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 evidently the first song to do so on the Billboard Singles chart.}
• ^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

• "A Bad Goodbye" - Clint Black with Wynonna
• "A Cowboy's Born With a Broken Heart" - Boy Howdy
• "A Little Bit of Her Love" - Robert Ellis Orrall
• "A Mind of Her Own" - John Berry
• "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere" - Dwight Yoakam
• "Ain't That Lonely Yet" - Dwight Yoakam
• "All These Years" - Sawyer Brown
• "Alright Already" - Larry Stewart
• "An Old Pair of Shoes" - Randy Travis
• "Anywhere But Here" - Sammy Kershaw
• "Beer and Bones" - John Michael Montgomery
• "Born to Love You" - Mark Collie
• "The Bug" - Mary Chapin Carpenter
• "Cadillac Ranch" - Chris LeDoux
• "Cleopatra, Queen of Denial" - Pam Tillis
• "Dance with the One That Brought You" - Shania Twain
• "Do You Know Where Your Man Is" - Pam Tillis
• "Down on My Knees" - Trisha Yearwood
• "Drive South" - Suzy Bogguss
• "Easier Said Than Done" - Radney Foster
• "Finally Friday" - George Jones
• "Half Enough" - Lorrie Morgan
• "The Hard Way" - Mary Chapin Carpenter
• "Haunted Heart" - Sammy Kershaw
• "He Ain't Worth Missing" - Toby Keith
• "Heartache" - Suzy Bogguss
• "Hearts Are Gonna Roll" - Hal Ketchum
• "Hey Baby" - Marty Stuart
• "High on a Mountain Top" - Marty Stuart
• "High Rollin'" - The Gibson/Miller Band
• "High-Tech Redneck" - George Jones
• "Hometown Honeymoon" - Alabama
• "Honky Tonk Attitude" - Joe Diffie
• "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)
• "I Fell in the Water" - John Anderson
• "I Guess You Had to Be There" - Lorrie Morgan
• "I Wanna Take Care of You" - Billy Dean
• "I Want You Bad (And That Ain't Good)" - Collin Raye
• "I'm Not Built That Way" - Billy Dean
• "In a Week or Two" - Diamond Rio
• "In the Heart of a Woman" - Billy Ray Cyrus
• "If I Didn't Love You" - Steve Wariner
• "It's a Little Too Late" - Tanya Tucker
• "It's Your Call" - Reba McEntire
• "Just Like the Weather" - Suzy Bogguss
• "Kiss Me in the Car" - John Berry
• "Learning to Live Again" - Garth Brooks
• "Let Go" - Brother Phelps
• "Let Go of the Stone" - John Anderson
• "Let That Pony Run" - Pam Tillis
• "Like a River to the Sea" - Steve Wariner
• "Looking Out For Number One" - Travis Tritt
• "Love on the Loose, Heart on the Run" - McBride & the Ride
• "Love Without Mercy" - Lee Roy Parnell
• "Made For Lovin' You" - Doug Stone
• "Mama Knows the Highway" - Hal Ketchum
• "Mending Fences" - Restless Heart
• "Mercury Blues" - Alan Jackson
• "My Baby Loves Me" - Martina McBride
• "My Blue Angel" - Aaron Tippin
• "My Strongest Weakness" - Wynonna
• "No Future in the Past" - Vince Gill
• "No Time to Kill" - Clint Black
• "Nobody Wins" - Radney Foster
• "Nothin' But the Wheel" - Patty Loveless
• "Now I Pray For Rain" - Neal McCoy
• "Oh Me, Oh My Sweet Baby" - Diamond Rio
• "Ol' Country" - Mark Chesnutt
• "On the Road" - Lee Roy Parnell
• "Once Upon a Lifetime" - Alabama
• "Only Love" - Wynonna
• "Passionate Kisses" - Mary Chapin Carpenter
• "Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)" - Joe Diffie
• "Queen of My Double Wide Trailer" - Sammy Kershaw
• "Reno" - Doug Supernaw
• "Romeo" - Dolly Parton (featuring Mary Chapin Carpenter, Billy Ray Cyrus, Kathy Mattea, and Tanya Tucker)
• "Shame Shame Shame Shame" - Mark Collie
• "She's Not Cryin' Anymore" - Billy Ray Cyrus
• "Somebody Else's Moon" - Collin Raye
• "Somebody New" - Billy Ray Cyrus
• "Somebody Paints the Wall" - Tracy Lawrence
• "Something's Gonna Change Her Mind" - Mark Collie
• "The Song Remembers When" - Trisha Yearwood
• "Soon" - Tanya Tucker
• "Sure Love" - Hal Ketchum
• "Suspicious Minds" - Dwight Yoakam
• "Take It Back" - Reba McEntire
• "Tell Me About It" - Tanya Tucker with Delbert McClinton
• "Tell Me Why" - Wynonna
• "Tender Moment" - Lee Roy Parnell
• "Texas Tattoo" - The Gibson/Miller Band
• "That Was a River" - Collin Raye
• "This Romeo Ain't Got Julie Yet" - Diamond Rio
• "Tonight I Climbed The Wall" - Alan Jackson
• "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" - Travis Tritt
• "Trouble on the Line" - Sawyer Brown
• "Tryin' to Hide a Fire in the Dark" - Billy Dean
• "Walkaway Joe" - Trisha Yearwood (featuring Don Henley)
• "We Got the Love" - Restless Heart
• "We'll Burn That Bridge" - Brooks & Dunn
• "What Made You Say That" - Shania Twain
• "When Did You Stop Loving Me" - George Strait
• "Wild Man" - Ricky Van Shelton
• "Workin' Man's Ph.D" - Aaron Tippin
• "Worth Every Mile" - Travis Tritt
• "You Lay a Whole Lot of Love on Me" - Shania Twain
• "You Say You Will" - Trisha Yearwood

Top new album releases

• Almost Goodbye – Mark Chesnutt (MCA)
• Close to the Edge – Diamond Rio (Arista)
• Greatest Hits Vol. 2 – Reba McEntire (MCA)
• Hard Working Man – Brooks & Dunn (Arista)
• In Pieces – Garth Brooks (Capitol)
• No Ordinary Man – Tracy Byrd (MCA)
• No Time to Kill – Clint Black (RCA)
• Shania Twain – Shania Twain (Mercury/Polygram)
• Tell Me Why - Wynonna (MCA)
• True Believer – Ronnie Milsap (Liberty)

Christmas albums

• Let There Be Peace on Earth – Vince Gill (MCA)

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 (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

Academy of Country Music

• Entertainer Of The Year -- Garth Brooks
• Song Of The Year -- "I Love The Way You Love Me" - John Michael Montgomery - Victoria Shaw, Chuck Cannon
• Single Of The Year -- "Chattahoochee" - Alan Jackson
• Album Of The Year -- A Lot About Livin' - 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 -- The Gibson/Miller Band
• Video Of The Year -- "We Shall Be Free" - Garth Brooks

Country Music Association

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 Fame

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