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Earnest Clayton (Clay) Walker, Jr. (born August 19, 1969 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American country music singer
Early Years
Earnest Clayton Walker, Jr. is the oldest child of Earnest Clayton Walker Sr. and Danna Bush. He has a younger sister, Kimberly, and a younger brother, Jared.
Walker fell in love with music at age 9. After leaving his shift as night-shift desk clerk at a Super 8 Motel one morning when he was only 16, Walker stopped at a local radio station to deliver a tape of a song he had written himself. Although the morning dj told him that it was against the station's policy to play the song, as Walker drove away he heard his song play on the air for the first time.[1] After graduating from Vidor High School in 1987, he pursued a full-time music career.
After several years playing in various Texas honky-tonks, Walker became the house singer at the Neon Armadillo Bar in Beaumont. It was there that he was discovered by producer James Stroud, who helped Walker get a contract with Giant Records.
Walker's debut album, the self-titled Clay Walker, was released in 1993. It contained the #1 hit singles "What's It to You", "Live Until I Die" and "Dreaming With My Eyes Wide Open". It also featured the #11 "Where Do I Fit In the Picture" as well as the song "White Palace" which was never an actual single, but Clay's momentum boosted the song's popularity as a club hit caused it to chart to #67 in April of 1994 (Billboard Magazine).
In 1994, Walker's second album, If I Could Make a Living, was released. It contained the #1 hit title track, as well as top-ten hit "This Woman and This Man" and minor hit "My Heart Will Never Know".
Walker's third album, Hypnotize the Moon, was released in 1995. It contained the #2 hit "Who Needs You Baby", as well as the top 5 title track, another top 10 hit called "Only On Days That End In 'Y'", and minor hits "Where Were You" and "Bury the Shovel".
1996 saw discouraging news. Clay Walker was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Walker, however, didn't care. He was going to make music and perform concerts no matter what happened to him.
1997 saw the release of Walker's fourth album, Rumor Has It. The hits on this album included the title track (which went No. 1), the top 5 hits "Watch This" and "Then What", and a lesser hit called "One, Two, I Love You".
In 1998, Walker's Greatest Hits was released, featuring all of his hit singles, plus two new hit songs, "You're Beginning to Get to Me", and "Ordinary People".
Walker's last Giant Records album, Live, Laugh, Love came in 1999. It included the #3 hit "Chain of Love", plus the #11 title track, as well as the #16 "She's Always Right", and flops "Once In a Lifetime" and a remake of the Earl Thomas Conley hit "Holding Her and Loving You".
Walker then recorded an album for Warner Brothers, of which Giant Records was the sister label. Say No More was released in 2001. It was the least successful of his albums, only reaching Gold status. It included minor hits "If You Ever Feel Like Lovin' Me Again" and the title track.
In 2002, Walker wrote and recorded a song for the NFL's newest expansion team, the Houston Texans. "Football Time in Houston" was used as the team's official fight song during the team's inaugural season. In 2003, the franchise chose to go with a different song that had an overwhelmingly negative response from the fans. Shortly thereafter, Walker's song returned and is still the team's fight song today. The song can be heard over Reliant Stadium's Public Address system after a Texans score. Walker makes frequent appearances at Texans games and traditionally sings the "Star-Spangled Banner" at the team's home-opener each season.
Walker's RCA debut, A Few Questions, came in 2003. It included the top-ten title track, plus another top-ten, "I Can't Sleep". It also featured a minor hit, "Jesus Was a Country Boy".
Walker is one of a select few artists to have one of his songs included in Billboard's year-end Top 10 Country Songs list for 5 consecutive years. His albums have sold a combined 8 million copies, and he has had 6 number-one singles and 15 Top 10 singles.
His new album on Asylum-Curb, titled Fall, was released April 17, 2007 and features his Top 25 single "'Fore She Was Mama", as well as his current single, which is the album's title track.
Although doctors originally told him he had only a few years to live, Walker's MS is now manageable. To spur research into the disease, he formed the Band Against MS organization.
Walker recently competed at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in the cutting competition with his horse, Maddie, and placed seventh. He is also an avid golfer, and regularly competes in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. In 2005, his team won the tournament. Walker donated his share of the winnings to Band Against MS. [2]
Clay has two daughters with his ex-wife Lori, MaClay DeLayne and Skylor ClayAnne.
