- Mark Selby (musician)( Mark Otis Selby )【 2 albums 29 lyrics 】
- Mark Otis Selby (died September 18, 2017) was an American blues rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Born in Enid, Oklahoma, he was a solo artist, signed to ZYX Records in Europe, and one half of performing duo with his wife, songwriter Tia Sillers. He also plays guitar in recording sessions for musical artists such as Kenny Rogers, Johnny Reid, Keni Thomas, Jimmy Hall, and Wynonna Judd.
Selby is perhaps best known for the number of songs that he co-wrote with the blues-rock artist Kenny Wayne Shepherd which includes the No. 1 single, 'Blue on Black'. This song was also Billboard magazine rock track of the year in 1998. Selby also collaborated with Sillers on the No. 1 song, 'There's Your Trouble', which was recorded by the Dixie Chicks and won the band their first Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1999.
Selby has released a number of solo albums thus far. The first two projects, More Storms Comin' and Dirt were on Vanguard Records. After signing with ZYX in Merenberg, Germany, he released his next album, Mark Otis Selby And The Horse He Rode In On. This all-acoustic release featured Selby's 1974 Mossman guitar and spurred a broad audience in Germany and Switzerland. His most recent project, Blue Highway, was released in 2013. He has worked with the Grammy winning record producer Brent Maher on 5 of his projects.
IN 2016, Selby was inducted into the Kansas Music Hall Of Fame.
Besides the Mossman, he plays a modified 1990s Fender Relic Nocaster, a Fender Rory Gallagher Fender Stratocaster, and a 1944 Gibson J-45. As for amplifiers, he describes himself as 'a Fender guy.'
Selby died on September 18, 2017 from cancer. - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
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Blue Highway
2013
1.I Will Not Go Quietly (Provided)
2.Change A Comin' (Provided)
3.Gotta Be Enough (Provided)
4.Forty Days, Forty Nights (Provided)
5.Another Man (Provided)
6.This Is Why We Rock & Roll (Provided)
7.A Little While (Provided)8.Trouble Wants (Provided)
9.Let's Spend The Night Together (Provided)
10.Black Diamond (Provided)
11.Hell's Hip Pocket (Provided)
12.Mile Zero (Provided)
13.Backroad Jam (Provided) -
Miscellaneous
1.Blind Since Birth
2.What Am I Doin'
3.She's Like Mercury
4.I'm The Lucky One
5.Don't You Throw That Mojo On Me
6.Reason Enough
7.You
8.Back Door To My Heart9.Willin' To Burn
10.You're Gonna Miss My Love
11.More Storms Comin'
12.Kink In the Chain
13.Blue On Black
14.Last Goodbye
15.There's Your Trouble
16.Unforgiven
【Correction of errors in the album information】