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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1988.


as certified by Billboard)

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PeakSingleArtist
9Always Late with Your KissesDwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam

Dwight David Yoakam is an United States singer-songwriter and actor, most famous for his country music. Active since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
8AmericanaMoe Bandy
Moe Bandy

Marion Franklin Bandy, Jr.?better known professionally as Moe Bandy?...
5Another Place, Another TimeDon Williams
Don Williams

Don Williams , is a country music singer and songwriter. He grew up in Portland, Texas, Texas, and graduated in 1958 from Gregory-Portland High School....
2Baby I'm YoursSteve Wariner
Steve Wariner

Steven Noel Wariner is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. In his career, he has released eighteen studio albums, including six on MCA Records, and three each on RCA Records, Arista Records and Capitol Records....
15The Best I Know HowThe Statler Brothers
10Blue LoveThe O'Kanes
The O'Kanes

The O'Kanes were an American country music duo composed of Jamie O'Hara and Kieran Kane. They had one #1 on the country chart, their second single "Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You", as well as six more singles, all but one of which reached Top Ten on the country charts....
5Blue to the BoneSweethearts of the Rodeo
Sweethearts of the Rodeo

Sweethearts of the Rodeo was an American country music duo from Los Angeles, California who were active from 1986 to 1996. The duo consisted of sisters Janis Oliver and Kristine Oliver....
10Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country BluesCharlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels is an United States musician famous for his contributions to country music and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his Number One country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written....
4Button Off My Shirt
Button Off My Shirt

"Button Off My Shirt", released in 1988 in country music, is a song made famous by country pop singer Ronnie Milsap.Originally exclusive to album Heart & Soul, the song was later featured on a number of his compilation albums....
Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Milsap

Ronnie Lee Milsap is an American country music singer and musician. He was one of country?s most popular and influential artists in the List of years in country music....
9Chill FactorMerle Haggard
Merle Haggard

Merle Ronald Haggard is an United States country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter.Merle Haggard has become one of the true giants of country music, as a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and instrumentalist....
6Chisled in StoneVern Gosdin
Vern Gosdin

Vern Gosdin is an United States country music singer. He idolized The Louvin Brothers and The Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called The Gosdin Brothers....
4Crying ShameMichael Johnson
Michael Johnson (singer)

Michael Johnson , is an United States pop music, country music and folk music singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his 1978 hit song "Bluer Than Blue"....
7DesperatelyDon Williams
4Do You Believe Me NowVern Gosdin
10Don't Give Candy to a StrangerLarry Boone
Larry Boone

Larry Boone is an American country music artist. Between 1985 and 1993, Boone recorded five major label studio albums, in addition to charting several singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
11Everybody's SweetheartVince Gill
Vince Gill

Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an United States neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in hig...
6The FactoryKenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers

Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is an United States country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone....
4The GiftThe McCarters
The McCarters

The McCarters was an United States country music trio composed of Jennifer McCarter and her sisters Lisa and Teresa, who were twins. The trio was signed to Warner Bros....
2Give a Little LoveThe Judds
The Judds

The Judds were a Grammy Award-winning United States country music duo composed of Naomi Judd and her daughter, Wynonna Judd. The Judds signed with RCA Records in 1983 and were one of the most popular country music duos of the decade, recording more than ten studio albums and charting several hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singl...
8Givers and TakersSchuyler, Knobloch & Bickhardt
7Goodbye Time
Goodbye Time

"Goodbye Time" is a single by United States country music singer Conway Twitty that reached #7 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. It was the first single from Twitty's 1988 album Still in Your Dreams, and it features Vince Gill on background vocals....
Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty

Conway Twitty was one of the United States most successful country music artists during the 20th century. Most commonly thought of as a country music singer, he also enjoyed success in early rock and roll, R&B, and Pop music....
4Heaven Can't Be FoundHank Williams, Jr.
Hank Williams, Jr.

Hank Williams, Jr., is an award-winning American country music singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of southern rock, blues, and traditional country....
14High Ridin' HeroesDavid Lynn Jones
David Lynn Jones

David Lynn Jones is an United States country music singer-songwriter. Between 1987 and 1994, Jones released four studio albums; he also charted four singles on Billboard Hot Country Songs chart....
 with Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings was an influential United States of America country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass guitar player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets....
12I Didn't (Every Chance I Had)Johnny Rodriguez
Johnny Rodriguez

Johnny Rodriguez is an United States country music singer. He was the first famous Latin American country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish language....
8I Don't Have Far to FallSkip Ewing
Skip Ewing

Donald Ralph Ewing is an American country music singer and songwriter. Active since 1988, Ewing has recorded nine studio albums, and has charted fifteen singles on the Billboard country charts....
7I Have YouGlen Campbell
Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell is a Grammy Award, Dove Award winning, and two time nominated Golden Globe Award United States country pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor....
2I Should Be with YouSteve Wariner
12I Still BelieveLee Greenwood
Lee Greenwood

Lee Greenwood is an American country music artist. Active since the early 1980s, he has released more than twenty major-label albums and has charted more than thirty-five singles on the Billboard country music charts....
18I Want a Love Like ThatJudy Rodman
Judy Rodman

Judy Rodman is an United States. In the mid-80s, she was a successful country music singer, making all the way to number one on the country charts in 1986 with the song "Until I Met You." She also won the Academy of Country Music's "Top New Female Vocalist" award in 1985....
7I Will Whisper Your NameMichael Johnson
5I Wish That I Could Fall in Love TodayBarbara Mandrell
Barbara Mandrell

Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer. She is best-known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country music's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s....
9I Wouldn't Be a ManDon Williams
6I'll Give You All My Love TonightThe Bellamy Brothers
5I'll Pin a Note on Your PillowBilly Joe Royal
Billy Joe Royal

Billy Joe Royal is an United States singer.Raised in Marietta, Georgia, Georgia , Royal became a local singing sensation at Savannah, Georgia Bamboo Ranch in the 1950s and 1960s....
13I'm Gonna Love Her on the RadioCharley Pride
Charley Pride

Charley Frank Pride is a country music artist. During his career, he has had thirty-six number-one hits on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs charts....
3I'm Gonna Miss You, GirlMichael Martin Murphey
Michael Martin Murphey

Michael Martin Murphey is a writer and performer of United States music. He is singer-songwriter in country music, Western music , and popular music....
18I'm TiredRicky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs

For the punk rock musician, see Ricky Scaggs.Richard Lee "Ricky" Skaggs is a Grammy-winning country music and bluegrass music singer, musician, producer, and composer....
2I've Been Lookin'Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an United States country music-folk music-rock and roll band that has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966 in music....
10If My Heart Had Windows
If My Heart Had Windows (George Jones song)

"If My Heart Had Windows" is the title of a country song written by Dallas Frazier and recorded by George Jones in 1967 on his If My Heart Had Windows ....
Patty Loveless
Patty Loveless

Patty Loveless is an United States country music singer.Since her emergence on the country music scene in 1987 with her first, self-titled album, Loveless has been one of the most popular female singers of the Neotraditional country movement, although she has also recorded albums in the Country pop and Bluegrass music genres....
16If Ole Hank Could Only See Us NowWaylon Jennings
8If the South Woulda WonHank Williams, Jr.
17It Keeps Right on Hurtin'Billy Joe Royal
8It's Only Make BelieveRonnie McDowell
Ronnie McDowell

Ronnie McDowell is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1977 with the song "The King Is Gone", a tribute to Elvis Presley, who had died not long before the single's release....
 with Conway Twitty
5Just Lovin' YouThe O'Kanes
9Just One KissExile
Exile (American band)

Exile, originally known as The Exiles, is an United States band. They originally began as a pop rock group, hitting the peak of their success in 1978 with the rock pop ballad hit "Kiss You All Over"....
4The Last ResortT. Graham Brown
T. Graham Brown

Anthony Graham Brown is an American country music artist, known professionally as T. Graham Brown. Active since 1986, Brown has recorded a total of thirteen studio albums, and has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
9Letter HomeThe Forester Sisters
The Forester Sisters

The Forester Sisters are an United States country music vocal group consisting of Kathy, June, Kim and Christy Forester. Their peak years were the 1980s; their hits included "That's What You Do When You're In Love", "Leave It Alone", "Don't You", "Mama's Never Seen Those Eyes", "I Fell in Love Again Last Night", and "Lyin' In His Arms Again."...
18A Little Bit CloserTom Wopat
Tom Wopat

Tom Wopat is an United States actor and singer.He first achieved fame as Luke Duke in the long-running 1979 television series The Dukes of Hazzard, along with John Schneider ....
2A Little Bit in Love
A Little Bit in Love

"A Little Bit in Love" is a single release by Patty Loveless, recorded at MCA/Nashville in the fall of 1987. It was included on her second album with MCA Records, If My Heart Had Windows , with the single being released in June 1988....
Patty Loveless
20Louisiana RainJohn Wesley Ryles
John Wesley Ryles

John Wesley Ryles is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1968 with the release of his single "Kay", a Top Ten hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, and the title track to his debut album for Columbia Records....
3Love Helps ThosePaul Overstreet
Paul Overstreet

Paul Overstreet is a country music singer and songwriter. He recorded ten studio albums between 1982 and 2005, and charted sixteen singles on the Billboard country charts, including two Number One hits....
4Love of a LifetimeLarry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers
Larry Gatlin

Larry Gatlin is an United States. He is best-known for teaming up with his brothers in the late 1970s, where they became one of country music's most successful acts of the 1970s and 1980s....
5Lyin' in His Arms AgainThe Forester Sisters
5Mama KnowsShenandoah
Shenandoah (band)

Shenandoah is an American country music band founded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in 1985 by Marty Raybon , Ralph Ezell , Stan Thorn , Jim Seales , and Mike McGuire ....
14Midnight HighwaySouthern Pacific
Southern Pacific (band)

Southern Pacific was a country rock band that ran from 1983 in music to 1991 in music. They are best known for hits such as "Any Way the Wind Blows" , which was heard in the film Pink Cadillac starring Clint Eastwood and Bernadette Peters, and "New Shade of Blue" ....
13MoneyK. T. Oslin
K. T. Oslin

K. T. Oslin is a Grammy Award-winning country music singer and songwriter. Between 1981 and the present, she has released seven studio albums, and has charted more than fifteen singles on the Billboard country charts....
11My Baby's GoneSawyer Brown
Sawyer Brown

