The Buffalo Club

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The Buffalo Club
Origin Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Genre(s) Country
Years active 1997
Label(s) Rising Tide
Associated acts The Imperials
Restless Heart
Former members
John Dittrich
Ron Hemby
Charlie Kelly

The Buffalo Club was a short-lived American country music group founded in 1997 by Ron Hemby (lead vocals, guitar), John Dittrich (vocals, drums), and Charlie Kelly (vocals, guitar). Before the group's foundation, Hemby had served as a vocalist in the Christian group The Imperials, Kelly had played guitar for Doug Stone, and Dittrich had been drummer in the country band Restless Heart from 1984 until the mid-1990s.

Signed to Rising Tide Records in 1997, The Buffalo Club recorded its self-titled debut album that year. The lead-off single, "If She Don't Love You", reached #9 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts; this song had been previously offered to Restless Heart, who had turned it down.[1] The album, which peaked at #69 on the Top Country Albums charts, also produced a #26 country hit in the song "Nothing Less Than Love", which had been previously recorded by Bryan White on his self-titled debut album, and by Sawyer Brown on their 1995 album This Thing Called Wantin' and Havin' It All. The third single, "Heart Hold On", peaked at #53 at the end of 1997, and shortly afterward, the members of The Buffalo Club parted ways.[2]

Dittritch briefly rejoined Restless Heart to record new selections for a Greatest Hits album in 1998; he and the other four founding members of Restless Heart officially reunited in 2004 to record the album Still Restless.

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[edit] Discography

[edit] The Buffalo Club (1997)

The Buffalo Club
The Buffalo Club cover
Studio album by The Buffalo Club
Released March 25, 1997 (1997-03-25)
Genre Country
Length 37:18
Label Rising Tide
Producer Barry Beckett[3]
Professional reviews
  • Country Standard Time – link

[edit] Track listing

  1. "You Should See Her Now" (Greg Barnhill, Vince Melamed, Hawk Wolinski) - 4:26
  2. "Heart Hold On" (Henry Paul, Vicky McGehee, Mike Lawler) - 4:00
  3. "The Funny Thing Is" (John Dittrich, Rick Bowles) - 3:34
  4. "Never Enough" (Pat Alger, Marc Beeson) - 3:34
  5. "All My Life" (Steve Seskin, Annie Roboff) - 3:14
  6. "If She Don't Love You" (Trey Bruce, Beeson) - 3:38
  7. "After Alice" (Gary Burr, John Barlow Jarvis) - 4:05
  8. "End of Lonely Road" (Melamed, Bob DiPiero, Greg Barnhill) - 3:29
  9. "Wish for You" (DiPiero, Rob Hemby) - 3:12
  10. "Nothin' Less Than Love" (Wayne Tester, Rusty Young) - 3:59

[edit] Personnel

As listed in liner notes.[3]

[edit] The Buffalo Club

[edit] Additional musicians
  • Eddie Bayers
  • Barry Beckett
  • Tom Hemby
  • Ric Latina
  • Mike Lawler
  • Phil Naish
  • Michael Rhodes
  • Chris Rodriguez
  • Mike Severs
  • Mark Thompson
  • Biff Watson

[edit] Singles

Year Title US Country
1997 "If She Don't Love You" 9
"Nothin' Less Than Love" 26
"Heart Hold On" 53

[edit] References

  1. ^ Buffalo Club - The Buffalo Club
  2. ^ CMT.com : : 1997
  3. ^ a b (1997) Album notes for The Buffalo Club by The Buffalo Club. Rising Tide Records.