Joe Logan Diffie (born December 28, 1958) is an American country music singer. After working as a demo singer in the 1980s, he signed a contract with the Nashville Epic Records division in 1990. Between that and 2004, Diffie charted 35 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, five of which peaked at No. 1: debuted releasing "Home", "If Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)", "Third Rock from the Sun", "Pickup Man" (the longest surviving No. 1, at four weeks) and "Greater from The Beatles ". In addition to these singles, he has had 12 other players reach the Top 10 and ten others to reach the Top 40 on the same chart. She also writes singles for Holly Dunn, Tim McGraw, and Jo Dee Messina, and has been recorded with Mary Chapin Carpenter, George Jones, and Marty Stuart.
Diffie released seven studio albums, Christmas albums and a greatest-hits package under the Epic label. He also released one studio album each through Monument Records, Broken Bow Records, and Rounder Records. Among his albums, 1993 Honky Tonk Attitude and 1994's Third Rock from Sun are certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America; while 1992 Regular Joe and 1995's Life's So Funny is certified gold. His latest album, Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album , was released in late 2010 via Rounder. His style is determined by the influence of the neotraditionalist country with a mixture of new songs and ballads.
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Joe Diffie was born into a musical family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1958. His first musical performance came at the age of four, when he appeared in his aunt's country band. Diffie's father, Joe R., plays guitar and banjo, and his mother sings. Following in the footsteps of her mother, Diffie began singing at an early age, often listening to albums in her father's record collection. Diffie says that "Dad and Mom claimed that [she] could sing harmony when [she] was three years old." His family moved to San Antonio, Texas when he was in first grade, and then to Washington state where he attended the fourth and fifth grades. Later, he moved to Wisconsin for years in his sixth grade through his second year of high school, and returned to Oklahoma where he attended high school in Velma. In the last two years of high school, Diffie played soccer, baseball, and golf in addition to running; in his senior year he was recognized as the Best Qualified Male Athlete.
After graduating, he attended Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma. Although he initially got a credit to medical school, he decided not to work in the medical field after marriage for the first time in 1977, and eventually quit before graduating. Diffie first worked in an oil field, then drove a truck pumping cement in an oil field in Alice, Texas, before he moved back to Duncan to work at the foundry. During this period, he worked as a musician on the side, first in the Gospel group called Higher Purpose, and then in a bluegrass band called Special Edition. Diffie then built a recording studio, started touring with Special Editions in adjacent countries, and sent demo tapes to publishers in Nashville. Hank Thompson recorded Diffie's "Love on the Rocks", and Randy Travis put one of Diffie's songs on Hold but ultimately did not record it.
After the foundry closed in 1986, Diffie declared bankruptcy and sold the studio out of financial needs. He also divorced his wife, who went with their two children. Diffie spent several months in a state of depression before deciding to move to Nashville, Tennessee. There, he worked at Gibson Guitar Corporation. While at Gibson, he contacted the songwriter and recorded more demos, including songs that would later be recorded by Ricky Van Shelton, Billy Dean, Alabama, and The Forester Sisters. In mid-1989, he stopped working at the company to record a full-time demo. Diffie also met Debbie, who would later become his second wife. That same year, Diffie was contacted by Bob Montgomery, a songwriter and record producer known for working with Buddy Holly. Montgomery, then A & amp; R on Epic Records, said that he wanted to sign Diffie for a contract with the label, but had to hold the singer for a year. Meanwhile, Holly Dunn released "There Goes My Heart Again", which Diffie co-wrote and sang backing vocals. Following the success of this chart, Diffie signed with Epic in the early 1990s.
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Professional music career
1990-1991: A Thousand Winding Roads
The label released Diffie's debut album, A Thousand Winding Roads , in the late 1990s, with Montgomery and Johnny Slate as producers. His first single, "Home", reached the top of the Billboard Hot Summer Songs charts. The song also reached number one on the country music charts published by Radio & amp; Recordings and Gavin Reports , making it the first country music artist to have the number one debut single on all three charts, as well as the first country music artist to have a single debut spending more than a week at position number one in the last two publications. Diffie co-wrote the second and fourth releases of the album, "If You Want Me To" and "New Way (To Light the Old Fire)"; both of which reached number two on Billboards, and the first reached number one on the country music charts RPM in Canada. Between these two songs, "If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)" becomes Diffie's second number of Billboard . The album itself peaked at number 23 on the Top Country Album. Diffie also performed her first concert in late 1990, touring alongside George Strait and Steve Wariner. That same year, the Cash Box magazine named him Male Vocalist this year. In 1991, Diffie co-wrote the song "Livin 'on What's Left of Your Love" and "Memory Lane" on Keith Palmer's debut album label.
