Lori Yates
Encyclopedia
Lori Yates is a Canadian Juno Award
-nominated country music
singer and songwriter.
/alternative country
).
Nashville label. Her debut album Can't Stop the Girl was released worldwide in 1989. She was nominated for a Juno Award in 1990
as Best Female Country Vocalist, and was also nominated for a CCMA Award
. She toured with such artists as
Big Sugar
, Steve Earle
, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Dwight Yoakam
. Co-writers during this time included Guy Clark
, Don Schlitz and Matraca Berg
.
Yates recorded the duet "Brother To Brother" with Gregg Allman
for his album No Stranger to the Dark: The Best of Gregg Allman and on the soundtrack to the Patrick Swayze
film Next Of Kin
.
She later signed with Virgin Music Canada and released her second album Breaking Point in 1994, a collection of roots, rock and soul. Rick Danko
(The Band
) and Jim Cuddy
(Blue Rodeo
) appeared as guest vocalists. The album was produced by Colin Linden and John Whynot. She later toured with Blue Rodeo
, Jann Arden
, Colin James
and Faith Hill
. In 1996, Yates released her second Virgin Music Canada album Untogether, a complete musical departure into melodic trip-hop with Toronto's Opium Concepts.
During this time period, she also contributed vocals to numerous songs for the gothic
-oriented sci-fi
television show Forever Knight
, eight of which later appeared on the series' two soundtrack
volumes.
, David Baxter and Michelle Josef
. The band remains active following the released of their 1999 self-titled CD.
She moved to Hamilton, Ontario
with her family 5 years ago, where she produced the 2007 album The Book of Minerva with artists such as Bazil Donovan, Justin Rutledge
and Tom Wilson
.
She won "Songwriter of the Year" and Alternative Country Recording of the Year" at the 2007 Hamilton Music Awards on 18 November 2007.
She currently plays with Brian Griffith,(Daniel Lanois) and Pete Sisk (Good Brothers), and honky-tonk band The Nashville Rejects (Steve Miller, Ted Hawkins). She runs a songwriting workshop - Mystic Salon. Yates is working a novel and a stand-up routine.
Contributed a duet with Gregg Allman
titled "Brother To Brother"
Contributed vocals to "The Hunger", "Black Rose", "Touch The Night", "Dark Side Of The Glass" and the intro to the Queen Of Harps suite
Contributed the recording "The Future Is Here"
Contributed vocals to "The Night Calls My Name", "Heart Of Darkness" and "Destiny's Edge"
Contributed a cover of the Neil Young
composition
"Helpless"
Contributed the recording "Scene Of The Crime"
Features Allman and Yates' duet "Brother To Brother" from the Next Of Kin soundtrack
Juno Award
The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
-nominated country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
singer and songwriter.
Early career
Lori Yates early music career was with Toronto-area bands such as The Last Resorts (new wave/punk) and Rang Tango (cowpunkCowpunk
Cowpunk or Country punk is a subgenre of punk rock and New Wave that began in the UK and California in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It combines punk rock or New Wave with country music, folk music, and blues in sound, subject matter, attitude, and style...
/alternative country
Alternative country
Alternative country is a loosely defined sub-genre of country music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream or pop country music...
).
Nashville
Yates became a Nashville-based artist on the Columbia RecordsColumbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
Nashville label. Her debut album Can't Stop the Girl was released worldwide in 1989. She was nominated for a Juno Award in 1990
Juno Awards of 1990
The Juno Awards of 1990, representing Canadian music industry achievements of the previous year, were awarded on 18 March 1990 in Toronto at a ceremony in the O'Keefe Centre...
as Best Female Country Vocalist, and was also nominated for a CCMA Award
Canadian Country Music Association
The Canadian Country Music Association was founded in 1976 as the Academy of Country Music Entertainment to organize, promote and develop a Canadian country music industry. The association changed its name to the Canadian Country Music Association in 1987.-Awards:The CCMA held the first Canadian...
. She toured with such artists as
Big Sugar
Big Sugar
Big Sugar is a Canadian blues-rock band, they were active from 1991 to 2004 and again since April 2010. The band has sold more than half a million albums in Canada.-History:...
, Steve Earle
Steve Earle
Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....
, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam
Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music...
. Co-writers during this time included Guy Clark
Guy Clark
Guy Clark is an American Texas Country artist. In his career, he has released more than twenty albums, primarily on major labels. He has also written singles for other artists, including Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney Crowell....
