My Favorite Country Male Singers

 Tim McGraw--Born May 1, 1967, in Delhi, La. Quote:  Samuel Timothy McGraw is an American country music singer and actor. He has released 16 studio albums. 10 of those albums have reached number one on the Top Country Albums charts, with his 1994 breakthrough album Not a Moment Too Soon being the top country album of 1994. In total, McGraw's albums have produced 65 singles, 25 of which have reached number one on the Hot Country Songs or Country Airplay charts. Three of these singles – "It's Your Love", "Just to See You Smile", and "Live Like You Were Dying" – were respectively the top country songs of 1997, 1998, and 2004 according to Billboard Year-End. He has also won three Grammy Awards, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association awards, 10 American Music Awards, and three People's Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour, which was done in partnership with his wife, Faith Hill, is one of the highest-grossing tours in count

 Toby Keith--Born July 8, 1961, in Clinton, OK. Quote:  Toby Keith Covel is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer. Keith released his first four studio albums—1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin', plus a Greatest Hits package—for various divisions of Mercury Records before leaving Mercury in 1998. These albums all earned Gold or higher certification, and produced several Top Ten singles, including his debut "Should've Been a Cowboy", which topped the country charts and was the most-played country song of the 1990s. The song has received three million spins since its release, according to Broadcast Music Incorporated. Unquote                                                                             

 January 20, 1965, in Danville, USA Quote: John Michael Montgomery is an American country music singer. Montgomery began singing with his brother Eddie, who would later become known as one half of the duo Montgomery Gentry, before beginning his major-label solo career in 1992. He has had more than 30 singles on the Billboard country charts, of which seven have reached number one: "I Love the Way You Love Me", "I Swear", "Be My Baby Tonight", "If You've Got Love", "I Can Love You Like That", "Sold", and "The Little Girl". 13 more have reached the top 10. "I Swear" and "Sold" were named by Billboard as the top country songs of 1994 and 1995, respectively. Montgomery's recordings of "I Swear" and "I Can Love You Like That" were both released concurrently with cover versions by the R&B group All-4-One. Several of Montgomery's singles crossed over to the Billboard Ho

 Conway Twitty--Born--September 1, 1933 in Friars Point, Mississippi' He Died June 5, 1993 Quote: Harold Lloyd Jenkins , better known by his stage name  Conway Twitty , was an American  country music  singer and songwriter. He also had success in the  rock and roll ,  R&B , and pop genres. From 1971 to 1976, Twitty received a string of  Country Music Association  awards for duets with  Loretta Lynn . He was inducted into the  Country Music Hall of Fame  and the  Rockabilly Hall of Fame . Twitty was known for his frequent use of romantic and  sentimental  themes in his songs. Due to his following being compared to a religious revival, comedian  Jerry Clower  nicknamed Twitty "The High Priest of Country Music," the eventual title of  his 33rd studio album . Twitty achieved stardom with hit songs like " Hello Darlin' ," " You've Never Been This Far Before ," and " Linda on My Mind ." Twitty topped  Billboard 's   Hot Country Song

 Randy Travis--Born-May 4, 1959, in Marshville, NC Quite:  Randy Bruce Traywick, known professionally as Randy Travis, is an American country music and gospel music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor. Active from 1978 until being incapacitated by a stroke in 2013, he has recorded 20 studio albums and charted more than 50 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including 16 that reached the No. 1 position. Considered a pivotal figure in the history of country music, Travis broke through in the mid-1980s with the release of his album Storms of Life, which sold more than four million copies. The album established him as a major force in the neotraditional country movement. Travis followed up his successful debut with a string of platinum and multi-platinum albums. He is known for his distinctive baritone vocals, delivered in a traditional style that has made him a country music star since the 1980s. Unquote                                                                  

