1993 in country music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Top hits of the year 2.1 Number one hits 2.2 Other major hits 3 Top new album releases 3.1 Other top albums 4 On television 4.1 Regular series 4.2 Specials 5 Deaths 6 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees 7 Major Awards 7.1 Grammy awards 7.2 Academy of Country Music 7.3 Country Music Association 8 Further reading 9 Other links 10 External links

[edit] Events

[edit] Top hits of the year

[edit] Number one hits

(as certified by Billboard magazine)

Date	Song Name	Artist	Wks. No. 1	Spec. Note
January 16	Somewhere Other Than the Night	Garth Brooks	1
January 23	Look Heart, No Hands	Randy Travis	2
February 6	Too Busy Being in Love	Doug Stone	1
February 13	Can I Trust You With My Heart	Travis Tritt	2
February 27	What Part of No	Lorrie Morgan	3
March 20	Heartland	George Strait	1
March 27	When My Ship Comes In	Clint Black	2
April 10	The Heart Won't Lie	Reba McEntire with Vince Gill	2
April 24	She Don't Know She's Beautiful	Sammy Kershaw	1	C
May 1	Alibis	Tracy Lawrence	2
May 15	I Love the Way You Love Me	John Michael Montgomery	3	A
June 5	Should've Been a Cowboy	Toby Keith	2	A
June 19	Blame It on Your Heart	Patty Loveless	2
July 3	That Summer	Garth Brooks	1
July 10	Money in the Bank	John Anderson	1	B
July 17	Chattahoochee	Alan Jackson	4	1
August 14	It Sure is Monday	Mark Chesnutt	1
August 21	Why Didn't I Think of That	Doug Stone	1	B
August 28	Can't Break It to My Heart	Tracy Lawrence	1
September 4	Thank God For You	Sawyer Brown	2
September 18	Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)	Garth Brooks	2	2
September 25	Holdin' Heaven	Tracy Byrd	1	A
October 9	One More Last Chance	Vince Gill	1
October 16	What's It to You	Clay Walker	1	A
October 23	Easy Come, Easy Go	George Strait	2
November 6	Does He Love You	Reba McEntire with Linda Davis	1	C - Linda Davis
November 13	She Used to Be Mine	Brooks & Dunn	1
November 20	Almost Goodbye	Mark Chesnutt	1
November 27	Reckless	Alabama	1	B
December 4	American Honky-Tonk Bar Association	Garth Brooks	1
December 11	My Second Home	Tracy Lawrence	1
December 18	I Don't Call Him Daddy	Doug Supernaw	2	C

• ¹ - No. 1 song of the year, as determined by Billboard magazine.
• ² - Song dropped from No. 1 and later returned to top spot; this was the first song to do so on the Billboard Singles chart since 1975's "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell.
• ^A - First Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
• ^B - Last Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist to date.
• ^C - Only Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist to date.

