30 - The Prince George Citizen - Friday, March 24, 1995 E ntertainment COUNTRY SUPERSTAR NEAL MCCOY Singer went from lawnmowers to applause

By NEIL DAVIDSON me at all, trust me. Matter of fact I more about me or the business, I’ll If you have any comments or wish she would every once in a put it that way.” suggestions about the music scene, TORONTO (CP) — Before the while,” he said with a laugh. you can contact Neil Davidson on hits, country singer Neal McCoy Q uickFacts “But w e’ve been married 14 ------the Internet at neilcp(at)io.org or measured his days in different years, ain’t much excites her any via CompuServe at 76543,1766. ways. Canadian Press “When I first started I was sell­ ing ladies’ shoes and I did that for A look at country singer Neal McCoy: about three years,” the lanky Texan AGE: 36. recalled. HOME TOWN: Longview, Texas. “Then I went to land surveying, FAMILY: Married with two kids. did that for about three years. And BAKGROUND: Parents met in Manila while his father was on the last probably four years before military duty in the Philippines. F R E E i m I got completely into music, I had REAL NAME: Neal McGaughey. my own lawn business, mowing SPONSORS: Include Wrangler jeans. yards. QUOTE: “They decided 'Well, I tell you what. From now on “That was a great job, I actually y ’all won’t pay for any more Wranglers.’” — McCoy explaining liked that a lot.” how Wrangler decided to sponsor his band after learning they afl Music pays the bills now, thanks wore Wrangler jeans. to McCoy’s 1994 breakthrough album No Doubt About It. It pro­ A gift for you duced three hit singles (No Doubt About It, Wink and The City Put with Atlantic Records. it all until I heard 'I love you’ with the Country Back In Me) and sold McCoy, 36, does not write hisa drawl, y’all,” McCoy sings. some 700,000 copies, including own material. But many of his At six foot one, often clad in more than 50,000 in Canada. songs come in the form of stories. tight jeans and neatly pressed shirt, His new album, You Gotta Love Others are just good-time tunes, McCoy has become a bit of a sex That!, is doing well out of the gate, like the infectious Twang on You symbol. But McCoy says his wife and your baby with th*e first single, For a Change, Gotta Love That! keeps him honest. currently sitting at No. 2 in Canada. “I thought I had just about heard “Because she doesn’t make over It’s gratifying, if a little mystify­ ing for McCoy, coming on the from Canada Safeway and The Prince George Citizen heels of his first two albums which sold a modest 30,000 copies com­ bined. 0V E “I think the songs were chosen a little bit more to fit me instead of me trying to fit the songs than on opting h o ® the previous two (albums),” he said this week during a stop in Toronto. “But there’s just so much involved. n show . . . It’s just one of those timing things, I don’t know that it’s that much better.” Bom in east Texas, McCoy says he always knew music was his call­ ing. But it didn’t really lead any­ where until 1981 when he won a talent show in Dallas. Singer Jane Fricke was one of the judges and she introduced him to Charlie Pride, who signed him to his book­ ing firm. For the next six years, McCoy opened for Pride. The two usually Coming... just played weekends, allowing March 24th, 25th, 26th, 1995 McCoy to keep his day job. “I really didn’t know what I PRINCE GEORGE CIVIC CENTRE wanted to sing as a living, but when I got the opportunity to meet Charlie Pride and get in with that, I Featured Displays by ------definitely decided country was Art Knapp Plantland & Spruce Capital Lawn & Garden where it was at,” he said. “That’s where I had my foot in the door.” 5 .5 H P Y a r d m a n CAS U A I Lim it e d e d it io n p r in t - sleeper $500.00 C in C ertificate t o w a r d s Six years later, McCoy decided BAGGER LAWN MOWER FLIGHT’ RY DEAN MOUISEY THE PURCHASE O f ANY SPA atfnpJinicnunI compliments of compliments of to strike out on his own and eventu­ Spruce Capital Lawn & Garden Manor House Gallery Leisure Time Spa Ltd. ally landed a recording contract FREE 7 DAY ACCOMODATIONS FOR 3 O n e o f fifteen H ale I r w in s G o l f Pu t t in g G a m e ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD GOLFER'S PASSPORTS compliments of ' (D on not include air (art) compliments of Ace Master Golf Accessories compliments of Fairway Marketing Global Marketing

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