Texas Country's Wade Bowen Takes Home Trophies and Hits No. 1 Spot on Texas Music Charts

Posted by
Lisa L. Rollins
May 14, 2009

Texas-country music's Wade Bowen scored three Gruene with Envy Awards earlier this week for "Best Artist of the Year" and "Best Song of the Year" for You Had Me at My Best and "Best Album of the Year" for his current CD, If We Ever Make it Home.

According to a press release, the fan-voted awards, which were held May 11, 2009, set record numbers this year with more than 230,000 votes submitted.

Just last month, on April 27, 2009, Bowen took home the Texas Music Awards' "Male Vocalist of the Year" prize.Additionally, he snagged the industry-voted "Album of the Year" title for If We Ever Make it Home, as well as "Vocal Performance of the Year" for the title track at the Lone Star Music Awards on March 30.

"I poured my heart into writing and recording this album," Bowen said. "I just hoped that a few people would buy it and then maybe come out to one of my shows.I really never expected anything like this!"

Bowen's just-won trophies are timed perfectly, if one considers that the artist's also just ascended to the No. 1 slot on the Texas Music Charts this week with If We Ever Make it Home, his first chart-topper and the title track of his current album.

To read this writer's review of Bowen's latest CD, please access Review: If We Ever Make It Home by Wade Bowen.