The Black Crowes
released Shake Your Money Maker.
Done Henley gets down to the Heart
Of The Matter.
Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly and Chris "Daddy Mac" Smith,
better known as Kris
Kross were discovered at the Greenbriar Mall in
Atlanta in 1991 by Jermaine
Dupri.
March 1992, NBC announced Branford
Marsalis will take over as Music Director and
Arranger for "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
Country artists, Marty Stuart,
and Alan Jackson,
brought new fans to country music.
Chris Whitley's debut
album, Living With The Law, was
acclaimed by both critics and the popular press.
Entertainment Weekly names this as one of the "100
must-have rock albums."
In
1993, just under 23 percent of U.S. households had
computers, and a negligible number accessed the
Internet with early browsers, searching a mere 600
websites.
Sheryl Crow
was born and raised in a small town in Southeastern
Missouri and grew up listening to music from
Memphis. A&M Records released her Tuesday
Night Music Club in 1993.
Isaac Tigrett from Jackson,
Tennessee, opened the first House Of Blues in 1993.
Outkast,
consisting of Atlanta-based rappers André "3000"
Benjamin and Antwan "Big Boi" Patton released their
debut album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
in 1994.
Collective
Soul from Stockbridge, Georgia, hit the big
time in the Spring of 1994 with their hit single
"Shine."
In 1994, Hootie and the
Blowfish released Cracked Rear View.
Hell
Freezes Over.
According to the Record Industry
Association of America, 35% of all compact disc,
cassettes, music videos, and LPs sold in the U.S. in
1995 were purchased in the Southern region of the
United States.
D'Angelo's
debut studio album, Brown Sugar
was released in 1995.
Little Richard, B. B. King, Wynton
Marsalis, Al Green, and other musicians performed
during the three-hour ceremony of a massive "Southern
Jamboree" jam session to close the 1996 Summer
Olympics in Atlanta.
After the release of their 1996
self-titled debut album, it didn’t take long for
Nashville’s groundbreaking country band BR5-49 to move beyond
the thriving "Lower Broadway" music scene.
The Austin, Texas trio known as Fastball
release their 1998 album All
the Pain Money Can Buy.
Yourself Or
Someone Like You, the debut album
from Grammy-nominated matchbox20.
"Blood on the Fields" by Wynton
Marsalis, premiered on January 28, 1997 at
Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut. Mr. Marsalis wins the Pulitzer
Prize for music.
Lyle Lovett
won the 1997 Grammy Award for Best
Country Album.
Fourteen-year-old LeAnn Rimes' debut
record, "Blue," entered Billboard's country chart at
number 49, making Rimes the youngest country singer
to debut that high.
Erykah Badu released Baduizm
and LIVE in 1997
Ben Folds Five, Deana
Carter, Junior Brown
and The Squirrel Nut
Zippers hit the road in 1997.
Rounder Records released The Alan
Lomax "Collection Sampler" ...the most
sweeping portrait ever assembled of American
vernacular music . . . (Elijah Wald, Boston
Globe), . . .Alan Lomax, one of the secret
shapers of 20th-century culture . . . (New
York Times).
Feb 10, 1997--Westinghouse Electric
Corporation (NYSE: WX) and Gaylord
Entertainment Company (NYSE: GET) announced a
definitive agreement whereby Westinghouse will
acquire, through a plan of merger, Gaylord
Entertainment's two major cable networks
TNN: The Nashville Network and CMT:
Country Music Television.
Rapper,
singer, songwriter, record producer Missy
Elliott launched her solo career in 1997 with
her debut album Supa Dupa Fly.
Southern Culture On
The Skids released Plastic Seat Sweat
in 1997.
Work
on the script for O
Brother, Where Art Thou? began in
December 1997.
Southern Music
Network streamed the first live internet
broadcast from Sun Studio at 706 Union Avenue
in Memphis, Tennessee on August 15, 1997.
The '98 Grammys - Aretha
Franklin stepped in at the last instant for
ailing opera star Luciano Pavarotti and blew
everybody away with "Nessun dorma", the hero's
big aria from Puccini's Turandot.
Master P made Forbes
list of Top 40 Entertainers
Shawn Mullins-
After grinding it out for years, his song Lullaby
finally caught the attention of 99X, an influential
Atlanta "new rock"-format radio station.
Columbia Records signed Mullins and re-released his
CD, Soul's Core.
Dixie Chicks
debut disc, Wide Open Spaces, was declared
quadruple platinum indicative of over four million
albums sold.
Britney
Spears' . . . Baby One More Time was
one of 1999s biggest-selling pop albums.
1999 - Lucinda
Williams wins the Grammy for "Best
Contemporary Folk Album" Car
Wheels On A Gravel Road. #1 in "Village
Voice" pop critics poll! "4 1/2 Stars" -
Rolling Stone "Album of the year" - Spin
Cosimo
Matassa's J&M Recording Studio was
designated as a historic landmark.
