Big Hopes

Infobox Album
Name = Big Hopes
Type = studio
Artist = Ty Herndon


Released = start date|1998|05|26
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = Epic
Producer = Byron Gallimore (tracks 1, 3-7)
Doug Johnson (tracks 2, 8-11)
Reviews = Allmusic – rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gcfexqljldfel ink]
Last album = "Living in a Moment"
(1997)
This album = "Big Hopes"
(1998)
Next album = "Steam"
(1999)

"Big Hopes" is the third studio album recorded by country music artist Ty Herndon. It features the singles "A Man Holding On (To a Woman Lettin' Go)", "It Must Be Love", and "Hands of a Working Man". These songs peaked at #5, #1, and #5, respectively, on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. "It Must Be Love" was his third and final Number One on the country charts, while "Hands of a Working Man" was his last Top Ten.

Doug Virden and Drew Womack, then members of Sons of the Desert, serve as backing vocalists on other tracks, as they did on Herndon's previous album "Living in a Moment". Blue Miller, formerly of Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band and later of the Gibson/Miller Band, also provides background vocals.

Track listing

#"Big Hopes" (Walt Wilkins) – 3:46
#"It Must Be Love" (Craig Bickhardt, Jack Sundrud) – 3:31
#"A Man Holdin' on (To a Woman Lettin' Go)" (Bobby Taylor, Gene Dobbins, John Ramey) – 3:36
#"Big Time Dreamer" (Gary Burr, Victoria Shaw) – 3:51
#"Thinkin' with My Heart Again" (Donny Kees, Sanger D. Shafer, Dean Dillon) – 3:08
#"Somewhere a Lover" (Tim Ryan Rouillier, Alex Harvey) – 3:40
#"Hands of a Working Man" (D. Vincent Williams, Jim Collins) – 3:47
#"How Much Can One Man Love You" (Burr, Bob DiPiero) – 3:41
#"The Only Way I Know" (Burr, Mike Reid) – 4:17
#"No Brakes" (Pat Bunch, Shane Teeters) – 2:46
#"Tears in God's Eyes" (Skip Ewing, Kim Williams, Kent Blazy) – 4:36

Personnel

Byron Gallimore-produced tracks (1, 3-7)

*Larry Byrom – electric guitar
*Steven Conn – accordion
*Dan Dugmore – steel guitar
*Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
*Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
*Jeff King – acoustic guitar
*B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar
*Brent Mason – electric guitar
*Terry McMillan – percussion
*Steve Nathan – keyboards
*Tom Roady – percussion
*D. Vincent Williams – background vocals
*Lonnie Wilson – drums
*Glenn Worf – bass guitar
*Curtis Wright – background vocals
*Curtis Young – background vocals

Doug Johnson-produced tracks (2, 8-11)

*Joe Chemay – bass guitar
*Larry Franklin – fiddle
*Paul Franklin – steel guitar
*Steve Gibson – electric guitar
*John Hobbs – keyboards
*Dann Huff – electric guitar
*Mike Jones – background vocals
*Paul Leim – drums
*Patty Loveless – background vocals
*Blue Miller – background vocals
*Wendell Mobley – background vocals
*Steve Nathan – keyboards
*Tom Roady – percussion
*Brent Rowan – electric guitar
*Doug Virden – background vocals
*Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
*Drew Womack – background vocals

References

*Allmusic (see infobox)
*cite album-notes |title=Big Hopes |bandname=Ty Herndon |year=1998 |format=cassette |publisher=Epic Records |publisherid=ET 68167 |location=Nashville, Tennessee