, Don Schlitz and Matraca Berg
Matraca Berg
Matraca Maria Berg is an American country music singer and songwriter. She has released five albums: three for RCA Records, one for Rising Tide Records and one for Dualtone Records, and has charted in the top 40 of the U.S. Billboard country charts with "Baby, Walk On" and "The Things You Left...
.
Yates recorded the duet "Brother To Brother" with Gregg Allman
Gregg Allman
Gregory Lenoir Allman , known as Gregg Allman, is a rock and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, and a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia...
for his album No Stranger to the Dark: The Best of Gregg Allman and on the soundtrack to the Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze
Patrick Wayne Swayze was an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. He was best known for his tough-guy roles, as romantic leading men in the hit films Dirty Dancing and Ghost, and as Orry Main in the North and South television miniseries. He was named by People magazine as its "Sexiest...
film Next Of Kin
Next of Kin (1989 film)
Next of Kin is a 1989 American action film directed by John Irvin and starring Patrick Swayze and Liam Neeson. The screenplay was based on a story of the same title, both written by Michael Jenning.-Plot:...
.
She later signed with Virgin Music Canada and released her second album Breaking Point in 1994, a collection of roots, rock and soul. Rick Danko
Rick Danko
Richard Clare "Rick" Danko was a Canadian musician and singer, best known as a member of The Band.-Early years :...
(The Band
The Band
The Band was an acclaimed and influential roots rock group. The original group consisted of Rick Danko , Garth Hudson , Richard Manuel , and Robbie Robertson , and Levon Helm...
) and Jim Cuddy
Jim Cuddy
Jim Cuddy is a Canadian singer-songwriter primarily associated with the band Blue Rodeo. He has also recorded three solo albums with the Jim Cuddy Band, which features musicians Bazil Donovan, Colin Cripps, Joel Anderson, Anne Lindsay and Gavin Brown...
(Blue Rodeo
Blue Rodeo
Blue Rodeo is a Canadian pop and country rock band, which was formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have been signed with Warner Music Group since their debut album Outskirts in March 1987...
) appeared as guest vocalists. The album was produced by Colin Linden and John Whynot. She later toured with Blue Rodeo
Blue Rodeo
Blue Rodeo is a Canadian pop and country rock band, which was formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have been signed with Warner Music Group since their debut album Outskirts in March 1987...
, Jann Arden
Jann Arden
Jann Arden is a Canadian singer-songwriter.-Life and career:Arden was born and raised near Calgary in Springbank, Alberta and attended Springbank Community High School. Her breakthrough came with her critically acclaimed 1993 debut album Time for Mercy and her first single "I Would Die For You"...
, Colin James
Colin James
Colin James is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, who plays in the blues, rock, and neo-swing genres. He grew up as a Quaker.-Early years:...
and Faith Hill
Faith Hill
Faith Hill is an American country singer. She is known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw. Hill has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and accumulated eight number-one singles and three number-one albums on the U.S...
. In 1996, Yates released her second Virgin Music Canada album Untogether, a complete musical departure into melodic trip-hop with Toronto's Opium Concepts.
During this time period, she also contributed vocals to numerous songs for the gothic
Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled "A Gothic Story"...
-oriented sci-fi
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
television show Forever Knight
Forever Knight
Forever Knight was a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a...
, eight of which later appeared on the series' two soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
volumes.
Present
In 1998, Yates formed Hey Stella! with bassist Bazil Donovan of Blue RodeoBlue Rodeo
Blue Rodeo is a Canadian pop and country rock band, which was formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have been signed with Warner Music Group since their debut album Outskirts in March 1987...
, David Baxter and Michelle Josef
Michelle Josef
Michelle Josef is a Canadian musician and transgender activist.Josef was born Bohdan Hluszko. Under her former name, Josef was already established as one of Canada's leading session drummers, and has continued her career in music. She has appeared on albums by Prairie Oyster, Doug Sahm, Jo-El...
. The band remains active following the released of their 1999 self-titled CD.
She moved to Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
with her family 5 years ago, where she produced the 2007 album The Book of Minerva with artists such as Bazil Donovan, Justin Rutledge
Justin Rutledge
Justin Rutledge is a Toronto-based alt-country singer-songwriter signed to Six Shooter Records.Rutledge's musical style is often compared to that of American alt-country singer Ryan Adams. His influences, both of the literary and music world, include Leonard Cohen, Hank Williams, Richard Brautigan...
and Tom Wilson
Tom Wilson (musician)
Tom Wilson is a Canadian rock musician from Hamilton, Ontario.A veteran of the Canadian music scene, Wilson has been a writer and performer for many years. Wilson's eclectic musical style has ranged from the psychobilly sound of the Florida Razors, to the western/roots style of Blackie and the...
