# 1992 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1992.

## Events

* January — After 23 years of its tried-and-true formula, the producers of Hee Haw unveil an extensively revamped show in time for the start of its belated 24th season. The show's new urban setting, along with more pop-oriented country guests, is a resounding failure and lasts only through the end of the season. That fall, viewers will be greeted with Hee Haw Silver – a collection of classic shows, with new introductions by longtime host Roy Clark; "Silver" will fill out the show's 25th (and final) season.
* June 27 - At a concert in Bonner Springs, Kansas, a heavily intoxicated Hank Williams Jr. repeatedly insults the crowd and exits the stage after only 20 minutes. Williams later issues an apology.
* August 28 — The major motion picture Honeymoon in Vegas is released. The soundtrack features several country music performers, including Dwight Yoakam, Travis Tritt and Trisha Yearwood covering Elvis Presley songs.
* October 23 — The major motion picture Pure Country is released, starring George Strait, who also sang the soundtrack.

### No dates

* At age 52, former country star Jonie Mosby (of the 1960s-early 1970s duo Johnny and Jonie Mosby) makes national headlines when she becomes the oldest woman in the United States to undergo in vitro fertilization and successfully bear a child.
* Line dancing becomes a national fad, tied to the success of at least two major country music hits: Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart" and Brooks & Dunn's "Boot Scootin' Boogie." Throughout the rest of the decade, several major country music hits would have dance remixes, and several videos would be released.

