Neal Coty has released two albums for Mercury Records Nashville, and has written several singles for other artists.
12 Facts About Neal Coty
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Neal Coty was adopted at an early age, and never met his biological father.
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Neal Coty began playing guitar as a child after his grandmother gave him one.
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Neal Coty then attended a theater program at Towson University as a young adult, and would perform his own material during open-mic nights.
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Neal Coty was booked as a touring act for Kathy Mattea after being discovered by a talent agent.
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Neal Coty wrote six of the album's eleven tracks, covering Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' "You Got Lucky" and Bruce Springsteen's "Sad Eyes".
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Ray Waddell of Billboard reviewed Legacy favorably, stating that Neal Coty was in "creative, confident mode" and calling him an "edgy yet melodic tunesmith".
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Kevin Oliver of Country Standard Time was more mixed, stating that Neal Coty was "more focused on mainstream country sounds than his debut" but "sounds too much like others and not himself".
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Neal Coty has not recorded an album since Legacy, although he has continued to write songs since the album's release.
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Neal Coty has been signed to Roger Murrah's publishing company Murrah Music Group since 1994, and between 2006 and 2007 he was part of a joint venture with Bicycle Music.
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At the time that Legacy was released, Neal Coty had been on his second marriage.
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Neal Coty had one son and one daughter with his then-wife, Kelly, who had two children from her previous marriage.