1995 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 Deaths 5 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees 6 Major Awards 6.1 Grammy awards 6.2 Academy of Country Music 6.3 Country Music Association 7 References 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 14	Not a Moment Too Soon	Tim McGraw	2
January 28	Gone Country	Alan Jackson	1
February 4	Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)	Pam Tillis	2	C Fell from #1 to #16, the biggest fall from #1 since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan in 1990.
February 18	My Kind of Girl	Collin Raye	1
February 25	Old Enough to Know Better	Wade Hayes	2	C
March 11	You Can't Make a Heart Love Somebody	George Strait	1
March 18	This Woman and This Man	Clay Walker	2
April 1	Thinkin' About You	Trisha Yearwood	2
April 15	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	Reba McEntire	1
April 22	I Can Love You Like That	John Michael Montgomery	3	2 This was the second John Michael Montgomery song covered by R&B quartet All-4-One; like 1994's "I Swear," the cover version also became a major Billboard Hot 100 hit. Fell to #2 on the chart week of April 29.
April 29	Little Miss Honky Tonk	Brooks & Dunn	1
May 20	Gonna Get a Life	Mark Chesnutt	1
May 27	What Mattered Most	Ty Herndon	1	A
June 3	Summer's Comin'	Clint Black	3
June 24	Texas Tornado	Tracy Lawrence	1
July 1	Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)	John Michael Montgomery	3	1
July 22	Any Man of Mine	Shania Twain	2	A With this, her first No. 1, Twain became the first Canadian singer to reach No. 1 since Anne Murray reached No. 1 with "Now and Forever (You and Me)" in 1986.
August 5	I Don't Even Know Your Name	Alan Jackson	1
August 12	I Didn't Know My Own Strength	Lorrie Morgan	1	B
August 19	You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone	Brooks & Dunn	2	Of Brooks & Dunn's 20 Billboard Number Ones, this was the only one to feature Kix Brooks on lead vocals. All others featured Ronnie Dunn.
September 2	Not on Your Love	Jeff Carson	1	C
September 9	Someone Else's Star	Bryan White	1	A
September 16	I Like It, I Love It	Tim McGraw	5
October 21	She's Every Woman	Garth Brooks	1
October 28	Dust on the Bottle	David Lee Murphy	2	C
November 11	Check Yes or No	George Strait	4
December 9	Tall, Tall Trees	Alan Jackson	2	A cover of the 1950s-era George Jones hit, which he co-wrote with Roger Miller.
December 23	That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You	Aaron Tippin	2

• ¹ - No. 1 song of the year, as determined by Billboard.
• 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