 Scotty McCreery--Born October 9, 1993, in Garner, NC                                                                                       Quote:  Scott Cooke McCreery is an American country music singer. He won the tenth season of American Idol on May 25, 2011. His debut studio album, Clear as Day, was released in October 2011 and was certified platinum in the United States. The album includes the top 20 country songs, "I Love You This Big" and "The Trouble with Girls". McCreery released a Christmas album, Christmas with Scotty McCreery, in October 2012 and it has been certified gold. He released his third album, See You Tonight, in October 2013. Its title track became his first single to reach the top ten on Billboard's Country charts. Setting a new record in July 2017 with his single "Five More Minutes", McCreery became the only country music artist in Country Aircheck/Mediabase history to chart a song without the backing of a record label; it top

 George Strait--Born May 18, 1952, in Poteet USA Quote:  George Harvey Strait Sr. is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and music producer. George Strait is known as the "King of Country" and is considered one of the most influential and popular recording artists of all time. He is known as a pioneer of the neo traditionalist country style and movement, cowboy look, and being one of the first and most prominent country artists to bring country music back to its roots and away from the pop country era in the 1980s.Unquote                                                     I Met a Friend of Yours Today         CMT performance of the year: George Strait George Strait Performs "Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone? "God and Country Music" George Strait w/special guest, grandson Harvey Strait Pure Country Movie

 David Ball--Born July 9, 1953, in Rockhill USA Quite:  David Ball,  is an American  country music  singer-songwriter and musician. Active since 1988, he has recorded a total of seven studio albums on several labels, including his  platinum  certified debut  Thinkin' Problem . Fourteen of Ball's singles have entered the  Billboard   Hot Country Songs  charts. His highest-peaking chart entries are 1994's " Thinkin' Problem " and 2001's " Riding With Private Malone ", both of which peaked at No. 2. Unquote  WOW! This is one of my TOP favorites--beautiful voice as cool as a county waterfall and sexy-- then and now. I listen to his songs every time I work on my stories and poems.                                                             Thinkin' Problem           DAVID BALL - Circle Of Friends (Video) If You'd Like Some Lovin'      David Ball- What Do You Want With His Love music video                                                    

 Josh Turner--Born- November 20, 1977, in Hannah Southern USA Quote: Joshua Otis Turner is an American country and gospel singer and actor. In 2003, he signed to MCA Nashville Records. That same year, his debut album's title track, "Long Black Train", was his breakthrough single release. His second album, Your Man accounted for his first two number-one hits: "Your Man" and "Would You Go with Me", while 2007's Everything Is Fine included a No. 2 in "Firecracker". Haywire, released in 2010, produced his biggest hit, the four-week No. 1 "Why Don't We Just Dance" and another number one in "All Over Me". It was followed by Punching Bag, whose lead-off single "Time Is Love" was the biggest country hit of 2012 according to Billboard Year-End. Unquote                                                                                             

 Vince Gill--Born April 12, 1957 Quote:  Vincent Grant Gill is an American country music singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as front man of the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in high demand as a guest vocalist and a duet partner.  unquote                                                                                      

 Ricky Van Shelton- Born January 12, 1952, in Danville, Va. (70) Quote:  Ricky Van Shelton is an American former country music artist. Active between 1986 and 2006, he charted more than 20 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. This figure includes 10 Number One hits: "Somebody Lied", "Life Turned Her That Way", 'Don't We All Have the Right", "I'll Leave This World Loving You", "From a Jack to a King", "Living Proof", "I've Cried My Last Tear for You", "Rockin' Years", "I Am a Simple Man", and "Keep It Between the Lines". Besides these, seven more of his singles landed in the Top 10 on the same chart. He also released nine studio albums, of which his first four were certified platinum by the Recording Indus try Association of America. Unquote                                                                                         \\ RICKY VAN SHELTON - 10 GREATE

 Earl Thomas Conley-Born Oct. 17, 1941--Died April 10th 2019 Quote: Earl Thomas Conley was an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for RCA Records. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, of which eighteen reached Number One. His eighteen Billboard Number One country singles during the 1980s marked the most Number One hits by any artist in any genre during that decade, excluding Alabama and Ronnie Milsap. Unquote. This is one of my favorite songs of his: Earl Thomas Conley Greatest Hits