Stand By Your Man

Tammy Wynette

SONGWRITERS:  BILLY SHERRILL / TAMMY WYNETTE

PAIS: AMERICAN 

ALBUM: TAMMY WYNETTE STAND BY YOUR MAN

LABEL: SONY BMG MUSIC

      GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1969

 
             Tammy Wynette,  nome artístico de Virgínia Wynette Pugh, (Tremont, 5 de maio de 1942 — Nashville, 6 de abril de 1998) foi UMA CANTORA e compositora norte-AMERICANA de música country, uma das cantoras mais conhecidas e mais vendidas da música country.
           Wynette é conhecida como "A Primera-Dama da Música Country", e sua canção mais conhecida, "Stand by Your Man", é um dos singles mais vendidos por uma artista feminina na história da música country. Muitos de seus sucessos retratam temas clássicos do gênero, como solidão, divórcio e as dificuldades da vida e de relacionamentos. Durante as décadas de 1960 e 1970, Wynette teve 20 músicas #1 na Billboard de Música Country. Junto com Loretta Lynn, Lynn Anderson e Dolly Parton, ela é creditada como tendo definido o papel da mulher na música country dos anos 1970.
           O casamento de Wynette com o músico country George Jones em 1969 criou a "dupla" country, seguindo o sucesso de Johnny Cash e June Carter Cash.
           Wynette nasceu próximo à Tremont,  Mississippi, filha única de Mildred Faye (1921 — 1991) e Wllian Pugh (1916 — 1943).  Seu pai era um fazendeiro e músico local que morreu vítima de um tumor cerebral quando Wynette tinha apenas nove meses de idade. Sua mãe trabalhava como professora substituta e na fazenda da família. Com a morte de Pugh Mildred deixou sua filha aos cuidados de seus pais, Thomas e Flora Russell, e se mudou para Memphis, Tennessee, para trabalhar em uma fábrica durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Em 1946, Mildred se casou com Foy Lee, um fazendeiro.
       A casa dos Russell não tinha banheiro interno nem água encanada. Wynette foI criada com a tia Carolyn Russell, apenas cinco anos mais velha, mais uma irmã do que uma tia. Enquanto criança, Wynette aprendeu sozinha a tocar uma variedade de instrumentos deixados por seu pai, que, já cego devido ao tumor, incentivava a filha a tocar o piano.
            Wynette estudou na Bellflower High School. Um mês antes de se formar, e meses antes de seu aniversário de 18 anos, se casou com seu primeiro marido, Euple Byrd. Ele era um pedreiro, mas tinha problemas em se manter em um emprego, e eles se mudavam diversas vezes. Wynette trabalhou como garçonete e recepcionista, além de trabalhar em uma fábrica de sapatos. Em 1963, ela frequentou uma escola de beleza em Tupelo, Mississippi, onde se tornou cabeleireira. Ela continuou a renovar sua licença de cosmetologia por vários anos, mesmo depois do sucesso - caso alguma coisa acontecesse.
           Ela deixou Euple antes do nascimento de sua terceira filha, que desenvolveu meningite. Wynette tentou ganhar um dinheiro extra se apresentando a noite. Segundo Wynette, Euple não apoiava suas ambições de se tornar uma cantora country, e quando foi embora, Euple lhe disse, "Vai sonhando", Anos mais tarde, ele apareceu em um dos shows de Wynette e pediu um autógrafo. Ela assinou "Vai sonhando".

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman

Giving all your love to just one man

You'll have bad times, and he'll have good times

Doin' things that you don't understand

But if you love him, you'll forgive him

Even though he's hard to understand

And if you love him, oh be proud of him

'Cause after all he's just a man.

Stand by your man, give him two arms to cling to

And something warm to come to

When nights are cold and lonely.

Stand by your man, and show the world you love him

Keep giving all the love you can.

Stand by your man.

Stand by your man, and show the world you love him

Keep giving all the love you can.

Stand by your man.

you'll think of me

keith urban

SONGWRITERS:  DARRELL BROWN / DENNIS MATKOSKY / TY LACY

PAIS: AUSTRALIAN-AMERICAN 

ALBUM: GOLDEN ROAD

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

      GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 2002

 

             Keith Lionel Urban AO (born Urbahn; 26 October 1967) is an Australian and American singer, guitarist, and songwriter known for his work in country music. Recognized with four Grammy Awards, Urban also received fifteen Academy of Country Music Awards, including the Jim Reeves International Award, thirteen CMA Awards, and six ARIA Music Awards. Urban wrote and performed the song "For You" from the film Act of Valor, which earned him nominations at both the 70th Golden Globe Awards and at the 18th Critics' Choice Awards in the respective Best Original Song categories.

