2001 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 Births 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 20	Born to Fly	Sara Evans	1
January 27	Without You	Dixie Chicks	1
February 3	Tell Her	Lonestar	2
February 17	There is No Arizona	Jamie O'Neal	1	A
February 24	But for the Grace of God	keith urban	1	A This marked the first time two back-to-back No. 1 songs had been performed by Australian artists.
March 3	You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This	Toby Keith	3	2 Song fell to #2 on March 10 and returned to #1 on March 17, also holding the #1 spot on March 24.
March 10	One More Day	Diamond Rio	2	2 Gained popularity after death of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt. Song fell to #2 on March 17, stayed at #2 on March 24, and returned to #1 on March 31.
April 7	Who I Am	Jessica Andrews	3	C
April 28	Ain't Nothing 'Bout You	Brooks & Dunn	6	1
June 9	Don't Happen Twice	Kenny Chesney	1
June 16	Grown Men Don't Cry	Tim McGraw	1
June 23	I'm Already There	Lonestar	6
August 4	When I Think About Angels	Jamie O'Neal	1	B
August 11	Austin	Blake Shelton	5	A
September 15	I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight	Toby Keith	1
September 22	What I Really Meant to Say	Cyndi Thomson	3	C This single also became the first debut single by a female country singer to spent more than one week at Number One.
October 13	Where I Come From	Alan Jackson	3	2
October 27	Only in America	Brooks & Dunn	1
November 10	Angry All the Time	Tim McGraw (featuring Faith Hill)	2
November 24	I Wanna Talk About Me	Toby Keith	5
December 29	Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)	Alan Jackson	5	Written and recorded in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

• ¹ - No. 1 song of the year, as determined by Billboard magazine.
• ² - Song dropped from No. 1 and later returned to top spot.
• ^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

• "Angels in Waiting" — Tammy Cochran (#9)
• "Ashes By Now" — Lee Ann Womack (#4)
• "Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You In?)" — Garth Brooks and George Jones (#24)
• "Burn" — Jo Dee Messina (#2)
• "But I Do Love You" — LeAnn Rimes (#18)
• "Complicated" — Carolyn Dawn Johnson (#5)
• "Don't Make Me Come Over There and Love You" — George Strait (#17)
• "Downtime" — Jo Dee Messina (#5)
• "Georgia" — Carolyn Dawn Johnson (#25)
• "God Bless the USA" (re-release) — Lee Greenwood (#16)
• "A Good Day to Run" — Darryl Worley (#12)
• "A Good Way to Get on My Bad Side" — Tracy Byrd with Mark Chesnutt (#21)
• "Heartbreak Town" — Dixie Chicks (#23)
• "How Cool Is That" — Andy Griggs (#22)
• "The Hunger" — Steve Holy (#24)
• "I Could Not Ask for More" — Sara Evans (#2)
• "I Would Have Loved You Anyway" — Trisha Yearwood (#4)
• "I'm a Survivor" — Reba McEntire (#4)
• "I'm Tryin'" — Trace Adkins (#6)
• "If I Fall You're Going Down With Me" — Dixie Chicks (#3)
• "If My Heart Had Wings" — Faith Hill (#3)
• "If You Can Do Anything Else" — George Strait (#5)
• "It's a Great Day to Be Alive" — Travis Tritt (#2)
• "It's My Time" — Martina McBride (#11)
• "Laredo" — Chris Cagle (#8)
• "The Last Thing on My Mind" — Patty Loveless (#20)
• "Love of a Woman" — Travis Tritt (#2)
• "Lovin' Every Minute" — Mark Wills (#18)
• "Lucky 4 You (Tonight I'm Just Me)" — SHeDAISY (#11)
• "Man of Me" — Gary Allan (#18)
• "Move On" — The Warren Brothers (#17)
• "Mrs. Steven Rudy" — Mark McGuinn (#6)
• "On a Night Like This" — Trick Pony (#4)
• "People Like Us" — Aaron Tippin (#17)
• "Please" — Pam Tillis (#22)
• "Pour Me" — Trick Pony (#12)
• "Real Life (I Never Was the Same Again)" — Jeff Carson (#14)
• "Riding With Private Malone" — David Ball (#2)
• "Right Where I Need To Be" — Gary Allan (#5)
• "Rose Bouquet" — Phil Vassar (#16)
• "Run" — George Strait (#2)
• "Second Wind" — Darryl Worley (#20)
• "She Couldn't Change Me" — Montgomery Gentry (#2)
• "She Misses Him" — Tim Rushlow (#8)
• "Shiver" — Jamie O'Neal (#21)
• "Six-Pack Summer" — Phil Vassar (#9)
• "Sometimes" — Clay Davidson (#21)
• "Sweet Summer" — Diamond Rio (#18)
• "That's a Plan" — Mark McGuinn (#25)
• "There You'll Be" — Faith Hill (#11)
• "This Everyday Love" — Rascal Flatts (#9)
• "The Tin Man" — Kenny Chesney (#19)
• "Two People Fell in Love" — Brad Paisley (#4)
• "What I Did Right" — Sons of the Desert (#22)
• "When God-Fearing Women Get the Blues" — Martina McBride (#8)
• "When It All Goes South" — Alabama (#15)
• "When Somebody Loves You" — Alan Jackson (#5)
• "Where the Blacktop Ends" — keith urban (#3)
• "While You Loved Me" — Rascal Flatts (#7)
• "Why They Call It Falling" — Lee Ann Womack (#13)
• "Wild Horses" — Garth Brooks (#7)
• "With Me" — Lonestar (#10)
• "You Made Me That Way" — Andy Griggs (#19)

