# 1993 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1993.

## Events

* December 28 – Newcomer Shania Twain and record producer and songwriter Robert John "Mutt" Lange are married. Twain had just released her first album, produced by Norro Wilson earlier in the year, and although it gained largely positive critical reviews, the album was not a big seller. Twain, hiring Lange as her producer, will quickly begin work to improve her fortunes exponentially.

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

| US | CAN | Single | Artist |
| 1 | 1 | Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up) | Garth Brooks |
| 2 | 1 | Ain't That Lonely Yet | Dwight Yoakam |
| 1 | 1 | Alibis | Tracy Lawrence |
| 3 | 2 | All These Years | Sawyer Brown |
| 1 | 2 | Almost Goodbye | Mark Chesnutt |
| 5 | 4 | Alright Already | Larry Stewart |
| 1 | 2 | American Honky-Tonk Bar Association | Garth Brooks |
| 10 | 17 | Anywhere but Here | Sammy Kershaw |
| 2 | 1 | A Bad Goodbye | Clint Black with Wynonna Judd |
| 21 | 13 | Beer and Bones | John Michael Montgomery |
| 1 | 2 | Blame It on Your Heart | Patty Loveless |
| 19 | 39 | Boom! It Was Over | Robert Ellis Orrall |
| 6 | 5 | Born to Love You | Mark Collie |
| 16 | 24 | The Bug | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| 18 | 16 | Cadillac Ranch | Chris LeDoux |
| 1 | 1 | Can I Trust You with My Heart | Travis Tritt |
| 1 | 2 | Can't Break It to My Heart | Tracy Lawrence |
| 1 | 1 | Chattahoochee | Alan Jackson |
| 11 | 28 | Cleopatra, Queen of Denial | Pam Tillis |
| 46 | 10 | Cowboy Boogie | Randy Travis |
| 12 | 16 | A Cowboy's Born with a Broken Heart | Boy Howdy |
| 16 | 19 | Do You Know Where Your Man Is | Pam Tillis |
| 1 | 1 | Does He Love You | Reba McEntire with Linda Davis |
| 19 | 21 | Down on My Knees | Trisha Yearwood |
| 2 | 4 | Drive South | Suzy Bogguss |
| 20 | 28 | Easier Said Than Done | Radney Foster |
| 1 | 1 | Easy Come, Easy Go | George Strait |
| 3 | 3 | Every Little Thing | Carlene Carter |
| 4 | — | God Blessed Texas | Little Texas |
| 8 | 14 | Half Enough | Lorrie Morgan |
| 11 | 11 | The Hard Way | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| 4 | 1 | Hard Workin' Man | Brooks & Dunn |
| 9 | 10 | Haunted Heart | Sammy Kershaw |
| 5 | 11 | He Ain't Worth Missing | Toby Keith |
| 1 | 1 | The Heart Won't Lie | Reba McEntire & Vince Gill |
| 1 | 1 | Heartland | George Strait |
| 2 | 6 | Hearts Are Gonna Roll | Hal Ketchum |
| 20 | 18 | High Rollin' | Gibson/Miller Band |
| 1 | 3 | Holdin' Heaven | Tracy Byrd |
| 3 | 1 | Hometown Honeymoon | Alabama |
| 5 | 11 | Honky Tonk Attitude | Joe Diffie |
| 17 | 8 | Hurry Sundown | McBride & the Ride |
| 1 | 27 | I Don't Call Him Daddy | Doug Supernaw |
| 13 | 22 | I Fell in the Water | John Anderson |
| 14 | 14 | I Guess You Had to Be There | Lorrie Morgan |
| 1 | 1 | I Love the Way You Love Me | John Michael Montgomery |
| 22 | 9 | I Wanna Take Care of You | Billy Dean |
| 7 | 14 | I Want You Bad (And That Ain't Good) | Collin Raye |
| 16 | 13 | I'd Rather Miss You | Little Texas |
| 34 | 18 | I'm Not Built That Way | Billy Dean |
| 8 | 8 | If I Didn't Love You | Steve Wariner |
| 2 | 3 | In a Week or Two | Diamond Rio |
| 3 | 1 | In the Heart of a Woman | Billy Ray Cyrus |
| 1 | 1 | It Sure Is Monday | Mark Chesnutt |
| 2 | 3 | It's a Little Too Late | Tanya Tucker |
| 5 | 5 | It's Your Call | Reba McEntire |
| 15 | 7 | Janie Baker's Love Slave | Shenandoah |
| 5 | 5 | Just Like the Weather | Suzy Bogguss |
| 5 | 6 | Just One Night | McBride & the Ride |
| 2 | 5 | Learning to Live Again | Garth Brooks |
| 15 | 24 | Leavin's Been a Long Time Comin' | Shenandoah |
| 6 | 8 | Let Go | Brother Phelps |
| 7 | 11 | Let Go of the Stone | John Anderson |
