Radney Foster

Radney Foster first gained attention in the late ’80s as half of the rocking country duo Foster & Lloyd (who, with “Crazy Over You” became the first duo in history to top the Country charts with their debut single). But it was his 1992 solo debut, Del Rio, TX 1959, released on the upstart record label Arista Nashville, that really established his standing as one of the most successful (and respected) Texas singer-songwriters of the last three decades. Hailed by noted author and country music historian Peter Cooper as “an album that mines the personal to unearth the universal,” Del Rio produced four consecutive Top 40 country hits: “Just Call Me Lonesome,” “Nobody Wins,” “Easier Said Than Done,” and “Hammer and Nails.” The record had a huge impact on a new generation of troubadours back in Foster’s native Texas, too, as can clearly be heard in the music of artists like Pat Green and the Randy Rogers Band, and Foster would go on to release several more acclaimed albums, including 2017’s For You to See the Stars (which was accompanied by a book of short fiction by the same name.) All along the way, he’s also had no small amount of success with landing cuts on albums by some of the big

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