Country star Steve Wariner is branching out. His bluegrass collaboration with dobro virtuoso Phil Leadbetter debuted at No. 10 on the Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay Chart last week (Oct. 17) and his song with Australian duo O'Shea is currently moving up the charts down under, according to EB Media.
Leadbetter's new single, "Hole in the Earth" - featuring Wariner on lead vocals - was written by Wariner and Shane Keister. The song is on Leadbetter's just-released new album "The Next Move" Leadbetter is the 2014 International Bluegrass Music Association's Dobro Player of the Year.
Down in Austrailia, Wariner can be found on The Music Network's "Official Australian Airplay Country Top 20 Chart," where he joins Australian duo O'Shea on the song "Bad Day Good" which is at No. 11 and rising (as of the Oct. 9-15 chart). Wariner co-wrote the song with Mark and Jay O'Shea, and also appears in the music video, which is currently at No. 4 on Australia's Country Music Channel's "Top 50 Chart."
Wariner is a four-time Grammy and CMA Award-winning artist who dominated country music radio in the '80s and '90s with 14 No. 1 songs and more than 30 Top 10 hits, including such classics as "Holes in the Floor of Heaven," "Life's Highway," "The Weekend," "I'm Already Taken," "I Got Dreams," "Small Town Girl," "Two Teardrops," "Some Fools Never Learn," and "Lynda."
Wariner's most recent album is "It Ain't All Bad," featuring 12 songs written or co-written by the Grand Ole Opry member. His classic instrumental album, "My Tribute to Chet Atkins," featuring the Grammy Award-winning track "Producer's Medley," was recently re-released in all 633 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store locations.
