1993_in_country

1993 in country music

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
8 Further reading
9 Other links
10 External links

Events

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

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 This was the first song to hold the Number One position for at least two non-consecutive weeks since 1975's "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell.
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 Previously a #86-peaking single in 1988 for Kenny Rogers.

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.

Other major hits

Peak	Single	Artist	Notes
2	Ain't That Lonely Yet	Dwight Yoakam
3	All These Years	Sawyer Brown
5	Alright Already	Larry Stewart	This was the first solo single for Stewart, who had just left his role as lead singer of the band Restless Heart. He would remain a solo singer until rejoining the band in 2004.
10	Anywhere but Here	Sammy Kershaw
2	A Bad Goodbye	Clint Black with Wynonna
21	Beer and Bones	John Michael Montgomery
19	Boom! It Was Over	Robert Ellis Orrall
6	Born to Love You	Mark Collie
16	The Bug	Mary Chapin Carpenter	Cover of Dire Straits' 1992 single.
18	Cadillac Ranch	Chris LeDoux
11	Cleopatra, Queen of Denial	Pam Tillis
12	A Cowboy's Born with a Broken Heart	Boy Howdy
16	Do You Know Where Your Man Is	Pam Tillis
19	Down on My Knees	Trisha Yearwood
2	Drive South	Suzy Bogguss	Cover of a John Hiatt song.
20	Easier Said Than Done	Radney Foster
3	Every Little Thing	Carlene Carter
4	God Blessed Texas	Little Texas
8	Half Enough	Lorrie Morgan
11	The Hard Way	Mary Chapin Carpenter
4	Hard Workin' Man	Brooks & Dunn
9	Haunted Heart	Sammy Kershaw
5	He Ain't Worth Missing	Toby Keith
23	Heartache	Suzy Bogguss
2	Hearts Are Gonna Roll	Hal Ketchum
24	High on a Mountain Top	Marty Stuart
20	High Rollin'	Gibson/Miller Band
3	Hometown Honeymoon	Alabama
5	Honky Tonk Attitude	Joe Diffie
17	Hurry Sundown	McBride & the Ride
13	I Fell in the Water	John Anderson
14	I Guess You Had to Be There	Lorrie Morgan
22	I Wanna Take Care of You	Billy Dean
7	I Want You Bad (And That Ain't Good)	Collin Raye
16	I'd Rather Miss You	Little Texas
8	If I Didn't Love You	Steve Wariner
2	In a Week or Two	Diamond Rio
3	In the Heart of a Woman	Billy Ray Cyrus
2	It's a Little Too Late	Tanya Tucker
5	It's Your Call	Reba McEntire
15	Janie Baker's Love Slave	Shenandoah
5	Just Like the Weather	Suzy Bogguss
5	Just One Night	McBride & the Ride
22	Kiss Me in the Car	John Berry
2	Learning to Live Again	Garth Brooks
15	Leavin's Been a Long Time Comin'	Shenandoah
6	Let Go	Brother Phelps	This was the first single for Brother Phelps, a duo founded by brothers Ricky Lee and Doug Phelps, formerly of The Kentucky Headhunters. Doug rejoined the band in 1997.
7	Let Go of the Stone	John Anderson
4	Let That Pony Run	Pam Tillis
4	Life's a Dance	John Michael Montgomery
11	Looking Out for Number One	Travis Tritt
3	Love on the Loose, Heart on the Run	Mcbride & the Ride
8	Love Without Mercy	Lee Roy Parnell
6	Made for Lovin' You	Doug Stone
8	Mama Knows the Highway	Hal Ketchum
13	Mending Fences	Restless Heart
2	Mercury Blues	Alan Jackson	Cover of a standard made famous by the Steve Miller Band.
2	My Baby Loves Me	Martina McBride
7	My Blue Angel	Aaron Tippin
4	My Strongest Weakness	Wynonna
3	No Future in the Past	Vince Gill
3	No Time to Kill	Clint Black
2	Nobody Wins	Radney Foster
20	Nothin' but the Wheel	Patty Loveless
5	Oh Me, Oh My, Sweet Baby	Diamond Rio
4	Ol' Country	Mark Chesnutt
21	An Old Pair of Shoes	Randy Travis
6	On the Road	Lee Roy Parnell
3	Once upon a Lifetime	Alabama
3	Only Love	Wynonna
4	Passionate Kisses	Mary Chapin Carpenter	Written by Lucinda Williams.
3	Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)	Joe Diffie
2	Queen of Memphis	Confederate Railroad
7	Queen of My Double-Wide Trailer	Sammy Kershaw
4	Reno	Doug Supernaw
6	She's Not Cryin' Anymore	Billy Ray Cyrus
5	Somebody Else's Moon	Collin Raye
9	Somebody New	Billy Ray Cyrus
8	Somebody Paints the Wall	Tracy Lawrence	Previously a #62-peaking single in 1989 for Josh Logan.
24	Someplace Far Away (Careful What You're Dreaming)	Hal Ketchum
24	Something's Gonna Change Her Mind	Mark Collie
2	The Song Remembers When	Trisha Yearwood
2	Soon	Tanya Tucker
19	Standing Knee Deep in a River (Dying of Thirst)	Kathy Mattea
3	Sure Love	Hal Ketchum
5	Take It Back	Reba McEntire
4	Tell Me About It	Tanya Tucker with Delbert McClinton	McClinton's only Top 40 country hit.
3	Tell Me Why	Wynonna
2	Tender Moment	Lee Roy Parnell
22	Texas Tattoo	Gibson/Miller Band
4	That Was a River	Collin Raye
13	This Romeo Ain't Got Julie Yet	Diamond Rio
2	A Thousand Miles from Nowhere	Dwight Yoakam
4	Tonight I Climbed the Wall	Alan Jackson
10	Trashy Women	Confederate Railroad
13	T-R-O-U-B-L-E	Travis Tritt	Cover of the Elvis Presley song.
5	Trouble on the Line	Sawyer Brown
6	Tryin' to Hide a Fire in the Dark	Billy Dean
2	Walkaway Joe	Trisha Yearwood with Don Henley
11	We Got the Love	Restless Heart
2	We'll Burn That Bridge	Brooks & Dunn
2	What Might Have Been	Little Texas
17	What Were You Thinkin'	Little Texas
6	When Did You Stop Loving Me	George Strait
14	When You Leave That Way You Can Never Go Back	Confederate Railroad
5	Wild Man	Ricky Van Shelton
7	Workin' Man's Ph.D.	Aaron Tippin
12	You Say You Will	Trisha Yearwood

On television

Regular series

Hee Haw (1969-1993, syndicated)

Specials

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).

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

Willie Nelson (born 1933)

Major Awards

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

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)

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

External links

Country Music Hall of Fame

Contents

Events

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

Other major hits

Top new album releases

Other top albums

On television

Regular series

Specials

Deaths

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

Major Awards

Grammy awards

Academy of Country Music

Country Music Association

Further reading

Other links

External links