"Down in Flames" is the title of a song written by Michael Clark and Jeff Stevens

Jeff Stevens (singer)

Jeffery David "Jeff" Stevens is an American country music singer, songwriter and record producer. He recorded two albums on Atlantic America Records with his brother Warren Stevens and cousin Terry Dotson as Jeff Stevens and the Bullets, and later as a solo artist on the same label...

, and recorded by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 band BlackHawk

Blackhawk (band)

Blackhawk is an American country music group founded in 1992 by Henry Paul , Van Stephenson , and Dave Robbins...

. It was released in December 1994 as the fourth single from their self-titled debut album

Blackhawk (album)

Blackhawk is the first studio album by the American country music group Blackhawk. Released in 1994 on Arista Nashville, it was certified 2× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for shipping two million copies. The album produced the singles "Goodbye Says It All", "Every Once in a While", "I Sure Can...

. It peaked at #10 on both the United States Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks and the Canadian RPM Country Tracks charts.

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it "an incendiary love affair." She goes on to say that the song is "marked by tight harmonies and anchored by Henry Paul's breathy lead vocal."

Chart performance

Chart (1994-1995)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	10
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	10