On Sept. 28, 2002, Diamond Rio's "Beautiful Mess" began a two-week run at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, marking the group's fourth leader. The song was written by Sonny LeMaire (of ...

In the early 1990s, Diamond Rio turned doubters into duplicators. The group were told they were just too big to succeed in country music prior to signing with Arista Nashville. The Randy Owen-led trio ...

In the fall of 2000, songwriter Steven Dale Jones (“Ten Thousand Angels,” “Singles You Up”) played a club in Atlanta the night he’d learned that Arista planned to release his song “One More Day.” “I ...

Diamond Rio has scored as many hit singles as it has years of existence, and in the case of this long-lived band, that's a pile of records: 33 charting songs since The Tennessee River Boys, founded as ...