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Southern California native Gary Allan emerged in the mid-1990s as the successor to country-and-western, honky-tonk legends such as Buck Owens, George Jones, and Allan’s longtime idol, Merle Haggard. In addition to echoing some of the same themes of lost love, heavy drinking, and hard work in his songs, Allan shared an uncompromising approach to the music business with the country music veterans. He battled with his record company to include a song on his second album that criticized violence in American society. Later he fought to maintain his artistic integrity despite the demands to make more commercial, radio-friendly records. As he told Michael McCall in an April of 2000 Country Music profile, "I don’t let anybody tell me what to do. I don’t like to be told what to wear, how to play, or how to do anything. I know record companies have a whole committee of people who talk about what an artist should look like. But I’ve always told ’em, ‘I don’t need to be developed. I need to be marketed. I’ll make my music. You go sell it.’"

Gary Allan Herzberg was born to Mary and Harley Herzberg on December 5, 1967, in Montebello, California, and grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of La Mirada. He shared a love of music with his father and older brother and sister and grew up playing the guitar and singing with his family. When he was 12 years old, Allan walked into a local country-and-western nightclub after seeing an "Entertainer Wanted" sign in the window. The manager laughed off his offer to audition, but Allan insisted on playing for him. He ended up securing a regular spot playing with his father and brother at the club, even though he had to wait outside between sets due to his underage status. By the time he was 15 Allan was getting offers of recording contracts, which his parents opposed. "Actually, there were two [offers], one on an independent label and one on a major label," Allan recalled in a 1996 Billboard profile, "and they just decided it was [for] too much time. I believe it was a seven-album deal … so my folks said, ’You just can’t sign ten years of your life away.’ I’m happy about it now."

In addition to gigging at local country-and-western honky tonks in his teens, Allan also explored the Southern California punk scene. "In the car with all my buddies I surfed with, mornings before school, I listened to Black Flag and stuff like that," he explained to James Hunter in a February of 2002 Country Music interview. "But if I drove, we were all listening to Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. I’d played in some punk-rock bands when I was younger—covers of Suicidal Tendencies. My dad would open up the garage and just shake his head." Although his choices of music might have seemed incompatible, there was nothing incongruous about being a fan of both punk and country in Allan’s opinion. "[People] still want honest songs about life," he told Hunter about the two different genres. "And punk, like country, was blatantly that way."

After completing high school, Allan entered the U.S. Army for a one-year hitch. He then married and started a family that grew to include three daughters. Although he continued to play small clubs throughout Southern California, Allan also cofounded a construction company, Church and Herzberg, which took up most of his time. With his wife’s encouragement Allan gradually started playing more dates and eventually formed a new band, the Honky Tonk Wranglers, along with guitarist Jake Kelly. Around 1993 Allan decided to sell his part of the business to make another attempt at entering the music business. Although he came close to securing a recording contract in his first trip to Nashville, the deal fell through, leaving Allan disillusioned. He also got divorced during this period and his former wife and children moved to Utah; Allan married a second time, to Danette Day, in 1997, but the second marriage lasted less than a year.

After his disappointment in 1993, it was another two years before he made another try at getting a record deal; in the meantime, he worked as a car salesman. Helped by two fans who funded an audition tape, Allan made a four-track demo in 1995 that resulted in a deluge of offers. He decided to sign with Decca, which was eventually absorbed into MCA-Nashville. "We went with Decca because they didn’t want to change anything," he told Deborah Evans Price of Billboard in September of 1996. "They really liked the traditional stuff, and I’m into traditional music. Some of the labels, you ask them what they want to change and they have their own little cookie cutter they want you to be. I remember telling people from other labels, ‘I’d rather work here for $50 than have you people turn me into something I hate, because, in my head, that would be taking my favorite thing in life, the coolest thing that I have, and screwing it up.’"

Allan’s first single, "Her Man," hit the top ten on Billboard’s country singles chart and his debut album, Used Heart for Sale, became one of the critical favorites of 1996. Although he was urged to let the Nashville music industry guide his career and to record more romantic, uptempo songs, Allan refused to go along with the dominant trends. "We went through this phase … well, like I said, they were releasing really light songs on the radio…. We got labeled a ‘hat act,’" he recalled in an interview with That’s Country website in April of 2000. "Then I think that the more people that came and saw our show, figured out what we were about."