Sawyer Brown is an American country music band founded in 1981 in Apopka, Florida by five members of country pop singer Don King 's road band: Bobby Randall and Jim Scholten , both from Midland, Michigan; Joe Smyth , Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard , and Mark Miller ....
2New Shade of BlueSouthern Pacific
7No More One More TimeJo-El Sonnier
Jo-El Sonnier

Jo-El Sonnier is an American singer-songwriter and accordionist who performs country music and Cajun music. Originally signed to Mercury Nashville Records, Sonnier charted several minor singles on the Billboard country charts in the late 1970s....
5Oh What a LoveNitty Gritty Dirt Band
2Old FolksRonnie Milsap with Mike Reid
15One Step ForwardThe Desert Rose Band
4One True LoveThe O'Kanes
11Only Love Can Save Me NowCrystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle

Crystal Gayle is an United States country music singer best known for a series of country-pop crossover hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the Grammy Award-winning, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." She accumulated 18 No....
10Out of Sight and on My MindBilly Joe Royal
6Please, Please BabyDwight Yoakam
9Real Good Feel Good SongMel McDaniel
Mel McDaniel

Mel McDaniel is an American country music artist. His hitmaking years were the 1980s; his hits include "Louisiana Saturday Night," "Stand Up," "Anger and Tears," the Number One "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On," "I Call It Love", "Stand On It" and a remake of Chuck Berry's "Let It Roll ."...
9Rebels Without a ClueThe Bellamy Brothers
5Santa FeThe Bellamy Brothers
5Satisfy YouSweethearts of the Rodeo
9Saturday Night SpecialConway Twitty
9She Doesn't Cry AnymoreShenandoah
17She's No LadyLyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett

Lyle Pearce Lovett is an United States singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the #10 chart hit on the U.S....
5Shouldn't It Be Easier Than ThisCharley Pride
16Some Old Side RoadKeith Whitley
Keith Whitley

Jesse Keith Whitley , known professionally as Keith Whitley, was an American country music singer. Whitley's brief career in mainstream country music lasted from 1984 till his death in 1989, but he continues to influence an entire generation of singers and songwriters....
8Spanish EyesWillie Nelson
Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....
 with Julio Iglesias
Julio Iglesias

Julio Iglesias De la Cueva is a Spain singer who has sold over 300 million albums in 14 languages and released 77 albums. According to Sony Music he is one of the top 10 best selling music artists ever....
5Still Within the Sound of My VoiceGlen Campbell
7Strangers AgainHolly Dunn
Holly Dunn

Holly Dunn is a country music artist who first found fame with her 1986 Top-10 hit "Daddy's Hands" from her self-titled d?but album. Dunn has charted more than a dozen country singles, two of which reaching the #1 spot....
2Summer WindThe Desert Rose Band
5Sunday Kind of Love
A Sunday Kind of Love

"A Sunday Kind of Love" is a popular music song by Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes, and Louis Prima, published in 1946 in music.The song has become a popular music and jazz standard, recorded by many artists....
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire

Reba Nell McEntire is an United States country music singer, performer and actress. Sometimes referred to as "The Queen of Country", she is known for her lively stage-shows and pop-tinged ballads....
8Sure ThingFoster & Lloyd
Foster & Lloyd

Foster & Lloyd was an American country music duo consisting of Radney Foster and Bill Lloyd, both singer-songwriters in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1986, the duo recorded three albums for RCA Records, in addition to charting nine singles on the Billboard country charts....
16Talkin' to Myself AgainTammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette

Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an United States and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....
4Talkin' to the Wrong ManMichael Martin Murphey with Ryan Murphey
9Tear Stained LetterJo-El Sonnier
8Tell Me TrueJuice Newton
Juice Newton

Juice Newton is an American Pop music and Country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. To date, Newton has received five Grammy Award nominations in the Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist categories , as well as a Country Music Association Award for Best New Female Artist and two Billboard Female Album Artist of the Year awards ....
18Texas in 1880Foster & Lloyd
17Thanks AgainRicky Skaggs
6That's My JobConway Twitty
9That's ThatMichael Johnson
5That's What Your Love Does to MeHolly Dunn
2This Missin' You Heart of MineSawyer Brown
5Timeless and True LoveThe McCarters
5Touch and Go CrazyLee Greenwood
5True HeartThe Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys

The Oak Ridge Boys are a country music and gospel music group that is based in the United States. The group was founded in 1945 as the Oak Ridge Quartet....
4Untold StoriesKathy Mattea
Kathy Mattea

Kathleen Alice Mattea is an American female country music and Bluegrass music performer who often brings Celtic music sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a singer, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts....
7We Must Be Doin' Somethin' RightEddie Rabbitt
Eddie Rabbitt

Edward Thomas Rabbitt was a country music singer. He enjoyed much pop success in his career, helping develop the Crossover -influenced sound in country music during the 1970s and 80s....
6What Do You Want from Me This TimeFoster & Lloyd
9Wilder DaysBaillie & the Boys
Baillie & the Boys

Baillie & the Boys is an United States country music group wthat gained prominence in the late 1980s. The band's original lineup consisted of Kathie Baillie , her husband, Michael Bonagura , and Alan LeBoeuf ....
6WildflowersDolly Parton
Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music....
, Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt

Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
 and Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
4Workin' Man (Nowhere to Go)Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
20You Can't Fall in Love When You're Cryin'Lee Greenwood
2Young CountryHank Williams, Jr.
17Your Memory Wins AgainSkip Ewing


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1 Alabama Live
Alabama Live

Alabama Live is the first Live album from country music band Alabama , it was released in 1988 in country music....
Alabama
Alabama (band)

Alabama is a Grammy Award-winning country music and southern rock band that originated in Fort Payne, Alabama, Alabama, United States. They were the most commercially successful country act in the 1980s and remain one of the bestselling American musical acts of all time....
RCA
25 All Keyed Up Becky Hobbs
Becky Hobbs

Becky Hobbs is an American country music singer, songwriter and pianist. She has recorded seven studio albums, and has charted multiple singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the #10 hit "Let's Get Over Them Together", a duet with Moe Bandy....
MTM
4 Big Dreams in a Small Town
Big Dreams in a Small Town

Big Dreams in a Small Town is the third studio album by American country music group Restless Heart. It was released by RCA Records in 1988....
Restless Heart
Restless Heart

Restless Heart is an American country music band established in 1984. The band's original members were John Dittrich , Paul Gregg , Dave Innis , Greg Jennings , and Verlon Thompson ....
RCA
1 Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room
Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room

Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room is the third consecutive #1 Billboard Country Album by Dwight Yoakam. It features Yoakam's first two #1 Hot Country Songs hits....
Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam

Dwight David Yoakam is an United States singer-songwriter and actor, most famous for his country music. Active since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
Reprise
7 Chisled in Stone Vern Gosdin
Vern Gosdin

Vern Gosdin is an United States country music singer. He idolized The Louvin Brothers and The Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called The Gosdin Brothers....
Columbia
22 Come as You Were T. Graham Brown
T. Graham Brown

Anthony Graham Brown is an American country music artist, known professionally as T. Graham Brown. Active since 1986, Brown has recorded a total of thirteen studio albums, and has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
Capitol
12 Comin' Home to Stay Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs

For the punk rock musician, see Ricky Scaggs.Richard Lee "Ricky" Skaggs is a Grammy-winning country music and bluegrass music singer, musician, producer, and composer....
Epic
7 Copperhead Road
Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road is an United States country music/country rock album released in 1988 by Steve Earle.The title song "Copperhead Road" tells of a Vietnam War veteran, scion of a rural moonshine rum-running clan, who returns home to Johnson County, Tennessee, to grow cannabis on his family's land ....
Steve Earle
Steve Earle

Stephen 'Steve' Fain Earle is an United States singer-songwriter, well known for his rock music and country music, as well as his political views....
MCA
8 Diamonds & Dirt
Diamonds & Dirt

Diamonds & Dirt is the title of an album released in 1988 by American country music singer Rodney Crowell . His fifth studio album, it was also his second release for the Columbia Records label....
Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music.Crowell was born in Houston, Texas to James Walter Crowell and Addie Cauzette Willoughby....
Columbia
8 Don't Close Your Eyes Keith Whitley
Keith Whitley

Jesse Keith Whitley , known professionally as Keith Whitley, was an American country music singer. Whitley's brief career in mainstream country music lasted from 1984 till his death in 1989, but he continues to influence an entire generation of singers and songwriters....
RCA
1 Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits (The Judds album)

Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits collection released in 1988 by the American country music duo The Judds. It features the singles "Give a Little Love" and "Change of Heart."...
The Judds
The Judds

The Judds were a Grammy Award-winning United States country music duo composed of Naomi Judd and her daughter, Wynonna Judd. The Judds signed with RCA Records in 1983 and were one of the most popular country music duos of the decade, recording more than ten studio albums and charting several hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singl...
Curb/RCA
8 Highway 101, Volume 2
Highway 101, Volume 2

On the group's second album, Highway 101? , there certainly wasn't any comedown from the heights reached by their first album. Four more songs reached the Billboard Music Charts Country Top Ten, with " Just Say Yes" at #1, "All the Reasons Why" at #5, "Honky Tonk Heart" at #6, and their cover of Dire Straits' "Setting Me Up" at #7....
Highway 101
Highway 101 (band)

Highway 101 is an United States country music band. Active since the mid-1980s, the band has gone through several rotations in membership, and currently comprises lead singer Nikki Nelson, along with Cactus Moser, Curtis Stone, and Andy Gurley....
Warner Bros.
16 Homesick Heroes The Charlie Daniels Band
Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels is an United States musician famous for his contributions to country music and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his Number One country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written....
Epic
7 Honky Tonk Angel Patty Loveless
Patty Loveless

Patty Loveless is an United States country music singer.Since her emergence on the country music scene in 1987 with her first, self-titled album, Loveless has been one of the most popular female singers of the Neotraditional country movement, although she has also recorded albums in the Country pop and Bluegrass music genres....
MCA
20 I Should Be with You Steve Wariner
Steve Wariner

Steven Noel Wariner is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. In his career, he has released eighteen studio albums, including six on MCA Records, and three each on RCA Records, Arista Records and Capitol Records....
MCA
1 If You Ain't Lovin', You Ain't Livin'
If You Ain't Lovin', You Ain't Livin'

If You Ain't Lovin', You Ain't Livin is George Strait's 8th original studio album and 11th overall album. It was released by MCA Records in 1988....
George Strait
George Strait