Studio Albums
Album Released Charts
Clay Walker 1993 * RIAA: Platinum Certified, #52 US
If I Could Make a Living September 27, 1994 *RIAA: Platinum Certified, #42 US
Hypnotize the Moon October 17, 1995 * RIAA: Platinum certified, #57 US
Rumor Has It April 8, 1997 *RIAA: Platinum certified, #32 US
Live, Laugh, Love August 24, 1999 * RIAA: Gold certified, #55 US
Say No More March 27, 2001 * #129 US
Believe: A Christmas Collection September 10, 2002
A Few Questions September 9, 2003 * #23 US
Fall April 17, 2007
[edit] Compilations
Album Released Charts
Greatest Hits June 9, 1998 * RIAA: Gold certified, #42 US
[edit] Singles
Year Title Chart Positions Album
US Hot 100 US Country
1993 "What's It to You" 73 1 Clay Walker
1993 "Live Until I Die" 1 Clay Walker
1994 "Where Do I Fit in the Picture" 11 Clay Walker
1994 "Dreaming With My Eyes Open" 1 Clay Walker
1994 "White Palace"A 67 Clay Walker
1994 "If I Could Make a Living" 1 If I Could Make A Living
1995 "This Woman And This Man" 1 If I Could Make A Living
1995 "My Heart Will Never Know" 16 If I Could Make A Living
1995 "Who Needs You Baby" 2 Hypnotize The Moon
1996 "Hypnotize The Moon" 2 Hypnotize The Moon
1996 "Only On Days That End In “Y”" 5 Hypnotize The Moon
1996 "Bury The Shovel" 18 Hypnotize The Moon
1997 "Rumor Has It" 1 Rumor Has It
1997 "One, Two, I Love You" 18 Rumor Has It
1997 "Watch This" 65 4 Rumor Has It
1997 "Then What?" 65 2 Rumor Has It
1998 "Ordinary People" 35 Greatest Hits
1998 "You're Beginning To Get To Me" 39 2 Greatest Hits
1998 "Holding Her And Loving You"A 68 Live, Laugh, Love
1999 "Once In A Lifetime" 50 Live, Laugh, Love
1999 "She's Always Right" 74 16 Live, Laugh, Love
1999 "Live, Laugh, Love" 66 11 Live, Laugh, Love
1999 "The Chain Of Love" 40 3 Live, Laugh, Love
2000 "Blue Christmas"A 53 Believe: A Christmas Collection
2001 "Cowboy Christmas"A 70 Believe: A Christmas Collection
2001 "Say No More" 33 Say No More
2001 "If You Ever Feel Like Lovin' Me Again" 27 Say No More
2003 "Feliz Navidad"A 49 Christmas
2003 "A Few Questions" 55 9 A Few Questions
2004 "I Can't Sleep" 61 9 A Few Questions
2004 "Jesus Was a Country Boy" 31 A Few Questions
2006 "'Fore She Was Mama" 21 Fall
2007 "Fall"B 30 Fall
Early Years
Earnest Clayton Walker, Jr. is the oldest child of Earnest Clayton Walker Sr. and Danna Bush. He has a younger sister, Kimberly, and a younger brother, Jared.
Walker fell in love with music at age 9. After leaving his shift as night-shift desk clerk at a Super 8 Motel one morning when he was only 16, Walker stopped at a local radio station to deliver a tape of a song he had written himself. Although the morning dj told him that it was against the station's policy to play the song, as Walker drove away he heard his song play on the air for the first time.[1] After graduating from Vidor High School in 1987, he pursued a full-time music career.
After several years playing in various Texas honky-tonks, Walker became the house singer at the Neon Armadillo Bar in Beaumont. It was there that he was discovered by producer James Stroud, who helped Walker get a contract with Giant Records.
Walker's debut album, the self-titled Clay Walker, was released in 1993. It contained the #1 hit singles "What's It to You", "Live Until I Die" and "Dreaming With My Eyes Wide Open". It also featured the #11 "Where Do I Fit In the Picture" as well as the song "White Palace" which was never an actual single, but Clay's momentum boosted the song's popularity as a club hit caused it to chart to #67 in April of 1994 (Billboard Magazine).
In 1994, Walker's second album, If I Could Make a Living, was released. It contained the #1 hit title track, as well as top-ten hit "This Woman and This Man" and minor hit "My Heart Will Never Know".
Walker's third album, Hypnotize the Moon, was released in 1995. It contained the #2 hit "Who Needs You Baby", as well as the top 5 title track, another top 10 hit called "Only On Days That End In 'Y'", and minor hits "Where Were You" and "Bury the Shovel".
1996 saw discouraging news. Clay Walker was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Walker, however, didn't care. He was going to make music and perform concerts no matter what happened to him.
1997 saw the release of Walker's fourth album, Rumor Has It. The hits on this album included the title track (which went No. 1), the top 5 hits "Watch This" and "Then What", and a lesser hit called "One, Two, I Love You".
In 1998, Walker's Greatest Hits was released, featuring all of his hit singles, plus two new hit songs, "You're Beginning to Get to Me", and "Ordinary People".
Walker's last Giant Records album, Live, Laugh, Love came in 1999. It included the #3 hit "Chain of Love", plus the #11 title track, as well as the #16 "She's Always Right", and flops "Once In a Lifetime" and a remake of the Earl Thomas Conley hit "Holding Her and Loving You".
