Week ending 10/31/09: #1 albums this week in country music history

1984: Willie Nelson – City of New Orleans (Sony)
1989: Clint Black – Killin’ Time (RCA)
1994: Mary Chapin Carpenter – Stones In The Road (Columbia)
1999: The Dixie Chicks – Fly (Monument)
2004: George Strait – 50 Number Ones (MCA)
2009: Taylor Swift – Fearless (Big Machine)

Week ending 10/17/09: #1 singles this week in country music history

1949: Slippin’ Around — Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely (Capitol)
1959: The Three Bells — The Browns (RCA)
1969: Since I Met You Baby – Sonny James (Capitol)
1979: All The Gold In California — Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers (Columbia)
1989: Killin’ Time — Clint Black (RCA)
1999: Something Like That — Tim McGraw (Curb)
2009: American Ride — [...]

Week ending 10/17/09: #1 albums this week in country music history

1984: Willie Nelson – City of New Orleans (Sony)
1989: Clint Black – Killin’ Time (RCA)
1994: Brooks & Dunn – Waitin’ On Sundown (Arista)
1999: The Dixie Chicks – Fly (Monument)
2004: Rascal Flatts – Feels Like Today (Lyric Street)
2009: Miranda Lambert – Revolution (Sony)

Week ending 10/3/09: #1 albums this week in country music history

1984: Willie Nelson – City of New Orleans (Sony)
1989: Clint Black – Killin’ Time (RCA)
1994: Tim McGraw – Not A Moment Too Soon (Curb)
1999: The Dixie Chicks – Fly (Monument)
2004: Tim McGraw -Live Like You Were Dying (Curb)
2009: Taylor Swift – Fearless (Big Machine)

Week ending 9/26/09: #1 albums this week in country music history

1984: Merle Haggard – It’s All In The Game (Epic)
1989: Clint Black – Killin’ Time (RCA)
1994: Tim McGraw – Not A Moment Too Soon (Curb)
1999: The Dixie Chicks – Fly (Monument)
2004: Alan Jackson – What I Do (Arista)
2009: Brooks & Dunn – #1’s and Then Some (Arista)

Classic Rewind: Clint Black & Martina McBride – ‘Still Holding On’

When two stars collide

Country music has a long history of two separate artists coming together to record a single or album together.  We’ve also seen our fair share of duos who sing and perform exclusively together.  In the 1970s it seemed like all the rage for two of country’s biggest stars to join forces.  The decade saw the [...]

Week ending 6/13/09: #1 this week in country music history

1949: Lovesick Blues — Hank Williams (MGM)
1959: The Battle of New Orleans — Johnny Horton (Columbia)
1969: Running Bear — Sonny James (Capitol)
1979: She Believes In Me — Kenny Rogers (United Artists)

1989: A Better Man — Clint Black (RCA)
1999: Please Remember Me– Tim McGraw (Curb)

Recommendation: Songs about rain

It’s raining again today in southern Ohio, and it has been for the better part of a week now.  A couple days ago, during a particularly torrential downpour, I was sitting here listening to music and decided to search the word ‘rain’ in my media library.  And I have to say I was surprised at [...]

Clint Black album sale

Four of Class of ‘89 member’s Clint Black’s albums are on sale at iTunes for $7.99. The featured albums are:
Killin’ Time (1989)
No Time to Kill (1993)
One Emotion (1994)
Nothin’ But The Taillights (1997)
One Emotion is my least favorite of these albums, but I highly recommend Killin’ Time (reviewed here earlier this month) and Nothin’ But [...]

Class of ‘89 Album Review: Alan Jackson – ‘Here In The Real World’

Alan Jackson was not one of the obvious ’stars’ of the ‘Class of ‘89′. His debut single, ‘Blue Blooded Woman’, was released in 1989 to very modest success, and it was not until the following year, when Here In The Real World was released, with the best songs from the album making a genuine [...]

Meet the Class of ‘89

Class of ‘89 Album Review: Clint Black – ‘Killin’ Time’

I remember well the day back in February 1989 that I first heard a new song on the radio called “A Better Man”. I stopped what I was doing to give it my full attention, and thought to myself, “That is the best Merle Haggard song I’ve heard in years. I can’t remember the last [...]

Class of ‘89 Single Review: Clint Black – ‘A Better Man’

Clint Black was the first out of the chute of country music’s fabled Class of ‘89.  His debut single, ‘A Better Man’ hit #1 on June 10, the first of four consecutive #1’s from the Killin’ Time album. While it only stayed in the top spot for one week, it was also Billboard’s #1 single [...]

Spotlight Artist: The Class of ‘89

 

1989 was a watershed year for country music, as a number of new acts either made their debuts or enjoyed their first commercial breakthroughs. Some veteran acts experienced reinvigorated careers that year, while others showed signs of declining chart power and were banished from the radio airwaves.

Among the alumni of the Class of ‘89, [...]