The struggle to maintain his integrity extended to his second album on Decca, It Would Be You, released in 1998. Despite his record company’s opposition, Allan insisted on including the song "Judgment Day," a track about a murder by three out-of-control, small-town youths. The two parties eventually reached a compromise on the issue: although the song ended up on the album, it was included only as an unlisted twelfth track. "I find I walk a fine line getting material that’s true to my heart and also works in the commercial machine," Allan told Jim Patterson in a SouthCoastToday.com review. Among the commercial standouts was the album’s title track, which hit number five on Billboard’s country chart.

Despite the success of It Would Be You, Allan’s career faced a potential setback when Decca was brought to the verge of bankruptcy. The label was sold to MCA and Allan was one of the few artists to be retained on the company’s roster. Allan’s third album, Smoke Rings in the Dark, was his most successful to date and debuted in the top ten of the Billboard country albums chart. Helped by the hit single "Right Where I Need to Be," the album eventually sold over one million copies and earned platinum record status. "I think it’s the first time I totally got to do my own thing," Allan told That’s Country about Smoke Rings in the Dark and its honky-tonk feel. "I like [the songs] to feel live. That’s what I shoot for… It was just very much a workshop atmosphere, everybody doing their own thing, everybody had opinions… It was a fun way to make a record."

Allan’s fourth album, 2001’s Alright Guy, lived up to the commercial and critical expectations raised by the success of Smoke Rings in the Dark. A Billboard review in October of 2001 hailed it as "one of the best—if not the best—country albums of the year." Selling over a half-million copies in the year after its release, Alright Guy earned a gold record, and the singles "The One" and "Alright Guy" became hit tracks. After four albums, Allan was pleased that he had emerged as a country star with his integrity intact. "I just learned to make music in a different way," he told Bob Harris in a BBC Radio 2 interview in September of 2002. "I’d never heard the term ’radio friendly‘ until I went to Nashville. I was writing with somebody and they said, ‘They’re never going to play that on the radio,’ and I was thinking, ‘Well, who cares!’ I’ve never written like that."

Selected discography
Used Heart for Sale, Decca, 1996.
It Would Be You, Decca, 1998.
Smoke Rings in the Dark, MCA, 1999.
Alright Guy, MCA, 2001.

Sources
Periodicals
Billboard, September 14, 1996, p. 38; October 27, 2001, p. 29.
Country Music, April-May 2000, p. 36; February 2002, p. 78.

Online
"Country Features: Bob Harris Meets Gary Allan," BBC Radio 2, http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/country/features/pbk_allan.shtml (January 21, 2003).
"Gary Allan," WIXY, http://www.wixy.com/viewartist.asp?ID=82 (November 20, 2002).
"Gary Allan Interview," That’s Country, http://thatscountry.com/Artists/gary_allan_interview_041300.htm (January 21, 2003).
Gary Allan Official Website, http://www.garyallan.com/bio.htm (November 20, 2002).
"Hardcore Gary Allan and His Dream J-200 Guitar," Gibson-.com, http://www.gibson.eom/magazines/amplifier/1998/7/feature.html (January 21, 2003).
"Hidden Song Breaks with Country Tradition," SouthCoast-Today.com, http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/07-98/07-04-98/b03ae087.htm (January 21, 2003).

