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Marshall Dyllon is a former American country music/pop group who brought the Boy Band craze to Country Music . HISTORY Origins
Kenny Rogers felt Marshall Dyllon could be the band "that brings 14-year-old girls who are now listening to 'N Sync to country radio. {Link without Title} They found Paul Martin , a former member of O-Town; Michael Martin , Paul Martin's younger brother and a standout performer in the Clinton, Mississippi show choir ''Attache''; Dan Cahoon, a Utah teen and member of Lagoon's Musical Revue; Todd Sansom ; and Jesse Littleton . In the beginning, Marshall Dyllon appeared to be a can't miss proposition. {Link without Title} They had Rogers and Perlman's name recognition and financial support, Phil Vassar was writing songs, and the boy-band phenomenon was moving along at full speed. Marshall Dyllon opened for Rogers, Toby Keith , and several other prominent country music personalities. Rocky Ride Marshall Dyllon released its first album ''Enjoy the Ride'', on December 5, 2000. Enjoy the Ride debuted at No.50 on the country charts, and "Live It Up" hit No.39 on Billboard's country-singles chart. But the group failed to achieve the sales of their pop star counterparts and disbanded not too long after the release of ''Enjoy the Ride''. DISCOGRAPHY
Billboard On Marshall Dyllon "Having already succeeded mightily with Kenny Rogers, Dreamcatcher now targets the other end of the demographic spectrum with Marshall Dyllon, Nashville's most calculated attempt yet to bring pop's boy-band phenomenon to the country airwaves. On that level, Marshall Dyllon succeeds, with layered, sophisticated vocal arrangements, punchy melodies, and lyrical content aimed squarely at the middle-school set. "God Bless This Town" is a peppy homage to small-town life, and "All I Wanna Do" and "Special Girl" are puppy-love ditties. Country instrumentation is mostly limited to the occasional acoustic guitar and fiddle break, although a banjo surprises on "Live It Up," a good-time song that is duplicated thematically on the title cut. Piano-based ballads like "You" and "Is She Gone" would fare equally well in the hands of Marshall Dyllon's pop radio counterparts, and the largely spoken-word "I'll Never Miss That Girl" is pretty much a waste of time, given these guys' considerable vocal chops. Too young to cry in their beer, MD can indeed sing. Oh, yeah-they're cute, too." -- ''Billboard'' REFERENCES
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