Woman in the Moon

Chely Wright | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 9, 1994)
• Original Release Date: 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000008N0K
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,493 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Till I Was Loved by You

2. He's a Good Ole Boy

3. Till All Her Tears Are Dry

4. Go on and Go

5. Woman in the Moon

6. Sea of Cowboy Hats

7. I Love You Enough to Let You Go

8. Nobody But a Fool (Would Love You)

9. He Don't Do Bars Anymore

10. The Last Supper

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Surprising good for a first timer, July 3, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Woman in the Moon (Audio CD)

Very good album from Chely Wright however she released this traditional country album when country music was beginning to go more mainstream and modern contemerary direction.
Probably why this album didn't do much for Ms. Wrights career.

Very well done.

"Let Me In" is her best album.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Moon Light, August 10, 2007

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Gen X Music Addict (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Woman in the Moon (Audio CD)

Woman in the Moon, Chely Wright's debut album, is her most traditionally country album. It gets a healthy 4 stars as it's good music. I'm not the biggest fan of the traditional genre, so I didn't feel it enough for 5. But it's of doubtless high quality. Here are songs:

Till I was Loved by You - fast and lively
He's a Good Ole Boy - humorous. Chely gives away some guy on condition that he can't be returend. This one is fast and lively too

Till All Her Tears are Dry
Go On and On - fast and lively
Woman in Moon - the man in the moon is indifferent, so Chely turns to the woman in the moon for advice

Sea of Cowboy Hats - very energetic, excellent honkeytonkin' tune
I Love You Enough - quintessential country tune
Nobody But a Fool - excellent faster country song
He Don't Do Bars Anymore - Chely has won guy away from bars
Last Supper - Chely sets the supper table real nice as a send off to hubby who's running around and cheating.

4.0 out of 5 stars Super Impressive Debut Album, July 27, 2010

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Equality Rocks - See all my reviews

This review is from: Woman in the Moon (Audio CD)

I had managed an outlet of a successful West Coast music retailer for many years when this album was released. In Los Angeles, representatives from record labels would come to my store on a daily basis promoting their next release and asking for merchandising space and in-store play. In-store play at that time was at the discretion of the managers and was not "sold" to record labels. The country label reps knew that very few stores would country on the in-store sound system (maybe Garth Brooks, but even that was pushing it). These reps knew they could come to my stores and find a place for their latest country release.

When Woman in the Moon was released in 1994, I remember listening to it in store while the rep was putting together a display for some band, and when he was done we chatted about how refreshing it was to see a debut album where more than half the cuts were co-written by the artist. We talked for a long time about how pure her voice was and how strong her songwriting skills were, but we guessed that this CD would largely be ignored by radio - in 1994, the #1 spots on the country charts were dominated by male performers. (We did sell one copy of this CD while it was playing in store and we were chatting - the rep was thrilled!). We hoped that the label would stick with her and let her build a fan base. Luckily the Academy of Country Music recognized Chely as top new female vocalist and she went on to release Right in the Middle of It (1996), Let Me In (1997), and her commercial breakthrough album Single White Female (1999). (We didn't hear much more from the other two women in the ACM new vocalist category Lisa Brokop - who had more success in her native Canada, and Victoria Shaw - who went on to write many Top 10 hits for other artists).

This CD is an excellent purchase, especially for fans of female singer/songwriters. Newer fans of Chely Wright (from Lifted Off the Ground 2010) would do well to see the progression 15+ years has made for this artist. Listen to the phrasing and inflection already here - obviously Chely Wright is an artist who understands and loves the music she's singing. Woman in the Moon is a product of its time and does reflect back onto the honky-tonk line-dance clubs that were all the rage back in 1994 and the tracks "Till I Was Loved By You," "Sea of Cowboy Hats" and "Listenin' To The Radio" inform that with heavy fiddles and steel guitars. This CD is far removed from her more recent work, the aforementioned (and brilliant) Lifted Off the Ground and the earlier Metropolitan Hotel, but a good add to your "underappreciated singer/songwriters" CD collection nonetheless.

And seeing as this CD is out of print and unlikely to be reissued, I'd suggest if you are a Chely Wright fan, you should pick it up while it's still available.