Length 36:39 Release date 4 November 1997 Label Mercury Records | Artist Sammy Kershaw Producer Keith Stegall Genre Country music | |
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Released November 4, 1997 (1997-11-04) Labor of Love
(1997) Maybe Not Tonight
(1999) Similar Maybe Not Tonight, I Want My Money Back, Feelin' Good Train, Honky Tonk Boots, Politics - Religion and Her | ||
Labor of Love is the fifth studio album by the American country music artist Sammy Kershaw. It was released in 1997 (see 1997 in country music) on Mercury Records. It was his third album to achieve RIAA platinum certification and his highest-charting album on the Top Country Albums charts, where it peaked at #5.
Contents
In order of release, this album's singles were "Love of My Life", "Matches", "Honky Tonk America" and "One Day Left to Live", which respectively reached #2, #22, #31 and #35 on the Hot Country Songs charts. "Little Did I Know" was co-written by Dave Gibson (formerly of the Gibson/Miller Band) and Bill McCorvey, lead vocalist of Pirates of the Mississippi.
Track listing
- "Honky Tonk America" (Bob McDill) – 3:56
- "Shootin' the Bull (In an Old Cowtown)" (Monty Criswell, Michael White) – 3:01
- "One Day Left to Live" (Randy Boudreaux, Dean Dillon, John Northrup) – 2:54
- "Cotton County Queen" (Phil Barnhart, Sam Hogin, Wally Wilson) – 3:35
- "Matches" (Skip Ewing, Roger Springer) – 3:52
- "Labor of Love" (Larry Boone, Billy Lawson) – 2:27
- "Thank God You're Gone" (Sammy Kershaw, Mike Fornes) – 3:22
- "Little Did I Know" (Greg Crowe, Dave Gibson, Bill McCorvey) – 2:45
- "Arms Length Away" (White, Monty Criswell, Lee Thomas Miller) – 3:19
- "Roamin' Love" (Kershaw) – 3:08
- "Love of My Life" (Keith Stegall, Ed Hill) – 4:20
Personnel
As listed in liner notes.
Songs
1Honky Tonk America3:57
2Shootin' the Bull (In an Old Cowtown)3:02
3One Day Left to Live2:56