Nothin' but the Taillights (song)

"Nothin' but The Taillights" is 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 released in January 1998 as the third single and title track from his album of the same name. The song was written by Black and Steve Wariner.

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 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.

Chart (1998)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[2]	1
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)^[3]	16
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[4]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1998)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[5]	30
US Country Songs (Billboard)^[6]	14

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 46.
↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 3492." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. March 23, 1998. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
↑ "Clint Black – Chart history" Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 for Clint Black.
↑ "Clint Black – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Clint Black.
↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1998". RPM. December 14, 1998. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
↑ "Best of 1998: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1998. Retrieved July 14, 2013.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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

Clint Black singles
Killin' Time	"A Better Man" "Killin' Time" "Nobody's Home" "Walkin' Away" "Nothing's News"
Put Yourself in My Shoes	"Put Yourself in My Shoes" "Loving Blind" "One More Payment" "Where Are You Now"
The Hard Way	"We Tell Ourselves" "Burn One Down" "When My Ship Comes In"
No Time to Kill	"A Bad Goodbye" (with Wynonna Judd) "No Time to Kill" "State of Mind" "A Good Run of Bad Luck" "Half the Man"
One Emotion	"Untanglin' My Mind" "Wherever You Go" "Summer's Comin'" "One Emotion" "Life Gets Away"
Greatest Hits	"Like the Rain" "Half Way Up"
Nothin' but the Taillights	"Still Holding On" (with Martina McBride) "Something That We Do" "Nothin' but the Taillights" "The Shoes You're Wearing" "Loosen Up My Strings" "You Don't Need Me Now"
D'lectrified	"When I Said I Do" (with Lisa Hartman Black) "Been There" (with Steve Wariner) "Love She Can't Live Without"
Greatest Hits II	"Easy for Me to Say" (with Lisa Hartman Black) "Money or Love"
Spend My Time	"Spend My Time" "The Boogie Man" "My Imagination"
Drinkin' Songs and Other Logic	"Rainbow in the Rain" "Code of the West" "Drinkin' Songs and Other Logic" "Heartaches"
On Purpose	"Time for That" "You Still Get to Me" (with Lisa Hartman Black) "Still Calling It News"
Other songs	"Desperado" "I Raq and Roll" "Hey, Good Lookin'" (with Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and George Strait) "The Strong One" "Long Cool Woman"

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