Clint Black Releases 'Killin' Time' Memoir at 64, Recounting Near-Death Fears Before 21
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Updated · Fox News · May 29
Clint Black Releases 'Killin' Time' Memoir at 64, Recounting Near-Death Fears Before 21
4 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 29
Clint Black’s new memoir, “Killin’ Time,” revisits a youth shaped by repeated loss and his conviction that he would not survive to age 21.
At 64, the Grammy-winning country singer said friends’ deaths, family cancer losses and his own close calls fed that fatalistic outlook long before he sold more than 20 million records.
One of the book’s starkest episodes recounts Black nearly drowning at 13 in flood-swollen Buffalo Bayou near Houston after a fallen oak trapped him in a powerful current.
Black also details a 2004 mountain-biking crash in Wisconsin that ruptured a cervical disc, led to throat-entry spine surgery and raised the risk he might never sing again.
A month after surgery he returned to live TV, but he said the injury began roughly 20 years of follow-up spine operations; he now says he still feels he has not peaked.
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