1992: Joe Regular
Diffie's second album, titled Regular Joe , was released in 1992 and certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. The first two singles from her second album peaked at number five on Billboard: "Is It Cold in Here" and "Ships That Do not Come In", with the latter reaching number one on Radio & amp; Recordings . The album's third single, "Next Thing Smokin", made its chart debut one month before "Not Too Much to Ask", a duet Diffie recorded with Mary Chapin Carpenter for her album Come On Come On. Both of these songs made the Top 20 countries, reaching sixteen and fifteen, and the duo were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals at the 35th Grammy Awards in 1993. The last single from Regular Joe is "Startin 'Over Blues" (originally B-side for "Ships That Do not Come In"), which peaked at number 41. Also included in the album is a ballad "Goodnight Sweetheart", then Top 10 hit states on in 1996 for David Kersh.
Brian Mansfield gave a positive review album on Allmusic, saying that it "has all the country music cliches, and all the good stuff too." Richmond Times-Dispatch reviewer Norman Rowe refers to Diffie as "a pleasant surprise" and calls "Is It Cold in Here" "a teardrop tear George Jones has worked with miracles of the past". Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly thinks Diffie "[sings] in his natural voice," but thinks that the material "hits all predictable thematic buttons." 1993
1993: Honky Tonk Attitude
1993 Honky Tonk Attitude sent one million copies in the United States and got a platinum certificate. The first three singles from the album all reached the Top Ten on the single country charts: the title song (which Diffie wrote together) and Dennis Linde's "John Deere Green" compositions peaked at number five, with number three "Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die) "in between. "John Deere Green" also contributed Diffie's first appearance on Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number 69. "In My Own Backyard", the last release of Honky Tonk Attitude Fort Worth Star-Telegram that the album was "a bit more rowing than the first two." Nash rated the album better than the previous one, saying that Diffie "matured to be the first-class translator of the woes of the working class."
Also in 1993, Diffie was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. He and several other artists won this year's Country Music Association award for Vocal Event of the Year, for their guest vocals at George Jones "I Do not Need Your Rockin 'Chair". Tim McGraw also included two Diffie songs on his 1993 debut album: another version of "Memory Lane", which he released as a single, and "Tears in the Rain".
1994-1996: < i> Third Rock from the Sun , Christmas and Very Funny Life
Third Rock from the Sun is the Top Country Top Albums on the Diffie chart (where she reached number six), as well as her second consecutive platinum album. It was also the first album he produced together, doing it with Johnny Slate. The album includes two consecutive number one singles in the song title and in "Pickup Man". The last of the two songs is Diffie's longest number one song, in four weeks. Both songs also enter the Hot 100, each peaking at 84 and 60. In 2005, "Pickup Man" was repurposed by the Applebee's restaurant chain for use in television commercials. The next single album, "So Help Me Girl", peaked at number two on the country charts and 84 on the pop charts, in addition to topping the country chart RPM . The song was closed in 1997 by British singer Gary Barlow. Diffie followed the song with "I'm in Love with a Capital 'U ' " and "That Road Not Taken", each of which reached the top of nations 21 and 40. Third Rock from Sun received critical acclaim for adding more rock material and high tempo. Thom Owens writes that he started "adding more rocks" on this album, and Nash said that Diffie "not only understands the blue-collar ethic from the inside out - he's also familiar with his funny belly."
In mid-1995, he recorded the title song for Columbia Records's Runnin 'Wide Open , an album consisting of NASCAR-themed songs by various artists. He released two albums at the end of the year. The first is a Christmas project titled Mr. Christmas , which consists of a cover of traditional Christmas songs as well as newly written songs. One of the original songs, "LeRoy the Redneck Reindeer", was released as a Christmas song at the end of the year, peaking at number 33 on early release and re-entering the country music charts for the next two years based on Christmas impressions. From this album, Stephen Thomas Erlewine said, "This is fun, but not too special."
His other release that year was Life's So Funny's studio album . It's led by "Bigger Than the Beatles", the last number one of his career. The other two singles albums are "CÃ, - OÃ, - UÃ, - NÃ, - TÃ, - RÃ, - Y" and "Whole Lotta Gone" (formerly b-side "Bigger Than the Beatles"), both peaked at 23 on country music charts in 1996. Country Standard Time critic George Hauenstein praised the album for containing "songs that are slightly different from [other] singing artists." Owens thought that it was a "diverse collection of ballads and midtempo rockers", but said that it was not "consistently involved" as the Third Stone of the Sun. Nash gave C-minus the "Bigger Than the Beatles" rating, calling it "only a weak tool to raise the names of the beloved rock heroes."
