Sweethearts of the Rodeo

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Kristine Oliver Arnold and Janis Oliver Gill, the Sweethearts of the Rodeo. From the insert to their fourth album, Sisters. Original photograph by Señor McGuire.

Sweethearts of the Rodeo was a popular country duo from the USA in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They consisted of sisters Janis Oliver and Kristine Oliver, who grew up in suburban Los Angeles. While still in their teenage years they performed as the Oliver Sisters.

The sisters named themselves after a landmark album by The Byrds which fused elements of rock with country. A typical Sweethearts tune is an upbeat two-stepper mixing country instrumentation with a rock beat. Their harmonies were so close that some have referred to them as "The Everly Sisters." Along with The Judds and the Forester Sisters, they were at the time among country music's only all-female groups.

Their hits included "SInce I Found You" (written by the duo Foster & Lloyd), "Satisfy You", "Chains of Gold", "Midnight Girl/Sunset Town", and a remake of the Beatles' "I Feel Fine".

Janis married Country star Vince Gill in the early 1980s, who at the time was a member of Country Rock act Pure Prairie League prior to his Country stardom; they divorced in the late 1990s. The sisters also owned a clothing store in Franklin, TN called "Gill & Arnold" for a time in the late 1990s that has since closed.^[1]

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Sweethearts of the Rodeo website

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