Little Texas

Signed to Warner Bros. Records Nashville in 1991, Little Texas released its debut album First Time for Everything that year.

Under the four-piece lineup, the band has recorded two albums for Montage Music Group: The Very Best of Little Texas: Live and Loud and Missing Years.

Prior to the band's formation, Tim Rushlow and Dwayne O'Brien began playing together in Arlington, Texas, in 1984.

Porter Howell and Duane Propes got together while they were in high school in 1983 and moved to Nashville to attend Belmont University.

Brady Seals and Del Gray played in the backup band of country music singer Josh Logan.

[1] Rushlow, O'Brien, Propes, and Howell first started making music at Opryland as a 1950s show band.

When two of the members left to pursue other interests, they contacted their old friends Gray and Seals, whom they had met while playing in Springfield, Massachusetts, in hopes of forging a more country/Southern rock sound.

The band played at venues across the United States (around 300 dates a year), eventually catching the attention of Nashville's division of Warner Bros. Records.

Warner Bros. signed Little Texas in 1989, and two years later, the band released their debut single "Some Guys Have All the Love".

After it came "God Blessed Texas" and their only number 1 hit on Billboard, "My Love", both of which were also minor Hot 100 entries.

The rendition featured O'Brien on lead vocals, with Denny Dadmun-Bixby of Great Plains on bass guitar and no involvement from Seals.

[1] Huskins made his first appearance on "Life Goes On" and "Country Crazy", two new tracks that the band recorded for their 1995 Greatest Hits.

Former frontman Tim Rushlow signed to Atlantic Records as a solo artist that same year, releasing a self-titled album.

In addition, Howell recorded one album in the band Hilljack, which also included former solo artist Paul Jefferson.

[4] Duane Propes, Del Gray, Porter Howell, and Dwayne O'Brien decided to reunite Little Texas in 2004.

[6] However, O'Brien was critical of Troy's performance as lead singer, stating that it "just didn't feel authentic"; as a result, he exited the band in 2006.

[7] By the time the band had signed to Montage Music Group in 2007, producers for the label had suggested that Howell take over on lead vocals instead.

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