Hypnotize the Moon

Infobox Album
Name = Hypnotize the Moon
Type = studio
Artist = Clay Walker


Released = October 17, 1995
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length = 35:51
Label = Giant/Reprise
Producer = James Stroud
Reviews =
*Allmusic - Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hpfwxqehldse link]
*Entertainment Weekly – (B+) [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,299477,00.html link]
Last album = "If I Could Make a Living"
(1994)
This album = "Hypnotize the Moon"
(1995)
Next album = "Rumor Has It"
(1997)

"Hypnotize the Moon" is American country music singer Clay Walker's third album. It was released October 17, 1995, on Giant Records. It was the third consecutive album of his career to earn RIAA platinum certification for U.S. sales of one million copies, although it was also the first album of his career not to produce any Number One hits. Released from this album were, in order: "Who Needs You Baby", the title track, "Only on Days That End in 'Y'", and "Bury the Shovel". Respectively, these reached #2, #2, #5, and #18 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts. "Love You Like You Love Me" was co-written by Steve Wariner, who later recorded it on his 1998 album "Burnin' the Roadhouse Down".

Track listing

#"Who Needs You Baby" (Clay Walker, Kim Williams, Randy Boudreaux) - 2:48
#"I Won't Have the Heart" (Walker, Williams, Kent Blazy) - 2:54
#"Let Me Take the Heartache (Off Your Hands)" (Walker, Williams, Blazy) - 3:17
#"Hypnotize the Moon" (Eric Kaz, Steve Dorff) - 3:39
#"Hand Me Down Heart" (Zack Turner, Lonnie Wilson) - 3:06
#"Only on Days That End in 'Y'" (Richard Fagan) - 2:46
#"Where Were You" (Tim Mensy) - 3:36
#"Loving You Comes Naturally to Me" (Ray Methvin, Tim Johnson, Roger Springer) - 3:24
#"Bury the Shovel" (Chris Arms, Chuck Jones) - 3:27
#"A Cowboy's Toughest Ride" (Walker, Williams, Boudreaux) - 3:12
#"Love Me Like You Love Me" (Steve Wariner, Bill LaBounty) - 3:42

Personnel

*Eddie Bayers - drums
*Larry Bryom – acoustic guitar
*Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
*Stuart Duncan – fiddle
*Paul Franklin – Dobro
*Kyle Frederick – acoustic guitar
*Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
*Johnny Gimble - fiddle
*John Hobbs - piano
*Byron House – bass guitar
*Dann Huff - electric guitar
*Van Rentz – piano
*Jason Roberts – fiddle
*Matt Rollings – piano
*Brent Rowan – electric guitar
*Maxwell Schauf - drums
*Tim Sergeant – steel guitar
*Joe Spivey – fiddle
*Landon Taylor – electric guitar
*Glenn Worf – bass guitar
*Curtis Wright - background vocals
*Curtis Young - background vocals

Strings performed by the Nashville String Machine, contracted by Carl Gorodetzsky, conducted and arranged by Steve Dorff.

References

*Allmusic (see infobox)
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