Walker then recorded an album for Warner Brothers, of which Giant Records was the sister label. Say No More was released in 2001. It was the least successful of his albums, only reaching Gold status. It included minor hits "If You Ever Feel Like Lovin' Me Again" and the title track.
In 2002, Walker wrote and recorded a song for the NFL's newest expansion team, the Houston Texans. "Football Time in Houston" was used as the team's official fight song during the team's inaugural season. In 2003, the franchise chose to go with a different song that had an overwhelmingly negative response from the fans. Shortly thereafter, Walker's song returned and is still the team's fight song today. The song can be heard over Reliant Stadium's Public Address system after a Texans score. Walker makes frequent appearances at Texans games and traditionally sings the "Star-Spangled Banner" at the team's home-opener each season.
Walker's RCA debut, A Few Questions, came in 2003. It included the top-ten title track, plus another top-ten, "I Can't Sleep". It also featured a minor hit, "Jesus Was a Country Boy".
Walker is one of a select few artists to have one of his songs included in Billboard's year-end Top 10 Country Songs list for 5 consecutive years. His albums have sold a combined 8 million copies, and he has had 6 number-one singles and 15 Top 10 singles.
His new album on Asylum-Curb, titled Fall, was released April 17, 2007 and features his Top 25 single "'Fore She Was Mama", as well as his current single, which is the album's title track.
Although doctors originally told him he had only a few years to live, Walker's MS is now manageable. To spur research into the disease, he formed the Band Against MS organization.
Walker recently competed at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in the cutting competition with his horse, Maddie, and placed seventh. He is also an avid golfer, and regularly competes in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. In 2005, his team won the tournament. Walker donated his share of the winnings to Band Against MS. [2]
Clay has two daughters with his ex-wife Lori, MaClay DeLayne and Skylor ClayAnne.
Studio Albums
Album Released Charts
Clay Walker 1993 * RIAA: Platinum Certified, #52 US
If I Could Make a Living September 27, 1994 *RIAA: Platinum Certified, #42 US
Hypnotize the Moon October 17, 1995 * RIAA: Platinum certified, #57 US
Rumor Has It April 8, 1997 *RIAA: Platinum certified, #32 US
Live, Laugh, Love August 24, 1999 * RIAA: Gold certified, #55 US
Say No More March 27, 2001 * #129 US
Believe: A Christmas Collection September 10, 2002
A Few Questions September 9, 2003 * #23 US
Fall April 17, 2007
[edit] Compilations
Album Released Charts
Greatest Hits June 9, 1998 * RIAA: Gold certified, #42 US
[edit] Singles
Year Title Chart Positions Album
US Hot 100 US Country
1993 "What's It to You" 73 1 Clay Walker
1993 "Live Until I Die" 1 Clay Walker
1994 "Where Do I Fit in the Picture" 11 Clay Walker
1994 "Dreaming With My Eyes Open" 1 Clay Walker
1994 "White Palace"A 67 Clay Walker
1994 "If I Could Make a Living" 1 If I Could Make A Living
1995 "This Woman And This Man" 1 If I Could Make A Living
1995 "My Heart Will Never Know" 16 If I Could Make A Living
1995 "Who Needs You Baby" 2 Hypnotize The Moon
1996 "Hypnotize The Moon" 2 Hypnotize The Moon
1996 "Only On Days That End In “Y”" 5 Hypnotize The Moon
1996 "Bury The Shovel" 18 Hypnotize The Moon
1997 "Rumor Has It" 1 Rumor Has It
1997 "One, Two, I Love You" 18 Rumor Has It
1997 "Watch This" 65 4 Rumor Has It
1997 "Then What?" 65 2 Rumor Has It
1998 "Ordinary People" 35 Greatest Hits
1998 "You're Beginning To Get To Me" 39 2 Greatest Hits
1998 "Holding Her And Loving You"A 68 Live, Laugh, Love
1999 "Once In A Lifetime" 50 Live, Laugh, Love
1999 "She's Always Right" 74 16 Live, Laugh, Love
1999 "Live, Laugh, Love" 66 11 Live, Laugh, Love
1999 "The Chain Of Love" 40 3 Live, Laugh, Love
2000 "Blue Christmas"A 53 Believe: A Christmas Collection
2001 "Cowboy Christmas"A 70 Believe: A Christmas Collection
2001 "Say No More" 33 Say No More
2001 "If You Ever Feel Like Lovin' Me Again" 27 Say No More
2003 "Feliz Navidad"A 49 Christmas
2003 "A Few Questions" 55 9 A Few Questions
2004 "I Can't Sleep" 61 9 A Few Questions
2004 "Jesus Was a Country Boy" 31 A Few Questions
2006 "'Fore She Was Mama" 21 Fall
2007 "Fall"B 30 Fall
