{"id":7458,"date":"2016-03-09T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=7458"},"modified":"2016-03-07T13:12:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:12:30","slug":"summer-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2016\/03\/09\/summer-06\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer \u201806"},"content":{"rendered":"

The summer of 2006 is when I began anticipating songs that would play on country music radio stations. It was a \u00a0time in my life when no other genre of music \u00a0influenced me as much as country. I had always been so happy listening to songs in the car and singing along. However, my passion for country music grew much stronger when I discovered Country Music Television<\/a> (CMT). I spent almost everyday that summer watching music videos on CMT. They had one show in particular that I loved; they would play the top videos of the year. Over the years, a few of those videos have been carved into my memory.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery Time I Hear Your Name\u201d by Keith Anderson<\/a> is my favorite song of that year. Keith Anderson had a few other hits in his career like \u201cPickin\u2019 Wildflowers<\/a>\u201d and \u201cI Still Miss You<\/a>\u201d but he never became well known as a country artist. \u00a0\u201cEvery Time I Hear Your Name\u201d was the first ballad Anderson released and it reached No. 7 in the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and the accompanying video was average. Regardless, I think this music video has been stuck in my mind for all of these years simply because I loved this song. Whenever they aired it on CMT I would get really excited and sing along. Now looking back as an adult, I realize there is nothing special about the video; but it will always be my theme song for the summer of 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n