"Amy's Back in Austin" is the title of a song recorded by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 group Little Texas

Little Texas

Little Texas is an American country music band founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1988 by Tim Rushlow , Brady Seals , Del Gray , Porter Howell , Dwayne O'Brien , and Duane Propes . Signed to Warner Bros...

. It was released in January 1995 as the second single from their third album, Kick a Little

Kick a Little

Kick a Little is the third studio album released by country music band Little Texas. Released in 1994 on Warner Bros. Records, it was certified platinum by the RIAA for sales of one million copies...

. The song was co-written by the band's keyboardist and co-lead vocalist, Brady Seals

Brady Seals

Brady Seals is an American country music artist. He is the cousin of Jim Seals and Dan Seals and Johnny Duncan, the nephew of Troy Seals, and the husband of former BNA Records recording artist Lisa Stewart...

 and singer-songwriter Stephen Allen Davis. Amy's Back in Austin was Little Texas' eleventh entry on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

charts, peaking at numbger 4 on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart and reaching number 6 on Canada's RPM

RPM (magazine)

RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...

country tracks chart.

The song was nominated at the 1996 Grammy Awards for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals

Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal

The Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal was awarded from 1970 to 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1970 the award was known as Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group...

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Content

"Amy's Back in Austin" is a mid-tempo ballad. Like many of Little Texas' most well known songs, its story revolves around a struggling young couple. The two run away together and leave Texas, their home, behind. The girl soon becomes homesick and leaves the boy (the narrator) one night. In the chorus, the boy wonders where she went and why she left.

Music video

The music video was directed by DJ Webster and premiered in December 1994. It was filmed on location in Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

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Chart performance

"Amy's Back in Austin" debuted at number 66 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of December 24, 1994.

Chart (1995)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	4
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	6