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Radio hits, an under-appreciated album cut, a vintage cover song and one fine duet mark this list of the Top 10 Keith Whitley songs. His voice is considered by many of his contemporaries as among ...
Thirty-five years ago today (April 8, 1989), Keith Whitley earned his third consecutive No. 1 hit with his single "I'm No Stranger to the Rain," from his Don't Close Your Eyes album.
Keith Whitley may be one of the most tragic figures in country music. He released two albums before his death in 1989 at the age of 35. Two more would come posthumously. All told, Whitley launched ...
Whitley's modern-era legacy. Dig as deep as turning on the car radio and there's Morgan Wallen, music's overall No. 1 star, who, on his latest mega-selling album "One Day At A Time," has a track ...
Whitley previously paid homage to his father by releasing full-length album "Kentucky Thunder" on May 9, 2011. "It’s a bittersweet thing but I think that’s what he would want," Whitley said.
On May 9, 1989, Keith Whitley passed away at the age of 33 from alcohol poisoning. Skip to main content Skip to site footer. ... The song comes from Whitley's Top 10 sophomore album, ...
“The first Keith Whitley album I ever had was his Greatest Hits, so those songs are the ones that I wore out over and over and over again.
“As the story goes, Keith was in his hotel room when he taped this song, and let's just say that the overindulgences had already taken place,” says Lewis about Whitley, who died in 1989 at age ...
Keith Whitley didn’t know his lifelong dream of becoming a member of The Grand Ole Opry was just three weeks away. He never saw the impact his four solo albums had on future country singers.
Maybe the most soulful of all country music`s young neo-traditionalists, Keith Whitley-who died Tuesday of alcohol poisoning-was the product of both a region and a musical mindset in which the ...