Vern Gosdin

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风格: #前卫蓝草　#当代乡村　#传统蓝草　#牛仔　#蓝草
地区: 欧美

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Vern Gosdin生于亚拉巴马州的一个农场，他的音乐生涯从他出生便开始了。“我从记事时起就开始唱歌。我很喜欢在教堂唱歌。如果你象我那样热爱唱歌的话，很难有东西能把你拉开来。”年轻时起便把the Louvin Brothers和the Blue Sky Brothers当成了偶像。他和兄弟Rex和Ray组成了一个叫the Gosdin Brothers的演唱组，演唱福音歌曲。不到二十岁时，他们一家搬到了伯明翰并开始在一个当地电台开始一个叫“Gosdin家庭福音秀”的演出。1953年，Gosdin短期去了亚个兰大，然后又去了芝加哥。他在芝加哥开了一间乡村音乐夜总会，并雇佣了一个叫Beauford Pusser的21岁的年轻歌手演唱。1961年，Gosdin到加州的长岛去找他的兄弟Rex。他们开始表演兰草音乐，这种音乐氛围后来演变成了乡村摇滚。他们加入了乐队" the Golden State Boys"－后来又加入了"the Hillman"－其主要人物是后来Byrds乐队的Chris Hillman。Vern和Rex于是重新开始以the Gosdin Brothers的名称演唱乡村歌曲，在1967年他们的"Hangin' On”成了前四十名的热门歌曲，并且有机会为the Byrds乐队做开场演出。

1972年，兄弟俩发现在西海岸已经没有什么发展前途，便退出了商业演出，搬到了亚特兰大，每人开了一家玻璃商店，Gosdin建立了家庭。但他并没有完全放弃音乐。他在当地的俱乐部里演唱，并受到纳什维尔的吸引。这时，他在加州时的一个朋友Emmylou Harris开创了非传统乡村音乐风格。1976年左右，Gosdin和Harris制作了一个试音带，包括"Hangin' on"和一首新歌"Yesterday's Gone"。这促使Elektra公司和他签约。这两首歌曲都进了乡村排行前二十名。到了七十年代晚期，他已有了数首热门歌曲，包括"Till The End"(与Janie Fricke合作）、"Mother Country Music"和翻唱的the ssociation乐队的"Never My Love"。

1980年，在Elektra公司的乡村音乐部关闭以后，Gosdin最终和独立的纳什维尔的Comopleat唱片公司签约。在80年代早期，他连续推出了数首前十名歌曲，当他和Max D. Barnes开始合作时已经大受欢迎了。他们的关于欺骗和舞厅浪漫史的系列歌曲表达了一种过于热情的情感－这使得Gosdin甚至可以和酒吧歌手的传奇人物George Jones相媲美。1983年，Gosdin有两首前五名歌曲"If You Gonna Do Me Wrong(Do It Right)"和"Way Down Deep"。第二年他有了首个冠军单曲"I Can Tell by the Way You Dance(You're Gonna Love Me Tonight)"以及两首前十名的传统乡村歌曲。他的事业在八十年代中期达到顶峰，但是在1987年，随着新传统运动的开始和华纳兄弟公司歌手Randy Travis的异军突起，Compleat公司同他解除了合同。他签约哥伦比亚公司，带着他的"Do You Believe Me Now"回到了前十名的位置，并且在1988年以向Ernest Tubb致敬的"Set 'em Up Joe"又一次成为冠军。1989年，他和Barnes合写的歌曲"Chiseled in Stone"获得了CMA年度歌曲奖。

by James ManheimAs country music swung back toward traditional styles in the 1980s, an inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard rose to the top of the business and notched hit after barroom hit. Sometimes he was known simply as the Voice. Born in Woodland, AL, Vern Gosdin idolized the Louvin Brothers and the Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called the Gosdin Brothers. When he was in his late teens, his family moved to Birmingham and began hosting The Gosdin Family Gospel Show on a local radio station. Gosdin and his brother, Rex, moved to Long Beach, CA, in 1961. They began performing bluegrass music in the milieu that gave birth to country-rock, joining a group called the Golden State Boys that evolved into the Hillmen, featuring future Byrds member Chris Hillman. Vern and Rex teamed up to sing country music as the Gosdin Brothers once again, had a Top 40 country hit in 1967 with Hangin On, and opened for the Byrds on occasion. Gosdin moved to Atlanta in 1972, raising a family and running a retail shop. But he never gave up on music completely. He performed at local clubs and began to gravitate toward Nashville, where Emmylou Harris, a friend of Gosdins from his California days, was laying the foundation for a neo-traditionalist style of country music. Around 1976 Gosdin and Harris cut a demo single consisting of Hangin On backed with a newly written song, Yesterdays Gone. The demo got Gosdin signed to the Elektra label, and both songs cracked the country Top 20. In the late 70s he notched several major hits, including Till the End (with Janie Fricke), Mother Country Music, and a remake of the Associations Never My Love. In 1980, after the demise of Elektras country division, Gosdin quickly moved through several contracts and landed with the independent Nashville label Compleat. He made the Top Ten consistently in the early 80s, really hitting his stride when he teamed with Max D. Barnes as a songwriting collaborator. The pair specialized in songs of cheating and barroom romance, often delivering an over-the-top emotionalism that got Gosdin compared to the ultimate legend of honky tonk vocals, George Jones. In 1983, Gosdin had two Top Five hits — If Youre Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right) and Way Down Deep. The following year he had his first number one single with I Can Tell by the Way You Dance (Youre Gonna Love Me Tonight) and had two additional Top Ten hits. His career hit a lull in the mid-80s, but in 1987, with the new traditionalist movement in full swing and Warner Bros. artist Randy Travis roosting at the top of the charts, he was tapped by the Columbia label. He bounced back into the Top Ten that year with the tortured Do You Believe Me Now, and in 1988 he hit number one once again with the perennially popular Ernest Tubb tribute Set Em Up Joe. Gosdins Chiseled in Stone, co-written with Barnes, won the Country Music Associations Song of the Year award in 1989. His 1989 album Alone was a rarity: a concept album in a traditional country style. It chronicled the dissolution of Gosdins marriage. Gosdins popularity declined as rock-influenced country styles surged forward in the 1990s, but he continued to record on small labels and never abandoned the pure country vocalism he had cultivated for so long.

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