Heard It in a Love Song

Mark Chesnutt | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 26, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cbuj Ent
• ASIN: B000H0MMRM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,247 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Heard It In A Love Song

2. Dreaming In My Dreams

3. That Good That Bad

4. A Hard Secret To Keep

5. A Day In The Life Of A Fool

6. You Can't Find Many Kissers

7. Apartment #9

8. A Shoulder To Cry On

9. Goodbye Comes Hard For Me

10. Lost Highway

Editorial Reviews

"Heard It In A Love Song" the title track (a version of the Marshall Tucker Band's 1977 classic)starts if off while the set also includes a version of Waylon Jennings 1975 landmark recording, "Dreaming My Dreams With You", "I Just Ain't Been Able" from Hank Williams Jr's groundbreaking "Family Tradition" album and a stone ground Country version of George Jones's 1972 classic "A Day In The Life Of A Fool". The balance of repertoire includes three songs from 2004's "Saving The Hondy Tonk", including a new acoustic version of the haunting "A Hard Secret To Keep". "Heard It In A Love Song" offers something for everybody--a solid body of great songs from a most-bankable voice. Produced by Jimmy Ritchie and Mark Chesnutt.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars UNAPPRECIATED EXCELLENCE, November 10, 2006

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D. McAllister "MRD" (Somewhere in the Field) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heard It in a Love Song (Audio CD)

When I heard that Mark Chesnutt was finally back in studio working on an album I anxiously awaited its release and anticipated another excellent collection from the Boy from Beaumont. When the day finally came for release I was shocked to discover that virtually no retailer had stocked the album. When I asked about it I got blank looks from people. One even foolishly noted that Mark Chesnutt was a minor country performer. Weeks went by and no one, not Wal-Mart, not Target, not Best Buy--no one in my area--offered the album.

When I finally got my copy I wasn't disappointed. There was the familiar, smooth country voice and style that has made Chesnutt anything but a minor force in the world of country music. HEARD IT IN A LOVE SONG is nothing short of masterful and a must have and must hear for any country music aficionado. Good luck finding a copy, though. Better just start with Amazon.

THE HORSEMAN

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Winner from Mark Chesnutt, October 7, 2006

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Jim Quinton "Music Lover" (Talking Rock, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heard It in a Love Song (Audio CD)

If you've been waiting for some REAL country music, your CD has just arrived! Mark's never sounded better than he does on this new cd. The first single is off and running as the title track of the disc, the Marshall Tucker classic "Heard It In A Love Song". This is without a doubt one of the best versions I've heard of this great song. Other standouts are Mark's take on the George Jones under-rated song "A Day In The Life Of A Fool" and his cover of Tammy Wynette's "Apartment #9". Mark's latest cd will not let you down!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Solid Effort, November 13, 2006

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Paul W. Dennis (Winter Springs, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heard It in a Love Song (Audio CD)

At last, another album from one of the most self-assured honky-tonkers going, his first since SAVIN' THE HONKY TONK in 2004. This isn't quite as good an album as that one, but immortal albums only come about once in a great while.

This album is basically a bunch of old songs (some hits, some not) that Mark wraps his vocal cords around. The title tune, "Heard It In A Love Song", is a lame Marshall Tucker tune to which Chesnutt to gives a superior rendering. I consider it the weakest song on the album but Chesnutt makes it quite enjoyable

There is a nice mix of uptempo ("That Good That Bad") and slow ballads which are Chestnutt's specialty. I really liked his takes on the old Haggard-penned Charley Pride hit "A Shoulder To Cry On", the Hag's own "Goodbye Comes Hard For Me". and Hank Sr''s "Lost Highway.

Proving himself to be a George Jones fan of the first order (they come from the same town), Chesnutt tackles the George Jones obscurity "A Day In The Life of A Fool" , a very minor hit, almost never covered, from the early 70s. Mark isn't a George Jones (no one is), but his version is quite good.

This is just short of being a five star effort - I'd give it 4 1/2 stars if allowed fractional ratings