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2001 in country music

See also: 2000 in country music, 2001 in music, other events of 2001, 2002 in country music and the List of years in Country Music

Contents 1 Events 2 Top hits of the year 2.1 Number one hits 2.2 Other major hits 3 Top new album releases 3.1 Other top albums 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees 7 Major Awards 7.1 Grammy awards 7.2 Academy of Country Music 7.3 Country Music Association 8 Further reading 9 Other links 10 External links

Events

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

Date	Song Name	Artist	Wks. No. 1	Spec. Note
January 20	Born to Fly	Sara Evans	1
January 27	Without You	Dixie Chicks	1
February 3	Tell Her	Lonestar	2
February 17	There is No Arizona	Jamie O'Neal	1	A
February 24	But for the Grace of God	keith urban	1	A This marked the first time two back-to-back No. 1 songs had been performed by Australian artists.
March 3	You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This	Toby Keith	3	2 Song fell to #2 on March 10 and returned to #1 on March 17, also holding the #1 spot on March 24.
March 10	One More Day	Diamond Rio	2	2 Gained popularity after death of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt. Song fell to #2 on March 17, stayed at #2 on March 24, and returned to #1 on March 31.
April 7	Who I Am	Jessica Andrews	3	C
April 28	Ain't Nothing 'Bout You	Brooks & Dunn	6	1
June 9	Don't Happen Twice	Kenny Chesney	1
June 16	Grown Men Don't Cry	Tim McGraw	1
June 23	I'm Already There	Lonestar	6
August 4	When I Think About Angels	Jamie O'Neal	1	B
August 11	Austin	Blake Shelton	5	A
September 15	I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight	Toby Keith	1
September 22	What I Really Meant to Say	Cyndi Thomson	3	C This single also became the first debut single by a female country singer to spent more than one week at Number One.
October 13	Where I Come From	Alan Jackson	3	2
October 27	Only in America	Brooks & Dunn	1
November 10	Angry All the Time	Tim McGraw (featuring Faith Hill)	2
November 24	I Wanna Talk About Me	Toby Keith	5
December 29	Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)	Alan Jackson	5	Written and recorded in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Reached #1 in its sixth chart week.

• ¹ - No. 1 song of the year, as determined by Billboard magazine.
• ² - Song dropped from No. 1 and later returned to top spot.
• ^A - First Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
• ^B - Last Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist to date.
• ^C - Only Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist to date.

