Mark Chesnutt
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Mark Nelson Chesnutt (born September 6, 1963 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American country music singer.
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[edit] Biography
Chesnutt is the second son of Bobby Thomas Chesnutt and Norma Jean Nicholas. He learned to love music from his father, who was a singer and record collector. Chesnutt dropped out of school after his sophomore year of high school to begin playing with his father in clubs around Southeast Texas. When he turned 17, his father began to take him to Nashville, Tennessee to begin recording. For the next ten years, Chesnutt began to record on small regional labels while he was the house band for local Beaumont nightclub Cutters. He slowly gathered a large fanbase who loved to hear his traditional style.
In 1989, several Music Row executives came to Cutters to hear Chesnutt play. In 1989, he was signed to MCA Nashville. He won the CMA Horizon Award, given anually to the most promising newcomer. He toured constantly, and his fans rewarded him by making him one of Billboard's Ten Most-Played Radio Artists of the 1990s. He has four platinum albums, five gold albums, fourteen Number One singles, and 23 Top Ten Singles. He also won the 2005 French Country Music Awards Best Album of the Year Award. [1]
Although his first hit, 1990's "Too Cold at Home," was extremely neotraditional, subsequent songs were more mainstream Contemporary Country. Chesnutt surprised many fans in late 1998 when he recorded a cover of Aerosmith's recent hit, I Don't Want to Miss a Thing. American Country Countdown erroneously reported that Chesnutt first heard the song when his teenage daughter changed the presets on his truck radio (he has no daughter). Chesnutt's version of this song was a #1 country hit for two weeks in February 1999, and peaked at #17 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Mark married his wife Tracie in 1992. They have three boys, Waylon, Casey, and Cameron. The family lives in East Texas.
[edit] Albums
[edit] Main albums
- Too Cold at Home (1990) #12 US (Country); #132 US (Pop)
- Longnecks and Short Stories (1992)
- Almost Goodbye (1993); #6 US (Country); #43 US (Pop)
- What a Way to Live (1994) #15 US (Country); #98 US (Pop)
- Wings (1995) #24 US (Country); #116 US (Pop)
- Thank God For Believers (1997) #25 US (Country); #165 US (Pop)
- I Don't Want to Miss a Thing (1999) #6 US (Country); #65 US (Pop)
- Lost in the Feeling (2000); #53 US (Country)
- Mark Chesnutt (2002) #23 US (Country); #184 Us (Pop)
- Savin' the Honky Tonk (2004) #15 US (Independent); #23 US (Country); #170 Us (Pop)
- Heard It in a Love Song (2006)
[edit] Compilations
- Greatest Hits (1996)
- Top Marks: His First 20 Hits (2000)
- 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Mark Chesnutt (2001)
[edit] Singles
| Year | Title | Chart Positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Hot 100 | US Country | |||
| 1990 | "Too Cold at Home" | - | #3 | Too Cold at Home |
| 1991 | "Brother Jukebox" | - | #1 | Too Cold at Home |
| 1991 | "Blame it on Texas" | - | #5 | Too Cold at Home |
| 1991 | "Your Love is a Miracle'" | - | #3 | Too Cold at Home |
| 1992 | "Broken Promise Land" | - | #10 | Too Cold at Home |
| 1992 | "Old Flames Have New Names" | - | #5 | Longnecks and Short Stories |
| 1992 | "I'll Think of Something" | - | #1 | Longnecks and Short Stories |
| 1992 | "Bubba Shot the Jukebox" | - | #4 | Longnecks and Short Stories |
| 1993 | "Ol' Country" | - | #4 | Longnecks and Short Stories |
| 1993 | "It Sure is Monday" | - | #1 | Almost Goodbye |
| 1993 | "Almost Goodbye" | - | #1 | Almost Goodbye |
| 1994 | "I Just Wanted You to Know" | - | #1 | Almost Goodbye |
| 1994 | "Woman, Sensuous Woman" | - | #21 | Almost Goodbye |
| 1994 | "She Dreams" | - | #6 | What a Way To Live |
| 1995 | "Goin' Through the Big D" | - | #2 | What a Way To Live |
| 1995 | "Gonna Get a Life" | - | #1 | What a Way To Live |
| 1995 | "Down in Tennessee" | - | #23 | What a Way To Live |
| 1995 | "Trouble" | - | #18 | Wings |
| 1996 | "It Wouldn't Hurt to Have Wings" | - | #7 | Wings |
| 1996 | "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" | - | #37 | Wings |
| 1997 | "It's a Little Too Late" | - | #1 | Greatest Hits |
| 1997 | "Let it Rain" | - | #8 | Greatest Hits |
| 1997 | "Thank God For Believers" | - | #2 | Thank God For Believers |
| 1997 | "What Child is This" | - | #75 | |
| 1998 | "It's Not Over" | - | #34 | Thank God For Believers |
| 1998 | "I Might Even Quit Lovin You" | - | #18 | Thank God For Believers |
| 1998 | "Wherever You Are" | - | #45 | Thank God For Believers |
| 1999 | "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" | #17 | #1 | I Don't Want to Miss a Thing |
| 1999 | "This Heartache Never Sleeps" | - | #17 | I Don't Want to Miss a Thing |
| 2000 | "Fallin' Never Felt So Good" | - | #52 | Lost in the Feeling |
| 2000 | "Lost in the Feeling" | - | #59 | Lost in the Feeling |
| 2002 | "She Was" | #62 | #11 | Mark Chesnutt |
| 2002 | "I Want My Baby Back" | - | #47 | Mark Chesnutt |
| 2003 | "I'm in Love With a Married Woman" | - | #48 | Mark Chesnutt |
| 2005 | "The Lord Loves the Drinkin' Man" | - | #34 | Savin' the Honky Tonk |
| 2005 | "I'm a Saint" | - | #33 | Savin' the Honky Tonk |
| 2005 | "A Hard Secret to Keep" | - | #59 | Savin' the Honky Tonk |
| 2006 | "Heard It In a Love Song" | - | - | Heard It in a Love Song |
| 2007 | "That Good That Bad" | - | - | Heard It in a Love Song |
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Mark Chesnutt's latest bio, news, photo galleries, and Fan Q&A at Great American Country
- "AGR Television Records" Mark Chesnutt's international record label
