Max T. Barnes
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Max T. Barnes is a country music singer, songwriter, studio musician, and producer. He is the son of songwriter Max D. Barnes
. He has written songs on albums that have sold over 20 million records. He currently writes for Ray Stevens Music publishing and lives in Hendersonville, TN.
("Way Down Deep"), John Anderson
("Let Go of the Stone"), John Schneider
("At the Sound of the Tone"), Randy Travis
("Before You Kill Us All
"), Diamond Rio
("How Your Love Makes Me Feel
"), and Colin Raye ("Love, Me") have recorded his songs, as have many others. "Love, Me
" released in 1991, became Raye's first Number One single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts; the same year, the song received a Song of the Year nomination in 1992 from the Country Music Association
. The song did not win however, and the award was given to a song his father, Max D. Barnes
had written with Vince Gill
entitled, "Look At Us
." Other artists that have recorded Barnes' songs include George Jones
, Jo Dee Messina
, Montgomery Gentry
, Alabama
, Gene Watson
, Mark Wills
, Cledus T. Judd
, Ralph Stanley
and Ray Stevens
.
by Jeff Carson
, the self titled album by the Marie Sisters
, and A Letter from Death Row
, a film produced and directed by Bret Michaels
starring Michaels, Charlie Sheen
, and Martin Sheen
. Barnes also produced the Major League: Back to the Minors
soundtrack and several singles by the Smokin' Armadillos
. Much of Barnes' production work has been done at notable Nashville production house Starstruck Studios, built by Reba McEntire
.
recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama
, and lead guitar and vocals for several Joe Sun
albums including Sundries
and The Sun Never Sets
, recorded in London
.
Barnes also lead guitar on the album "Wait 'Til I Get My Hands on You" by Wynn Stewart
and played acoustic guitar on How Do I Live
by LeAnn Rimes
during his time at Curb Records
. He is also credited with background vocals on It's You Again
by Skip Ewing
.
, Bobby Bare
, Shelly West
, Skip Ewing
, Linda Davis
, and Tanya Tucker
, among others.
Max D. Barnes
Max D. Barnes was a country music singer and songwriter.As a songwriter, Barnes composed many familiar songs of the '80s and '90s, receiving 42 songwriter awards in his career...
. He has written songs on albums that have sold over 20 million records. He currently writes for Ray Stevens Music publishing and lives in Hendersonville, TN.
Songwriting
Max T. is most known as an ASCAP award winning songwriter. Artists like Vern GosdinVern Gosdin
Vern Gosdin was an American country music singer. He idolized The Louvin Brothers and The Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called The Gosdin Brothers. An inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard, Gosdin was nicknamed "The Voice" by his...
("Way Down Deep"), John Anderson
John Anderson (musician)
John David Anderson is an American country music artist with a successful career that has lasted more than 30 years...
("Let Go of the Stone"), John Schneider
John Schneider (television actor)
John Richard Schneider III is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his portrayal of Bo Duke in the 1980s American television series The Dukes of Hazzard, and as Jonathan Kent on Smallville, a 2001 television adaptation of Superman.Alongside his acting career, Schneider performed as a...
("At the Sound of the Tone"), Randy Travis
Randy Travis
Randy Travis is an American country music singer and actor. Since 1985, he has recorded 20 studio albums and charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, 22 of which were number one hits...
("Before You Kill Us All
Before You Kill Us All
"Before You Kill Us All" is the title of a song written by Max T. Barnes and Keith Follesé, and recorded by American country music singer Randy Travis...
"), Diamond Rio
Diamond Rio
Diamond Rio is an American Country music/Christian music band formed in 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee. Since its foundation, the group has comprised the same six members: Gene Johnson , Jimmy Olander , Brian Prout , Marty Roe , Dan Truman , and Dana Williams...
