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* TruckDriversGearChange: "What's It to You" shifts from D to E-flat halfway through the last chorus, while "If I Could Make a Living" shifts from F to G to A at the end.
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* ''Long Live the Cowboy'' (2019)
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* BreakUpSong:
** "Where Do I Fit in the Picture" has him pondering whether she even remembers him at all, or has forgotten about him entirely.
** "My Heart Will Never Know" has him lying to himself and pretending that she's still there.
** "Where Do I Go from You" has him unsure of what to do with himself now that he's broken up.
** "Where Do I Fit in the Picture" has him pondering whether she even remembers him at all, or has forgotten about him entirely.
** "My Heart Will Never Know" has him lying to himself and pretending that she's still there.
** "Where Do I Go from You" has him unsure of what to do with himself now that he's broken up.
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A CountryMusic singer from Vidor, Texas.
Ernest Clayton Walker Jr. (1969-) was discovered by RecordProducer James Stroud at a bar in Texas, leading to a contract with Creator/WarnerBrosRecords subsidiary Giant Nashville in 1993.
Walker's self-titled debut launched three #1 hits right out of the gate: "What's It to You", "Live Until I Die", and "Dreaming with My Eyes Open". For the rest of TheNineties, he had a long streak of hits spanning a total of five albums on Giant, including such songs as "If I Could Make a Living" (co-written by Music/AlanJackson), "This Woman and This Man", "Hypnotize the Moon", "Rumor Has It", and "Then What?" Despite a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 1996, his career continued unabated for the rest of the decade.
Following the closure of Giant, he moved to Warner Bros. itself, but his only releases were the unsuccessful ''Say No More'' and a Christmas album. Creator/RCARecords picked him up for ''A Few Questions'', which notched two Top 10 hits but was also commercially unsuccessful and panned for its more pop oriented sound.
In 2005, he joined Curb Records for ''Fall'' and ''She Won't Be Lonely Long'', a pair of albums that returned him to his more traditional sound, while also notching him a couple more hits in their respective title tracks.
Although Walker had the image of other "hat acts" present in TheNineties, and never quite rose to the same level of stardom as his contemporaries, he maintained a steady catalog of mostly traditional-leaning modern country.
!Albums
*''Clay Walker'' (1993)
*''If I Could Make a Living'' (1994)
*''Hypnotize the Moon'' (1995)
*''Rumor Has It'' (1997)
*''Greatest Hits'' (1998)
*''Live, Laugh, Love'' (1999)
*''Say No More'' (2001)
*''A Few Questions'' (2003)
*''Fall'' (2007)
*''She Won't Be Lonely Long'' (2010)
!Tropes present in his work:
* AgeProgressionSong: "One, Two, I Love You".
* AndThenWhat: "Then What?" has the narrator asking the title question of a man who plans to commit adultery.
* BSide: "Where Do I Fit in the Picture" was originally the B-side to "What's It to You".
* ByNoIMeanYes: "Only on Days That End in 'Y'":
-->The only time I ever miss you, honey \\
Is when I'm alone or when I'm with somebody \
Your memory never even gets to me \\
'Cept when I'm awake, and when I m sleeping \\
Girl you never even cross my mind \\
'Cept just when I think I left you far behind \\
Only when I laugh, only when I cry, \\
And only on days that end in "Y"
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: "One, Two, I Love You" follows a couple through kindergarten to the present day.
* ChristmasSongs: In addition to the album ''Christmas'', he also contributed two songs to the multi-artist ''Believe: A Christmas Collection'': a cover of "[[Music/ElvisPresley Blue Christmas]]" and the original "Cowboy Christmas".
* DeadSparks: "This Woman and This Man" is about a couple trying to get back in touch.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: "Rumor Has It" is about how everyone can see the narrator's budding romance.
* IHaveThisFriend: "This Woman and This Man":
-->There was this woman and there was this man \\
And there was this moment they had a chance \\
To hold on to what they had \\
How could they be so in love and still never see? \\
Now nothin' could be sadder than \\
This woman, this woman and this man
* MinisculeRocking: "If I Could Make a Living" barely reaches two minutes.
