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List Price: $6.99 | | Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Salesrank: 63060
Released: October 31, 2006 |
| Our Price: $3.75 |
| Used Price: $1.49 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Killin' Time Track Listing:
1. Straight from the Factory
2. Better Man
3. Nobody's Home
4. Walkin' Away
5. You're Gonna Leave Me Again
6. I'll Be Gone
7. Nothing's News
8. Winding Down
9. Killin' Time
10. Live and Learn
Editorial Review:
When this debut album came out in 1989, Clint Black was poised to be bigger than contemporaneous debut artist Garth Brooks. It didn't happen--Garth had friends in low places--but of all the talent-rich Nashville Class of '89 (which also included Alan Jackson and Travis Tritt), Black's built the most consistently top-of-the-line body of work. The foundations are all here, inside the album's odd bookends (the honky-tonkin' strained analogy of "Straight from the Factory" and the country cabaret of "Live and Learn"), starting with his first hit, "A Better Man," a gracious breakup song blessed with a nifty descending guitar line. Another hit, the title track, boasts an even niftier, Duane Eddy-style hook; while a third hit, "Nobody's Home," displays Black's knack for power-shifting a slowish tune into overdrive with an unexpectedly dramatic chorus. "I'll Be Gone" features snappy guitar and foreshadows another Black trademark, the fiercely played instrumental takeouts that grace many of his later numbers. With an expressive, warm Texas drawl, enduring songwriting abilities (almost uniquely, Black cowrites all his material), and music steeped in country's past but attuned to present-day influences, Black is one of contemporary country's consummate artists. Killin' Time shows he had the complete package from the start. --Ken Barnes
Killin' Time Reviews:
He made me buy it! 
2009-12-08 - I recently got to see Clint Black in concert and sat in the second row center right of stage......really up close and personal! Anyhow he sang a song called "Walkin' Away" and the words really seemed to fit a recent relationship breakup for me. I had NEVER heard that song before and I just had to have it. That's why I found out what album it was on and ordered it here from Amazon. The entire album is A-One Clint Black--he is a master with putting words in verse. I bought a CD copy for home and a cassette to play while I drive.
Clint Black
2009-10-05 - I have a been a Clint Black fan for 16 years and I was so excited to be able to find this CD on Amazon as you can no longer find it in stores. It is his first big CD and of course he has gone on to be one of the best in Country music.
Save the best for first
2009-03-12 - This is Clint's first album, and his best. Hard to beat perfection. Great songs, great singing, stone cold country. This is the good stuff.
This is the one
2009-01-17 - Not much to say that can add to what everyone else seems to agree on. Everytime I listen to this album I seem to hear something new. I own a lot of music. Heck I've got over 50 Christmas CDS.
If I had to only keep one country music album this would be an excellent choice.
simply put, the best album of the new trad late 1980's movement
2008-11-16 - i hadn't heard this record (and i do have the actual record ((vinyl)) for many years until i picked up a beat-up CD for a buck in a used store for the car -- Clint Black (and you can call Clint one of the most sensitive male songwriters of our generation---Clint also is and excellent harp player) that still sticks to trad roots. --- this is my absolute favorite album from that magical late 80's country trad revvialist period , my other is Randy Travis's Storms of Life which is superb -- you have to take into account though , that Clint wrote EVERY SONG ON THIS ALBUM and also on his second album "Put Yourself in My Shoes" which is also teriffic, i believe Randy Travis wrote or co-wrote only one song on his Storms of Life. --- I'm sure when Lisa Hartman heard this record, she was convinced that this was a special man and went after him and got him --- i highly recommend Storm's of Life and Alan Jackson's 1st album "Livng in the Real World' from this period