("How Your Love Makes Me Feel
How Your Love Makes Me Feel
"How Your Love Makes Me Feel" is a song written by Trey Bruce and Max T. Barnes, and recorded by American country music group Diamond Rio that reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. It was released in May 1997 as the first single from their Greatest Hits album...
"), and Colin Raye ("Love, Me") have recorded his songs, as have many others. "Love, Me
Love, Me
"Love, Me" is the title of a single released in 1991 by American country music artist Collin Raye. In January of 1992, the single became Raye's first Number One single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts; the same year, the song received a Song of the Year nomination from the...
" released in 1991, became Raye's first Number One single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts; the same year, the song received a Song of the Year nomination in 1992 from the Country Music Association
Country Music Association
The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre...
. The song did not win however, and the award was given to a song his father, Max D. Barnes
Max D. Barnes
Max D. Barnes was a country music singer and songwriter.As a songwriter, Barnes composed many familiar songs of the '80s and '90s, receiving 42 songwriter awards in his career...
had written with Vince Gill
Vince Gill
Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
entitled, "Look At Us
Look at Us (song)
"Look at Us" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Vince Gill. Released in September 1991, it was the third single from the album Pocket Full of Gold. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...
." Other artists that have recorded Barnes' songs include George Jones
George Jones
George Glenn Jones is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette....
, Jo Dee Messina
Jo Dee Messina
Jo Dee Marie Messina , known professionally as Jo Dee Messina, is an American country music artist. She has charted nine Number One singles on the Billboard country music charts. She has been honored by the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and has been nominated for two...
, Montgomery Gentry
Montgomery Gentry
Montgomery Gentry is an American country music duo composed of vocalists Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry. The two began performing in the 1990s as part of a band which also included Eddie Montgomery's brother John Michael Montgomery, and founded the existing duo in 1999.Signed to Columbia Records,...
, Alabama
Alabama (band)
Alabama is a country music and southern rock band from Fort Payne, Alabama, United States. The band was founded in 1969 by Randy Owen and his cousin Teddy Gentry , soon joined by Jeff Cook...
, Gene Watson
Gene Watson
Gary Gene Watson is an American country singer. He is most famous for his 1975 hit "Love in the Hot Afternoon," his 1982 hit "Fourteen Carat Mind," and his signature song "Farewell Party." Watson's long career has notched six number ones, 23 top tens and over 75 charted singles.-Biography:Watson...
, Mark Wills
Mark Wills
Daryl Mark Williams is an American country music artist, best known professionally as Mark Wills. Signed to Mercury Records between 1996 and 2003, he released five studio albums for the label — Mark Wills, Wish You Were Here, Permanently, Loving Every Minute and And the Crowd Goes Wild — as well...
, Cledus T. Judd
Cledus T. Judd
Barry Poole is an American country music artist who records under the name Cledus T. Judd. Known primarily for his parodies of popular country music songs, he has been called the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music, and his albums are usually an equal mix of original comedy songs and parodies...
, Ralph Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Ralph Stanley , also known as Dr. Ralph Stanley, is an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing.-Biography:...
and Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens is an American country music, pop singer-songwriter who has become known for his novelty songs.-Early career:...
.
Producer
Barne's production credits include the album Real LifeReal Life (Jeff Carson album)
Real Life is the third studio album to be released by American country music artist Jeff Carson. It contains the single "Real Life ", a Top 20 hit on the Billboard country music charts in mid-2001 and Carson's first Top 40 country hit since 1996's "Holdin' On to Something"...
by Jeff Carson
Jeff Carson
Jeffrey Lee Herndon , known professionally as Jeff Carson, is an American country music artist. Originally a session musician in Branson, Missouri and later a demo singer, he was signed to Curb Records in 1995, releasing his self-titled debut album that year, followed by Butterfly Kisses in 1998...
