Why Country Music Fans Are Going Crazy Over Billy Currington!
Although he’s on the Country Music scene since 2001, Billy Currington is now starting to get his due of popularity that he deserves.
3 Albums, 3 Number One Singles, and 8 top 40 Hits later Billy Currington is starting to become a household name in the country music genre.
Billy Currington fell in love with country music at very early age, and credits his step father for that. Marrying his mother when Billy was just 1 years old, Larry Currington would go on to play some of the best and most influential music that a young country boy from Rincon, GA can get.
Artists like Kenny Rogers, Willy Nelson, and the Gatlin Brothers went on to shape Billy’s country flavor that we here today…that and some Gospel music that Billy heard and participated in with his church as a teen.
His stepfather unfortunately went on to battle alchoholism, and created some turmoil for the family, but Billy still credits him as having a big positive influence in his life. However, when he was just 12 Billy began to pen the single that many people fell in love with, and resonated with “Walk a Little Straighter”.
With his love of country music, Billy had the big dream of making it big in Nashville, so he did what any red-blooded boy with a dream would do and took off to Nashville straight out of high school.
Unfortunately that first trip didn’t work out, but Billy didn’t come home with his tail between his legs, he came back home to Georgia and started playing his music in the local bars honing his craft, which would eventually serve him well.
He later returned to Nashville, insistent on making it, and did everything he had to in order to stay there. He worked for a concrete company to pay rent and bills in the beginning. When that began taking too much of his time … Billy quit that job at the urging of fellow songwriters, and instead became a personal trainer.
That job would become a blessing in disguise, when one of his clients turned out to work for a song publishing company. He got Billy to record some demos, shopped them around, and before you knew it Billy Currington music was being heard by the people who count at Mercury Nashville Records, and in 2001 he was signed to the label.
