Blanco Brown and Jerrod Niemann

Originally from Harper Kansas, Niemann, (born July 24th 1979) built up his career with a lot of hard grafting and dedication. He competed in talent competitions at a very young age. He enrolled at the South Plains College in Levelland, Texas, on an Arts degree. He developed his sound playing in clubs and bars, gaining residencies as the Stockyard Saloon and the White Elephant Saloon. It was in 1999 that he decided to released his own debut album “Long Hard Road”, before moving to Nashville, Tennessee in September 2000. It was in his new home that he signed an artist management deal with Mercury Records, but didn’t release anything with them. Following this, he would go on to touring across the country, and then to Europe with the band, Kane, which featured the members, Steve Carlson and Christian Kane.

He was fortunate enough to sign with Arista Nashville’s Sea Gayle division, which was co-owned by Brad Paisley in 2010. He went on to release his debut single “Lover, Lover” in early 2010, which was originally a number one single in Australia in 1992. It went onto become Niemann’s first top 40 single in the country music charts, making it to number one. The album that this single featured on, “Judge Jerrod & the Hung Jury” made it to number 7 in the country charts and number 7 in the US Charts. Out of this album also spawned “What Do You Want” which made it to number 4 and “One More Drinkin’ Song” which made it to number 13.

Niemann’s following album “Free the Music”, released on October 2nd, 2012, made it to number 9 on the US Country chart, which features a track on the album which is a duet with Colbie Caillat, called “All About You”. The highest charting song was “Shinin’ on Me” which reached number 17 on the US Country Chart. Niemann’s fifth studio album, “High Noon” was released on March 25th 2014, and features his second number one hit “Drink to That All Night”. The album itself made it to number 3 in the Country Charts.