Other major hits

• "Angels in Waiting" — Tammy Cochran (#9)
• "Ashes By Now" — Lee Ann Womack (#4)
• "Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You In?)" — Garth Brooks and George Jones (#24)
• "Burn" — Jo Dee Messina (#2)
• "But I Do Love You" — LeAnn Rimes (#18)
• "Complicated" — Carolyn Dawn Johnson (#5)
• "Don't Make Me Come Over There and Love You" — George Strait (#17)
• "Downtime" — Jo Dee Messina (#5)
• "Georgia" — Carolyn Dawn Johnson (#25)
• "God Bless the USA" (re-release) — Lee Greenwood (#16)
• "A Good Day to Run" — Darryl Worley (#12)
• "A Good Way to Get on My Bad Side" — Tracy Byrd with Mark Chesnutt (#21)
• "Heartbreak Town" — Dixie Chicks (#23)
• "How Cool Is That" — Andy Griggs (#22)
• "The Hunger" — Steve Holy (#24)
• "I Could Not Ask for More" — Sara Evans (#2)
• "I Would Have Loved You Anyway" — Trisha Yearwood (#4)
• "I'm a Survivor" — Reba McEntire (#3)
• "I'm Tryin'" — Trace Adkins (#6)
• "If I Fall You're Going Down With Me" — Dixie Chicks (#3)
• "If My Heart Had Wings" — Faith Hill (#3)
• "If You Can Do Anything Else" — George Strait (#5)
• "It's a Great Day to Be Alive" — Travis Tritt (#2)
• "It's My Time" — Martina McBride (#11)
• "Laredo" — Chris Cagle (#8)
• "The Last Thing on My Mind" — Patty Loveless (#20)
• "Love of a Woman" — Travis Tritt (#2)
• "Lovin' Every Minute" — Mark Wills (#18)
• "Lucky 4 You (Tonight I'm Just Me)" — SHeDAISY (#11)
• "Man of Me" — Gary Allan (#18)
• "Move On" — The Warren Brothers (#17)
• "Mrs. Steven Rudy" — Mark McGuinn (#6)
• "On a Night Like This" — Trick Pony (#4)
• "People Like Us" — Aaron Tippin (#17)
• "Please" — Pam Tillis (#22)
• "Pour Me" — Trick Pony (#12)
• "Real Life (I Never Was the Same Again)" — Jeff Carson (#14)
• "Riding With Private Malone" — David Ball (#2)
• "Right Where I Need To Be" — Gary Allan (#5)
• "Rose Bouquet" — Phil Vassar (#16)
• "Run" — George Strait (#2)
• "Second Wind" — Darryl Worley (#20)
• "She Couldn't Change Me" — Montgomery Gentry (#2)
• "She Misses Him" — Tim Rushlow (#8)
• "Shiver" — Jamie O'Neal (#21)
• "Six-Pack Summer" — Phil Vassar (#9)
• "Sometimes" — Clay Davidson (#21)
• "Sweet Summer" — Diamond Rio (#18)
• "That's a Plan" — Mark McGuinn (#25)
• "There You'll Be" — Faith Hill (#11)
• "This Everyday Love" — Rascal Flatts (#9)
• "The Tin Man" — Kenny Chesney (#19)
• "Two People Fell in Love" — Brad Paisley (#4)
• "What I Did Right" — Sons of the Desert (#22)
• "When God-Fearing Women Get the Blues" — Martina McBride (#8)
• "When It All Goes South" — Alabama (#15)
• "When Somebody Loves You" — Alan Jackson (#5)
• "Where the Blacktop Ends" — keith urban (#3)
• "While You Loved Me" — Rascal Flatts (#7)
• "Why They Call It Falling" — Lee Ann Womack (#13)
• "Wild Horses" — Garth Brooks (#7)
• "With Me" — Lonestar (#10)
• "You Made Me That Way" — Andy Griggs (#19)

Top new album releases

• Alright Guy — Gary Allan (MCA Nashville)
• Blake Shelton — Blake Shelton (Warner Bros.)
• Carrying On — Montgomery Gentry (Columbia)
• Chrome — Trace Adkins (Capitol)
• Dare to Dream — Billy Gilman (Epic)
• Down from the Mountain Soundtrack — Various Artists (Lost Highway)
• Greatest Hits — Martina McBride (RCA)
• Greatest Hits II — Clint Black (RCA)
• Greatest Hits Vol. 3: I'm a Survivor — Reba McEntire (MCA Nashville)
• I Need You — LeAnn Rimes (Curb)
• I'm Already There — Lonestar (BNA)
• Inside Out — Trisha Yearwood (MCA Nashville)
• Little Sparrow — Dolly Parton (Sugar Hill)
• Loving Every Minute — Mark Wills (Mercury)
• My World — Cyndi Thomson (Capitol)
• Never Love You Enough — Chely Wright (MCA Nashville)
• New Favorite — Alison Krauss & Union Station (Rounder)
• One More Day — Diamond Rio (Arista Nashville)
• Part II — Brad Paisley (Arista Nashville)
• Pull My Chain — Toby Keith (DreamWorks Nashville)
• The Road Less Traveled — George Strait (MCA Nashville)
• The Rock: Stone Cold Country 2001 — George Jones (Bandit)
• Room with a View — Carolyn Dawn Johnson (Arista Nashville)
• Scarecrow — Garth Brooks (Capitol)
• Set This Circus Down — Tim McGraw (Curb)
• Songs from Call Me Claus — Garth Brooks (Capitol)
• Steers & Stripes — Brooks & Dunn (Arista Nashville)
• Time*Sex*Love — Mary Chapin Carpenter (Columbia)
• Ten Rounds — Tracy Byrd (RCA)
• Trick Pony — Trick Pony (Warner Bros.)
• When It All Goes South — Alabama (RCA)
• Who I Am — Jessica Andrews (DreamWorks)