Peak	Single	Artist	Notes
3	Adalida	George Strait
8	All I Need to Know	Kenny Chesney
4	Amy's Back in Austin	Little Texas
2	And Still	Reba McEntire	B
2	As Any Fool Can See	Tracy Lawrence
4	Back in Your Arms Again	Lorrie Morgan
3	Better Things to Do	Terri Clark
11	Between an Old Memory and Me	Travis Tritt
15	Big Ol' Truck	Toby Keith
6	Bobbie Ann Mason	Rick Trevino
7	The Box	Randy Travis
16	Bubba Hyde	Diamond Rio
2	Can't Be Really Gone	Tim McGraw	B
3	The Car	Jeff Carson
20	Clown in Your Rodeo	Kathy Mattea
4	Darned If I Don't (Danged If I Do)	Shenadoah
5	Doctor Time	Rick Trevino	A
10	Don't Stop	Wade Hayes
10	Down in Flames	BlackHawk
23	Down in Tennessee	Mark Chesnutt
13	Faith in Me, Faith in You	Doug Stone
6	Fall in Love	Kenny Chesney
23	The Fever	Garth Brooks	This is a re-written version of Aerosmith's 1993 hit "Fever".
19	Finish What We Started	Diamond Rio
5	The First Step	Tracy Byrd
3	For a Change	Neal McCoy
3	Give Me One More Shot	Alabama
14	Go Rest High on That Mountain	Vince Gill
2	Goin' Through the Big D	Mark Chesnutt
6	Halfway Down	Patty Loveless
13	Hard Lovin' Woman	Mark Collie
21	Heart Trouble	Martina McBride
24	Heaven Bound (I'm Ready)	Shenandoah
22	Here Comes the Rain	The Mavericks
4	Here I Am	Patty Loveless	B
21	House of Cards	Mary Chapin Carpenter
4	I Don't Believe in Goodbye	Sawyer Brown
15	I Got It Honest	Aaron Tippin
2	I Let Her Lie	Daryle Singletary
4	I Think About It All the Time	John Berry
9	I Wanna Go Too Far	Trisha Yearwood
7	I Want My Goodbye Back	Ty Herndon
16	I Was Blown Away	Pam Tillis	This song was withdrawn as a single after the Oklahoma City bombing.[1]
15	I Will Always Love You	Dolly Parton with Vince Gill	Cover of Parton's signature song, which was a Number One country hit for her twice.
7	I'll Never Forgive My Heart	Brooks & Dunn
21	I'm in Love with a Capital "U"	Joe Diffie
2	I'm Not Strong Enough to Say No	BlackHawk
5	I'm Still Dancin' with You	Wade Hayes
25	If I Had Any Pride Left at All	John Berry
16	If I Was a Drinkin' Man	Neal McCoy
4	If I Were You	Collin Raye
2	If the World Had a Front Porch	Tracy Lawrence
18	If You're Gonna Walk, I'm Gonna Crawl	Sammy Kershaw
3	In Between Dances	Pam Tillis
4	In Pictures	Alabama	B
2	The Keeper of the Stars	Tracy Byrd
7	Lead On	George Strait	A
5	Let's Go to Vegas	Faith Hill
4	Life Gets Away	Clint Black
5	Life Goes On	Little Texas
9	Lipstick Promises	George Ducas
2	A Little Bit of You	Lee Roy Parnell
25	Little by Little	James House	House's first Top 40 chart single since "Don't Quit Me Now" in 1989.
7	Little Houses	Doug Stone
24	Look at Me Now	Bryan White
11	Look What Followed Me Home	David Ball
9	Love Lessons	Tracy Byrd
15	Mississippi Moon	John Anderson
16	My Heart Will Never Know	Clay Walker
9	Night Is Fallin' in My Heart	Diamond Rio
3	No Man's Land	John Michael Montgomery
20	Nothing	Dwight Yoakam
20	On My Own	Reba McEntire	Cover of Patti LaBelle's 1986 hit single, which was a duet with Michael McDonald.
2	One Boy, One Girl	Collin Raye
2	One Emotion	Clint Black
6	Party Crowd	David Lee Murphy
5	Refried Dreams	Tim McGraw
4	Safe in the Arms of Love	Martina McBride	Canadian singer Michelle Wright concurrently released her own version of this same song.
2	She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl	Alabama
3	Should've Asked Her Faster	Ty England	Before the release of this, his debut single, England was a guitarist in Garth Brooks' road band.
2	So Help Me Girl	Joe Diffie
7	Sometimes She Forgets	Travis Tritt
7	Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart	Shenandoah with Alison Krauss
6	Song for the Life	Alan Jackson
2	Standing on the Edge of Goodbye	John Berry
8	Stay Forever	Hal Ketchum
2	Tell Me I Was Dreaming	Travis Tritt
6	Tender When I Want to Be	Mary Chapin Carpenter
8	Tequila Talkin'	Lonestar
3	That Ain't My Truck	Rhett Akins
10	That's How You Know (When You're in Love)	Lari White
7	That's Just About Right	BlackHawk
3	They're Playin' Our Song	Neal McCoy
6	This Is Me Missing You	James House
11	(This Thing Called) Wantin' and Havin' It All	Sawyer Brown
2	This Time	Sawyer Brown	B
25	Three Words, Two Hearts, One Night	Mark Collie
2	Till You Love Me	Reba McEntire
18	Trouble	Mark Chesnutt
23	True to His Word	Boy Howdy
10	Upstairs Downtown	Toby Keith
15	Walkin' to Jerusalem	Tracy Byrd
16	What'll You Do About Me	Doug Supernaw
24	When and Where	Confederate Railroad
3	When You Say Nothing at All	Alison Krauss & Union Station	Cover of Keith Whitley's Number One hit from 1989.
3	Wherever You Go	Clint Black
4	Which Bridge to Cross (Which Bridge to Burn)	Vince Gill
5	Whiskey Under the Bridge	Brooks & Dunn
2	Who Needs You Baby	Clay Walker
11	Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?	Shania Twain
14	The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You)	Shania Twain
2	You Ain't Much Fun	Toby Keith
4	You and Only You	John Berry
2	You Better Think Twice	Vince Gill
23	You Can Sleep While I Drive	Trisha Yearwood
5	You Don't Even Know Who I Am	Patty Loveless	B
4	You Have the Right to Remain Silent	Perfect Stranger