         Urban has released 11 studio albums (one of which was released only in Australia), as well as one album with the Ranch. He has charted 37 singles on the US Hot Country Songs chart, 18 of which went to number one, counting a duet with Brad Paisley ("Start a Band") and the 2008 single "You Look Good in My Shirt". Urban also worked with numerous artists from different music genres, such as Pink, Nelly Furtado, Jason Derulo, Julia Michaels, and country artists like Dolly Parton, Dixie Chicks, Carrie Underwood,  Martina McBride, Eric Church, and Reba McEntire.

             In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album, charting four singles in Australia before moving to the United States the following year. He started a band known as The Ranch, which recorded one studio album on Capitol Nashville and charted two singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

              Still signed to Capitol, Urban made his solo American debut in 1999 with a second eponymous album. Certified platinum in the US by the RIAA, it produced his first number one on the Hot Country Songs chart with "But for the Grace of God". "Somebody Like You", the first single from his second Capitol album Golden Road (2002), was named by Billboard as the biggest country hit of the 2000s decade. The album's fourth single, "You'll Think of Me" featuring his nephew and fellow country artist Rory Gilliatte, earned him his first Grammy Award. 2004's Be Here, his third American album became his highest-selling album, being certified 4× Platinum. Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing was released in 2006, containing "Once in a Lifetime" as well as his second Grammy Award-winning song, "Stupid Boy". A greatest hits package titled Greatest Hits: 18 Kids followed in late 2007. Defying Gravity and Get Closer were released on 31 March 2009 and 16 November 2010, respectively. In September 2013, he released the album Fuse, which produced four more number ones on the Country Airplay chart. "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16" was released in June 2015 as the lead single of his eighth American studio album, Ripcord. The album later produced the Country Airplay chart number-one hits "Break on Me", "Wasted Time", and "Blue Ain't Your Color", with the latter also becoming Urban's longest-reigning number one on the Hot Country Songs chart, spending 12 weeks atop the chart. His tenth album, Graffiti U, was released in 2018 and includes the Top 10 hit "Coming Home". His eleventh album The Speed of Now Part 1 was released in 2020 and includes the global hit "One Too Many" with Pink, in addition to Country Airplay top ten hits "We Were" and "God Whispered Your Name".

             Urban was a coach on the Australian version of the singing competition The Voice and a judge on American Idol. In October 2013, Urban introduced his own signature line of guitars and accessories.

             Golden Road is the third studio album by Australian country music singer Keith Urban. It was released on 8 October 2002 via Capitol Records Nashville. The album includes the singles "Somebody Like You", "Raining on Sunday", "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me", and "You'll Think of Me". This was Urban's first album to be produced by Dann Huff, who has produced all of his albums since.

I woke up early this morning 'round 4 a.m.
With the moon shining bright
As headlights on the interstate
I pulled the covers over my head
And tried to catch some sleep
But thoughts of us kept keeping me awake

Ever since you found yourself in someone else's arms
I've been tryin' my best to get along
But that's okay
There's nothing left to say, but

Take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories, I don't need 'em
Take your space and take your reasons
But you'll think of me

And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me, you'll think of me

I went out driving trying to clear my head
I tried to sweep out all the ruins that my emotions left
(I guess I'm)
I guess I'm feeling just a little tired of this
And all the baggage that seems to still exist

It seems the only blessing I have left to my name
Is not knowing what we could have been
What we should have been
So

Take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories, I don't need 'em
Take your space and take your reasons
But you'll think of me

And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me

Someday I'm gonna run across your mind
But don't worry, I'll be fine
I'm gonna be alright
While you're sleeping with your pride
Wishing I could hold you tight
I'll be over you
And on with my life

So take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories, I don't need 'em
And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me

So take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories, I don't need 'em
Take your space and all your reasons
But you'll think of me

And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we got nothing left to weather
In fact, I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me, you'll think of me, yeah

Oh, oh
And you're gonna think of me, mmm yeah

Ooh, stop me baby
Someday
Oh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Mmm, mmm, mmm
Darlin, think of me
Mmm, mmm, mmm
Baby, darlin', no, oh, oh
Doo, doo, doo, oh, oh!

CONCRETE ANGEL

MARTINA MCBRIED

Songwriters: Rob Crosby / Stephanie Kay Bentley

PAIS: USA

ALBUM: GREATEST HITS

LABEL: RCA NASHVILLE

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 2001

 

            Greatest Hits is the first compilation album by American country music singer Martina McBride, issued by RCA Nashville in 2001. In addition to chronicling the greatest hits of her career at the time, it includes four new songs, all of which were released as singles. The compilation reached number 1 on Top Country Albums and received a Quadruple-platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on December 12, 2018.         

