![]() ![]() But it does make me happy to finally have a chance to dive further into her work, as between this and her other hit from this year, “All the Good Ones Are Gone,” she established one hell of a great one-two punch. This was Pam Tillis’ final top ten hit, and that makes me sad. 7 – Pam Tillis, “Land of the Living” (written by Tia Sillers and Wayland Patton) If you’re curious as to what qualifies for this list, here’s a handy guide. It’s still mostly great throughout – I had no problem filling out a top 10 or finding honorable mentions – but it is a year where the overall quality felt more consistently “good” than “great.”Īs a refresher, this is a series in which we explore the hits of yesteryear – not necessarily the best or most impactful ones (because that’s just a silly exercise anyway), but rather just personal favorites, meaning I invite you to share yours, as well. This year, however, feels like the weakest link in the bunch. Looking ahead to what’s next, we’ve got absolutely crazy good contenders to explore and revisit (1996, in particular, is stacked). It’s like I said before – this was a weird time period in country music as it transitioned from the actual early ‘90s boom more into what the 2000s would sound like, a weird mishmash of sounds and ideas that defies easy categorization.Īnd I think 1997 is where that starts (or rather, because we’ve explored these years in reverse, where it ends). ![]() Not to say that the quality hasn’t been there – it most certainly has, and I’d argue this is an underrated time period in country music history, even if I’ve had some admittedly odd top contenders thus far – but we’ve yet to really find the hits that defined the decade, outside of a few rare exceptions (and whether or not said classics clicked with me is another story altogether). It’s dawned on me that despite this being our third exploration of this decade through this feature, this hasn’t felt very much like a “’90s country” deep-dive quite yet. Previous: Favorite Hit Country Songs of 1998 ![]()
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