It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.

On October 25 2004 Angela Herzberg committed suicide after suffering from depression and migraines. Country music is. A second album It Would Be You followed in 1998 on Decca.

Allan's third album Smoke Rings in the Dark was his first album for MCA Nashville (to which he has been signed ever since) and the first platinum album of his career. Overall Allan's nine studio albums and Greatest Hits package have produced 26 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts including four that reached Number One: "Man to Man" and "Tough Little Boys" in 2003 "Nothing On but the Radio" in 2004 and "Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)" in 2013. Gary Allan Herzberg (born December 5 1967) is an American country music artist known professionally as Gary Allan.