Top 10 Country Singer From Alabama

Randy Owen was born by his full name Randy Yeuell Owen on December 13, 1949, on a farm around Fort Payne, Alabama. 

The 73-year-old has specialized in the following genre of music such as country, southern rock, and bluegrass. 

If you've ever heard the song of Alabama's band, you might know Randy is the lead vocalist of the country rock band in the 1980 and 1990s. The founder of the band is Randy and his cousin Teddy Gentry.

The band soon gained public attention and became the most successful group by selling over 75 million copies, dozens of hit singles, and over 20 platinum and gold rewards.

Besides being a singer, Randy is also a Rhythm guitarist. The former band members are Mark Herndon, Jackie Owen, Rick Scott, Bennett Vartanian, and Jeff Cook.

Did you know? The band Alabama was inducted into the Musicians Hall Of Fame And Museum (MHOF) in 2019. Also, it received the lifetime achievement award from MHOF.

In 2008, Owen also performed as a solo artist. He released a solo debut studio album, One on One, and charted two singles from the album.

Born in Birmingham Emmylou Harris is a 75-year-old musician, singer, and songwriter. 

Emmylou was born in a military family background to a mother Eugenia (b. 1921- d. 2014) and a marine corps father, who served in the US Armed Military Forces. 

Harris moved to New York City and was hired as a waitress to support herself financially. She also performed folk songs in Greenwich Village coffeehouses during the 1960s.

Speaking about her married life, Harris tied the knot with her fellow songwriter Tom Slocum in 1969. Unfortunately, their married soon fell apart, and they soon filed for divorce. Harris and her newborn daughter Hallie moved in with her parents in Clarksville, Maryland.

Brokeback Mountain's movie-themed song A Love That Will Never Grow Old received Satellite Awards for best original music in 2005.

The solo artist Emmylou has released 26 studio albums, four live albums, 11 compilation albums, 3 video albums, and 70 singles, including four albums of collaborations with other artists.

After publishing a folk album on the Jubilee label and recording with Gram Parsons in 1969, Harris signed with Reprise Records in 1974.

Throughout her musical career, Harris has won 14 Grammys and a Grammy Life Time Achievement Award in 2018. 

She has also brought home the Polar Music Prize and numerous other honors. She was a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1992, performed in the Music Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony, and was honored on February 12, 2008.

On Instagram, Harris shared her profile on Spotify that she has 10.4 million monthly listeners and her music has been popular among 178 countries on December 9, 2021.

Vern was an American singer who died from a cardiac attack at 74 on April 28, 2009. He was in Nashville hospital in Tennessee.

Born and raised in a musical background, Vern is the sixth child who started singing in Bethel East Baptist Church in his hometown, Alabama, United States. He later moved to Chicago Illinois.

Out of 19, Gosdin has top-10 solo hits on the country music charts from 1977 through 1990. Three of these hits went to no. One: "I Can Tell By the Way You Dance (You're Gonna Love Me Tonight)," "Set 'Em Up Joe," and "I'm Still Crazy." 

The Alabama native Vern has recorded an album with several recording labels, such as Elektra, Ovation, AMI, A&M, Compleat, Columbia Records, and VGM, from 1967 to 2009.

Vern's Chisled in Stone single Do You Believe Me Now was first released in 1988. You can listen to the audio song on Deezer and Apple Music. On YouTube, users have played the video over eight million times.

Moving on to his family background, Vern's two sons, Stephen Wayne Gosdin and Marty Allen Gosdin passed away on July 22, 2016, and January 2002, respectively. Marty was murdered in Ellijay, Georgia, in January 2002). 

Born as Harold Elwin "Bo" Bice Jr is a 47-year-old singer and musical artist from Huntsville, Alabama, the US.

Bice spent his teenage years in England with his step-dad Earle Downes and mother Nancy. Earle was a Coca-Cola manager when he was transferred to England. Before he turned 18, Bice moved to his birthplace Alabama as he dropped out of high school.

Bice rose to fame after he became the runner-up defeating CArie Underwood in American Idol Season 4.

Before enrolling for the American Idol audition, Bo released an independent album while serving in the nightclub circuit, including other albums with his band.

Bo received recognition for his incredible performance of Inside Your Heaven from Simon Cowell's American Idol since he ranked at no. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2005.

At the end of December 2005, Bice released another album, The Real Thing, launched his record label Sugar Money, and later released two albums, See The Light and 3.

Walker Hayes is a 43-year-old American country pop songwriter and singer. He is originally from Mobile, Alabama.

Recalling his early days, Hayes was born and raised in Alabama and completed his higher education at Birmingham Southern College in 2002. He then, along with his wife, moved to Nashville to pursue his career in music in 2005. Walker ended up being a songwriter at a Nashville publishing company.

He released three studio albums Country Stuff The Album, in January 2022 and Boom, on December 8, 2017, with Monuments record label and Reason To Rhyme in 2011 by Capitol Records Nashville.

Hayes's second album Boom charted at the US Billboard 200 position and no.6 on US Top Country Albums. 32,600 CDs were sold after its release, according to the Wikipedia page.

In 2022, Hayes won Billboard Music Awards and was motivated. His fifth EP single track Fancy Like became viral on the TikTok app and peaked at no.3  on the US.