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Gary Allan hit the honky tonk circuit in his native Southern California at the seasoned age of 12. Playing in and out of the smoky, sweaty bars with his dad's band led Allan to follow in his father's footsteps and start his own band. When Allan returned to those same honky tonks with his own combo, the sound was true Bakersfield country: Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, and the rest. Allan spent most of his twenties honing his skills as a new traditionalist country singer; finally, in 1996, he was picked up by the Decca label. Used Heart for Sale appeared that year, and even if it was a bit timid, the album established Allan as a talented performer with plenty of potential. Two years later he returned with It Would Be You. This time out, Allan suffered from slick Nashville production, which winnowed away most of his whiskey-soaked barroom charm. Nevertheless, Allan's talent shone through. In 1999, Decca closed its doors. However, Allan's contract was picked up by MCA, which released his Smoke Rings in the Dark later that year. The album combined most of what Allan did best -- dusty honky tonk, cracked country ballads -- into a solid effort that didn't get too heavy with the Music City sheen. The album even included a rousing cover of the Del Shannon classic "Runaway" that harked back to Allan's younger days on the honky tonk circuit. With 2001's Alright Guy, an accomplished mix of driving, dusty swagger and slow-burn croon, Allan proved that he was only getting better with age. Its single, "Man to Man," became the singer's first number one hit. Allan toured extensively in support of Alright Guy before beginning work on a follow-up album, and when See If I Care appeared in September 2003, it was another solid set of Bakersfield-derived country and poignant balladry. Tough All Over, a Top Ten hit, arrived in 2005. A greatest-hits collection was issued early in 2007, followed by a new studio project, Living Hard, later in the year. The single "Today" arrived in June 2009 and debuted on the chart at number 52, and was followed by the album Get Off on the Pain in early 2010. ~ Johnny Loftus, Rovi
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Allan performing in 2007
Background information
Birth name Gary Allan Herzberg
Born (1967-12-05) December 5, 1967 (age 44)
Origin La Mirada, California, USA
Genres Country
Occupations Singer-songwriter
Instruments Vocals
Guitar
Years active 1996–present
Labels Decca Nashville
MCA Nashville
Associated acts Vertical Horizon
Highway 101
Website www.garyallan.com

Gary Allan Herzberg (born December 5, 1967)[1] is an American country music artist, known professionally as Gary Allan.

Signed to Decca Records in 1996, Allan made his debut on the United States country music scene with the release of his single "Her Man", the lead-off to his gold-certified debut album Used Heart for Sale, which was released in 1996 on Decca Records. A second album, It Would Be You, followed in 1998 on Decca. Allan's third album, Smoke Rings in the Dark, was his first album for MCA Nashville (to which he has been signed ever since) and the first platinum album of his career. Its successors, Alright Guy (2001) and See If I Care (2003), were all certified platinum as well, while 2005's Tough All Over and 2007's Greatest Hits were both certified gold. A seventh studio album, Living Hard, was released later in 2007.

Overall, Allan's seven studio albums and Greatest Hits package have produced 24 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including three that reached Number One: "Man to Man" and "Tough Little Boys" in 2003, and "Nothing On but the Radio" in 2004. Seven more of his singles have reached the Top Ten on this chart as well: "Her Man", "It Would Be You", "Right Where I Need to Be", "The One", "Best I Ever Had" (a cover of a Vertical Horizon song), "Life Ain't Always Beautiful", and "Watching Airplanes". Allan's latest album, Get Off on the Pain, was released on March 9, 2010.[2]

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Personal life

Personal

Gary Allan Exits Stage in NM

Gary Allan Herzberg was born and raised in La Mirada, California,[1] to Harley and Mary Herzberg.[3] To ensure that the family would focus on music, Allan's mother insisted that the family's guitars would always remain visible in the home. At age thirteen, Allan began playing in honky tonks with his father.[1][4] Two years later, he was offered his first recording contract, from A&M Records, but rejected the deal. His parents wanted him to finish his education and his father felt that Allan had yet to develop his own distinctive style.[4][5] Despite his commitment to finishing school, Allan reflects that he was rarely alert in class. "I played the bars at night, I was half asleep when I got to school. I thought sleep was what you did when you got to school."[5]

After finishing school, he continued to play in the bars with his band, the Honky Tonk Wranglers. Many of the venues they played were packed, and promoters often tried to move them to larger clubs. The moves would have required him to stop playing some of the older country music, such as covers of George Jones songs, so Allan refused.[4]

In 1987, Gary married his first wife, Tracy Taylor. She is the mother to his three daughters. They since divorced. He married model Danette Day on November 28, 1998 in South Carolina and they divorced in June 1999.[6] His third [7] wife, Angela (whom he wed on June 5, 2001), committed suicide on October 25, 2004.[8][9][10]

