The New Frontier (album)

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The New Frontier
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 19, 1993
Genre Country
Length33:09
Label Liberty
Producer Chuck Howard, Cactus Moser, and Curtis Stone
Highway 101 chronology
Bing Bang Boom
(1991)
The New Frontier
(1993)
Reunited
(1996)
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Review scores
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The New Frontier is an album by the American country music band Highway 101. Released in 1993, it was the band's only album on Liberty Records. Its only charting single was "You Baby You", which reached number 67 on the country music charts.

Contents

"No Chance to Dance" was previously recorded by Johnny Rodriguez in 1988 for his album "Gracias" and his version was released as a single reaching No. 72 on the charts in 1989. And it was also recorded in 1990 by Bob DiPiero, Dennis Robbins, and John Scott Sherrill (the writers of the song) when they formed the band Billy Hill, their version never made it on the charts.

Track listing

  1. "You Baby You" (Chris McCarty, Gary Mallaber) – 3:22
  2. "Home on the Range" (Cactus Moser, Chuck Jones) – 2:59
  3. "Tell Me More" (Moser, Jones) – 2:46
  4. "No Chance to Dance" (Bob DiPiero, John Scott Sherrill, Dennis Robbins) – 3:08
  5. "Who's Gonna Love You" (Curtis Stone, Matraca Berg) – 3:37
  6. "The Last Frontier" (Moser, Jones) – 3:57
  7. "Fastest Healin' Broken Heart" (Curtis Stone, Pat Bunch) – 2:38
  8. "Love Walks" (Moser, Mike Noble, Jeff Pennig) – 4:01
  9. "You Are What You Do" (DiPiero, John Jarrard, Mark D. Sanders) – 2:59
  10. "I Wonder Where the Love Goes" (Moser, Jones) – 3:42

Personnel

Highway 101

Additional musicians

Technical

Singles

YearSingleB-sideUS Country Chart
1993"You Baby You""You Are What You Do"# 67
1993"Who's Gonna Love You""Who's Gonna Love You"# -

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References

  1. Owens, Thom. "Highway 101 – The New Frontier". AllMusic. Retrieved 2009-10-10.