| 4 | 7 | Let That Pony Run | Pam Tillis |
| 4 | 3 | Life's a Dance | John Michael Montgomery |
| 30 | 12 | Like a River to the Sea | Steve Wariner |
| 1 | 1 | Look Heart, No Hands | Randy Travis |
| 11 | 4 | Looking Out for Number One | Travis Tritt |
| 3 | 8 | Love on the Loose, Heart on the Run | McBride & the Ride |
| 8 | 10 | Love Without Mercy | Lee Roy Parnell |
| 6 | 15 | Made for Lovin' You | Doug Stone |
| 8 | 14 | Mama Knows the Highway | Hal Ketchum |
| 13 | 3 | Mending Fences | Restless Heart |
| 2 | 2 | Mercury Blues | Alan Jackson |
| 1 | 1 | Money in the Bank | John Anderson |
| 2 | 1 | My Baby Loves Me | Martina McBride |
| 7 | 16 | My Blue Angel | Aaron Tippin |
| 1 | 6 | My Second Home | Tracy Lawrence |
| 4 | 4 | My Strongest Weakness | Wynonna Judd |
| 3 | 2 | No Future in the Past | Vince Gill |
| 3 | 2 | No Time to Kill | Clint Black |
| 2 | 7 | Nobody Wins | Radney Foster |
| 20 | 23 | Nothin' but the Wheel | Patty Loveless |
| 5 | 8 | Oh Me, Oh My, Sweet Baby | Diamond Rio |
| 4 | 2 | Ol' Country | Mark Chesnutt |
| 21 | 24 | An Old Pair of Shoes | Randy Travis |
| 6 | 12 | On the Road | Lee Roy Parnell |
| 3 | 2 | Once Upon a Lifetime | Alabama |
| 1 | 1 | One More Last Chance | Vince Gill |
| 3 | 3 | Only Love | Wynonna |
| 4 | 5 | Passionate Kisses | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| 3 | 2 | Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die) | Joe Diffie |
| 2 | 3 | Queen of Memphis | Confederate Railroad |
| 7 | 3 | Queen of My Double-Wide Trailer | Sammy Kershaw |
| 1 | 1 | Reckless | Alabama |
| 4 | 12 | Reno | Doug Supernaw |
| 1 | 1 | She Don't Know She's Beautiful | Sammy Kershaw |
| 1 | 1 | She Used to Be Mine | Brooks & Dunn |
| 6 | 3 | She's Not Cryin' Anymore | Billy Ray Cyrus |
| 1 | 1 | Should've Been a Cowboy | Toby Keith |
| 5 | 11 | Somebody Else's Moon | Collin Raye |
| 9 | 14 | Somebody New | Billy Ray Cyrus |
| 8 | 19 | Somebody Paints the Wall | Tracy Lawrence |
| 24 | 6 | Someplace Far Away (Careful What You're Dreaming) | Hal Ketchum |
| 1 | 1 | Somewhere Other Than the Night | Garth Brooks |
| 2 | 4 | The Song Remembers When | Trisha Yearwood |
| 2 | 15 | Soon | Tanya Tucker |
| 19 | 24 | Standing Knee Deep in a River (Dying of Thirst) | Kathy Mattea |
| 3 | 6 | Sure Love | Hal Ketchum |
| 5 | 1 | Take It Back | Reba McEntire |
| 4 | 3 | Tell Me About It | Tanya Tucker with Delbert McClinton |
| 3 | 1 | Tell Me Why | Wynonna Judd |
| 2 | 10 | Tender Moment | Lee Roy Parnell |
| 1 | 1 | Thank God for You | Sawyer Brown |
| 1 | 1 | That Summer | Garth Brooks |
| 4 | 15 | That Was a River | Collin Raye |
| 13 | 5 | This Romeo Ain't Got Julie Yet | Diamond Rio |
| 2 | 3 | A Thousand Miles from Nowhere | Dwight Yoakam |
| 4 | 4 | Tonight I Climbed the Wall | Alan Jackson |
| 1 | 1 | Too Busy Being in Love | Doug Stone |
| 10 | 12 | Trashy Women | Confederate Railroad |
| 13 | 17 | T-R-O-U-B-L-E | Travis Tritt |
| 5 | 7 | Trouble on the Line | Sawyer Brown |
| 6 | 1 | Tryin' to Hide a Fire in the Dark | Billy Dean |
| 2 | 2 | Walkaway Joe | Trisha Yearwood |
| 11 | 25 | We Got the Love | Restless Heart |
| 2 | 1 | We'll Burn That Bridge | Brooks & Dunn |
| 2 | 11 | What Might Have Been | Little Texas |
| 1 | 1 | What Part of No | Lorrie Morgan |
| 17 | 21 | What Were You Thinkin' | Little Texas |
| 1 | 1 | What's It to You | Clay Walker |
| 6 | 6 | When Did You Stop Loving Me | George Strait |
| 1 | 1 | When My Ship Comes In | Clint Black |
| 14 | 18 | When You Leave That Way You Can Never Go Back | Confederate Railroad |
| 1 | 6 | Why Didn't I Think of That | Doug Stone |
| 5 | 4 | Wild Man | Ricky Van Shelton |
| 7 | 6 | Workin' Man's Ph.D | Aaron Tippin |
| 12 | 24 | You Say You Will | Trisha Yearwood |