George Harvey Strait is a Grammy Award -winning United States country music singer. Strait is referred to as the "King of Country," and critics call Strait a living legend....
MCA
1 Loving Proof
Loving Proof

Loving Proof is the second album of Country Music artist Ricky Van Shelton. The Singles, "I'll Leave This World Loving You", "From a Jack to a King", and "Living Proof " all reached number one on the charts."Hole In My Pocket" reached number 4....
Ricky Van Shelton
Ricky Van Shelton

Ricky Van Shelton is an American country music artist. Active since 1986, he has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
Columbia
9 Monongahela The Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys

The Oak Ridge Boys are a country music and gospel music group that is based in the United States. The group was founded in 1945 as the Oak Ridge Quartet....
MCA
1 Old 8×10
Old 8×10

Old 8×10 is the third album by country music star Randy Travis. It was released on July 12, 1988 by Warner Bros. Records Nashville. The album produced the singles "Honky Tonk Moon", "Deeper Than the Holler", "Is It Still Over", and "Promises"....
Randy Travis
Randy Travis

Randy Travis is a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance- and Dove Award-winning United States country music singer. Active since 1985, he has recorded more than a dozen studio albums to date, in addition to charting more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which sixteen have reached Number On...
Warner Bros.
11 One Time, One Night
One Time, One Night

Sweethearts of the Rodeo's second album, One Time, One Night, came out in 1988 and continued on the success of their first. The top songs included "Satisfy You" and "Blue to the Bone," which both hit #5 on the Billboard Music Charts Hot Country Singles chart....
Sweethearts of the Rodeo
Sweethearts of the Rodeo

Sweethearts of the Rodeo was an American country music duo from Los Angeles, California who were active from 1986 to 1996. The duo consisted of sisters Janis Oliver and Kristine Oliver....
Columbia
12 Pontiac
Pontiac (album)

Pontiac is the title of Lyle Lovett's second album, released in 1987....
Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett

Lyle Pearce Lovett is an United States singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the #10 chart hit on the U.S....
Curb/MCA
6 Rage On
Rage On

Rage On is the seventh studio album rleased by Country Music artist Dan Seals. The Album charted at number 6 on the Top Country Albums chart, his second highest charting album since Won't Be Blue Anymore in 1985....
Dan Seals
Dan Seals

Dan Wayland Seals is an American musician. In the 1970s, he was the "England Dan" half of the soft rock duo England Dan and John Ford Coley, who are best known for their hit single "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"....
Capitol
1 Reba
Reba (album)

Reba is a studio album released in 1988. It not only signaled to the world that Reba McEntire had by now become so well known that she could be identified by first name alone, but also signaled an entirely different style to her music....
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire

Reba Nell McEntire is an United States country music singer, performer and actress. Sometimes referred to as "The Queen of Country", she is known for her lively stage-shows and pop-tinged ballads....
MCA
11 River of Time
River of Time (Michael Martin Murphey album)

River of Time is Michael Martin Murphey's fourteenth album....
Michael Martin Murphey
Michael Martin Murphey

Michael Martin Murphey is a writer and performer of United States music. He is singer-songwriter in country music, Western music , and popular music....
Warner Bros.
9 Shadowland
Shadowland (album)

Shadowland is the debut solo album by k.d. lang, released in 1988 . The album included her collaboration with Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn and Brenda Lee on "Honky Tonk Angels' Medley" and was produced by Owen Bradley, who produced Patsy Cline's best-known work....
k.d. lang
K.D. Lang

k.d. lang Order of Canada is a Canada pop music and country music singer-songwriter. The artist gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials....
Sire
21 The Statlers Greatest Hits The Statler Brothers Mercury
9 Strong Enough to Bend
Strong Enough to Bend

Strong Enough to Bend is a 1988 album by Tanya Tucker. There were three singles that made the Billboard Music Charts Top Ten Country singles charts: "Strong Enough to Bend" at #1, "Highway Robbery" at #2, and "Call on Me" at #4....
Tanya Tucker
Tanya Tucker

Tanya Denise Tucker is an American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of Top Ten and Top 40 hits....
Capitol
25 This Is My Country Lee Greenwood
Lee Greenwood

Lee Greenwood is an American country music artist. Active since the early 1980s, he has released more than twenty major-label albums and has charted more than thirty-five singles on the Billboard country music charts....
MCA
2 This Woman
This Woman (K. T. Oslin album)

This Woman is the second studio album by American country music artist K. T. Oslin. It was released by RCA Records in 1988. "Money," "Hold Me," "Hey Bobby," the title track and "Didn't Expect It to Go Down This Way" were released as singles....
K. T. Oslin
K. T. Oslin

K. T. Oslin is a Grammy Award-winning country music singer and songwriter. Between 1981 and the present, she has released seven studio albums, and has charted more than fifteen singles on the Billboard country charts....
RCA
21 Tired of the Runnin The O'Kanes
The O'Kanes

The O'Kanes were an American country music duo composed of Jamie O'Hara and Kieran Kane. They had one #1 on the country chart, their second single "Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You", as well as six more singles, all but one of which reached Top Ten on the country charts....
Columbia
6 What a Wonderful World
What a Wonderful World (album)

What a Wonderful World is an album by country music singer Willie Nelson released in March of 1988....
Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....
Columbia
1 Wild Streak
Wild Streak

Wild Streak is a studio album by American country music artist Hank Williams, Jr. It was released by Warner Bros. Records on June 21, 1988. "If the South Woulda Won" and "Early in the Morning and Late at Night" were released as singles....
Hank Williams, Jr.
Hank Williams, Jr.

Hank Williams, Jr., is an award-winning American country music singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of southern rock, blues, and traditional country....
Curb/Warner Bros.


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US Album Artist Record Label
51 10 John Anderson
John Anderson (musician)

John Anderson is an American country music artist who began his career in 1977 with the single "I've Got a Feelin' ". Although he continued to chart several more singles into the 1980s, including "Wild and Blue" by John Scott Sherrill it was not until the release of his 1983 crossover single "Swingin'" that he broke through as a mainstream c...
MCA
26 Across the Rio Grande
Across the Rio Grande

Across the Rio Grande is country music artist Holly Dunn's third album, released in 1988. It did not do quite as well as the preceding Cornerstone ....
Holly Dunn
Holly Dunn

Holly Dunn is a country music artist who first found fame with her 1986 Top-10 hit "Daddy's Hands" from her self-titled d?but album. Dunn has charted more than a dozen country singles, two of which reaching the #1 spot....
MTM
46 Alive & Well Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers
Larry Gatlin

Larry Gatlin is an United States. He is best-known for teaming up with his brothers in the late 1970s, where they became one of country music's most successful acts of the 1970s and 1980s....
Columbia
29 All in Love
All in Love

All in Love is the seventh solo studio album release by American country music singer, Marie Osmond. It was her third album release for Curb/Capitol records and was issued in 1988....
Marie Osmond
Marie Osmond

Olive Marie Osmond is an United States actress, singer, doll designer, and a member of the show business family, The Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's singing group, she gained success as a solo country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s....
Capitol/Curb
45 As I Am Anne Murray
Anne Murray

Anne Murray, Order of Canada, Order of Nova Scotia is a Canada singer. Murray has performed in Pop Music, Country Music and Adult Contemporary styles....
Capitol
36 Best of Eddy Raven Eddy Raven
Eddy Raven

Eddy Raven is an American country music artist. He charted a string of hit singles on the country music charts between 1974 and 1991.Influenced by Cajun music, the country music sounds from popular radio broadcasts such as the Louisiana Hayride, New Orleans blues, and the new sounds of rock and roll, Raven developed his own unique sound....
RCA
60 Brand New Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart (singer)

Gary Stewart was a country musician and songwriter known for his distinctive vibrato voice and his southern rock, outlaw country sound. During the peak of his popularity in the mid-1970s Time magazine described him as the "king of Honky-tonk."...
Hightone
52 Chasing Rainbows Mickey Gilley
Mickey Gilley

Mickey Gilley is an United States country music singer and musician. Although he started out singing straight-up country and western material in the 1970s, he moved towards a more pop music-friendly sound in the 1980s, bringing him further success on not just the country charts, but the pop charts as well....
Airborne
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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1988.

Events

  • May 21 — Country music stars highlight a concert at Madison Square Garden
    Madison Square Garden

    Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City....
     in New York. Featured: Alabama
    Alabama (band)

    Alabama is a Grammy Award-winning country music and southern rock band that originated in Fort Payne, Alabama, Alabama, United States. They were the most commercially successful country act in the 1980s and remain one of the bestselling American musical acts of all time....
    , The Judds
    The Judds

    The Judds were a Grammy Award-winning United States country music duo composed of Naomi Judd and her daughter, Wynonna Judd. The Judds signed with RCA Records in 1983 and were one of the most popular country music duos of the decade, recording more than ten studio albums and charting several hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singl...
    , George Strait
    George Strait

    George Harvey Strait is a Grammy Award -winning United States country music singer. Strait is referred to as the "King of Country," and critics call Strait a living legend....
     and Randy Travis
    Randy Travis

    Randy Travis is a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance- and Dove Award-winning United States country music singer. Active since 1985, he has recorded more than a dozen studio albums to date, in addition to charting more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which sixteen have reached Number On...
    .


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  • Time-Life Records releases the first volume of its "Country USA
    Country USA (Time-Life Music)

    Country USA was a 23-volume series issued by Time-Life Music during the late 1980s and early 1990s, spotlighting country music of the 1950s through early 1970s....
    " series. The series, which would eventually include 23 volumes, each chronicles one year per volume - 1950 through 1972. Each volume - offered on two record albums, or one cassette or compact disc
    Compact Disc

    A Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store Data , originally developed for storing digital audio. The CD, available on the market since October 1982, remains the standard physical medium for sale of commercial Sound recording and reproduction to the present day....
     - contains liner notes from some of country music's most respected historians. In many cases, the songs offered on each volume represented the first time they had ever been re-released on compact disc. "Country USA" was offered through television and magazine advertisements.
  • The Country Music Association Awards introduced a new award, Vocal Event of the Year, awarding collaborative efforts by two or more artists who normally don't work together. (Previously such efforts had to included with Best Duo or Group nominations.) The first recipient was the group of Emmylou Harris
    Emmylou Harris

    Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
    , Dolly Parton
    Dolly Parton

    Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music....
    , and Linda Ronstadt
    Linda Ronstadt

    Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
     for their Trio album.


