Royal wade kimes biography

Kimes was the last cowboy to ride the Ark/Ok.
Royal Wade Kimes is an American country music singer.
Royal Wade Kimes spent a decade as a professional songwriter in Nashville before he released his debut album, Another Man's Sky, in 1996.

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Royal Wade Kimes

American country music singer (born 1951)

Musical artist

Royal Wade Kimes (born March 3, 1951) is an American country music singer.

Biography

Kimes was the last cowboy to ride the Ark/Ok. border country, running cattle on the open range. He and his father ran a sawmill until he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1983. He also worked at Loretta Lynn's dude ranch and later began recording demos through the encouragement of Eddy Arnold. Kimes also wrote the cut "We Bury the Hatchet" on Garth Brooks' album Ropin' the Wind, and signed with Asylum Records in 1996. The label released the single "Leave My Mama Out Of This",^[1] followed by his debut album Another Man's Sky.^[3]

Following Leave My Mama Out Of This was the album's title track, which was made into a music video.^[4] The album's third single, "Guardian Angel", received a positive review in Billboard, which called it "country to the core" and praised Kimes as a "talented songwriter".^[5] After Kimes left Asylum, he began recording for Wonderment Recor

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First Published in Country Music International, February 1997

Writing songs for Garth Brooks and recording your own album certainly beats sleeping rough and selling cars for a living. As Royal Wade Kimes recently discovered.

Arkansas singer-songwriter Royal Wade Kimes is probably best-known as the co-writer of Garth Brooks’s We Bury The Hatchet, one of the quirkiest songs Brooks has ever recorded and probably the most traditional-sounding track on his multi-million selling ROPIN’ THE WIND album. But that song’s success also helped drag Kimes from the point of near starvation to the brink of that all-important breakthrough as a country star in his own right with the recent release of his first album, ANOTHER MAN’S SKY.

Compared with the majority of country records you’re likely to hear on American radio nowadays Kimes sticks out like the proverbial sore thumb. His voice is full of character as an old pickup truck and as comfortable as your favourite flannel shirt. He doesn’t just sing and write about life’s trials and tribulations—he's lived through them and survived.

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