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Bobbie Cryner
Born
Phyllis Cryner

(1961-09-13) September 13, 1961 (age 64)[1]
Woodland, California, U.S.[2]
GenresCountry
OccupationSinger-songwriter
InstrumentVocals
LabelsEpic, MCA Nashville

Phyllis "Bobbie" Cryner (born September 13, 1961) is an American country music singer and songwriter. She recorded two studio albums in the 1990s, Bobbie Cryner for Epic Records and Girl of Your Dreams for MCA Nashville, and placed five singles on the Billboard country chart. Although her recordings had limited commercial success, they received substantial critical praise.[3] Cryner later wrote songs recorded by artists including Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, and Lee Ann Womack.

Early life and career beginnings

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Cryner was born in Woodland in Northern California and raised in Kansas.[4] She began writing gospel songs as a teenager; as she grew older, her writing turned toward country songs about adult relationships.[4][5]

She moved to Nashville in 1989 to pursue a songwriting career and supported herself by waiting tables at the Cooker restaurant near Rivergate Mall.[6] Bluegrass musician and producer Carl Jackson, a customer at the restaurant, heard a tape of Cryner's songs and helped her obtain a publishing agreement and a recording contract with Epic.[4][5] Cryner made Jackson's participation as co-producer a condition of signing with the label.[5]

Recording career

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Epic Records

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Epic released Cryner's self-titled debut album in 1993. It was produced by Jackson and Doug Johnson, and Cryner wrote or co-wrote more than half of its ten songs.[7] Dwight Yoakam joined Cryner for a duet on the Buck Owens song "I Don't Care", while Emmylou Harris contributed backing vocals to "Too Many Tears Too Late".[6] Soon after recording the album, Cryner gave her first public performance at Fan Fair in 1993 and then opened for George Strait in Las Vegas.[5]

Three singles from the album reached Billboard's Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart: "Daddy Laid the Blues on Me", "He Feels Guilty", and "You Could Steal Me".[8] Randy Lewis of the Los Angeles Times praised the emotional range of Cryner's songwriting and compared aspects of her vocal phrasing to K. T. Oslin, Reba McEntire, and George Jones.[7] In a later profile, Lewis characterized her voice as dark and soulful and her music as more traditional than much of the contemporary Nashville market.[9]

After a management change at Epic, Cryner lost her recording contract despite the album's favorable reviews.[2] MCA executive and producer Tony Brown had seen one of her videos on CMT and contacted her management. After Cryner left Epic, Brown listened to her new songs and signed her to MCA.[10] Brown was particularly interested in Cryner's "You'd Think He'd Know Me Better", which McEntire had encouraged Cryner to record herself. Because Cryner had already recorded the song for an unreleased Epic project, Cryner and her manager bought the rights to it and another recording from Epic for $30,000.[10]

MCA Nashville

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MCA released Girl of Your Dreams in January 1996. The album was produced by Brown and Barry Beckett and again mixed Cryner's own compositions with songs by outside writers.[11] Its tracks included a cover of "Son of a Preacher Man" and the Hugh Prestwood composition "I Just Can't Stand to Be Unhappy".[2] The latter and Cryner's "You'd Think He'd Know Me Better" both reached the Billboard country chart, peaking at numbers 63 and 56 respectively.[8]

Lewis found the second album less consistent than Cryner's debut but praised her abilities as both a singer and writer of country ballads.[12] A review in Country Music called it the best Nashville album of the year and praised its emotional directness, while also reporting that MCA had dropped Cryner after the album failed to receive a breakthrough at country radio.[13]

Songwriting for other artists

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Following her two major-label albums, Cryner continued to have songs recorded by other country artists. Suzy Bogguss recorded the Cryner composition "Nobody Love, Nobody Gets Hurt" as the title track and a single from her 1998 album.[14][8]

In the late 1990s, Cryner placed a cassette demo of "Real Live Woman" in Trisha Yearwood's mailbox. Yearwood recorded it as the title track and lead single of her 2000 album Real Live Woman, describing the song as the starting point for a new musical direction.[15] The single peaked at number 16 on the Billboard country chart.[16] Lee Ann Womack included Cryner's "Stronger Than I Am" on her 2000 album I Hope You Dance; critic David Cantwell singled out the song while discussing Cryner's contribution to the album.[17]

Discography

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Albums

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Title Album details
Bobbie Cryner
  • Release year: 1993
  • Label: Epic
Girl of Your Dreams

Singles

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Year Single Peak positions Album
US Country
[8]		 CAN Country
[18]
1993 "Daddy Laid the Blues on Me" 63 72 Bobbie Cryner
"He Feels Guilty" 68 48
1994 "You Could Steal Me" 72 —
1995 "I Just Can't Stand to Be Unhappy" 63 55 Girl of Your Dreams
1996 "You'd Think He'd Know Me Better" 56 —
"I Didn't Know My Own Strength" — 90
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

References

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  1. ↑ Larkin, Colin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. p. 330. ISBN 1-85227-745-9.
  2. 1 2 3 Gibbons, Jacquelyn A. (January 25, 1996). "Look out Garth, here comes Bobbie Cryner". Daily News. Jacksonville, North Carolina. pp. 30–31 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ Ankeny, Jason. "Bobbie Cryner Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More". AllMusic. Retrieved July 22, 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 Oermann, Robert K. (June 9, 1994). "A style all her own". The Tennessean. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Morthland, John (November 1994). "Bobbie Cryner Catches Up" (PDF). Country Music. No. 170. pp. 58–59.
  6. 1 2 "Bobbie Cryner a country star-in-the-making" (PDF). RPM. Vol. 58, no. 24. December 25, 1993. p. 13.
  7. 1 2 Lewis, Randy (September 23, 1993). "New Pick of the Week: Bobbie Cryner, 'Bobbie Cryner,' Epic". Los Angeles Times.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  9. ↑ Lewis, Randy (January 1, 1994). "Faces '94: More Names to Be Reckoned With in the Performing Arts: Country Music: Bobbie Cryner". Los Angeles Times.
  10. 1 2 Hilburn, Robert (April 21, 1996). "The Kingmaker of Country Music". Los Angeles Times.
  11. ↑ Flippo, Chet (January 13, 1996). "Cryner Sure To Be 'Girl Of Your Dreams'" (PDF). Billboard. p. 24.
  12. ↑ Lewis, Randy (January 13, 1996). "Album Reviews: Bobbie Cryner, 'Girl of Your Dreams,' MCA". Los Angeles Times.
  13. ↑ "Great Music: Get It While You Can" (PDF). Country Music. September 1996. p. 34.
  14. ↑ "Nobody Love, Nobody Gets Hurt" (PDF). Billboard Country Airplay. August 1998.
  15. ↑ "Yearwood - 'Real Live Woman'". The Grand Island Independent. Grand Island, Nebraska. Associated Press. April 4, 2000. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ "Country Corner" (PDF). Billboard. April 15, 2000.
  17. ↑ Cantwell, David (June 22, 2000). "Lee Ann Womack". Miami New Times.
  18. ↑ RPM Collection search for "Bobbie Cryner" and "Country Singles"
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