Released via 8 Track Entertainment, “Two Dozen Roses” marked the group’s first No. 1 in 30 years, landing at No. 1 on the iTunes All Genre and Country charts. Stream and download HERE.
Additonaly, “Two Dozen Roses” went out to country radio this past Monday officially as Shenandoah’s new single. Raybon will be the featured guest this Sunday, Oct. 22 on Heather Froglears 90’s Country show on Audacy, airing on 19 stations nationally including WYCD/Detroit, WUSN/Chicago and KFRG/San Bernardino. Raybon talks about the new version of “Two Dozen Roses” with Luke Combs and all things Shenandoah.
Raybon and McGuire also recently discussed the collaboration, produced by GRAMMY® winning engineer Noah Gordon and recorded at the historic Fame Studios in their longtime home of Muscle Shoals, on “Big D & Bubba.” Fame Studios is also where the original version was recorded.
Billboard exclusively premiered the first listen to “Two Dozen Roses,” writing “As collaborations and interpolations of classic hits pile up in the country music genre, an iconic ’90s country group and one of country music’s current biggest stars are teaming up to refresh a ’90s country classic (Jessica Nicholson).”
On the song written by Mac McAnally and Robert Byrne, McAnally explained, “back in the late 80’s Marty asked me to write something for his voice. I’d been playing on their records (and of course Marty can sing anything), but I sat down and wrote the chorus of ‘Two Dozen Roses’ and got my dear buddy Robert Byrne to finish the song with me. We had a No. 1 record in 1989 and I couldn’t have asked for more.”
“Two Dozen Roses” follows Shenandoah’s 2020 album, Every Road, which featured collaborations with Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, Ashley McBryde, Dierks Bentley, Lady A, Zac Brown Band, Carly Pearce, Cody Johnson and Brad Paisley. Garnering national attention from “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” People, Rolling Stone Country and more, Every Road marked the group’s 10th studio album, after notching 13 No. 1 hits, charting 26 singles on Billboard country charts and accumulating over 300 million on demand streams.
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ABOUT SHENANDOAH:
Marty Raybon and Mike McGuire formed Shenandoah in 1984 in Muscle Shoals, Alabama with bassist Ralph Ezell, keyboardist Stan Thorn and guitarist Jim Seales. Shenandoah inked a deal with Columbia Records and began establishing a national fan base with their self-titled debut in 1987. However, it was the band’s sophomore effort, The Road Not Taken, that spawned their first top ten hits, “She Doesn’t Cry Anymore” and “Mama Knows.”
The group followed with three consecutive No. 1 hits, “Church on Cumberland Road,” “Sunday in the South” and “Two Dozen Roses.” “The Church on Cumberland Road” spent two weeks at the top of the chart and made country music history as it marked the first time that a country band’s first No. 1 single spent more than one week at the summit. It also helped propel sales of the album to more than half a million units thus giving Shenandoah their first gold album.
Shenandoah became known for delivering songs that celebrated the importance of faith and family while reveling in the joys of small town life. “Next to You, Next to Me” topped the charts for three weeks and “Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart,” a beautiful duet with Alison Krauss, won a Country Music Association Award for Vocal Event of the year and a GRAMMY® for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Shenandoah also won the Academy of Country Music’s Vocal Group of the Year in 1991.
The group currently consists of original members Marty Raybon (lead), Mike McGuire (drums) along with Paul Sanders (bass), Donnie Allen (acoustic guitar/fiddle), Andrew Ishee (keys), Nicky V Hines (guitar).
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