[edit] Other major hits

• "Ain't That Lonely Yet" — Dwight Yoakam (#2)
• "All These Years" — Sawyer Brown (#3)
• "Alright Already" — Larry Stewart (#5)
• "An Old Pair of Shoes" — Randy Travis (#21)
• "Anywhere But Here" — Sammy Kershaw (#10)
• "A Bad Goodbye" — Clint Black with Wynonna (#2)
• "Beer and Bones" — John Michael Montgomery (#21)
• "Boom! It Was Over" — Robert Ellis Orrall (#19)
• "Born to Love You" — Mark Collie (#6)
• "The Bug" — Mary Chapin Carpenter (#16)
• "Cadillac Ranch" — Chris LeDoux (#18)
• "Cleopatra, Queen of Denial" — Pam Tillis (#11)
• "A Cowboy's Born with a Broken Heart" — Boy Howdy (#12)
• "Do You Know Where Your Man Is" — Pam Tillis (#16)
• "Down on My Knees" — Trisha Yearwood (#19)
• "Drive South" — Suzy Bogguss (#2)
• "Easier Said Than Done" — Radney Foster (#20)
• "Every Little Thing" — Carlene Carter (#3)
• "God Blessed Texas" — Little Texas (#4)
• "Half Enough" — Lorrie Morgan (#8)
• "The Hard Way" — Mary Chapin Carpenter (#11)
• "Hard Workin' Man" — Brooks & Dunn (#4)
• "Haunted Heart" — Sammy Kershaw (#9)
• "He Ain't Worth Missing" — Toby Keith (#5)
• "Heartache" — Suzy Bogguss (#23)
• "Hearts Are Gonna Roll" — Hal Ketchum (#2)
• "High on a Mountain Top" — Marty Stuart (#24)
• "High Rollin'" — Gibson/Miller Band (#20)
• "Hometown Honeymoon" — Alabama (#3)
• "Honky Tonk Attitude" — Joe Diffie (#5)
• "Hurry Sundown" — McBride & the Ride (#17)
• "I Fell in the Water" — John Anderson (#13)
• "I Guess You Had to Be There" — Lorrie Morgan (#14)
• "I Wanna Take Care of You" — Billy Dean (#22)
• "I Want You Bad (And That Ain't Good)" — Collin Raye (#7)
• "I'd Rather Miss You" — Little Texas (#16)
• "If I Didn't Love You" — Steve Wariner (#8)
• "In a Week or Two" — Diamond Rio (#2)
• "In the Heart of a Woman" — Billy Ray Cyrus (#3)
• "It's a Little Too Late" — Tanya Tucker (#2)
• "It's Your Call" — Reba McEntire (#5)
• "Janie Baker's Love Slave" — Shenandoah (#15)
• "Just Like the Weather" — Suzy Bogguss (#5)
• "Just One Night" — McBride & the Ride (#5)
• "Kiss Me in the Car" — John Berry (#22)
• "Learning to Live Again" — Garth Brooks (#2)
• "Leavin' Been a Long Time Comin'" — Shenandoah (#15)
• "Let Go" — Brother Phelps (#6)
• "Let Go of the Stone" — John Anderson (#7)
• "Let That Pony Run" — Pam Tillis (#4)
• "Life's a Dance" — John Michael Montgomery (#4)
• "Looking Out for Number One" — Travis Tritt (#11)
• "Love on the Loose, Heart on the Run" — McBride & the Ride (#3)
• "Love Without Mercy" — Lee Roy Parnell (#8)
• "Made For Lovin' You" — Doug Stone (#6)
• "Mama Knows the Highway" — Hal Ketchum (#8)
• "Mending Fences" — Restless Heart (#13)
• "Mercury Blues" — Alan Jackson (#2)
• "My Baby Loves Me" — Martina McBride (#2)
• "My Blue Angel" — Aaron Tippin (#7)
• "My Strongest Weakness" — Wynonna (#4)
• "No Future in the Past" — Vince Gill (#3)
• "No Time to Kill" — Clint Black (#3)
• "Nobody Wins" — Radney Foster (#2)
• "Nothin' But the Wheel" — Patty Loveless (#20)
• "Oh Me, Oh My, Sweet Baby" — Diamond Rio (#5)
• "Ol' Country" — Mark Chesnutt (#4)
• "On the Road" — Lee Roy Parnell (#6)
• "Once Upon a Lifetime" — Alabama (#3)
• "Only Love" — Wynonna (#3)
• "Passionate Kisses" — Mary Chapin Carpenter (#4)
• "Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)" — Joe Diffie (#3)
• "Queen of Memphis" — Confederate Railroad (#2)
• "Queen of My Double-Wide Trailer" — Sammy Kershaw (#7)
• "Reno" — Doug Supernaw (#4)
• "She's Not Cryin' Anymore" — Billy Ray Cyrus (#6)
• "Somebody Else's Moon" — Collin Raye (#5)
• "Somebody New" — Billy Ray Cyrus (#9)
• "Somebody Paints the Wall" — Tracy Lawrence (#8)
• "Someplace Far Away (Careful What You're Dreaming)" — Hal Ketchum (#24)
• "Something's Gonna Change Her Mind" — Mark Collie (#24)
• "The Song Remembers When" — Trisha Yearwood (#2)
• "Soon" — Tanya Tucker (#2)
• "Standing Knee Deep in a River (Dying of Thirst)" — Kathy Mattea (#19)
• "Sure Love" — Hal Ketchum (#3)
• "Suspicious Minds" — Dwight Yoakam (#35)
• "Take It Back" — Reba McEntire (#5)
• "Tell Me About It" — Tanya Tucker with Delbert McClinton (#4)
• "Tell Me Why" — Wynonna (#3)
• "Tender Moment" — Lee Roy Parnell (#2)
• "Texas Tattoo" — Gibson/Miller Band (#22)
• "That Was a River" — Collin Raye (#4)
• "This Romeo Ain't Got Julie Yet" — Diamond Rio (#13)
• "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere" — Dwight Yoakam (#2)
• "Tonight I Climbed the Wall" — Alan Jackson (#4)
• "Trashy Women" — Confederate Railroad (#10)
• "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" — Travis Tritt (#13)
• "Trouble on the Line" — Sawyer Brown (#5)
• "Tryin' to Hide a Fire in the Dark" — Billy Dean (#6)
• "Walkaway Joe" — Trisha Yearwood (featuring Don Henley) (#2)
• "We Got the Love" — Restless Heart (#11)
• "We'll Burn That Bridge" — Brooks & Dunn (#2)
• "What Might Have Been" — Little Texas (#2)
• "What Were You Thinkin'" — Little Texas (#17)
• "When Did You Stop Loving Me" — George Strait (#6)
• "When You Leave That Way You Can Never Go Back" — Confederate Railroad (#14)
• "Wild Man" — Ricky Van Shelton (#5)
• "Workin' Man's Ph.D." — Aaron Tippin (#7)
• "You Say You Will" — Trisha Yearwood (#12)

