Too Cold at Home is the second studio album by American country music artist Mark Chesnutt, released in 1990 on MCA Records. Certified platinum by the RIAA for sales of one million copies, the album produced five Top Ten singles for Chesnutt on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Chronologically, these singles were "Too Cold at Home" (#3), "Brother Jukebox" (#1), "Blame It on Texas" (#5), "Your Love Is a Miracle" (#3), and "Broken Promise Land" (#10). Two of these singles were previously recorded by other artists: "Broken Promise Land" by Waylon Jennings on his 1985 album Turn the Page and "Brother Jukebox" by Keith Whitley on his 1989 album I Wonder Do You Think of Me, and before that by Don Everly in 1977.

Too Cold at Home
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 14, 1990
RecordedMarch 1990
StudioEleven-Eleven Sound, Javalina Studios, Nashville, TN
GenreCountry
Length30:57
LabelMCA
ProducerMark Wright
Mark Chesnutt chronology
Doing My Country Thing
(1988)
Too Cold at Home
(1990)
Longnecks & Short Stories
(1992)
Singles from Too Cold at Home
  1. "Too Cold at Home"
    Released: July 16, 1990
  2. "Brother Jukebox"
    Released: November 26, 1990
  3. "Blame It on Texas"
    Released: March 19, 1991
  4. "Your Love Is a Miracle"
    Released: July 1, 1991
  5. "Broken Promise Land"
    Released: October 1991
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Entertainment WeeklyB[2]

Also featured on this album is the song "Friends in Low Places", which was recorded by Garth Brooks on his 1990 album No Fences. Brooks's rendition of the song, released as a single in late 1990, spent four weeks at Number One that year, and has since become a country classic.

Track listing edit

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Too Cold at Home"Bobby Harden3:42
2."Brother Jukebox"Paul Craft3:05
3."Blame It on Texas"Ronnie Rogers, Mark Wright2:51
4."Your Love Is a Miracle"Bill Kenner, Wright2:49
5."Broken Promise Land"Bill Rice, Sharon Vaughn3:06
6."Too Good a Memory"Lewis Anderson, Wright2:41
7."Friends in Low Places"Earl Bud Lee, Dewayne Blackwell3:28
8."Lucky Man"Rogers, Wright3:24
9."Hey You There in the Mirror"Jim Rushing, Herb McCullough2:51
10."Danger at My Door"Wright3:15

Personnel edit

Charts edit

References edit

  1. ^ Mansfield, Brian. Too Cold at Home at AllMusic
  2. ^ Entertainment Weekly review
  3. ^ "Mark Chesnutt Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 28, 2021.
  4. ^ "Mark Chesnutt Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 28, 2021.
  5. ^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1991". Billboard. Retrieved May 28, 2021.
  6. ^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1992". Billboard. Retrieved May 28, 2021.