Top hits of the year


Number one hits

(as certified by Billboard)

Other major hits

PeakSingleArtist
9Always Late with Your KissesDwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam

Dwight David Yoakam is an United States singer-songwriter and actor, most famous for his country music. Active since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
8AmericanaMoe Bandy
Moe Bandy

Marion Franklin Bandy, Jr.?better known professionally as Moe Bandy?...
5Another Place, Another TimeDon Williams
Don Williams

Don Williams , is a country music singer and songwriter. He grew up in Portland, Texas, Texas, and graduated in 1958 from Gregory-Portland High School....
2Baby I'm YoursSteve Wariner
Steve Wariner

Steven Noel Wariner is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. In his career, he has released eighteen studio albums, including six on MCA Records, and three each on RCA Records, Arista Records and Capitol Records....
15The Best I Know HowThe Statler Brothers
10Blue LoveThe O'Kanes
The O'Kanes

The O'Kanes were an American country music duo composed of Jamie O'Hara and Kieran Kane. They had one #1 on the country chart, their second single "Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You", as well as six more singles, all but one of which reached Top Ten on the country charts....
5Blue to the BoneSweethearts of the Rodeo
Sweethearts of the Rodeo

Sweethearts of the Rodeo was an American country music duo from Los Angeles, California who were active from 1986 to 1996. The duo consisted of sisters Janis Oliver and Kristine Oliver....
10Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country BluesCharlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels is an United States musician famous for his contributions to country music and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his Number One country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written....
4Button Off My Shirt
Button Off My Shirt

"Button Off My Shirt", released in 1988 in country music, is a song made famous by country pop singer Ronnie Milsap.Originally exclusive to album Heart & Soul, the song was later featured on a number of his compilation albums....
Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Milsap

Ronnie Lee Milsap is an American country music singer and musician. He was one of country?s most popular and influential artists in the List of years in country music....
9Chill FactorMerle Haggard
Merle Haggard

Merle Ronald Haggard is an United States country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter.Merle Haggard has become one of the true giants of country music, as a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and instrumentalist....
6Chisled in StoneVern Gosdin
Vern Gosdin

Vern Gosdin is an United States country music singer. He idolized The Louvin Brothers and The Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called The Gosdin Brothers....
4Crying ShameMichael Johnson
Michael Johnson (singer)

Michael Johnson , is an United States pop music, country music and folk music singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his 1978 hit song "Bluer Than Blue"....
7DesperatelyDon Williams
4Do You Believe Me NowVern Gosdin
10Don't Give Candy to a StrangerLarry Boone
Larry Boone

Larry Boone is an American country music artist. Between 1985 and 1993, Boone recorded five major label studio albums, in addition to charting several singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
11Everybody's SweetheartVince Gill
Vince Gill

Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an United States neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in hig...
6The FactoryKenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers

Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is an United States country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone....
4The GiftThe McCarters
The McCarters

The McCarters was an United States country music trio composed of Jennifer McCarter and her sisters Lisa and Teresa, who were twins. The trio was signed to Warner Bros....
2Give a Little LoveThe Judds
The Judds

The Judds were a Grammy Award-winning United States country music duo composed of Naomi Judd and her daughter, Wynonna Judd. The Judds signed with RCA Records in 1983 and were one of the most popular country music duos of the decade, recording more than ten studio albums and charting several hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singl...
8Givers and TakersSchuyler, Knobloch & Bickhardt
7Goodbye Time
Goodbye Time

"Goodbye Time" is a single by United States country music singer Conway Twitty that reached #7 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. It was the first single from Twitty's 1988 album Still in Your Dreams, and it features Vince Gill on background vocals....
Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty

Conway Twitty was one of the United States most successful country music artists during the 20th century. Most commonly thought of as a country music singer, he also enjoyed success in early rock and roll, R&B, and Pop music....
4Heaven Can't Be FoundHank Williams, Jr.
Hank Williams, Jr.

Hank Williams, Jr., is an award-winning American country music singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of southern rock, blues, and traditional country....
14High Ridin' HeroesDavid Lynn Jones
David Lynn Jones

David Lynn Jones is an United States country music singer-songwriter. Between 1987 and 1994, Jones released four studio albums; he also charted four singles on Billboard Hot Country Songs chart....
 with Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings was an influential United States of America country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass guitar player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets....
12I Didn't (Every Chance I Had)Johnny Rodriguez
Johnny Rodriguez

Johnny Rodriguez is an United States country music singer. He was the first famous Latin American country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish language....
8I Don't Have Far to FallSkip Ewing
Skip Ewing

Donald Ralph Ewing is an American country music singer and songwriter. Active since 1988, Ewing has recorded nine studio albums, and has charted fifteen singles on the Billboard country charts....
7I Have YouGlen Campbell
Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell is a Grammy Award, Dove Award winning, and two time nominated Golden Globe Award United States country pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor....
2I Should Be with YouSteve Wariner
12I Still BelieveLee Greenwood
Lee Greenwood

Lee Greenwood is an American country music artist. Active since the early 1980s, he has released more than twenty major-label albums and has charted more than thirty-five singles on the Billboard country music charts....
18I Want a Love Like ThatJudy Rodman
Judy Rodman

Judy Rodman is an United States. In the mid-80s, she was a successful country music singer, making all the way to number one on the country charts in 1986 with the song "Until I Met You." She also won the Academy of Country Music's "Top New Female Vocalist" award in 1985....
7I Will Whisper Your NameMichael Johnson
5I Wish That I Could Fall in Love TodayBarbara Mandrell
Barbara Mandrell

Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer. She is best-known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country music's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s....
9I Wouldn't Be a ManDon Williams
6I'll Give You All My Love TonightThe Bellamy Brothers
5I'll Pin a Note on Your PillowBilly Joe Royal
Billy Joe Royal

Billy Joe Royal is an United States singer.Raised in Marietta, Georgia, Georgia , Royal became a local singing sensation at Savannah, Georgia Bamboo Ranch in the 1950s and 1960s....
13I'm Gonna Love Her on the RadioCharley Pride
Charley Pride

Charley Frank Pride is a country music artist. During his career, he has had thirty-six number-one hits on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs charts....
3I'm Gonna Miss You, GirlMichael Martin Murphey
Michael Martin Murphey

Michael Martin Murphey is a writer and performer of United States music. He is singer-songwriter in country music, Western music , and popular music....
18I'm TiredRicky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs

For the punk rock musician, see Ricky Scaggs.Richard Lee "Ricky" Skaggs is a Grammy-winning country music and bluegrass music singer, musician, producer, and composer....
2I've Been Lookin'Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an United States country music-folk music-rock and roll band that has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966 in music....
10If My Heart Had Windows
If My Heart Had Windows (George Jones song)

"If My Heart Had Windows" is the title of a country song written by Dallas Frazier and recorded by George Jones in 1967 on his If My Heart Had Windows ....
Patty Loveless
Patty Loveless

Patty Loveless is an United States country music singer.Since her emergence on the country music scene in 1987 with her first, self-titled album, Loveless has been one of the most popular female singers of the Neotraditional country movement, although she has also recorded albums in the Country pop and Bluegrass music genres....
16If Ole Hank Could Only See Us NowWaylon Jennings
8If the South Woulda WonHank Williams, Jr.
17It Keeps Right on Hurtin'Billy Joe Royal
8It's Only Make BelieveRonnie McDowell
Ronnie McDowell

Ronnie McDowell is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1977 with the song "The King Is Gone", a tribute to Elvis Presley, who had died not long before the single's release....
 with Conway Twitty
5Just Lovin' YouThe O'Kanes
9Just One KissExile
Exile (American band)

Exile, originally known as The Exiles, is an United States band. They originally began as a pop rock group, hitting the peak of their success in 1978 with the rock pop ballad hit "Kiss You All Over"....
4The Last ResortT. Graham Brown
T. Graham Brown

Anthony Graham Brown is an American country music artist, known professionally as T. Graham Brown. Active since 1986, Brown has recorded a total of thirteen studio albums, and has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
9Letter HomeThe Forester Sisters
The Forester Sisters

The Forester Sisters are an United States country music vocal group consisting of Kathy, June, Kim and Christy Forester. Their peak years were the 1980s; their hits included "That's What You Do When You're In Love", "Leave It Alone", "Don't You", "Mama's Never Seen Those Eyes", "I Fell in Love Again Last Night", and "Lyin' In His Arms Again."...
18A Little Bit CloserTom Wopat
Tom Wopat

Tom Wopat is an United States actor and singer.He first achieved fame as Luke Duke in the long-running 1979 television series The Dukes of Hazzard, along with John Schneider ....
2A Little Bit in Love
A Little Bit in Love

"A Little Bit in Love" is a single release by Patty Loveless, recorded at MCA/Nashville in the fall of 1987. It was included on her second album with MCA Records, If My Heart Had Windows , with the single being released in June 1988....
Patty Loveless
20Louisiana RainJohn Wesley Ryles
John Wesley Ryles

John Wesley Ryles is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1968 with the release of his single "Kay", a Top Ten hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, and the title track to his debut album for Columbia Records....
3Love Helps ThosePaul Overstreet
Paul Overstreet

Paul Overstreet is a country music singer and songwriter. He recorded ten studio albums between 1982 and 2005, and charted sixteen singles on the Billboard country charts, including two Number One hits....
4Love of a LifetimeLarry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers
Larry Gatlin

Larry Gatlin is an United States. He is best-known for teaming up with his brothers in the late 1970s, where they became one of country music's most successful acts of the 1970s and 1980s....
5Lyin' in His Arms AgainThe Forester Sisters
5Mama KnowsShenandoah
Shenandoah (band)

Shenandoah is an American country music band founded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in 1985 by Marty Raybon , Ralph Ezell , Stan Thorn , Jim Seales , and Mike McGuire ....
14Midnight HighwaySouthern Pacific
Southern Pacific (band)

Southern Pacific was a country rock band that ran from 1983 in music to 1991 in music. They are best known for hits such as "Any Way the Wind Blows" , which was heard in the film Pink Cadillac starring Clint Eastwood and Bernadette Peters, and "New Shade of Blue" ....
13MoneyK. T. Oslin
K. T. Oslin

K. T. Oslin is a Grammy Award-winning country music singer and songwriter. Between 1981 and the present, she has released seven studio albums, and has charted more than fifteen singles on the Billboard country charts....
11My Baby's GoneSawyer Brown
Sawyer Brown

