Randy Rogers Band's 'Rollercoaster', released in 2004, continues to influence Texas country music, 20 years on. This is the album's oral history.
The Randy Rogers Band today. Twenty years ago they released the influential album 'Rollercoaster,' which they revisit with a new anniversary edition.Within a year of the LP’s Aug. 24, 2004, release, the record had taken the band from a life of scraping by in Texas dive bars and underpaying opening-act slots to the pinnacle of thechanged the trajectory of the group and of a state’s country music scene.
Rogers was born in Cleburne, Texas, and claims San Marcos as home. He grew up immersed in the outlaw-bent, independent country music from the Lone Star State. One of his favorite artists was Del Rio native Foster, who had found mainstream success both as part of Foster & Lloyd and as a solo artist during the heyday of Nineties country, and whose 2001 album,, became a major hit in Texas country circles.
Rogers took Foster’s advice to heart and came back with more — and better — songs. The two also co-wrote “Somebody Take Me Home” and “Tonight’s Not the Night ” for the record. Of the 11 tracks on the album, Rogers wrote or co-write nine of them. Richardson wrote “Ten Miles Deep” and the late Kent Finlay penned “They Call It the Hill Country.”, released the same year. “Tonight’s Not the Night” was another Canada co-write that made it onto Ragweed’salbum.
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