Song:I Got More
Album:Cole Deggs & The Lonesome
With their 2007 debut CD, Cole Deggs & The Lonesome looked to be on the road to country music stardom. But the CD didn't sell as well as expected and they were quickly dropped and the band split up. The music is really good so it appears Columbia may have been a little hasty. Lead singer Cole Deggs and his bassist brother Shade Deggs are from Lake Jackson, TX. Cole had some success writing songs for Kenny Chesney and Tracy Byrd and he was also trying to start his own recording career. He got together with Shreveport, LA natives David & Jimmy Wallace and drummer Brian Hayes. David Wallace plays guitar and Jimmy plays keyboards. They signed with Columbia Records and worked with Columbia house producer Mark Wright and veteran songwriter Rivers Rutherford. It appears that Rutherford was responsible for song selection. I Got More was the first single and it reached #25 on the Country Singles chart. Rutherford wrote it with veteran songwriter Jim Collins. When the second single Girl Next Door failed to break the top 40 and the CD didn't sell as well as expected, Columbia quickly dropped Cole Deggs & The Lonesome in 2008 as part of an austerity program. They didn't even get a second chance that was probably deserved based on the quality of the music. And apparently they were a strong live act too. The group split up. You can get their CD very inexpensively. Maybe the individual members will turn up at some point but it just shows you never know who will make it in the music business. Here's the video for I Got More by Cole Diggs & The Lonesome. The video was made by the band to chronicle their promotional tour of radio stations.
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