guitars by incorporating a "pop" feel and focusing more on the beat than the content. Pop music is typically viewed as up-beat and differs from the sad, lonesome sounds of country from the past. I would agree that today's country has a very different sound than previous years, however, still incorporates the down-to-earth feel many of us can relate
A number of famous people have also originated from the small state of West Virginia. People such as Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Mary Lou Retton, Pearl S. Buck, Brad Paisley and many, many more have all lived in West Virginia. Obviously, these people are known worldwide, but the simple fact that they are from West Virginia is frequently neglected. Surprisingly, more than just these people have come from the great state of West Virginia. A number of athletes have come of age in the state of West Virginia. Jerry West, O.J. Mayo, Chad Pennington, Randy Moss, and many, many more have also came from West Virginia. Most of the nation’s population fails to recognize this.
Scott Joplin, commonly known as the "King of Ragtime" music, was born on November 24, 1868, in Bowie County, Texas near Linden. Joplin came from a large musical family. His father, Giles Joplin was a musician who had fiddled dance music while serving as a slave at his master's parties. His mother, Florence Givens Joplin, born free and out of slavery, sang and played the banjo, and four of his brothers and sisters either sang or played strings.
He was signed by A&M, but that soon fell out due to insufficient sales. He signed under RCA by Chet Atkins, along with Willie Nelson, where Jennings produced multiple successful albums. (Dansby). Jennings with the Kimberleys, won his first grammy in 1969 for Best Country Performance by group. In 1974, Jennings had two songs reach number one on the country music charts; this was Jennings turning point. In 1975, Waylon reached the top of the pop charts. Reaching the top of pop charts for a country singer back then was unheard of. Around the same time Jennings was honored as Country Music Association as Male Vocalist of the year. Jennings soon teamed up with his old friend Willie Nelson. Together, they produced Waylon and Willie in 1978 (Biography). One of their many duets “Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys,” earned Jennings his second grammy. Jennings being able to appeal to a wide variety of listeners, proved him to be one of country music
Hank Williams Jr as we know him was born Hank Randall Williams, born in small town Shreveport, Louisiana, on May 26, 1949. Hank Jr was only three when his father Hank died, but that did not stop his music dream. At just the age of 8 Hank Jr began singing his dad songs on stage. “Williams made his stage debut at the age of 8 and his first appearance at Nashville's famed Grand Ole Opry at age 11. At age 15, Williams had his first Top 5 hit on the country charts. " (http://www.biography.com/) Even though his father was gone, Hank Jr helped carry on his legacy through music. His mother being his biggest supporter, helped him along the way.
Country music originated in the Appalachian mountains of the Southern United States and has traditional folk roots that date from the early 20th century. The commercial history of country music began in the Southern United States in the 1920’s, during a ‘period of intense modernization’ (Ellison, 1995). It wasn’t until this time that country was considered a viable music genre. It was first identified as ‘hillbilly’ music in 1925 and later became known officially as ‘country’ by its designation on the Billboard Music charts (Shmoop, 2014). Widely considered the ‘Mother Church’ of country, the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville became the home of many emerging and already established artists (Tichi, 1994:21). Coupled with the rise of radio and barn dance programs, country’s popularity increased greatly. Ellison (1995) describes country’s evolution from ‘rustic radio programs’ to a genre with an ‘extensive national network of fans unparalled in other forms of popular music’. During the 1930’s, the Great Depression assisted in the spread of country music throughout the US, with many poor unemployed Southerners migrating north, t...
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Kurt Cobain was born February 20, 1967 in a small town near Seattle, Washington. His family soon-after moved to Aberdeen, Washington. This period of his life was a difficult one because his parents divorced and he didn’t have much ambition to do much more than hanging out with his friends. Struggles with his parents caused him to move back and forth between them and to eventually move in with relatives. (The Cobain Memorial)
Hiram “Hank” Williams, third child of Lon and Lillie Williams, was born on September 17, 1923 in Mount Olive, Alabama near Georgiana. Hank was raised by his mother because his father was in a veteran’s hospital most of his childhood. Hank’s childhood was shaped by a spinal condition called spina bifida so he could not play sports or do regular activities with the other children. Perhaps his inability to do normal activities sparked his interest in music. Hank got his first guitar at eight years old (Harden).
Country music was brought over by the first European settlers. In medieval times, storytelling was a tradition that allowed history to be recorded when few were able to read and write. When the first British settlers came to America, they brought this tradition with them, along with songs that they had learned in Europe. The people who settled the Appalachian Mountains and the West did not have an easy life and their music gave them an outlet to express their hardships.
As a kid Luke Bryan was just a normal child. Thomas Luther Bryan was born on July 17, 1976 in Leesburg, Georgia to his parents Tommy and LeClaire Bryan, he was the youngest out of three kids (Biography.com Editors, Finan, Eileen). Growing up, his dad was a Fertilizer salesman, and his mom worked as a local public
He was born in Palestine, Texas to the parentage of Clyde Burette Woodard and Marye Regina (McClung) Woodard at 9:45 AM at the Palestine Sanatarium. His parents lived in Elkhart, Texas where his father was the owner and operator of Woodard Cleaners and his mother, Bubbie, as he called her, was the owner and operator of a beauty shop.
performed a couple of surprise shows at the Carter Family Fold outside Bristol, Virginia. At the May 21, 2003 concert, before singing