Equity Music Group
2004
Spend My Time
About This Album
Clint Black was one of the leading figures of the new traditionalist movement of the early '90s, riding it to stardom. By the end of the decade, his celebrity was still rather potent -- helped slightly by his marriage to actress Lisa Hartman -- but his profile had declined, so when his contract with RCA expired after 1999's D'Lectrified, he left his longtime home for a new venture, a new label called Equity, where he was a co-partner with several Nashville industry insiders. It was a good time for Black to move away from the majors: his sales were sliding slightly, and as D'Lectrified illustrated, he wasn't exactly interested in pursuing a purely commercial direction. Some of his early-'90s peers, such as Sammy Kershaw, followed a similar patter, but where Kershaw returned to hardcore country on his first-post major album, 2003's I Want My Money Back, Black uses his freedom to drift away from country, turning in a straight-up singer/songwriter album with Spend My Time, his first record for Equity. This album isn't just laid-back, it's subdued, filled with earnest ballads and lazy rockers, all given a sleek, professional production by Black himself, who wrote all of the material as well (usually with collaborators, particularly Hayden Nicholas).
Track List (try tracks 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10)

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