Longnecks & Short Stories
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Longnecks & Short Stories is the third studio album by American country music
artist Mark Chesnutt
. It was released in 1992 on MCA Records, and like its predecessor Too Cold at Home
, it was certified platinum
in the United States for sales of one million copies. Four singles were released from this album, all of which were Top Ten hits on the Billboard
Hot Country Songs
charts: "Old Flames Have New Names" (#5), "I'll Think of Something" (#1), "Bubba Shot the Jukebox" and "Old Country" (both #4).
"I'll Think of Something" was originally a Top Ten country hit in 1974 for Hank Williams, Jr.
, who recorded it on his album Living Proof. In addition, "It's Not Over (If I'm Not over You)" was originally recorded by Reba McEntire
on her 1984 album My Kind of Country. Chesnutt later included the song on his 1997 album Thank God for Believers
, releasing it as a single from that album in 1998.
Strings
by the Nashville String Machine
, conducted by Carl Gorodetzky and arranged by Bergen White.
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...
artist Mark Chesnutt
Mark Chesnutt
Mark Nelson Chesnutt is an American country music singer. Chesnutt recorded and released his first album, Doing My Country Thing, in the late-1980s on private independent record label, Axbar Records, with the vinyl album version now a collector's item...
. It was released in 1992 on MCA Records, and like its predecessor Too Cold at Home
Too Cold at Home
Too Cold at Home is the second album released 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...
, it was certified platinum
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
in the United States for sales of one million copies. Four singles were released from this album, all of which were Top Ten hits 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 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...
charts: "Old Flames Have New Names" (#5), "I'll Think of Something" (#1), "Bubba Shot the Jukebox" and "Old Country" (both #4).
"I'll Think of Something" was originally a Top Ten country hit in 1974 for Hank Williams, Jr.
Hank Williams, Jr.
Randall Hank Williams , better known as Hank Williams, Jr. and Bocephus, is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country...
, who recorded it on his album Living Proof. In addition, "It's Not Over (If I'm Not over You)" was originally recorded by Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire
Reba Nell McEntire is an American country music artist and actress. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band , on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos. As a solo act, she was invited to perform at a rodeo in Oklahoma...
on her 1984 album My Kind of Country. Chesnutt later included the song on his 1997 album Thank God for Believers
Thank God for Believers
Thank God for Believers is the seventh studio album released by American country music artist Mark Chesnutt. His third album for Decca Records, it produced four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts between 1997 and 1998: the title track , "It's Not Over" , "I Might Even Quit Lovin'...
, releasing it as a single from that album in 1998.
Track listing
- "Ol' CountryOl' Country"Ol' Country" is the title of a song written by Bobby Harden, and recorded by American country music singer Mark Chesnutt. It was released in January 1993 as the fourth and final single from his 1992 album Longnecks & Short Stories. It peaked at number 4 on the U.S...
" (Bobby Harden) - 3:53 - "Old Flames Have New NamesOld Flames Have New Names"Old Flames Have New Names" is the title of a song co-written by Bobby Braddock and Rafe VanHoy and recorded by country music singer Mark Chesnutt. It was released in February 1992 and is one of his most well known songs...
" (Bobby BraddockBobby BraddockRobert Valentine Braddock is an American country music songwriter and record producer. A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Braddock has contributed numerous hit songs during more than 40 years in the industry, including 13 number-one hit...
, Rafe VanHoy) - 2:24 - "I'll Think of SomethingI'll Think of Something"I'll Think of Something" is the title of a song written by Bill Rice and Jerry Foster, which has been recorded by American country music singers Hank Williams, Jr. and Mark Chesnutt.-Hank Williams, Jr. version:...
" (Bill RiceBill RiceWilbur Steven "Bill" Rice is an American country music singer and songwriter. Rice charted six singles between 1971 and 1978, including the Top 40 hit "Travelin' Minstrel Man", but is better known for his songwriting...
, Jerry Foster) - 4:13 - "It's Not Over (If I'm Not over You)" (Mark Wright, Larry Kingston) - 3:21
- featuring Vince GillVince GillVincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
and Alison KraussAlison KraussAlison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...
