Phil Vassar
Phil Vassar is an American country music singer-songwriter and pianist. Vassar made his debut on the American country music scene in the late 1990s, co-writing singles for several country artists, including Tim McGraw (”For a Little While”, “My Next Thirty Years”), Jo Dee Messina (”Bye, Bye”, “I’m Alright”), Collin Raye (”Little Red Rodeo”), and Alan Jackson (”Right on the Money”. In 1999, he was named by ASCAP as Country Songwriter of the Year.
Phil Vassar sings party-friendly country music with a kicked-back drawl and melodies more catchy than a box of fishing lures. Phil Vassar wrote for Tim McGraw, Jo Dee Messina, Colin Raye and Alan Jackson before singing his own saucy country pop songs. Engelbert Humperdinck, lord of the lounge crooners, discovered Phil Vassar singing in a smoky club in Nashville, Tenn. Phil was a frat rat in college. In the 80’s he was a member of the Eta Kappa chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity. Vassar once co-owned a piano bar outside Nashville, Tennessee, where he used to bartend and perform his own material.
Later that same year, Vassar was signed to Arista Nashville as a recording artist. His debut album, Phil Vassar, was released in early 2000; it produced five hit singles on the U.S. Billboard country singles charts and was certified gold in the United States. He followed it in 2002 with American Child, Shaken Not Stirred in 2004, and finally Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 in 2006 before Vassar left the label for Universal South Records. His first album for that label, Prayer of a Common Man, was released in early 2008.
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