### Singles released by Canadian artists

| US | CAN | Single | Artist |
| — | 14 | Already Gone | Blue Rodeo |
| — | 7 | Blank Pages | Patricia Conroy |
| — | 5 | Breakfast Alone | George Fox |
| — | 9 | Breakin' All Over Town | Joan Kennedy |
| 55 | 14 | The Change | Michelle Wright |
| — | 16 | Country Girl | Lisa Brokop |
| — | 18 | Cryer's Paradise | Ron Hynes |
| — | 19 | Dealers in Heartaches | Morris P. Rainville |
| — | 4 | Distant Drum | Jim Witter |
| — | 9 | Dream On | Joan Kennedy |
| — | 5 | Everything and More | Jim Witter |
| — | 9 | Fare Thee Well Love | The Rankin Family |
| — | 17 | Fortunate Home | Tim Thorney |
| — | 11 | Fortune Smiled on Me | Cassandra Vasik with Russell deCarle |
| — | 4 | Gillis Mountain | The Rankin Family |
| 31 | 3 | He Would Be Sixteen | Michelle Wright |
| — | 9 | I Need to Hear It from You | Joan Kennedy |
| — | 1 | I'm Gonna Drive You Out of My Mind | Charlie Major |
| — | 1 | I'm Somebody | Charlie Major |
| — | 17 | If Only You Knew | Tracey Prescott & Lonesome Daddy |
| — | 10 | It Might as Well Be Me | Anita Perras |
| — | 6 | Make Love to Me | Anne Murray |
| — | 5 | Mustang Heart | George Fox |
| — | 9 | Roll Like a Wheel | Cassandra Vasik |
| — | 7 | Sadly Mistaken | Cassandra Vasik |
| — | 19 | A Song for Brent | Cindy Church |
| — | 7 | Starting All Over Again | One Horse Blue |
| — | 7 | Talk to My Heart | Joan Kennedy |
| — | 8 | What Do You Care | Patricia Conroy |
| — | 9 | You're My Hometown | Don Neilson |

