The No Fences crooner pays tribute to late songwriter Dewayne Blackwell following the latter s passing, thanking the songwriter for penning hit singles for him.
Best Country Music Albums of All Time
By Michele Zipkin, Stacker News
On 1/16/21 at 10:00 AM EST
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Ray Price messed around with rhythm, Willie Nelson veered into jazzy realms, and modern country artists such as Eric Church and Sam Hunt meld rock and R&B with country flavors. The genre has continued to expand to feature new subgenres such as country trap perhaps the most well-known song to fit into this genre is Lil Nas X s Old Town Road. Country has gone by several different names. Country musician Harlan Howard pegged it as three chords and the truth, while others have described it as the music of heartache or line dancing. Besides having various names, country music is also a genre that welcomes the reinventing of existing songs as much as it embraces the writing of new ones.
Garth Brooks scored his fourth No. 1 single with Unanswered Prayers, and it s a song that drew directly from his relationship with his wife.
Brooks teamed with Pat Alger and Larry Bastian to co-write Unanswered Prayers, which tells the story of a man who runs into an old flame at a high school football game that he is attending with his wife. Seeing her again makes him realize that his fond memory of her does not line up with reality, forcing him to see that he made the right choice when he had previously doubted it. Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers / Remember when you re talkin to the man upstairs / That just because he doesn t answer doesn t mean he don t care / Some of God s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers, Brooks sings in the chorus.
On this day (Jan. 12) in 1991, Garth Brooks soared to the top of the charts with his hit Unanswered Prayers, from his multi-platinum-selling album
No Fences. The song, which Brooks co-wrote with Pat Alger and Larry Bastian, was a true-life account of an incident that the country superstar had been through with his then-wife, Sandy. Unanswered Prayers was a big part of my heart that went out on that record, Brooks explains. In October of 89, I saw my old high school flame. And I can say this now at the time I couldn t: For the first two years of my married life, I really thought the girl that was for me was still that girl that was in high school.