Lonestar also refers to a Canadian digital television channel that is devoted to Western television shows and movies
Lonestar is an American country music band consisting of Richie McDonald (lead vocals), Michael Britt (guitar), Keech Rainwater (drums) and Dean Sams (keyboards).
The group began having major country hits in 1995, with the top 10 hit "Tequilla Talking." Their first No. 1 hit was "No News," which spent three weeks at the top of Billboard magazine's Hot Country Singles chart in 1996.
Lonestar's signature song is "Amazed," a ballad which spent eight weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's country chart during the summer of 1999. The song subsequently climbed to the top of Billboard's Hot 100 chart, the first country act to accomplish the feat since 1983's "Islands in the Stream" by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton.
Other No. 1 hits include "Come Cryin' to Me" (summer 1997); "Smile" and "What About Now" (both 2000); "Tell Her" and "I'm Already There" ( 2001); "My Front Porch Lookin' In" ( 2003) and "Mr. Mom" ( 2004). Other important hits in Lonestar's discography include "Running Away With My Heart" and "When Cowboys Didn't Dance" ( 1996); "Heartbroke Every Day" and "You Walked In" ( 1997); "Say When" and "Everything's Changed" ( 1998); "With Me" ( 2001); "Not a Day Goes By" and "Unusually Unusual" ( 2002); "Walking in Memphis" ( 2003); "Let's Be Us Again" ( 2004); "Class Reunion (That Used to Be Us)" ( 2005) and "You're Like Coming Home" ( 2005). Their current single is "I'll Die Tryin'", which is a cover of another Emerson Drive song released three years earlier.
During Lonestar's early years, songwriter John Rich was also a member as the band's bassist. He left the group in 1998 and is now part of the country duo Big & Rich.