Line #48 Music/MarkChesnutt


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3	CountryMusic singer who broke through in TheNineties as part of the "neotraditionalist" movement, bringing a twangy honky-tonk sound with a modern edge.
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5	A native of Beaumont, Texas, Mark Nelson Chesnutt (born September 6, 1963) broke through in 1990 with his debut album ''Too Cold at Home'' on Creator/{{MCA}} Records. The album produced five Top 10 hits and sold platinum, a sales figure matched by his next two discs as well. His first 12 singles all made Top 10, as did 8 more by decade's end. Starting with his 1994 album ''What a Way to Live'', MCA moved him to Creator/DeccaRecords, which it had reactivated as a country label.
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7	Chesnutt's discography is dominated by a twangy fiddle-and-steel sound, indebted to honky-tonk music of old, and codified by covers of Music/KeithWhitley, Music/WaylonJennings, and Music/HankWilliamsJr... so it should probably come as a shock that his biggest hit came at the end of the decade with a cover of Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing", a song supposedly forced upon him by the label. After Decca was reformatted in the late 1990s, he moved to MCA Nashville and then to Creator/ColumbiaRecords for one unsuccessful album each. All of his subsequent releases have been on smaller independent labels, and while his radio days are long past, he has continued to maintain a twangy and traditionally-influenced sound.
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9	!Albums
10	* ''Doing My Country Thing'' (1988)
11	* ''Too Cold at Home'' (1990)
12	* ''Longnecks & Short Stories'' (1992)
13	* ''Almost Goodbye'' (1993)
14	* ''What a Way to Live'' (1994)
15	* ''Wings'' (1995)
16	* ''Greatest Hits'' (1996)
17	* ''Thank God for Believers'' (1997)
18	* ''I Don't Want to Miss a Thing'' (1999)
19	* ''Lost in the Feeling'' (2000)
20	* ''Mark Chesnutt'' (2002)
21	* ''Savin' the Honky Tonk'' (2004)
22	* ''Heard It in a Love Song'' (2006)
23	* ''Rollin' with the Flow'' (2008)
24	* ''Outlaw'' (2010)
25	* ''Tradition Lives'' (2016)
26	* ''Duets'' (2017)
27	* ''The Early Years'' (2017)
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29	!Tropes present:
30	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Present in "I Might Even Quit Lovin' You":
31	-->Gonna reach way down inside and find a brand new will to live \
32	Got plans to forget about the way you made me feel \
33	Gonna walk outside one night and turn your memory loose \
34	And when I do, I might even quit lovin' you \
35	And when I do, I might even quit lovin' you
36	* BreakUpSong: "Goin' Through the Big D". The "D" stands for "divorce".
37	* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: "Wrong Place, Wrong Time", where a young man and his trouble-plagued brother-in-law go to a seedy biker bar — hoping for a boys' night out, without knowledge of their wives (as they'd assuredly be in deep trouble if they were found to have gone out, much less merely rumored to have been out on the town) — and wind up in jail after a major brawl breaks out. (The brother-in-law had gotten into a fight with the bouncer after he was caught dancing with his (the bouncer's) wife.) The judge sets bail and, with no money between them to come close to covering the cost, concede they have no choice but to tell their wives and admit they were out on a boys' night out. The tone of "What in the world are we gonna tell our wives" implies neither one of them were allowed to go out that evening, or else.
38	* ChristmasSongs: He covered "What Child Is This?" on the multi-artist ''A Country Christmas'' in 1997.
39	* HatingOnMonday: "It Sure Is Monday":
40	-->I had a ball [[DaysOfTheWeekSong Friday, Saturday, and Sunday]]\
41	But it's all over now, and it sure is Monday
42	* InsaneTrollLogic: Presented by the eponymous Bubba in "Bubba Shot the Jukebox" after he does the title action:
43	-->Reckless discharge of a gun, that's what the officers were claimin'\
44	Bubba hollered, "Reckless, hell, I hit just where I was aimin'!"
45	* LoudnessWar: Averted with his 1990 albums due to Mark Wright's production style.
46	* LyricalColdOpen: "Brother Jukebox" and "The Lord Loves the Drinkin' Man"
47	* LyricalDissonance: "Goin' Through the Big D" is most upbeat song you'll ever hear about a guy complaining he got shorted in his divorce settlement.
48	* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: The title couple in "She Was". The female of the couple invokes this in the lyric "He was 18, she wasn't / But she said she was".
49	* RereleaseTheSong: ''Thank God for Believers'' features "It's Not Over", a track lifted from ''Longnecks & Short Stories'' five years prior. Chesnutt chose to put the song on ''Thank God for Believers'' because the album was one song short, and he had always wanted to put "It's Not Over" out as a single.
50	* ThrivingExCrush: "All My Old Flames Have New Names" has the protagonist trying to hook up with his old lovers from long ago, only to find out that all of them have settled down and moved on with their lives.

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