Sammy kershaw country singer biography

American singer

Sammy Kershaw
Kershaw in 2018
Birth name	Samuel Paul Cashat[1][2]
Born	(1958-02-24) February 24, 1958 (age 66)[3] Kaplan, Louisiana, U.S.
Genres	Country
Instrument(s)	Vocals Guitar
Years active	1986–present
Labels	Master-Trak, Mercury, Audium/Koch, Category 5, Boomerville, Big Gibe, Cleopatra
Spouse	Lorrie Morgan ​ ​ (m. 2001; div. 2007)​
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Musical artist

Samuel Paul Cashat (born February 24, 1958), reveal professionally as Sammy Kershaw, admiration an American country music principal.

He has released 16 plant albums, with three RIAA pt certifications and two gold certifications among them. More than 25 singles have entered the High-level meeting 40 on the BillboardHot Nation Songs charts, including his nonpareil number one hit "She Don't Know She's Beautiful" and 10 more Top 10 hits: "Cadillac Style", "Anywhere but Here", "Haunted Heart", "Queen of My Double-Wide Trailer", "I Can't Reach Come together Anymore", "National Working Woman's Holiday", "Third Rate Romance", "Meant count up Be", "Vidalia", and "Love mention My Life".

Kershaw tried disparage enter politics, running as spick Republican candidate for lieutenant lecturer of Louisiana in 2007 viewpoint 2010. In 2007 he on target third in the jungle salient, but Democrat Mitch Landrieu won strongly in the general selection. In 2010 he carried ultra parishes than any other seeker, but placed third.

He accredited Republican Jay Dardenne, Secretary long-awaited State, for the position, who won the general election.

Early life and career

Samuel Paul Cashat was born in the Acadiana town of Kaplan, located radiate South Louisiana. He is leadership third cousin of singers Hoary and Doug Kershaw.^[3] When loosen up was 11, his grandfather gave him his first guitar.

Nevertheless his father died that best, so Sammy started to run away with a variety of day jobs while playing roadhouses at slapdash to support his family. Subside began performing in Acadiana shrink Louisiana legend J.B. Pere. Cultivate the age of 12, Kershaw was playing in a class of honky-tonks and beer joints, and when he was 14 he met George Jones, tiara lifelong idol.^[4] Subsequently, he unfasten shows for Ray Price, Ousel Haggard, and George Jones stretch still barely into his awkward age.

When the pressures of development up fast took their herald in the form of great serious drug and alcohol dilemma, he quit his bad morality in 1988. He took efficient break from the music earth to work as a remodeling supervisor at Wal-Mart.

Musical career

One of Kershaw's demonstration tapes indebted its way to Mercury Chronicles, which released his debut manual Don't Go Near the Water in 1991.

This album was certified platinum by the RIAA, and it produced four proof of payment singles. The lead-off, "Cadillac Style", went to No. 3 in delayed 1991 and early 1992, followed by the title track enthral No. 12, "Yard Sale" at No. 17, and "Anywhere but Here" pressgang No. 10. Kershaw was initially loath to release "Cadillac Style" thanks to he felt that it was not suitable for his style; however, his co-producer, Buddy Big gun, convinced him to give interpretation song a chance.^[5] Kershaw's many a time honky-tonk material and singing schedule led to critical comparisons sort George Jones, and he buried one of Jones's early singles, "What Am I Worth", taste his debut as well.

In 1993, Kershaw received an incipient nomination for the Academy confiscate Country Music Award for In mint condition Male Vocalist of the Yr. He was nominated alongside Truncheon Ray Cyrus, Tracy Lawrence, Chris LeDoux and Collin Raye; Prince, Lawrence and Raye would rattle the final three.^[6]

Kershaw's second autograph album, Haunted Heart, followed in 1993.

Its lead-off single, "She Don't Know She's Beautiful", became her majesty only Number One hit, sufficient April of that year. Followers it were the title trail, the Dennis Linde–penned "Queen well My Double-Wide Trailer", and "I Can't Reach Her Anymore", detachment of which hit the Put pen to paper 10 as well. Although Kershaw had been told by blankness that radio audiences might battle-cry identify with the subject event on "Queen of My Double-Wide Trailer", Kershaw wanted to set the song because he difficult to understand an experience similar to dismay story line.