[edit] Top new album releases

• Alright Guy — Gary Allan (MCA Nashville)
• Blake Shelton — Blake Shelton (Warner Bros.)
• Carrying On — Montgomery Gentry (Columbia)
• Chrome — Trace Adkins (Capitol)
• Dare to Dream — Billy Gilman (Epic)
• Down from the Mountain Soundtrack — Various Artists (Lost Highway)
• Greatest Hits — Martina McBride (RCA)
• Greatest Hits II — Clint Black (RCA)
• Greatest Hits Vol. 3: I'm a Survivor — Reba McEntire (MCA Nashville)
• I Need You — LeAnn Rimes (Curb)
• I'm Already There — Lonestar (BNA)
• Inside Out — Trisha Yearwood (MCA Nashville)
• Little Sparrow — Dolly Parton (Sugar Hill)
• Loving Every Minute — Mark Wills (Mercury)
• My World — Cyndi Thomson (Capitol)
• Never Love You Enough — Chely Wright (MCA Nashville)
• New Favorite — Alison Krauss & Union Station (Rounder)
• One More Day — Diamond Rio (Arista Nashville)
• Part II — Brad Paisley (Arista Nashville)
• Pull My Chain — Toby Keith (DreamWorks Nashville)
• The Road Less Traveled — George Strait (MCA Nashville)
• The Rock: Stone Cold Country 2001 — George Jones (Bandit)
• Room with a View — Carolyn Dawn Johnson (Arista Nashville)
• Scarecrow — Garth Brooks (Capitol)
• Set This Circus Down — Tim McGraw (Curb)
• Songs from Call Me Claus — Garth Brooks (Capitol)
• Steers & Stripes — Brooks & Dunn (Arista Nashville)
• Time*Sex*Love — Mary Chapin Carpenter (Columbia)
• Ten Rounds — Tracy Byrd (RCA)
• Trick Pony — Trick Pony (Warner Bros.)
• Who I Am — Jessica Andrews (DreamWorks)

[edit] Other top albums

• 3 of Hearts — 3 of Hearts (RCA)
• All the Way to There — John Berry (Ark 21)
• Amigo — David Ball (DualTone)
• Anthology: The Warner/Reprise Years — Emmylou Harris (Rhino)
• Anthology Volume One: Cowboy Man — Lyle Lovett (Curb)
• The Captain — Kasey Chambers (Warner Brothers)
• Change — Sons of the Desert (Epic)
• Complete — Lila McCann (Asylum)
• A December to Remember — Aaron Tippin (Lyric Street)
• Dream Large — South 65 (Atlantic)
• Driven Soundtrack — Various Artists (Curb)
• Earl Scruggs and Friends — Earl Scruggs (MCA)
• Fast Girl — The Tractors (Audium)
• Followin' a Feelin' — Sherrie Austin (WE)
• God Bless America — LeAnn Rimes (Curb)
• Gravitational Forces — Robert Earl Keen (Lost Highway)
• Hank Williams: Timeless — Various Artists (Mercury)
• The Houston Kid — Rodney Crowell (Sugar Hill)
• I Finally Found Someone — Lorrie Morgan & Sammy Kershaw (RCA)
• III — Chad Brock (Warner Brothers)
• In Another World — Joe Diffie (Monument)
• It Was Just a Matter of Time — Randy Travis (Image)
• Live Close By, Visit Often — K. T. Oslin (BNA)
• Live! — Charlie Daniels (Blue Hat)
• Lucky Man — Hal Ketchum (Curb)
• Mark McGuinn — Mark McGuinn (VFR)
• Mountain Soul — Patty Loveless (Epic)
• Nobody's Got It All — John Anderson (BNA)
• Nothing Personal — Delbert McClinton (New West)
• O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection — Various Artists (Rounder)
• Reach — Meredith Edwards (Mercury)
• Real Life — Jeff Carson (Curb)
• Roots: Volume 1 — Merle Haggard (Anti)
• Say No More — Clay Walker (Giant)
• Songs We Wish We'd Written — Pat Green & Cory Morrow (Write On)
• Step Right Up — Charlie Robison (Lucky Dog)
• The Storm Still Rages — Rhonda Vincent (Rounder)
• Tammy Cochran — Tammy Cochran (Epic)
• This Is BR5-49 — BR5-49 (Lucky Dog)
• Three Days — Pat Green (Republic)
• Thunder and Roses — Pam Tillis (Arista)
• Tim Rushlow — Tim Rushlow (Atlantic)
• Tracy Lawrence — Tracy Lawrence (Atlantic)
• Unleashed — Confederate Railroad (Audium)
• What a Wonderful Christmas — Anne Murray (StraightWay)
• The Whole SHeBANG: All Mixed Up — SHeDAISY (Lyric Street)

