Over the last five years, while they spend less time on the road, Emerson Drive remains a consistent force on the country music landscape. Pichette also stepped back from the band in 2013 to spend more time with his family, making ED a quartet with Mates, Dupelle, Melancon and Wallace still active members. In 2013, they achieved their first gold single in Canada with “She’s My Kind of Crazy” that is still a fan favorite nearly eight years later. In 2011, ED released their first greatest hits package featuring ten of their hit singles – Decade of Drive – and have since gone on to achieve 12 more Top 10 singles in Canada, bringing their total to an astounding 22 Top 10 hits (so far).
It’s to connect with the listeners and leave a mark.” The amount of letters, social media messages and stories we have heard over the years around ‘Moments’ and how it has saved people’s lives or made a difference in their lives still is crazy to us”, says Dupelle. “It’s still the song that connects with fans the most. In September of 2007, Patrick Bourque passed away from suicide, and “Moments” took on a whole new meaning for band. The group, which at the time, was comprised of members Brad Mates, Danick Dupelle, Mike Melancon, David Pichette, Dale Wallace & Patrick Bourque, was flying high on success when Bourque decided to step back from the group and leave the road. The sextet crisscrossed North America for the next four years, playing over 300 shows a year and racking up Billboard Music Award & Academy of Country Music Association Award wins for Top New Country Artist & Top New Group, respectively.īut, it was the career-changing song "Moments" that gave the band their first Billboard #1 single in the US in June 2007. Since bursting onto the scene in North America in 2001 when they released their debut single via DreamWorks Records Nashville, the band's first two singles – “I Should Be Sleeping” and "Fall Into Me" - both peaked in the Top 5 on the Billboard Country chart and quickly became fan favorites. was in charge of promotion and distribution of Emerson Drive and Believe.Emerson Drive’s astounding career, spanning over 20 years lands them at a place that few musical groups reach. and the CD which Emerson Drive had been working on, Believe, became a co-partnership with Midas Records, who kept ownership of the CD while The Valory Music Co.
Emerson Drive then signed with The Valory Music Co. In summer 2008, Midas Records closed their country division. After DreamWorks’ collapse in 2005, Emerson Drive signed to Midas Records Nashville, where they resumed their streak of hit singles, including their first Number One single in "Moments". Emerson Drive recorded two albums on the DreamWorks Records label, and charted several hits on both the U.S. By 1999, they changed the name to Emerson Drive, and moved to Nashville, Tennessee to find a major label record deal.
They then charted two singles on the Canadian country charts and a music video on CMT. The first album, Open Season, was a product of winning a local "Battle of the Bands" contest.
Emerson Drive is a Canadian country music band consisting of Brad Mates (lead vocals), Danick Dupelle (guitars and backing vocals), Mike Melancon (drums), and Dale Wallace (keyboards and backing vocals).Įarly on, the band found minor success in Canada, releasing two albums under the name of 12 Gauge.
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