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artist Chris LeDoux for

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. Overall, it is his 23rd album. Although it produced no top 40 singles, the single "This Cowboy's Hat" would be covered by LeDoux's son,

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and Chase Rice for the latter's album ''

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''. "Workin' Man's Dollar" and "Riding for a Fall" were also released as singles. The album peaked at #36 on the ''

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chart.

Content

"Settin' the Woods on Fire" was previously recorded by many artists including

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, and

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. "Shot Full of Love" was originally recorded by Juice Newton from her 1981 album, '' Juice''. Billy Ray Cyrus would record his own version in 1998. "Cadillac Cowboy" would later be covered by Jerry Jeff Walker, Heather Myles, and Glenn Erickson. Several of the songs on this album are re-recorded versions of songs from LeDoux's earlier albums. "Cadillac Cowboy" was originally featured on 1988's '' Ledoux and the Saddle Boogie Band'' while "This Cowboy's Hat" was first recorded in 1982 for his album ''Used to Want to Be a Cowboy''.

Track listing

Personnel

As listed in liner notes *Chris LeDoux - lead vocals, acoustic guitar *Mark Sissel -

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*Gary Bodily -

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

*Bobby Jensen -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

B-3 organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

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*K.W. Turnbow - drums

Additional musicians

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*Jimmy Mattingly - fiddle *

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*Wayland Patton - backing vocals * Brent Rowan -

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, electric guitar,

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*Curtis Young - backing vocals

Chart performance

References