.
She won "Songwriter of the Year" and Alternative Country Recording of the Year" at the 2007 Hamilton Music Awards on 18 November 2007.
She currently plays with Brian Griffith,(Daniel Lanois) and Pete Sisk (Good Brothers), and honky-tonk band The Nashville Rejects (Steve Miller, Ted Hawkins). She runs a songwriting workshop - Mystic Salon. Yates is working a novel and a stand-up routine.
Albums
| Year | Album | Chart Positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN Country | CAN | ||
| 1989 | Can't Stop the Girl | 26 | 51 |
| 1994 | Breaking Point | ||
| 1996 | Untogether | ||
| 2007 | The Book of Minerva |
Singles
| Year | Single | Chart Positions | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN Country | CAN AC | CAN | US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
|||
| 1988 | "Scene of the Crime" | — | — | — | 77 | Can't Stop the Girl |
| 1989 | "Promises, Promises" | 45 | — | — | 78 | |
| 1994 | "Make a Liar Out of Me" | 59 | — | 81 | — | Breaking Point |
| "Li'l Darlin'" | 32 | — | — | — | ||
| "Rebel Angel" | 38 | — | — | — | ||
| 1997 | "Lost Highway" | — | 46 | 42 | — | Untogether |
Guest appearances
- The Lucky Ones album from Willie P. BennettWillie P. BennettWillie P. Bennett was a Canadian folk-music singer and song writer.-Life and career:Born William Patrick Bennett in Toronto, Ontario, Bennett was part of the 1970s folk music scene in Canada, alongside such figures as Bruce Cockburn, Stan Rogers and David Wiffen...
(1989) - South At Eight, North At Nine album from Colin LindenColin LindenColin Linden is a Canadian musician, songwriter and record producer. He has worked with a wide variety of artists including Bruce Cockburn, Lucinda Williams, T-Bone Burnett, Colin James, Leon Redbone, Rita Chiarelli, Chris Thomas King and The Band.Linden is primarily a electric blues guitarist,...
(1993) - Hell's Kitchen album from Leslie Spit TreeoLeslie Spit TreeoLeslie Spit Treeo were a Canadian folk-rock band in the 1980s and 1990s. The band took its name from the Leslie Street Spit area of Toronto Harbour.-History:...
(1994)
Soundtracks
- Next Of KinNext of Kin (1989 film)Next of Kin is a 1989 American action film directed by John Irvin and starring Patrick Swayze and Liam Neeson. The screenplay was based on a story of the same title, both written by Michael Jenning.-Plot:...
(1989)
Contributed a duet with Gregg Allman
Gregg Allman
Gregory Lenoir Allman , known as Gregg Allman, is a rock and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, and a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia...
titled "Brother To Brother"
- Forever KnightForever KnightForever Knight was a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a...
- Original Television Soundtrack (1996)
Contributed vocals to "The Hunger", "Black Rose", "Touch The Night", "Dark Side Of The Glass" and the intro to the Queen Of Harps suite
- The Hanging GardenThe Hanging Garden (soundtrack)The Hanging Garden is a 1997 album, a soundtrack to the Canadian film The Hanging Garden.-Track listing:# Ani DiFranco, "The Million You Never Made"# Ashley MacIsaac, "Ashley's Reels"# Mae Moore, "Deep Water"# Spirit of the West, "Kiss and Tell"...
(1997)
Contributed the recording "The Future Is Here"
- Forever KnightForever KnightForever Knight was a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a...
- More Music from the Original Television Soundtrack (1999)
Contributed vocals to "The Night Calls My Name", "Heart Of Darkness" and "Destiny's Edge"
Compilations & Tributes
- Borrowed Tunes: A Tribute To Neil YoungBorrowed Tunes: A Tribute to Neil YoungBorrowed Tunes is a tribute album to Neil Young, released in 1994. The album was released as a two-CD set, one compiling acoustic songs and one compiling rock-oriented ones, although the two discs were also each sold individually. The album features a variety of Canadian musicians covering songs...
(1994)
Contributed a cover of the Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...
composition
Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...
"Helpless"
- Classic Country, Vol. 5 (2000)
Contributed the recording "Scene Of The Crime"
- No Stranger To The Dark: The Best Of Gregg AllmanGregg AllmanGregory Lenoir Allman , known as Gregg Allman, is a rock and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, and a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia...
(2002)
Features Allman and Yates' duet "Brother To Brother" from the Next Of Kin soundtrack