Steve Azar discography

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Steve Azar discography
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Azar in 2009
Studio albums7
Music videos7
Singles13

American country music singer Steve Azar has released seven studio albums, thirteen singles, and seven music videos. Azar debuted in 1996 with the album Heartbreak on the former River North Records, which charted two of its three singles on Billboard Hot Country Songs in 1996. 2002's Waitin' on Joe , released on Mercury Records, accounted for his highest-charting single, "I Don't Have to Be Me ('til Monday)", which went to number 2 on Hot Country Songs and number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 that year. Only one other single, the title track, charted from this project. After being sidelined with a cyst on his vocal cords, he charted his last Mercury release "Doin' It Right" in 2005.

Contents

All of Azar's subsequent albums have been released independently, first on Dang Records and then on Ride Records. His independent releases are Indianola (2008), Slide On Over Here (2009), Delta Soul: Volume 1 (2011), Down at the Liquor Store (2017), and My Mississippi Reunion (2020). Slide On Over Here charted additional top-40 Hot Country Songs entries in "Moo La Moo" and "Sunshine (Everybody Needs a Little)". Down at the Liquor Store was recorded in collaboration with various backing musicians for B. B. King and Elvis Presley, and was credited to Steve Azar and the King's Men.

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart
positions
US Country [1] US Heat [2]
Heartbreak Town
Waitin' on Joe 2931
Indianola
  • Release date: May 27, 2008
  • Label: Dang Records
Slide On Over Here
  • Release date: August 4, 2009
  • Label: Ride Records
57
Delta Soul: Volume 1
  • Release date: November 8, 2011
  • Label: Ride Records
Down at the Liquor Store
(as Steve Azar and the King's Men)
  • Release date: August 11, 2017
  • Label: Ride Records
My Mississippi Reunion
(with Cedric Burnside)
  • Release date: October 23, 2020
  • Label: Ride Records
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
Album
US Country [3] US [4]
1996"Someday" [A] 51Heartbreak Town
"I Never Stopped Loving You"50
1997"Nights Like This" [5]
2001"I Don't Have to Be Me ('til Monday)"235Waitin' on Joe
2002"Waitin' on Joe"28
2005"Doin' It Right"47
2006"You Don't Know a Thing"49Indianola
2008"I Won't Let You Lead Me Down" [6]
2009"You're My Life"52
"Moo La Moo"39Slide On Over Here
2010"Sunshine (Everybody Needs a Little)"27
2011"Hard Road" [7]
2020"Coldwater" [8] My Mississippi Reunion
"—" denotes releases that did not chart
Notes

Other charted songs

YearSinglePeak positions [3]
US Country
2006"Catfish Christmas"53

Music videos

YearVideoDirector
1996"Someday" [9]
2001"I Don't Have to Be Me ('til Monday)" [10] Eric Welch
2002"Waitin' on Joe" [11] Steven Goldmann
2005"Catfish Christmas" [12]
2006"You Don't Know a Thing" [13] Peter Zavadil
2009"Moo La Moo" [14] Eric Welch
2010"Sunshine (Everybody Needs a Little)" [15]

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