By the summer, the suit was settled and his new album, The Hard Way, finally was released. For seven months he was embroiled in the lawsuit, during which he was recording his third album. Black claimed that his original contract gave Ham too large of a percentage of the singer's royalties and publishing rights. On New Year's Eve of 1991, he married the television actress Lisa Hartman.br /br /Black began 1992 in a lawsuit with his manager. In 1991, several singles from Put Yourself in My Shoes charted and he was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. Throughout 1990, Black was on tour with Alabama and appearing on television shows across the country. Nevertheless, Black was named Best Male Vocalist that same year. Even though it sold well, it didn't receive the same critical acclaim as the debut. Like the debut, Put Yourself in My Shoes was a major success, spawning four Top Ten hits ("Put Yourself in My Shoes," "One More Payment," and the number ones "Loving Blind" and "Where Are You Now"), selling over two million copies, and peaking at number 18 on the pop charts. By the end of 1990, k**in' Time sold over two million copies in America.br /br /Black released his second album, Put Yourself in My Shoes, in 1990. He also won Best Album, Best Single, Best Male Vocalist, and Best New Male Vocalist awards from the Academy of Country Music and the NSAI Songwriter/Artist of the Year Award. k**in' Time was an immediate hit, going gold within six months and spawning four other hit singles, including the number ones "k**in' Time," "Nobody's Home," and "Walkin' Away." At the end of 1989, he won the Country Music Association's Horizon Award, as well that organization's Best Male Vocalist Award. Black was an immediate sensation throughout country music and he played the Grand Ole Opry in April, one month before his debut album, k**in' Time, was released. Impressed with the tape, Ham became Black's manager the singer had a contract with RCA Nashville by the end of 1988.br /br /"A Better Man," Black's first single, was released early in 1989 and it went to number one - he was the first new male country artist to have a number one hit with his debut single in 15 years. A tape of their songs made its way to Bill Ham, the manager of ZZ Top. Nicholas and Black began collaborating together, writing songs and recording demos Nicholas would become the bandleader for Black, playing lead guitar and co-writing a large majority of his hit singles. In the early '80s, he began busking on the streets of Katy, eventually working his way into coffeehouses, bars, and nightclubs.br /br /In 1987, Clint met Hayden Nicholas, a guitarist and songwriter who had a home studio. Two years later, he began writing songs, as well as performing in his brother Kevin's band, where he played ba** and sang. As a child, he listened to both country and rock & roll, but he didn't begin playing guitar until the age of 13, when he started playing harmonica. After Brooks broke through into the pop mainstream, Black's career began to fade somewhat, but he remained one of the most popular and acclaimed vocalists of the '90s.br /br /Black was born in New Jersey but raised in Katy, TX, a suburb of Houston. He offered a shiny, marketable version of traditional country and in the process paved the way for a new generation of country artists, particularly Garth Brooks. Black is also one of the first artists of a generation that was equally inspired by rock-oriented pop - like '70s singer/songwriters and '60s rock & roll - as well as country artists like Merle Haggard, Bob Wills, and George Jones. A country music traditionalist from Texas, Clint Black was one of the first artists to kick-start the ma**-market popularity of country in the '90s.
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