## Top hits of the year
### Singles released by American artists

| US | CAN | Single | Artist |
| 9 | 6 | Aces | Suzy Bogguss |
| 1 | 1 | Achy Breaky Heart | Billy Ray Cyrus |
| 13 | 8 | After the Lights Go Out | Ricky Van Shelton |
| 11 | 13 | All Is Fair in Love and War | Ronnie Milsap |
| 22 | 18 | Baby, I'm Missing You | Highway 101 |
| 2 | 3 | Backroads | Ricky Van Shelton |
| 2 | 2 | Better Class of Losers | Randy Travis |
| 4 | 3 | Billy the Kid | Billy Dean |
| 1 | 1 | Boot Scootin' Boogie | Brooks & Dunn |
| 2 | 2 | Born Country | Alabama |
| 10 | 7 | Broken Promise Land | Mark Chesnutt |
| 4 | 14 | Bubba Shot the Jukebox | Mark Chesnutt |
| 7 | 12 | Burn Me Down | Marty Stuart |
| 4 | 2 | Burn One Down | Clint Black |
| 3 | 3 | Cadillac Style | Sammy Kershaw |
| 5 | 2 | Cafe on the Corner | Sawyer Brown |
| 3 | 3 | Come In Out of the Pain | Doug Stone |
| 2 | 1 | Could've Been Me | Billy Ray Cyrus |
| 1 | 1 | Dallas | Alan Jackson |
| 12 | 5 | Don't Go Near the Water | Sammy Kershaw |
| 1 | 1 | Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away | Vince Gill |
| 3 | 1 | The Dirt Road | Sawyer Brown |
| 5 | 11 | Even the Man in the Moon Is Cryin' | Mark Collie |
| 2 | 5 | Every Second | Collin Raye |
| 4 | 7 | Except for Monday | Lorrie Morgan |
| 13 | 18 | First Time for Everything | Little Texas |
| 16 | 21 | Five O'Clock World | Hal Ketchum |
| 5 | 11 | Going Out of My Mind | McBride & the Ride |
| 14 | 13 | Going Out Tonight | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| 5 | 6 | Gone as a Girl Can Get | George Strait |
| 3 | 1 | The Greatest Man I Never Knew | Reba McEntire |
| 18 | 13 | The Heart That You Own | Dwight Yoakam |
| 1 | 1 | I Cross My Heart | George Strait |
| 4 | 3 | I Feel Lucky | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| 13 | 15 | I Know Where Love Lives | Hal Ketchum |
| 1 | 1 | I Saw the Light | Wynonna Judd |
| 1 | 1 | I Still Believe in You | Vince Gill |
| 5 | 4 | I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way | Aaron Tippin |
| 20 | 13 | I'd Surrender All | Randy Travis |
| 23 | 11 | I'll Stop Loving You | Mike Reid |
| 1 | 1 | I'll Think of Something | Mark Chesnutt |
| 1 | 1 | I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why) | Alabama |
| 1 | 1 | If I Didn't Have You | Randy Travis |
| 3 | 1 | If There Hadn't Been You | Billy Dean |
| 11 | 12 | If You Want to Find Love | Kenny Rogers |
| 4 | 5 | If Your Heart Ain't Busy Tonight | Tanya Tucker |
| 1 | 1 | In This Life | Collin Raye |
| 5 | 4 | Is It Cold in Here | Joe Diffie |
| 1 | 1 | Is There Life Out There | Reba McEntire |
| 7 | 4 | It Only Hurts When I Cry | Dwight Yoakam |
| 13 | 22 | Jealous Bone | Patty Loveless |
| 4 | 14 | Jesus and Mama | Confederate Railroad |
| 1 | 1 | A Jukebox with a Country Song | Doug Stone |
| 10 | 54 | Just Call Me Lonesome | Radney Foster |
| 6 | 11 | Leave Him Out of This | Steve Wariner |
| 6 | 9 | Letting Go | Suzy Bogguss |
| 11 | 14 | Lonesome Standard Time | Kathy Mattea |
| 10 | 18 | A Long Time Ago | The Remingtons |
| 4 | 12 | Look at Us | Vince Gill |
| 5 | 10 | Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man | Travis Tritt |
| 6 | 6 | Lost and Found | Brooks & Dunn |
| 1 | 1 | Love, Me | Collin Raye |
| 1 | 1 | Love's Got a Hold on You | Alan Jackson |
| 10 | 9 | Lovin' All Night | Rodney Crowell |
| 9 | 9 | Mama Don't Forget to Pray for Me | Diamond Rio |
| 3 | 4 | Maybe It Was Memphis | Pam Tillis |
| 3 | 3 | Midnight in Montgomery | Alan Jackson |
| 1 | 1 | Neon Moon | Brooks & Dunn |
| 16 | 17 | Next Thing Smokin' | Joe Diffie |
| 12 | 7 | The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia | Reba McEntire |
| 1 | 1 | No One Else on Earth | Wynonna Judd |
| 2 | 3 | Norma Jean Riley | Diamond Rio |
| 15 | 12 | Not Too Much to Ask | Mary Chapin Carpenter with Joe Diffie |
| 4 | 7 | Nothing Short of Dying | Travis Tritt |
| 18 | 16 | Now That's Country | Marty Stuart |
| 7 | 15 | Nowhere Bound | Diamond Rio |
| 5 | 4 | Old Flames Have New Names | Mark Chesnutt |
| 4 | 3 | Only the Wind | Billy Dean |
| 9 | 9 | Outbound Plane | Suzy Bogguss |
| 3 | 2 | Papa Loved Mama | Garth Brooks |
| 2 | 1 | Past the Point of Rescue | Hal Ketchum |
| 25 | 20 | Play, Ruby, Play | Clinton Gregory |
| 1 | 1 | The River | Garth Brooks |
| 2 | 5 | Rock My Baby | Shenandoah |
| 4 | 6 | Runnin' Behind | Tracy Lawrence |
| 2 | 2 | Sacred Ground | McBride & the Ride |
| 12 | 23 | Same Ol' Love | Ricky Skaggs |
| 2 | 1 | Seminole Wind | John Anderson |
| 3 | 3 | Shake the Sugar Tree | Pam Tillis |
| 1 | 1 | She Is His Only Need | Wynonna Judd |
| 50 | 74 | She Takes the Sad Out of Saturday Night | Clinton Gregory |
| 1 | 1 | She's Got the Rhythm (And I Got the Blues) | Alan Jackson |
| 5 | 3 | Ships That Don't Come In | Joe Diffie |
| 3 | 3 | So Much Like My Dad | George Strait |
| 1 | 2 | Some Girls Do | Sawyer Brown |
| 3 | 15 | Some Kind of Trouble | Tanya Tucker |
| 15 | 12 | Somebody's Doin' Me Right | Keith Whitley |
| 14 | 10 | Something in Red | Lorrie Morgan |
| 1 | 1 | Sticks and Stones | Tracy Lawrence |
| 1 | 1 | Straight Tequila Night | John Anderson |
| 2 | 2 | Take a Little Trip | Alabama |
| 2 | 3 | Take Your Memory with You | Vince Gill |
| 8 | 4 | That's What I Like About You | Trisha Yearwood |
| 1 | 1 | There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio | Aaron Tippin |
| 7 | 6 | This One's Gonna Hurt You (For a Long, Long Time) | Marty Stuart & Travis Tritt |
| 23 | 11 | The Time Has Come | Martina McBride |
| 3 | 19 | The Tips of My Fingers | Steve Wariner |
| 3 | 2 | Today's Lonely Fool | Tracy Lawrence |
| 4 | 2 | Turn That Radio On | Ronnie Milsap |
| 2 | 2 | Two Sparrows in a Hurricane | Tanya Tucker |
| 18 | 34 | Two-Timin' Me | The Remingtons |
| 4 | 6 | Warning Labels | Doug Stone |
| 2 | 4 | Watch Me | Lorrie Morgan |
| 12 | 12 | We Shall Be Free | Garth Brooks |
| 2 | 1 | We Tell Ourselves | Clint Black |
| 24 | 19 | What Kind of Fool | Lionel Cartwright |
| 2 | 3 | What Kind of Fool Do You Think I Am | Lee Roy Parnell |
| 11 | 2 | What Kind of Love | Rodney Crowell |
| 1 | 1 | What She's Doing Now | Garth Brooks |
| 7 | 5 | Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy | Chris LeDoux |
| 3 | 2 | When It Comes to You | John Anderson |
| 9 | 9 | When She Cries | Restless Heart |
| 23 | 16 | Wher'm I Gonna Live? | Billy Ray Cyrus |
| 2 | 4 | The Whiskey Ain't Workin' | Travis Tritt with Marty Stuart |
| 29 | 39 | Who Needs It | Clinton Gregory |
| 2 | 2 | (Without You) What Do I Do with Me | Tanya Tucker |
| 4 | 12 | The Woman Before Me | Trisha Yearwood |
| 9 | 12 | A Woman Loves | Steve Wariner |
| 5 | 4 | Wrong Side of Memphis | Trisha Yearwood |
| 17 | 13 | Yard Sale | Sammy Kershaw |
| 5 | 18 | You and Forever and Me | Little Texas |
| 3 | 21 | You Can Depend on Me | Restless Heart |

