![]() ![]() I think that it wasn't because this is what the good Lord meant to be." At one such performance at the Wildhorse Saloon in downtown Nashville, veteran Nashville producer Chuck Howard introduced the band to a senior vice president at Warner Bros. I had a lot of bites, but did never really the big one. "I had a couple of big producers in town that were interested," Newfield told Remz. The group honed its sound while playing more than 200 dates a year for more than five years before landing a recording contract. ![]() They wrote together, they lived together, they played together, and I think that commitment is what brings the sound together." Their albums would all say 'All songs written by Van Halen.'" Burns added that Van Halen "were a group. When I was young, I'd flip over a band like Van Halen. "Our favorite artists were those who wrote their own material and we fully intended to do that. "All three of us are writers and wanted to have our own sound and our own material," Newfield continued in the interview. In addition, the group decided to write their own material. It sounded fresh and no one had done anything like it yet." When he told me about wanting to have a trio of rotating lead vocals with one female and two male voices, I loved the idea. We were both big fans of Waylon and the outlaw country stuff. "Keith and I hit it off immediately," she said in a interview. I was doing my solo thing, but when Keith approached me about putting the group together, we hit it off."Īfter hearing one of Newfield's demonstration tapes, Burns and Dean asked her to join their new outfit. "I had not seen him in a long time, and I had worked in Nashville doing demos, waiting tables, basically doing anything I could do to make ends meet. "We had been friends since about 1991," Newfield said about Dean in an interview with Jeffrey B. Dean was playing bass in Tanya Tucker's band, and had known Newfield previously. Burns had been playing guitar in Joe Diffie's band and was looking for a way to front his own group. Burns and Dean had met in the early 1990s. Trick Pony formed when guitarist Burns and bassist Dean joined forces with Newfield. Burns was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and had been playing guitar since he was 14 years old. Dean was raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, and studied jazz performance at Southern Illinois University. ![]() Newfield was born in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California. The trio's varied appearance has also been noted by critics, who have compared Ira Dean's appearance to Kid Rock Keith Burns's appearance to such country "hat" acts as George Strait, Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson, and Garth Brooks and Newfield to the archetypal country music femme fatale with a heart of glass. Others rely on worldly-wise voice of lead singer Heidi Newfield, whose sound has been compared to that of country siren Tanya Tucker as well as the blues, pop, and rock vocals of Bonnie Raitt. The band's songs often prescribe heavy drinking as an antidote for broken relationships or as a tonic to celebrate the joys of life. Trick Pony has carved out a niche as a hard-driving and raucous country trio whose roots are planted firmly in the honky-tonk tradition of such top-selling 1970s country acts as Moe Bandy and Mel McDaniel, as well as such outlaw country acts of the same decade as Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. 1970, in Healdsburg, CA), vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica. 1970, in Raleigh, NC), bass, vocals Heidi Newfield (born on October 4, c. 1970, in Atlanta, GA), guitar, vocals Ira Dean (born on August 23, c. Members include Keith Burns (born on November 16, c. If you would like to share Trick Pony lyrics with other users of this site, please see the bottom of this page on how to submit Trick Pony lyrics. ![]()
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