Almost Goodbye

Infobox Album
Name = Longnecks & Short Stories
Type = studio
Artist = Mark Chesnutt


Released = start date|1993|6|22
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = MCA
Producer = Mark Wright
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:0nfuxqegld0e link]
Last album = "Longnecks & Short Stories"
(1992)
This album = "Almost Goodbye"
(1993)
Next album = "What a Way to Live"
(1994)

"Almost Goodbye" is the fourth studio album released by American country music artist Mark Chesnutt. His third album for MCA Records, it was also the third consecutive album to receive RIAA platinum certification in the United States. Four singles were released from this album, of which three — "It Sure Is Monday", "Almost Goodbye", and "I Just Wanted You to Know" — reached Number One on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts. "Woman (Sensuous Woman)", a cover of the Don Gibson hit from 1972, served as the fourth single, and peaked at #21.

Track listing

#"It Sure Is Monday" (Dennis Linde) - 2:56
#"Woman (Sensuous Woman)" (Gary S. "Flip" Paxton) - 3:10
#"Almost Goodbye" (Billy Livsey) - 4:09
#"I Just Wanted You to Know" (Tim Mensy, Gary Harrison) - 3:21
#"April's Fool" (Mark Chesnutt, Glenn Gordon, David Lott) - 5:03
#"Texas Is Bigger Than It Used to Be" (Mark Wright, Joe Hohnston, Ron Rogers) - 4:08
#"My Heart's Too Broke (To Pay Attention)" (Lonnie Wilson, Kim Williams, Phil Barnhart) - 2:33
#"Vickie Vance Gotta Dance" (Wright, Bill Kenner) - 3:47
#"Till a Better Memory Comes Along" (Mensy, Gene Dobbins, Glenn Ray) - 2:58
#"The Will" (Jackson Leap) - 3:20

Personnel

*Tom Flora – background vocals
*Pat Flynn – acoustic guitar
*Paul Franklin – steel guitar
*Glenn Gordon – acoustic guitar
*Rob Hajacos – fiddle
*Owen Hale – drums
*Christopher Harris – background vocals
*David Hungate – bass guitar
*Jana King – background vocals
*Steve Nathan – keyboards
*Paul Leim – drums
*Lynn Peterzell – percussion
*Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano
*Matt Rollings – keyboards
*Brent Rowan – electric guitar
*John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
*Lisa Silver – background vocals
*Wayne Toups – squeezebox
*Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
*Bergen White – background vocals
*Dennis Wilson – background vocals
*Bob Wray – bass guitar
*Curtis Young – background vocals

Strings by the Nashville String Machine, conducted by Carl Gorodetzky and arranged by Bergen White.