Biography

At the heart of Staind's loud, angst-laden music are the confessional lyrics and introspective personality of frontman Aaron Lewis. While other post-grunge bands were successful in mining the dark caverns once explored by Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, Lewis allowed his sensitivity to pour freely from his words and often pensive vocals, enabling Staind to strike a balance between heavy metal bombast and thoughtful, melodic rock. Born in Springfield, Vermont, Lewis listened to folk music as a child. The son of divorced parents, he chronicled the emotional turmoil in his childhood with Staind, namely on tracks like "Epiphany" and "For You," from Break the Cycle. Like the late Kurt Cobain from Nirvana, Lewis cast an unpretentious, no-frills image, exhibiting a brooding disposition and emotional vulnerability that troubled youths could relate to. Lewis recorded his first album with Staind, Tormented, in 1996. Staind remained on the fringes of mainstream acceptance until "Outside," a live collaboration between Lewis and Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst during the 1999 Family Values Tour, blew up on alternative and mainstream rock stations a year later. With only his acoustic guitar as his musical backing, Lewis delivered a raw, anguished performance of a song that Staind would later record in the studio for Break the Cycle. The track carved the path for Staind's subsequent commercial breakthrough. Staind sustained a decade of popularity before Lewis broke free with a solo career in 2011, refashioning himself as a conservative country singer on his 2011 EP, Town Line. He had some success with the album but before he could capitalize on his country career, he reunited with Staind for an eponymous album in 2011. In 2012, he prepped his full-length country debut, The Road, which appeared toward the end of the year. Thanks to the minor hits "Endless Summer," "Country Boy," and "Forever," the album went to seven on Billboard's country chart, and he followed it with another country album, Sinner, in the fall of 2016. ~ Michael Sutton

Top Albums
1. Sinner	2. Town Line	3. The Road (De..	4. The Road	5. Mama - Singl..
6. Lost and Lon..	7. Whiskey and ..	8. Sinner (feat..	9. That Ain't C..

Top Songs
	Name	Album	Time	Price
1.	That Ain’t Country	Sinner	4:02	$1.29
2.	Sinner (feat. Willie Nelson)	Sinner	3:31	$1.29
3.	Northern Redneck	Sinner	3:39	$1.29
4.	Whiskey and You	Sinner	4:28	$1.29
5.	Country Boy (feat. George Jones &..	Town Line	4:43	$1.29
6.	Travelin’ Soldier	Sinner	4:46	$1.29
7.	Mama	Sinner	5:04	$1.29
8.	Lost and Lonely	Sinner	4:57	$1.29
9.	I Lost It All	Sinner	3:54	$1.29
10.	Granddaddy's Gun	Road (Deluxe Version)	3:43	$1.29
11.	Sunday Every Saturday Night	Sinner	4:59	$1.29
12.	Stuck in These Shoes	Sinner	3:44	$1.29
13.	Story of My Life	Sinner	4:34	$1.29
14.	Country Boy (Acoustic Version)	Town Line	4:19	$1.29
15.	Tangled Up In You	Town Line	4:28	$1.29
16.	Forever	Road (Deluxe Version)	4:27	$1.29
17.	Endless Summer	Road (Deluxe Version)	3:22	$1.29
18.	Massachusetts	Town Line	5:03	$1.29
19.	Road	Road (Deluxe Version)	2:48	$1.29
20.	Country Boy (Radio Edit)	Town Line	4:20	$1.29
21.	Outside	Family Values Tour 1999	5:41	$1.29
22.	Anywhere But Here	Road (Deluxe Version)	5:06	$1.29
23.	Vicious Circles	Town Line	5:07	$1.29
24.	Red, White & Blue	Road (Deluxe Version)	5:41	$1.29
25.	Afraid	Nashville Outlaws: A Tribut..	3:51	$1.29

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