Lonestar ~ Similar Artists

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Blake Shelton - 100% match to Lonestar

18 June 1976, Ada, Oklahoma, USA. This new country artist was taught to play guitar by his uncle while growing up in his native Oklahoma. Still only in his mid-teens he began playing the local bar circuit, but a performance at a tribute to legendary songwriter Mae Boren Axton... Read more

Brooks & Dunn - 92% match to Lonestar

This hugely successful country duo comprises Kix Brooks (Leon Eric Brooks, 12 May 1955, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA) and Ronnie Gene Dunn (b. 1 June 1953, Coleman, Texas, USA). As an adolescent, Brooks lived close to Johnny Horton and sang with Horton's daughter. He moved to... Read more

Jo Dee Messina - 85% match to Lonestar

25 August 1970, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA. Singer-songwriter Jo Dee Messina began her career as a teenager playing in local country bands around New England. By the age of 19 she had decamped to Nashville, where she struggled on the local talent show circuit. Eventually... Read more

Tim McGraw - 83% match to Lonestar

Samuel Timothy Smith, 1 May 1967, Delhi, Louisiana, USA. This highly popular country singer was raised in Start, Louisiana, and is the son of Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw, a noted left-handed relief pitcher for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies, who retired in 1984 after a... Read more

Brad Paisley - 73% match to Lonestar

28 October 1972, Glen Dale, West Virginia, USA. Singer-songwriter Paisley is widely acknowledged by the US country scene as one of his generation's leading new traditionalists. His talent was apparent from an early age. Before becoming a teenager Paisley was singing in his local... Read more

Gretchen Wilson - 73% match to Lonestar

26 June 1973, Pocahontas, Illinois USA. Wilson's poverty-stricken upbringing in rural Illinois bears similarities to the backgrounds of fellow country singers Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline. The daughter of a single teenage mother, Wilson was working in a local bar alongside her... Read more

Alan Jackson - 72% match to Lonestar

17 October 1958, Newnan, Georgia, USA. Jackson, the son of a motor mechanic, had a love of gospel music through church and his family. His roots can be heard in "Home" (written for Mother's Day), "Chattahoochee" and his tribute to Hank Williams, "Midnight In Montgomery". He has... Read more

Toby Keith - 71% match to Lonestar

Toby Keith Covel, 8 July 1961, Elk Town, Clinton, Oklahoma, USA. This highly popular honky-tonk country artist grew up on an Oklahoma farm listening to his father's favourite, Bob Wills, and finding his own hero in Merle Haggard. He tested broncs and bulls for a rodeo during his... Read more

Keith Urban - 68% match to Lonestar

26 October 1967, Whangarei, New Zealand. As a young child, the New Zealand-born Urban moved with his family to Australia. His parents liked American country and, as a young guitarist, he played country festivals from the age of 10. Nevertheless, he admits his guitar playing was... Read more

Kenny Chesney - 66% match to Lonestar

Kenneth Arnold Chesney, 26 March 1968, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. A handsome country singer-songwriter specializing in heartfelt ballads, Chesney has earned a reputation as a genial and hard-working traditional artist. In 1994, he made his debut for Capricorn Records with a... Read more