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Sunday Morning to Saturday Night

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Sunday Morning to Saturday Night
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 23, 1997 (1997-09-23)
GenreCountry
Length39:59
LabelRising Tide
ProducerEmory Gordy Jr.; Track 5 co-produced by Randy Scruggs
Matraca Berg chronology
The Speed of Grace
(1994)
Sunday Morning to Saturday Night
(1997)
The Masters
(1998)

Sunday Morning to Saturday Night is the third studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Matraca Berg. It was released in 1997 via Rising Tide Records. The album contains the singles "That Train Don't Run", "Back When We Were Beautiful", and "Back in the Saddle".

Content

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The album's first single was "That Train Don't Run", which charted at number 59 on Billboard Hot Country Songs in 1997.[1] Pinmonkey later covered this song on their 2006 album Big Shiny Cars, and also issued their version as a single that year.[2] "Back When We Were Beautiful" was issued as a single in late 1997, but it did not chart.[3] Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris covered this song on their 2013 collaborative album Old Yellow Moon.[4] "Back in the Saddle" charted at number 51 in 1998, becoming Berg's last chart entry.[1]

Critical reception

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Rating it four-and-a-half out of five stars, Thom Owens of AllMusic stated, "Nearly every song on the record either sparkles with wit or is impeccably observed and affecting. Similarly, the music is fresh and alive, ranging from hard-rocking honky tonk to country-folk to country-rock to moving ballads."[5]

Track listing

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All songs written by Matraca Berg; co-writers in parentheses.

  1. "Along for the Ride" (Sharon Rice) - 3:45
  2. "That Train Don't Run" (Gary Harrison) - 3:15
  3. "Back in the Saddle" (Stan Lynch) - 3:16
  4. "Here You Come Raining on Me" (Rice, Jeff Hanna) - 3:02
  5. "Some Peope Fall, Some People Fly" (Randy Scruggs) - 3:13
  6. "Back When We Were Beautiful" - 3:40
  7. "Sunday Morning to Saturday Night" (Harrison) - 3:39
  8. "Good Ol' Girl" (Scruggs) - 3:54
  9. "Give Me Tonight" (Scruggs) - 3:23
  10. "If I Were an Angel" (Harrison, Kim Carnes) - 4:06
  11. "The Resurrection" (Alice Randall) - 4:34

Chart performance

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Chart (1997) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 48


References

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  1. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (2017). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2017. Record Research, Inc. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-89820-229-8.
  2. ^ "Going for Adds" (PDF). Radio & Records: 21. March 24, 2006.
  3. ^ Elysa Gardner (November 16, 1997). "Yes, she sings too". The Los Angeles Times. pp. 68, 72. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  4. ^ "Old Yellow Moon". AllMusic. Retrieved November 5, 2024.
  5. ^ "Sunday Morning to Saturday Night". AllMusic. Retrieved November 5, 2024.