From There to Here: Greatest Hits

Performer: Lonestar (Country)
Artist: Matt Rollings
Engineer: David Hall; Jed Hackett; Jeff Balding; Mark Hagen
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Lonestar: Richie, Keech, Dean, Michael. Additional personnel includes: Matt Rollings (keyboards). Producers: Dann Huff, Don Cook, Wally Wilson. "My Front Porch Looking In" was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. Personnel: John Willis (acoustic guitar); Dann Huff, Michael Britt (electric guitar); Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Stuart Duncan (fiddle); Dean Sams (keyboards, background vocals); Matt Rollings, Tim Akers, Jimmy Nichols (keyboards); Paul Leim (drums); Russell Terrell (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Jeff Balding. Recording information: 16th Avenue Sound; Emerald Entertainment Studios; Studio 6, San Francisco, CA; The Tracking room. Photographer: Russ Harrington. In the realm of country music, self-contained groups have never been the most common denizens of the charts, the format being much more sympathetic to solo artists and duos. However, like Alabama, Sawyer Brown, and a handful others, Lonestar has persevered to become one of the most successful acts on the country scene. This disc, a collection of their most popular songs, stands as a monument to that success. It's filled to the brim with tightly arranged, expertly performed tunes that mix country, pop, and rock while maintaining just the right amount of twang. Lonestar's not afraid of a little bar-room boogie, as on "You Walked In," or a bit of post-Eagles country pop ("Everything's Changed"). However, they're also proficient in the power-ballad area, as exemplified on picture-perfect radio bait like "Amazed," "I'm Already There" (which in another era could have been an Air Supply hit), and the previously unreleased, spiritually oriented "I Pray."

The five-piece band Lonestar honed its country/soft-rock sound in America's bars and clubs for years before releasing their hit 1996 major-label debut. After bass player John Rich left the group for a solo career, Lonestar continued as a quartet, and released a second successful CD. But it was the band's third album LONELY GRILL that made them unlikely superstars. In 1998 Rich re-emerged as one half of the genre-bending, chart-topping duo Big & Rich.

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