Steve Wariner plans Chet Atkins tribute disc
Monday, March 30, 2009 – Steve Wariner is working on a Chet Atkins tribute disc. Wariner is putting the finishing touches on the disc with plans to release it this summer.
Wariner self-produced the music, which will be on his own SelecTone label. The music is a combination of some songs that Atkins recorded and originals that are inspired by Atkins' style.
Wariner's last disc was "This Real Life," also on SelecTone in 2005.
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Paying homage to a legend like the late Chet Atkins is a tall order, especially when the man who forever shaped Nashville's musical landscape happened to be a close friend and mentor. So it's not all that surprising Steve Wariner's latest album, a 10-song tribute to Atkins, who died in 2001, hits the high notes musically but is a bit over the top when it comes to his reverence for his one-time hero.
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Guitar Christmas
Born on Christmas Day and given the middle name Noel, Steve Wariner seems like the perfect artist to release a Christmas album. And, in fact, this is his second - the first was back in 1990, at the height of his fame as the smooth singer of country-pop hits like "Where Did I Go Wrong." Fame is fickle, however, and now he records in relative obscurity for his own label.
This is an entire album of guitar-only songs - no vocals, no other instruments, just Wariner playing guitar. And surprise - it actually works. »»» |
Steal Another Day
Steve Wariner has had 14 number 1 singles and written hits for people like Garth Brooks and Clint Black. But like a lot of artists who had the bad timing to come to prominence during the early '80s-late '90s, he's been hooked off the stage by the major labels.
A lot of Wariner's hits have been sentimental songs, and on his first self-released disc, he shows he hasn't lost that knack. "Snowfall on the Sand" is a tearjerker about a boy whose roaming father promises to come home with the first snow; »»» |
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