My Life's Been a Country Song

2008 studio album by Chris Cagle

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

^ Allmusic review
^ Engine 145 review Archived December 18, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
^ Katie Hasty, "Johnson's 'Static' Prevails Again On Album Chart", Billboard.com, February 27, 2008.
^ "Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved March 7, 2023.
^ "Chris Cagle Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
^ "Chris Cagle Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2008". Billboard. Retrieved December 3, 2020.