Artist:Yankee Grey
Song:All Things Considered
Album:Untamed
All Things Considered was a top ten country hit in 1999. It was the only big hit for the short lived country band Yankee Grey. They only released two albums and it looks like most of them quit the music business. Yankee Grey was formed in 1986 in Cincinnati by lead singer and guitarist Coy Lee Jackson, lead guitarist Matthew Basford, steel guitarist David Carter, bassist Dwayne Blankenship and drummer Kevin Griffin. Jackson and Blankenship were soon replaced by Tim Hunt and David Buchanan. Hunt also wrote so he was an upgrade. Then Carter was replaced by keyboardist Jerry Hughes and fiddler Joe Caverlee. Yankee Grey performed in Ohio clubs for the next decade. A local engineer had connections in Nashville and thought they could get a record deal. They sent a demo and Cliff Audretch of Sony Music Nashville came to Ohio to watch them perform. Yankee Grey signed with Sony's Monument label and the album Untamed was released in 1999. The album was produced by Josh Leo, Robert Ellis Orrall and Ronnie Thomas. Leo was once A&R director at RCA Nashville and he signed Martina McBride. Orrall is a singer songwriter who was working for Sony as a producer at the time. Thomas is a recording engineer. All Things Considered was the first single and it reached #8 on the Country Singles chart. The second single Another Nine Minutes reached #15 on the Country Singles chart. Hunt wrote most of the songs including those two. Untamed is available as a budget CD. Yankee Grey was nominated for Best New Artist at the ACM Awards. So they seemed to have potential. It all came to a screeching halt as Tim Hunt was forced to leave Yankee Grey due to voice problems. Monument dropped them immediately. Because Hunt was lead singer and wrote all the songs, it wasn't going to be easy to replace him. Jerry Hughes took over as lead singer for the 2002 album Yankee Grey 2. They split up after that. Joe Caverlee is a Nashville session musician. It looks like the rest of Yankee Grey returned to Ohio and quit the music business. Here's the video for All Things Considered by Yankee Grey.
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