My Life's Been a Country Song

My Life's Been a Country Song
Studio album by Chris Cagle
Released	February 19, 2008 (2008-02-19)
Genre	Country
Length	39:06
Label	Capitol Nashville
Producer	Chris Cagle Scott Hendricks
Chris Cagle chronology
Anywhere but Here (2005) My Life's Been a Country Song (2008) The Best of Chris Cagle (2010)
Singles from My Life's Been a Country Song
"What Kinda Gone" Released: July 23, 2007 "No Love Songs" Released: 2008 "Never Ever Gone" Released: 2008

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Engine 145	[2]

My Life's Been a Country Song is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Chris Cagle. It was released on February 19, 2008, through Capitol Records Nashville. The album's lead-off single was "What Kinda Gone", which peaked at No. 3 on the country music charts in April 2008, the second single, "No Love Songs", peaked at No. 53, while the third single, "Never Ever Gone", failed to chart.

The album debuted at number eight on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 37,000 copies in its first week. It also debuted at number one on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. ^[3] It is also Cagle's final album for Capitol.

The song "I Don't Wanna Live" was also recorded by Josh Gracin on his 2008 album We Weren't Crazy as "I Don't Want to Live". "Keep Me From Loving You" was also recorded by Clay Walker on his 2010 album, She Won't Be Lonely Long .

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"What Kinda Gone"	Chip Davis Dave Berg Candy Cameron	3:01
2.	"No Love Songs"	George Teren Craig Wiseman	3:58
3.	"It's Good to Be Back"	Andy Childs Steve Mandile	3:17
4.	"I Don't Wanna Live"	Brett James Blair Daly	3:37
5.	"Never Ever Gone"	Michael Dulaney Neil Thrasher Tom Shapiro	3:01
6.	"If It Isn't One Thing"	Teren Monty Criswell	3:42
7.	"Keep Me from Loving You"	Thrasher Wendell Mobley Lisa Hentrich	3:06
8.	"Little Sundress"	Dallas Davidson Rhett Akins	4:01
9.	"My Heart Move On"	James Daly	4:11
10.	"My Life's Been a Country Song"	John Wiggins Clay Mills	3:17
11.	"Change Me"	John Kennedy Tammi Kidd Gregory Becker	3:55

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic. ^[4]

Vocals

• Chris Cagle - lead vocals
• Perry Coleman – background vocals
• Harry Stinson – background vocals
• Russell Terrell – background vocals
• Neil Thrasher – background vocals

Musicians

Tom Bukovac – electric guitar John Carroll – electric guitar Eric Darken – percussion Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar Mike Johnson – lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar Troy Lancaster – electric guitar

B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar Greg Morrow – drums, percussion Gordon Mote – piano, Hammond B-3 organ, Hammond organ Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar Jonathan Yudkin – fiddle, mandolin, banjo

Production

Denise Arguijo – art direction Drew Bollman – assistant, engineer, mixing Chris Cagle – audio production, producer Joana Carter – art direction Mariana Chavez – photography Greg Droman – mixing Jedd Hackett – digital editing Michelle Hall — art direction

Russ Harrington - photography Scott Hendricks – audio production, overdub engineer, producer John Netti – assistant Justin Niebank – engineer, mixing Lowell Reynolds – assistant Patrick Thrasher – digital editing Hank Williams - mastering

Chart performance

Weekly charts Chart (2008) Peak position US Billboard 200 [5] 8 US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [6] 1

Year-end charts Chart (2008) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [7] 58

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Engine 145 review ^[usurped]
3. Katie Hasty, "Johnson's 'Static' Prevails Again On Album Chart", Billboard.com, February 27, 2008.
4. "Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved March 7, 2023.
5. "Chris Cagle Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
6. "Chris Cagle Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
7. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2008". Billboard. Retrieved December 3, 2020.