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Steve Fox (musician)

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Steve Fox (musician)
Birth nameSteve Fox
OriginBrampton, Ontario, Canada
GenresCountry
OccupationSinger-songwriter
Years active1991–present
LabelsQuantum Records (1991)
True North Records (1993)
Dead Reckoning (1998)
Page Records (1999–2001)
Royalty Records (2004–present)

Steve Fox is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter based in Nashville.[1][2] He is best known for writing "Moving to a Small Town"[3] and Montgomery Gentry's hit song "Daddy Won't Sell the Farm", which went Platinum and Gold in the United States.[2] As an independent performing artist in Canada, he has toured with Kenny Rogers, opened for country stars including Dwight Yoakum and Michelle Wright, and headlined at festivals including the Calgary Stampede.[3][2] He is credited as a songwriter on many albums.[3][2] He has worked with producer and publisher Joe Scaife, as well as Cal IV Entertainment.[4][5]

In 2001, Fox won the Canadian Country Music Association's Songwriter of the Year Award.[6] He was nominated for CD of the Year for his album Small World[2] and nominated for a Juno Award for Best Male Vocalist for his 1993 album, The Days of My Youth (True North/Sony).[2]

Early life and education

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Fox grew up in a musical family in the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam, British Columbia.[7][2][8] His father John worked in radio broadcasting, while his mother Ella was an oboe player in a chamber orchestra.[8] His three brothers later pursued careers in music and acting.[8] He left Coquitlam after graduating from Centennial Secondary, and traveled through Europe and the Middle East.[2]

Career

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Fox moved to Toronto in the mid-1980s to pursue a career in music, performing and writing songs for several folk, R&B, and rockabilly bands, and working as a sound engineer.[7][2] While fronting a rockabilly band called The Tin Eddies, he got his break with a solo rock LP, Where The Blue Moon Rises.[8][9] In 1993, he had his first minor hit, The Days of My Youth, on the True North/Sony label, and was nominated for a Juno Award for Best Male Vocalist.[2] In 2001 he released Small World which went platinum and led to the notable singles "Small Town", "Cheap Red Wine" and "Couple On The Cake", a duet with Beverley Mahood, and a video featuring Leslie Nielsen. He released the album Lunch With Chet with the single "Dream On".[citation needed] He is noted for writing the Montgomery Gentry single "Daddy Won't Sell The Farm", which reached No. 13 on the Billboard music chart and No. 1 on CMT; it won the Canadian Country Music Association SOCAN song of the year award.[7] He wrote "24 X 24", recorded by Gord Bamford.[6]

Fox produced records for other artists, and released his own single, "If My Life Was a Movie" in January 2007.[citation needed]

Discography

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Studio albums

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Title Details
Steve Fox
Small World
  • Release date: July 15, 2002
  • Label: Page Records/EMI
Lunch with Chet
Harbour Town
  • Release date: September 9, 2008
  • Label: Good Spirit

Singles

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Year Single Peak positions Album
CAN Country
1999 "Why" 39 Steve Fox
"Down in the Mojave" 48
"I Just Don't Know Anymore" 23
2000 "Somebody Loves Me" *
2001 "Couple on the Cake"
(with Beverley Mahood) 		* Small World
"Movin' to a Small Town" *
2002 "Cheap Red Wine" *
"You'll Find Love" *
2003 "Everything" *
"Land of the Loved" *
2004 "Please" * Lunch with Chet
"The Road of Life" *
2005 "Dream On" *
2006 "Rewind" *
"Little Footprints" *
2007 "If My Life Was a Movie" * Harbour Town
2008 "5 Minutes" *
2009 "Don't Grow Today" *
* denotes unknown peak positions

Music videos

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Year Video Director
1999 "I Just Don't Know Anymore"
2001 "Couple on the Cake"
(with Beverley Mahood) 		Terrance Odette
"Movin' to a Small Town"
2002 "Cheap Red Wine"
2003 "Everything"
2005 "Dream On"
2006 "Rewind" Antonio Hrynchuk
"Little Footprints"

References

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  1. ^ Leblanc, Larry (April 13, 2002). "Canadian songwriters score internationally". Billboard. Retrieved June 10, 2024 – via ProQuest.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Devitt, Ron (October 19, 2002). "Coquitlam's Steve Fox making a name in Nashville". Coquitlam Now. Retrieved June 10, 2024 – via ProQuest.
  3. ^ a b c Bainas, Lexi (October 20, 2002). "The Songwriters: Three talents present their music and the stories behind their music". Cowichan Valley Citizen. Retrieved June 10, 2024 – via ProQuest.
  4. ^ "'Songwriters' to perform at the Tidemark". Courier-Islander. October 2, 2002. Retrieved June 10, 2024 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ Stark, Phyllis (August 18, 2001). "Nashville scene". Billboard. Retrieved June 10, 2024 – via ProQuest.
  6. ^ a b North, Peter (January 24, 2001). "With a little help from his friends ...: Gord Bamford releases new album Thursday night". Edmonton Journal. Retrieved June 10, 2024 – via ProQuest.
  7. ^ a b c Currie, Harry (February 23, 2001). "Writing his ticket; Steve Fox's songs have made it big, now it's his turn". The Record. Kitchener, Ontario. Retrieved June 10, 2024 – via ProQuest.
  8. ^ a b c d Srivener, Leslie (January 7, 1990). "Just when you think you've got the Fox boys sorted out, they pop up in another guise. They're foxy that way - but always entertaining Crazy like a fox". Toronto Star. Retrieved June 10, 2024 – via ProQuest.
  9. ^ Erskine, Evelyn (April 27, 1990). "Vega still special in mystical way". The Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved June 10, 2024 – via ProQuest.
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