## Top new album releases

| US | CAN | Album | Artist | Record Label |
| 15 | 5 | Across the Borderline | Willie Nelson | Columbia |
| 5 | 5 | Alibis | Tracy Lawrence | Atlantic |
| 6 | 7 | Almost Goodbye | Mark Chesnutt | MCA Nashville |
| 6 | 8 | Big Time | Little Texas | Warner Bros. |
| 17 | | A Bridge I Didn't Burn | Ricky Van Shelton | Columbia |
| 6 | 12 | Call of the Wild | Aaron Tippin | RCA Nashville |
| 16 | 4 | Cheap Seats | Alabama | RCA Nashville |
| 8 | 1 | Clay Walker | Clay Walker | Giant |
| | 10 | Closer to Paradise | Barra MacNeils | Mercury/PolyGram |
| 1 | 1 | Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles | Various Artists | Giant |
| | 1 | Country Heat 3 | Various Artists | RCA |
| 34 | 19 | Cowgirl's Prayer | Emmylou Harris | Asylum |
| 54 | 1 | Croonin' | Anne Murray | SBK/Capitol |
| 51 | 19 | Drive | Steve Wariner | Arista Nashville |
| 2 | 2 | Easy Come, Easy Go | George Strait | MCA Nashville |
| | 6 | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Soundtrack | k.d. lang | Sire |
| | 20 | Feels Like Home | Cassandra Vasik | Epic |
| 14 | 4 | Fire in the Dark | Billy Dean | Liberty |
| | 3 | Five Days in July | Blue Rodeo | Warner |
| | 2 | For Our Fans | Alabama | RCA Nashville |
| | 16 | Girls Will Be Girls | Farmer's Daughter | Stubble Jumper |
| 15 | | Greatest Hits 1990–1992 | Tanya Tucker | Liberty |
| 1 | 9 | Greatest Hits Volume Two | Reba McEntire | MCA Nashville |
| 2 | 1 | Hard Workin' Man | Brooks & Dunn | Arista Nashville |
| 11 | 10 | Haunted Heart | Sammy Kershaw | Mercury/PolyGram |
| 6 | 6 | Honky Tonk Angels | Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn & Tammy Wynette | Columbia |
| 10 | | Honky Tonk Attitude | Joe Diffie | Epic |
| 7 | | Honky Tonk Christmas | Alan Jackson | Arista Nashville |
| 1 | 1 | In Pieces | Garth Brooks | Liberty |
| 1 | 1 | It Won't Be the Last | Billy Ray Cyrus | Mercury/PolyGram |
| 13 | 1 | John Berry | John Berry | Liberty |
| | 2 | Kickin' Country | Various Artists | Sony |
| 3 | 26 | Let There Be Peace on Earth | Vince Gill | MCA Nashville |
| 35 | 2 | Little Love Letters | Carlene Carter | Giant |
| 38 | 8 | Mark Collie | Mark Collie | MCA Nashville |
| 26 | 19 | Merry Christmas from London | Lorrie Morgan | BNA |
| 20 | 5 | More Love | Doug Stone | Epic |
| | 7 | Mustang Heart | George Fox | Warner |
| 2 | 3 | No Time to Kill | Clint Black | RCA Nashville |
| | 1 | North Country | The Rankin Family | EMI |
| 59 | 17 | On the Road | Lee Roy Parnell | Arista Nashville |
| | 4 | One Horse Blue | One Horse Blue | Savannah |
| 9 | | Only What I Feel | Patty Loveless | Epic |
| | 1 | The Other Side | Charlie Major | Arista |
| 25 | | Out of Left Field | Hank Williams, Jr. | Curb/Warner Bros. |
| 13 | 2 | Outskirts of Town | Sawyer Brown | Curb |
| 22 | | Rave On!! | The Kentucky Headhunters | Mercury/PolyGram |
| 27 | 18 | Red and Rio Grande | Doug Supernaw | BNA |
| 4 | 15 | Slow Dancing with the Moon | Dolly Parton | Columbia |
| 12 | 13 | Solid Ground | John Anderson | BNA |
| 6 | 18 | The Song Remembers When | Trisha Yearwood | MCA Nashville |
| 18 | 11 | Soon | Tanya Tucker | Liberty |
| 7 | 2 | Take Me as I Am | Faith Hill | Warner Bros. |
| 1 | | Tell Me Why | Wynonna Judd | Curb/MCA Nashville |
| 4 | 1 | This Time | Dwight Yoakam | Reprise |
| 17 | | Toby Keith | Toby Keith | Mercury/PolyGram |
| | 2 | Today's Country Gold '93 | Various Artists | Quality |
| 24 | | Today's Hit Country | Various Artists | K-Tel |
| 24 | | Tracy Byrd | Tracy Byrd | MCA Nashville |
| 35 | 17 | Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills | Asleep at the Wheel | Liberty |
| 38 | 8 | Under the Kudzu | Shenandoah | RCA Nashville |
| 21 | | Under This Old Hat | Chris LeDoux | Liberty |
| 14 | 8 | The Way That I Am | Martina McBride | RCA Nashville |
| 24 | 5 | Wind in the Wire | Randy Travis | Warner Bros. |
| 3 | | You Might Be a Redneck If… | Jeff Foxworthy | Warner Bros. |