Sawyer Brown is an American country music band founded in 1981 in Apopka, Florida by five members of country pop singer Don King 's road band: Bobby Randall and Jim Scholten , both from Midland, Michigan; Joe Smyth , Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard , and Mark Miller ....
2New Shade of BlueSouthern Pacific
7No More One More TimeJo-El Sonnier
Jo-El Sonnier

Jo-El Sonnier is an American singer-songwriter and accordionist who performs country music and Cajun music. Originally signed to Mercury Nashville Records, Sonnier charted several minor singles on the Billboard country charts in the late 1970s....
5Oh What a LoveNitty Gritty Dirt Band
2Old FolksRonnie Milsap with Mike Reid
15One Step ForwardThe Desert Rose Band
4One True LoveThe O'Kanes
11Only Love Can Save Me NowCrystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle

Crystal Gayle is an United States country music singer best known for a series of country-pop crossover hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the Grammy Award-winning, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." She accumulated 18 No....
10Out of Sight and on My MindBilly Joe Royal
6Please, Please BabyDwight Yoakam
9Real Good Feel Good SongMel McDaniel
Mel McDaniel

Mel McDaniel is an American country music artist. His hitmaking years were the 1980s; his hits include "Louisiana Saturday Night," "Stand Up," "Anger and Tears," the Number One "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On," "I Call It Love", "Stand On It" and a remake of Chuck Berry's "Let It Roll ."...
9Rebels Without a ClueThe Bellamy Brothers
5Santa FeThe Bellamy Brothers
5Satisfy YouSweethearts of the Rodeo
9Saturday Night SpecialConway Twitty
9She Doesn't Cry AnymoreShenandoah
17She's No LadyLyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett

Lyle Pearce Lovett is an United States singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the #10 chart hit on the U.S....
5Shouldn't It Be Easier Than ThisCharley Pride
16Some Old Side RoadKeith Whitley
Keith Whitley

Jesse Keith Whitley , known professionally as Keith Whitley, was an American country music singer. Whitley's brief career in mainstream country music lasted from 1984 till his death in 1989, but he continues to influence an entire generation of singers and songwriters....
8Spanish EyesWillie Nelson
Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....
 with Julio Iglesias
Julio Iglesias

Julio Iglesias De la Cueva is a Spain singer who has sold over 300 million albums in 14 languages and released 77 albums. According to Sony Music he is one of the top 10 best selling music artists ever....
5Still Within the Sound of My VoiceGlen Campbell
7Strangers AgainHolly Dunn
Holly Dunn

Holly Dunn is a country music artist who first found fame with her 1986 Top-10 hit "Daddy's Hands" from her self-titled d?but album. Dunn has charted more than a dozen country singles, two of which reaching the #1 spot....
2Summer WindThe Desert Rose Band
5Sunday Kind of Love
A Sunday Kind of Love

"A Sunday Kind of Love" is a popular music song by Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes, and Louis Prima, published in 1946 in music.The song has become a popular music and jazz standard, recorded by many artists....
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire

Reba Nell McEntire is an United States country music singer, performer and actress. Sometimes referred to as "The Queen of Country", she is known for her lively stage-shows and pop-tinged ballads....
8Sure ThingFoster & Lloyd
Foster & Lloyd

Foster & Lloyd was an American country music duo consisting of Radney Foster and Bill Lloyd, both singer-songwriters in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1986, the duo recorded three albums for RCA Records, in addition to charting nine singles on the Billboard country charts....
16Talkin' to Myself AgainTammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette

Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an United States and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....
4Talkin' to the Wrong ManMichael Martin Murphey with Ryan Murphey
9Tear Stained LetterJo-El Sonnier
8Tell Me TrueJuice Newton
Juice Newton

Juice Newton is an American Pop music and Country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. To date, Newton has received five Grammy Award nominations in the Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist categories , as well as a Country Music Association Award for Best New Female Artist and two Billboard Female Album Artist of the Year awards ....
18Texas in 1880Foster & Lloyd
17Thanks AgainRicky Skaggs
6That's My JobConway Twitty
9That's ThatMichael Johnson
5That's What Your Love Does to MeHolly Dunn
2This Missin' You Heart of MineSawyer Brown
5Timeless and True LoveThe McCarters
5Touch and Go CrazyLee Greenwood
5True HeartThe Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys

The Oak Ridge Boys are a country music and gospel music group that is based in the United States. The group was founded in 1945 as the Oak Ridge Quartet....
4Untold StoriesKathy Mattea
Kathy Mattea

Kathleen Alice Mattea is an American female country music and Bluegrass music performer who often brings Celtic music sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a singer, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts....
7We Must Be Doin' Somethin' RightEddie Rabbitt
Eddie Rabbitt

Edward Thomas Rabbitt was a country music singer. He enjoyed much pop success in his career, helping develop the Crossover -influenced sound in country music during the 1970s and 80s....
6What Do You Want from Me This TimeFoster & Lloyd
9Wilder DaysBaillie & the Boys
Baillie & the Boys

Baillie & the Boys is an United States country music group wthat gained prominence in the late 1980s. The band's original lineup consisted of Kathie Baillie , her husband, Michael Bonagura , and Alan LeBoeuf ....
6WildflowersDolly Parton
Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music....
, Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt

Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
 and Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
4Workin' Man (Nowhere to Go)Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
20You Can't Fall in Love When You're Cryin'Lee Greenwood
2Young CountryHank Williams, Jr.
17Your Memory Wins AgainSkip Ewing


Top new album releases

US Album Artist Record Label
1 Alabama Live
Alabama Live

Alabama Live is the first Live album from country music band Alabama , it was released in 1988 in country music....
Alabama
Alabama (band)

Alabama is a Grammy Award-winning country music and southern rock band that originated in Fort Payne, Alabama, Alabama, United States. They were the most commercially successful country act in the 1980s and remain one of the bestselling American musical acts of all time....
RCA
25 All Keyed Up Becky Hobbs
Becky Hobbs

Becky Hobbs is an American country music singer, songwriter and pianist. She has recorded seven studio albums, and has charted multiple singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the #10 hit "Let's Get Over Them Together", a duet with Moe Bandy....
MTM
4 Big Dreams in a Small Town
Big Dreams in a Small Town

Big Dreams in a Small Town is the third studio album by American country music group Restless Heart. It was released by RCA Records in 1988....
Restless Heart
Restless Heart

Restless Heart is an American country music band established in 1984. The band's original members were John Dittrich , Paul Gregg , Dave Innis , Greg Jennings , and Verlon Thompson ....
RCA
1 Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room
Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room

Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room is the third consecutive #1 Billboard Country Album by Dwight Yoakam. It features Yoakam's first two #1 Hot Country Songs hits....
Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam

Dwight David Yoakam is an United States singer-songwriter and actor, most famous for his country music. Active since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
Reprise
7 Chisled in Stone Vern Gosdin
Vern Gosdin

Vern Gosdin is an United States country music singer. He idolized The Louvin Brothers and The Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called The Gosdin Brothers....
Columbia
22 Come as You Were T. Graham Brown
T. Graham Brown

Anthony Graham Brown is an American country music artist, known professionally as T. Graham Brown. Active since 1986, Brown has recorded a total of thirteen studio albums, and has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
Capitol
12 Comin' Home to Stay Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs

For the punk rock musician, see Ricky Scaggs.Richard Lee "Ricky" Skaggs is a Grammy-winning country music and bluegrass music singer, musician, producer, and composer....
Epic
7 Copperhead Road
Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road is an United States country music/country rock album released in 1988 by Steve Earle.The title song "Copperhead Road" tells of a Vietnam War veteran, scion of a rural moonshine rum-running clan, who returns home to Johnson County, Tennessee, to grow cannabis on his family's land ....
Steve Earle
Steve Earle

Stephen 'Steve' Fain Earle is an United States singer-songwriter, well known for his rock music and country music, as well as his political views....
MCA
8 Diamonds & Dirt
Diamonds & Dirt

Diamonds & Dirt is the title of an album released in 1988 by American country music singer Rodney Crowell . His fifth studio album, it was also his second release for the Columbia Records label....
Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music.Crowell was born in Houston, Texas to James Walter Crowell and Addie Cauzette Willoughby....
Columbia
8 Don't Close Your Eyes Keith Whitley
Keith Whitley

Jesse Keith Whitley , known professionally as Keith Whitley, was an American country music singer. Whitley's brief career in mainstream country music lasted from 1984 till his death in 1989, but he continues to influence an entire generation of singers and songwriters....
RCA
1 Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits (The Judds album)

Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits collection released in 1988 by the American country music duo The Judds. It features the singles "Give a Little Love" and "Change of Heart."...
The Judds
The Judds

The Judds were a Grammy Award-winning United States country music duo composed of Naomi Judd and her daughter, Wynonna Judd. The Judds signed with RCA Records in 1983 and were one of the most popular country music duos of the decade, recording more than ten studio albums and charting several hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singl...
Curb/RCA
8 Highway 101, Volume 2
Highway 101, Volume 2

On the group's second album, Highway 101? , there certainly wasn't any comedown from the heights reached by their first album. Four more songs reached the Billboard Music Charts Country Top Ten, with " Just Say Yes" at #1, "All the Reasons Why" at #5, "Honky Tonk Heart" at #6, and their cover of Dire Straits' "Setting Me Up" at #7....
Highway 101
Highway 101 (band)

Highway 101 is an United States country music band. Active since the mid-1980s, the band has gone through several rotations in membership, and currently comprises lead singer Nikki Nelson, along with Cactus Moser, Curtis Stone, and Andy Gurley....
Warner Bros.
16 Homesick Heroes The Charlie Daniels Band
Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels is an United States musician famous for his contributions to country music and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his Number One country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written....
Epic
7 Honky Tonk Angel Patty Loveless
Patty Loveless

Patty Loveless is an United States country music singer.Since her emergence on the country music scene in 1987 with her first, self-titled album, Loveless has been one of the most popular female singers of the Neotraditional country movement, although she has also recorded albums in the Country pop and Bluegrass music genres....
MCA
20 I Should Be with You Steve Wariner
Steve Wariner

Steven Noel Wariner is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. In his career, he has released eighteen studio albums, including six on MCA Records, and three each on RCA Records, Arista Records and Capitol Records....
MCA
1 If You Ain't Lovin', You Ain't Livin'
If You Ain't Lovin', You Ain't Livin'

If You Ain't Lovin', You Ain't Livin is George Strait's 8th original studio album and 11th overall album. It was released by MCA Records in 1988....
George Strait
George Strait

