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Wade Hayes (US1)

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GenreCountry
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Songs63
AboutRaised in Bethel Acres, OK, Wade Hayes grew up around country
music. His father Don was a professional musician who played bars
and honky tonks across Oklahoma. Through the influence of his
father, he began playing music as a child. Initially, he played
mandolin for a while, but he switched to guitar at the age of 11.
Inspired by honky tonk, outlaw country, and bluegrass, Hayes
developed a distinctive style at an early age.

When Wade was a pre-teen, his father signed a contract with a
Nashville-based independent record label and moved the family
to the Music City. Within a year, the label had folded, leaving the
Hayes family broke. They struggled back to Oklahoma, where
Wade began playing guitar and singing backup in his father's
band, Country Heritage. Following his graduation from high school,
Wade went to three different colleges, but he decided to drop out
of school to pursue music after seeing Ricky Skaggs on the 1991
Country Music Awards show. He moved to Nashville and beginning
playing on demo tapes, all the while working on his own original
material. Shortly after he settled down in Nashville, Hayes began
writing songs with Chick Rains, who arranged an audition for the
vocalist with record producer Don Cook (the Mavericks, Brooks
& Dunn). Cook was impressed and began working with the singer,
eventually getting him in contact with executives at Columbia
Records.

Old Enough to Know Better, Hayes' debut album, was released in
1995. The record was an immediate hit, with its title track
becoming a number one single. The Academy of Country Music
nominated him for Top New Male Vocalist of the Year for 1995.
Hayes' second album, On a Good Night, was released in the summer
of 1996. Although it wasn't as big a hit as his debut, it still sold
respectably.

Hayes' third album, When the Wrong One Loves You Right, was
released in early 1998 and Highways and Heartaches followed
two years later. Stephen Thomas Erlewine...

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