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The Newnan, Georgia, traditionalist who kept country sounding like country while the rest of Nashville went pop. Alan Jackson water-skied through the "Chattahoochee" video in red cowboy boots, racked up 35 number ones, and once walked off the CMA stage mid-song to stand up for George Jones.
The Georgia band that went from a basement demo to "Shine," eight weeks at No. 1 on rock radio in 1994. Ed Roland sang its "yeah" into an empty toilet-paper tube, and the "heaven" in its chorus got them mistaken for a Christian band. "December," "The World I Know" and "Heavy" kept them on rock radio for the rest of the decade.