Joe Diffie
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Joe Diffie Biography
Joe Diffie was regarded by many of his peers as one of the
better vocalists in contemporary country, and lent his traditional
sensibilities to humorous, rock-tinged novelties and plaintive ballads.
Diffie was born in Tulsa, OK, in 1958 and grew up in a musical family,
first performing in public at age four with his aunt's country band. He
played in a rock band during high school, and later moved on to a
gospel quartet and, during college, a bluegrass band called the Special
Edition. He worked on his songwriting and singing over the next few
years while working in a foundry, and caught a break when his Love on
the Rocks was recorded by Hank Thompson. When Randy Travis nearly
recorded another of his songs, Diffie was convinced he had a shot in
the business, and moved to Nashville in 1986. He took a job at the
Gibson guitar plant while continuing to write songs, and became an
in-demand demo singer as well. Holly Dunn's 1989 recording of a Diffie
collaboration, There Goes My Heart Again, proved a major hit, and
Diffie found himself a hot commodity. He signed with Epic and released
his debut album, A Thousand Winding Roads, in 1990. His first single,
Home, went all the way to number one on the country charts, and If
the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets) duplicated that feat; meanwhile,
two more singles from the album, If You Want Me To and New Way (To
Light Up an Old Flame), reached number two.
Diffie became a regular hitmaker over the rest of the '90s, and scored
again with his sophomore LP, 1992's Regular Joe; Is It Cold in Here
and Ships That Don't Come In both made the Top Five. Known primarily
for his ballads at this point in his career, Diffie switched things up
with 1993's Honky Tonk Attitude, which emphasized his rambunctious,
rocking side and sense of humor, and proved to be his biggest-selling
album yet. The title track, Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die),
and John Deere Green all went Top Five. Sticking with engaging humor
as the selling point of his hugely popular follow-up, 1994's Third Rock
From the Sun, Diffie scored two number ones with the title track and
Pickup Man, plus a Top Fiver in So Help Me Girl. 1995 brought a
holiday album, Mr. Christmas, as well as a proper release in Life's So
Funny, which gave Diffie his fifth number one hit in Bigger Than the
Beatles. 1997's Twice Upon a Time saw his commercial momentum slipping
a bit, and so Epic issued a Greatest Hits compilation the following
year; its new song, Texas Sized Heartache, returned Diffie to the Top
Five. 1999's A Night to Remember was the most straight-ahead,
traditional country record Diffie had yet recorded, and it gave him two
Top Ten hits in the title cut and It's Always Somethin'. He returned
to his more established style for 2001's In Another World, which found
him transferred to Sony's reactivated Monument subsidiary; its title
track went Top Ten early the next year. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide
Written by Steve Huey