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Vince Gill began work on this tearjerker following the death of country singer Keith Whitley, who died of alcohol poisoning in 1989 at age 34, and finished the song years later after his own ...
Tim McGraw singles chronology. "Watch the Wind Blow By". (2003) " Live Like You Were Dying ". (2004) "Back When". (2004) " Live Like You Were Dying " is a song recorded by American country music singer Tim McGraw, and was the lead single from his eighth album of the same name (2004). It was written by the songwriting team of Tim Nichols and ...
Concrete Angel. " Concrete Angel " is a song written by Stephanie Bentley and Rob Crosby, and recorded by American country music artist Martina McBride. It was released in November 2002 as the fourth and last single from McBride's Greatest Hits compilation album. The song reached number 5 on the country music charts. [2] ".
Donald Ray Williams (May 27, 1939 [1] – September 8, 2017) [2] was an American country music singer, songwriter, and 2010 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He began his solo career in 1971, singing popular ballads and amassing seventeen number one country hits. His straightforward yet smooth bass-baritone voice, soft tones, and ...
From songs about death—losing a parent, a partner, and even a child—to the most gut-wrenching breakup stories, the story-like lyrics and slow, twangy instrumentals just have a way of tugging ...
Hallowed Ground is the second studio album by Violent Femmes, released on May 14, 1984. [4] Like the band's first album, the songs were mostly written by singer/guitarist/lyricist Gordon Gano when he was in high school. "Country Death Song", for example, written by Gano during his high school classes, was inspired by the tradition of folk songs ...
The song was Jones's first solo No. 1 single in six years. It was written by Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman. The week after Jones' death in 2013, the song re-entered the Hot Country Songs chart at No. 21. As of November 13, 2013, the single has sold 521,000 copies in the United States.
In 1991 country artist Alan Jackson released "Midnight in Montgomery", a song whose lyrics portray meeting Hank Williams's spirit at Williams's gravesite while on his way to a New Year's Eve show. Country artist Marty Stuart also paid homage to Williams with a tribute track entitled "Me and Hank and Jumping Jack Flash".