Butch Baker
Butch Baker (born in Sweetwater, Tennessee) is an American country music artist. He recorded for Mercury Records in the late 1980s, releasing multiple singles between 1984 and 1990, as well as the album We Will. His highest-peaking single, "That's What Her Memory Is For", peaked at No. 41 on the U.S. country charts in 1986.
Biography
Butch Baker was born in Sweetwater, Tennessee. He first sang at nineteen months in his father's church. Taking influence from gospel music as well as rock and country acts such as The Everly Brothers, Elvis Presley, Don Gibson and others, he decided to pursue a musical career after graduating from Tennessee Military Institute and majoring in drama at the University of Tennessee.
Baker moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1979. There, he sold men's clothing during the day and attended various gigs at night, eventually being hired for one. Afterward, he went on to record demos, eventually becoming a staff writer for Acuff-Rose Music as well. In 1984, he signed to a recording contract with Mercury Records. He released three singles for the label, including "Thinking 'bout Leaving", which peaked at 56 on the Billboard country charts. After this song came his highest chart peak, the Number 41 "That's What Her Memory Is For." He continued to release singles through the 1980s, and was one of several guest vocalists on Hank Williams, Jr.'s 1987 single "Young Country" (from the Born to Boogie album). However, his debut album, the Harold Shedd-produced We Will, was not issued until 1990. This album included a cover version of Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight". That same year, he charted for the last time as a duet partner on labelmate Daniele Alexander's "It Wasn't You, It Wasn't Me". This was from Alexander's second album, I Dream in Color, which included two other duets with him. After exiting Mercury in 1990, he became a regular on a video program for The Nashville Network (now Spike TV).
Barry Hannah
Howard Barry Hannah (April 23, 1942 – March 1, 2010) was an American novelist and short story writer from Mississippi. Hannah was born in Meridian, Mississippi, on April 23, 1942, and grew up in Clinton, Mississippi. He wrote eight novels and five short story collections.
His first novel, Geronimo Rex (1972), was nominated for the National Book Award. Airships, his 1978 collection of short stories about the Vietnam War, the American Civil War, and the modern South, won the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award. The following year, Hannah received the prestigious Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Hannah won a Guggenheim, the Robert Penn Warren Lifetime Achievement Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of the short story.
He was awarded the Fiction Prize of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters twice and received Mississippi's prestigious Governor's Award in 1989 for distinguished representation of the state of Mississippi in artistic and cultural matters. For a brief time Hannah lived in Los Angeles and worked as a writer for the film director Robert Altman. He was director of the MFA program at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, where he taught creative writing for 28 years. He died on March 1, 2010, of a heart attack.
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Butch Baker
ALBUMS
- Floorpackin' released: 1998
Floorpackin'
Released 1998- Nothing Can Help You Now
- Determination
- Tell Her
- You Should Have Held On
- I Can't Get Enough
- Darkest Days
- Discontented
- Tear Stained Face
- Something Beautiful
- I'm Gonna Love You a Long, Long Time
- Playing Hide and Seek
- You've Been Leading Me On
- Don't Say Maybe Baby
- A Touch of Venus
- Another Day
- Fat Man at the Go-Go
- Love Runs Out
- My Love Is Getting Stronger
- I Thought You Were Mine
- Scots on Swingers
- Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart
- You Got Too Much Going for You
- Never Die
- It Really Hurts Me Girl
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by Funeral Oration
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by Nocturnal Rites
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by Born From Pain
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by Dj Drama
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by Dave Wakeling
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by Place Of Skulls
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by Grouch
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by Daughtry
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by Blackthrone
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by English Dogs
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by Dogwood
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by K. Smith
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by Creed
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by Metalium
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by Vendetta
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by Yngwie Malmsteen
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by Tiger Army
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by Mad Heads
Never Die
by: Funeral OrationSummers don't go slow
And so just before you know
So be it that you're walking
In the rain on your own
The world's insane
You've got so much inside
But that just won't see the light
Won't see it
Still you're walking on
While your mind makes up a song
Feel you work too much
And you're always in a rush
In need for something else
Maybe something for yourself
You need fresh air to breathe
It's a thought you can not leave
Not before too soon
Your head is working up a tune
And put it to a tape deck
Sing out all these lines
Shout it if you feel bad
And make it in a rhyme
Punk never die for I
Never die. No never die
When I'm home and close the door
I want to hear that song once more
That song is about my life
And it makes me feel alright
I want to hear some energy
Could you give it loud to me
There is young kids there on stage