* OldShame:[[invoked]] In-universe example with "'Fore She Was Mama", where the narrator recalls a childhood encounter with a box full of photographs showing his mother, whom he thought to be conservative and buttoned-down, wearing long hair, smoking weed, and riding a motorcycle. At the end of the song, he reveals that the mom burned the photos.
* RidiculouslySpecificDenial: "You're Beginning to Get to Me":
-->I'm not saying I'm in love\\
I'd admit it if I was\\
I'm just saying I believe\\
You're beginning to get to me
Ernest Clayton Walker Jr. (1969-) was discovered by RecordProducer James Stroud at a bar in Texas, leading to a contract with Creator/WarnerBrosRecords subsidiary Giant Nashville in 1993.
Walker's self-titled debut launched three #1 hits right out of the gate: "What's It to You", "Live Until I Die", and "Dreaming with My Eyes Open". For the rest of TheNineties, he had a long streak of hits spanning a total of five albums on Giant, including such songs as "If I Could Make a Living" (co-written by Music/AlanJackson), "This Woman and This Man", "Hypnotize the Moon", "Rumor Has It", and "Then What?" Despite a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 1996, his career continued unabated for the rest of the decade.
Following the closure of Giant, he moved to Warner Bros. itself, but his only releases were the unsuccessful ''Say No More'' and a Christmas album. Creator/RCARecords picked him up for ''A Few Questions'', which notched two Top 10 hits but was also commercially unsuccessful and panned for its more pop oriented sound.
In 2005, he joined Curb Records for ''Fall'' and ''She Won't Be Lonely Long'', a pair of albums that returned him to his more traditional sound, while also notching him a couple more hits in their respective title tracks.
Although Walker had the image of other "hat acts" present in TheNineties, and never quite rose to the same level of stardom as his contemporaries, he maintained a steady catalog of mostly traditional-leaning modern country.
!Albums
*''Clay Walker'' (1993)
*''If I Could Make a Living'' (1994)
*''Hypnotize the Moon'' (1995)
*''Rumor Has It'' (1997)
*''Greatest Hits'' (1998)
*''Live, Laugh, Love'' (1999)
*''Say No More'' (2001)
*''A Few Questions'' (2003)
*''Fall'' (2007)
*''She Won't Be Lonely Long'' (2010)
!Tropes present in his work:
* AgeProgressionSong: "One, Two, I Love You".
* AndThenWhat: "Then What?" has the narrator asking the title question of a man who plans to commit adultery.
* BSide: "Where Do I Fit in the Picture" was originally the B-side to "What's It to You".
* ByNoIMeanYes: "Only on Days That End in 'Y'":
-->The only time I ever miss you, honey \\
Is when I'm alone or when I'm with somebody \
Your memory never even gets to me \\
'Cept when I'm awake, and when I m sleeping \\
Girl you never even cross my mind \\
'Cept just when I think I left you far behind \\
Only when I laugh, only when I cry, \\
And only on days that end in "Y"
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: "One, Two, I Love You" follows a couple through kindergarten to the present day.
* ChristmasSongs: In addition to the album ''Christmas'', he also contributed two songs to the multi-artist ''Believe: A Christmas Collection'': a cover of "[[Music/ElvisPresley Blue Christmas]]" and the original "Cowboy Christmas".
* DeadSparks: "This Woman and This Man" is about a couple trying to get back in touch.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: "Rumor Has It" is about how everyone can see the narrator's budding romance.
* IHaveThisFriend: "This Woman and This Man":
-->There was this woman and there was this man \\
And there was this moment they had a chance \\
To hold on to what they had \\
How could they be so in love and still never see? \\
Now nothin' could be sadder than \\
This woman, this woman and this man
* MinisculeRocking: "If I Could Make a Living" barely reaches two minutes.
* OldShame:[[invoked]] In-universe example with "'Fore She Was Mama", where the narrator recalls a childhood encounter with a box full of photographs showing his mother, whom he thought to be conservative and buttoned-down, wearing long hair, smoking weed, and riding a motorcycle. At the end of the song, he reveals that the mom burned the photos.
* RidiculouslySpecificDenial: "You're Beginning to Get to Me":
-->I'm not saying I'm in love\\
I'd admit it if I was\\
I'm just saying I believe\\
You're beginning to get to me
