No News
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| "No News" | ||||
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| Single by Lonestar | ||||
| from the album Lonestar | ||||
| A-side | "Tequila Talkin'"[1] | |||
| Released | January 8, 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1994 | |||
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| Length | 2:53 | |||
| Label | BNA | |||
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"No News" is a song recorded by American country music band Lonestar. It was released in January 1996 as the second single from their debut album, Lonestar. "No News" reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in April 1996 (see 1996 in country music), giving the group its first number-one single. It was written by Phil Barnhart, Sam Hogin, and Mark D. Sanders.[1]
The song's narrator tells of how his former lover has left him and disappeared without a trace. Having heard "no news" from her or her family on her whereabouts, he starts to speculate. Multiple scenarios are offered such as missing her plane, getting lost at the mall, touring with Pearl Jam, the Grateful Dead or Jimmy Buffett, victim of human sacrifice or alien abduction and believes the government may be covering it up.[2] The single version and updated 2023 version replaced the line "Joined the cult, joined the Klan" with "playin' guitar with the band".