• ^A Reached #1 on U.S. Gavin Report country singles charts.
• ^B Reached #1 on U.S. Radio & Records (now Mediabase 24/7) country singles charts.

[edit] Top new album releases

• All I Need to Know — Kenny Chesney (BNA)
• All I Want — Tim McGraw (Curb)
• All of This Love — Pam Tillis (Arista Nashville)
• Come Together: America Salutes The Beatles — Various Artists (Capitol Nashville)
• Dwight Live — Dwight Yoakam (Reprise)
• Fresh Horses — Garth Brooks (Capitol Nashville)
• Games Rednecks Play — Jeff Foxworthy (Warner Bros.)
• Gone — Dwight Yoakam (Reprise)
• Greatest Hits — Little Texas (Warner Bros.)
• Greatest Hits — Lorrie Morgan (BNA)
• Greatest Hits 1990-1995 — Sawyer Brown (Curb)
• Greatest Hits: From the Beginning — Travis Tritt (Warner Bros.)
• The Greatest Hits Collection — Alan Jackson (Arista Nashville)
• The Hits: Chapter 1 — Sammy Kershaw (Mercury)
• Hog Wild — Hank Williams Jr. (Curb)
• Hypnotize the Moon — Clay Walker (Giant)
• I Think About You — Collin Raye (Epic)
• In Pictures — Alabama (RCA)
• It Matters to Me — Faith Hill (Warner Bros.)
• Jeff Carson — Jeff Carson (Curb)
• John Michael Montgomery — John Michael Montgomery (Atlantic)
• Life's So Funny — Joe Diffie (Epic)
• Lonestar — Lonestar (BNA)
• Looking for the Light — Rick Trevino (Columbia)
• Love Lessons — Tracy Byrd (MCA Nashville)
• Music for All Occasions — The Mavericks (MCA)
• Now That I've Found You: A Collection — Alison Krauss and Union Station (Rounder)
• Old Enough to Know Better — Wade Hayes (Columbia)
• One — George Jones and Tammy Wynette (MCA Nashville)
• Out with a Bang — David Lee Murphy (MCA Nashville)
• Something Special — Dolly Parton (Columbia)
• Souvenirs — Vince Gill (MCA)
• Standing On the Edge — John Berry (Capitol Nashville)
• Starting Over — Reba McEntire (MCA)
• Strait Out of the Box — George Strait (MCA)
• Strong Enough — BlackHawk (Arista)
• Terri Clark — Terri Clark (Mercury)
• Thinkin' About You — Trisha Yearwood (MCA)
• This Thing Called Wantin' and Havin' It All — Sawyer Brown (Curb)
• Tool Box — Aaron Tippin (RCA)
• Ty England — Ty England (RCA)
• What Mattered Most — Ty Herndon (Epic)
• Wild Angels — Martina McBride (RCA)
• The Woman in Me — Shania Twain (Mercury)
• You Gotta Love That — Neal McCoy (Atlantic)
• You Have the Right to Remain Silent — Perfect Stranger (Curb)

