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Halfway To Hazard - WYCD August Artist of the Month
99.5 WYCD's featured Artist of the Month is Mercury Records hot rising country duo, Halfway To Hazard! You may have been listening to Detroit's Best Country's Dr. Don Morning Show on H2H's two recent visit to our studios! If not, you can still listen to the podcast of the show! Just click here for the Best of the Dr. Don Morning Show Audio Podcasts!
They are endearing and down-to-earth, and are turning quite a few heads as they work their way up the charts! You can hear their new single "Daisy" being played now on 99.5 WYCD!
Read below to get to know Chad and David and then watch the video clips below and see what they have to say! Or Click here to watch them introduce themselves! "What Chad and I do is just works on stage and when we put the pen to paper, because we are friends first." -David
"It's like throwing music and firecrackers into a blender, and what pours out is Halfway to Hazard."- Chad
What the critics are saying:
"Tolliver and Warrix are the Halfway to Hazard duo, so named because they hail from near that Eastern Kentucky town. Their disc debut is beyond excellent, a gripping story song with a terrific production, a fantastically cool guitar groove and super-expressive, soaring vocals. I hear stardom." - Robert K. Oermann (Music Row Magazine)
“I saw them live and was blown away, I shared their music with Tim (McGraw) and he felt the same passion." -Byron Gallimore
"These guys are the real thing, the songs are amazing, they have great energy live, and we just had a blast making the record they wanted to make." -Tim McGraw
"Country music superstar Tim McGraw looked on like a proud papa as Chad Warrix and David Tolliver ran through a few of their songs" - Susan Guyett (IndyStar.com)
The interesting story behind the making of Halfway to Hazard:
Chad Warrix and David Tolliver were raised with about 50 miles and another county between them in the southeastern end of Kentucky. Their parents are hard-working blue-collar middle-class, they both have two older sisters, they grew up in small and smaller towns, did well in school, played sports, went fishing, and jumped on dirt bikes and ATV’s every chance they got. When they were old enough to drive a car, each crossed their county line to get to Hazard, Queen City of the Mountains and, says Tolliver, “the social hub for people who grew up where we did.” Warrix concurs. “There wasn’t anything much in Jackson where I’m from, and even less in Hindman, where David’s from. But Hazard had a movie theater and several places to eat.”
Halfway to Hazard are the opening words of “Cold,” the first song David Tolliver and Chad Warrix wrote together several years after each had put Kentucky in their rear view mirror and ended up in Music City. A pain-and-booze soaked ache for love gone cold, the geographical reference to the midway point from opposite directions to the Queen City of the Mountains is one they both know well, a literal and figurative mile marker on the paths both took to become Halfway to Hazard.
A little bit country and a little bit rock and roll describes the duo, and their self-titled debut album, a richly-colored portrait of their lives set to words and music that is both deeply personal and utterly familiar to people with small town roots and great big dreams. Their self titled album is the realization of the yearning that yanked David Tolliver out of Knott County and Chad Warrix out of Breathitt County and set them up together in Nashville, Tennessee, a pairing as smooth as Kentucky bourbon, with an edge as rough as a dirt road.
“I don’t ever remember not singing,” Tolliver says. “My mother got me started, maybe I did something in church and she noticed I could sing. But from the time I was little, I was on stage, in a little tuxedo, singing to tracks, making appearances wherever she could get me booked. She was my manager and my booking agent, my dad drove the Winnebago and my gear was a mic and two speakers. When I was about nine, we put together a cassette we called At This Moment to sell after shows. I loved it, who wouldn’t? I got to sing, got lots of attention from girls.”Click here to read more - the journey, the music, and their relationship with Tim McGraw. . .
Halfway To Hazard's self-titled debut will be in stores August 14th!
What are music critics saying about Halfway to Hazard's new single "DAISY???"
[Universal Music Group Nashville, posted 3/29/2007]
On Friday, March 23, MUSIC ROW'S Bob Oermann named both the DISC OF THE DAY and the DisCovery Award to Halfway to Hazard's new single "DAISY."
"Songwriters Tolliver and Warrix are the Halfway to Hazard duo, so named because they hail from near that Eastern Kentucky town. Their disc debut is beyond excellent, a gripping story song with a terrific production, a fantastically cool guitar groove and super-expressive, soaring vocals. I hear stardom." - Robert K. Oermann
99.5 WYCD's featured Artist of the Month is Mercury Records hot rising country duo, Halfway To Hazard! You may have been listening to Detroit's Best Country's Dr. Don Morning Show on H2H's two recent visit to our studios! If not, you can still listen to the podcast of the show! Just click here for the 
Halfway To Hazard's self-titled debut will be in stores August 14th! 
