Mission Temple Fireworks Stand

Performer: Sawyer Brown
Engineer: Sam Hewitt; Dale Oliver; John Lewis; Sam Hewitt
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Sawyer Brown: Shayne Hill (guitar, background vocals); Joe Smyth (drums); Hobie Hubbard (background vocals); Mark Miller , Jim Scholten. Personnel: Hobie Hubbard (vocals, keyboards); Mark Miller (vocals); Jim Scholten (bass guitar); Joe "Curley" Smyth (drums). Additional personnel: Joe Erkman (guitar). Audio Mixer: Jeff Balding. Recording information: The Sound Kitchen Franklin TN; Zoo Studio, Franklin TN. Photographer: Marina Chavez. Sawyer Brown crank up the volume on 2005's MISSION TEMPLE FIREWORKS STAND, angling for a sound that owes more to cowboy-hat-wearing country rock than it does to the mainstream country-pop the band is usually associated with. The title track, a boogie-fueled, gospel-inspired rave-up, suggests that Sawyer Brown have taken a decisive step toward the rough-and-ready, a notion confirmed by their punchy cover of the Georgia Satellites' "Keep Your Hands to Yourself." Still evident are the band's pop sensibility (the country ballad "They Don't Understand") and their sentimental story-songs ("With You Daddy"), but the wild and wooly guitar-fueled antics add a welcome balance to this veteran band's country style.

One of the most successful pop-country groups to emerge in the wake of Alabama, Sawyer Brown found its first taste of national success as the Grand Prize Winner of the 1983 season of Ed McMahon's televised talent show, STAR SEARCH. With a smooth, southern rock-influenced sound that set a template for many "new country" acts of the 1990s, the Nashville-based quintet's releases consistently remained near the top of the charts for two decades. Equally adept at heartache ballads and peppy dance numbers, Sawyer Brown framed lead singer Mark Miller's warm vocals with music that, while mellow, never lost sight of the group's pure country roots.

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