The Metropolitan Hotel

Infobox Album
Name = The Metropolitan Hotel
Type = studio
Artist = Chely Wright


Released = start date|2005|02|22
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = Painted Red/Dualtone
Producer = Chely Wright (tracks 1, 5, 6, 8, 11)
Chely Wright and Jeff Huskins (tracks 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 12)
Stephony Smith and Chely Wright (track 10)
Reviews =
*Allmusic - Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jpfyxqusldae link]
*"Country Standard Time" – [http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=3074 link]
Last album = "Everything"
(2004)
This album = "The Metropolitan Hotel"
(2005)
Next album = "The Definitive Collection"
(2007)

"The Metropolitan Hotel" is the sixth studio album released by American country music artist Chely Wright. It was her first album for the Dualtone label, after a failed deal with the Vivaton! label. This album produced four singles, of which two were Top 40 hits on the country music charts: the #40 "Back of the Bottom Drawer" and "The Bumper of My SUV" at #35. The third and fourth singles ("The River" and a cover of Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell", respectively), both failed to chart. Wright left Dualtone after the release of this album.

Track listing

#"It's the Song" (Bonnie Baker, Katrina Elam) – 3:57
#"Back of the Bottom Drawer" (Liz Rose, Chely Wright) – 3:43
#"I Got Him Ready for You" (Wright) – 3:19
#"The River" (Wright) – 6:29
#"Just the Way We Do It" (Brett Beavers, Wright) – 3:39
#"The Bumper of My SUV" (Wright) – 4:41
#"Your Shirt" (Lisa Drew, Pound Lamb) – 3:54
#"Between a Mother and a Child" (Wright) – 4:09
#"Southside of Lonesome" (Wright) – 4:00
#"Wheels" (Stephony Smith, Wright) – 3:43
#"C'est la Vie (You Never Can Tell)" (Chuck Berry) – 3:13
#"What If I Can't Say No Again" (Ed Hill, David Frasier, Josh Kear) – 4:11

Personnel

As listed in liner notes. [cite album-notes |title=The Metropolitan Hote |bandname=Chely Wright |year=2005 |publisher=Dualtone Records |publisherid=80302-01200-2]
*Steve Brewster – drums
*Tom Bukovac – electric guitar
*Jimmy Carter – bass guitar
*Eric Darken – percussion
*Chip Davis – background vocals
*Stuart Duncan – mandolin
*Shannon Forrest – drums
*Vince Gill – background vocals
*Tony Harrell – keyboards
*Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
*Mark Hill – bass guitar
*Sean Hurley – bass guitar
*Travis Javis – piano
*Jeff King – electric guitar
*Chris McHugh – drums
*Greg Morrow – drums
*Gordon Mote – piano, keyboards
*James T. Olsen – electric guitar
*Russ Pahl – steel guitar
*Billy Panda – acoustic guitar
*Scotty Sanders – steel guitar
*Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar
*Michael Hart Thompson – electric guitar
*Emily West – background vocals
*John D. Willis – acoustic guitar
*Jonathan Yudkin – mandolin

Strings on "Back of the Bottom Drawer" and "The River" performed by the Nashville String Machine, conducted and arranged by Steve W. Maldin. Strings on "Between a Mother and a Child" performed and arranged by Jonathan Yudkin.

References