, the self titled album by the Marie Sisters
Marie Sisters
-Track listing:#"Real Bad Mood" – 4:00#"Oh Yeah" – 3:04#"Strong for You" – 3:24#"Bring It On Back" – 4:00#"You Were a Mountain" -Track listing:#"Real Bad Mood" (Don Poythress, Leslie Satcher) – 4:00#"Oh Yeah" (Jeremy Campbell, Noah Gordon) – 3:04#"Strong for You" (Max T. Barnes, T.W. Hale) –...
, and A Letter from Death Row
A Letter from Death Row (film)
A Letter From Death Row is a 1998 psychological thriller film directed by Marvin Baker and Bret Michaels, lead singer of the hard rock band Poison. Bret Michaels also wrote the film and starred in it. The film was released by Sheen Michaels Entertainment, a company created by Bret Michaels and...
, a film produced and directed by Bret Michaels
Bret Michaels
Bret Michaels is an American musician, actor, director, screenwriter, producer and reality television personality. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist of the glam metal band Poison. Besides his career as lead singer, he has several solo albums to his credit, as well as one chart single...
starring Michaels, Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen
Carlos Irwin Estevez , better known by his stage name Charlie Sheen, is an American film and television actor. He is the youngest son of actor Martin Sheen....
, and Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen
Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez , better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American film actor best known for his performances in the films Badlands and Apocalypse Now , and in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2006.He is considered one of the best actors never to be...
. Barnes also produced the Major League: Back to the Minors
Major League: Back to the Minors
Major League: Back to the Minors is a 1998 film, distributed by Warner Bros., directed and written by John Warren, with David S. Ward taking the co-writer duties. It is the third film in the Major League series.-Cast:...
soundtrack and several singles by the Smokin' Armadillos
Smokin' Armadillos
The Smokin' Armadillos is an American country music group formed in Bakersfield, California in 1992. Their highest charting single, "Let Your Heart Lead Your Mind," peaked at #53 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in 1996; it was included on their self-titled debut album, issued...
. Much of Barnes' production work has been done at notable Nashville production house Starstruck Studios, built by Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire
Reba Nell McEntire is an American country music artist and actress. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band , on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos. As a solo act, she was invited to perform at a rodeo in Oklahoma...
.
Studio Work
Other credits to Barnes include backup vocals on Roadhouses and Dance Halls, an album by Lonnie MackLonnie Mack
Lonnie Mack is an American rock, blues and country guitarist and vocalist....
recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Muscle Shoals is a city in Colbert County, Alabama, United States. As of 2007, the United States Census Bureau estimated the population of the city to be 12,846. The city is included in The Shoals MSA. It is famous for its contributions to American popular music.-Geography:Muscle Shoals is located...
, and lead guitar and vocals for several Joe Sun
Joe Sun
James Joseph Paulsen is an American country music singer, songwriter of Danish descent, known professionally as Joe Sun. Recording for the Ovation and Elektra Records labels, Sun charted fourteen singles on the Hot Country Songs charts...
albums including Sundries
Sundries
Sundries may refer to:* Toiletries and other usually small items both of no large value, and too numerous to mention separately such as cosmetics, threads, needles et cetera...
and The Sun Never Sets
The Sun Never Sets
The Sun Never Sets is the third album by Australian hip hop band The Herd and was released on 3 October 2005.The album was selected as the Triple J and 2SER 'Album of the Week' and was nominated for the inaugural Triple J - J Award for Australian Album of the year.The album debuted at #3 on the...
, recorded in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
.
Barnes also lead guitar on the album "Wait 'Til I Get My Hands on You" by Wynn Stewart
Wynn Stewart
Winford Lindsey Stewart , better known as Wynn Stewart, was an American country music performer. He was one of the progenitors of the Bakersfield sound...
and played acoustic guitar on How Do I Live
How Do I Live
"How Do I Live" is the title of a song written by Diane Warren. It was originally recorded by LeAnn Rimes in 1997 and shortly afterward by Trisha Yearwood...
by LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes is an American country/pop singer. She is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Patsy Cline-intended single "Blue" when Rimes was only age 13, resulting in her...
during his time at Curb Records
Curb Records
Curb Records is a record label started by Mike Curb originally as Sidewalk Records in 1963...
