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A Look Back At Country Music in 2002 |
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Who was dropped and who was signed?
The year 2002 saw many artists leaving their labels, and some getting signed. Below you'll find a list of these artists:
- Rhett Akins signs with Audium.
- Eric Heatherly is released from Mercury, and signs with Dreamworks.
- Dwight Yoakam leaves Warner Brothers.
- J. Michael Harter signs with Broken Bow.
- Deana Carter signs with Arista Nashville.
- Clay Walker signs with RCA.
- Earl Thomas Conley and Johnny Rodriguez sign with Sunbird.
- Little Big Town signs with Sony Monument.
- 3 of Hearts is dropped from RCA.
- Rick Ferrell and Jolie & The Wanted are dropped from DreamWorks.
- Pam Tillis signed with Sony's Lucky Dog.
- Chad Brock & Craig Morgan both signed with Broken Bow.
- Chely Wright leaves MCA Nashville.
- Junior Brown leaves Curb Records.
- Rodney Redman signed by Audium.
- Clint Black departs RCA.
- Tommy Shane Steiner departs RCA.
- Mindy McCready departs Capitol Nashville.
- Joe Diffie signs with C4 Records.
- Lisa Brokup signs with Curb Records.
- A new label was formed by Tim DuBois and Tony Brown. First artist was Joe Nichols, who gets a #1 record off the bat with "The Impossible." Other artists on the label - Dean Miller, Allison Moorer, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Bering Strait, Reggie Hamm, Steven Delopoulos, Chad Mullins, and Holly Lamar.
And lastly, we said goodbye to several artists in 2002:
- Waylon Jennings passed away on February 13th.
- Harlan Howard passed away on March 3rd.
- Mickey Newberry passed away on September 28th.
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