When you think about country music in the ’90s, few bands fit the bill better than Sawyer Brown, but these mullet-sporting pioneers are far from acid-washed up.
Scoring memorable number-one hits like “Some Girls,” their fusion of country tradition and wild-eyed rock energy shook crowds like no one else, helping ignite a fire that still burns in the genre today. But while the band eventually came to define the ’90s, Sawyer Brown actually emerged in 1983 as the first group to ever win. Their self-titled album debut came the very next year, and now, after parlaying that “15 minutes of fame into 40 years,”
