No one can forget the day that our world changed forever…September 11, 2001 was a saddening day for people all across our country. Still 14 years later, many can remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when the tragic news hit.
On the morning of September, 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes, intentionally crashing two of the planes into both World Trade Center towers. The impact this attack had on our country was and still is devastating to this day.
According to the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s website:
9/11″ is shorthand for four coordinated terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda, an Islamist extremist group that occurred on the morning of September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,977 people.”
Country music and patriotism have always gone hand in hand. Whether we are in good times of peace, or hard times or war, country music anthems have transcended through decades, proclaiming the pride of our country to their fans. As a result, many country artists decided to write songs about the tragedy, here are a few songs/performances that came as a result of that dreadful day.
Hank Williams Jr.’s “America Will Survive“ is a rewritten version of the original “Country Boy Can Survive“, and topped the Billboard Country Chart at #45 after its patriotic re-write.
Lee Greenwood has earned a handful #1 singles throughout his country music career, but no song in the singer’s long list of hits has been as culturally significant as his Top 10 patriotic anthem, ‘God Bless the USA.’
In late 2001, shortly after 9/11, Toby was moved to write the powerful patriotic hit, “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)”. The song was released in early 2002 as the lead single from his album, Unleashed. The emotional song topped the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks Chart, and hit the #24 spot on the U.S. Hot 100 chart. Watch Toby’s moving performance with special guest…Trace Adkins!
The NFL Sunday night opening game after the attack on 9/11, Lady Antebellum sang a powerful rendition of the National Anthem along with Robert Deniro opening, Taps, and FDNY Pipes & Drum, all paying tribute to New York that night.
During his performance on The Today Show back in 2006, Alan Jackson dedicated his song “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)” to those who died on that fateful September day. “Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)” was the lead single on Jackson’s 10th album, Drive, which was released in 2002. The song was written by Jackson himself, and released less than a month after the attacks on November 7, 2001.
Natalie Stovall does a beautiful rendition of Amazing Grace live on the Bobby Bones Show last year in honor of our amazing country and to remember those we lost on that horrific day back on September 11th. This one is for you, America!!
Never Forget. Remembering 911. God Bless The U.S.A.