            Martina Mariea McBride (née Schiff, born July 29, 1966) is an American country music singer-songwriter and record producer. She is known for her soprano singing range and her country pop material.

      McBride was born in Sharon, Kansas, and relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1989. She signed to RCA Recors in 1991, and made her debut the following year as a neo-traditionalist country singer with the single, "The Time Has Come". Over time, she developed a pop-styled crossover sound, similar to Shania Twain and Faith Hill, and had a string of major hit singles on the Billboard country chart and occasionally on the adult contemporary chart. Five of these singles went to No. 1 on the country chart between 1995 and 2001, and one peaked at No. 1 on the adult contemporary chart in 2003.

     McBride has fourteen studio albums, two greatest hits compilations, one "live" album, as well as two additional compilation albums. Eight of her studio albums and two of her compilations have an RIAA Gold certification, or higher. In the U.S., she has sold over 14 million albums. In addition, McBride has won the Country Music Association Award for Female Vocalist of the Year award four times (tied with Reba McEntire for the third-most wins) and the Academy of Country Music's "Top Female Vocalist" award three times. She is also a 14-time Grammy Award nominee. 

She walks to school with the lunch
She packed
Nobody knows what she's
Holdin' back
Wearin' the same dress
She wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with linen
And lace

The teacher wonders but she
Doesn't ask
It's hard to see the pain
Behind the mask
Bearing the burden
Of a secret storm
Sometimes she wishes she was
Never born

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In her world that she can rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where
She's loved
Concrete angel

Somebody cries in the middle
Of the night
The neighbors hear, but they turn
Out the lights
A fragile soul caught in the hands
Of fate
When morning comes
It'll be too late

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In her world that she can rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where
She's loved
Concrete angel

A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In her world that she can rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where
She's loved
Concrete angel.

 IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY

SHERYL SUZZANE CROW

SONGWRITERS: JEFFREY ROBERT TROTT/SHERYL CROW

PAIS: USA

ALBUM: SHERYL CROW

LABEL: A &M RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1996

         Sheryl Crow is the second studio album by American singer and songwriter Sheryl Crow, released on September 24, 1996, by A&M Records. Unlike its predecessor Tuesday Night Music Club, which was written by a casual collective formed by Crow and several other musicians, Sheryl Crow was entirely produced by Crow, who wrote most of the songs alone or with only one collaborator. Most of the album was recorded at Kingsway Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana. The album covers topics of American life, relationship breakups, and moral and ethical issues, while encompassing a variety of music genres such as rock, blues, alternative rock, country, and folk.

          Sheryl Crow was a commercial success, being certified triple platinum by both the RIAA and the BPI. It reached number six on the Billboard 200 and produced five singles, including the international hit "If It Makes You Happy". The album received very positive reviews from critics, who praised its intricate production and Crow's louder and more assured singing. At the 39th Annual Grammy Awards, the album was awarded Best Rock Album and Crow received the Best Female Rock Vocal.

           Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Her music incorporates elements of rock, pop, country, folk, and blues. She has released eleven studio albums, five compilations, and three live albums, and contributed to several film soundtracks. Her most popular songs include "All I Wanna Do" (1994), "Strong Enough" (1994), "If It Makes You Happy" (1996), "Everyday Is a Winding Road" (1996), "My Favorite Mistake" (1998), "Picture" (2002, duet with Kid Rock), and "Soak Up the Sun" (2002).

            Crow has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide  and won nine Grammy Awards (out of 32 nominations) from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. As an actress, Crow has appeared on the television series 30 Rock, Cop Rock, GCB, Cougar Town, Jon Stewart's and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, One Tree Hill, and NCIS: New Orleans. Crow was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023. 

I been long, a long way from here
Put on a poncho and played for mosquitoes
And drank 'til I was thirsty again
We went searchin', through thrift store jungles
Found Geronimo's rifle, Marilyn's shampoo
And Benny Goodman's corset and pen
Well, okay, I made this up
I promised you I'd never give up

If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad?

You get down, real low down
You listen to Coltrane, derail your own train
Well, who hasn't been there before?
I come 'round, around the hard way
Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread
And serve you French toast again
Well, okay, I still get stoned
I'm not the kind of girl you'd take home

If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad?
If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad?

We've been far, far away from here
Put on a poncho and played for mosquitoes
And everywhere in between
Well, okay, we get along
So what if right now, everything's wrong?

If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad?
If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad?