Heartbreak Town (song) explained

Heartbreak Town
Cover:heartbreaktownsong.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Dixie Chicks
Album:Fly
Released:June 25, 2001
Recorded:1999
Genre:Country
Length:3:53
Label:Monument
Producer:Blake Chancey
Paul Worley
Prev Title:If I Fall You're Going Down with Me
Prev Year:2001
Next Title:Some Days You Gotta Dance
Next Year:2001

"Heartbreak Town" is a song written by Darrell Scott and recorded by American country music group the Dixie Chicks. It was released on June 25, 2001, as the seventh single from their second studio album Fly (1999). The song was produced by Blake Chancey and Paul Worley. The song is a country ballad about a family's disappointment upon moving to Nashville.

The song received mostly favorable reviews but became the group's first single to miss the top-twenty on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, peaking at number 21.

Content

The song tells the story of a young family's disappointment upon moving to Nashville.[1] [2]

History

Darrell Scott wrote and recorded "Heartbreak Town" for his 1997 album Aloha from Nashville.

The song peaked at number 23 on the U.S. country charts.[3] It also reached number 21 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles.[4] The Dixie Chicks performed the song on their 2001 Fly Tour and it was featured on the 2010 greatest hits album The Essential Dixie Chicks.

Pleased with the song's success, the Dixie Chicks later covered Scott's "Long Time Gone" for their 2002 album Home.[5]

Notes and References

  1. News: Malkin. Nina. Fly (Monument). Request. October 1999.
  2. Web site: Milliken. Dan. The 201 Greatest Singles of the Decade, Part 5: #120-#101. 18 December 2009 . Country Universe. 24 October 2012.
  3. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research.
  4. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. 2008. 127. 978-0-89820-177-2.
  5. Web site: Schadt. Paul and Cathy Martindale. Dixie Chicks Interview. Racing Country USA. 24 October 2012.