Other top albums

• 3 of Hearts — 3 of Hearts (RCA)
• All the Way to There — John Berry (Ark 21)
• Amigo — David Ball (DualTone)
• Anthology: The Warner/Reprise Years — Emmylou Harris (Rhino)
• Anthology Volume One: Cowboy Man — Lyle Lovett (Curb)
• The Captain — Kasey Chambers (Warner Brothers)
• Change — Sons of the Desert (Epic)
• Complete — Lila McCann (Asylum)
• A December to Remember — Aaron Tippin (Lyric Street)
• Dream Large — South 65 (Atlantic)
• Driven Soundtrack — Various Artists (Curb)
• Earl Scruggs and Friends — Earl Scruggs (MCA)
• Fast Girl — The Tractors (Audium)
• Followin' a Feelin' — Sherrie Austin (WE)
• God Bless America — LeAnn Rimes (Curb)
• Gravitational Forces — Robert Earl Keen (Lost Highway)
• Hank Williams: Timeless — Various Artists (Mercury)
• Here Come the Derailers — The Derailers (Lucky Dog)
• The Houston Kid — Rodney Crowell (Sugar Hill)
• I Finally Found Someone — Lorrie Morgan & Sammy Kershaw (RCA)
• III — Chad Brock (Warner Brothers)
• In Another World — Joe Diffie (Monument)
• It Was Just a Matter of Time — Randy Travis (Image)
• Live Close By, Visit Often — K. T. Oslin (BNA)
• Live! — Charlie Daniels (Blue Hat)
• Lucky Man — Hal Ketchum (Curb)
• Mark McGuinn — Mark McGuinn (VFR)
• Mountain Soul — Patty Loveless (Epic)
• Nobody's Got It All — John Anderson (BNA)
• Nothing Personal — Delbert McClinton (New West)
• O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection — Various Artists (Rounder)
• Reach — Meredith Edwards (Mercury)
• Real Life — Jeff Carson (Curb)
• Roots: Volume 1 — Merle Haggard (Anti)
• Say No More — Clay Walker (Giant)
• Songs We Wish We'd Written — Pat Green & Cory Morrow (Write On)
• Step Right Up — Charlie Robison (Lucky Dog)
• The Storm Still Rages — Rhonda Vincent (Rounder)
• Tammy Cochran — Tammy Cochran (Epic)
• This Is BR5-49 — BR5-49 (Lucky Dog)
• Three Days — Pat Green (Republic)
• Thunder and Roses — Pam Tillis (Arista)
• Tim Rushlow — Tim Rushlow (Atlantic)
• Tracy Lawrence — Tracy Lawrence (Atlantic)
• Unleashed — Confederate Railroad (Audium)
• What a Wonderful Christmas — Anne Murray (StraightWay)
• The Whole SHeBANG: All Mixed Up — SHeDAISY (Lyric Street)

Births

Deaths

• February 7 - Dale Evans, 88, writer, actress, singer-songwriter, and wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers
• April 16 - Van Stephenson, 47, guitarist and vocalist for 1990s country group BlackHawk (skin cancer)
• June 4 - John Hartford, 63, bluegrass singer (non-Hodgkin Lymphomia)
• June 30 - Chet Atkins, 77, guitarist and record producer (colon cancer)
• July 3 - Johnny Russell, 71, singer-songwriter best known for writing the Buck Owens classic "Act Naturally" (diabetes)
• September 11 - Carolyn Mayer Beug, 48, filmmaker and music video director who directed several music videos for country singer Dwight Yoakam (killed when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into World Trade Center)