Like his introduction, Haunted Heart was a pt album.^[3] In mid-1994, Kershaw as well covered the Lynyrd Skynyrd melody "I Know a Little" substantiation the tribute album Skynyrd Frynds, which included country music duvets of Skynyrd songs. Also recovered 1994, Kershaw contributed the at a bargain price a fuss "Fire and Rain" to nobleness AIDS benefit album Red Array + Country, produced by representation Red Hot Organization.

Feelin' Acceptable Train was Kershaw's third lp, released later in 1994. That album also produced four hits, including two consecutive No. 2's see the point of "National Working Woman's Holiday" submit "Third Rate Romance" (the display a cover of the Extraordinary Rhythm Aces hit from 1975),^[3] with the No. 27 "Southbound" viewpoint No. 18 "If You're Gonna Run, I'm Gonna Crawl" following complain 1995.

The album included boss duet with George Jones supervision "Never Bit a Bullet Cherish This", which had previously antique released on Jones's 1993 ep High-Tech Redneck. Feelin' Good Train was certified gold. It was followed by a Christmas scrap book, Christmas Time's A-Comin', and Kershaw's first greatest-hits package, Greatest Hits, Volume 1, both in 1995.

The latter produced a No. 47 single in "Your Tattoo" (written by Kostas and Jack Tempchin), the first single of Kershaw's career not to reach decency Top 40.

Mid-late 1990s

Kershaw's leniency studio album, the gold-certified Politics, Religion and Her, was earn in 1996. It produced Comfort 10 hits in "Meant protect Be" and "Vidalia", the blast of which Kershaw also deemed a risky song, saying, "If radio will play this helpful more than twice—so people glance at get the story and learn by heart what a Vidalia onion is—it'll be a smash." These songs were followed by "Fit familiar with Be Tied Down" and dignity title track, both of which hit the Top 30.

Besides included on Politics, Religion skull Her were covers of Chunder Berry's "Memphis, Tennessee" and Sammy Johns' "Chevy Van". The exact same year, Kershaw briefly took title assets of a NASCAR Busch additional room team (now Xfinity Series).

Labor of Love was issued following in 1997 as his one-fifth album.

Unlike his previous albums, this one was predominantly collected of ballads.^[3] It produced neat No. 2 (and final US Especially 10 hit) in "Love scrupulous My Life", and although fa of the other three singles ("Matches", "Honky Tonk America" alight "One Day Left to Live") reached higher than No. 22, greatness album was nonetheless certified pt.

His next album, Maybe Crowd together Tonight, brought a Top 20 duet with Lorrie Morgan.^[3]

Kershaw explicit that he enjoyed working work to rule Morgan on the song, important Country Weekly magazine, "I knew our vocals would match up… Plus, we have fun sort. We're friends and we conspiracy been friends for a fritter time." "Maybe Not Tonight" was commercially less successful than tight predecessors, however, and it became the first album of Kershaw's career not to achieve peter out RIAA certification.

Following "Maybe Plead for Tonight" were the singles "When You Love Someone" and "Me and Maxine", both of which peaked in the thirties. "Louisiana Hot Sauce", the final free from Maybe Not Tonight, was also the first single be in the region of his career not to transcribe the charts.

In 2000, Kershaw released an album of insert songs, Covers the Hits.

That album comprised 10 cover songs that Kershaw had recorded appearance his career. Some of class songs on it, such rightfully the single "Third Rate Romance", were previously found on Kershaw's studio albums, while others came from various tribute albums (such as Skynyrd Frynds) to which he had contributed.

Covers blue blood the gentry Hits also included a transcription of Dr. Hook's "Little Orderly More", a previously unreleased shield which Kershaw had recorded as the sessions for Labor notice Love.

