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Still Holding On

"Still Holding On"
Martina McBride - Still Holding On.jpg
Single by Clint Black and Martina McBride
from the album Nothin' but the Taillights and Evolution
B-side "Still Holding On" (long version)
Released June 2, 1997
Format 7" single, CD single
Genre Country
Length 4:37 (album version)
4:53 (long version)
3:57 (single version)
Label RCA Nashville #64850
Songwriter(s) Clint Black, Matraca Berg, Marty Stuart
Producer(s) Clint Black, James Stroud
Clint Black singles chronology
"Half Way Up"
(1996)
"Still Holding On"
(1997)
"Something That We Do"
(1997)
"Half Way Up"
(1996)
"Still Holding On"
(1997)
"Something That We Do"
(1997)
Martina McBride singles chronology
"Cry on the Shoulder of the Road"
(1997) Cry on the Shoulder of the Road1997
"Still Holding On"
(1997) Still Holding On1997
"A Broken Wing"
(1997) A Broken Wing1997

"Still Holding On" is a song recorded by American country music artists Clint Black and Martina McBride, written by Black along with Matraca Berg and Marty Stuart. It was released in June 1997 as the first single from Black's album Nothin' but the Taillights and McBride's album Evolution.

Black told Billboard that Joe Galante, then the chairman of RCA Records, suggested that he record a duet, because he thought that it would be a good time in Black's career for him to release one. Because of her busy schedule, McBride cut the duet vocals with Black in one day.

The song received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards in 1998.

Still Holding On is also a television film which aired in 1998 based on the rodeo career of Jack Favor, who served seven years in the Louisiana State Penitentiary on false conviction of two murders based on perjured testimony He was acquitted in a second trial in 1974. Black plays favor in the film, and Lisa Hartman Black is cast as Ponder Favor, Jack's wife.

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that Black's and McBride's voices "blend beautifully, and when they soar into the chorus, it's goosebumps time." She goes on to call the song "the clearest possible definition of a hit."

On the Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts in the United States, "Still Holding On" debuted on the chart dated for the week ending June 14, 1997. It spent twenty weeks on that chart, peaking at number 11.


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