1996-1998: Twice After Time and < i> Largest Hits
Twice Upon a Time was followed in 1996. The bachelors all failed to make the Top Ten on the country charts, with the lead-off "This Is Your Brain" reaching number 25, followed by "Somethin 'Like This" at number 40 and "The Promised Land" at number 61, the lowest single in his career. The album also failed to achieve gold certification. Doug Virden and Drew Womack, later recorded on Epic in the band Sons of the Desert, sang the background vocals on it. Also included in the album is "I Got a Feelin '", previously recorded by Tracy Lawrence on her 1994 album I See It Now . Jeffrey B. Remz criticized two novelty songs on Twice Upon a Time for lack of substance, and thought that most ballads were sung well, but production "has no soul." Owens says that "it does not offer anything new or so extraordinary from Joe Diffie."
In mid 1998, Epic Records released the Diffie Greatest Hits package, featuring three new pieces. Among these are "Texas Heart Sickness", and the b-sides, "Poor Me", each of which reaches number four and forty-three on the country charts. At the end of the year, Diffie recorded the cover of Charlie Rich's "Behind Closed Doors" for A Record to Tradition's multi-artist album on Columbia Records. Diffie's version of the song peaked at number 64 based on an unsolicited broadcast. He also contributed to another piece on the album, "Same Old Train", featuring Marty Stuart and eleven other country music singers. The song peaked at number 59 on the country charts and won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for all the artists involved.
1999-2000: Nights to Remember
His last album for Epic Records, titled A Night to Remember , was released in 1999. As he did with the new piece for Greatest Hits package, Diffie worked with producers Don Cook and Lonnie Wilson, a friend of Diffie who works mainly as a drummer and songwriter sessions, and previously heads Bandana band. The title of this song spent twenty-nine weeks on the country charts and peaked at number six; it was his only Top 40 on Hot 100, where he reached number 38. After this song appeared "The Quittin 'Kind" and "It's Always Somethin'Ã," each of which reached twenty-one and five on the country charts, and 90 and 57 on the Hot 100. The latter spent thirty seven weeks on the country music charts, the longest chart achieved by one of his singles.
Country Standard Time gave the album a positive review because "there was no new song in the group", and Nash wrote that it had "a surprising depth of feeling." Erlewine also noted that the album did not contain any new songs, and called it "the purest country album he ever made."
2001-2004: In the Other World and Faster than Nail
In 2001, Sony Nashville diverted the Diffie from the Epic division to the Monuments Notes division. This move is due to the company's decision that Epic has too many artists and monuments too few. Cook and Wilson also produced the only album for the Monument, titled In Another World . Regarding this album, Diffie told Billboards that the material has the same love theme, and that she wants to create a more contemporary sound through production. The album's title track peaked at number ten on the country charts and number 66 on Hot 100. Only one other single was released from the album: "This Pretender" (co-written by Rascal Flatts vocalist Gary LeVox), who failed to make country music into Top 40.
In the Other World received mixed reviews. Country Weekly Reviewer writes that Diffie "deals with adult emotions" and describes the title of the song as "the perfect resplendent ballad for its expressive tenor." William Ruhlmann calls the album a "solid state formula", and Jeffrey B. Remz of Country Standard Time says that he "easily interprets [s]" songs but "does not seem to do anything either dramatically different. "After the Monument closed its branch in Nashville, Diffie began a tour with Mark Chesnutt and Tracy Lawrence on the Rockin 'Roadhouse Tour, which began in 2002. That same year, Diffie was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.
Diffie signed a contract with independent Broken Bow Records in 2003. Her only album for the label was Tougher Than Nails, which she and Wilson were producing with Buddy Cannon. These included five songs that Diffie wrote together, as well as a duet with George Jones entitled "What Would Waylon Do". Toughher Than Nails produced a Top 20 hit on the title track, followed by "If I Could Only Bring You Back", which reached number 50 and spent only eight weeks on the charts. This last song is also his latest charting single. Erlewine said about the album's content, "nothing new, but no need", and Country Standard Time said that the album "shows that he still has the talent that took him to star in the first place."
In 2005, Jo Dee Messina released "My Give a Damn's Busted", which Diffie wrote and originally recorded on In Another World . The song's version, included in his album Delicious Surprise , is number one that year.
