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The Warren Brothers is an American country music duo composed of brothers Brett Warren ( lead vocals , acoustic guitar , harmonica , mandolin , piano ) and Brad Warren ( background vocals , acoustic guitar, electric guitar ). The duo has released three studio album s: Beautiful Day in the Cold Cruel World (1998) and King of Nothing (2000) on BNA Records , as well as Well Deserved Obscurity (2004) on Sig/429 and a 2005 compilation album, Barely Famous Hits . These four albums have produced nine charting single (music)|singles on the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, with the highest being "Move On" at #17 in late 2000-early 2001. Brad and Brett have also co-written singles for Dierks Bentley , Faith Hill , Tim McGraw and Martina McBride .

History

Brad and Brett Warren grew up in Tampa, Florida . They previously headlined local Christian heavy metal bands including a Christian rock heavy metal band called St. Warren. They moved from Florida to Nashville in 1995.

The duo signed to BNA Records in 1997 and released its debut album, Beautiful Day in the Cold Cruel World , in late 1998. This album produced three single (music)|singles : "Guilty," "Better Man" and "She Wants to Rock," all of which charted within the Top 40 on the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard country singles charts. Pemberton Roach of Allmusic rated the album four stars out of five, comparing its sound to that of "slick, roots-influenced pop artists like Bruce Hornsby , Toad the Wet Sprocket and Glenn Frey " and saying that such a sound "avoid any trace of Nashville clichés in favor of honest, straightforward lyrics and energetic, polished playing." Following the release of this album, The Warren Brothers toured with Tim McGraw and his wife, Faith Hill .

In September 2000, the duo released its second album, King of Nothing . Its first single release was the #22 "That's the Beat of a Heart," which featured a guest vocal from Sara Evans and was included on the soundtrack to the 2000 film Where the Heart Is (2000 film)|Where the Heart Is . The second single from King of Nothing was the duo's highest-peaking single, the #17 "Move On," and finishing off the single releases was the #33 "Where Does It Hurt."

A seventh single, "Hey Mr. President", was released in 2003, peaking at #28. Following it were the non-album single "Break the Record" and two separate releases of "Sell a Lot of Beer," on which McGraw sang backing vocalist|backing vocals . This latter song was included on the duo's third studio album, 2004's Well Deserved Obscurity . A compilation entitled Barely Famous Hits followed in 2005, and the same year, CMT signed the brothers to their own reality television series called Barely Famous: The Warren Brothers . They were also dropped from BNA in 2005. The brothers served as judges for one season of the talent competition Nashville Star as well.

Songwriting careers

In the latter half of the 2000s, the duo began writing songs for other artists. Hill released two of the duo's co-writes as singles: " The Lucky One (Faith Hill song)|The Lucky One " in 2006, and " Red Umbrella " in 2007. Also that year, McGraw performed " If You're Reading This " at the Academy of Country Music awards, and released that song as a single after radio stations began playing a Broadcasting|telecast of the song. They've also co-written two songs with Taylor Swift , entitled "Welcome Distraction" and "That's When." Both remain unreleased and heavily protected.

Martina McBride released two Warren Brothers co-writes from her 2007 album Waking Up Laughing : " Anyway (Martina McBride song)|Anyway " and " How I Feel (Martina McBride song)|How I Feel ," the former of which was also the first co-writer's credit of her career. McBride released a third Warren Brothers song, " Wrong Baby Wrong Baby Wrong ," in January 2010. Brad and Brett collaborated with Robert Ellis Orrall and Love and Theft (band)|Love and Theft member Stephen Barker Liles on this song. The brothers co-wrote McBride's 2011 single " Teenage Daughters ".

In early 2009, Dierks Bentley had a Number One hit with the song " Feel That Fire (song)|Feel That Fire ," which he and the Warrens wrote with Brett Beavers . The Warren Brothers and both Beavers brothers also co-wrote Tim McGraw 's late-2010 single " Felt Good on My Lips " and Toby Keith 's late-2011 single " Red Solo Cup ".

Discography

Albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
Title	Album details	US Country	US Heat
Beautiful Day in the Cold Cruel World Release date: October 27, 1998 Label: BNA Records
King of Nothing Release date: September 12, 2000 Label: BNA Records
Well Deserved Obscurity Release date: April 6, 2004 Label: Sig/ 429 Records\|429
Barely Famous Hits Release date: August 2, 2005 Label: BNA Records
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions			Album
Year	Single	US Country	US Bubbling	CAN Country	Album
1998	34	15	30	Beautiful Day in the Cold Cruel World
1999	32	—	46
1999	"She Wants to Rock"
2000	22	13	38	King of Nothing
2000	Move On "
2001	33	—	*
2003	28	—	*	single only
	"Break the Record"			single only
	"Sell a Lot of Beer"
2004	—	—	*
2005	59	—	*	Barely Famous Hits
2010	—	—	*	Non-album song
"—" denotes releases that did not chart * denotes unknown peak positions

Music videos

Year	Video	Director
1998	Susan Johnson
1999	Susan Johnson
1999	"She Wants to Rock"
2000	Shaun Silva
2004	Jason Morgan/ Robert Zazzali
2005	Shaun Silva
2010	Shaun Silva

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