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Craig Morgan - 100% match to Joe Nichols

17 July 1965, Kingston Springs, Tennessee, USA. Country singer-songwriter Morgan began his career at the start of the new millennium, but his rise to the upper echelons of the charts was a gradual process and took in an abortive period with a major label. Raised in Nashville in the heart of country music land, Morgan nurtured dreams of becoming a country singer from an early Read more

Chris Cagle - 90% match to Joe Nichols

Christian Cagle, 10 November 1968, DeRidder, Louisiana, USA. This no-frills country rock artist grew up in Houston, Texas. Cagle learned to play guitar and piano as a youngster and dropped out of college at the age of 19 to pursue a musical career. He relocated to Nashville in the mid-90s where he struggled to make an impact before placing some songs with the up-and-coming p Read more

Jason Michael Carroll - 86% match to Joe Nichols

13 June 1978, Houston, Texas, USA. This US contemporary country singer was raised in North Carolina by devout parents who would not allow him to listen to any secular music as a youngster. After leaving home Carroll was able to broaden his musical education, and he soon discovered he had a talent for singing. He performed at open mic slots while working during the day in a g Read more

Keith Anderson - 85% match to Joe Nichols

Darryl Worley - 80% match to Joe Nichols

31 October 1964, Pyburn, Tennessee, USA. This country singer-songwriter made his breakthrough in 2002, when his second album I Miss My Friend reached the top of the US country charts. Worley was brought up in a strict Methodist family, and his decision to pursue a music career was reluctantly acceded to by his parents. He studied hard to complete a biology degree while learn Read more

Chris Young - 79% match to Joe Nichols

Montgomery Gentry - 79% match to Joe Nichols

This raucous honky-tonk duo comprises Eddie Montgomery (Gerald Edward Montgomery, 30 September 1963, Lancaster, Kentucky, USA; vocals/guitar) and Troy Gentry (b. 5 April 1967, Lexington, Kentucky, USA; vocals/guitar). Eddie is the brother of country star, John Michael Montgomery. Their parents toured as Harold Montgomery And The Kentucky River Express and when Eddie was 13, Read more

Jake Owen - 74% match to Joe Nichols

Clay Walker - 72% match to Joe Nichols

Ernest Clayton Walker, 19 August 1969, Beaumont, Texas, USA. From the same city and similar strand of country music as Tracy Byrd and Mark Chesnutt, the US country singer Walker owes much of his vocal style to George Strait. He was taught guitar by his father at a young age and started to write songs as soon as he knew enough chords. Walker was no overnight success, and tour Read more

Billy Currington - 70% match to Joe Nichols

19 November 1973, Savannah, Georgia, USA. Contemporary country singer-songwriter Currington made a notable impact on the national charts with his second album, 2005’s Doin’ Somethin’ Right. Raised in Rincon, Georgia, Currington’s early ambitions of pursuing a singing career led him through a number of talent shows while still at high school. He moved to N Read more

Phil Vassar - 67% match to Joe Nichols

28 May 1964, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA. Vassar’s father was a club singer, who bought his own restaurant. Vassar did well in athletics and football in school and obtained a degree in Business Administration from James Madison University. He moved to Nashville in 1987 and began playing piano in the Hard Day’s Night bar, which he eventually bought. Engelbert Humperdin Read more

Tracy Byrd - 66% match to Joe Nichols

17 December 1966, Beaumont, Texas, USA. Neo-traditionalist country singer Byrd paid $8 to sing Hank Williams’ ‘Your Cheatin’ Heart’ over a pre-recorded backing track in a shopping mall. The store manageress was so impressed by Byrd’s voice that she booked him for a talent show. On that show he sang ‘Weary Blues’ and ‘Folsom Prison Blue Read more

Jack Ingram - 63% match to Joe Nichols

15 November 1970, Houston, Texas, USA. This US country rock singer-songwriter released his first major label recording in 1997, but was already an established star on the southern bar circuit and had issued two independent albums during the middle of the decade. Ingram first began playing seriously while studying for a psychology degree at Southern Methodist University in Da Read more

Emerson Drive - 62% match to Joe Nichols

Country pop outfit formed in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada by school friends Brad Mates (Bradley Mates, 21 July 1978, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada; vocals/guitar), Pat Allingham (b. 9 July 1978, Ill-A-La-Cross, Saskatchewan, Canada; fiddle), and Chris Hartman (b. 2 January 1978, Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada; keyboards). Originally called 12 Gauge, the trio added Jeff Read more

Chuck Wicks - 59% match to Joe Nichols