Joe Nichols Biography

Joe Nichols Biography

 Joe Nichols is an American country music singer-songwriter. At age twenty, he made his debut in 1996 with a self-titled album on the independent Intersound label. However, it was not until the release of his 2002 single "The Impossible" that Nichols gained recognition, as well as critical acclaim for his neotraditionalist country style. The single, which peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, was followed by the release of his platinum-certified second album, Man With a Memory; this album also produced the Number One single "Brokenheartsville". Nichols followed up Man with a Memory in 2004 with Revelation (which included the Top Ten hit "If Nobody Believed in You"), and an album of Christmas music entitled A Traditional Christmas. His fourth album, 2005's gold-certified III, produced his biggest hit to date in the Number One single "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off". In 2007, Nichols released the album Real Things, which produced the Top 20 hits "Another Side of You" and "It Ain't No Crime".

 Through a meeting with record producer Randy Edwards, Nichols began to work on his singing and songwriting skills. At age twenty, he was signed to his first record deal, with an independent label known as Intersound Records. There, Joe released his first album, 1996's Joe Nichols; despite the minor success of its lead-off single "Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other", the album did not sell well, and he was dropped from Intersound's roster. A second record deal, this time with Warner Bros. Records, was short-lived, and did not produce any singles or albums.In 1999, Nichols met Brent Rowan, a Nashville session guitarist who helped Nichols land a recording contract with Universal South Records, then a newly-formed label. 2002 saw the release of his second album, entitled Man with a Memory; its lead-off single, "The Impossible", went on to become a Top Ten hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, and was declared by Billboard as the tenth most-played country song of 2003. The same year, his debut album was re-issued under the title Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other. By then a platinum-certified album in the U.S., Man with a Memory earned Nichols a Top New Male Vocalist award from the Academy of Country Music, as well as three Grammy Award nominations. Its second single, "Brokenheartsville", became his first Number One hit on the Billboard country charts in 2003, while "She Only Smokes When She Drinks" and "Cool to Be a Fool" both reached Top 20.