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6Clint Patrick Black (born February 4, 1962) is a CountryMusic artist who began as part of the "Class of '89," a batch of highly successful artists from that year, including Music/AlanJackson, Music/GarthBrooks and several others. This new wave of artists helped reintroduce ThreeChordsAndTheTruth to the genre. Interestingly, he was managed by Music/ZZTop's producer, Bill Ham.
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8Black made waves in 1989 with his debut single "A Better Man", which made him the first male country artist in 15 years to send a debut single to number one. The next three singles from his debut album ''Killin' Time'' also went the distance, and he only missed the top 10 once between then and late 1998. Although his commercial success dwindled in the 2000s, leading to a departure from Creator/RCARecords, he has continued to record. Between 2004 and 2008, he owned the Equity Music Group label, which released albums by him, Music/LittleBigTown, Carolina Rain, Laura Bryna, Kevin Fowler, and Carolyn Dawn Johnson.
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10Black also has a few acting roles to his credit, and he has been married to actress/singer Lisa Hartman since 1991. She sang backing vocals on his last #1 hit, "When I Said I Do".
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15* AdvertisedExtra: Lisa Hartman Black got chart credit on "When I Said I Do" entirely for singing a backing vocal.
16* BrokenWinLossStreak: The 1997 single "Still Holding On" (a duet with Music/MartinaMcBride) snapped a 24-song streak of Top 10 hits dating back to his debut single, having just missed at #11.
17* ChristmasSongs: ''Looking for Christmas'' in 1995 produced chart entries in "'Til Santa's Gone" and "The Kid". The former continued to re-chart every Christmas until 2000, when ''Billboard'' changed the country charts to disallow re-entries of Christmas songs. The album was re-issued in 2004 via Equity with two new tracks.
18* DrowningMySorrows: "Killin' Time" is about the singer getting hammered and trying to forget a lost love.
19* EpicInstrumentalOpener: The 48-second harmonica solo that launches "State of Mind". "Easy for Me to Say" outdoes it with a nearly two-minute string opener.
20* EpicRocking: "Been There", a duet with Music/SteveWariner, reaches nearly six minutes thanks to a myriad of harmonica and guitar solos.
21* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: The narrator of "Killin' Time" is trying to drown the memories of an ex-lover with alcohol. The very first lines of the song explain how this failed.
22-->''You were the first thing that I thought of when I thought I'd drink you off my mind\
23When I get lost in the liquor, you're the only one I find.''
24* HappyRain: "Like the Rain", in which he says that he never liked the rain until he walked through it with his lover, and now he's "falling for [her] just like the rain".
25* HurricaneOfPuns: "Tuckered Out", which basically is about how many CountryMusic acts you can fit into one song, for example:
26-->I've seen more than a Little Texas, and a Playboy[[note]]as in Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys[[/note]] always knows\
27A man does what he Wills[[note]]likely also Bob Wills[[/note]] as long as he stays on his toes...\
28I'm [[Music/MerleHaggard haggard]], worn and [[Music/WaylonJennings wailin']] From the bottom of my Music/RestlessHeart\
29Don't know why the [[SingerNameDrop Black]] cloud's tailin' me, there seems to be no [[Music/DollyParton partin']] from the dark...
30* LeavingFoodForSanta: "'Til Santa's Gone (I Just Can't Wait)" was originally called "'Til Santa's Gone (Milk and Cookies)".
31* LyricSwap: In "Nothin' But the Taillights", the narrator's ex kicked him out of his truck and drove off in it. In the first chorus he's "walking in the moonlight", and says "that's a pair of taillights I may never see again". In the second chorus he's "''talking'' in the moonlight", thinking over the situation. The last chorus is his plan for when he finds her and gets the truck back: ''she'll'' be walking in the moonlight, and "that's a pair of taillights she ''won't'' ever see again."
32* NewSoundAlbum: ''D'lectrified'', recorded entirely with [[UnpluggedVersion acoustic instruments]].
33* RecordProducer: He was produced by James Stroud from his debut album through ''Nothin' but the Taillights'' (a 10-year span), with Mark Wright as an additional producer on his debut. From ''D'Lectrified'' onward, he produced by himself. He also produced ''Series/NashvilleStar'' winner Buddy Jewell's debut album, and a couple albums by acts on Equity.
34* SequelSong: "No Time to Kill" references "Killin' Time".
35* ShapedLikeItself: "Wherever You Go"..."there you are".
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