### Other top albums

| US | CAN | Album | Artist | Record Label |
| 75 | | America, I Believe in You | Charlie Daniels | Liberty |
| 51 | | The Beverly Hillbillies Soundtrack | Various Artists | Fox |
| | 27 | Country Dance Mixes | Various Artists | Atlantic |
| 55 | | Delta Dreamland | Deborah Allen | Giant |
| | 28 | Dr. Stompin' Tom…Eh? | Stompin' Tom Connors | EMI |
| 29 | | Final Touches | Conway Twitty | MCA Nashville |
| 51 | | Good News | Kathy Mattea | Mercury/PolyGram |
| 60 | | Greatest Hits | Patty Loveless | MCA Nashville |
| 31 | 27 | Greatest Hits: Songs from an Aging Sex Bomb | K. T. Oslin | RCA Nashville |
| 46 | | Heroes | Mark O'Connor | Warner Bros. |
| 30 | | High-Tech Redneck | George Jones | MCA Nashville |
| 53 | | Hurry Sundown | McBride & the Ride | MCA Nashville |
| 28 | | Jingle Bell Rock | Brenda Lee | MCA |
| | 26 | Kick Along with Stompin' Tom | Stompin' Tom Connors | EMI |
| 56 | | Let Go | Brother Phelps | Asylum |
| 37 | | Ricky Lynn Gregg | Ricky Lynn Gregg | Liberty |
| 67 | 28 | Shania Twain | Shania Twain | Mercury/PolyGram |
| 61 | | Shawn Camp | Shawn Camp | Reprise |
| 27 | | Something Up My Sleeve | Suzy Bogguss | Liberty |
| 62 | | Spinning Around the Sun | Jimmie Dale Gilmore | Elektra |
| 53 | | Steppin' Country | Various Artists | K-Tel |
| 55 | | Temptation | Shelby Lynne | Morgan Creek |
| 37 | | Today's Top Country | Various Artists | K-Tel |
| | 26 | Way Beyond the Blue | Anita Perras | Savannah |
| 37 | | The Wheel | Rosanne Cash | Columbia |
| 65 | | Where There's Smoke | Gibson/Miller Band | Epic |

## On television
### Regular series

* Hee Haw (1969–1993, syndicated)

### Specials
## Births

* March 24 – Mo Pitney, country singer who released his first radio hit, "Country".
* May 13 – William Michael Morgan, young country singer who released his first radio hit, "I Met a Girl".
* May 13 – Morgan Wallen, performer of the 2010s ("Whiskey Glasses").
* September 12 – Kelsea Ballerini, country pop singer-songwriter known for her 2014 debut hit "Love Me Like You Mean It".
* October 9 – Scotty McCreery, winner of the 10th season of American Idol, with follow-up successes including "I Love You This Big" and his first No. 1 hit, "Five More Minutes".
* October 21 – Kane Brown, country music singer and songwriter who released his radio hit, "Used to Love You Sober".

