Letters from Home (album)

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Letters from Home
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 20, 2004
Recorded2003-4
Studio Ocean Way Recording, Essential Sound and Stringtown Records (vocals)
Genre Country
Length38:07
Label Warner Bros. Nashville
Producer Byron Gallimore
John Michael Montgomery
John Michael Montgomery chronology
Pictures
(2002)
Letters from Home
(2004)
Time Flies
(2008)
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Letters From Home is the ninth studio album by John Michael Montgomery released April 20, 2004. It features the singles "Letters from Home", "Cool", and "Goes Good with Beer". Although "Cool", the first single, failed to chart, the title track reached #2 [2] on the Hot Country Songs charts in mid-2004, becoming Montgomery's first Top 10 country hit since "The Little Girl" in 2000. "Goes Good with Beer" peaked at #51 [3] on the same chart, and after its release, he exited Warner Bros.' roster.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Good Ground" (Bill Luther, Bob Regan, Naoise Sheridan) - 4:09
  2. "Letters from Home" (Tony Lane, David Lee) - 4:27
  3. "That's What I'm Talking About" (Paul Nelson, Tom Shapiro) - 3:24
  4. "Look at Me Now" (Mike Geiger, Vicky McGehee, D. Vincent Williams) - 3:22
  5. "Goes Good with Beer" (Casey Beathard, Ed Hill) - 4:26
  6. "Cool" (Harley Allen, Brice Long) - 3:38
  7. "It Rocked" (Marty Dodson, Paul Overstreet) - 3:50
  8. "That Changes Everything" (Lane, Lee) - 3:57
  9. "Break This Chain" (Jim Collins, Billy Yates) - 2:52
  10. "Little Devil" (Blair Daly, Danny Orton) - 3:47

Personnel

As listed in liner notes. [4]

Charts

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