### Singles released by Canadian artists

| US | CAN | Single | Artist |
| — | 7 | Bad Day for Trains | Patricia Conroy |
| — | 15 | Candle in the Window | Joan Kennedy |
| — | 9 | Clearly Canadian | George Fox |
| — | 18 | Diamonds | Joel Feeney |
| — | 20 | Drifting Cowboy | Gary Fjellgaard |
| — | 8 | Everybody Knows | Prairie Oyster |
| — | 10 | Here Today, Here Tomorrow | George Fox |
| — | 9 | I Can See Arkansas | Anne Murray |
| — | 18 | I Walk These Rails | Sylvia Tyson |
| — | 15 | If You Want Love | Joan Kennedy |
| — | 14 | It Comes Back to You | Cassandra Vasik |
| — | 9 | Lights of Laramie | Ian Tyson |
| — | 8 | My Baby Loves Me (Just the Way That I Am) | Patricia Conroy |
| 51 | 8 | One Precious Love | Prairie Oyster |
| 43 | 1 | One Time Around | Michelle Wright |
| — | 7 | Orangedale Whistle | The Rankin Family |
| — | 17 | Schubenacadie Tinsmith Man | Wayne Rostad |
| — | 10 | Still in the Game | Don Neilson |
| 10 | 1 | Take It Like a Man | Michelle Wright |
| — | 20 | Those Stars | Cassandra Vasik |
| — | 8 | When You're Not Loving Me | Tracey Prescott & Lonesome Daddy |
| — | 5 | Which Face Should I Put on Tonight | Cassandra Vasik |
| — | 10 | Wildflowers | Cassandra Vasik |
| — | 10 | Will I Do (Till the Real Thing Comes Along) | Prairie Oyster |
| — | 13 | (You Made A) Rock of Gibraltar | Cindi Cain |

