Haunted Heart
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Haunted Heart is the second major studio album released by American country music singer Sammy Kershaw
Sammy Kershaw
Samuel Paul "Sammy" Kershaw is an American country music artist. A third cousin of Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw and ex-husband of Lorrie Morgan, he has been active in country music since 1991. He has released ten studio albums, with three RIAA platinum certifications and two gold certifications...

. It produced four singles: "She Don't Know She's Beautiful
She Don't Know She's Beautiful
"She Don't Know She's Beautiful" is the title of a song written by Paul Harrison and Bob McDill, and recorded by American country music singer Sammy Kershaw...

", the title track, "Queen of My Double-Wide Trailer", and "I Can't Reach Her Anymore". "She Don't Know She's Beautiful" was a Number One hit on the 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...

Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

) chart for Kershaw in 1993, while the other three singles reached the Top Ten on the same chart. Like his debut album, Haunted Heart was certified platinum by the RIAA. "Cry Cry Darlin'" was previously recorded by several other artists, including Bill Monroe
Bill Monroe
William Smith Monroe was an American musician who created the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader...

 and Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...

.

Track listing

  1. "A Memory That Just Won't Quit" (Walt Aldridge
    Walt Aldridge
    Walt Aldridge is an American musician, singer, songwriter, engineer and record producer.Aldridge is known primarily as a Nashville songwriter...

    , Susan Longacre) – 2:49
  2. "Queen of My Double-Wide Trailer" (Dennis Linde
    Dennis Linde
    Dennis Linde was an American singer and songwriter whose work was primarily in country musicHe is best known for writing the 1972 Elvis Presley hit, "Burning Love"...

    ) – 3:31
  3. "Still Lovin' You" (Rock Killough) – 4:05
  4. "She Don't Know She's Beautiful
    She Don't Know She's Beautiful
    "She Don't Know She's Beautiful" is the title of a song written by Paul Harrison and Bob McDill, and recorded by American country music singer Sammy Kershaw...

    " (Paul Harrison, Bob McDill
    Bob McDill
    Robert Lee "Bob" McDill is an American country music songwriter. Active from the 1960s until 2000, he has written several songs for country music artists, including more than thirty Number One hits...

    ) – 2:54
  5. "I Can't Reach Her Anymore
    I Can't Reach Her Anymore
    "I Can't Reach Her Anymore" is the title of a song written by Mark Peterson and Bruce Theien, and recorded by American country music artist Sammy Kershaw. Released in January 1994, it was the fourth single from the album Haunted Heart...

    " (Mark Petersen, Bruce Theien) — 3:22
  6. "Haunted Heart
    Haunted Heart (song)
    "Haunted Heart" is the title of a song written by Buddy Brock and Kim Williams, and recorded by American country music artist Sammy Kershaw. It was released in May 1993 as the second single and title track from the album Haunted Heart. The song reached #9 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles &...

    " (Buddy Brock, Kim Williams) – 2:46
  7. "Neon Leon" (Larry Bastian, Buddy Cannon
    Buddy Cannon
    Buddy Cannon is an American country music songwriter and record producer. Active since the late 1970s, he is known primarily for his work as Kenny Chesney's record producer, for which he won the Academy of Country Music's Producer of the Year award in 2006.Along with Bill Anderson and Jamey...

    ) – 3:10
  8. "What Might Have Been" (Dean Dillon
    Dean Dillon
    Dean Dillon is an American country music artist. Between 1982 and 1993, Dillon recorded six studio albums on various labels, and charted several singles on the Billboard country charts. Although he has not charted since 1993, Dillon has continued to write several hit songs for other artists, most...

    , Donny Kees) – 3:33
  9. "You've Got a Lock on My Move" (Bastian, Cannon) – 3:41
  10. "Cry, Cry Darlin'" (J. D. "Jay" Miller, Jimmy C. Newman
    Jimmy C. Newman
    Jimmy Yves Newman , better known as Jimmy C. Newman , is an American singer and a long time star of the Grand Ole Opry.-Biography:Newman was born near Big Mamou, Louisiana...

    ) – 3:42

Personnel

  • Kenny Bell – acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

  • David Briggs
    David Briggs (American musician)
    David Briggs is an American keyboardist, record producer, arranger, composer and studio owner....

     – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

  • Mike Chapman – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Melonie Cannon – background vocals
    Backing vocalist
    A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

  • Costo Davis – keyboards
  • Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
    Steel guitar
    Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...

    , Dobro
    Dobro
    Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...

  • Steve Gibson – electric guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

  • Rob Hajacos – fiddle
    Fiddle
    The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...

  • Bill Hullett – acoustic guitar
  • Jerry Kroon – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Brent Mason
    Brent Mason
    Brent Mason is an American session guitarist and occasional songwriter. He is known primarily for his work in the field of country music. In addition to releasing two instrumental studio albums, he holds several credits as a songwriter...

     – electric guitar
  • Terry McMillan – harmonica
    Harmonica
    The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Weldon Myrick – steel guitar, Dobro
  • Ozzie Osment – fiddle
  • Danny Parks – acoustic guitar, mandolin
    Mandolin
    A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

  • Larry Paxton – bass guitar
  • Mike Severs – electric guitar
  • Steve Turner – drums
  • Shania Twain
    Shania Twain
    Shania Twain, OC is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. Her album The Woman in Me , brought her fame and her 1997 album Come On Over, became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold over 40 million...

    – background vocals
  • John Willis – acoustic guitar
  • Dennis Wilson – background vocals
  • Curtis Young – background vocals

Chart performance

Chart (1993) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 11
U.S. Billboard 200 57
Canadian RPM Country Albums 10
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