Heart Like That
- 流派:Country 乡村
- 语种:英语
- 发行时间:2013-02-18
- 唱片公司:Kdigital Media, Ltd.
- 类型:录音室专辑
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简介
These songs reflect on my life! My trials and failures, to my successes and triumphs. I write from the heart and I enjoy a good love story just like the next artist. Heart Like That is my favorite because we all have a special person in our lives that love us no matter what and that's something to sing about and cherish forever. Thank God for those people. This music was recorded At the Sound Shop on Division st here in Nashville, TN. My friends and I had a great time recording together. Their names are: Ben Jackson(drums), Cornelius Perry (Bass), Johnny Shortridge (Guitar), Eddy Dunlap (Steel), Klint Stallons (Bass, Fiddle) Here's a look at my bio and press kit: Kyle Stallons: Turning the Keys to the Row And Country Radio By PHIL SWEETLAND Music+Radio Contributor, The New York Times NASHVILLE – Everything about Kyle Stallons is a pleasant surprise. He's a country singer and songwriter from Texas, but his country is rooted both in the church and in the Lone Star State's legendary honky tonks. Kyle’s a huge George Strait and Bob Wills fan, but his chosen instrument is neither guitar, fiddle, nor steel. It's piano, just like a couple of other Stallons heroes, Ronnie Milsap and Jerry Lee Lewis. And like Milsap, who racked up 35 No. 1 Billboard country hit singles, the fourth most of any artist in history, Stallon's radio-friendly music and lyrics are an ideal mix for both today's pop-flavored country crossover stations and for those who prefer their country more traditional. Kyle has truly hit the Nashville ground running. Not only is he fast establishing himself as a singer and songwriter, he's become an in-demand keyboard player, working the road every weekend as bandleader and keys player for a fellow Texan, Arista Nashville's new artist Kristen Kelly, whose debut single "Ex-Old Man" rocketed to No. 1 on the Most Added chart for Mediabase country stations last April with 27 – tied with none other than George Strait for the top spot that week. This experience, with Kristen opening for Rascal Flatts this year and Brad Paisley last summer, has helped Kyle earn great exposure with Kelly's co-producers, Strait's own studio master Tony Brown and the "When You Say Nothing At All" writer Paul Overstreet. Stallons sees a need at country radio for what Phil Vassar brought, starting with the No. 1 smash "Just Another Day In Paradise" in 2000. "The movies Great Balls Of Fire (about Jerry Lee Lewis) and Ray (the Ray Charles biopic) changed my perception of things coming from the piano," Kyle recalls. "Then I was discovering Ronnie Milsap and Charlie Rich, which ties in to Vassar. There’s been a void there lately." Stallons may just be the ideal guy to fill that huge, piano-flavored gap at country radio. Growing up in the Fort Worth suburb of Aledo, whose population is barely 1,700, Kyle Christopher Stallons played football under the Friday night lights and played piano, starting at age 4. His mother was his first teacher of music and voice. Mom and Dad were both stalwarts in the church choir, Kyle's first musical training ground. Contemporary Christian music keys wizards such as Michael W. Smith and Steven Curtis Chapman became heroes. So did Dino, TBN’s flashy and charismatic piano virtuoso known as "America’s Piano Showman." Kyle played in several praise and worship teams through high school, and simultaneously fell in love with the music of 1990s country legends such as Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson. One day after church Stallons met the cowboy singer and songwriter Dan Roberts, who has opened more Garth shows than anyone in history and co-wrote the No. 1 smash "The Beaches Of Cheyenne" with Brooks and Bryan Kennedy in 1996. Roberts quickly recognized the talents of the high-school aged Stallons and younger brother and fiddle/bass player Klint, hired Kyle for his Western Swing band, and handed Kyle a boxful of Strait, Moe Bandy, and Merle Haggard records to study. Those shows at the legendary White Elephant Saloon in the Fort Worth Stockyards were the start of Kyle's professional country career, and of a dream. "From Day One of college, my goal was to come to Nashville," says Stallons. That education was an intense four-year program in the College of Music at the University of North Texas, two years in classical and two in jazz. Texas is a cultural crossroads, and Kyle's musical tastes through his college years continued to expand. Classical composers like Chopin and Debussy caught his ear, as did CCM stars Chris Rice, the Gaither Vocal Band and Take Six, and countless country radio hits. As he walked across the UNT stage to grab his diploma in Jazz Studies and Performance, he knew he was headed for Music Row. Once he got here, he quickly grew comfortable with the Nashville technique of co-writing. He joined BMI and got a Writer's Rep. Kyle also found himself reading more than ever before, poring over the biographies of Row legends such as Dolly Parton and songwriting tomes including "Lyrics, Lyrics, Lyrics." Row and radio industry pros and local fans get a marvelous chance to hear and see Kyle each Sunday night after he gets off the road with Kristen at the Second Fiddle on Lower Broadway. He and Klint – the Stallons Brothers – play at the no-cover spot from 6:30-10 p.m. each Sunday. Kyle is a natural performer, and these Second Fiddle shows give him a marvelous chance to strut his stuff, interact with fans, and dazzle locals and tourists alike. It hasn't taken Stallons long to find himself very much at home in Music Row studios, both working sessions for others and recording his own songs, such as the anthemic and hooky "Pretty Good Feeling," the driving tempo tune "Outta This Town" and the irresistible ballad "And Love," sure to be a hit with country radio’s female demographic. Another huge Kyle strength is his soulful baritone voice, a dream for country programmers. Like Milsap, Stallons' voice meshes country and Gospel flavors effortlessly. So maybe it's no coincidence that Aledo, Texas, isn't far from another burg called Millsap. Kyle Stallons brings something back to country radio and to the Row that we've known and loved for decades, and that we've missed more than we knew. All the hard work, piano wizardry, Christian faith, road work, and Row networking are soon to pay off for Kyle, whose 2013 figures to be a very lucky year indeed. Updated February 18, 2013 CONTACT: kyle.stallons@gmail.com KyleStallons.com