Following our Billboard staff-picked list of the 100 greatest songs of 2000, we're writing this week about some of the stories and trends that defined the year for us.
Here, we look back at a relatively sunny, tranquil period in country music history -- before Nashville, like the rest of the world, was changed by global events the following year.
In the fall of 1999, Warner Bros. signee and former professional wrestler Chad Brock released a cover of Hank Williams, Jr.’s “A Country Boy Can Survive." As this point, he was a known Nashville quantity, having reached No.
3 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart with “Ordinary Life” in April. The song boasted some heavy hitters: George Jones and Bocephus himself sang a few lines.
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