
Sawyer Brown
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Sawyer Brown Biography
One of those rare acts who actually became stars directly from
winning Star Search, country-rockers Sawyer Brown wound up enjoying a
long, hit-filled career and remained commercially viable into the new
millennium. The group originally grew out of country-pop singer Don
King's touring band, with guitarist Bobby Randall and drummer Joe Smyth
signing on in 1979, and bassist Jim Scholten, keyboardist Gregg Hobie
Hubbard, and guitarist/future lead singer Mark Miller all arriving in
1980. King stopped touring in 1981, and the group decided to stay
together, naming themselves after the Nashville street where they
rehearsed. They spent the next two years on the road, and their agent
landed them an audition for the popular syndicated talent show Star
Search. Sawyer Brown won the grand prize of 100,000 dollars, and it
wasn't long before Liberty/Capitol signed them up in 1984. Their
self-titled debut album was released in 1985, and their debut single,
Leona, climbed into the Top 20; its follow-up, Step That Step, went
all the way to number one, and the album fell one spot short of that
same position. Their sophomore album, Shakin', was another hit,
producing the Top Five single Betty's Bein' Bad.
The band endured a singles-chart slump over 1986-1987, likely a result
of their increasingly slick country-pop production, but they rebounded
when This Missin' You Heart of Mine went to number two at the end of
1987. Another commercially disappointing period followed, lasting into
1991, but it was interrupted by the Top Five single The Race Is On,
which helped its accompanying album, The Boys Are Back, climb into the
Top Five. Following 1991's Buick album, Sawyer Brown parted ways with
Liberty and signed with Curb; around the same time, guitarist Randall
departed and was replaced by Duncan Cameron. Through it all, they never
stopped touring, which helped them maintain a following, and it paid
off when The Walk went to number two in late 1991. Their first Curb
album, The Dirt Road, produced two big hits in the Top Five title track
and the band's second number one hit, Some Girls Do. Their follow-up,
1992's Cafe on the Corner, was acclaimed by many critics as their most
consistent, fully realized album, and it gave them three Top Five hits
in the title track, All These Years, and Trouble on the Line.
1993's Outskirts of Town continued their hot streak, producing two more
Top Fives in The Boys & Me and Hard to Say, plus their third
number one in Thank God for You. The band capped off their commercial
resurgence with Greatest Hits 1990-1995, a Top Five-selling compilation
whose two new tracks, I Don't Believe in Goodbye and This Time,
both made the Top Five themselves.
Released later in 1995, the Top Ten This Thing Called Wantin' and
Havin' It All produced another Top Five smash in Treat Her Right and
was followed by two albums in 1997: the live Six Days on the Road
(another Top Ten seller) and the gospel/CCM record Hallelujah He Is
Born. The Top Ten Drive Me Wild arrived in 1999, and its title cut was
also a Top Ten hit. Following 2002's poppy Can You Hear Me Now, the
group parted ways with Curb and signed a new deal with Disney's country
subsidiary Lyric Street. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide
Written by Steve Huey