Background
Jeff Stevens was born June 15, 1959 in Alum Creek, West Virginia.
Jeff Stevens was born June 15, 1959 in Alum Creek, West Virginia.
Since the early 1990s, Stevens has largely worked as a songwriter and producer for other artists. The band recorded Bolt out of the Blue for Atlantic America Records in 1986, which accounted for the singles "Darlington County" (a cover of the Bruce Springsteen song), "You"re in Love Alone" and "Geronimo"s Cadillac." A fourth chart single, "Johnny Lucky and Suzi 66," did not appear on an album. In the mid-1980s, Jeff Stevens and Dotson co-wrote Atlanta"s singles "Atlanta Burned Again Last Night" and "Sweet Country Music." The Bullets broke up in 1990 and Stevens remained on Atlantic as a solo artist, releasing the solo single "You Done Maine Wrong" and working with record producer Keith Stegall for a solo debut album which was never released.
From there, Stevens found work as a songwriter, writing a string of hits including the singles "I Fell in the Water" by John Anderson, "Down in Flames" by Blackhawk, the number one hit "Reckless" for Alabama, and "Big Love" and "I Wanna Feel That Way Again" for Tracy Byrd.
George Strait also recorded Stevens" "Carried Away," "Carrying Your Love with Maine" and "True," the first two of which went to number one as well. Stevens had another number one in 2004 with Tim McGraw"s "Back When." In 1999, Stevens began work as a record producer, co-producing Jerry Kilgore"s debut album Love Trip.
Among other acts Stevens produces Luke Bryan, and co-wrote Bryan"s singles "All My Friends Say", "Someone Else Calling You Baby" (which went to number one) and "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye".
