Steve Wariner Offers Up Christmas Gift Collection

Fans of legendary guitarist and longtime country icon Steve Wariner have an opportunity to purchase a unique collection of items packaged together on the http://www.stevewariner.com/ website. Included in this year’s package are the Guitar Christmas CD, The Hits Collection CD and a Steve Wariner mousepad. Guitar Christmas is a collection of Christmas favorites and the result is a beautifully, simple intimate cd. It has special meaning to Steve as he arranged, recorded, produced the cd as well as created the artwork for the album cover. The Hits Collection is a compilation of Steve’s recordings while on the Capitol Nashville label. It includes his Grammy nominated, CMA Award winning song, “Holes In The Floor Of Heaven” along with many of his well-known hits. Both of these CDs would please the Steve Wariner Fan in your house and make great additions to your collection. This package is available for $25.00 plus shipping and handling and may be found in the merchandise section at
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Modern fans of country might not immediately recognize Wariner's name or talents, but this would make a great addition to any country-lover's collection. During a six-year stint with MCA in the 1980's, Wariner scored 19 consecutive top 10 hits, eight of them going to No. 1 on Billboard magazine's Hot Country Singles chart. The most successful of those songs included "Some Fools Never Learn" (1985, his second No. 1 hit), "What I Didn't Do" (1985), "You Can Dream of Me" (1986), "Lynda" (1987) and "I Got Dreams" (1989). In the early 1990s, Wariner continued his success with Arista Records, with several of his songs reaching the top 10.

Wariner, however, continued to maintain his popularity through his instrumental talents. One example was 1991's "Restless," a collaboration with Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill and Mark O'Connor (from O'Connor's album The New Nashville Cats). "Restless" won Wariner (as well as Skaggs and Gill) his first Grammy Award in 1991 for Best Country Vocal Collaboration. In 1996, Wariner released an album of all instrumental tracks called No More Mr. Nice Guy.

Wariner also remained in the public eye with his songwriting talents. His composition, "Longneck Bottle" (a No. 1 hit by Garth Brooks), along with a No. 1 duet from early 1998 with singer Anita Cochran called "What If I Said" (his first No. 1 in more than eight years.)

The highlight of Wariner's career came in the spring of 1998. Now recording for Capitol Records, his song "Holes in the Floor of Heaven" - a song about dealing with grief of close friends and relatives - promptly shot to No. 2 and won the Country Music Association awards for Single of the Year and Song of the Year.