The 1990s are known for a lot of things: the rise of the internet, the fall of the Soviet Union, and, of course, killer country music. It was a golden era for the genre—so golden, in fact, that we ...

Today, many genre fans look back on the 1990s as one of the best decades for country music. The era marked the end of the Urban Cowboy sound and the pop-influenced music of the previous decade.

The 1990s in country music saw some of the biggest hits, with songs still being played on radio today. For all the success of the decade, several of the era’s biggest hits were actually cover songs.