Mark Chesnutt
Released: May 21, 2002
Columbia Records
Singles Released:
She Was - #9
I'm In Love With A Married Woman
I Want My Baby Back
Released: May 21, 2002
Columbia Records
Singles Released:
She Was - #9
I'm In Love With A Married Woman
I Want My Baby Back
Track Listing:
1.Don't Know Why I Do It
2.She Was
3.Sacred As A Sunday
4.I'm In Love With A Married Woman
5.Population Minus One
6.You'd Be Wrong
7.I Want My Baby Back
8. Just Right For You
9.My Dreams
10.I Drew Me
11.Good Night To Be A Lonely
1.Don't Know Why I Do It
2.She Was
3.Sacred As A Sunday
4.I'm In Love With A Married Woman
5.Population Minus One
6.You'd Be Wrong
7.I Want My Baby Back
8. Just Right For You
9.My Dreams
10.I Drew Me
11.Good Night To Be A Lonely
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Album Review From Billboard.Com
Mark Chesnutt was one of country music's top stars in 1991-1994, a period when he
scored five number one hits. In the subsequent five years, he cooled slightly, but still
scattered eight Top Ten hits, the last of them being a chart-topping country version of the
Diane Warren-penned Aerosmith hit, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," in 1999. He has
struggled since then, and the failure of his 2000 album Lost in the Feeling led to the
severing of a decade-long relationship with MCA Records. As the eponymous title of his
Columbia Records debut indicates, he is attempting to start afresh, but he is doing so
without changing much other than his label affiliation. He has picked 11 entries from the
Nashville songwriting combine, hired the usual Nashville sidemen, and made an average
country album. The release was preceded by several months by a single, "She Was," a
sentimental ballad about a saintly mother, that hadn't made a lot of headway on the charts
by the time the album was released. Its one-dimensional idea is fairly typical of mediocre
country songwriting, and there's more of the same on the full-length disc, including "I'm
in Love With a Married Woman" (the twist, of course, being that the married woman is
the singer's own wife). Chesnutt turns comic on the album-opening litany of screwups,
"Don't Know Why I Do It," and "My Dreams." But just as the sentimental songs aren't
really that moving, the humorous ones aren't that funny. There are potential singles that
turn up late on the disc, particularly the country-pop "I Want My Baby Back" and the
romantic "I Drew Me." But Mark Chesnutt is a just-OK collection appearing at a time
when the singer really needs to shake things up to get his career back on track. ~ William
Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Mark Chesnutt was one of country music's top stars in 1991-1994, a period when he
scored five number one hits. In the subsequent five years, he cooled slightly, but still
scattered eight Top Ten hits, the last of them being a chart-topping country version of the
Diane Warren-penned Aerosmith hit, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," in 1999. He has
struggled since then, and the failure of his 2000 album Lost in the Feeling led to the
severing of a decade-long relationship with MCA Records. As the eponymous title of his
Columbia Records debut indicates, he is attempting to start afresh, but he is doing so
without changing much other than his label affiliation. He has picked 11 entries from the
Nashville songwriting combine, hired the usual Nashville sidemen, and made an average
country album. The release was preceded by several months by a single, "She Was," a
sentimental ballad about a saintly mother, that hadn't made a lot of headway on the charts
by the time the album was released. Its one-dimensional idea is fairly typical of mediocre
country songwriting, and there's more of the same on the full-length disc, including "I'm
in Love With a Married Woman" (the twist, of course, being that the married woman is
the singer's own wife). Chesnutt turns comic on the album-opening litany of screwups,
"Don't Know Why I Do It," and "My Dreams." But just as the sentimental songs aren't
really that moving, the humorous ones aren't that funny. There are potential singles that
turn up late on the disc, particularly the country-pop "I Want My Baby Back" and the
romantic "I Drew Me." But Mark Chesnutt is a just-OK collection appearing at a time
when the singer really needs to shake things up to get his career back on track. ~ William
Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
