Why Country Music Fans Are Going Crazy Over Billy Currington!
Although he’s on the Country Music scene since 2001, Billy Currington is now starting to get his due of popularity that he deserves.
3 Albums, 3 Number One Singles, and 8 top 40 Hits later Billy Currington is starting to become a household name in the country music genre.
Billy Currington fell in love with country music at very early age, and credits his step father for that. Marrying his mother when Billy was just 1 years old, Larry Currington would go on to play some of the best and most influential music that a young country boy from Rincon, GA can get.
Artists like Kenny Rogers, Willy Nelson, and the Gatlin Brothers went on to shape Billy’s country flavor that we here today…that and some Gospel music that Billy heard and participated in with his church as a teen.
His stepfather unfortunately went on to battle alchoholism, and created some turmoil for the family, but Billy still credits him as having a big positive influence in his life. However, when he was just 12 Billy began to pen the single that many people fell in love with, and resonated with “Walk a Little Straighter”.
With his love of country music, Billy had the big dream of making it big in Nashville, so he did what any red-blooded boy with a dream would do and took off to Nashville straight out of high school.
Unfortunately that first trip didn’t work out, but Billy didn’t come home with his tail between his legs, he came back home to Georgia and started playing his music in the local bars honing his craft, which would eventually serve him well.
He later returned to Nashville, insistent on making it, and did everything he had to in order to stay there. He worked for a concrete company to pay rent and bills in the beginning. When that began taking too much of his time … Billy quit that job at the urging of fellow songwriters, and instead became a personal trainer.
That job would become a blessing in disguise, when one of his clients turned out to work for a song publishing company. He got Billy to record some demos, shopped them around, and before you knew it Billy Currington music was being heard by the people who count at Mercury Nashville Records, and in 2001 he was signed to the label.
Billy Currington Songs: The Journey of Billy Currington’s Music
Billy Currington’s debut album was self-titled and released in 2003. It featured some great material that would get many people to sit up and notice. The album went on to go Gold, and hit #17 on the country charts, which is great for a break out artist.
With his good looks and soulful voice, Billy Currington music seems to nestle very nicely in the ears of country music fans.
With that album came the great song “Walk a Little Straighter” which people took a very quick liking to. It went on to hit #8 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks Chart. Billy now found himself as a respected artist and top performer in Nashville.
“I Got a Feeling” from that album went on to hit #5 on the Country Charts which really solidified his standing as a country singer/songwriter.
Shania Twain apparently liked what she heard listening to Billy Currington songs as well, and asked him to sing on her duet “Party for Two” which went on to become Billy’s 3rd top 10 hit. After that teaming up, Billy
“Doin’ Something Right” was Currington’s 2005 sophomore album. Already established as a force to reckon with, this album cemented him, and really drove home the fact that this guy was in Nashville to stay.
This one peaked at #2 on the Top Country Albums Chart and #11 on the Billboard 200.
Currington got his first #1 hit from this album with “Must Be Doing Something Right”…apparently he was because soon after “Driving Directions” also hit number one, with a number #13 hit “Why, Why,Why” sandwiched in between the two peak hits.
Driving directions also went on to be the #2 Album of 2007 according to Billboard.
After cutting short his tour in 2007 for a throat ailment, Currington laid low for a while until October of 2008, releasing his third and latest Album “Little Bit of Everything”.
The album title says it all about the album, because it essentially is a little bit of everything as far as musical styles go.
You can see a review of the album here. So far the runaway hit “Don’t” has gone to #1 on the country charts, and I’m sure there will be plenty more where that came from. Songs like “Every Reason Not to Go”, “People are Crazy”, and “Heal Me” are all radio friendly that seem to have hit all over them…while songs like “Swimmin’ in Sunshine” will be a summer favorite as the album gets more and more popular.
Billy Currington’s twangy soulful voice is here to stay, and his live shows showcase what a great voice he has. You can see where his near constant touring since 2003 has paid off in crafting a great stage performance.
Billy Currington music will be around forever, and likely become a huge influence on the country music scene, where little boys listening to him in their daddy’s trucks will grow up wanting to be him!
