 McEntire dedicated her sixteenth album , For My Broken Heart , to her deceased road band . Released in October 1991 , it contained songs of sorrow and lost love about " all measure of suffering , " according to Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly . Nash reported that McEntire " still hits her stride with the more traditional songs of emotional turmoil , above all combining a spectacular vocal performance with a terrific song on ' Buying Her Roses , ' a wife 's head @-@ spinning discovery of her husband 's other woman . " The release peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart , while also reaching No. 13 on the Billboard 200 , and eventually sold four million copies . Its title track became McEntire 's sixteenth number @-@ one , followed by " Is There Life Out There " , which also reached No. 1 on the Billboard country music chart . The third single , " The Greatest Man I Never Knew , " peaked in the Top 5 and her cover of Vicki Lawrence 's " The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia " reached No. 12 . " If I Had Only Known , " a cut from this album , was later included in the soundtrack to the 1994 film 8 Seconds . 
