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The story of Mick Rowe has to begin with his background in the Christian Metal movement of the 80's. Mick fronted the band "Tempest". One of the first metal recording artist to be signed, record, and tour all over the United States. Sales of over 100,000 units put Tempest and Handsome Mick on the radar, Mick left the CCM world in 1990 with a distaste for that industry. HMR is now known as one of the "Godfathers" of Christian Metal. In 2004 he journeyed to Nashville to pursue a new music career. When Mick Rowe arrived in Nashville he had long hair, earrings, tattoos, and he looked like he would have fit in better in the metal head community than in the Nashville community. Walking out of all the downtown clubs with big name Country music stars (members of Muzik Mafia and others with his cowboy hat and attitude on. country/southern rock music fans would naturally think the 6 foot 4 giant a big star and mob him.
In 2004 his next break came. Pump Audio signed the artist to put his music on just about every cable network show you can imagine. That same year John & Dino Elephante of Kansas took notice of his talents and released his first album with the band Nineteen88 entitled "The Great American Rock & Roll Spectacle". Within the next year he started touring with the rowdy Southern rock group, and sold nearly 50,000 copies of the debut. But it was still not the Southern Rock vibe he was looking for. Now Mick Rowe is still rowdy and doing it his way. Mick has no compunctions about being flat-out silly, which is good, since that silliness brings him a big novelty hit in "The Beer Song (Hell Yeah)," a song designed for drunken shout-alongs in every rowdy bar. The debut also includes the Charlie Daniels Band classic "Long Haired Country Boy" "The Beer Song & U.S.A. The sessions include Hank Jr.’s steel wizard Mike Daly. Mick plays to a rowdy audience, but the surprise is that the rowdiness is tongue-in-cheek and that Mick is musically clever, filling the record with big hooks and loud guitars. - but it's wilder and stranger than most contemporary country albums of the last few years, and a whole lot more fun, to boot.
