Mark Chesnutt Biography

Mark Chesnutt was born in 1963 in Beaumont, Texas. His father was an avid music aficionado, collecting albums and singing frequently, and Mark’s earliest experiences were singing alongside his dad when he was still just a teenager. At the age of seventeen, Mark and his father journeyed to Nashville so that he might begin serious pursuit of a career in country music.

For the next ten years, Mark recorded whenever possible and performed around Nashville in local bars and clubs. Eventually, he garnered some local attention and by the late 1980’s, he had enough written and recorded material to consider creating a debut album. By 1990, Mark Chesnutt had signed to MCA Records and released Too Cold at Home, which featured eight of his original songs written over the last decade. The debut was an enormous success, spawning five hit singles: “Blame it on Texas,” “Too Cold at Home,” “Your Love is a Miracle,” “Brother Jukebox,” and “Broken Promise Land.” The album ultimately rose to platinum status and launched Mark Chesnutt as a country music sensation.

Since that time, Mark Chesnutt has released multiple hit albums, including: Longnecks & Short Stories (1992), Almost Goodbye (1993), What a Way to Live (1994), Wings (1995), Thank God for Believers (1997), I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing (1999), Lost in the Feeling (2000), Mark Chesnutt (2002), Savin’ the Honky Tonk (2004), Heard it in a Love Song (2006), Rollin’ with the Flow (2008), and Outlaw (2010.) The albums have spawned the number one country hits: “I’ll Think of Something,” “It Sure Is Monday,” “Almost Goodbye,” “I Just Wanted You to Know,” “Gonna Get a Life,” “It’s a Little Too Late,” and “I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing,” a cover of the Aerosmith hit featured in the film Armageddon.

Mark Chesnutt continues to perform and record. He recently released his latest single, “When the Lights Go Out (Tracie’s Song),” in 2013.