Gary grew up on a California cattle ranch and has
always been interested in country music. He was
offered a record deal at the tender age of fifteen, but
turned it down because neither he nor his parents felt
that he had developed a sound of his own yet. At age
twenty, he founded his own band, the Honky Tonk
Wranglers. Three years later he finally felt that he had
found his own music signature and was ready to try
for another recording contract. It was worth the wait because In 1996 he was signed to Decca Records.
Gary Allan specialises in dusty honky tonk, cracked
country ballads rhythms from honky-tonk clubs where
people gather, talk, and dance; lyrics unafraid to deal
with whatever appears on the table at the time
forming the bedrock of country music stretching from
the rich balladry of Roy Orbison to the ornery truths of
Haggard and Owens
