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Amazing Rhythm Aces - Discography   1975 - 2008

A mainstream country-rock band similar in execution (if not commercial success) to the Eagles, the Amazing Rhythm Aces were formed in Memphis in 1974 by bassist Jeff Davis and drummer Butch McDade, who had earlier recorded and toured with the great singer/songwriter Jesse Winchester. After striking out on their own, Davis and McDade enlisted vocalist/guitarist Russell Smith, keyboardist Billy Earheart, Dobro player Barry Burton, and pianist James Hooker to develop a sound composed of equal parts pop, country, and blue-eyed soul. 
Stacked Deck, the Amazing Rhythm Aces' debut album, appeared in 1975; it produced two significant crossover hits, "Third Rate Romance" and "Amazing Grace (Used to Be Her Favorite Song)," the group's lone Top Ten country single. A year later, the hit "The End Is Not in Sight (The Cowboy Tune)," from the LP Too Stuffed to Jump, won the Aces a Grammy for Country Vocal Performance by a Group. Following the release of 1977's Toucan Do It Too, Burton left the group, and was replaced by Duncan Cameron. 
 In 1978, the Aces released Burning the Ballroom Down, followed a year later by a self-titled effort featuring cameos by Joan Baez, Tracy Nelson, and the Muscle Shoals Horns; both were met with critical approval, but sold poorly. They released one final record, How the Hell Do You Spell Rhythum?, before disbanding. While Smith went on to become a successful songwriter, Earheart joined Hank Williams, Jr.'s Bama Band, and Cameron joined Sawyer Brown -- a group that, ironically enough, would find significant chart success in the 1980s with a sound similar to what the Amazing Rhythm Aces had created a decade earlier. 
 After a hiatus of some 15 years, the Amazing Rhythm Aces re-formed in 1994. the Aces, now comprised of Smith, Davis, McDade, Earheart, Hooker, and new guitarist/mandolinist Danny Parks, marked their return to duty by releasing Ride Again, a collection of newly recorded renditions of their biggest hits. In addition, they also began composing new songs for a projected comeback album; although McDade's cancer-related death on November 29, 1998, temporarily halted that plan, Chock Full of Country Goodness finally appeared in mid-1999.



Met de volgende CD's van zowel de band als de solo uitstapjes van Russell Smith, de zanger van de Amazing Rhythm Aces. 

Amazing Rhythm Aces - 1975 - Stacked Deck
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 1976 - Live at ACL
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 1976 - Too Stuffed To Jump
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 1977 - Toucan Do It Too
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 1978 - Burning The Ballroom Down
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 1979 - Amazing Rhythm Aces
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 1980 - How The Hell Do You Spell Rhythum
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 1981 - Absolutely Live
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 1981 - Full House; Aces High
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 1997 - Out Of the Blue 
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 1997 - Ride Again
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 1998 - Chock Full Of Country Goodness Amazing Rhythm Aces - 1999 - & Donna Dean - Between You And Me
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 1999 - Concert Classics - Vol. 3
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 2000 - Stacked Deck  Too Stuffed To Jump
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 2000 - Toucan Do It Too  Burning The Ballroom Down
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 2001 - Between You & Us
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 2004 - Live at Austin City Limits 
Amazing Rhythm Aces - 2004 - Nothin' But The Blues
Run C&W - 1993 - Into The Twangy-First Century
Run C&W - 1995 - Row vs. Wade 
Russell Smith - 1982 - Russell Smith 
Russell Smith - 1984 - The Boy Next Door
Russell Smith - 1989 - This Little Town
Russell Smith - 2001 - Sunday Best
Russell Smith - 2001 - The End is not in Sight
Russell Smith - 2008 - & the Amazing Rhythm Aces - Midnight Communion



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