Nashville connection

Allan was introduced to songwriter/producer Byron Hill on August 28, 1993 by a mutual friend and talent-scout Jim Seal, at a bar called the Lion D'or in Downey, California, where Allan was already regularly performing. Seal and Hill had asked Allan if they could showcase an unsigned act that they were developing there. Hill had arranged to bring the head of A&R from a major label to the show to see this other act perform. Allan kindly let them use his stage for the event, giving the new act the opening performance slot that night. Hill promised Gary that they would make sure the A&R person remained there to see his portion of the show. Everyone was knocked out with Allan's performance, and very impressed with his voice. From that point on, Byron Hill began sending Gary songs. Without any serious funding at the time, Hill arranged for Allan to go into Seal's small studio in California to try his vocals on some of existing demo tracks that Byron had sent to Gary from Nashville, Tennessee. Meanwhile, Hill became head of A&R at BNA Entertainment on October 29 of that same year and immediately wanted to sign Allan to BNA, but the then current roster conditions and other circumstances related to the planned restructuring of RCA/BNA Nashville stood in the way.[11]

From demo to deal

In the meantime, Allan took a job selling cars. He left a demo tape in the glove box of a car purchased by a wealthy couple. When the couple discovered that he was the singer, they wrote him a check for $12,000.[5] This independent funding allowed Allan to go to Nashville to record some of the songs that were on that early demo tape with Byron Hill as producer.[11] On September 11, 1995, they worked at Javelina Studios for a couple of days on the four songs that Hill immediately showed to labels. Allan's recordings brought serious responses from several labels including Mercury, RCA, and Decca.[11] A meeting was then held at a Nashville hotel among Hill, Allan, and friend of Allan's, who was a program director for a radio station in California.[11]

The meeting was to arrange two showcases in Los Angeles, California, to put Allan on stage at two of the radio station's regular nights at a local club. Byron arranged for staffers at the Nashville office of Decca Records to attend the first showcase held on November 1, 1995. Decca immediately wanted to sign Allan, and knowing that Byron was lining up other labels to see Gary, Decca asked them to cancel the second showcase. A rep from RCA was already booked to see the second showcase the following week, but the "bird-in-hand" deal offer was too tempting for both Byron and Gary, so they committed to the Decca offer.[11] Decca staffer Mark Wright and Byron Hill co-produced Gary's first three albums for Decca beginning sessions on March 11, 1996 for Used Heart for Sale, then It Would Be You, both of which yielded top five singles, and later Smoke Rings in the Dark (which also included Tony Brown as a co-producer). It was during the recording of the first album that they recorded "It Must Have Been Ol' Santa Claus", as an added track to be packaged on various MCA/Decca Christmas compilations.[11] Then Byron and Gary got a personal call from Harry Connick, Jr., the writer of the song, thanking them for the recording, during which he added a few of his New Orleans Jazz style "very cool man!" compliments. The Christmas recording has been since released on at least four compilations. The merger of Polygram, Decca, and MCA Records marked the closing of Decca and Gary was moved to MCA Records.[11]

Career

Gary Allan performing in 2006

Used Heart for Sale

His first deal, with Decca Records Nashville, produced the 1996 album Used Heart for Sale.[1] The album was named "Best of the Month" by Stereo Review.[12] It advanced to the top 20 of the charts, and produced a Top 10 country hit with the track "Her Man" (previously recorded by Waylon Jennings). Other tracks from the album, however, proved less successful.

It Would Be You

His second album, It Would Be You, was released in 1998. Although Allan had been writing songs since he was a teenager,[5] he does not hesitate to bump his work from his albums in favor of those written by other songwriters he respects. For his second album, Allan replaced one of his songs with "No Judgement Day", written by Allen Shamblin. Although the song was a hidden acoustic track, radio stations began giving it heavy airplay.[5] The song tells the story of a shopkeeper in Texas, whose children killed him in search of money. The title track of the album became Allan's second top 10 hit of the year, remaining in the top 10 after 21 weeks of radio play, "way beyond the tenure of most disposable radio hits."[12] At the beginning of 1999, Decca Records folded, and when Allan moved to the parent label, MCA Nashville, It Would Be You was left in limbo.[4]