## Top new album releases

| US | CAN | Album | Artist | Record Label | Release Date |
| 62 | 17 | 15 of the Best | Anne Murray | Liberty | Apr 27 |
| 11 | 4 | American Pride | Alabama | RCA Nashville | Aug 11 |
| | 20 | Bad Day for Trains | Patricia Conroy | Warner | |
| | 9 | Believe in Your Country | Stompin' Tom Connors | Capitol | Mar 13 |
| 2 | 3 | Beyond the Season | Garth Brooks | Liberty | Aug 17 |
| 26 | 1 | Big Iron Horses | Restless Heart | RCA Nashville | Oct 9 |
| 55 | 18 | Blue Frontier | The Remingtons | BNA | Jan 28 |
| 23 | 10 | Cafe on the Corner | Sawyer Brown | Curb | Aug 25 |
| 12 | 4 | Can't Run from Yourself | Tanya Tucker | Liberty | Nov 29 |
| 1 | 1 | The Chase | Garth Brooks | Liberty | Sep 14 |
| 6 | 9 | Chipmunks in Low Places | Alvin and the Chipmunks | Epic | Sep 21 |
| 24 | | Close to the Edge | Diamond Rio | Arista Nashville | Oct 27 |
| | 10 | Close to the Floor | Ashley MacIsaac | A&M | |
| 6 | 4 | Come On Come On | Mary Chapin Carpenter | Columbia | Jun 26 |
| 7 | 19 | Confederate Railroad | Confederate Railroad | Atlantic | Apr 13 |
| 12 | 8 | The Dirt Road | Sawyer Brown | Curb |
| | 18 | Divided Highway | Terry Kelly | Gun |
| | 1 | Fare Thee Well Love | The Rankin Family | Capitol |
| 19 | 17 | First Time for Everything | Little Texas | Warner Bros. |
| 19 | | From the Heart | Doug Stone | Epic |
| | 2 | From the Heart: 15 Career Classics | The Judds | BMG |
| 43 | 13 | Greatest Hits | Shenandoah | Columbia |
| 9 | | Greatest Hits Plus | Ricky Van Shelton | Columbia |
| 14 | | Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 | Randy Travis | Warner Bros. |
| 20 | 4 | Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 | Randy Travis | Warner Bros. |
| 2 | 3 | The Hard Way | Clint Black | RCA Nashville |
| 12 | 7 | Hearts in Armor | Trisha Yearwood | MCA Nashville |
| | 24 | Higher Ground | Joan Kennedy | MCA |
| 5 | 17 | Holding My Own | George Strait | MCA Nashville |
| 23 | 11 | Homeward Looking Angel | Pam Tillis | Arista Nashville |
| 4 | 6 | Honeymoon in Vegas Soundtrack | Various Artists | Epic |
| 47 | 4 | I Never Knew Lonely | Vince Gill | RCA Nashville |
| 3 | 3 | I Still Believe in You | Vince Gill | MCA Nashville |
| 10 | 12 | In This Life | Collin Raye | Epic |
| 1 | 1 | It's Your Call | Reba McEntire | MCA Nashville |
| 30 | 9 | Life Is Messy | Rodney Crowell | Columbia |
| 4 | 6 | Life's a Dance | John Michael Montgomery | Atlantic |
| 34 | 14 | Long Time Comin' | Shenandoah | RCA Nashville |
| 9 | 5 | Longnecks & Short Stories | Mark Chesnutt | MCA Nashville |
| 1 | 5 | A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'bout Love) | Alan Jackson | Arista Nashville |
| 7 | 22 | Maverick | Hank Williams, Jr. | Curb/Warner Bros. |
| | 1 | More Country Heat | Various Artists | RCA |
| 20 | 2 | Now and Then | Michelle Wright | Arista Nashville |
| 1 | 1 | Pure Country (Soundtrack) | George Strait | MCA Nashville |
| 6 | 9 | Read Between the Lines | Aaron Tippin | RCA Nashville |
| 22 | 25 | Regular Joe | Joe Diffie | Epic |
| 27 | 15 | Sacred Ground | McBride & the Ride | MCA Nashville |
| 10 | 11 | Seminole Wind | John Anderson | BNA |
| | 22 | So Many Roads | The Good Brothers | Savannah |
| 1 | 1 | Some Gave All | Billy Ray Cyrus | Mercury/PolyGram |
| 22 | 28 | Straight Talk Soundtrack | Dolly Parton | Hollywood |
| 36 | 21 | Sure Love | Hal Ketchum | Curb |
| | 19 | Thinking of You | Rita MacNeil | Virgin |
| 12 | 6 | This One's Gonna Hurt You | Marty Stuart | MCA Nashville |
| 49 | 21 | The Time Has Come | Martina McBride | RCA Nashville |
| 23 | | A Travis Tritt Christmas: Loving Time of the Year | Travis Tritt | Warner Bros. |
| 6 | 3 | T-R-O-U-B-L-E | Travis Tritt | Warner Bros. |
| 24 | 32 | Walls Can Fall | George Jones | MCA Nashville |
| 15 | | Watch Me | Lorrie Morgan | BNA |
| 9 | | Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy | Chris LeDoux | Liberty |
| 58 | 22 | Where Forever Begins | Neal McCoy | Atlantic |
| 1 | 1 | Wynonna | Wynonna Judd | Curb/MCA Nashville |