George Harvey Strait is a Grammy Award -winning United States country music singer. Strait is referred to as the "King of Country," and critics call Strait a living legend....
MCA
1 Loving Proof
Loving Proof

Loving Proof is the second album of Country Music artist Ricky Van Shelton. The Singles, "I'll Leave This World Loving You", "From a Jack to a King", and "Living Proof " all reached number one on the charts."Hole In My Pocket" reached number 4....
Ricky Van Shelton
Ricky Van Shelton

Ricky Van Shelton is an American country music artist. Active since 1986, he has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
Columbia
9 Monongahela The Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys

The Oak Ridge Boys are a country music and gospel music group that is based in the United States. The group was founded in 1945 as the Oak Ridge Quartet....
MCA
1 Old 8×10
Old 8×10

Old 8×10 is the third album by country music star Randy Travis. It was released on July 12, 1988 by Warner Bros. Records Nashville. The album produced the singles "Honky Tonk Moon", "Deeper Than the Holler", "Is It Still Over", and "Promises"....
Randy Travis
Randy Travis

Randy Travis is a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance- and Dove Award-winning United States country music singer. Active since 1985, he has recorded more than a dozen studio albums to date, in addition to charting more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which sixteen have reached Number On...
Warner Bros.
11 One Time, One Night
One Time, One Night

Sweethearts of the Rodeo's second album, One Time, One Night, came out in 1988 and continued on the success of their first. The top songs included "Satisfy You" and "Blue to the Bone," which both hit #5 on the Billboard Music Charts Hot Country Singles chart....
Sweethearts of the Rodeo
Sweethearts of the Rodeo

Sweethearts of the Rodeo was an American country music duo from Los Angeles, California who were active from 1986 to 1996. The duo consisted of sisters Janis Oliver and Kristine Oliver....
Columbia
12 Pontiac
Pontiac (album)

Pontiac is the title of Lyle Lovett's second album, released in 1987....
Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett

Lyle Pearce Lovett is an United States singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the #10 chart hit on the U.S....
Curb/MCA
6 Rage On
Rage On

Rage On is the seventh studio album rleased by Country Music artist Dan Seals. The Album charted at number 6 on the Top Country Albums chart, his second highest charting album since Won't Be Blue Anymore in 1985....
Dan Seals
Dan Seals

Dan Wayland Seals is an American musician. In the 1970s, he was the "England Dan" half of the soft rock duo England Dan and John Ford Coley, who are best known for their hit single "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"....
Capitol
1 Reba
Reba (album)

Reba is a studio album released in 1988. It not only signaled to the world that Reba McEntire had by now become so well known that she could be identified by first name alone, but also signaled an entirely different style to her music....
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire

Reba Nell McEntire is an United States country music singer, performer and actress. Sometimes referred to as "The Queen of Country", she is known for her lively stage-shows and pop-tinged ballads....
MCA
11 River of Time
River of Time (Michael Martin Murphey album)

River of Time is Michael Martin Murphey's fourteenth album....
Michael Martin Murphey
Michael Martin Murphey

Michael Martin Murphey is a writer and performer of United States music. He is singer-songwriter in country music, Western music , and popular music....
Warner Bros.
9 Shadowland
Shadowland (album)

Shadowland is the debut solo album by k.d. lang, released in 1988 . The album included her collaboration with Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn and Brenda Lee on "Honky Tonk Angels' Medley" and was produced by Owen Bradley, who produced Patsy Cline's best-known work....
k.d. lang
K.D. Lang

k.d. lang Order of Canada is a Canada pop music and country music singer-songwriter. The artist gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials....
Sire
21 The Statlers Greatest Hits The Statler Brothers Mercury
9 Strong Enough to Bend
Strong Enough to Bend

Strong Enough to Bend is a 1988 album by Tanya Tucker. There were three singles that made the Billboard Music Charts Top Ten Country singles charts: "Strong Enough to Bend" at #1, "Highway Robbery" at #2, and "Call on Me" at #4....
Tanya Tucker
Tanya Tucker

Tanya Denise Tucker is an American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of Top Ten and Top 40 hits....
Capitol
25 This Is My Country Lee Greenwood
Lee Greenwood

Lee Greenwood is an American country music artist. Active since the early 1980s, he has released more than twenty major-label albums and has charted more than thirty-five singles on the Billboard country music charts....
MCA
2 This Woman
This Woman (K. T. Oslin album)

This Woman is the second studio album by American country music artist K. T. Oslin. It was released by RCA Records in 1988. "Money," "Hold Me," "Hey Bobby," the title track and "Didn't Expect It to Go Down This Way" were released as singles....
K. T. Oslin
K. T. Oslin

K. T. Oslin is a Grammy Award-winning country music singer and songwriter. Between 1981 and the present, she has released seven studio albums, and has charted more than fifteen singles on the Billboard country charts....
RCA
21 Tired of the Runnin The O'Kanes
The O'Kanes

The O'Kanes were an American country music duo composed of Jamie O'Hara and Kieran Kane. They had one #1 on the country chart, their second single "Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You", as well as six more singles, all but one of which reached Top Ten on the country charts....
Columbia
6 What a Wonderful World
What a Wonderful World (album)

What a Wonderful World is an album by country music singer Willie Nelson released in March of 1988....
Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....
Columbia
1 Wild Streak
Wild Streak

Wild Streak is a studio album by American country music artist Hank Williams, Jr. It was released by Warner Bros. Records on June 21, 1988. "If the South Woulda Won" and "Early in the Morning and Late at Night" were released as singles....
Hank Williams, Jr.
Hank Williams, Jr.

Hank Williams, Jr., is an award-winning American country music singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of southern rock, blues, and traditional country....
Curb/Warner Bros.


Other top albums

US Album Artist Record Label
51 10 John Anderson
John Anderson (musician)

John Anderson is an American country music artist who began his career in 1977 with the single "I've Got a Feelin' ". Although he continued to chart several more singles into the 1980s, including "Wild and Blue" by John Scott Sherrill it was not until the release of his 1983 crossover single "Swingin'" that he broke through as a mainstream c...
MCA
26 Across the Rio Grande
Across the Rio Grande

Across the Rio Grande is country music artist Holly Dunn's third album, released in 1988. It did not do quite as well as the preceding Cornerstone ....
Holly Dunn
Holly Dunn

Holly Dunn is a country music artist who first found fame with her 1986 Top-10 hit "Daddy's Hands" from her self-titled d?but album. Dunn has charted more than a dozen country singles, two of which reaching the #1 spot....
MTM
46 Alive & Well Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers
Larry Gatlin

Larry Gatlin is an United States. He is best-known for teaming up with his brothers in the late 1970s, where they became one of country music's most successful acts of the 1970s and 1980s....
Columbia
29 All in Love
All in Love

All in Love is the seventh solo studio album release by American country music singer, Marie Osmond. It was her third album release for Curb/Capitol records and was issued in 1988....
Marie Osmond
Marie Osmond

Olive Marie Osmond is an United States actress, singer, doll designer, and a member of the show business family, The Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's singing group, she gained success as a solo country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s....
Capitol/Curb
45 As I Am Anne Murray
Anne Murray

Anne Murray, Order of Canada, Order of Nova Scotia is a Canada singer. Murray has performed in Pop Music, Country Music and Adult Contemporary styles....
Capitol
36 Best of Eddy Raven Eddy Raven
Eddy Raven

Eddy Raven is an American country music artist. He charted a string of hit singles on the country music charts between 1974 and 1991.Influenced by Cajun music, the country music sounds from popular radio broadcasts such as the Louisiana Hayride, New Orleans blues, and the new sounds of rock and roll, Raven developed his own unique sound....
RCA
60 Brand New Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart (singer)

Gary Stewart was a country musician and songwriter known for his distinctive vibrato voice and his southern rock, outlaw country sound. During the peak of his popularity in the mid-1970s Time magazine described him as the "king of Honky-tonk."...
Hightone
52 Chasing Rainbows Mickey Gilley
Mickey Gilley

Mickey Gilley is an United States country music singer and musician. Although he started out singing straight-up country and western material in the 1970s, he moved towards a more pop music-friendly sound in the 1980s, bringing him further success on not just the country charts, but the pop charts as well....
Airborne
61 A Christmas Tradition, Vol. II Various Artists Warner Bros.
29 The Coast of Colorado Skip Ewing
Skip Ewing

Donald Ralph Ewing is an American country music singer and songwriter. Active since 1988, Ewing has recorded nine studio albums, and has charted fifteen singles on the Billboard country charts....
MCA
56 Every Christmas Gary Morris
Gary Morris

Gary Gwyn Morris is an American country music artist who charted a string of countrypolitan-styled hit songs throughout the 1980s.Morris is known for the 1983 ballad "The Wind Beneath My Wings", although his credits include more than twenty-five other chart singles on the Billboard country charts, including five No....
Warner Bros.
33 Exchange of Hearts David Slater
David Slater

David Slater was the Male Vocalist champion on Star Search in 1987. Slater then signed a recording contract with Capitol Records and launched a country music career....
Capitol
36 Full Circle
Full Circle (Waylon Jennings album)

Full Circle is an album by Waylon Jennings, released on MCA Records in 1988 in music. Jennings' fourth and final studio album for MCA before his move to Epic Records, it yielded four minor country hits: "Trouble Man" , "Which Way Do I Go " , "How Much Is It Worth to Live in L.A." and "You Put the Soul in the Song" ....
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings was an influential United States of America country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass guitar player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets....
MCA
36 The Gift The McCarters
The McCarters

The McCarters was an United States country music trio composed of Jennifer McCarter and her sisters Lisa and Teresa, who were twins. The trio was signed to Warner Bros....
Warner Bros.
66 Greatest Hits Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers

Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is an United States country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone....
RCA
27 Greatest Hits Volume Two Lee Greenwood
Lee Greenwood

Lee Greenwood is an American country music artist. Active since the early 1980s, he has released more than twenty major-label albums and has charted more than thirty-five singles on the Billboard country music charts....
MCA
33 The Heart of It All Earl Thomas Conley
Earl Thomas Conley

Earl Thomas Conley is an United States country music singer and composer. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for the RCA Records label....
RCA
49 Higher Ground
Higher Ground (John Denver album)

Higher Ground is an album by United States singer-songwriter John Denver, released in 1989....
John Denver
John Denver