Allan was labeled "Country Music's Sexy Star" by People Magazine. He also delved into the acting world in the TV mini-series Shake, Rattle, & Roll, playing the lead role of Eddie Cochran. He followed that role with a part in the CBS TV series Pensacola: Wings of Gold, but describes his acting experience as "tedious."[5]

Smoke Rings in the Dark

In 1999, Allan released Smoke Rings in the Dark,[1] an album he recorded while in the midst of a divorce from his second wife, Versace model Danette Day, after only seven months of marriage.[5] Unlike his first two albums, Smoke Rings in the Dark made fuller use of background singers and stringed instruments, "resulting in a lusher, fuller sound."[13] The new album avoided the "devil-may-care brashness" of the first two, instead presenting a tone balanced between youthful optimism and "the knowledge that some of life's experiences exact a high toll."[13] Smoke Rings in the Dark was certified platinum, and it included two successful singles.

Alright Guy

In 2001 the album Alright Guy was released.[1] It contained the singles "The One," "Man of Me," and "Man to Man," the latter of which became his first Billboard No. 1 hit.[14] The same year, Allan married for the third time, to Angela, a flight attendant he met on an airplane.[15]

See If I Care

Despite his previous success and eight years in the music business, Allan was nominated for the Country Music Association's Horizon Award, typically given to newcomers, in 2003. The same year he released his fifth album, See If I Care. Allan had to fight to keep the title, which he felt epitomized his attitude towards the music business, that he would continue to make the music that he wanted to make regardless of whether the record label chose to back him or people chose to buy the album.[16] See If I Care included his second and third Number One singles, "Tough Little Boys" and "Nothing On but the Radio."[14][17] "Songs About Rain" was a top 15 hit.

Tough All Over

In 2003, Allan and his wife, Angela Herzberg, moved to Tennessee from California. On October 25, 2004, Angela Herzberg committed suicide after suffering from depression and migraines. Allan initially put his career on hold, but soon turned to music to deal with the loss of his wife. This resulted in 2005's "heart-wrenchingly personal album," Tough All Over.[15] He included several songs which he wrote or cowrote, including "Puttin' Memories Away" and "I Just Got Back from Hell," which dealt directly with his grief.[18] Several years later, Gary discussed his wife's suicide on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Tough All Over sold over 99,000 copies in its first week, debuting at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the magazine's Top Country Albums chart.[18] It was subsequently certified gold by the RIAA as of December 20, 2006, and contained the top 10 singles "Best I Ever Had" (written by Vertical Horizon's Matt Scannell) and "Life Ain't Always Beautiful," co-written by country singer Cyndi Thomson (under the name Cyndi Goodman).[19]

Greatest Hits

Gary Allan performing at Harrah's Metropolis 2010

Allan's first Greatest Hits collection was released on March 6, 2007. A Number One album on the Billboard Top Country Albums charts, the album reprised the greatest hits from his first six albums, as well as two new songs. One of these, titled "A Feelin' Like That", was co-written by David Lee Murphy and Ira Dean (the latter a former member of Trick Pony); the single peaked at #12 on the country singles charts.

Living Hard

Allan's album titled Living Hard, was released on October 23, 2007. Serving as its lead-off single was the song "Watching Airplanes," which spent more than thirty weeks on the country charts, where it reached a peak of #2 and went #1 on the Mediabase Chart. The song's music video was filmed during live concerts, including one at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. Second single "Learning How to Bend" – co-written by Allan – quickly became another hit song, peaking at #13. The video was filmed during a live performance at the House of Blues in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Following this song is third single "She's So California," which Allan co-wrote with Jaime Hanna (of Hanna-McEuen) and Jon Randall, and it peaked at #24, becoming his first single to miss the top 20 since "Lovin' You Against My Will" in 2000.

Get Off on the Pain

Gary Allan Speaking With Fans

A new single called "Today" was released on June 12, 2009. It served as the lead-off single to Allan's studio album, Get Off on the Pain, which was released on March 9, 2010.

