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Clint Black - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
(CD)
ORIGINAL 2001
CD RELEASE!!!
No Skips, No Freeze ups!!!
No Scratches, No Scuff Marks!!!
CD and all artwork included.
CD in Excellent Like New condition.
Jewel Case has normal wear.
This impressive
16-song collection of hits and near-misses culled from Black's
half-dozen studio albums and padded with four fair-to-middlin' new songs
makes you wonder if the world wouldn't have been better off if Black
had won that race. These tracks (all of them written or co-written by
Black and many also produced by him) remind us that in the decade and a
half or so since he first hit the charts, he's been a far more
adventurous songwriter and stylist than Brooks has ever been. That said,
there's a fair amount of chaff mixed with the wheat herein. Many of the
newer songs--like "When I Said I Do" (a hit duet with his wife, actress
Lisa Hartman), "Little Pearl" (Black's sentimental ode to his new baby
daughter), and the cliché-ridden "Money or Love"--tend to drown in
either mawkish sentimentality or Black's irritating lyric verbosity. But
masterful tracks like "Been There" (a fine duet with Steve
Wariner), the swingy "One More Payment," the soulful "(The Lights
Are On) Nobody's Home," and an impressive blues version of his 1990 hit
"Put Yourself in My Shoes" (featuring a full horn arrangement) remind us
how very good Black can be when he's hitting on all cylinders.
Track
listing
1. Shoes You're Wearing, The
2. Nothin' But the Taillights
3. Nothing's News
4. Walkin' Away
5. When My Ship Comes In
6. Something That We Do
7. When I Said I Do
8. Been There
9. Still Holding On
10. Nobody's
Home
11. One More Payment
12. One Emotion
13. Easy for Me to Say - (previously unreleased)
14. Little Pearl and Lily's Lullaby - (previously unreleased)
15. Money or Love - (previously unreleased)
16. Put
Yourself in My Shoes - (previously unreleased, blues version)
Product Details
- Audio CD (November 20, 2001)
- Original Release Date: October 30, 2001
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Enhanced
- Label: RCA
Clint Black Biography
A country music traditionalist from Texas, Clint Black was one of the
first artists to kick-start the mass-market popularity of country in
the '90s. Black is also one of the first artists of a generation that
was equally inspired by rock-oriented pop -- like '70s
singer/songwriters and '60s rock & roll -- as well as country
artists like Merle Haggard, Bob Wills, and George Jones. He offered a
shiny, marketable version of traditional country and in the process
paved the way for a new generation of country artists, particularly
Garth Brooks. After Brooks broke through into the pop mainstream,
Black's career began to fade somewhat, but he remained one of the most
popular and acclaimed vocalists of the '90s.
Black was born in New
Jersey but raised in Katy, TX, a suburb of Houston. As a child, he
listened to both country and rock & roll, but he didn't begin
playing guitar until the age of 13, when he started playing harmonica.
Two years later, he began writing songs, as well as performing in his
brother Kevin's band, where he played bass and sang. In the early '80s,
he began busking on the streets of Katy, eventually working his way into
coffeehouses, bars, and nightclubs.
In 1987, Clint met Hayden
Nicholas, a guitarist and songwriter who had a home studio. Nicholas and
Black began collaborating together, writing songs and recording demos;
Nicholas would become the bandleader for Black, playing lead guitar and
co-writing a large majority of his hit singles. A tape of their songs
made its way to Bill Ham, the manager of ZZ Top. Impressed with the
tape, Ham became Black's manager; the singer had a contract with RCA
Nashville by the end of 1988.
"A Better Man," Black's first
single, was released early in 1989 and it went to number one -- he was
the first new male country artist to have a number one hit with his
debut single in 15 years. Black was an immediate sensation throughout
country music and he played the Grand Ole Opry in April, one month
before his debut album, Killin' Time, was released. Killin' Time was an
immediate hit, going gold within six months and spawning four other hit
singles, including the number ones "Killin' Time," "Nobody's Home," and
"Walkin' Away." At the end of 1989, he won the Country Music
Association's Horizon Award, as well that organization's Best Male
Vocalist Award. He also won Best Album, Best Single, Best Male Vocalist,
and Best New Male Vocalist awards from the Academy of Country Music and
the NSAI Songwriter/Artist of the Year Award. By the end of 1990,
Killin' Time sold over two million copies in America.
Black
released his second album, Put Yourself in My Shoes, in 1990. Like the
debut, Put Yourself in My Shoes was a major success, spawning four Top
Ten hits ("Put Yourself in My Shoes," "One More Payment," and the number
ones "Loving Blind" and "Where Are You Now"), selling over two million
copies, and peaking at number 18 on the pop charts. Even though it sold
well, it didn't receive the same critical acclaim as the debut.
Nevertheless, Black was named Best Male Vocalist that same year.
Throughout 1990, Black was on tour with Alabama and appearing on
television shows across the country. In 1991, several singles from Put
Yourself in My Shoes charted and he was inducted into the Grand Ole
Opry. On New Year's Eve of 1991, he married the television actress Lisa
Hartman.
Black began 1992 in a lawsuit with his manager. Black
claimed that his original contract gave Ham too large of a percentage of
the singer's royalties and publishing rights. For seven months he was
embroiled in the lawsuit, during which he was recording his third album.
By the summer, the suit was settled and his new album, The Hard Way,
finally was released. The Hard Way received positive reviews and became
an immediate hit, peaking at number two on the country charts and
crossing over into the pop Top Ten. The first single from the album, "We
Tell Ourselves," reached number one that summer. Black began a lengthy
world tour in June of 1992 to support The Hard Way.
Although it
was a success, The Hard Way wasn't as popular as Black's first two
records, selling no more than a million copies. Released in 1993, No
Time to Kill, his fourth album, continued the stagnation in his record
sales, even though its sales were more than respectable -- the album
went platinum and spawned the hit single "When My Ship Comes In." During
the fall of 1994, Black released his fifth album, One Emotion, followed
a year later by the seasonal effort Looking for Christmas. Nothin' But
the Taillights appeared after a two-year hiatus, and in 1999 Black
celebrated a decade of recording with D'Lectrified. Several hits
collections followed into the new millennium. In 2004, Black returned
with Spend My Time, his first batch of new material in over six years,
closely followed by Drinkin' Songs & Other Logic in 2005.
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