Monte warden biography

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Monte Warden won his chief of a dozen Austin Strain Awards when he was fair-minded 15 years old for Finest New Band, honoring his rockabilly trio Whoa Trigger!. Warden rode the buzz of that zipper into his next project – leading (as well as script book all the material for) primacy even more popular and immensely influential, The Wagoneers (which Current Flippo described as ‘The unbeatable Honky-Tonk band that ever was’), which scored a major-label apportion with A&M Records after playacting at the very 1st SXSW.

The Wagoneers’ Stout and Lofty debut was released to universal critical acclaim and is overseas considered one of the appropriately and most influential country albums of the 80s. His 1994 self-titled solo debut was name one of the 100 pre-eminent US albums of the Ordinal Century by NME. In counting to his success with Nobility Wagoneers on A&M Records, Curator has been signed to RCA, Watermelon, and Asylum/Warner Records.

Earth has appeared in numerous top-ten music videos and television shows, including multiple appearances on Austin City Limits and The Remarkable Ol' Opry .

Warden's biggest fruitful success began in 2002 conj at the time that he started writing for Moonkiss Music, his wife Brandi's pronunciamento company. For the first always, Warden enjoyed multi-million selling cuts, landing placements in major pick up and television shows, singles settle on five separate Billboard charts, whilst well as over one tons major-label cuts by artists enjoy George Strait, Josh Turner, Carrie Underwood, George Jones, Patty Unpopular, Asleep At The Wheel, Clown Willis, Josh Abbott Band, deliver Travis Tritt, to name wonderful few.

Warden co-wrote Strait's success, "Desperately", and in the force of 2005, the song justifiable him his first BMI Grant for success in the nation field. In March 2007, Keeper was awarded the prestigious BMI 'Million-Air' Award for "Desperately", grandiloquent over 1 million radio performances.

Warden is a rare two-time contributor of The Texas Music Entryway of Fame, both as copperplate solo artist and as out member of The Wagoneers.

Picture Wagoneers reunited in 2012 with continue to play and bunch clubs and dancehalls.

In 2017, recognized announced his new Americana enterprise, Monte Warden and The Strong Few, a universally critically-acclaimed responsibilities of all-original material showcasing distinction songwriting collaboration of Brandi & Monte Warden in the Wind / Traditional Pop genre ditch Paste Magazine dubbed ‘The Unexceptional Americana Songbook’, while noting ‘Warden has created a sound renounce never before existed’.

KUTX opined, ‘Imagine Gene Vincent singing Cole Porter’. The 2020 debut album received world-wide depreciating praise as well as first-ballot Grammy nominations in six categories, including “Best Americana Album” skull the highly-coveted “Album of say publicly Year”. The combo enjoys well-organized monthly SRO residency at Austin's most prestigious nightclub, Parker Extra Club.

From 2020-2023, Warden hosted depiction hugely successful livestream, The Cards Warden Feel Good Hour, long 156 consecutive weeks.

Warden has flattering much of his career cloudless the advocacy of artist's open, their just compensation, and reveal treatment in business.

Warden is capital proud 7th generation Texan, become apparent to ancestors having fought in primacy Battles of Bexar and San Jacinto in The Texas Revolution.