Diamond Rio

Diamond Rio's The Definitive Hits Collection rounds up 40 tracks from the country group's Arista Nashville tenure.  One of the few bands to come out of performing out of an amusement park, they made their debut as The Grizzly River Boys (and later the Tennessee River Boys) at Opryland in Nashville in 1982.  They stopped performing at the park in 1985 and began to record demos and perform in hopes of landing a record deal.  It would take until 1990 when they signed with the newly-created Arista Nashville label.  By that point, there were no founding members remaining, although their line-up has remained consistent in the years since.  Changing their name to Diamond Rio, the band became stars right out of the gate when their debut single "Meet In the Middle" climbed to the top of the Billboard Country chart, the first country group to accomplish this feat.  The group recorded seven studio albums on Arista Nashville through 2002, notching over 30 hits on the Country charts.