Feelin' Good Train

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Feelin' Good Train
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Studio album by
Sammy Kershaw
ReleasedJune 21, 1994
StudioEleven Eleven Sound Studios, Music Mill Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Country
Length34:38
Label Mercury
Producer Buddy Cannon
Norro Wilson
Sammy Kershaw chronology
Haunted Heart
(1993)
Feelin' Good Train
(1994)
Christmas Time's A-Comin'
(1995)
Singles from Feelin' Good Train
  1. "National Working Woman's Holiday"
    Released: June 28, 1994
  2. "Third Rate Romance"
    Released: August 30, 1994
  3. "Southbound"
    Released: December 3, 1994
  4. "If You're Gonna Walk, I'm Gonna Crawl"
    Released: March 18, 1995
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Feelin' Good Train is the third studio album by American country music artist Sammy Kershaw. It was released in 1994 (see 1994 in country music) on Mercury Records. The album produced four singles for Kershaw on the Billboard country charts. The first two singles were "National Working Woman's Holiday" and a cover of the Amazing Rhythm Aces' "Third Rate Romance", both of which peaked at #2. Following it was a cover of the Mac McAnally song "Southbound" at #27 and also "If You're Gonna Walk, I'm Gonna Crawl" at #18. Also included is a re-release of a duet with George Jones called "Never Bit a Bullet Like This", which was previously released on Jones' 1993 album High-Tech Redneck .

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Feelin' Good Train" Al Anderson, Mike Lawler3:34
2."Third Rate Romance" Russell Smith 3:21
3."If You Ever Come This Way Again" Dean Dillon, Donny Kees 3:19
4."National Working Woman's Holiday"James Dean Hicks, Roger Murrah, Pat Terry3:08
5."Southbound" Mac McAnally 4:31
6."Better Call a Preacher" Sammy Kershaw, Steven D. Cohen, Rick Lagneaux2:30
7."Paradise from Nine to One"Rick Bowles, Pat Bunch, Josh Leo 3:39
8."Too Far Gone to Leave"Rock Killough, Larry T. Wilson2:50
9."If You're Gonna Walk, I'm Gonna Crawl"Larry Bastian, Buddy Cannon 2:18
10."The Heart That Time Forgot" Tony Martin, Sterling Whipple3:07
11."Never Bit a Bullet Like This" (duet with George Jones)Jim Foster, Mark Petersen2:21
Total length:34:38

Personnel

As listed in liner notes. [1]

Strings by The Nashville String Machine conducted by Carl Gorodetzky

Chart performance

Chart (1994)Peak
position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [2] 9
US Billboard 200 [3] 73
Canadian RPM Country Albums2

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References

  1. Feelin' Good Train (Media notes). Sammy Kershaw. PolyGram Records. 1994. 314-522 125-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. "Sammy Kershaw Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  3. "Sammy Kershaw Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 21, 2021.