Dale Oliver

Dale Oliver
Origin	United States
Genres	Country, Professional wrestling theme music
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Guitar Dobro Mandolin
Years active	1992–present
Associated acts	BlackHawk

Dale Byron Oliver (Born 1970) is an American music composer who works for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.^[1] Formerly a guitarist in BackHawk (the backing band of the American country music group BlackHawk), Oliver serves mainly as a composer of theme music used in professional wrestling.

Career

Music composer for TNA

Since 2003, Oliver writes, records, and produces music under contract exclusively for TNA Wrestling. Like his counterparts Jim Johnston (WWE), Harry Slash (ECW), and Jimmy Hart (WWF & WCW) before him, Oliver writes the majority of TNA's event and wrestler theme songs and has done so since the company's inception. Oliver plays the instruments and provides the vocals for most of the theme songs himself.

In 2010, Oliver collaborated with TNA superstar Jeff Hardy and his band, Peroxwhy?gen on two songs. The first was a remix of the song "Modest" by Hardy. The other was a remix of the Peroxwhy?gen song "Another" which Hardy uses as his entrance theme. In 2011, Oliver again teamed with Hardy to work on the track "Resurrected", which Hardy announced on his official twitter page. He then began using the theme at TNA's pay per view event "Bound For Glory" on October 16th, 2011.

Oliver also recorded guitar on the Shinedown album The Sound Of Madness.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

TNA has released five albums containing Oliver's work during his TNA tenure.

• NWA: TNA The Music, Vol. 1 (2003)
• NWA: TNA The Music, Vol. 2 (2003)
• 3rd Degree Burns: The Music of TNA Wrestling Vol. I (November 21, 2006)
• Meltdown: The Music of TNA Wrestling Vol. 2 (November 20, 2007)
• Emergence: The Music of TNA Wrestling (November 12, 2009)

References

1. ^ MacKinder, Matt (2 February 2007). "3rd Degree Burns a big hit for TNA". Canadian Online Explorer. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Reviews/2007/02/02/3507710.html. Retrieved 26 September 2010. 

External links

Professional wrestling portal

• TNAWrestling.com (Official Website of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling)
• BritChick.com (Offers A Photo & Info on Dale Oliver)
• Ascap (Full list of songs composed by Oliver)

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