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Gordie Sampson (born July 30, 1971) is a Grammy, and Juno award winning singer / songwriter / producer from Big Pond, Nova Scotia, Canada. As a performer he has shared the stage with the likes of Faith Hill, Keith Urban, the Rankin Family, Joel Plaskett, John Allan Cameron, Aselin Debison and Ashley MacIsaac. As a songwriter he has known success writing songs for Carrie Underwood ("Jesus, Take the Wheel", "Just A Dream", "Get Out Of This Town"), Martina McBride ("Everybody Wants To Be Loved", "You're Not Leavin Me"), LeAnn Rimes ("Long Night", "Save Myself"), and George Canyon ("My Name"). As a producer and sound engineer he has logged studio time with Damhnait Doyle, Natalie MacMaster, The Cottars, Bruce Guthro, and Buddy MacMaster. As a musical director for television and live projects he worked on Celtic Electric (CBC TV), the Rankin Family's Christmas special and the Cape Breton Summertime Revue.
[edit] Music careerThough his early influences (Black Sabbath, AC/DC) were of the hard rock and heavy metal variety, this has not been evident in his professional career. His sound can be described as blues/folk/pop. He got his start jamming with Angelo Spinazzola and other young, local musicians while attending Riverview Rural High School in the late 1980s and later in bands such as Hate Ashbury and Green Eggs And Jam who played mainly local gigs in the Cape Breton area. He later got his first taste of success as a member of Realworld in the early 1990s with brothers Jamie Foulds and Matthew Foulds. The group released one self-titled CD that featured local radio hits "Angels", "Throwin' It All Away" and "We All Need". He was also a member of the house band on Rita MacNeil's weekly CBC hit show Rita and Friends. He has produced and co-written Damhnait Doyle's Davnet, and Natalie MacMaster's In My Hands albums. Sampson has been particularly successful as a songwriter in the country genre. His songs have been recorded by such artists as Faith Hill ("Paris"), Trace Adkins ("Words Get in the Way"), Carolyn Dawn Johnson ("Crybaby"), Aaron Lines ("Seeing Things"), Great Big Sea ("Lucky Me", "Let it Go") and George Canyon ("My Name", "Happy Man").[1] It was "Jesus, Take the Wheel", co-written with Brett James and Hillary Lindsey in Nashville, that brought him international industry acclaim as a songwriter. The song, recorded by former American Idol winner Carrie Underwood and released in 2005,sat at the top of the charts for six weeks, tying Faith Hill's "Breathe" as a runner-up for longest-running number-one song by a solo female artist. Sampson has commented that the song was inspired by a story told to him by an aunt regarding the death of an acquaintance in a car accident in a Nova Scotia.[2] Since the success of "Jesus, Take the Wheel", Sampson has co-written songs with several well known Nashville performers including LeAnn Rimes ("Long Night", "Save Myself"), and Bon Jovi ("Any Other Day") for that band's 2007 country music crossover album Lost Highway. He also spent time writing with Keith Urban at his Nashville home he shares with wife Nicole Kidman.[3] Urban has recorded his song, "You (Or Somebody Like You)" on his European release of the album, "Days Go By." Sampson has released three CDs as a solo artist. His debut solo album, Stones (1998), was nominated for a Juno Award. He also received an East Coast Music Award for the single "Sorry", and is a former John Lennon Songwriting Contest finalist. His second CD, Sunburn (2004), came after a brief hiatus and was largely written in partnership with Troy Verges and Blair Daly. Sampson produced the CD and played the majority of the instruments on Sunburn including guitars, bass, drums and piano. The album was recorded at Lakewind Sound Studios in Point Aconi, Nova Scotia, which he co-owns with Fred Lavery, as well as in studios in Toronto and Nashville. For The Few And Far Between was released in 2008, and was nominated for a 2009 Juno Award and was the receipient of two East Coast Music Awards. [edit] Personal lifeSampson now resides primarily in Nashville but returns to Cape Breton regularly, in addition to touring across Canada. His parents are Frank (September 6, 1946-December 3, 2007) and Flo (Ley) Sampson. His sister, Amy Sampson, is a former member of the Cape Breton band Ashego. Gordie and his longtime partner and wife, Helen Musial, have a young daughter named Amelie. [edit] Awards and nominations
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[edit] Notable hitsThese are songs that Sampson wrote for other artists.
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