John Denver , born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an United States Country Music/folk music singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about half were composed by him....
Windstar
37 Hot Dog! Buck Owens
Buck Owens

Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens, Jr., was an United States singer and guitarist, who had 21 number-one hits on the Billboard magazine country music charts, with his legendary band, the Buckaroos....
Capitol
51 I Guess I Just Missed You Canyon 16th Avenue
52 I Never Made a Record I Didn't Like Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens

Ray Stevens is an United States country music and pop music singer-songwriter known for his novelty songs as well as more serious works. He was born in Clarkdale, Georgia, Georgia , a small town west of Atlanta, Georgia....
MCA
34 I Wanna Dance with You Eddie Rabbitt
Eddie Rabbitt

Edward Thomas Rabbitt was a country music singer. He enjoyed much pop success in his career, helping develop the Crossover -influenced sound in country music during the 1970s and 80s....
RCA
35 I'll Be Your Jukebox Tonight Barbara Mandrell
Barbara Mandrell

Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer. She is best-known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country music's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s....
Capitol
36 I'm Gonna Love Her on the Radio Charley Pride
Charley Pride

Charley Frank Pride is a country music artist. During his career, he has had thirty-six number-one hits on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs charts....
16th Avenue
45 I'm Still Missing You Ronnie McDowell
Ronnie McDowell

Ronnie McDowell is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1977 with the song "The King Is Gone", a tribute to Elvis Presley, who had died not long before the single's release....
Curb
33 If My Heart Had Windows Patty Loveless
Patty Loveless

Patty Loveless is an United States country music singer.Since her emergence on the country music scene in 1987 with her first, self-titled album, Loveless has been one of the most popular female singers of the Neotraditional country movement, although she has also recorded albums in the Country pop and Bluegrass music genres....
MCA
64 Just Enough Love Ray Price
Ray Price (musician)

Ray Price is an American country and western singer/songwriter/guitarist. Some of his more famous songs include "Release Me ", "Crazy Arms", "Heartaches by the Number", "City Lights ", "My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You", "For the Good Times", "I Won't Mention It Again", "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me", and "Danny Boy." He w...
Step One
58 Light Years
Light Years (Glen Campbell album)

Light Years is the 44th album by United States singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1988 ....
Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell is a Grammy Award, Dove Award winning, and two time nominated Golden Globe Award United States country pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor....
MCA
27 Little Love Affairs
Little Love Affairs

Little Love Affairs is Nanci Griffith's sixth album, and it had similar success to her preceding Lone Star State of Mind on the Billboard charts....
Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith

'Nanci Caroline Griffith', is an United States singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas.Griffith's career has spanned a variety of musical genres, predominantly country music, folk music, and what she terms "folkabilly." Griffith won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1994 for her recording, Other Voices, Other R...
MCA
60 Live at the Opry
Live at the Opry

Live At the Opry is the name of a compilation album released by MCA Records to release live version of Patsy Cline's hits.The songs featured here are live songs, spanning from the years 1956 through 1962, featuring Cline singing her biggest hits, like "Crazy", "She's Got You", and "I Fall to Pieces" to name a few....
Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline was an United States country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville Sound in the early 1960s....
MCA
62 Making Believe Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty

Conway Twitty was one of the United States most successful country music artists during the 20th century. Most commonly thought of as a country music singer, he also enjoyed success in early rock and roll, R&B, and Pop music....
 & Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn is an United States country music singer-songwriter; she was one of the leading country vocalists and songwriters during the 1960s and 1970s and is revered as a country icon....
MCA
64 New Faces of Country Various Artists K-Tel
28 No Regrets Moe Bandy
Moe Bandy

Marion Franklin Bandy, Jr.?better known professionally as Moe Bandy?...
Curb
63 Nobody's Angel
Nobody's Angel (Crystal Gayle album)

Nobody's Angel was a #63 Billboard Music Charts Country Album for Crystal Gayle. Its title song, "Nobody's Angel", marks her latest appearance within the Top 40 of the Billboard country singles chart, at #22 in late 1988....
Crystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle

Crystal Gayle is an United States country music singer best known for a series of country-pop crossover hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the Grammy Award-winning, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." She accumulated 18 No....
Warner Bros.
51 Now You're Talkin Mel McDaniel
Mel McDaniel

Mel McDaniel is an American country music artist. His hitmaking years were the 1980s; his hits include "Louisiana Saturday Night," "Stand Up," "Anger and Tears," the Number One "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On," "I Call It Love", "Stand On It" and a remake of Chuck Berry's "Let It Roll ."...
Capitol
43 One Fair Summer Evening
One Fair Summer Evening

One Fair Summer Evening is Nanci Griffith's seventh album, and her first one recorded in a live setting. It was recorded on August 19 and August 20, 1988 at Anderson Fair, a Houston, Texas club long known for featuring folk artists in an intimate setting....
Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith

'Nanci Caroline Griffith', is an United States singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas.Griffith's career has spanned a variety of musical genres, predominantly country music, folk music, and what she terms "folkabilly." Griffith won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1994 for her recording, Other Voices, Other R...
MCA
45 Rebels Without a Clue The Bellamy Brothers Curb/MCA
26 Running The Desert Rose Band Curb/MCA
64 Saddle the Wind Janie Fricke
Janie Fricke

Janie Fricke is an American country music singer, best remembered for a series of country music hits in the early to mid 1980s.Janie Fricke was one of the most popular female country singers of the '80s, racking a string of hits and proving herself a versatile vocalist with a particular flair for ballads....
Columbia
30 Sincerely The Forester Sisters
The Forester Sisters

The Forester Sisters are an United States country music vocal group consisting of Kathy, June, Kim and Christy Forester. Their peak years were the 1980s; their hits included "That's What You Do When You're In Love", "Leave It Alone", "Don't You", "Mama's Never Seen Those Eyes", "I Fell in Love Again Last Night", and "Lyin' In His Arms Again."...
Warner Bros.
28 Still in Your Dreams Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty

Conway Twitty was one of the United States most successful country music artists during the 20th century. Most commonly thought of as a country music singer, he also enjoyed success in early rock and roll, R&B, and Pop music....
MCA
47 Stout & High The Wagoneers
The Wagoneers

The Wagoneers were an United States country music band from Austin, Texas that were briefly active during the 1980s. The band consisted of Monte Warden on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Brent Wilson playing lead and contributing backing vocals, Craig Allan Pettigrew on bass, and drummer Thomas A....
A&M
47 Swingin' Doors, Sawdust Floors Larry Boone
Larry Boone

Larry Boone is an American country music artist. Between 1985 and 1993, Boone recorded five major label studio albums, in addition to charting several singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
Mercury
39 View from the House
View from the House

View from the House is a studio album by Kim Carnes, released in 1988 . The album marked a return to her early country music roots.The album spawned two minor hit singles, "Crazy in Love" and "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness", both charting on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks at #68 and #70 respectively....
Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes

Kim Carnes is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter. She is noted for her distinctive, raspy voice which she attributes to many hours spent singing in smoky bars and nightclub....
MCA
48 Water from the Wells of Home
Water from the Wells of Home

Water from the Wells of Home is an album by United States country music singer Johnny Cash, released on Mercury Records in 1988 . It features several collaborations with other artists, including "New Moon Over Jamaica" with Paul McCartney....
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
Mercury
34 Western Standard Time Asleep at the Wheel
Asleep at the Wheel

Asleep at the Wheel, is a multiple Grammy Award-winning Country /Western Swing band formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia, but based in Austin, Texas....
Epic
33 Wide Open
Wide Open (album)

Wide Open is the fifth studio album by the American country music band Sawyer Brown. It was released in June 1988 on Capitol Records, and features the singles "My Baby's Gone", "It Wasn't His Child", and "Old Pair of Shoes"....
Sawyer Brown
Sawyer Brown

Sawyer Brown is an American country music band founded in 1981 in Apopka, Florida by five members of country pop singer Don King 's road band: Bobby Randall and Jim Scholten , both from Midland, Michigan; Joe Smyth , Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard , and Mark Miller ....
Capitol/Curb
63 Who Was That Stranger Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn is an United States country music singer-songwriter; she was one of the leading country vocalists and songwriters during the 1960s and 1970s and is revered as a country icon....
MCA
33 Workin' Band Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an United States country music-folk music-rock and roll band that has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966 in music....
Warner Bros.
27 Zuma Southern Pacific
Southern Pacific (band)

Southern Pacific was a country rock band that ran from 1983 in music to 1991 in music. They are best known for hits such as "Any Way the Wind Blows" , which was heard in the film Pink Cadillac starring Clint Eastwood and Bernadette Peters, and "New Shade of Blue" ....
Warner Bros.


On television


Regular series

  • Dolly (1987-1988)
  • Hee Haw
    Hee Haw

    Hee Haw was a television variety show, initially co-hosted by musicians Buck Owens and Roy Clark and featuring country music and humor with fictional, rural "Kornfield Kounty" as a backdrop....
     (1969-1993, syndicated)


Specials


Births

  • May 24 — Billy Gilman
    Billy Gilman

    William "Billy" Wendell Gilman III is an American country music artist. In 2000, at the age of 12, he debuted with the single "One Voice," a Top 20 hit on the Billboard country music charts and became the youngest singer to chart a Top 40 hit on the country music charts....
    , the youngest artist to ever have a country hit record (2000's "One Voice").
  • July 20 — Julianne Hough
    Julianne Hough

    Julianne Hough is an American professional ballroom dancer and country music singer. She is most-widely known for being a two-time winner of ABC's Dancing with the Stars ....
    , rising country music star and professional dancer, best known for her appearances on Dancing with the Stars
    Dancing with the Stars

    Dancing with the Stars is the name of a group of international television series based on the format of the United Kingdom series Strictly Come Dancing, distributed by BBC Worldwide the commercial arm of the BBC....
    .


Deaths

  • September 20 — Leon McAuliffe
    Leon McAuliffe

    Leon McAuliffe was a Western swing musician from Houston, Texas. He is famous for his steel guitar solos with Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys, inspiring Wills's phrase "Take it away, Leon."...
    , 71, prominent member of Bob Wills
    Bob Wills

    James Robert Wills was an United States Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by many music authorities one of the fathers of Western swing and called by his fans the "King of Western Swing."...
    ' Texas Playboys and a star in his own right.
  • December 6 — Roy Orbison
    Roy Orbison

    Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
    , 52, American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     singer-songwriter
    Singer-songwriter

    File:Joan Baez Bob Dylan crop.jpgSinger-songwriter is a term that refers to performers who Lyricist, composer and singing their own Musical piece including lyrics and melody....
     and a pioneer of rock and roll
    Rock and roll

    Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
    .


