LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Luck Media & Marketing) - With the trail from Oklahoma to Nashville blazed by icons like Garth Brooks, Vince Gill,
Toby Keith and
Blake Shelton, upstart country artists from the Sooner
State have a helluva lot to live up to. Only time will tell just how much Shane Wyatt (www.shanewyatt.com) will add to the lore of legendary Okies, but the multi-talented singer/songwriter is already staking a pretty good claim, riding high and wild on the initial success of his independent debut album The Last Cowboy, in which he wrote all of the songs.
Touching hearts and scooting boots with songs inspired by modern traditionalists like George Strait and country rocker Jason Aldean, Wyatt is enjoying great grass roots success with his first single, 'The Big Bad Dog,' which is receiving airplay on major stations in Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota, Wyatt's adopted home state.
Wyatt is taking 'The Big Bad Dog' across the U.S. with its inclusion on a CDX subscription disc (volume 452, released July 7th) going out to over 2,000 country stations nation-wide. A big time line dance has been created around the song by Nashville's famed Jamie Marshall-creator of dance sensations 'Bomshel Stomp' and Big & Rich's 'Save A Horse, Ride A Cowboy'-quickly inspiring a craze in dance clubs nation-wide.
A fan of Aldean's 2007 hit album Relentless, the singer contacted producer Michael Knox, in turn hooked him up with Mike Noble, the studio coordinator for the Aldean project whose songs have been recorded by George Jones, Kenny Rogers, and Brooks & Dunn.
Noble brought in some of Nashville's top 'session cats': drummer Shawn Fichter (Trisha Yearwood), bassist Jimmy Carter (Dierks Bentley, Tim McGraw), guitarist Mike Durham (McGraw, Dave Matthews), fiddler Glen Duncan (Shania Twain, Kenny Chesney), pedal steel guitarist Russ Pahl (Rascal Flatts, Trace Adkins) and backing vocalist Thom Flora (George Strait).
Among Wyatt's upcoming gigs is Firefest 2008 with superstar Joe Nichols in Cold Spring, Minnesota, raising money for local firefighters.
