Too Cold at Home
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", "Brother Jukebox", "Blame It on Texas", "Your Love Is a Miracle", and "Broken Promise Land". 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.
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.
Musical style and composition
Too Cold at Home has been described as a neotraditional country and honky-tonk album, with elements of Western swing. It has been compared to the musical styles of traditional country artists such as Bob Wills, Merle Haggard, and George Jones, the latter of whom endorsed the album in its liner notes.Personnel
- Mark Chesnutt – lead vocals
- David Briggs – acoustic piano
- Phil Naish – synthesizers
- Steve Nathan – acoustic piano
- Hargus "Pig" Robbins – acoustic piano
- Matt Rollings – acoustic piano
- Richard Bennett – electric guitars
- Pat Flynn – acoustic guitar
- Brent Rowan – acoustic guitar, electric guitars
- Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
- Bill Kenner – reggae guitar
- Paul Franklin – steel guitar
- Glenn Worf – bass
- Bob Wray – bass
- Owen Hale – drums
- Milton Sledge – drums
- Jerry Carrigan – percussion
- Lynn Peterzell – percussion
- Glen Duncan – fiddle
- Mark O'Connor – fiddle
- Jana King – backing vocals
- Lisa Silver – backing vocals
- Bergen White – backing vocals
- Dennis Wilson – backing vocals
- Mark Wright – backing vocals
- Curtis Young – backing vocals
Production
- Jimmy Gilmer – executive producer
- Mark Wright – producer
- Warren Peterson – recording
- Bob Bullock – recording
- Lynn Peterzell – remixing
- Robert Charles – recording assistant
- Mike McCarthy – recording assistant
- Rodney Good – recording assistant, remix assistant
- Milan Bogdan – digital editing
- Glenn Meadows – mastering
- Masterfonics – editing and mastering location
- Jessie Noble – project coordinator
- Jim Kemp – creative director
- Katherine DeVault – art direction, design
- Mike Rutherford – photography
- The BDM Company – management