Steve’s Country number 1

HIT COUNTRY COUNTRY SONG FOR STEVE BROWN

Iain Ferguson Arisaig musician Steve Brown must have entertained tens of thousands of people in his 30-year career. As part of Wonderland, he has played at countless special occasions across the country and across the world on a number of instruments and musical styles.

Now he can add an additional accolade to his list – top of the Country Music Charts with a track entitled One Hit Song – and as with many popular country songs this one has an unusual back story of how it came to exist.

This dates back to the Covid lockdown with a chance link up on a virtual song-writing ‘boot camp’, where Glasgow songwriter Barbara Cooper was online. She and Steve hit it off immediately and he did think at the time that maybe they would work together some day.

Fortunately that day was not far off as Barbara had largely put the song together with an American artist in the virtual group and sent a draft to a studio in Nashville who rated it five stars.

She said: “I was feeling enthusiastic about songwriting as I went for a walk that morning and had been thinking I would like to have a hit song just once. My mind started humming a tune and into my head came the line, ‘One hit song before I die’. I was picturing a bunch of old guys who had played in bands meeting up for a drink and one of them saying this was the one thing in life he hadn’t done.”

A few weeks later Barbara and Steve met up again when she joined Steve on his music producer’s song-writing group. When Steve heard the song he instantly loved it and offered to add some finishing touches – tweak the lyrics, add a guitar solo, mandolin and lead vocals plus backing vocals by a few other international song-writing peers, and some seasonal sleigh bells!

A new song was born as Steve Brown’s debut country single – ONE HIT SONG. After just a single announcement online, Steve was contacted by the Grand Ole Opry in Glasgow with an offer for him to play it live at the iconic venue – and debuted in front of a packed house.

Steve said: “I had one free Saturday night and it just happened to be when they asked me down. It was a tremendous experience and it was a great success.

“It is an amazing song which proved itself in the chart rating and a great success for everyone involved. What a story of it production, too, with such a series of chance meetings online.

“You could say the stars aligned on this. Thanks to everyone who bought it and it is still available to stream and download.” STREAM & DOWNLOAD ‘ONE HIT SONG’ by Steve Brown MP3 & WAV https://s.disco.ac/nhbaaogsoozd Download Steve Brown EPK https://s.disco.ac/hypkbobmxjaz

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