. He is also credited with background vocals on It's You Again
It's You Again
"It's You Again" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Skip Ewing. It was released in October 1989, it was the first single from the album The Will to Love. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...
by Skip Ewing
Skip Ewing
Donald Ralph "Skip" Ewing is an American country music singer and songwriter. Active since 1988, Ewing has recorded nine studio albums, and has charted fifteen singles on the Billboard country charts.-Career:...
.
Live Performance
Barnes has performed on live tours throughout North America and Europe with country music artists Joe SunJoe Sun
James Joseph Paulsen is an American country music singer, songwriter of Danish descent, known professionally as Joe Sun. Recording for the Ovation and Elektra Records labels, Sun charted fourteen singles on the Hot Country Songs charts...
, Bobby Bare
Bobby Bare
Robert Joseph Bare is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr., also a musician.-Early career:...
, Shelly West
Shelly West
Shelly West is an American country music singer. Her mother was the country music star Dottie West, whose career spanned three decades. Shelly West is best known for having hit duets with David Frizzell, and for their #1 hit "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma"...
, Skip Ewing
Skip Ewing
Donald Ralph "Skip" Ewing is an American country music singer and songwriter. Active since 1988, Ewing has recorded nine studio albums, and has charted fifteen singles on the Billboard country charts.-Career:...
, Linda Davis
Linda Davis
Linda Kaye Davis is an American country music singer. Before beginning a career as a solo artist, she charted three minor country singles as one half of the duo Skip & Linda. In her solo career, Davis has recorded five major-label studio albums and more than 15 singles...
, and Tanya Tucker
Tanya Tucker
Tanya Denise Tucker is a female American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13...
, among others.
ASCAP Awards
- "Love, MeLove, Me"Love, Me" is the title of a single released in 1991 by American country music artist Collin Raye. In January of 1992, the single became Raye's first Number One single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts; the same year, the song received a Song of the Year nomination from the...
" - 1992 CMA Song of the Year Nominee - "Let Go of the StoneLet Go of the Stone"Let Go of the Stone" is the title of a song recorded by American country music artist John Anderson. It was released in November 1992 as the fifth single from his album Seminole Wind...
" - 1992 Country Award - "At the Sound of the ToneAt the Sound of the Tone"At the Sound of the Tone" is a single by American country music artist and actor John Schneider. Released in 1986, it was the first single from the album Take the Long Way Home. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart....
" - 1986 Country Award - "Before You Kill Us AllBefore You Kill Us All"Before You Kill Us All" is the title of a song written by Max T. Barnes and Keith Follesé, and recorded by American country music singer Randy Travis...
" - 1994 Country Award - "That Girl's Been Spyin' on MeThat Girl's Been Spyin' on Me"That Girl's Been Spyin' on Me" is the title of a song written by Tom Shapiro and Max T. Barnes, and recorded by American country music singer Billy Dean. It was released in June 1996 as the first single from his fifth studio album, 1996's It's What I Do...
" - 1996 Country Award - "How Your Love Makes Me FeelHow Your Love Makes Me Feel"How Your Love Makes Me Feel" is a song written by Trey Bruce and Max T. Barnes, and recorded by American country music group Diamond Rio that reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. It was released in May 1997 as the first single from their Greatest Hits album...
" - 1997 Country Award - "A Night to RememberA Night to Remember (Joe Diffie song)"A Night to Remember" is the title of a song written by Max T. Barnes and T.W. Hale, and recorded by American country music singer Joe Diffie. It was released in March 1999 as the first single from his 1999 album A Night to Remember. The single peaked at #6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles...
" - 1999 Country Award
External links
- maxtbarnes.com http://www.maxtbarnes.com
- AllMusic Credit Page http://www.allmusic.com/artist/max-t-barnes-p308583