On the Cover – Andy Griggs

8/1/2002 – August 2002

Label: RCA Records
Booking: William Morris Agency (Marc Dennis)
Management: Bonnie Garner Management
Producers: David Malloy
Current Single: “Tonight I Wanna Be Your Man”
Current Album: Freedom
Current Video: “Tonight I Wanna Be Your Man”

Birth Date: Aug. 13
Interests: Bow hunting, raising coondogs
Interesting Facts: Griggs met his wife, Stephanie Sullivan, while playing in a bluegrass group with her father, Jerry Sullivan, and sister,Tammy Sullivan, called The Sullivans.
Awards: 1999 Artist/Writer of the Year (Sony Music Publishing); 1999 Top New Male Country Artists (Country Airplay Monitor and R&R)
Hits: “You Won’t Ever Be Lonely,” “She’s More,” “I’ll Go Crazy”
RIAA Certifications: You Won’t Ever Be Lonely (Gold) Musical Influences: Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Flatt & Scruggs, Larry Sparks and Hank Williams

Hoping to follow in the gold-selling footsteps of his debut album,Andy Griggs released his sophomore album, Freedom, on July 9. “I used You Won’t Ever Be Lonely as a foundation, of course,” says Griggs. “But I tried to make Freedom a little more extreme, a little more to the right and left—a bit more jagged on the blues side and a bit more hardcore as far as the old country style. I guess the biggest difference between making the first record and the second is that I think I know me a little better.”