Heard It in a Love Song is the twelfth studio album released by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Mark Chesnutt

Mark Chesnutt

Mark Nelson Chesnutt is an American country music singer. Chesnutt recorded and released his first album, Doing My Country Thing, in the late-1980s on private independent record label, Axbar Records, with the vinyl album version now a collector's item...

. Its title track is a cover of The Marshall Tucker Band

The Marshall Tucker Band

The Marshall Tucker Band is an American Southern rock band originally from Spartanburg, South Carolina. The band's blend of rock, rhythm and blues, jazz, country, and gospel helped establish the Southern rock genre in the early 1970s...

's single from 1977. Both it and "That Good That Bad" were released as singles, though neither charted. "A Hard Secret to Keep", originally found on Chesnutt's 2004 album Savin' the Honky Tonk

Savin' the Honky Tonk

Savin' the Honky Tonk is the eleventh studio album by American country music artist Mark Chesnutt. His first album for the Vivtaon! label, it features the singles "The Lord Loves the Drinkin' Man", "I'm a Saint", and "A Hard Secret to Keep", which reached #34, #33, and #59, respectively, on the Hot...

, is reprised here. "Apartment #9" is a cover of a Tammy Wynette

Tammy Wynette

Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....

 song, and "Dreaming My Dreams with You" a cover of the Waylon Jennings

Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...

 song.

Track listing

1. "Heard It in a Love Song
   Heard It in a Love Song
   "Heard It in a Love Song" is a song by The Marshall Tucker Band, written by Toy Caldwell off their 1977 album Carolina Dreams.It was the highest charting single by The Marshall Tucker Band, reaching #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in March 1977....
   
   " (Toy Caldwell
   Toy Caldwell
   Toy Talmadge Caldwell Jr. was the lead guitar player and a founding member of the 1970s Southern Rock group The Marshall Tucker Band. He was a member of the band from 1973 to 1983.-Early life:...
   
   ) - 4:07
2. "Dreaming My Dreams with You" (Allen Reynolds
   Allen Reynolds
   Allen Reynolds is an American record producer and songwriter who works primarily in the country music field.Reynolds was born in North Little Rock, Arkansas and started writing songs during his college years...
   
   ) - 3:59
3. "That Good That Bad" (Mark Chesnutt, Roger Springer
   Roger Springer
   Roger Springer is an American country music artist. Springer's only single as a solo artist, "The Right One Left," was released in 1992 on MCA Nashville and peaked at #69 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.In 1998, Springer formed the country music trio Springer! with Shara...
   
   , Clessie Lee Morrissette, Jr.) - 2:42
4. "A Hard Secret to Keep" (Jim McBride, Jerry Salley
   Jerry Salley
   Jerry Salley is an American country and bluegrass singer-songwriter. Salley won SESAC's 2003 "Country Music Songwriter of the Year” award.Salley has been writing and singing in Nashville, Tennessee since 1982...
   
   ) - 3:19
5. "A Day in the Life of a Fool" (Eddie Noack) - 2:14
6. "You Can't Find Many Kissers" (Hank Williams, Jr.
   Hank Williams, Jr.
   Randall Hank Williams , better known as Hank Williams, Jr. and Bocephus, is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country...
   
   ) - 2:36
7. "Apartment #9" (Johnny Paycheck
   Johnny Paycheck
   Johnny Paycheck was the legal name of Donald Eugene Lytle , a country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It"...
   
   , Bobby Austin) - 2:31
8. "A Shoulder to Cry On" (Merle Haggard
   Merle Haggard
   Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,...
   
   ) - 3:14
9. "Goodbye Comes Hard for Me" (Tommy Collins) - 3;15
10. "Lost Highway" (Leon Payne) - 2:44