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• February 7 - Dale Evans, 88, writer, actress, singer-songwriter, and wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers
• April 16 - Van Stephenson, 47, guitarist and vocalist for 1990s country group BlackHawk (skin cancer)
• June 4 - John Hartford, 63, bluegrass singer (non-Hodgkin Lymphomia)
• June 30 - Chet Atkins, 77, guitarist and record producer (colon cancer)
• July 3 - Johnny Russell, 71, singer-songwriter best known for writing the Buck Owens classic "Act Naturally" (diabetes)
• September 11 - Carolyn Mayer Beug, 48, filmmaker and music video director who directed several music videos for country singer Dwight Yoakam (killed when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into World Trade Center)

[edit] Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

• Bill Anderson (born 1937)
• The Delmore Brothers (Alton Delmore 1908–1964 and Rabon Delmore 1916–1952)
• The Everly Brothers (Don Everly born 1937 and Phil Everly born 1939)
• Don Gibson (1928-2003)
• Homer and Jethro (Homer Haynes 1920–1971 and Jethro Burns 1920–1989)
• Waylon Jennings (1937–2002)
• The Jordanaires (Gordon Stoker born 1924, Neal Matthews, Jr. 1929–2000, Hoyt Hawkins 1927–1982 and Ray Walker born 1934)
• Don Law (1902–1982)
• The Louvin Brothers (Ira Louvin 1924–1965 and Charlie Louvin born 1927)
• Ken Nelson (born 1911)
• Sam Phillips (1923–2003)
• Webb Pierce (1921–1991)

[edit] Major Awards

[edit] Grammy awards

• Best Female Country Vocal Performance -- "Shine," Dolly Parton
• Best Male Country Vocal Performance -- "O Death," Ralph Stanley
• Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal -- "The Lucky One," Alison Krauss & Union Station
• Best Country Collaboration with Vocals -- "I am a Man of Constant Sorrow," Harley Allen, Pat Enright and Dan Tyminski
• Best Country Instrumental Performance -- "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," Jerry Douglas, Gen Duncan, Vince Gill, Albert Lee, Steve Martin, Leon Russell, Earl Scruggs, Gary Scruggs, Randy Scruggs, Paul Shaffer & Marty Stuart
• Best Country Song -- "The Lucky One," Alison Krauss & Union Station
• Best Country Album -- Hank Williams Tribute, Various Artists (Producers: Bonnie Garner, Luke Lewis and Mary Martin)
• Best Bluegrass Album -- New Favorite, Alison Krauss & Union Station

[edit] Academy of Country Music

• Entertainer Of The Year -- Brooks & Dunn
• Song Of The Year -- "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)," Alan Jackson
• Single Of The Year -- "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)," Alan Jackson
• Album Of The Year -- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Top Male Vocalist -- Alan Jackson
• Top Female Vocalist -- Martina McBride
• Top Vocal Duo -- Brooks & Dunn
• Top Vocal Group -- Lonestar
• Top New Male Vocalist -- Phil Vassar
• Top New Female Vocalist -- Carolyn Dawn Johnson
• Top New Vocal Duo Or Group -- Trick Pony
• Video Of The Year -- "Only in America," Brooks & Dunn (Director: Michael Merriman)
• Vocal Event Of The Year -- "I am a Man of Constant Sorrow," Various Artists

[edit] Country Music Association

• Entertainer Of The Year -- Tim McGraw
• Song Of The Year -- "Murder on Music Row," Larry Cordle, Larry Shell
• Single Of The Year -- "I am a Man of Constant Sorrow," The Soggy Bottom Boys
• Album Of The Year -- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Male Vocalist Of The Year -- Toby Keith
• Female Vocalist Of The Year -- Lee Ann Womack
• Vocal Duo Of The Year -- Brooks & Dunn
• Vocal Group Of The Year -- Lonestar
• Horizon Award -- Keith Urban
• Music Video Of The Year -- "Born To Fly," Sara Evans (Director: Peter Zavadil)
• Vocal Event Of The Year -- "Too Country," Brad Paisley (with George Jones, Bill Anderson and Buck Owens)
• Musician Of The Year -- Dann Huff

[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 Fame