That Lonesome Song

Infobox Album
Name = That Lonesome Song
Type = studio
Artist = Jamey Johnson


Released = start date|2008|8|5
Recorded = 2007
Genre = Country
Length = 56:23
Label = Mercury Nashville
Producer = Dave Cobb
Jamey Johnson
The Kent Hardly Playboys
Reviews =
*"Country Weekly" – rating|5|5 [http://www.countryweekly.com/jamey_johnson/reviews/537 link]
*The 9513 – rating|4.5|5 [http://www.the9513.com/album-review-jamey-johnson-that-lonesome-song/ link]
*"Billboard" – [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/content_display/reviews/albums/e3i7208006e0cd864695cf6cdc9ba8eb7a8 link]
*"Country Standard Time" – [http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=3942 link]
Last album = "The Dollar"
(2006)
This album = "That Lonesome Song"
(2008)
Next album =

"That Lonesome Song" is the third studio album recorded by American country music singer Jamey Johnson. Initially released to digital retailers in 2007 without the promotion of a record label, the album was released on August 5, 2008 (see 2008 in country music) on Mercury Nashville Records. Mercury also issued the album's lead-off single, "In Color", which has charted in the Top 40 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts.

History

After the release of his debut album "The Dollar" in 2006, Johnson exited his contract with BNA Records, and divorced his wife shortly afterward.cite web |url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080712/music_nm/johnson_dc |title=Singer Johnson starts fresh after "Lonesome" time |accessdate=2008-07-25 |last=Tucker |first=Ken |date=2008-07-11 |work=Yahoo! News] He then went into a reclusive state, staying at a friend's house, where he continued to work on writing songs.

In April 2007, he returned to the recording studio to begin work on his second album,cite web |url=http://www.umgnashville.com/artist/releases/release.aspx?pid=1578&aid=211 |title=Jamey Johnson Releases "That Lonesome Song" |accessdate=2008-07-25 |work=UMG Nashville] despite not being signed to a label at the time. After the album was complete, he issued it to digital retailers. The album caught the attention of Luke Lewis from Mercury Nashville Records, a label to which Johnson was then signed shortly afterward. Mercury acquired the album as well, issuing "In Color" as its lead-off single. The song, which Johnson co-wrote with Lee Thomas Miller and James Otto, charted in the Top 40 on the country charts, and "That Lonesome Song" was physically issued by Mercury in August 2008. The Mercury re-issue includes three songs not found on the original ("Mowin' Down The Roses", "The Last Cowboy", and "Between Jennings and Jones"), while two other tracks from the initial release ("Next Ex Thing" and "Leave You Alone") were omitted.

Two Waylon Jennings songs are covered on the album as well: "Dreaming My Dreams with You" and "The Door Is Always Open".

Track listing

#"Released" - 0:38
#"High Cost of Living" (Jamey Johnson, James Slater) - 5:45
#"Angel" (Johnson, Jeff Bates) - 4:28
#"Place Out on the Ocean" (Johnson) - 4:02
#"Movin' Down the Roses" (Johnson, Jeremy Popoff) - 4:21
#"The Door Is Always Open" (Dickey Lee, Bob McDill) - 3:35
#"Mary Go Round" (Johnson, Wyatt Beard) - 4:52
#"In Color" (Johnson, James Otto, Lee Thomas Miller) - 4:50
#"The Last Cowboy" (Johnson, Rob Hatch, Teddy Gentry) - 4:16
#"That Lonesome Song" (Johnson, Kendell Marvel, Wayd Battle) - 4:01
#"Dreaming My Dreams" (Allen Reynolds) - 4:12
#"Women" (Johnson, Jim Brown) - 3:27
#"Stars in Alabama" (Johnson, Gentry) - 3:45
#"Between Jennings and Jones" (Johnson, Buddy Cannon) - 4:11

Personnel

*Wayd Battle – electric guitar
*Wyatt Beard – background vocals
*Jim "Moose" Brown – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums, piano,synthesizer, Hammond organ, strings
*Jason Cope – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
*Teddy Gentry – background vocals, bass guitar
*Kevin "Swine" Grantt – bass guitar
*Jamey Johnson – lead vocals, background vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, tubular bells
*"Cowboy" Eddie Long – steel guitar, Dobro
*Dave Macafee – drums
*Fred Mandel – synthesizer
*James Mitchel – electric guitar
*Chris Powell – drums
*Robbie Turner – steel guitar
*Scott Welch – electric guitar
*Curtis Wright – background vocals

References