[edit] Top new album releases

• Alibis — Tracy Lawrence (Atlantic)
• Almost Goodbye — Mark Chesnutt (MCA Nashville)
• Big Time — Little Texas (Warner Bros.)
• Call of the Wild — Aaron Tippin (RCA)
• Cheap Seats — Alabama (RCA)
• Clay Walker — Clay Walker (Giant)
• Common Thread: The Songs of The Eagles — Various Artists (Giant)
• Easy Come, Easy Go — George Strait (MCA Nashville)
• Fire in the Dark — Billy Dean (Liberty)
• Greatest Hits 1990-1992 — Tanya Tucker (Capitol Nashville)
• Greatest Hits Volume Two — Reba McEntire (MCA Nashville)
• Hard Workin' Man — Brooks & Dunn (Arista Nashville)
• Haunted Heart — Sammy Kershaw (Mercury Nashville)
• Honky Tonk Angels — Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn & Tammy Wynette (Columbia)
• Honky Tonk Attitude — Joe Diffie (Epic)
• Honky Tonk Christmas — Alan Jackson (Arista Nashville)
• In Pieces — Garth Brooks (Capitol Nashville)
• It Won't Be the Last — Billy Ray Cyrus (Mercury Nashville)
• Let There Be Peace on Earth — Vince Gill (MCA Nashville)
• More Love — Doug Stone (Epic)
• No Time to Kill — Clint Black (RCA)
• Only What I Feel — Patty Loveless (Epic)
• Outskirts of Town — Sawyer Brown (Curb)
• Red and Rio Grande — Doug Supernaw (BNA)
• Slow Dancing with the Moon — Dolly Parton (Columbia)
• Solid Ground — John Anderson (BNA)
• The Song Remembers When — Trisha Yearwood (MCA Nashville)
• Soon — Tanya Tucker (Liberty)
• Take Me as I Am — Faith Hill (Warner Bros.)
• Tell Me Why — Wynonna (Curb/MCA Nashville)
• This Time — Dwight Yoakam (Reprise)
• Toby Keith — Toby Keith (Mercury Nashville)
• Tracy Byrd — Tracy Byrd (MCA Nashville)
• The Way That I Am — Martina McBride (RCA)
• Wind in the Wire — Randy Travis (Warner Bros.)
• You Might Be a Redneck If... — Jeff Foxworthy (Warner Bros.)

[edit] Other top albums

• Across the Borderline — Willie Nelson (Columbia)
• America, I Believe in You — Charlie Daniels (Liberty)
• The Beverly Hillbillies Soundtrack — Various Artists (RCA)
• Bobbie Cryner — Bobbie Cryner (Columbia)
• A Bridge I Didn't Burn — Ricky Van Shelton (Columbia)
• Cowgirl's Prayer — Emmylou Harris (Asylum)
• Croonin' — Anne Murray (EMI)
• Delta Dreamland — Deborah Allen (Giant)
• Drive — Steve Wariner (Arista)
• Final Touches — Conway Twitty (MCA)
• Good News — Kathy Mattea (Mercury)
• Greatest Hits — Patty Loveless (MCA)
• Greatest Hits: Songs from an Aging Sex Bomb — K. T. Oslin (RCA)
• Heroes — Mark O'Connor (Warner Bros.)
• High Tech Redneck — George Jones (MCA Nashville)
• Hurry Sundown — McBride & the Ride (MCA)
• Let Go — Brother Phelps (Asylum)
• Little Love Letters — Carlene Carter (Giant)
• Mark Collie — Mark Collie (MCA Nashville)
• Merry Christmas from London — Lorrie Morgan (BNA)
• On the Road — Lee Roy Parnell (Arista Nashville)
• Out of Left Field — Hank Williams, Jr. (Curb/Warner Bros.)
• Rave On!! — The Kentucky Headhunters (Mercury Nashville)
• Ricky Lynn Gregg — Ricky Lynn Gregg (Liberty)
• Shania Twain — Shania Twain (Mercury Nashville)
• Shawn Camp — Shawn Camp (Reprise)
• Something Up My Sleeve — Suzy Bogguss (Liberty)
• Spinning Around the Sun — Jimmie Dale Gilmore (Elektra)
• Temptation — Shelby Lynne (Morgan Creek)
• Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills — Asleep at the Wheel (Liberty)
• True Believer — Ronnie Milsap (Liberty)
• Under the Kudzu — Shenandoah (RCA)
• Under This Old Hat — Chris LeDoux (Liberty)
• The Wheel — Rosanne Cash (Columbia)
• Where There's Smoke — Gibson/Miller Band (Epic)

