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Kenneth Edward " Ken " Mellons ( born July 10 , 1965 ) is an American ___MASK8___ artist who released his self - titled debut album in 1994 . This album produced the single " Jukebox Junkie ", a Top Ten hit on the Hot Country Songs charts . Mellons followed up his debut album with three more albums  ___MASK20___ ' s " Where Forever Begins ", 2001 ' s " The Best of Ken Mellons " and 2004 ' s " Sweet "  in addition to charting six more singles on the country charts . " Paint Me a Birmingham " is a song written by Buck Moore and Gary Duffy . It was concurrently released by American ___MASK8___ artists Ken Mellons and ___MASK40___ , whose versions entered the country charts within one week of each other . Lawrence ' s was the more successful of the two , reaching # 4 in early 2004 and becoming his first Top 5 country hit since " Lessons Learned " in 1999 . The harmonica , also known as a French harp or mouth organ , is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres , notably in blues , American folk music , classical music , jazz , country , and rock and roll . There are many types of harmonica , including diatonic , chromatic , tremolo , octave , orchestral , and bass versions . A harmonica is played by using the mouth ( lips and tongue ) to direct air into or out of one or more holes along a mouthpiece . Behind each hole is a chamber containing at least one reed . A harmonica reed is a flat elongated ___MASK39___ typically made of brass , stainless steel , or bronze , which is secured at one end over a slot that serves as an airway . When the free end is made to vibrate by the player ' s air , it alternately blocks and unblocks the airway to produce sound . ___MASK57___ ( often referred in copyright notices as SKG Music , LLC ) was an American record label . Founded in 1996 by David Geffen , Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG , the label operated until 2003 when it was sold to Universal Music Group . The label itself also featured a Nashville , Tennessee - based subsidiary , DreamWorks Nashville , which specialized in country music and was shut down in 2005 . The company ' s logo was designed by Roy Lichtenstein and was his last commission before his death in 1997 . ___MASK1___ is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . ___MASK1___ is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north , the Atlantic Ocean to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , ___MASK1___ is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of ___MASK1___  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to ___MASK1___ also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . Tracy Lee Lawrence ( born January 27 , 1968 ) is an American ___MASK8___ artist . He started at a ___MASK8___ restaurant called " Live At Libby ' s " where owner Libby Knight would help local talent find their way into ___MASK8___ . Lawrence signed to Atlantic Records in 1991 , Lawrence debuted that year with the album " Sticks and Stones ", which produced his first chart single and first Number One hit in its title track . Five more studio albums , as well as a live album and a compilation album , followed throughout the 1990s and into 2000 on Atlantic before the label ' s country division was closed in 2001 . Afterward , he recorded for Warner Bros . Records , ___MASK57___ , Mercury Records Nashville and his own label , Rocky Comfort Records . The Best of Ken Mellons is an ___MASK79___ , released in 2001 , by American ___MASK8___ artist Ken Mellons . Despite its title , it is not a compilation ___MASK79___ , but rather a ___MASK88___ composed of nine new tracks and a dance mix of his 1994 hit " Jukebox Junkie ". Prior to this ___MASK79___ , Mellons had released a non - charting single in " Mr . DJ " for Curb , and after the release of this ___MASK79___ , Mellons left the label . Atlantic Recording Corporation ( simply known as ___MASK80___ ) is an American record ___MASK28___ founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson . Over its first 20 years of operation , ___MASK80___ earned a reputation as one of the most important American recording ___MASK82___ , specializing in jazz , R & B and soul recordings by African - American musicians including Aretha Franklin , Ray Charles , Wilson Pickett , Sam and Dave , Ruth Brown and Otis Redding , a position greatly enhanced by its distribution deal with ___MASK53___ . In 1967 , ___MASK80___ became a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros .- Seven Arts , now the Warner Music Group , and expanded into rock and ___MASK68___ music with releases by bands such as Led Zeppelin and Yes . ___MASK33___ Records Inc . is an American major record ___MASK28___ established in 1958 as the foundation ___MASK28___ of the present - day ___MASK42___ ( WMG ), and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation . ___MASK33___ Records was established on March 19 , 1958 , as the recorded - music division of the American film studio ___MASK33___ For most of its early existence it was one of a group of ___MASK82___ owned and operated by larger parent corporations . The sequence of companies that controlled ___MASK33___ and its allied ___MASK82___ evolved through a convoluted series of corporate mergers and acquisitions from the early 1960s to the early 2000s . Over this period , ___MASK33___ Records grew from a struggling minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording ___MASK82___ in the world . Fiddle is another name for the bowed string musical instrument more often called a ___MASK100___ . It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres , including classical music . Fiddle playing , or fiddling , refers to various styles of music . Fiddle is also a common term among musicians who play folk music on the ___MASK100___ . The fiddle is part of many traditional ( folk ) styles of music which are aural traditions , taught ' by ear ' rather than via written music . Fiddle is normally the term used for Irish Traditional Music . Strong is the eighth ___MASK88___ by American ___MASK8___ singer ___MASK40___ , released in 2004 , his only album for the DreamWorks label . It produced three singles for him on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks ( now Hot Country Songs ) charts : `` Paint Me a Birmingham '' ( # 4 ) , `` It ' s All How You Look at It '' ( # 35 ) and `` Sawdust on Her Halo '' ( # 48 ) . `` Paint Me a Birmingham '' was also recorded in 2003 by Ken Mellons on his album Sweet , from which it was released as a single shortly before Lawrence ' s rendition . Recorded history or written history is a historical narrative based on a written ___MASK32___ or other documented communication . Recorded history can be contrasted with other narratives of the past , such as mythological , oral or archeological traditions . ___MASK8___ is a genre of United States popular music that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s . It takes its roots from the southeastern genre of United States , such as folk music ( especially Appalachian folk music ), and blues music . Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history . ___MASK8___ often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos , electric and acoustic guitars , dobros and fiddles as well as harmonicas . According to Lindsey Starnes , the term " ___MASK8___ " gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term " hillbilly music "; it came to encompass Western music , which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots , in the mid - 20th century . The term " ___MASK8___ " is used today to describe many styles and subgenres . The origins of ___MASK8___ are the folk music of working - class Americans , who blended popular songs , Irish and Celtic fiddle tunes , traditional English ballads , and cowboy songs , and various musical traditions from European immigrant communities . In 2009 ___MASK8___ was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute , and second most popular in the morning commute in the United States . The word Dobro is , in popular usage , the generic term for a wood - bodied , single cone resonator guitar . It is also an American brand of resonator guitar , currently owned by the Gibson Guitar Corporation . The Dobro was originally made by the Dopyera brothers when they formed the Dobro Manufacturing Company . Their design , with a single inverted resonator , was introduced in competition to the patented Tricone and biscuit designs produced by the National String Instrument Corporation . The Dobro name appeared on other instruments , notably electric lap steel guitars and solid body electric guitars and on other resonator instruments such as ___MASK26___ resonator mandolins .