Shane Wyatt: Mixing Traditional Flavors with a Contemporary Rockin’ Edge, the Minneapolis Based Singer/Songwriter Keeps Country Music’s Proud Tradition of Oklahoma Bred Artists Thriving by Riding with ‘The Last Cowboy’
2008-07-15 13:58:00
LOS ANGELES–(EMWNews)–With the trail from Oklahoma to Nashville blazed by icons like Garth
Brooks, Vince Gill, Toby Keith and Blake Shelton,
upstart country artists from the Sooner State have a helluva lot to live
up to. Only time will tell just how much Shane Wyatt (www.shanewyatt.com)
will add to the lore of legendary Okies, but the multi-talented
singer/songwriter is already staking a pretty good claim, riding high
and wild on the initial success of his independent debut album The
Last Cowboy, in which he wrote all of the songs.
Touching hearts and scooting boots with songs inspired by modern
traditionalists like George Strait and country rocker Jason
Aldean, Wyatt is enjoying great grass roots success with his first
single, “The Big Bad Dog,”
which is receiving airplay on major stations in Oklahoma, Nebraska,
South Dakota and Minnesota, Wyatt’s
adopted home state.
Wyatt is taking “The Big Bad Dog”
across the U.S. with its inclusion on a CDX subscription disc (volume
452, released July 7th) going out to over 2,000
country stations nation-wide. A big time line dance has been created
around the song by Nashville’s famed Jamie
Marshall–creator of dance sensations “Bomshel
Stomp” and Big & Rich’s
“Save A Horse, Ride A Cowboy”—quickly
inspiring a craze in dance clubs nation-wide.
A fan of Aldean’s 2007 hit album Relentless,
the singer contacted producer Michael Knox, in turn hooked him up
with Mike Noble, the studio coordinator for the Aldean project
whose songs have been recorded by George Jones, Kenny Rogers, and
Brooks & Dunn.
Noble brought in some of Nashville’s top “session
cats”: drummer Shawn Fichter (Trisha
Yearwood), bassist Jimmy Carter (Dierks Bentley, Tim
McGraw), guitarist Mike Durham (McGraw, Dave
Matthews), fiddler Glen Duncan (Shania Twain, Kenny Chesney),
pedal steel guitarist Russ Pahl (Rascal Flatts, Trace
Adkins) and backing vocalist Thom Flora (George Strait).
Among Wyatt’s upcoming gigs is Firefest
2008 with superstar Joe Nichols in Cold Spring, Minnesota,
raising money for local firefighters.
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