Little Big Town

The group is unique in country music in its configuration of two men with two women. It is also unlike any other in that there is no single lead vocalist all four are capable of taking lead lines, and do so. Also unusual is the fact that for most of their performances, the larger-than-life Little Big Town voices are accompanied solely by Phillip and Jimi's guitars.

Growing up in Cornelia, Georgia in the mountains of the northeast corner of the state, Kimberly Roads "can't remember a time when I didn't want to sing." She first performed in church with her father and sister, then began singing in talent contests at age 12. The Appalachian soprano entered Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama as a music major. There she met Karen Fairchild, and the two soon joined a singing group, beginning the personal and professional bond that would only strengthen through the years. Karen had known Jimi Westbrook for years, because both were on the corporate-entertainment circuit. Jimi arrived in Nashville to join the group in 1998.