Track Listing
1. Impossible, The
2. Joe's Place
3. Brokenheartsville
4. She Only Smokes When She Drinks
5. Everything's a Thing
6. That Would Be Her
7. Cool to Be a Fool
8. Can't Hold a Halo to You
9. You Can't Break the Fall
10. You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet
11. Life Don't Have to Mean Nothin' at All
12. Man With a Memory
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Aubrey Haynie, Bryan Sutton, Jerry Douglas, Vince Gill, Vinnie Colaiuta | | Producer: | Brent Rowan | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Joe Nichols (vocals); Brent Rowan (acoustic & electric guitars, tiple); Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitar, mandolin); Dan Dugmore (steel guitar); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Chris Thile (mandolin); Aubrey Haynie (fiddle); Tim Lauer (accordion, Wurlitzer piano, Fender Rhodes piano, harmonium, organ, Mellotron, keyboards); Gordon Mote (piano); David Hungate (bass); Shannon Forrest, Vinnie Colaiuta (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); Harry Stinson, Vince Gill, Wes Hightower (background vocals).
"Brokenheartsville" was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.
If you think that photogenic young country singer Joe Nichols looks more like a Calvin Klein model than a honky-tonk warrior, just count your blessings that he doesn't feel bound to don an ill-fitting cowboy hat in the vain quest for the kind of phony image purveyed by far too many of his peers. Similarly, MAN WITH A MEMORY finds Nichols unafraid of sounding contemporary without completely abandoning his country roots. There's no hokey, half-assed western swing number tossed in here for "authenticity;" instead, the songs seamlessly blend rock, pop, and country in a manner that finds Nichols sounding equally at home with all three. That said, he does possess enough of a sense of history to pay homage to country legend Tom T. Hall by covering "Life Don't Have to Mean Nothin' at All." And it's no shameful thing when a Hall song turns out to be one of the best on anybody's album.
Editorial Reviews
...Blue-collar meditations on love, loss, and the crapshoot of life... - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (08/02/2002)
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