Little Texas Biography

Little Texas Biography

 Little Texas is an American country music band founded in Arlington, Texas in 1988 by Tim Rushlow (lead vocals) and Brady Seals (lead vocals, background vocals, keyboards), Del Gray (drums), Porter Howell (lead guitar), Dwayne O'Brien (rhythm guitar), and Duane Propes (bass guitar). Signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1991, Little Texas released its debut album First Time For Everything that year; the album's lead off single, "Some Guys Have All the Love", reached a peak of #8 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. Little Texas continued to produce hit singles throughout the mid-1990s, including the Number One single "My Love", and Top Ten hits in "You and Forever and Me" (1992), "What Might Have Been" (1993), "God Blessed Texas" (1993), "Kick a Little" (1994), "Amy's Back in Austin" (1995) and "Life Goes On" (1995). Seals departed in 1995, with Jeff Huskins succeeding him on keyboards. After four albums and a Greatest Hits package, the group disbanded in 1997, with Rushlow also pursuing a solo career. By 2004, the four remaining original members — Gray, Howell, O'Brien, and Propes, along with newly-selected lead vocalist Steven Troy — re-established the group. Troy departed in 2006, with Howell taking over on lead vocals. Under the four piece lineup of Gray, Howell, O'Brien and Propes, the band has recorded two albums for Montage Music Group.

 The band played at venues across the United States (around 300 dates a year) where it caught the attention of Nashville's division of Warner Bros. Records. Warner Bros. signed Little Texas in 1989, and a couple of years later, the band released its first album, First Time For Everything. The album spawned five singles that landed on the Billboard country singles chart. In 1993, Little Texas released its second album, Big Time. Big Time was Little Texas' biggest selling album of their career, selling more than three million copies. It spawned three Top 5 singles, a Top 15, and the band's only No. 1 record with My Love, which was sung as a lead vocal by Brady. 1994 saw the release of Little Texas's third album, Kick a Little. It spawned three more singles in the Billboard country chart. However, just weeks before the release of Kick a Little, Brady left Little Texas to pursue a solo career. His peak at solo success would come in early 1997 with the single "Another You, Another Me", which peaked at #32. Brady was replaced by Jeff Huskins, who had previously played in country singer Clint Black's backing band. Little Texas soldiered on with a greatest-hits album, and a self-titled album that was released in 1997. That same year, however, the band split up after a New Year's Eve performance at the Cookeville, TN nightclub Cotton Eyed Joe. During Little Texas' hiatus, Tim Rushlow had one Top 10 hit as a solo act. Little Texas briefly brought Steven Troy to the front as lead singer. After his departure, guitarist Porter Howell (who had not previously been one of the band's vocalists) took over as lead singer. The album Missing Years was released in June of 2007.