Giantslayer Records
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| Giantslayer Records | |
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| Founded | 2004 |
| Founder | Rory Lee Feek Tim Johnson |
| Distributing label | CBuJ Distribution |
| Genre | Country |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Location | Nashville, Tennessee |
Giantslayer Records is an American independent record label specializing in country music. It was established in 2004 by songwriters Rory Lee Feek and Tim Johnson in Nashville, Tennessee. The label's first release was Blaine Larsen's 2004 album In My High School, which was re-issued in 2005 as Off to Join the World on BNA Records in association with Giantslayer. Besides Larsen, singer Danny Green is signed to the label.
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[edit] Biographies
Rory Lee Feek was born in Atchison, Kansas. As a songwriter, Feek has co-written Blake Shelton's Number One single "Some Beach", as well as Top 5 hits for Clay Walker ("The Chain of Love") and Collin Raye ("Someone You Used to Know").
In 2005, Rory and four partners founded http://www.storybehindthesong.net, an interactive website providing the stories behind several country music hits. He also co-wrote the story "The Chain of Love" that was published in the Chicken Soup book series in the "Chicken Soup for the Country Soul" volume.
Tim Johnson grew up in a small logging community in western Oregon. He has written more than one hundred country music songs for other artists,[citation needed] including hits for George Strait, Mark Chesnutt, Tracy Byrd, Diamond Rio, and Alan Jackson.
Rory found, self-funded, and co-produced Blaine Larsen's debut album with Johnson, independently creating and releasing a single, video and album that received major airplay and resulted in a major label co-imprint deal with BNA Records.[citation needed]
[edit] Song Trust: "Bring Him Home Santa"
In December 2007, Giantslayer partnered with Capitol Records to release a Christmas song entitled "Bring Him Home Santa". Written by Feek and Johnson, the song was sung by an anonymous six-year-old girl and credited to the Song Trust.[1] On the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated for the week of January 5, 2008, "Bring Him Home Santa" reached a peak of #29.