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

• Bill Anderson (born 1937)
• The Delmore Brothers (Alton Delmore 1908–1964 and Rabon Delmore 1916–1952)
• The Everly Brothers (Don Everly born 1937 and Phil Everly born 1939)
• Don Gibson (1928-2003)
• Homer and Jethro (Homer Haynes 1920–1971 and Jethro Burns 1920–1989)
• Waylon Jennings (1937–2002)
• The Jordanaires (Gordon Stoker born 1924, Neal Matthews, Jr. 1929–2000, Hoyt Hawkins 1927–1982 and Ray Walker born 1934)
• Don Law (1902–1982)
• The Louvin Brothers (Ira Louvin 1924–1965 and Charlie Louvin born 1927)
• Ken Nelson (born 1911)
• Sam Phillips (1923–2003)
• Webb Pierce (1921–1991)

Major Awards

Grammy awards

• Best Female Country Vocal Performance -- "Shine," Dolly Parton
• Best Male Country Vocal Performance -- "O Death," Ralph Stanley
• Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal -- "The Lucky One," Alison Krauss & Union Station
• Best Country Collaboration with Vocals -- "I am a Man of Constant Sorrow," Harley Allen, Pat Enright and Dan Tyminski
• Best Country Instrumental Performance -- "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," Jerry Douglas, Gen Duncan, Vince Gill, Albert Lee, Steve Martin, Leon Russell, Earl Scruggs, Gary Scruggs, Randy Scruggs, Paul Shaffer & Marty Stuart
• Best Country Song -- "The Lucky One," Alison Krauss & Union Station
• Best Country Album -- Hank Williams Tribute, Various Artists (Producers: Bonnie Garner, Luke Lewis and Mary Martin)
• Best Bluegrass Album -- New Favorite, Alison Krauss & Union Station

Academy of Country Music

• Entertainer Of The Year -- Brooks & Dunn
• Song Of The Year -- "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)," Alan Jackson
• Single Of The Year -- "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)," Alan Jackson
• Album Of The Year -- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Top Male Vocalist -- Alan Jackson
• Top Female Vocalist -- Martina McBride
• Top Vocal Duo -- Brooks & Dunn
• Top Vocal Group -- Lonestar
• Top New Male Vocalist -- Phil Vassar
• Top New Female Vocalist -- Carolyn Dawn Johnson
• Top New Vocal Duo Or Group -- Trick Pony
• Video Of The Year -- "Only in America," Brooks & Dunn (Director: Michael Merriman)
• Vocal Event Of The Year -- "I am a Man of Constant Sorrow," Various Artists

Country Music Association

• Entertainer Of The Year -- Tim McGraw
• Song Of The Year -- "Murder on Music Row," Larry Cordle, Larry Shell
• Single Of The Year -- "I am a Man of Constant Sorrow," The Soggy Bottom Boys
• Album Of The Year -- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Male Vocalist Of The Year -- Toby Keith
• Female Vocalist Of The Year -- Lee Ann Womack
• Vocal Duo Of The Year -- Brooks & Dunn
• Vocal Group Of The Year -- Lonestar
• Horizon Award -- Keith Urban
• Music Video Of The Year -- "Born to Fly," Sara Evans (Director: Peter Zavadil)
• Vocal Event Of The Year -- "Too Country," Brad Paisley (with George Jones, Bill Anderson and Buck Owens)
• Musician Of The Year -- Dann Huff

Further reading

• Kingsbury, Paul, "The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories," Villard Books, Random House; Opryland USA, 1995
• Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)
• Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
• Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs 1944-2005 - 6th Edition." 2005.

Other links

• Country Music Association
• Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame

External links

• Country Music Hall of Fame