Mark Chesnutt

Neotraditional country honky tonker Mark Chesnutt parlayed a solid grounding in classic country into chart-topping stardom during the ’90s. Growing up influenced by his father, Chesnutt’s debut album, Too Cold at Home, was released in 1990, and the title track became his first hit, climbing into the country top five.

With a style that blended George Jones, Merle Haggard and Bob Wills, Chesnutt went on to score four more top ten hits from the album: the number one “Brother Jukebox,” “Blame it on Texas,” “Your Love is a Miracle,” and “Broken Promise Land.” By the time that string ran out, Chesnutt had finished his follow-up, 1992’s Longnecks & Short Stories.

It gave him four more top five singles in “Bubba Shot the Jukebox” (one of Chesnutt’s signature songs), “Old Flames Have New Names,” the chart-topping “I’ll Think of Something,” and “Ol’ Country.”

Chesnutt kept his hit-machine status going on 1993’s Almost Goodbye, which gave him three more chart-toppers in the title track, “It Sure is Monday,” and “I Just Wanted You to Know.” 1994’s What a Way to Live offered the number one “Gonna Get a Life” and the number two “Goin’ Through the Big D.”