### Other top albums

| US | CAN | Album | Artist | Record Label |
| 44 | | American Patriot | Lee Greenwood | Liberty |
| 63 | | At Her Best | Patsy Cline | Hollywood |
| 32 | | At the Ryman | Emmylou Harris | Reprise |
| 44 | 26 | The Best of Hank & Hank | Hank Williams & Hank Williams, Jr. | Mercury/PolyGram |
| 65 | | Country Music for Kids | Various Artists | Walt Disney |
| 46 | | Del Rio, TX 1959 | Radney Foster | Arista Nashville |
| 75 | | Every Time You Say Goodbye | Alison Krauss | Rounder |
| 53 | | The First Christmas | Doug Stone | Epic |
| 68 | | The Latest and the Greatest | The Bellamy Brothers | Intersound |
| 41 | | Lonesome Standard Time | Kathy Mattea | Mercury/PolyGram |
| 60 | | Love Is Strong | Paul Overstreet | RCA Nashville |
| 66 | | Love Without Mercy | Lee Roy Parnell | Arista Nashville |
| 72 | | The More I Learn | Ronna Reeves | Mercury/PolyGram |
| 57 | | No Sir | Darryl & Don Ellis | Epic |
| 68 | | Sneakin' Around | Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed | Columbia |
| 75 | | A Street Man Named Desire | Pirates of the Mississippi | Liberty |
| 70 | | Today's Best Country | Various Artists | K-Tel |
| 50 | | Today's Hot Country | Various Artists | K-Tel |
| 70 | | Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A. | Waylon Jennings | Epic |
| 58 | | Tourist in Paradise | Cleve Francis | Liberty |
| 59 | | Twilight Town | Mike Reid | Columbia |
| 31 | | Voices in the Wind | Suzy Bogguss | Liberty |

## On television
### Regular series

* Hee Haw (1969–1993, syndicated)

### Specials
## Births

* May 19 — Lainey Wilson, rising country singer-songwriter of the 2020s ("Things a Man Oughta Know", "Heart Like a Truck").
* June 15 – Parker McCollum, country singer-songwriter known for his 2020 hit "Pretty Heart".
* June 26 — Jennette McCurdy, actress, screenwriter, producer, singer and songwriter.
* October 9 – Chase Bryant, up-and-coming singer of the mid-2010s, including "Take It On Back" and "Little Bit of You."
* November 23 — Miley Cyrus, daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus; actress and singer.
* December 1 – Travis Denning, country singer-songwriter known for his 2020 hit "After a Few".

