Nothin' but the Taillights (song)

"Nothin' but The Taillights"
Single by Clint Black
from the album Nothin' but the Taillights
Released January 27, 1998
Format CD Single
Genre Country
Length 3:50
Label RCA Nashville
Writer(s) Clint Black, Steve Wariner
Producer James Stroud, Clint Black
Clint Black singles chronology
"Something That We Do"
(1997)
"Nothin' But The Taillights"
(1998)
"The Shoes You're Wearing"
(1998)

"Nothin' but The Taillights" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Clint Black. The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1] It was the third single released from his album of the same name.

Contents

Content

The song is an uptempo, in which the narrator is on the side of the road after being left by his lover. She drives his pickup truck away down the Kentucky highway and all he can see is the tail lights.

Chart performance

"Nothin' But The Taillights" debuted at number 43 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in mid-January of 1998, and quickly climbed to Number One in March, where it held for two weeks. This single became Black's eleventh number-one single, twenty-sixth Top Ten single, and twenty-seventh Top Twenty single.

Charts

Chart (1998) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks 1
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 16
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 46. 
Preceded by
"Round About Way"
by George Strait
Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
number-one single

March 21-March 28, 1998
Succeeded by
"Perfect Love"
by Trisha Yearwood
Preceded by
"She's Gonna Make It"
by Garth Brooks
RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

March 23, 1998
Succeeded by
"Little Red Rodeo"
by Collin Raye