Hard Country Songs/1990s - First Lines by Solo Artists Quiz / Test | Music

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1. This singer/songwriter/musician had an acting role in both "Flicka 2" of 2010 and "Flicka 3" of 2011 ... do you remember this song and singer? "No sun on the Rockies Not even the light of day I feel that old cabin fever comin' on"

Answer: Clint Black

"When My Ship Comes In", remainder of first verse:

"But I know where I'll be
When lady luck finally blows my way
She'll put the wind in my sails & I'll be gone"

Number one in 1993 on Billboard Hot Country Singles, Black is from Long Branch, NJ and is married to actress Lisa Hartman. He had a string of great number ones and top tens since the late 1980s.

2. From her debut album "Aces", this first line includes the song's title ... who is she? "I don't want to be standing here With this ticket for this outbound plane"

Answer: Suzy Bogguss

A number nine song in 1992, first verse of "Outbound Plane" continued:

"'Cause I've been here before
But somehow it doesn't feel the same
Talk is cheap, so we could talk all night long
We may never figure out just where our love went wrong"

Suzy Bogguss has released dozens of singles, many within the top ten, and many more within the top 40 on Billboard Hot Country Songs. "Outbound Plane" was her fourth music video.

3. Here is the entire first verse of a song by this Texas native of Filipino descent ... do you know him? "Fresh off the farm, just out of school Face of angel and nobody's fool Turquoise boots, Atlanta Braves hat Denim and lace and you gotta love that"

Answer: Neal McCoy

Here is the chorus to "You Gotta Love That", number three in 1996 on Billboard Hot Country Songs:

"She rolled into town dreams in a sack
Old guitar in a blue Pontiac
She's taken a vow
She ain't turning back
She knows what she wants
And you gotta love that"

Neal McCoy toured with and opened for Charley Pride during the 1980s, then signed with Atlantic Records in 1990.

4. Singing this 1994 song, her "Passionate Kisses" from the previous year hit number four ... for who? "I took a walk in the rain one day On the wrong side of the tracks I stood on the rails till I saw that train Just to see how my heart would react"

Answer: Mary Chapin Carpenter

First verse continued of "I Take My Chances":

"Now some people say that you shouldn't tempt fate
And for them I would not disagree
But I never learned nothing from playing it safe
I say fate should not tempt me"

A number two song in 1994 for Carpenter on Billboard Hot Country Singles. Her next released single "Shut Up and Kiss Me", was a number one song.

5. From an early album "Too Cold at Home", in 1991 he had his first number one single beginning with this line? "Brother jukebox...sister wine Mother freedom...father time"

Answer: Mark Chesnutt

"Brother Jukebox" begins with the chorus (continued below), followed by the first verse:

"Since she left me by myself
You're the only family I've got left"

"I go down to that same old cafe
Where I try to wash my troubles away
I'm still down and I'm still all alone
But it beats stayin' home all night long"

Chesnutt had five top ten singles from "Too Cold At Home", his first album for MCA Records.

6. From this number six 1994 song's opening line, do you recognize this "Happy Girl"? "Don't tell me no stories I don't want to hear no lies No reason, or excuses None of your alibis"

Answer: Martina McBride

A number six song from 1994, "Life #9" - continuation of first verse:

"The phone rings I pick it up
Nobody's on the line
I know she's waiting for you
She's just biding her time
You'd have me believin'
It's just a night out with your friends
But I know you're going back to see her again"

McBride's 2006 song "Anyway", has earned her four awards in the music industry.

7. In 1991 "Sticks and Stones" was his debut and number one hit song. A number three song from 1999, who does this opening line belong to? "I was 10 years old The day I got caught With some dime store candy That I never bought"

Answer: Tracy Lawrence

Number three of 1999, first verse of "Lessons Learned" continued:

"I hung my head and I faced the wall
As daddy showed me wrong from right
He said, "This hurts me more than it does you
There's just some things, son
That you just don't do"

Throughout the 1990s, Lawrence had seven number one hit singles and thirteen charted within the top ten.

Since eleven years prior, June of 2007 finds Tracy with another number one hit song "Find Out Who Your Friends Are", reaching the number one spot on Billboard Hot Country Singles.

8. This is an easy one, so if you don't get it right then "You Can Feel Bad". So, who is this? "Bought a ticket to Seattle but I can't get to the plane Everytime I leave you I keep running out of chain"

Answer: Patty Loveless

"Chains", first verse continued and chorus:

"I hunger for your love it never gives me any slack
But if I ever break away I'm never coming back to these

Chains, chains, shackles and chains
No matter what it takes some day I'm gonna break these
Chains, chains, shackles and chains
These love taking, heart breaking, cold, hard, lonely making chains"

"Chains" number one in 1990 and "You Can Feel Bad" number one in 1995 on Billboard Hot Country Singles.

Patty Loveless sang backup on Vince Gill's 1990 song "When I Call Your Name" and became a Grand Ole Opry member in 1988.

