Editing Joe Diffie (section)

===1992: ''Regular Joe''===
Diffie's second album, titled ''[[Regular Joe (album)|Regular Joe]]'', was released in 1992 and was certified gold by the [[Recording Industry Association of America]].<ref name="riaa">{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS&artist=Joe%20Diffie&format=ALBUM&go=Search&perPage=50|title=RIAA – Gold & Platinum – April 3, 2010: Joe Diffie certified albums|publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of America]]|access-date=July 29, 2010}}</ref> The first two singles from the album both peaked at number five on ''Billboard'': "[[Is It Cold in Here]]" and "[[Ships That Don't Come In]]",<ref name="allmusic" /> with the latter reaching number one on ''Radio & Records''.<ref name="stambler" /> "Ships That Don't Come In" was co-written by [[Dave Gibson (American songwriter)|Dave Gibson]], also recording on Epic at the time as a member of the [[Gibson/Miller Band]]. The album's third single, "[[Next Thing Smokin']]", made its chart debut one month before "[[Not Too Much to Ask]]", a duet that Diffie recorded with Mary Chapin Carpenter for her album ''[[Come On Come On]]''.<ref>{{cite AV media notes |title=Come On Come On |title-link=Come On Come On |others=Mary Chapin Carpenter |year=1992 |type=CD booklet |publisher=Columbia Records |id=48881}}</ref> Both of these songs made the country top 20, respectively reaching 16 and 15, and the duet was nominated for a [[Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals]] at the 35th Grammy Awards in 1993.<ref name="oldies">{{cite web |url=http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/Joe-Diffie.html |title=Joe Diffie Biography |access-date=July 19, 2010 |work=Oldies.com}}</ref> The final single from ''Regular Joe'' was "Startin' Over Blues" (originally the [[B-side]] to "Ships That Don't Come In"), which peaked at number 41.<ref name="whitburn" /> Also included on the album was the ballad "[[Goodnight Sweetheart (Joe Diffie song)|Goodnight Sweetheart]]", later a top-10 country hit in 1996 for [[David Kersh]].

[[Brian Mansfield]] gave the album a positive review in [[Allmusic]], saying that it "has all the clichés of country music, and all the good stuff, too."<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r123500|pure_url=yes}}|title=''Regular Joe'' review|last=Mansfield|first=Brian|work=Allmusic|access-date=July 20, 2010}}</ref> ''[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]]'' reviewer Norman Rowe referred to Diffie as a "pleasant surprise" and called "Is It Cold in Here" "the sort of tear-jerker [[George Jones]] has worked wonders with in the past".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/timesdispatch/access/614585041.html?dids=614585041:614585041&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+16%2C+1992&author=NORMAN+ROWE&pub=Richmond+Times+-+Dispatch&desc=%27+REGULAR+JOE%27+DIFFIE+PROVES+SUCCESS+OF+DEBUT+WAS+NO+FLUKE&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730051033/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/timesdispatch/access/614585041.html?dids=614585041:614585041&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+16,+1992&author=NORMAN+ROWE&pub=Richmond+Times+-+Dispatch&desc='+REGULAR+JOE'+DIFFIE+PROVES+SUCCESS+OF+DEBUT+WAS+NO+FLUKE&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 30, 2012|title='Regular Joe' Diffie proves success of debut was no fluke|last=Rowe|first=Norman|date=February 16, 1992|work=Richmond Times-Dispatch|access-date=July 21, 2010}}</ref> [[Alanna Nash]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' thought that Diffie "[sang] in his natural voice", but thought that its material "punches all the predictable thematic buttons."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,309599,00.html|title=''Regular Joe'' review|last=Nash|first=Alanna|date=February 21, 1992|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=July 21, 2010|archive-date=December 21, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091221102643/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,309599,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Also in 1992, Diffie was nominated by the [[Academy of Country Music]] for Top New Male Vocalist, along with [[Billy Dean]] and [[Mark Chesnutt]], but lost to Billy.