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"All For You" - Sister Hazel

from the album Somewhere More Familiar (1997)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #11 (five weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 33

 

Today's song of the day comes from the alternative rock band Sister Hazel, who came together in Gainesville, Florida (the late Tom Petty's home) in the early 1990s. The band released their self-titled album independently in 1993 before being signed to Universal who re-released their second album Somewhere More Familiar, which also came out independently. The lead single from the record was "All For You", a perfect slice of jangle-pop written by the band (Ken Block, Jeff Beres, Andrew Copeland, Ryan Newell, and Mark Trojanowski) and produced by Paul Ebersold. Anchored by the vocal interplay between Block and Copeland that gives the normally ordinary love song a conversational flow while the acoustic guitars keep it at a drive mixtape pace...

"All For You" became Sister Hazel's first and only top-40 pop hit in America in August of 1997. The song was a huge hit on the Adult Top-40 radio format, where it spent seven weeks at #1 and 69 weeks on the list, while getting to #16 on the older-skewing Adult Contemporary radio tally. It even slipped on to the Alternative Rock chart at #39. Internationally, the single went to #2 in Canada and #10 in Iceland. The Somewhere More Familiar album peaked at #47 on the Billboard 200 sales chart, going on to sell over a million copies. 

The second song from the album promoted to radio was the slightly harder-edged "Happy", which wasn't released as a commercial single. Nevertheless, the song spent a half-year on the Adult Top-40 chart, cresting at #27, while making both the Alternative (#37) and Mainstream (#31) Rock radio lists. Since it wasn't a single, it wasn't able to place on the Hot 100, but made it to #73 on the airplay component of the list.

The band returned in 2000 with their third effort Fortress, which shuffled a handful of producers including Ebersold. First single "Change Your Mind" climbed to #5 on Billboard's Adult Top-40 chart and was their second Hot 100 pop hit at #59. Second single "Champagne High" featured Emily Saliers from the Indigo Girls, and got to #22 at Adult Top-40. Leaving Universal, it was another three years before their next set, Chasing Daylight, which spun off another pair of Adult Top-40 hits (decent for an indie label). Since then, the band has released six more album, with one of them, Release in 2009, their highest-ranking set on the Billboard 200 at #37. The album before that, Absolutely, had their most recent Adult Top-40 hit at #26 with "Mandolin Moon" with singer Shawn Mullins. Their most recent album, Fire, came out in 2019.

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Here's the band performing the song in concert (in which some of the footage was used for the regular music video)...

and appearing on Conan to promote the single (wish the sound was better the intro was great)...

and lastly, live in 2003...

Up tomorrow: "Gangsta" rapper will leave the light on...