Biography

For all the good things that have come Aaron Pritchett's way the past few years, for all the accolades and awards, the airplay, the video play and the fans showing up everywhere he goes; for all that and the mere fact he can make a living at this music thing, he takes none of it for granted.

And it's for all that he decided to call his new, fourth album Thankful. It's the best thing he's ever done, he thinks, and he's right. It is. But there's more than a touch of angel-dust serendipity that gives it life.

The exponential growth of Pritchett's career is the result of a lot of solid planning and arduous work. He's tenacious as a pit bull, is Aaron. But there was a time, and not so long ago, when he'd actually quit the business. Kaput. Outta here.

"Believe me, I was done," he says. "We were still playing clubs but I couldn't make any money and that's not where I saw my future; my future was touring as a major act through Canada and hopefully into the States. I said in October 2003, if it's still like this by December I'm quitting as of the first of January. So we were done.

"And the next day, January 2nd 2004, the video for "New Frontier" went to number one and I got all these bookings coming in literally that week. From that moment everything changed."

And like spring follows winter, the nominations and awards started coming in too. He and the band were knocking audiences out from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island, slamming it every night, and by now it was a question of maintaining the momentum.

Big Wheel, the third album after Somethin' Goin' On

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