Wade Hayes - Highways And Heartaches (2000)

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Artist: Wade Hayes

Type: Album

Year: 2000

Style: Country / Contemporary Country

Country: United States

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Release Date: 2000

Genre: Country

Label: Sony



Album Reviews:



After scoring four Top Ten country hits off his debut album Old Enough to Know Better in 1995-1996, Wade Hayes enjoyed more moderate success with his second and third discs, 1996's On a Good Night and 1998's When the Wrong One Loves Your Right, each of which spawned a sole Top Ten hit and some also-rans. Atypically, his new label Monument (like his old one, Columbia, within the Sony corporation) seems not to have chosen an advance single from his fourth album, but there are several singles possibilities among the record's ten tracks. Possessed of a flexible baritone that can ride roughly over the up-tempo numbers and croon smoothly through the ballads, Hayes is equally effective in either mode. The songwriting doesn't rise above Nashville formula style, but among the more fast-paced tunes, lead-off track "Up North (Down South, Back East, out West)" and "That's What Honky Tonks Are For" sound like possible radio fodder, while among the slow ones, "She Used to Say That to Me" and "You Were, You Are, You'll Always Be" stand out. The closer, "I'm Lonesome Too," is a mid-tempo song on which Hayes breaks into an attractive falsetto on the chorus. Highways and Heartaches doesn't sound like the album to turn around Wade Hayes' slowly declining career, but with Monument's promotional muscle behind it may help him maintain his current status.



Biography:



Wade Hayes

Born: Apr 20, 1969 in Bethel Acres, Oklahoma

Genre: Country

Styles: Honky Tonk, Traditional Country

Active: '90s, 2000s

Instruments: Vocals, Guitar



Raised 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.



Tracklist:



01. Up North (Down South, Back East, Out West)

02. Life After Lovin' You

03. Goodbye Is The Wrong Way To Go

04. What's It Gonna Take

05. She Used To Say That To Me

06. Up And Down

07. You Just Keep On

08. That's What Honky Tonks Are For

09. You Were, You Are, You'll Always Be

10. I'm Lonesome Too



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