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Welcome to 'Forever', the fanlisting for the amazing song 'Amazed' by Lonestar. It is such a pleasure to bring this awesome fanlisting to you. Thanks sooo much to Kryz for letting me adopt it from her collective. |
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About the band... This band has used soaring, passionate vocals to launch such huge hits as "Amazed," "My Front Porch Looking In" (the most-played country song of 2003) and "I'm Already There," a special favorite of the military and their families and BMI/ASCAP Song Of The Year for 2002. The group has found its emotional essence powered by the national post-9/11 appetite for songs that come from and target the heart. Let's Be Us Again pays homage to that tradition with a repentant title track that offers an emotional plea for the healing of a troubled relationship. "Let Them Be Little," concerns the all-too-fleeting time when kids are small, and McDonald says part of the song's genesis was a note that his son brought home from kindergarten. Still hanging on the family refrigerator and colored blue, it reads: "Dear Parents--My arms are short, and my legs are short, so please have patience with me, because I'm a little person. Don't let me grow up too fast, and enjoy every moment." "Let Them Be Little" puts some of those same thoughts into a parent's words and contains a typical Lonestar line written to etch itself on the memory of anyone familiar with little ones' nighttime insecurities: "Let them sleep in the middle." There are more such moments. "Somebody's Someone," recounts the impact of news of a soldier's death on someone who never knew the soldier but can't help empathizing with people who do. "That Gets Me" locks onto little things a woman does unconsciously, curling a finger in her hair or laughing so hard she sheds tears, which enthrall her significant other. The repentant title track longs to return to romantic bliss after an argument, while "What I Miss The Most" memorializes loss and the tallying-up of memories. "Now," the only song the band wasn't involved in writing, is insistently and hauntingly in-the-moment, a lover trying to persuade another that the past no longer exists, the future may never come, and "right here, right now" is the only reality. "From There To Here," a duet in which McDonald is teamed with Randy Owen of Alabama, is, as McDonald says, "a journey song" that follows three epic treks--of the Wright brothers and air travel, of a 50-year marriage and of a band's (in fact, at least two bands') rise from garage to glam. Much of Lonestar's ascension came after the recording of the band's first two albums and dates from the beginning of its association with Dann Huff. The most important initial aspect of the teaming with Huff, Sams says, may have been that the celebrated producer took time to come out on the road to see the group work. Previous producers had only seen them doing cover material when they signed their record contract, Britt says, and on the first CDs, Britt ended up being the only member who contributed significant instrumental work. Lonestar has seen its greatest success follow the gaining of increased measures of freedom to generate sounds authentically its own. That freedom, symbolized by the new co-production arrangement, reaches its highest level in Let's Be Us Again. Nevertheless, the group has remained firmly committed to using the greatest resource Nashville offers -- the co-writing aid of some of the world's finest. Those listed on Let's Be Us Again include Bob DiPiero, Jeffrey Steele, Billy Dean, Chris Waters, Don Pfrimmer, Tom Shapiro, Frank Myers, Brett James and Ron Harbin. The new CD thus mines some of the best melodic and lyrical expertise in Music City as well as the best of Lonestar. "Being able to get together with these big writers and talk about ideas on what you want to say as an artist has been a big key for us," Sams says. "From a lyric standpoint we know what we want to say, and they help form it into something that works." The lyrical emphasis continues to be on those all-important freeze-frames from the experience of America's diverse human fabric, with which Lonestar's also-diverse membership intensely identifies. Texans all, the four come from humble backgrounds. They may now ride tour buses 200 days a year, but they still remember getting to their first shows in a Jeep pulling a U-Haul trailer. They say, in fact, that in many ways their lives continue to parallel those of their fans. When in town, Sams takes his daughter to school every morning, Britt gets needled by buddies for his tireless yard work, McDonald spends a lot of time on his tractor and outings with his family to the local Wal-Mart, and Rainwater keeps busy with a garage full of motorized toys." |
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