Wes Hightower Biography

Born in Weatherford, Texas and moved to Nashville in 1990 to try the music business. I've sung on about 100 million records sold world-wide. Music Row Magazine has named me Musician Of The Year (for Backgrounds) 5 years consecutively.

My heroes are John Wesley Ryles, Curtis Young, Dennis Wilson, and Don Rich. Everything I ever did singing harmonies I learned from these guys. My influences go farther back, but my education definitely came from them. I just had to listen to the greatest records made in the seventies and eighties in Nashville and those are the guys that were the backbone of all the recordings. My songwriting has blossomed a bit in the past few years. I've had songs recorded by South 65, Jake Owen, Montgomery/Gentry, and Coley McCabe. Not many, but enough to make one keep working hard.

My goals are to continue writing and hopefully someday pen a Grammy-winning effort.