Chalee Tennison

In 2002, she moved to DreamWorks Records and recorded her Parading in the Rain album on that label. "Lonesome Road", the lead single to the album, charted late in the year, reaching No. 54. Another single titled "Easy Lovin' You", which featured guest vocals from her daughter Tiffany, was issued in April 2003.

She moved to Nashville, Tennessee and worked as a demo singer. After record producer Jerry Taylor discovered her demos, he helped her sign to Asylum Records in 1999. Her first, self-titled album was issued that year, with "Someone Else's Turn to Cry" as the lead single. Following it were "Handful of Water" and "Just Because She Lives There", which became her first Top 40 entry on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, peaking at No. 36. At the time of the album's release, Tennison had been divorced three times, and was a single mother of three children, of which an uncredited review in Radio & Records stated that "Chalee Tennison sounds like she truly understands the songs she sings. maybe it's because she's lived them." Tennison told the same publication that "I feel very lucky as a new artist that I got to cut the kind of record I wanted to cut. It's very different, as far as the music itself, but it's all me." She supported the album by touring in 1999 with Alan Jackson.

Chalee Tennison (born April 11, 1969) is an American country music artist from the state of Texas. She has released three major-label studio albums (two on Asylum Records and one on Dreamworks Records) in addition to charting six singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. Her highest charting singles, "Just Because She Lives There" and "Go Back", both reached No. 36 on that chart.