Daryle Singletary (album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Daryle Singletary
| type = studio
| artist = Daryle Singletary
| cover = daryledebut.jpg
| alt =
| released = May 23, 1995
| recorded = 1994–1995 at Sound Stage Studio and Loud Recording - Nashville, Tennessee{{cite AV media notes |title=Daryle Singletary |others=Daryle Singletary |year=1995 |type=CD booklet |publisher=Giant Records |id=24606}}
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Country
| length = 32:00
| label = Giant
| producer = James Stroud, Randy Travis, David Malloy
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = All Because of You
| next_year = 1996
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Daryle Singletary
| type = studio
| single1 = I'm Living Up to Her Low Expectations
| single1date = March 1995
| single2 = I Let Her Lie
| single2date = July 17, 1995
| single3 = Too Much Fun
| single3date = November 27, 1995
| single4 = Workin' It Out
| single4date = April 1996
}}
}}
Daryle Singletary is the debut studio album by American country music singer Daryle Singletary. It was released in 1995 (see 1995 in country music) via Giant Records Nashville. The album includes four singles: "I'm Living Up to Her Low Expectations", "I Let Her Lie", "Too Much Fun" and "Workin' It Out", all of which charted on the Billboard country singles charts between 1995 and 1996. Although "I Let Her Lie" and "Too Much Fun" were both Top 5 country hits, the album only peaked at #44 on Top Country Albums.
The track "My Heart's Too Broke (To Pay Attention)" was previously recorded by Mark Chesnutt on his 1993 album Almost Goodbye.
Critical reception
Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B+ rating, saying that Singletary "mines familiar honky-tonk sources on this stylish debut, but he has a terrific presence and a knack for inhabiting a lyric."{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,297649,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010031843/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,297649,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 10, 2012|title=Daryle Singletary review|last=Nash|first=Alanna|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|accessdate=25 February 2010|date=16 June 1995}}
Track listing
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| title1 = Too Much Fun
| writer1 = Curtis Wright, T.J. Knight
| length1 = 2:45
| title2 = I'm Living Up to Her Low Expectations
| writer2 = Bob McDill, Tommy Rocco
| length2 = 3:08
| title3 = There's a Cold Spell Moving In
| writer3 = Randy Travis, Jerry Foster, Ron Avis
| length3 = 3:22
| title4 = Ordinary Heroes
| writer4 = Tim Johnson, Alex Call
| length4 = 3:09
| title5 = I Let Her Lie
| writer5 = Johnson
| length5 = 2:58
| title6 = A Love That Never Died
| writer6 = Skip Ewing, Donny Kees
| length6 = 3:46
| title7 = Workin' It Out
| writer7 = Johnson, Brett Jones
| length7 = 3:05
| title8 = My Heart's Too Broke (To Pay Attention)
| writer8 = Phil Barnhart, Kim Williams, Lonnie Wilson
| length8 = 2:43
| title9 = Would These Arms Be in Your Way
| writer9 = Hank Cochran, Vern Gosdin, Red Lane
| length9 = 3:08
| title10 = What Am I Doing There
| writer10 = Buddy Brock, Zack Turner
| length10 = 3:49
}}
Personnel
- Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar
- Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
- Paul Franklin – steel guitar
- Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
- Rob Hajacos – fiddle
- Dann Huff – electric guitar
- Paul Leim – drums
- Brent Mason – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
- Terry McMillan – harmonica
- Jimmy Nichols – organ on "I Let Her Lie"
- Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano
- Matt Rollings – piano
- Daryle Singletary – lead vocals
- Rhonda Vincent – background vocals on "Would These Arms Be in Your Way"
- Glenn Worf – bass guitar
- Curtis Wright – background vocals
- Curtis Young – background vocals
Chart performance
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! Chart (1995) ! Peak |
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums
| align="center"| 44 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers
| align="center"| 27 |
References
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