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"She's More" - Andy Griggs

from the album You Won't Ever Be Lonely (1999)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #37 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 1

 

Today's song comes from country music singer Andy Griggs, whose debut single "You Won't Ever Be Lonely" went to #2 on Billboard magazine's Country Singles chart and crossed over to the pop Hot 100 top-40 in the spring of 1999.  His second single, the uptempo "I'll Go Crazy", also made the country top ten at #10, but stopped at #65 on the Hot 100. (Coincidentally, it's my favorite cut on the album.) The third release from the You Won't Ever Be Lonely set goes back to the ballad charms of "She's More". Written by Rob Crosby (who had his own top-20 country single in 1990 with "Love Will Bring Her Around") and Liz Hengber, Andy sings about how his woman isn't what he fantasized about before, but in return she's much better. It's a simple sentiment, though it could've flopped tremendously if it didn't have the right amount of earnestness. In return Griggs scored his biggest country radio hit...

"She's More" became Andy's second and to date last top-40 crossover hit on Billboard's Hot 100 in June of 2000. The song spent five weeks at #2 on their Country Singles chart as well. Internationally, the single went to #2 on the Canadian Country chart. 

Griggs' next single from the record, "Waitin' On Sundown", stopped at #50 on the Country Singles chart. That was followed by the album's opener "You Made Me That Way", which did much better, peaking at #19 at country radio while "bubbling under" the Hot 100 at #116. 

The singer returned the following year with his sophomore effort, Freedom, which was his first record to make the top ten on Billboard's Country Albums chart at #7, while getting to #77 on the all-genre Billboard 200 sales tally. There was a slight misstep when lead single "How Cool Is That", an attempt at a harder rock-country sound which stalled down at #22 on the country radio chart (although it "bubbled under" the Hot 100 at #119 from single sales). Going back to his slow dance ballad wheelhouse, follow-up "Tonight I Wanna Be Your Man" returned Andy to the country top ten at #7, and the Hot 100 at #52.

Andy's third (and final) album on RCA Records, This I Gotta See, arrived in 2004, and again went to #7 on the Country Albums chart, while giving him his highest rank on the Billboard 200 at #59. Two songs from the set reached #5 on the Country Singles chart - "She Thinks She Needs Me" and "If Heaven", with the former almost making the Hot 100 top-40 at #43. 

Leaving RCA and going independent on the Montage label, Griggs released The Good Life in 2008, which spun off two minor singles, with "What If It's Me" going to #52 as his most recent charting country radio hit. His most recent album, Naked, came out on Little Hannel Records in 2012. A new single, "K9 Brother", was released in 2020. 

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And here's Andy doing "She's More" live after a little story about a proposal...

Up tomorrow: Another country singer has romantic bondage.