[edit] Other top albums

• 4 Runner — 4 Runner (Polydor)
• Amazing Grace: A Country Salute to Gospel — Various Artists (Sparrow)
• Any Way the Wind Blows — Brother Phelps (Asylum)
• Born That Way — Boy Howdy (Curb)
• Daryle Singletary — Daryle Singletary (Giant)
• Days Gone By — James House (Epic)
• Faith in Me, Faith in You — Doug Stone (Epic)
• Fire to Fire — Tanya Tucker (Capitol)
• Have Yourself a Tractors Christmas — The Tractors (Arista)
• In the Vicinity of the Heart — Shenandoah (Capitol)
• Junior High — Junior Brown (MCG/Curb)
• Kim Richey — Kim Richey (Mercury Nashville)
• Labor of Love — Radney Foster (Arista)
• Life Is Good — Emilio (Capitol)
• Little Acts of Treason — Carlene Carter (Giant)
• Looking for Christmas — Clint Black (RCA)
• The Marty Party Hit Pack — Marty Stuart (MCA)
• The Moffatts — The Moffatts (Polydor)
• Mr. Christmas — Joe Diffie (Epic)
• NASCAR: Runnin' Wide Open — Various Artists (Columbia)
• O Holy Night — John Berry (Capitol)
• The Original Volume 79 — Jeff Foxworthy (Warner Bros.)
• The Redneck Test Volume 43 — Jeff Foxworthy (Warner Bros.)
• Restless — Shelby Lynne (Magnatone)
• The Road Goes on Forever — The Highwaymen (Columbia)
• Sold Out Volume 80 — Jeff Foxworthy (Warner Bros.)
• A Thousand Memories — Rhett Akins (Decca)
• Tracy Lawrence Live and Unplugged — Tracy Lawrence (Atlantic)
• We All Get Lucky Sometimes — Lee Roy Parnell (Career)
• When and Where — Confederate Railroad (Atlantic)
• Wings — Mark Chesnutt (Decca)

[edit] Deaths

• November 10 - Curly Fox, 85, fiddler and one half of country-comedy duo Curly Fox and Texas Ruby.

[edit] Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

• Roger Miller (1936–1992)
• Jo Walker-Meador (born 1924)

[edit] Major Awards

[edit] Grammy awards

• Best Female Country Vocal Performance -- "Baby, Now That I've Found You," Alison Krauss
• Best Male Country Vocal Performance -- "Go Rest High on That Mountain," Vince Gill
• Best Country Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal -- "Here Comes the Rain," The Mavericks
• Best Country Collaboration With Vocals -- "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart," Shenandoah and Alison Krauss
• Best Country Instrumental Performance -- "Hightower," Asleep at the Wheel, Béla Fleck and Johnny Gimble
• Best Country Song -- "Go Rest High on That Mountain," Vince Gill
• Best Country Album -- The Woman in Me, Shania Twain (Producer: Robert John "Mutt" Lange)
• Best Bluegrass Album -- Unleashed, The Nashville Bluegrass Band

[edit] Academy of Country Music

• Entertainer Of The Year -- Brooks & Dunn
• Song Of The Year -- "The Keeper of the Stars," Dickey Lee, Karen Staley, Danny Mayo (Performer: Tracy Byrd)
• Single Of The Year -- "Check Yes or No," George Strait
• Album Of The Year -- The Woman in Me, Shania Twain
• Top Male Vocalist -- Alan Jackson
• Top Female Vocalist -- Patty Loveless
• Top Vocal Duo -- Brooks & Dunn
• Top Vocal Group -- The Mavericks
• Top New Male Vocalist -- Bryan White
• Top New Female Vocalist -- Shania Twain
• Top New Vocal Duo Or Group -- Lonestar
• Video Of The Year -- "The Car" - Jeff Carson (Director: Michael Salomon)

[edit] Country Music Association

• Entertainer of the Year -- Alan Jackson
• Song of the Year -- "Independence Day," Gretchen Peters (Performer: Martina McBride)
• Single of the Year -- "When You Say Nothing at All," Alison Krauss & Union Station
• Album of the Year -- When Fallen Angels Fly, Patty Loveless
• Male Vocalist of the Year -- Vince Gill
• Female Vocalist of the Year -- Alison Krauss
• Vocal Duo of the Year -- Brooks & Dunn
• Vocal Group of the Year -- The Mavericks
• Horizon Award -- Alison Krauss
• Music Video of the Year -- "Baby Likes to Rock It," The Tractors (Director: Michael Salomon)
• Vocal Event of the Year -- "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart," Shenandoah and Alison Krauss
• Musician of the Year -- Mark O'Connor

[edit] References

[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