The Metropolitan Hotel

The Metropolitan Hotel
Studio album by Chely Wright
Released	February 22, 2005
Genre	Country
Label	Painted Red/Dualtone
Producer	Chely Wright (tracks 1, 5, 6, 8, 11) Chely Wright and Jeff Huskins (tracks 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 12) Stephony Smith and Chely Wright (track 10)
Chely Wright chronology
Everything (2004) The Metropolitan Hotel (2005) Lifted Off the Ground (2010)

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The Metropolitan Hotel is the sixth studio album released by American country music artist Chely Wright. It was her first album for the Dualtone label, after a failed deal with the Vivaton! label. This album produced four singles, of which two were Top 40 hits on the country music charts: the number 40 "Back of the Bottom Drawer" and "The Bumper of My SUV" at number 35. The third and fourth singles ("The River" and a cover of Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell", respectively), both failed to chart. Wright left Dualtone after the release of this album.

Track listing

1. "It's the Song" (Bonnie Baker, Katrina Elam) – 3:57
2. "Back of the Bottom Drawer" (Liz Rose, Chely Wright) – 3:43
3. "I Got Him Ready for You" (Wright) – 3:19
4. "The River" (Wright) – 6:29
5. "Just the Way We Do It" (Brett Beavers, Wright) – 3:39
6. "The Bumper of My SUV" (Wright) – 4:41
7. "Your Shirt" (Lisa Drew, Pound Lamb) – 3:54
8. "Between a Mother and a Child" (Wright) – 4:09
9. "Southside of Lonesome" (Wright) – 4:00
10. "Wheels" (Stephony Smith, Wright) – 3:43
11. "C'est La Vie (You Never Can Tell)" (Chuck Berry) – 3:13
12. "What If I Can't Say No Again" (Ed Hill, David Frasier, Josh Kear) – 4:11

Personnel

As listed in liner notes:^[1]

• Steve Brewster – drums
• Tom Bukovac – electric guitar
• Jimmy Carter – bass guitar
• Eric Darken – percussion
• Chip Davis – background vocals
• Stuart Duncan – mandolin
• Shannon Forrest – drums
• Vince Gill – background vocals
• Tony Harrell – keyboards
• Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
• Mark Hill – bass guitar
• Sean Hurley – bass guitar
• Travis Javis – piano
• Jeff King – electric guitar
• Chris McHugh – drums
• Greg Morrow – drums
• Gordon Mote – piano, keyboards
• James T. Olsen – electric guitar
• Russ Pahl – steel guitar
• Billy Panda – acoustic guitar
• Scotty Sanders – steel guitar
• Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar
• Michael Hart Thompson – electric guitar
• Emily West – background vocals
• John D. Willis – acoustic guitar
• Chely Wright – lead vocals
• Jonathan Yudkin – mandolin

Strings on "Back of the Bottom Drawer" and "The River" performed by the Nashville String Machine, conducted and arranged by Steve W. Maldin. Strings on "Between a Mother and a Child" performed and arranged by Jonathan Yudkin.

Chart performance

Chart (2005)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	18
U.S. Billboard 200	96
U.S. Billboard Independent Albums	7

References

1. The Metropolitan Hotel (Media notes). Chely Wright. Dualtone Records. 2005. 80302-01200-2.