Roxie Dean
Roxie Dean is a U.S. country music songwriter and singer. In 2005 she released her debut album, Ms. America. Her songwriting career includes a 2001 Nashville Songwriters Association International "Top 10 Songs That You Wish You’d Written" award for "Why They Call It Falling" (co-written with Don Schlitz), and a Grammy nomination for co-writing "When I Think About Angels."
Early life and career
Originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where French was the primary language spoken in her home, Dean recalls her father playing the guitar until she would fall asleep. Before settling in her music career, Dean worked various jobs including retail sales, coordinating events for Toyota in Huntington Beach, California, and farming.
Dean wrote material during her two years at Iowa’s Graceland College on a softball scholarship and while back in Louisiana completing a journalism degree. After graduation she tried unsuccessfully to establish herself in Nashville as a country music artist. She then left for California, where she worked for Toyota. A screening of George Strait’s Pure Country motivated her return to Nashville. She began to socialize with a friend from Louisiana who was connected to music industry insiders in the city. This friend, along with Rivers Rutherford (author of Brooks & Dunn's "Ain't Nothing 'bout You", Chely Wright's "Shut Up and Drive" and Montgomery Gentry's "If You Ever Stop Loving Me", among others), helped to find her direction.
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Roxie Dean
ALBUMS
- Promo Only: Country Radio, May 2005 released: 2005
Promo Only: Country Radio, May 2005
Released 2005- The Talkin' Song Repair Blues
- Fast Cars and Freedom
- Hicktown
- Something More
- Stay With Me (Brass Bed)
- No More Me and You
- Paycheck Woman
- A Hard Secret to Keep
- Go Home
- Bring Me Down
- 4th of July
- I Play Chicken With the Train
- No One'll Ever Love Me
- Louisiana Love
- Nobody Ever Died of a Broken Heart
- A Soldier's Wife
- Walkin' in the Shadow of Life
- Somebody's Somebody
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by Black Uhuru
Rockstone
by: Black UhuruThrowing rockstone upon a
dumper truck
Throwing rockstone upon a
dumper truck
Men standing over I and I and
we are not wild
Forcing jack hammers
through the concrete wall
That's the only way a dread
can make a bread
Satta dread satta you time soon
come
Throwing rockstone upon a
dumper truck
Throwing rockstone upon a
dumper truck
I and I fore parents did
have all the riches
Now it's taken away
And dem work iniquity and a
burn bad lamp pon dem wanna
neda
Dem a burn bad lamp and
work iniquity wo oh
Everytime I work on this
truck mi tear off mi shirt
I trod it ital but duckie
stich his own up
We fling rockstone upon a
dumper truck
Throwing rockstone upon a
dumper truck
Throwing rockstone upon a
dumper truck
Packing up rockstone upon a
dumper truck
The Queen would like to know
I and I know that for sure
Cause we down yea
We are the slave
We are the slave
Digging digglng
Down a sandy gully
We do the holly gully