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Recorded
  
1993-1994

What a Way to Live (1994)
  
Wings (1995)

Release date
  
1994

Label
  
Decca Records

Length
  
33:25

Artist
  
Mark Chesnutt

Producer
  
Mark Wright

Genre
  
Country music

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Released
  
September 13, 1994 (1994-09-13)

Similar
  
Mark Chesnutt albums, Country music albums

What a Way to Live is the fifth studio album released by American country music artist Mark Chesnutt. His first album for Decca Records, it earned RIAA gold certification in the United States for sales of 500,000 copies. The tracks "She Dreams", "Goin' Through the Big D", "Gonna Get a Life", and "Down in Tennessee" were all released as singles, peaking at #6, #2, #1, and #23, respectively, on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. "She Dreams" was co-written and originally recorded by Tim Mensy on his 1992 album This Ol' Heart, from which it was released as a single, peaking at #74 on the country charts that year. Mark duets with Waylon Jennings on the track "Rainy Day Woman" which Jennings first recorded on his 1974 album The Ramblin' Man.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "What a Way to Live" (Willie Nelson, Hank Craig) - 2:40
  2. "Live a Little" (Roger Springer, Tony Martin) - 2:46
  3. "She Dreams" (Tim Mensy, Gary Harrison) - 3:43
  4. "Goin' Through the Big D" (Mark Wright, Ronnie Rogers, John Wright) - 2:34
  5. "Down in Tennessee" (Wayland Holyfield) - 3:21
  6. "Gonna Get a Life" (Frank Dycus, Jim Lauderdale) - 3:43
  7. "It's Almost Like You're Here" (Charles Quillen, John Priestley, Jonathan Clift) - 3:34
  8. "Rainy Day Woman" (Waylon Jennings) - 3:51
  9. Duet with Waylon Jennings
  10. "This Side of the Door" (Mensy, Shawn Camp) - 3:23
  11. "Half of Everything (And All of My Heart)" (David Lott, Glenn Gordon, Chesnutt) - 3:50

Musicians

  • Brent Rowan - electric guitar
  • Tim Broussard - Squeezebox
  • Mark Chesnutt - lead vocals
  • Glen Duncan - fiddle, mandolin
  • Pat Flynn - acoustic guitar
  • Paul Franklin - steel guitar
  • Owen Hale - drums
  • Rob Hajacos - fiddle
  • Roy Huskey, Jr. - upright bass
  • Paul Leim - drums
  • B. James Lowry - acoustic guitar
  • Tim Mensy - acoustic guitar
  • Steve Nathan - keyboards
  • Russ Pahl - steel guitar
  • Matt Rollings - keyboards
  • Biff Watson - acoustic guitar
  • Bob Wray - bass guitar

    • Background Vocals: Curtis "Mr. Harmony" Young, John Wesley Ryles, Bergen White, Jana King, Lisa Silver, Dennis Wilson, Cindy Walker, Tom Flora, Chris Harris, Matt Kaminski, Ann Wright, Kim Rogers.

    Strings by the Nashville String Machine, conducted by Carl Gorodetzky and arranged by Bergen White.

    Production

    Recording Engineers

  • Warren Peterson
  • Robert Charles
  • King Williams
  • Larry Jeffries

    • Mixers

  • Lynn Peterzell
  • Mark Hagen
  • Mark Friego

    • Master Editor

  • Glenn Meadows

    • Production Coordinator

  • Joe Johnston

    • Art Direction/Design

  • Simon Levy

    • Photography

  • Keith Carter

    • Hair & Make-up

  • Lucy Santamassino

    • Songs

    1What a Way to Live2:41
    2Live a Little2:47
    3She Dreams3:44

    References

    What a Way to Live Wikipedia
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