Too Cold at Home is the second studio album by American country music artist Mark Chesnutt, released in 1990 on MCA Records. Certified platinum by the RIAA for sales of one million copies, the album produced five Top Ten singles for Chesnutt on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Chronologically, these singles were "Too Cold at Home" (#3), "Brother Jukebox" (#1), "Blame It on Texas" (#5), "Your Love Is a Miracle" (#3), and "Broken Promise Land" (#10). Two of these singles were previously recorded by other artists: "Broken Promise Land" by Waylon Jennings on his 1985 album Turn the Page and "Brother Jukebox" by Keith Whitley on his 1989 album I Wonder Do You Think of Me, and before that by Don Everly in 1977.
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| Released | September 14, 1990 | |||
| Recorded | March 1990 | |||
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| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 30:57 | |||
| Label | MCA | |||
| Producer | Mark Wright | |||
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| Singles from Too Cold at Home | ||||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B[2] |
Also featured on this album is the song "Friends in Low Places", which was recorded by Garth Brooks on his 1990 album No Fences. Brooks's rendition of the song, released as a single in late 1990, spent four weeks at Number One that year, and has since become a country classic.
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Too Cold at Home" | Bobby Harden | 3:42 |
| 2. | "Brother Jukebox" | Paul Craft | 3:05 |
| 3. | "Blame It on Texas" | Ronnie Rogers, Mark Wright | 2:51 |
| 4. | "Your Love Is a Miracle" | Bill Kenner, Wright | 2:49 |
| 5. | "Broken Promise Land" | Bill Rice, Sharon Vaughn | 3:06 |
| 6. | "Too Good a Memory" | Lewis Anderson, Wright | 2:41 |
| 7. | "Friends in Low Places" | Earl Bud Lee, Dewayne Blackwell | 3:28 |
| 8. | "Lucky Man" | Rogers, Wright | 3:24 |
| 9. | "Hey You There in the Mirror" | Jim Rushing, Herb McCullough | 2:51 |
| 10. | "Danger at My Door" | Wright | 3:15 |
Personnel
edit- Richard Bennett - electric guitar
- David Briggs - piano
- Jerry Carrigan - percussion
- Mark Chesnutt - lead vocals
- Glen Duncan - fiddle
- Pat Flynn - acoustic guitar
- Paul Franklin - steel guitar
- Owen Hale - drums
- Bill Kenner - reggae guitar
- Jana King - background vocals
- Phil Naish - synthesizer
- Steve Nathan - piano
- Mark O'Connor - fiddle
- Lynn Peterzell - percussion
- Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano
- Matt Rollings - piano
- Brent Rowan - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Lisa Silver - background vocals
- Milton Sledge - drums
- Biff Watson - acoustic guitar
- Bergen White - background vocals
- Dennis Wilson - background vocals
- Glenn Worf - bass guitar
- Bob Wray - bass guitar
- Mark Wright - background vocals
- Curtis Young - background vocals
Charts
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References
edit- ^ Mansfield, Brian. Too Cold at Home at AllMusic
- ^ Entertainment Weekly review
- ^ "Mark Chesnutt Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 28, 2021.
- ^ "Mark Chesnutt Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 28, 2021.
- ^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1991". Billboard. Retrieved May 28, 2021.
- ^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1992". Billboard. Retrieved May 28, 2021.