2004-2013: The Ultimate Collection and Homecoming
After leaving Broken Bow, Diffie went on a tour, mainly playing in smaller venues and fairgrounds. In 2007, he joined Lonestar, Charlie Daniels and Craig Morgan for a charity concert for Sgt. Kevin Downs, a soldier who was seriously wounded in Iraq. In 2008, Diffie collected and released a live album, and he signed a contract with Rounder Records that year. Rounder released an album titled The Ultimate Collection , which consisted of re-recording his hits for Epic.
The next project for Rounder, Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album , was released on October 26, 2010. It includes collaborations with The Grascals, Rhonda Vincent and other bluegrass artists. Diffie toured at various fairs in August 2010 to support her. He co-produced the album with Luke Wooten, and included the song "Tennessee Tea", which Diffie originally recorded while he was in the Special Edition. Almusic reviewers j. the poet gave the album a positive review to show the influence of Diffie bluegrass.
At the end of 2012, Jason Aldean recorded the song "1994", co-written by Thomas Rhett, Luke Laird, and Barry Dean. The song was released in February 2013 as the third single of the Aldean Night Train album, Diffie's name drops and incorporates some of her song titles into the lyrics. After hearing about the song, Diffie said that "it's really an honor" to be mentioned in the song, and it's "flattering". Later that year, Diffie collaborated with Aaron Tippin and Sammy Kershaw on the All In the Same Boat album and cut the single "Girl Riding Shotgun" with D Thrash of the Jawga Boyz.
Music styles
Steve Huey from Allmusic wrote that Diffie "lends his traditional sensitivity to the funny, rock-tinged and saddest ballads." His original album for Epic consisted mostly of ballads, but starting with Honky Tonk Attitude, he began to include more tempos and novelty figures. Starting with A Night to Remember , Diffie returned to a more ballad-oriented voice; Mike Kraski, senior vice president of sales for Sony Music Nashville, thinks that previous albums have been too stressed on the release of his novelty.
Alanna Nash regularly compares Diffie's voice with George Jones's voice. In his review of A Thousand Winding Roads , he compared the album to Mark To Too Cold at Home debut by saying, "Although Chesnutt merely took his inspiration from Jones, Diffie imitated Jones'... But now he's making his own recording, [his mock vocals] dropping him to the back of the pack, as a stylist with his own style. "He thought that Diffie was getting away from his George Jones influence on A Night to Remember . William Ruhlmann writes that Diffie "has accumulated a career of a decade plus in the country largely on his ability to succeed" in "exploring Nashville publishers for ten good compositions in an established style", and that he is "pretty but not special.
Personal life
Diffie has been married four times. His first wife was Janise Parker, whom he married in college. The couple had two children, Parker and Kara, then divorced in 1986. Parker then worked as Diffie's on-road manager in the mid-2000s, and in mid-2010, he and Kara auditioned for American Idol.. Two years after divorcing Janise, Diffie married Debbie Jones, a nursing technician. They have two sons, Drew and Tyler, the latter born with Down syndrome and nearly died in 1991 after complications from tonsillectomy. Diffie began an affair with Liz Allison, the widow of NASCAR racer Davey Allison, in 1993. In 1994, a judge ordered Diffie to pay Jones $ 3,000 a month toward their pending divorce settlement, and not let Drew and Tyler be in the presence of which girlfriend even; he divorced Jones in 1996. In 2000, Diffie married former Theresa Crump, whom he met at a concert, at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. They have one daughter, Kylie Tarissa, born in 2004. The couple divorced in 2017. Joe married Tara (Terpening) on ​​May 26, 2018 at the Musicians Hall of Fame.
From 1992 to early 2000s, Diffie held a charity concert and a lucrative golf tournament Step One, a non-profit organization for the education of mentally and physically disabled children. His contribution to this organization earned him the Humanitarian Award of State Radio Broadcasters in 1997.
Discography
Studio album
- A Thousand Winding Roads (1990)
- Regular Joe (1992)
- Honky Tonk Attitude (1993)
- The Third Stone of the Sun (1994)
- Very Funny Life (1995)
- Twice At A Time (1997)
- Evening to Remember (1999)
- In the Other World (2001)
- More Sharp From Nails (2004)
- Mudik: Bluegrass Album (2010)
- All in the Same Boat (2013)
Billboard single number one
- "Home" (1990)
- "If the Devil Sought (In Empty Pockets)" (1991)
- "Third Rock from the Sun" (1994)
- "Pickup Man" (1994)
- "Bigger Than the Beatles" (1995-1996)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
- Official website
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