Title track, "Get Off on the Pain", is the album's second single. It debuted at #42 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, the highest-debuting single of his career.[2]

"Kiss Me When I'm Down" the album's third single. released to radio in 2010. It debuted at #52 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Political views

In 2003, Allan told CMT that he believed Republican candidate, Arnold Schwarzenegger would be the best governor because he is not driven by money.[20]

Sound

Allan's voice is described as "raspy and unpolished."[4] The New York Times describes his music as "elegant, often deadpan songs [that] tend toward manly understatement."[21] His sound is heavily influenced by the Bakersfield scene, especially Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. He prefers this sound to that of the more pop country that is prevalent on country radio, because "the songs have got to have soul, have real meaning....Country music is...what happens during the week. Rock 'n roll is about what happens at the weekend."[5] Because his sound is different from many of the current crop of country singers, Allan has at times had difficulty getting radio to play his singles. He says he has to "walk a real fine line" to "make sure that I get traditional stuff on the radio."[4]

Discography

Main article: Gary Allan discography

Albums

References

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  2. ^ a b http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1633538/gary-allan-releases-new-album-get-off-on-the-pain.jhtml Archived 10 March 2010 at WebCite
  3. ^ Young, Lisa (November 20, 2000). "Gary Allan's Not Blowing Smoke". CMT. http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1472460/20030610/allan_gary.jhtml. Retrieved 2007-08-02. 
  4. ^ a b c d e f Paulik, Laurie (2002). "The Edgier Side of Tradition". Mountain West Music. http://www.mountainwestmusic.com/Interviews/Allan_Interview.html. Retrieved 2007-08-02. 
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Dawson, Dave (October 27, 2004). "Dave's Diary: Gary Allan Interview". NuCountry.com. http://www.nucountry.com.au/articles/diary/october2004/271004_garyallaninterview.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-02. 
  6. ^ People Magazine, Dec. 14, 1998, Vol. 50 No. 22
  7. ^ Dampier, Cindy (April 12, 2007), "People Features Gary Allan", People, http://www.garyallan.com/news.php?p=575&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1, retrieved on 2007-08-02
  8. ^ GaryAllan.com - People features Gary Allan
  9. ^ GACTV.com - Gary Allan Talks About Wife's Suicide
  10. ^ Suicide.org - Angela Herzberg Memorial
  11. ^ a b c d e f g Gary Allan. – Byron Hill Music
  12. ^ a b Kling, Reno (July 1998). "Hardcore Gary Allan and his dream J-200 guitar". The Amplifier. http://www.gibson.com/magazines/amplifier/1998/7/feature.html. Retrieved 2007-08-02 
  13. ^ a b Paulik, Laura. "Review of Gary Allan's CD "Smoke Rings in the Dark"". Mountain West Music. http://www.mountainwestmusic.com/CDReviews/Allan_CDRev.html. Retrieved 2007-08-02. 
  14. ^ a b Shelburne, Craig (October 18, 2003). "Allan's "Tough Little Boys" Hits No. 1". CMT. http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1479817/20031017/allan_gary.jhtml. Retrieved 2007-08-02. 
  15. ^ a b Dampier, Cindy (April 12, 2007). "People Features Gary Allan". People. http://www.garyallan.com/news.php?p=575&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1. Retrieved 2007-08-02 
  16. ^ Gimlin, Angela (October 8, 2003). "Gary Allan: Music, Awards, and Politics". CMT. http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1479642/20031008/allan_gary.jhtml. Retrieved 2007-08-02. 
  17. ^ "Allan's "Nothing On but the Radio" Hits No. 1."". CMT. November 29, 2004. http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1494235/20041129/allan_gary.jhtml. Retrieved 2007-08-02. 
  18. ^ a b Dawson, Dave (October 23, 2005). "Dave's Diary – Gary Allan Update". Nu Country. http://www.nucountry.com.au/articles/diary/october2005/231005_garyallan_update.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-02. 
  19. ^ "Gary Allan Discography – Tough.. All Over". Billboard. October 11, 2005. Archived from the original on March 21, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070321081921/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/discography/index.jsp?aid=732290&pid=166883. Retrieved 2007-08-18. 
  20. ^ Gary Allan: Music, Awards and Politics
  21. ^ Sanneh, Kelefa (May 29, 2006). "Rascal Flatts and Gary Allan: The Yin and Yang of Stoicism". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/29/arts/music/29flat.html?ex=1306555200&en=f92348a0bea68136&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss. Retrieved 2007-08-02 

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