- featuring Vince Gill
- "Uptown, Downtown (Misery's All the Same)" (Harlan HowardHarlan HowardHarlan Perry Howard was a prolific American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote a large number of popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists...
, Ron Peterson) - 2:40 - "Bubba Shot the JukeboxBubba Shot the Jukebox"Bubba Shot the Jukebox" is the title of a song written by Dennis Linde, and recorded by American country music singer Mark Chesnutt. It was released in September 1992 as the third single from his 1992 album Longnecks & Short Stories. It peaked at number 4 on the U.S...
" (Dennis LindeDennis LindeDennis 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"...
) - 3:05 - "Postpone the Pain" (Gary Scruggs, Wright) - 3:00
- "Talking to Hank" (Harden) - 2:47
- duet with George JonesGeorge JonesGeorge Glenn Jones is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette....
- duet with George Jones
- "I'm Not Getting Any Better at Goodbyes" (Steve EarleSteve EarleStephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....
) - 3:50 - "Who Will the Next Fool Be?" (Charlie RichCharlie RichCharles Rich was an American country music singer and musician. A Grammy Award winner, his eclectic-style of music was often hard to classify in a single genre, playing in the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country, and gospel genres.In the latter part of his life, Rich acquired the nickname The Silver...
) - 3:32
Personnel
- David BriggsDavid Briggs (American musician)David Briggs is an American keyboardist, record producer, arranger, composer and studio owner....
- pianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal... - Terry Crisp - steel guitarSteel guitarSteel 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...
- Pat Flynn – acoustic guitarSteel-string acoustic guitarA steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the classical guitar, but strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound...
- Paul FranklinPaul Franklin (musician)Paul Franklin is an American multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his work as a steel guitarist. He began his career in the 1970s as a member of Barbara Mandrell's road band; in addition he toured with Mel Tillis and Jerry Reed. He has since become a prolific session musician in Nashville,...
– steel guitar - Rob Hajacos – fiddleFiddleThe 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...
- Owen Hale – drumsDrum kitA 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 ....
- Paul Leim – drums
- Steve Nathan – keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA 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...
- Lynn PeterzellLynn PeterzellLynn Meyer Peterzell was a country music audio engineer from Nashville, Tennessee.Lynn Peterzell was raised in Pascagoula, Mississippi by Frances and Milton Peterzell. He was the third of five children....
– percussionPercussion instrumentA 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... - Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano
- Brent Rowan – electric guitarElectric guitarAn 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...
- Wayne ToupsWayne ToupsWayne Toups is one of the most commercially successful American Cajun singers. He is also a songwriter.-Biography:...
– squeezeboxSqueezeboxThe term Squeezebox is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows-driven free reed aerophones such as the accordion and the concertina... - Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
- Bob Wray – bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
Background vocals
- Curtis "Mr. Harmony" Young
- Jim LauderdaleJim LauderdaleJim Lauderdale is a musician & singer-songwriter who performs bluegrass and country music. He has recorded since 1986 and has released nineteen studio albums. Artists who have recorded his material include George Strait and Patty Loveless.-Biography:...
- Bergen White
- Alison KraussAlison KraussAlison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...
- Wendy Suits Johnson
- Jana King
- Keith Morris
- Wayne Toups
- Dennis Wilson
- Vince GillVince GillVincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
Strings
String section
The string section is the largest body of the standard orchestra and consists of bowed string instruments of the violin family.It normally comprises five sections: the first violins, the second violins, the violas, the cellos, and the double basses...
by the Nashville String Machine
Nashville String Machine
Nashville String Machine is a musical collective comprising session musicians and has been credited on recordings as far back as 1974. The Nashville String Machine's composition varies from project to project. It has appeared as large as an orchestra, or as small as a duo.-Notable members:Being a...
, conducted by Carl Gorodetzky and arranged by Bergen White.
Chart performance
| Chart (1992) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 9 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 68 |
| Canadian RPM Country Albums | 5 |