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Biography
These six albums have produced seventeen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, including nine No. 1 hits “Must Be Doin’ Somethin’ Right”, “Good Directions”, “People Are Crazy”, “That’s How Country Boys Roll”, “Pretty Good at Drinkin’ Beer”, “Let Me Down Easy”, “Hey Girl”, “We Are Tonight” and “Don’t It”. He has also charted as a duet partner on Shania Twain’s single “Party for Two” and his own non-album single “Tangled Up”, for a total of seventeen Top 40 hits.
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New Artist Feature: Billy Currington
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Raised in Rincon, Ga., about 30 minutes outside of Savannah, Billy Currington notices fewer dirt roads every time he goes back.
"I used to call it a small town," he says, "but now it's growing. It's really rich in pine trees, so they stuck a paper plant in Rincon, which brought a lot of jobs, and people started building there. They started paving all the dirt roads and taking what I used to know as Rincon it's not the same place anymore."
Billy Currington's music often recalls a time when life seemed simpler, although the singer-songwriter certainly can't claim to have had an easy life. His mother married a man named Larry Currington when Billy was a year-and-a-half old. Through the next few years Billy experienced the turmoil that alcohol abuse can do to a family.
"He'd get drunk and a little crazy," Currington says. "He eventually died of drinking and cancer."
Nevertheless, it was Larry Currington who introduced Billy to
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Currington, Billy
Singer, songwriter
One of the new breed of country singers who is probably as famous for his good looks as for his hit songs "Walk a Little Straighter" and "Good Directions," Billy Currington is a singer-songwriter in the Kenny Chesney mold. Capable of rocking a fast song or crooning a tearjerking ballad, the Georgia native sports a knack for radio-ready songs. At his career's early peak, he boldly took an extended break to deal with the traumas of his childhood days.
Born on November 19, 1973, in Savannah, Georgia, Billy Currington grew up in nearby Rincon, where he was raised by his mother along with Larry Currington, who became his stepfather when he was still an infant. According to the singer-songwriter, the hard-drinking elder Currington violently abused him, and ended up as the inspiration for the 2003 song "Walk a Little Straighter." "He'd get drunk and a little crazy," Currington recalled to CMT.com. Eventually, young Billy began acting out. "I started showing symptoms of trauma in grade school by getting into fights," he recalled in People. "W
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