Hall of Fame inductees


Country Music Hall of Fame inductees

  • Loretta Lynn
    Loretta Lynn

    Loretta Lynn is an United States country music singer-songwriter; she was one of the leading country vocalists and songwriters during the 1960s and 1970s and is revered as a country icon....
     (born 1935)
  • Roy Rogers
    Roy Rogers

    Roy Rogers , was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the founder of the famous Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger , and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show....
     (1911–1998)


Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductees

  • Jack Feeney


Major awards


Grammy Awards

  • Best Female Country Vocal Performance — "Hold Me," K. T. Oslin
    K. T. Oslin

    K. T. Oslin is a Grammy Award-winning country music singer and songwriter. Between 1981 and the present, she has released seven studio albums, and has charted more than fifteen singles on the Billboard country charts....
  • Best Male Country Vocal PerformanceOld 8×10
    Old 8×10

    Old 8×10 is the third album by country music star Randy Travis. It was released on July 12, 1988 by Warner Bros. Records Nashville. The album produced the singles "Honky Tonk Moon", "Deeper Than the Holler", "Is It Still Over", and "Promises"....
    , Randy Travis
    Randy Travis

    Randy Travis is a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance- and Dove Award-winning United States country music singer. Active since 1985, he has recorded more than a dozen studio albums to date, in addition to charting more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which sixteen have reached Number On...
  • Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal — "Give a Little Love," The Judds
    The Judds

    The Judds were a Grammy Award-winning United States country music duo composed of Naomi Judd and her daughter, Wynonna Judd. The Judds signed with RCA Records in 1983 and were one of the most popular country music duos of the decade, recording more than ten studio albums and charting several hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singl...
  • Best Country Collaboration with Vocals — "Crying
    Crying (song)

    "Crying" is a rock and roll Ballad written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson and sung by Orbison....
    ," Roy Orbison
    Roy Orbison

    Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
     and k.d. lang
    K.D. Lang

    k.d. lang Order of Canada is a Canada pop music and country music singer-songwriter. The artist gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials....
  • Best Country Instrumental Performance — "Sugarfoot Rag," Asleep at the Wheel
    Asleep at the Wheel

    Asleep at the Wheel, is a multiple Grammy Award-winning Country /Western Swing band formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia, but based in Austin, Texas....
  • Best Country Song — "Hold Me," K. T. Oslin
  • Best Bluegrass Recording — "Southern Flavor," Bill Monroe
    Bill Monroe

    William Smith Monroe was an United States musician who helped develop the style of music known as bluegrass music, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky....


Juno Awards

  • Country Male Vocalist of the YearMurray McLauchlan
    Murray McLauchlan

    Murray McLauchlan, Order of Canada is a Canada singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, and harmonica player....
  • Country Female Vocalist of the Yeark.d. lang
    K.D. Lang

    k.d. lang Order of Canada is a Canada pop music and country music singer-songwriter. The artist gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials....
  • Country Group or Duo of the Year — Family Brown


Academy of Country Music

  • Entertainer of the YearHank Williams, Jr.
    Hank Williams, Jr.

    Hank Williams, Jr., is an award-winning American country music singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of southern rock, blues, and traditional country....
  • Song of the Year — "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses
    Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses

    "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" is a country music by Kathy Mattea from her 1987 album, Untasted Honey. The song was released as a single and hit number one on both the US Hot Country Charts and Canadian Country charts in 1988....
    ," Charles Nelson and Paul Nelson (Performer: Kathy Mattea
    Kathy Mattea

    Kathleen Alice Mattea is an American female country music and Bluegrass music performer who often brings Celtic music sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a singer, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts....
    )
  • Single of the Year — "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses," Kathy Mattea
  • Album of the YearThis Woman
    This Woman (K. T. Oslin album)

    This Woman is the second studio album by American country music artist K. T. Oslin. It was released by RCA Records in 1988. "Money," "Hold Me," "Hey Bobby," the title track and "Didn't Expect It to Go Down This Way" were released as singles....
    , K. T. Oslin
    K. T. Oslin

    K. T. Oslin is a Grammy Award-winning country music singer and songwriter. Between 1981 and the present, she has released seven studio albums, and has charted more than fifteen singles on the Billboard country charts....
  • Top Male VocalistGeorge Strait
    George Strait

    George Harvey Strait is a Grammy Award -winning United States country music singer. Strait is referred to as the "King of Country," and critics call Strait a living legend....
  • Top Female Vocalist — K. T. Oslin
  • Top Vocal DuoThe Judds
    The Judds

    The Judds were a Grammy Award-winning United States country music duo composed of Naomi Judd and her daughter, Wynonna Judd. The Judds signed with RCA Records in 1983 and were one of the most popular country music duos of the decade, recording more than ten studio albums and charting several hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singl...
  • Top Vocal GroupHighway 101
    Highway 101 (band)

    Highway 101 is an United States country music band. Active since the mid-1980s, the band has gone through several rotations in membership, and currently comprises lead singer Nikki Nelson, along with Cactus Moser, Curtis Stone, and Andy Gurley....
  • Top New Male VocalistRodney Crowell
    Rodney Crowell

    Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music.Crowell was born in Houston, Texas to James Walter Crowell and Addie Cauzette Willoughby....
  • Top New Female VocalistSuzy Bogguss
    Suzy Bogguss

    Suzy Bogguss is an United States country music singer. In the 1980s and 90s she released one platinum and three gold albums and charted six top ten singles, winning the Academy of Country Music's award for Top New Female Vocalist and the Country Music Association's Horizon Award....
  • Video of the Year — "Young Country," Hank Williams, Jr. (Director: Bill Fishman)


Canadian Country Music Association

  • Entertainer of the Yeark.d. lang
    K.D. Lang

    k.d. lang Order of Canada is a Canada pop music and country music singer-songwriter. The artist gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials....
  • Male Artist of the YearIan Tyson
    Ian Tyson

    Ian Tyson, Order of Canada Singer, songwriter, guitarist, rancher, born Victoria, British Columbia on 25 September 1933; honorary D LITT 1993, honorary LLD 2001....
  • Female Artist of the Year — k.d. lang
  • Group of the Year — Family Brown
  • SOCAN Song of the Year — "One Smokey Rose," Tim Taylor (Performer: Anita Perras)
  • Single of the Year — "One Smokey Rose," Anita Perras
  • Album of the YearShadowland
    Shadowland (album)

    Shadowland is the debut solo album by k.d. lang, released in 1988 . The album included her collaboration with Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn and Brenda Lee on "Honky Tonk Angels' Medley" and was produced by Owen Bradley, who produced Patsy Cline's best-known work....
    , k.d. lang
  • Top Selling AlbumAlways & Forever
    Always & Forever

    Always & Forever is the second album by country music singer Randy Travis. It was released on April 4, 1987 by Warner Bros. Records. Released from this album were the singles "Too Gone Too Long", "I Won't Need You Anymore ", "Forever and Ever, Amen" and "I Told You So", all of which reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Songs c...
    , Randy Travis
    Randy Travis

    Randy Travis is a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance- and Dove Award-winning United States country music singer. Active since 1985, he has recorded more than a dozen studio albums to date, in addition to charting more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which sixteen have reached Number On...
  • Vista Rising Star AwardBlue Rodeo
    Blue Rodeo

    Blue Rodeo is a Canada country rock band, which was formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have been signed with Warner Music Group since their debut album Outskirts in March 1987....
  • Duo of the Year — Anita Perras and Tim Taylor


Country Music Association

  • Entertainer of the YearHank Williams, Jr.
    Hank Williams, Jr.

    Hank Williams, Jr., is an award-winning American country music singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of southern rock, blues, and traditional country....
  • Song of the Year — "80's Ladies," K. T. Oslin
    K. T. Oslin

    K. T. Oslin is a Grammy Award-winning country music singer and songwriter. Between 1981 and the present, she has released seven studio albums, and has charted more than fifteen singles on the Billboard country charts....
     (Performer: K. T. Oslin)
  • Single of the Year — "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses
    Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses

    "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" is a country music by Kathy Mattea from her 1987 album, Untasted Honey. The song was released as a single and hit number one on both the US Hot Country Charts and Canadian Country charts in 1988....
    ," Kathy Mattea
    Kathy Mattea

    Kathleen Alice Mattea is an American female country music and Bluegrass music performer who often brings Celtic music sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a singer, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts....
  • Album of the YearBorn to Boogie
    Born to Boogie (album)

    Born to Boogie is a studio album by American country music artist Hank Williams, Jr. It was released by Warner Bros. Records in 1987. The title track, "Heaven Can't Be Found" and "Young Country" were released as singles....
    , Hank Williams, Jr.
  • Male Vocalist of the YearRandy Travis
    Randy Travis

    Randy Travis is a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance- and Dove Award-winning United States country music singer. Active since 1985, he has recorded more than a dozen studio albums to date, in addition to charting more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which sixteen have reached Number On...
  • Female Vocalist of the Year — K. T. Oslin
  • Vocal Duo of the YearThe Judds
    The Judds

    The Judds were a Grammy Award-winning United States country music duo composed of Naomi Judd and her daughter, Wynonna Judd. The Judds signed with RCA Records in 1983 and were one of the most popular country music duos of the decade, recording more than ten studio albums and charting several hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singl...
  • Vocal Group of the YearHighway 101
    Highway 101 (band)

    Highway 101 is an United States country music band. Active since the mid-1980s, the band has gone through several rotations in membership, and currently comprises lead singer Nikki Nelson, along with Cactus Moser, Curtis Stone, and Andy Gurley....
  • Horizon AwardRicky Van Shelton
    Ricky Van Shelton

    Ricky Van Shelton is an American country music artist. Active since 1986, he has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
  • Vocal Event of the YearEmmylou Harris
    Emmylou Harris

    Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
    , Dolly Parton
    Dolly Parton

    Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music....
    , and Linda Ronstadt
    Linda Ronstadt

    Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
  • Musician of the YearChet Atkins
    Chet Atkins

    Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins was an influential American guitarist and record producer.His picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers both within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally....


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
    Country Music Association

    The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre....
  • Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame

    This is a list of inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame.Number of Inductees : 108 20092008200720062005...


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