9. He once posed for "Playgirl" magazine ... what's your best guess? "If there ever was a perfect night This just might be the one. For telling you the way I feel And just how real we've become"

Answer: David Kersh

Number three from 1997, first verse continued and chorus to "If I Ever Stop Loving You":

"If I'm anxious and a little uptight
it's because I wanna ask you this right

If I never stop loving you
Will you never start wanting me to
Say you won't and that's what I'll do
For forever with a heart so true

If you'll start and end everyday
Forever never wanting me to go away,
All I'm ever gonna always do
Is never stop loving you"

Releasing only two studio albums, three of Kersh's singles placed within the top ten.

10. Once romantically involved with quarterback Troy Aikman ... guess who? "You look so disbelieving At my suitcase by the door My taxi's on it's way here I can't take it anymore"

Answer: Lorrie Morgan

"Five Minutes" number one from 1990, ending to first verse and chorus:

"Lately you've forgotten
What lovin' me's about
Well now you've got five minutes
To figure it out"

"You've got five minutes
To tell me what I've needed to hear
You've got five minutes
To show me that you're really sincere
That's not much time to change my mind
It'll take a miracle no doubt
Any you've got five minutes
To figure it out"

Morgan first appeared on the Grand Ole Opry stage at age thirteen.

11. Playing the lead role in television's "Doc", who sings this first line from 1998? "There's a little boy out in the driveway His basketball in hand Saying Daddy could we play a little one on one"

Answer: Billy Ray Cyrus

From 1998 a number three song "Busy Man", first verse continued, then second and third verse:

"You pat him on the back and say not now son
I'm a busy man"

"His sister's out on the sidewalk
Setting up a lemonade stand
Hey Daddy don't you want to buy a glass from me
You say maybe later can't you see I'm a busy man"

"There's a woman in the bedroom crying
Saying I thought we had plans
You say honey I'm sorry I'll make it up
When the job slows down and I'm not such
A busy man"

The huge success of Billy Ray's number one debut single and video to "Achy Breaky Heart", put the linedance in full-swing worldwide. Cyrus enrolled in college on a baseball scholarhsip.

12. Mel, her father and singer/songwriter, recorded the 1976 number one song "Coca-Cola Cowboy" ... and his daughter is who? "We tried and we tried but it's over Guess I didn't fit the image in your mind Now you tell me to find another lover But baby aren't you gettin' outta line"

Answer: Pam Tillis

A number five song from 1991 "Don't Tell Me What To Do", here is the chorus:

"Don'tell me what to do
You've already said we are through
I'm a page that you have turned
I'm no longer your concern
So don't tell me what to do
I'll love you forever if I want to"

Tillis' singles "Maybe It Was Memphis" from 1991 and "Shake The Sugar Tree" from 1992, had number three spots on Billboard Hot Country Singles.

"My Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)" was a number one song in 1994.

13. You may have a "Honky Tonk Attitude" if you can correctly choose who this singer is? "They were farm kids way down in Dixie They met in high school in the sixties Everyone knew it was love from the start"

Answer: Joe Diffie

"John Deere Green", first verse continued and chorus:

"Everyone knew it was love from the start
One July in the midnight hour
He climed up on the water tower
Stood on the rail and painted a ten foot heart
In John Deere green"

"On a hot summer night
He wrote Billy Bob loves Charlene
In letters three foot high
And the whole town said that he should have used red
But it looked good to Charlene
In John Deere green"

"John Deere Green" and "Honky Tonk Attitude", both number five songs in 1993 on Billboard Hot Country Singles. In 1995, "Ships That Don't Come In" was also a number five song.

14. She started her solo career in 1991 after the breakup of a country music duo/ mother/daughter team ... do you know who? "When you hit rock bottom You've got two ways to go Straight up, and sideways"

Answer: Wynonna Judd

First verse from this 1994 number two song, "Rock Bottom" continued, and first portion of second verse:

"I have seen my share of hard times
And I'm letting you know
Straight up, is my way"

"Things are tough all over
But I've got good news
When you get down to nothing
You've got nothing to lose"

Wynonna has appeared in television's "Hope and Faith", "Touched By an Angel" and also "Army Wives".

15. This question should be very easy but I won't "Give It Away" though I will tell you that this "Troubadour" has recorded over forty number one hit singles by 2010 ... you must know who this is? "True in this modern world When two lovers get together Chances of 'em ever makin' it to forever"

Answer: George Strait

First verse continued of "True":

"Couldn't be better than two in a million hearts
Girl this ain't just another run of the mill emotion
What I'm feelin' is the definition of devotion
My love for you is true"

From Billboard Hot Country Singles, "True" hit number two in 1998, "Give It Away" went number one in 2006, and "Troubadour" was number seven in 2008.

"Troubadour" won Best Country Album at the 2009 Grammy Awards and Album of the Year at the 2008 Country Music Association Awards.

Source: Author annanne

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Country Songs/1990s - First Lines by Solo Artists Quiz

I have given extra information along with the opening line. All songs are in the top ten ... four of these are number ones. Good luck!

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