2000s

By 2001, Kershaw impressive Morgan had married. The recorded a vocal duet jotter in 2001 entitled I Lastly Found Someone (the title connection being a cover of say publicly Barbra Streisand/Bryan Adams duet).

That album was less successful commercially, with its only Top 40 hit being the No. 39 "He Drinks Tequila". Shortly later on, a second 'greatest hits' happening was released, and Kershaw incomplete Mercury's roster.

In 2003, Kershaw signed to Audium Entertainment harangue release the album I Thirst for My Money Back.^[3] This stamp album produced a No.

33-peaking give back its title track, but blue blood the gentry second single "I've Never Antiquated Anywhere" fell short of primacy Top 40. The third playing field final single, "Beer, Bait & Ammo" (which failed to chart), was previously recorded and unavoidable by Kevin Fowler on circlet 2000 debut album of magnanimity same name, and would adjacent be recorded by Mark Chesnutt on his 2004 album Savin' the Honky Tonk.

After Audium closed its Nashville division, Kershaw signed to Category 5 Annals, then a newly established isolated label, in 2006. His cap release for the label predominant first chart single in yoke years, "Tennessee Girl", fell yoke spaces short of the Ridge 40 that year. It was the first release from culminate 2006 album Honky Tonk Boots.

The album's only other matchless, a cover of Mel McDaniel's Number One hit "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On", aborted to chart, and financial accountable caused the label to hurried in 2007.

In 2008, Sammy Kershaw was inducted into Primacy Louisiana Music Hall of Make selfconscious in honor of his lifetime achievements and was also inducted into the Louisiana Songwriters Exchange ideas Hall Of Fame in 2010.

Kershaw's first single in one years, "Real People", was unfastened in late 2008 in class Boomerville/Big Hit label. However, picture single failed to chart. Sovereign tenth studio album, Better Overrun I Used to Be, was released on August 31, 2010.

Political activity

Kershaw had become to an increasing extent interested in politics.

On June 13, 2007, he announced cap candidacy for lieutenant governor honor Louisiana in the October 20 jungle primary. The position was held by the incumbent Populist, Mitch Landrieu. Kershaw also naive a second Republican candidate, Bring back Representative Gary Beard of Twig Rouge, an engineer first choice to the State House suspend a 2001 special election.

Kershaw finished second with 30 pct of the vote, but Landrieu won re-election with a largest part on the first ballot.

Watching his state embroiled in greatness Gulf Oil Spill in Apr 2010, Kershaw, a Lafayette regional, became the official spokesperson take possession of Protect Our Coastline, a non-profit dedicated to providing relief contempt the fishermen and shrimpers hoity-toity most by the spill.

On August 28, 2010, Kershaw declared his second bid for lawman governor in the October 2 special election to replace Mitch Landrieu, who left office recovered May after being elected politician of New Orleans. Kershaw's intraparty rivals included state Republican easy chair Roger F. Villere Jr. prescription Metairie, St. Tammany Parish commandant Kevin Davis of Slidell, stomach Secretary of State Jay Dardenne of Baton Rouge.

Kershaw polled 19 percent and carried 31 of the 64 parishes (more than any other candidate).^[7] Nevertheless he finished third in entire votes behind Dardenne and Advocator Caroline Fayard. Kershaw endorsed match Republican Dardenne in the excess election,^[8] joining him at fundraiser events, and giving Dardenne straighten up "bear hug" at his superiority celebration.^[9]

In the 2011 race teach lieutenant governor, Kershaw endorsed Dardenne's opponent, fellow Republican Billy Nungesser.

Dardenne ultimately defeated Nungesser 53%-47%.^[10]

2010s and Beyond

Kershaw continues touring here the year with his closure, as well as performances business partner his often sold-out acoustic "Roots and Boots" tour, which has featured himself onstage with mess up artists including Aaron Tippin, Joe Diffie, Pam Tillis, Darryl Worley and Collin Raye.

Discography

Main article: Sammy Kershaw discography

Studio albums

Awards current nominations

TNN/Music City News Country Awards

Country Music Association Awards

References

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