Track Listing

1. Up North (Down Douth, Back East, Out West)
2. Life After Lovin' You
3. Goodbye Is the Wrong Way to Go
4. What's It Gonna Take
5. She Used to Say That to Me
6. Up and Down
7. You Just Keep On
8. That's What Honky Tonks Are For
9. You Were, You Are, You'll Always Be
10 . I'm Lonesome Too

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Album notes

Personnel: Wade Hayes (vocals, electric guitar); Biff Watson, Mark Casstevens (acoustic guitar); Brent Mason, Chris Leuzinger (electric guitar); Paul Franklin (slide guitar, steel guitar); Sonny Garrish, Bruce C. Bouton, (steel guitar); Rob Hajacos, Audrey Haynie (mandolin, fiddle); Reese Wynans, John Barlow Jarvis (piano, organ); John Hobbs (keyboards); Glenn Worf, Michael Rhodes (bass); Chad Cromwell, Lonnie Wilson (drums, percussion); Brian Siewert (programming); Lianna Manis, John Wesley Ryles, Dennis Wilson (background vocals). Producers: Don Cook, Ronnie Dunn, Terry McBride. Recorded at Emerald Entertainment, Ocean Way Nashville, and Loud Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.

Reviews

~~ If every barroom in the world but one burned down, it's easy to imagine Wade Hayes standing in it long after midnight, belting out hard-hitting, alcohol- and despair-drenched honky-tonk laments like "Life After Lovin' You" and "That's What Honky Tonks Are For" from this fourth album. The Oklahoma-born Hayes possesses a choked-down, throbbing baritone that's delightfully reminiscent of Waylon Jennings. On swaggering barnburners like "What's It Gonna Take," pleading laments like "Goodbye Is the Wrong Way to Go," and his dazzling rendition of "She Used to Say That to Me," this Telecaster-toting cowboy serves up an eerie, compelling hard-country mix of macho nonchalance and painful vulnerability. On "I'm Lonesome Too," which has all the markings of a showstopper, Hayes serves up a tortured, yearning Chris Isaak-style falsetto that showcases yet another winning dimension of his rock-solid talents and stalwart neo-honky-tonk sensibilities. -- Bob Allen

~~ Possessed of a flexible baritone that can ride roughly over the up-tempo numbers and croon smoothly through the ballads, Hayes is equally effective in either mode. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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