## Deaths

* June 5 — Conway Twitty, 59, giant music star since the 1950s who set records for most No. 1 country hits until 2006 (abdominal aneurysm).
* November 30 — David Houston, 57, top country singer of the 1960s and early 1970s, best known for "Almost Persuaded" (brain aneurysm).

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

* Mac Wiseman
* Jim & Jesse
** Jim McReynolds
** Jesse McReynolds

### Country Music Hall of Fame inductees

* Willie Nelson (born 1933)

### Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductees

* Ward Allen
* Stu Phillips
* Bob Nolan
* Stu Davis
* Ted Daigle
* Frank Jones

## Major awards
### Grammy Awards

* Best Female Country Vocal Performance — "Passionate Kisses", Mary Chapin Carpenter
* Best Male Country Vocal Performance — "Ain't That Lonely Yet", Dwight Yoakam
* Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal — "Hard Workin' Man", Brooks & Dunn
* Best Country Collaboration with Vocals — "Does He Love You", Reba McEntire and Linda Davis
* Best Country Instrumental Performance — "Red Wing", Asleep at the Wheel, Chet Atkins, Eldon Shamblin, Johnny Gimble, Marty Stuart, Reuben "Lucky Oceans" Gosfield & Vince Gill
* Best Country Song — "Passionate Kisses", Lucinda Williams (Performer: Mary Chapin Carpenter)
* Best Bluegrass Album — Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go, The Nashville Bluegrass Band

### Juno Awards

* Country Male Vocalist of the Year — Charlie Major
* Country Female Vocalist of the Year — Cassandra Vasik
* Country Group or Duo of the Year — The Rankin Family

### Academy of Country Music

* Entertainer of the Year — Garth Brooks
* Song of the Year — "I Love the Way You Love Me", Victoria Shaw and Chuck Cannon (Performer: John Michael Montgomery)
* Single of the Year — "Chattahoochee", Alan Jackson
* Album of the Year — A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'Bout Love), Alan Jackson
* Top Male Vocalist — Vince Gill
* Top Female Vocalist — Wynonna
* Top Vocal Duo — Brooks & Dunn
* Top Vocal Group — Little Texas
* Top New Male Vocalist — John Michael Montgomery
* Top New Female Vocalist — Faith Hill
* Top New Vocal Duo or Group — Gibson/Miller Band
* Video of the Year — "We Shall Be Free," Garth Brooks (Directors: Garth Brooks and Tim Miller)

### ARIA Awards

(presented in Sydney on April 14, 1993)
* Best Country Album – The Outback Club (Lee Kernaghan)

### Canadian Country Music Association

* Bud Country Fans' Choice Award — Michelle Wright
* Male Artist of the Year — George Fox
* Female Artist of the Year — Michelle Wright
* Group or Duo of the Year — The Rankin Family
* SOCAN Song of the Year — "Backroads", Charlie Major
* Single of the Year — "He Would Be Sixteen", Michelle Wright
* Album of the Year — Bad Day for Trains, Patricia Conroy
* Top Selling Album — Some Gave All, Billy Ray Cyrus
* Video of the Year — "He Would Be Sixteen", Michelle Wright
* Vista Rising Star Award — The Rankin Family
* Vocal Collaboration of the Year — Cassandra Vasik and Russell deCarle

### Country Music Association

* Entertainer of the Year — Vince Gill
* Song of the Year — "I Still Believe in You", Vince Gill and John Barlow Jarvis (Performer: Vince Gill)
* Single of the Year — "Chattahoochee", Alan Jackson
* Album of the Year — I Still Believe in You, Vince Gill
* 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 — Mark Chesnutt
* Music Video of the Year — "Chattahoochee", Alan Jackson (Director: Martin Kahan)
* Vocal Event of the Year — "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair", George Jones (featuring Clint Black, Garth Brooks, T. Graham Brown, Mark Chesnutt, Joe Diffie, Vince Gill, Alan Jackson, Patty Loveless, Pam Tillis and Travis Tritt)
* Musician of the Year — Mark O'Connor