Too Cold at Home

Too Cold at Home is the second studio album by American country music artist Mark Chesnutt, released in 1990 on MCA Records. Certified platinum by the RIAA for sales of one million copies, the album produced five Top Ten singles for Chesnutt on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Chronologically, these singles were "Too Cold at Home" (#3), "Brother Jukebox" (#1), "Blame It on Texas" (#5), "Your Love Is a Miracle" (#3), and "Broken Promise Land" (#10). Two of these singles were previously recorded by other artists: "Broken Promise Land" by Waylon Jennings on his 1985 album Turn the Page and "Brother Jukebox" by Keith Whitley on his 1989 album I Wonder Do You Think of Me, and before that by Don Everly in 1977.

Too Cold at Home
Studio album by Mark Chesnutt
Released	September 14, 1990
Recorded	March 1990
Studio	Eleven Eleven (Nashville, Tennessee) Javelina (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country
Length	30:57
Label	MCA
Producer	Mark Wright
Mark Chesnutt chronology
Doing My Country Thing (1988) Too Cold at Home (1990) Longnecks & Short Stories (1992)
Singles from Too Cold at Home
"Too Cold at Home" Released: July 16, 1990 "Brother Jukebox" Released: November 26, 1990 "Blame It on Texas" Released: March 19, 1991 "Your Love Is a Miracle" Released: July 1, 1991 "Broken Promise Land" Released: October 1991

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B[2]

Also featured on this album is the song "Friends in Low Places", which was recorded by Garth Brooks on his 1990 album No Fences. Brooks's rendition of the song, released as a single in late 1990, spent four weeks at Number One that year, and has since become a country classic.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Too Cold at Home"	Bobby Harden	3:42
2.	"Brother Jukebox"	Paul Craft	3:05
3.	"Blame It on Texas"	Ronnie Rogers, Mark Wright	2:51
4.	"Your Love Is a Miracle"	Bill Kenner, Wright	2:49
5.	"Broken Promise Land"	Bill Rice, Sharon Vaughn	3:06
6.	"Too Good a Memory"	Lewis Anderson, Wright	2:41
7.	"Friends in Low Places"	Earl Bud Lee, Dewayne Blackwell	3:28
8.	"Lucky Man"	Rogers, Wright	3:24
9.	"Hey You There in the Mirror"	Jim Rushing, Herb McCullough	2:51
10.	"Danger at My Door"	Wright	3:15

Personnel

• Richard Bennett - electric guitar
• David Briggs - piano
• Jerry Carrigan - percussion
• Mark Chesnutt - lead vocals
• Glen Duncan - fiddle
• Pat Flynn - acoustic guitar
• Paul Franklin - steel guitar
• Owen Hale - drums
• Bill Kenner - reggae guitar
• Jana King - background vocals
• Phil Naish - synthesizer
• Steve Nathan - piano
• Mark O'Connor - fiddle
• Lynn Peterzell - percussion
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano
• Matt Rollings - piano
• Brent Rowan - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Lisa Silver - background vocals
• Milton Sledge - drums
• Biff Watson - acoustic guitar
• Bergen White - background vocals
• Dennis Wilson - background vocals
• Glenn Worf - bass guitar
• Bob Wray - bass guitar
• Mark Wright - background vocals
• Curtis Young - background vocals

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1990–1991) Peak position Canadian Country Albums (RPM) 23 US Billboard 200[3] 132 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[4] 12

Year-end charts Chart (1991) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[5] 15 Chart (1992) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[6] 60