What more could a country boy want? 49: Little Texas – God Blessed Texas Their 1996 eponymous debut delivered three top 10s on the Hot Country chart, including this number one about the perfect girl, with her daddy’s money and her mama’s good looks – not to mention being a good bash fisher and a dynamite kisser. Three decades since they first exploded onto the “Young Country” scene, Little Texas are still wowing audiences with their high-octane sound. And they still close their set with “God Bless Texas,” their stomping anthem to the Lone Star State (they even shot the video at the Southfork Ranch!), which helped launch them into the big time. The Judds had been such a phenomenally successful outfit, that when Wynonna stepped out on her own in 1992, it must have seemed more than a little daunting.

47: John Michael Montgomery – Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident) She needn’t have worried her self-titled debut in 1992 merely continued the success where her partnership with her mother had left off, with “No One Else On Earth,” one of three country number ones lifted from that album. Growing up in Kentucky, John Michael Montgomery was raised by musicians, and the family band dominated home life: “Where most people have chairs and sofas in their living rooms, we had amplifiers and drum kits,” he later recalled. John Anderson began the 90s with a long and successful career behind him, but he hadn’t had a hit in a while.Ĥ6: John Anderson – Straight Tequila Night He’s as comfortable singing love songs as moving ballads – and happily brings humor into his music, such as on this song, which was named the number one country hit of 1995. 45: David Lee Murphy – Dust on the Bottle This all changed when he paired up with producer James Stroud for the 1992 Seminole Wind album, which would go double-platinum, and provide this, Anderson’s first country number one in almost a decade, and the song that rekindled his career. The Illinois-born singer-songwriter pulled this number one hit out of the air during recording of his Out With A Bang debut album in 1994: “I was drinking coffee at my kitchen table. The song just fell out in like 15 minutes.”Ĭlick to load video 44: Sammy Kershaw – She Don’t Know She’s Beautiful I started playing the opening chords on my guitar for ‘Dust on the Bottle’,” he remembered. Kershaw was raised on the likes of George Jones and Conway Twitty from a tender age. As a teenager, he found himself opening for them, so it’s hardly surprising that he’s often been compared to Jones, in whose footsteps Kershaw was proud to follow. “She Don’t Know She’s Beautiful” became his first number one in 1993.

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