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Crazy Nights (Lonestar album)

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Released
  
June 17, 1997

Crazy Nights (1997)
  
Lonely Grill (1999)

Release date
  
17 June 1997

Genre
  
Country music

Length
  
38:59

Artist
  
Lonestar

Label
  
BNA Records

Producers
  
Don Cook, Wally Wilson

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Recorded
  
1997 at The Soundshop Studio "A", Nashville, TN

Similar
  
Lonestar albums, Country music albums

Crazy Nights is the second studio album released by country music band Lonestar. Four singles were released from this album: "Come Cryin' to Me", "You Walked In", "Say When", and "Everything's Changed". "Come Cryin' to Me" reached number one on the Hot Country Songs charts. Also included is a cover of country rock band Pure Prairie League's single "Amie".

Contents

"Come Cryin' to Me" and "Say When" were both co-written by John Rich, who also sang lead on "John Doe on a John Deere" and "What Do We Do with the Rest of the Night". All the other tracks feature Richie McDonald on lead vocals. This was Lonestar's last album to have a neotraditional country sound before developing a more crossover-friendly country-pop sound. This was also Rich's last album as a member of the group. After departing the group in 1998, he began a solo career on BNA, and eventually joined Big Kenny in the duo Big & Rich.

"Cheater's Road" was later recorded by Chalee Tennison on her 2003 album Parading in the Rain.

Lonestar come cryin to me


Critical reception

Thom Owens of Allmusic rated the album three stars out of five, saying that the singles and the "Amie" cover were "solid", but criticizing the other tracks for being "bland".

Track listing

  1. "Come Cryin' to Me" (Mark D. Sanders, Wally Wilson, John Rich) – 3:42
  2. "Everything's Changed" (Larry Boone, Paul Nelson, Richie McDonald) – 3:54
  3. "Cheater's Road" (Sharon Rice, Jason Sellers) – 3:50
  4. "A Week in Juarez" (Sam Hogin, Jim McBride, Phil Barnhart) – 2:47
  5. "John Doe on a John Deere" (Don Cook, Conley White, Rich) – 3:23
  6. "You Walked In" (Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange) – 4:30
  7. "Say When" (Boone, Nelson, Rich) – 3:23
  8. "Amie" (Craig Fuller) – 4:06
  9. "Crazy Nights" (Chris Waters, Tom Shapiro, Rich) – 3:20
  10. "Keys to My Heart" (Lonnie Wilson, Kim Williams, McDonald) – 3:00
  11. "What Do We Do With the Rest of the Night" (Rice, Wilson, Rich) – 3:01

Personnel

Taken from liner notes.

Lonestar

  • Michael Britt - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals
  • Richie McDonald - lead vocals, background vocals
  • Keech Rainwater - drums, percussion
  • John Rich - bass guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
  • Dean Sams - piano, background vocals

    • Additional musicians

  • Bruce Bouton - pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, dobro
  • Dennis Burnside - piano, keyboards, B3 organ
  • Mark Casstevens - acoustic guitar, mandolin
  • Stuart Duncan - fiddle
  • Larry Franklin - fiddle
  • Rob Hajacos - fiddle, assorted hoedown tools
  • David Hungate - bass guitar
  • John Barlow Jarvis - piano, B3 organ
  • Brent Mason - electric guitar, gut string guitar
  • Duncan Mullins - bass guitar
  • Tom Roady - percussion
  • John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
  • Harry Stinson - background vocals
  • Dennis Wilson - background vocals
  • Lonnie Wilson - drums, percussion

    • Songs

    1Come Cryin' To Me3:42
    2Everything's Changed3:54
    3Cheater's Road3:50

    References

    Crazy Nights (Lonestar album) Wikipedia
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