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| Released | October 8, 2002 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | BNA | |||
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Pinmonkey is a studio album by American country music group Pinmonkey. It was issued in late 2002 on BNA Records. The album peaked at number 17 on the Top Country Albums chart and produced two top 40 country singles: "Barbed Wire and Roses" and "I Drove All Night". It is also their only major-label release.
Before signing with BNA Records in 2002, Pinmonkey self-released an album titled Speak No Evil. Record executive Joe Galante allowed the band to release this project while signing to BNA Records, as he thought doing so would allow them to have a project to promote while on tour. [1]
Pinmonkey contains two singles. First was "Barbed Wire and Roses", which peaked at number 25 on Billboard Hot Country Songs in 2002. The only other single was a cover of Cyndi Lauper's "I Drove All Night", which the band took to number 36 on the same chart. [2] According to an interview with Country Standard Time, the decision to cover "I Drove All Night" was recommended by group member Chad Jeffers's girlfriend, who was a fan of Lauper's music. The band intentionally based their cover off an acoustic rendition sung by Jeffers, so as not to let Lauper's original version influence their own. Additionally, lead singer Michael Reynolds sought out a cover of Dolly Parton's "Falling Out of Love with Me" because he wanted to include a Parton cover on the album; however, he did not think the song was suitable for Pinmonkey until Chad began singing it in conversation. [3] The Parton cover also includes her on backing vocals. [4] [5] Additional cover songs on the album include Sugar Ray's "Fly", Gwilym Emyr Owen III's "Augusta", and the Staples Singers's "Stay with Us". [4] [5]
Deborah Evans Price of Billboard found influences of bluegrass, swamp rock, and country rock in their sound. She also praised Michael Reynolds's lead vocals as "a clear, high tenor adept at up-tempos and stunning on...ballads". [6] Jack Leaver of The Grand Rapids Press rated the album three-and-a-half stars out of four, praising the cover songs in particular, as well as the use of Dobro and vocal harmony. [5] AllMusic writer Erik Hage praised the "tight musicianship" and Reynolds's lead vocals, giving the album four out of five stars. [7]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Slow Train' Comin'" | Ashley Gorley, Melissa Peirce, Bryan Simpson | 3:49 |
| 2. | "Jar of Clay" | Michael Reynolds | 2:50 |
| 3. | "Every Time It Rains" | Leslie Satcher, Bobby Carmichael | 3:50 |
| 4. | "Augusta" | Gwil Owen | 4:54 |
| 5. | "Fly" | Sugar Ray | 3:20 |
| 6. | "Falling Down" | Jeff Skorik | 3:38 |
| 7. | "The Longest Road" | Reynolds | 4:12 |
| 8. | "Falling Out of Love with Me" | Dolly Parton | 3:44 |
| 9. | "Barbed Wire and Roses" | Tia Sillers, Mark Selby, Sean Locke | 3:15 |
| 10. | "I Drove All Night" | Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg | 3:29 |
| 11. | "Stay with Us" | Mavis Staples | 3:20 |
| Chart (2002) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard 200 | 126 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 17 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers | 3 |
Pinmonkey was an American country music band from Nashville, Tennessee. The band was formed in 2002 by Michael Reynolds, brothers Michael Jeffers and Chad Jeffers, and Rick Schell. The band released two albums in 2002: Speak No Evil independently, and Pinmonkey via BNA Records. The latter produced two singles in "Barbed Wire and Roses" and a cover of Cyndi Lauper's "I Drove All Night", both of which charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Schell and Chad Jeffers both left in 2005, with Mike Crouch briefly replacing the former. After these membership changes, Pinmonkey released their third album Big Shiny Cars on Back Porch Records in 2006 before disbanding. Afterward, the Jeffers brothers became backing musicians for other artists, Schell joined Pure Prairie League, and Reynolds released a solo album. Pinmonkey received general critical favor for Reynolds's singing voice, bluegrass and country rock influences, and the breadth of their cover song choices.
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