[edit] On television

[edit] Regular series

• Hee Haw (1969-1993, syndicated)

[edit] Specials

[edit] Deaths

• June 5 – Conway Twitty, 59, giant music star since the 1950s who set records for most No. 1 country hits until 2006 (abdominal aneurysm).
• November 30 – David Houston, 54, top country singer of the 1960s and early 1970s, best known for "Almost Persuaded" (brain aneurysm).

[edit] Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

• Willie Nelson (born 1933)

[edit] Major Awards

[edit] Grammy awards

• Best Female Country Vocal Performance -- "Passionate Kisses," Mary Chapin Carpenter
• Best Male Country Vocal Performance -- "Ain't That Lonely Yet," Dwight Yoakam
• Best Country Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal -- "Hard Workin' Man," Brooks & Dunn
• Best Country Collaboration With Vocals -- "Does He Love You," Reba McEntire and Linda Davis
• Best Country Instrumental Performance -- "Red Wing," Asleep at the Wheel, Chet Atkins, Eldon Shamblin, Johnny Gimble, Marty Stuart, Reuben "Lucky Oceans" Gosfield & Vince Gill
• Best Country Song -- "Passionate Kisses," Lucinda Williams (Performer: Mary Chapin Carpenter)
• Best Bluegrass Album -- Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go, The Nashville Bluegrass Band

[edit] Academy of Country Music

• Entertainer Of The Year -- Garth Brooks
• Song Of The Year -- "I Love The Way You Love Me," Victoria Shaw and Chuck Cannon (Performer: John Michael Montgomery)
• Single Of The Year -- "Chattahoochee," Alan Jackson
• Album Of The Year -- A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'Bout Love), Alan Jackson
• Top Male Vocalist -- Vince Gill
• Top Female Vocalist -- Wynonna
• Top Vocal Duo -- Brooks & Dunn
• Top Vocal Group -- Little Texas
• Top New Male Vocalist -- John Michael Montgomery
• Top New Female Vocalist -- Faith Hill
• Top New Vocal Duo Or Group -- Gibson/Miller Band
• Video Of The Year -- "We Shall Be Free," Garth Brooks (Directors: Garth Brooks and Tim Miller)

[edit] Country Music Association

• Entertainer of the Year -- Vince Gill
• Song of the Year -- "I Still Believe in You," Vince Gill and John Jarvis (Performer: Vince Gill)
• Single of the Year -- "Chattahoochee," Alan Jackson
• Album of the Year -- I Still Believe in You, Vince Gill
• Male Vocalist of the Year -- Vince Gill
• Female Vocalist of the Year -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
• Vocal Duo of the Year -- Brooks & Dunn
• Vocal Group of the Year -- Diamond Rio
• Horizon Award -- Mark Chesnutt
• Music Video of the Year -- "Chattahoochee," Alan Jackson (Director: Martin Kahan)
• Vocal Event of the Year -- "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair," George Jones (featuring Clint Black, Garth Brooks, T. Graham Brown, Mark Chesnutt, Joe Diffie, Vince Gill, Alan Jackson, Patty Loveless, Pam Tillis, and Travis Tritt)
• Musician of the Year -- Mark O'Connor

[edit] Further reading

• Kingsbury, Paul, "The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories," Villard Books, Random House; Opryland USA, 1995
• Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)
• Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
• Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs 1944-2005 - 6th Edition." 2005.

[edit] Other links

• Country Music Association
• Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame

[edit] External links

• Country Music Hall of Famede:Country-Musik 1993