The 5 O’Clock Shadow: Monday September 9, 2019

It’s Monday and you are totally going to dominate The Shadow!

The original artist is one of the most famous and recognizable women in the world. She is a multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author and businesswoman but she is most well known as a country music singer. Her music includes 25 certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum recordings. She has had 25 songs reach No. 1 on the Billboard country music charts, a record for a female artist. She has 41 career top-10 country albums, a record for any artist, and she has 110 career charted singles over the past 40 years. She has garnered nine Grammy Awards and has been nominated a whopping 47 times. She has also been nominated for several Academy Awards, an Emmy and a Tony. Bonus: She’s Miley Cyrius’s Godmother.

The Shadow artist is the first commercially successful band for a multi-instrumentalist who has become known as one of contemporary music’s greatest rock guitarist. They are (or were) an incredibly color coordinated, married duo. They are from Detroit. They have not performed together since 2009.

 

The song was a huge, country hit for the original artist in 1974. She is said to have written this and I Will Always Love You on the same day.