{"id":34652,"date":"2025-12-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=34652"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:42:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:42:39","slug":"clint-black-announces-memoir-killin-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/12\/clint-black-announces-memoir-killin-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Black Announces Memoir, \u2018Killin\u2019 Time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clint Black announced the details of his forthcoming memoir, Killin\u2019 Time: My Life and Music, which is set for publication on May 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Named after the Grammy-winning country legend\u2019s breakthrough 1989 album, the book chronicles his journey from a Texas upbringing to his rise in Nashville\u2019s music scene, sharing personal stories about his marriage to Lisa Hartman Black and overcoming a recent spinal injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is the story of a dreamer with a persistent soul. After 10 years of playing clubs in Texas, I never knew if I\u2019d get the chance to record my music in Nashville. And then, in one year, my life changed forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Black, who has sold over 20 million records and earned numerous accolades, including the 2025 BMI Icon Award, expressed excitement about sharing this intimate account of the \u201c40-year rollercoaster ride\u201d that shaped him as a singer-songwriter, husband, and father.<\/p>\n<p>Killin\u2019 Time is now available for pre-order from HarperCollins Publishers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSFk8YmDd_j\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clint Black announced the details of his forthcoming memoir, Killin\u2019 Time: My Life and Music, which is set for publication on May 19, 2026. Named after the Grammy-winning country legend\u2019s breakthrough 1989 album, the book chronicles his journey from a Texas upbringing to his rise in Nashville\u2019s music scene, sharing personal stories about his marriage","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":20609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[4390,10296,10297,6453],"class_list":["post-34652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-clint-black","tag-killin-time","tag-killin-time-my-life-and-music","tag-memoir"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 02:39:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/12\/clint-black-announces-memoir-killin-time\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34664,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652\/revisions\/34664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}