Editing Joe Diffie (section)

===1993: ''Honky Tonk Attitude''===
''[[Honky Tonk Attitude]]'' (1993) shipped a million copies in the United States and was certified platinum.<ref name="allmusic" /> The first three singles from the album all reached the top 10 on the country singles charts: the [[Honky Tonk Attitude (song)|title track]] (which Diffie co-wrote) and the [[Dennis Linde]] composition "[[John Deere Green]]" both peaked at number five, with the number-three "[[Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)]]" in between. "John Deere Green" also accounted for Diffie's first appearance on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], where it peaked at number 69.<ref name="whitburn" /> "[[In My Own Backyard]]", the last release from ''Honky Tonk Attitude'', reached number 19 on the country charts. Diffie told the ''[[Fort Worth Star-Telegram]]'' that the album was "a little rowdier than the first two."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ST&s_site=dfw&p_multi=ST&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF8F134A502DC0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Joe Diffie has a new 'Attitude' these days|date=August 1, 1993|work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram|access-date=July 21, 2010}}</ref> Nash rated the album more favorably than the ones before it, saying that Diffie "is maturing into a first-rate interpreter of working-class woes."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,306286,00.html|title=''Honky Tonk Attitude'' review|last=Nash|first=Alanna|date=April 23, 1993|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=July 21, 2010|archive-date=April 21, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421070248/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,306286,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Also in 1993, Diffie was inducted into the [[Grand Ole Opry]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bxoyAAAAIBAJ&pg=5633,3877242&dq=joe-diffie&hl=en|title=Joe Diffie joining Grand Ole Opry|date=November 23, 1993|work=[[Reading Eagle]]|access-date=July 21, 2010}}</ref> Several other artists and he  won that year's [[Country Music Association]] award for Vocal Event of the Year, for their guest vocals on George Jones's "[[I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair]]".<ref name="rockin">Stambler and Landon, p. 226</ref> Tim McGraw also included two of Diffie's songs on his 1993 [[Tim McGraw (album)|debut album]]: another version of "Memory Lane", which he released as a single, and "Tears in the Rain".<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r169755|pure_url=yes}}|title=''Tim McGraw'' review|last=Mansfield|first=Brian|author2=Thom Jurek |work=Allmusic|access-date=March 8, 2010}}</ref>