Is there any cause Lonestar or yourself support? Some bands and musicians like to help out charities and causes. That’s the big secret – we just tour to get food that we can’t get it home. There’s also Tim Hortons donuts and the stuff that we can only get up there. When we go to California, we get In and Out Burgers, when we go to the Northwest we get Taco Time, and we’ll go to Canada and get poutine and things like that. Our big thing on tour is to get food we can’t get at home. Every time we go to Canada it just seems like a good time. I mean, we’ve done it over the years quite a few times. So that it was just the matter of us trying to do the song justice after that demo.ĭo you have any funny stories or memories from previous trips in Canada? So just the demo alone was fantastic because he sounded great. The singer on the demos was a guy named Bill Luther and he had this Rod Stewart kind of gravel in his voice. I don’t know if there’s any way anyone can tell it’s going to be that big. We just didn’t know it was going to be that big. When there are 12 people in the room listening, all 12 people can’t be wrong when everybody likes it. I don’t know what was going on in the world is that time, but it was just it seemed like we were just getting a lot of great songs. It never left our pile of songs that we wanted to record.
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It was pitched to us at a song meeting at the label one day and we all loved it. As far as range, he can really belt it, and he’s got a lot of feeling in his voice, so that song was just perfect for him. And honestly, it fits Richie’s vocal range perfectly. Sometimes there’s just too many songs for an artist to cut, so they just get passed around a little and that was when we got lucky enough to have Amazed. When these big songwriters come up with these songs, they think are hits they pitch then to the biggest artists at the time. I think we passed on “God Bless The Broken Road” that Rascal Flatts had. Henry Paul once said that they turned down Amazed, and it happens to all of us. It was just pitched to us and funny enough, that song has been pitched to different artist too.
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He’s just such a cosmic professional with great ears and it was a lot of fun to make. It was a really fun record to make and I have fond memories of recording with Dann. We were just all aboard, we are all in, trying to do something that would make everything not go away. He really had a great plan for this record, and it just felt like a team effort all the way around from the label to Dann. I was a huge fan of his just being a guitar player and being able to work with someone that just had this youthful king of vigor. He hadn’t had a lot of production credits at that point. I think we’re really excited to work with Dann. When you guys were recording that album did it feel like it was going to be special? It was really just that one song because it was so big that people just never get tired of hearing that song even today.
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Then it turned out having a huge a crossover to pop and was the number one song on The Hot 100, so that’s the reason we’re still around 25 years later. We had a brand-new producer with Dann Huff, and we were trying to make an album that might just make sure we were still relevant and still could be a band. We had success with some number one songs before that, but at the time when we made the Lonely Grill record, we were kind of afraid our career was over because John Rich just left the band, and we didn’t know if it was going to be as good without John.
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That album and song really changed things for you guys? The band’s lead guitarist Michael Britt checked in ahead of the tour to chat about Amazed and the killer album it comes from – Lonely Grill.Ī cool milestone this year is that it’s the 20th anniversary of Amazed and Lonely Grill. Best remembered for the pop crossover love song Amazed, the band is back on the road with six Canadian dates in June, including a stop at London Music Hall on June 14. Country band Lonestar has been performing and recording for more than 25 years.