History Music / Lonestar

* ShoutOut: Several in "No News" in the list of potential excuses: "...on the road with Music/PearlJam, buried with the Music/GratefulDead, came back as a [[Music/JimmyBuffett Parrothead]]." The edited version also has "playing guitar with Music/TheBand."

* ShesGotLegs: "You Walked In" has the line "You walked in with legs up to your neck."

* ShoutOut: Haley & Michaels released a song in 2014 called "Just Another Love Song", which heavily references "Amazed" and features Richie singing its chorus.
** Several in "No News" in the list of potential excuses: "...on the road with Music/PearlJam, buried with the Music/GratefulDead, came back as a [[Music/JimmyBuffett Parrothead]]." The edited version also has "playing guitar with Music/TheBand."

* VocalEvolution: Not unlike Music/RascalFlatts frontman Gary [=LeVox=] seven years later, Richie [=McDonald=] became increasingly theatrical and whiny over the years. Coincidentally, both men were brought to their histrionic levels by way of producer Dann Huff.
** John Rich became a lot more breathy and less nasal after he left Lonestar, too.

** That last line was [[Bowdlerise censored for radio]] and replaced with:\\
-->Playin' guitar with the band...

* {{Bowdlerize}}: In "No News", "Joined a cult, Joined the Klan" became "playing guitar with the band".

It was their 1999 release "Amazed" that brought them to fame. The song, which spent 8 weeks at #1 on the country charts, also became the first country song to top the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 since "Islands in the Stream" by Music/KennyRogers and Music/DollyParton in 1983. Lonestar's hot streak continued through the corresponding album ''Lonely Grill'' and on through ''I'm Already There'' plus ''From There to Here: Greatest Hits'' and ''Let's Be Us Again'', but their momentum slumped from 2005 onward. Between 2007 and 2011, [=McDonald=] left for a solo career, with Cody Collins (who formerly fronted a short-lived band called [=McAlyster=]) taking over before [=McDonald=] returned.

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** "Tell Her" was completely re-recorded for the single version. The original is a subuded, nearly-acoustic ballad, but the radio edit is a string-drenched PowerBallad which has a key change as well.
** "I'm Already There" had a "Message from Home" remix that spliced in calls placed by family members of soldiers serving overseas (and muted the line "I'll gently kiss your lips / touch you with my fingertips").

* ShoutOut: Haley & Michaels released a song in 2014 called "Just Another Love Song", which heavily references "Amazed". Near the end, Richie sings the chorus to "Amazed" over the song's chorus.

A CountryMusic band who, as their name indicates, hails from Texas. The band initially comprised Richie [=McDonald=] (lead vocals), Keech Rainwater (drums), John Rich (lead and background vocals, bass), Dean Sams (keyboards, background vocals), and Michael Britt (lead guitar, background vocals). Both Rainwater and Britt had previously performed in another band called Canyon. In TheNineties, Lonestar had modest success with their first two albums, including the #1 hits "No News" and "Come Cryin' to Me". Shortly after the second album, Rich was fired, and they continued as a quartet, using a road band and session bassist to cover up Rich's absence.

* BreakupBreakout: Double-subverted by John Rich. His first releases after leaving Lonestar went nowhere, but he had a couple hits with Big Kenny as the duo Big & Rich, and became a prolific songwriter/producer after having out-of-the-box success in both capacities for Gretchen Wilson.

*** Oddly, their GreatestHitsAlbum has both versions of "I'm Already There" and the bowdlerized radio version of "No News", but the album version of "Tell Her".