1993 in country music

See also: 1992 in country music, 1993 in music, other events of 1993, 1994 in country music, 1990s in music and the List of years in Country Music

Events

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

(as certified by Billboard magazine)

• 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.

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)

Top new album releases

• Alibis — Tracy Lawrence (Atlantic)
• Almost Goodbye — Mark Chesnutt (MCA)
• 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)
• Fire in the Dark — Billy Dean (Liberty)
• Greatest Hits 1990-1992 — Tanya Tucker (Capitol)
• Greatest Hits Volume Two — Reba McEntire (MCA)
• Hard Workin' Man — Brooks & Dunn (Arista)
• Haunted Heart — Sammy Kershaw (Mercury)
• Honky Tonk Angels — Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn & Tammy Wynette (Columbia)
• Honky Tonk Attitude — Joe Diffie (Epic)
• Honky Tonk Christmas — Alan Jackson (Arista)
• In Pieces — Garth Brooks (Capitol)
• It Won't Be the Last — Billy Ray Cyrus (Mercury)
• Let There Be Peace on Earth — Vince Gill (MCA)
• 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)
• Soon — Tanya Tucker (Liberty)
• Take Me as I Am — Faith Hill (Warner Bros.)
• Tell Me Why — Wynonna (Curb/MCA)
• This Time — Dwight Yoakam (Reprise)
• Toby Keith — Toby Keith (Mercury Nashville)
• Tracy Byrd — Tracy Byrd (MCA)
• 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.)

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)
• 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 (PolyGram/Mercury)
• 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)

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

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.

Other links

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

External links

• Country Music Hall of Famede:Country-Musik 1993