## Deaths

* February 19 – Biff Collie, 66, country music disc jockey, promoter and journalist (cancer).
* October 25 — Roger Miller, 56, singer-songwriter best known for Grammy Award winner "King of the Road". (throat cancer)
* November 23 — Roy Acuff, 89, country music pioneer from the 1930s onward, and Grand Ole Opry institution. (heart failure)

## Hall of Fame inductees
### Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame inductees

* The Stanley Brothers
** Carter Stanley
** Ralph Stanley
* Reno and Smiley
** Don Reno
** Arthur Lee "Red" Smiley

### Country Music Hall of Fame inductees

* George Jones (1931–2013)
* Frances Preston (1928–2012)

### Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductees

* Carroll Baker
* Gordon Burnett

## Major awards
### Grammy Awards

* Best Female Country Vocal Performance — "I Feel Lucky", Mary Chapin Carpenter
* Best Male Country Vocal Performance — I Still Believe in You, Vince Gill
* Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal — At the Ryman, Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers
* Best Country Collaboration with Vocals — "The Whiskey Ain't Workin'", Marty Stuart and Travis Tritt
* Best Country Instrumental Performance — "Sneakin' Around", Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed
* Best Country Song — "I Still Believe in You", Vince Gill and John Barlow Jarvis (Performer: Vince Gill)
* Best Bluegrass Album — Every Time You Say Goodbye, Alison Krauss & Union Station

### Juno Awards

* Country Male Vocalist of the Year — Gary Fjellgaard
* Country Female Vocalist of the Year — Michelle Wright
* Country Group or Duo of the Year — Tracey Prescott & Lonesome Daddy

### Academy of Country Music

* Entertainer of the Year — Garth Brooks
* Song of the Year — "I Still Believe in You", Vince Gill and John Barlow Jarvis (Performer: Vince Gill)
* Single of the Year — "Boot Scootin' Boogie", Brooks & Dunn
* Album of the Year — Brand New Man, Brooks & Dunn
* Top Male Vocalist — Vince Gill
* Top Female Vocalist — Mary Chapin Carpenter
* Top Vocal Duo — Brooks & Dunn
* Top Vocal Group — Diamond Rio
* Top New Male Vocalist — Tracy Lawrence
* Top New Female Vocalist — Michelle Wright
* Top New Vocal Duo or Group — Confederate Railroad
* Video of the Year — "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane", Tanya Tucker (Director: Joanne Gardner)

### ARIA Awards

(presented in Sydney on March 6, 1992)
* Best Country Album - Out of the Blue (Anne Kirkpatrick)

### Canadian Country Music Association

* Bud Country Fans' Choice Award — Rita MacNeil
* Male Artist of the Year — Ian Tyson
* Female Artist of the Year — Michelle Wright
* Group or Duo of the Year — Prairie Oyster
* SOCAN Song of the Year — "Did You Fall in Love with Me", Joan Besen
* Single of the Year — "Take It Like a Man", Michelle Wright
* Album of the Year — Everybody Knows, Prairie Oyster
* Top Selling Album — Ropin' the Wind, Garth Brooks
* Video of the Year — "Take It Like a Man", Michelle Wright
* Vista Rising Star Award — Cassandra Vasik
* Vocal Collaboration of the Year — Gary Fjellgaard and Linda Kidder

### Country Music Association

* Entertainer of the Year — Garth Brooks
* Song of the Year — "Look at Us", Vince Gill and Max D. Barnes (Performer: Vince Gill)
* Single of the Year — "Achy Breaky Heart", Billy Ray Cyrus
* Album of the Year — Ropin' the Wind, Garth Brooks
* Male Vocalist of the Year — Vince Gill
* Female Vocalist of the Year — Mary Chapin Carpenter
* Vocal Duo of the Year — Brooks & Dunn
* Vocal Group of the Year — Diamond Rio
* Horizon Award — Suzy Bogguss
* Music Video of the Year — "Midnight in Montgomery", Alan Jackson (Director: Jim Shea)
* Vocal Event of the Year — Marty Stuart and Travis Tritt
* Musician of the Year — Mark O'Connor