We haven't had anything really chart before. "It's a freak thing," she told a Los Angeles Times reporter in March 1995. Its success, as well as that of the album, caught Krauss by surprise. The B-side of the single was Keith Whitley's "Charlotte's in North Carolina", which was another previously unreleased track featured on the Tribute album. 2 on the same magazine's Hot Country Singles Sales chart. 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, and a commercial single reached No. That version, also featured on Krauss' compilation Now That I've Found You: A Collection, peaked at No. After Krauss's cover began to receive unsolicited airplay, BNA Records, the label that had released the album, issued Krauss' version to radio in January 1995. In 1995, Alison Krauss covered the song with the group Union Station for a tribute album to Whitley titled Keith Whitley: A Tribute Album. " Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart" "Charlotte's in North Carolina" (by Keith Whitley)Īlison Krauss & Union Station singles chronology Charts Īlison Krauss version "When You Say Nothing at All"įrom the album Keith Whitley: A Tribute Album and Now That I've Found You: A Collection As of February 2015, the song has sold 599,000 digital copies in the US after it became available for download. "He truly sang it from the heart." In 2004, Whitley's original was ranked 12th among CMT's 100 Greatest Love Songs.
"Keith did a great job singin' that song," co-composer Schlitz told author Tom Roland. It was the second of five consecutive chart-topping singles for Whitley, who did not live to see the last two, as he died on May 9, 1989, of alcohol poisoning. 61, and gradually rose to the top, where it stayed for two weeks at the end of the year. "When You Say Nothing at All" entered the Hot Country Singles chart on September 17, 1988, at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, his first chart-topper after three prior singles made the top 10. RCA released "When You Say Nothing at All" as the follow-up single to the title song of Whitley's Don't Close Your Eyes album. 1 hit for another artist - Randy Travis' " On the Other Hand." Whitley did not plan to let "When You Say Nothing at All" meet the same fate. Earlier, he had recorded another Overstreet-Schlitz composition that became a No. When Keith Whitley heard it, he loved it, and was not going to let it get away. They thought the song was OK, but nothing special. "As we tried to find another way to say nothing, we came up with the song", Overstreet later told author Ace Collins. Strumming a guitar, trying to write their next song, they were coming up empty. Overstreet and Schlitz came up with "When You Say Nothing at All" at the end of an otherwise unproductive day.
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