Mark Chesnutt signs with Lofton Creek
Sunday, July 1, 2007 – Texas honky tonker Mark Chesnutt signed a deal with Lofton Creek Records, it was announced this week.
Chesnutt's first CD for the label will be "Rollin With The Flow". His album is to be released later this fall.
Chesnutt spent most of his career on MCA. Chesnutt has enjoyed 4 platinum albums, 5 gold albums, 14 number 1 hits and 23 top 10 songs. His hits include "Brother Jukebox," "Blame It On Texas," "Old Flames Have New Names," "Old Country," "It Sure Is Monday," "Almost Goodbye," "I Just Wanted You To Know," "Going Through The Big D," "It's A Little Too Late," "Gonna Get A Life" and "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing."
Lofton Creek also is the home of Doug Stone and Heartland, which had a number one song last year with "I Loved Her First."
More news for Mark Chesnutt
- 10/13/21: Chesnutt cancels all '21 shows, needs more time off after surgery
- 05/18/16: "Tradition Lives" with Chesnutt
- 11/24/08: Mark Chesnutt gutarist shoots self in hand
- 07/28/08: Mark Chesnutt tour bus rear-ended in accident
- 11/12/07: Tracy Byrd, Mark Chesnutt, Zora Young host Texas bash
CD reviews for Mark Chesnutt
To say that Mark Chestnutt walks the walk is an understatement. Long before the rise of bro country, Chestnutt's 1998 cover of Aerosmith's "I Don't Want To Miss Thing" hit number 1, but after that, his career stalled.
More than a decade later, "Tradition Lives" is an aptly titled 13-song effort that never veers from the old school path. There is no title track, which underscores the idea that the collection is a cohesive theme and not lead single driven. ...
Theme albums never really caught on in C&W, but Mark Chesnutt might just change that with his label debut. After all, just about every track here concerns alcohol consumption and the joy of gin joints. Oh sure, there's a couple love songs here ("Would These Arms Be In Your Way" wherein Lee Ann Womack lends her vocal talents) and a cheatin' song or two ("A Hard Secret to Keep"), but for the most part it's all aqua vitae all the time.
Whether it's praise for the plethora of products available at ...
Self-titled albums are usually the sign of a new, emerging artist on the scene, but Mark Chesnutt is anything but a new face. Although some would say he came in on the back end of the late-'80s wave that crested with Clint Black, Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson, the fact is that Chesnutt has spent the last decade being one of the most consistently good - and most consistently successful - pure singers in the country music business. Like his fellow Texans George Strait and George Jones (who also ...
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