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The Wrights

Formed:
zz, 1998

  • Genre: Country
  • Active: 2000s
  • Major Members: Adam Wright, Shannon Wright
  • Representative Album: "Down This Road"

Biography

The Wrights are the husband-and-wife country duo of Adam and Shannon Wright. Natives of southwest Georgia, both grew up in musical homes (Adam's uncle was country star Alan Jackson) and turned to country music at an early age. They met each other in 1998 when Adam filled in as a lead guitarist at one of Shannon's club gigs (she was a featured singer in a cover band) and the two began writing songs together almost immediately, eventually falling in love and marrying. The couple moved to Nashville in 2002, where they managed to land a spot opening for Loretta Lynn at the Grand Ole Opry. A song the pair co-wrote, "If Love Was a River," and another song of Adam's, "Strong Enough," both appeared on Jackson's 2004 album release, What I Do. Gigging wherever they could around Music City, the Wrights soon caught the eyes and ears of producers Keith Stegall and John Kelton, who took the couple into the studio, resulting in 2005's Down This Road, released on Jackson's ACR (Alan's Country Records) label in conjunction with RCA. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

Similar Artists:

Shannon Wright

Relationship with:

Alan Jackson
 
 
Wikipedia: The Wrights
For the country music duo known as the Wrights, see The Wrights (country duo).

For the name see Wright.

The Wrights
Origin Australia
Genre(s) Rock
Years active 2004
2005
Label(s) Flashpoint / EMI
Associated
acts

Dallas Crane
The Easybeats
Grinspoon
Jet
The Living End
Powderfinger
Spiderbait
Stevie Wright
You Am I
Former members

Nic Cester
Chris Cheney
Davey Lane
Mark "Kram" Maher
Pat Bourke
Daniel Vandenberg

Bernard Fanning

Warren "Pig" Morgan
Harry Vanda
Phil Jamieson
Dan Knight
Chris Cester

Louise Anton

The Wrights were a one-off Australian rock music "supergroup". They consisted of Nic Cester (of Jet), Kram (of Spiderbait), Chris Cheney (of The Living End), Davey Lane (of You Am I and The Pictures) and Pat Bourke (of Dallas Crane). They are named after Australian music legend and former Easybeats frontman Stevie Wright, and writer of the song-trilogy "Evie" which was the group's feature song..

Background

Their first and only single was a cover version of Stevie Wright's song "Evie", an 11 minute song consisting of three parts. "Evie (Pt 1)" was first performed at the ARIA awards in 2004. They performed the whole trilogy live for the first time at the Sydney Cricket Ground as part of WaveAid, and it was released as a single in February 2005. "Evie (Pt 1)" featured Nic Cester as the vocalist, while Pts 2 and 3 featured vocalists Bernard Fanning of Powderfinger and Phil Jamieson of Grinspoon.

The profits for the single were donated to Stevie Wright and the Salvation Army to improve drug and alcohol rehabilitation, as well as the Red Cross for the tragic 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.

The single debuted at #2 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart on the week of 2005-03-07.

Personnel

"Evie" Part 1 - "Let Your Hair Hang Down"

"Evie" Part 2 - "Evie"

  • Bernard Fanning (Powderfinger) - Vocals
  • Warren "Pig" Morgan - Piano
  • Harry Vanda (Easybeats) - String Arrangement

"Evie" Part 3 - "I'm Losing You"

Backing vocals

Production

  • Produced by Harry Vanda and Glenn Goldsmith
  • Mixed by Daniel Vandenberg.

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