Dale Oliver

Dale Oliver is an American music composer, guitarist and producer, who is signed to TNA, where he is the head of TNA Knockout Music. Oliver was formerly a guitarist for the American country music group Blackhawk, Reba McEntire, Steven Curtis Chapman and Geoff Moore and the Distance.

Career Oliver toured and recorded with Geoff Moore and the Distance as their guitarist for 6 years and cowrote 11 songs with Moore during this time. He was nominated for rock song of the year for "A Place to Stand". After leaving The Distance, Oliver formed a rock trio called The Ministers with Jimmie Lee Sloas and Kip Raines. The band was then signed to Hollywood Records. The band recorded one album and disbanded.

Oliver then recorded and toured with Henry Lee Summer and Steven Curtis Chapman. Chapman's album "The Live Adventure", which included the song "Tuesdays Child", co-written by Oliver, won a Grammy in 1994.

Following the Live Adventure tour, Oliver joined the American country music group Blackhawk as guitarist. He toured and recorded with Blackhawk, as well as co-writing some of their music, such as "Almost a Memory Now", "Nobody's Fool" and "She Dances with her Shadow". The band opened for Reba McEntire.

Discography Impact has released twelve albums containing Oliver's work during his Impact tenure, the first five of which have been released physically on CD, the rest are digital releases.

NWA: TNA The Music, Vol. 1 (2003) [CD] NWA: TNA The Music, Vol. 2 (2003) [CD] 3rd Degree Burns: The Music of TNA Wrestling Vol. I (November 21, 2006) [CD] Meltdown: The Music of TNA Wrestling Vol. 2 (November 20, 2007) [CD] Emergence: The Music of TNA Wrestling (November 12, 2009) [CD] TNA Q4 (November 21, 2012) TNA Black EP (December 27, 2012) TNA Delirium EP (May 3, 2013) TNA Deliver EP (November 18, 2013) Evolution XIV (April 24, 2014) TOI (September 22, 2014) Rawk On! (February 13, 2015) POP (Past or Present) (December 28, 2015)

Personal life Oliver was raised in Kentucky. He has two children.