Billboard 100 list. Since 2010, the phenomenal singer Hayes has released charted singles in the US billboard magazine and EPs country pop songs. 

Dicked Down In Dallas singer Trey Lewis is a prominent American singer and songwriter. 

Born and bred in Birmingham, Alabama, Lewis dreamed of becoming a country music singer since he was a kid. Instead, his biggest influencer is Garth Brooks from Oklahoma. 

Trey confessed that he never played guitar until he completed rehab due to alcohol addiction. He was serving at a smoothie shop. Lewis moved to Nashville. He began performing day and night in bars and writing songs.

That's how he met Bret Gafford, Matt McKinney, and Drew Trosclair, who gave him Gone Back To Dallas idea. DM Monday podcast host Trey has been writing songs for over ten years. 

He released a solo single in 2020 called Dicked Down In Dallas, which became a hit on the US Billboard charts. 

Although he started his musical career relatively late, Trey has performed in various events and tours. 

His upcoming live show is scheduled on February 16 in Grand Junction, Colorado warehouse 2565. All details are available on his IG page.

47-year-old Jamey Johnson is a highly reputed American singer and songwriter born in Enterprise and raised in Montgomery, Alabama.

Johnson served four years in the US Marine Corps Reserve after quitting college. He began to play country music during his time in the marines in several bars in the Montgomery area. One of his first gigs was opening for David Allan Coe.

At age 30, Johnson released his debut single, The Dollar, through BNA Records in 2005. 

Jamey later signed to Mercury Nashville Records in 2008 and released the platinum-certified album That Lonesome Song on August 5, 2008.

After a year, Jamey recorded and released the album The Guitar Song on September 14, 2010. His album received gold RIAA certification. His latest album is Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran.

Besides that, Jamey recorded and released Ep The Christmas Song in 2014 on the recording label Big Gassed Records. The track was followed by five singles, of which four peaked on the US Billboard charts.

Some of his official musical videos streaming on YouTube are In Color, Mowin' Down The Roses, The Dollar, Playing The Part, and many more.

Nevertheless, Jamey's name was nominated three times in the Grammys festivals and received ACM and CMA awards for the Song of The Year award in 2007.

James Williams Buffet (b. December 25, 1946) is a top-notch singer, musician, author, businessman, and songwriter.

He was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and spent his childhood in Mobile, Alabama. In 1964, Jimmy joined McGill Institute for Boys. He then began to play guitar during his freshman year at Auburn University.

Buffett transferred to Pearl River Community College and the University of Southern Mississippi in Mississippi, where he received a bachelor's degree in history in 1969.

The fortunate artist with a staggering net worth of $550 million as of 2020, making him the wealthiest musician of all time.

Apart from being a singer, Buffet owns Margaritaville Cafe restaurant and is also a best-selling author. The country singer James started his career in music in late 1960 by recording his debut album Down To Earth in 1970. 

Buffet's newly launched business ventures, musical tours, live shows, most importantly, his million devoted fan followers on social media made him the top-rated musical artist.

From 1995 to 2020, James released thirty-one studio albums throughout his musical journey. His last musical album, Songs You Don't Know By Heart, was released on November 20, 2020.

There Was This Girl singer Riley Green is a noted country music singer and songwriter from Jacksonville, Alabama.

The 34-year-old Green released a debut album, Different Round Here, on September 20, 2019, with the label BMLG. The album peaked US Billboard 200 at no.95 and US Top Country Album at number 11 after its initial release.

The promising artist Riley also released 5 EP's Outlaws Like Us (2017), Riley Green (2018), In A Truck Right Now (2018), Get That Man A Beer (2019), and Behind The Bar (2021).

Riley also featured in the sixth album of American songwriter Thomas Rhett's Where We Started with the single Half Of Me in 2022.

Among many singles, his two solo singles, There Was This Girl, I Wish Grandpas Never Died, and If It Wasn't For Trucks, peaked in US chart positions and received two platinum and gold RIAA certifications.

The Academy Of Country Music (ACM) rewarded Riley with the category of New Male Artist of the Year in 2019.  

Hank Williams, whose real name was Hiram Williams, was a multitalented personality as a singer, lyricist, and guitarist from Butler County, Alabama, the US.

According to Britannica, Williams started to play guitar at age eight and began his work on the radio at age 13. His musical talents received critical acclaim from the fans and two Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame And Museum in 1987.

Williams is known as the king of country music in famous culture, and he has given 11 top-ranked hits in his career like "Love Sick Blues," "Long Gone Lonesome Blues," "Why Don't You Love Me," "Hey' Good Looking," "Your Cheating Heart," "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive," and many more.

Born in 1923, Hank left the world peacefully on January 1, 1953, in Ohio. He was sitting behind the car when he expired, probably in West Virginia, while driving from Knoxville, Tennessee, to a concert in Canton, Ohio. 

However, he left a legacy in the country music genre since he was widely recognized as one the most highly influential singers of all time in the 20th century.

The notable artist Hank was only 29. His cause of death was a heart attack caused by the combination of alcohol, morphine, and chloral hydrate, a drug used to treat insomnia so that people could rest.