Jessica Danielle Andrews Chagnon was born on 29 December 1983 in Huntingdon, Tennessee, and discovered her passion for singing in the fourth grade. She planned on dancing in her school's talent show, but her sister convinced her to sing Dolly Parton's 'I Will Always Love You' instead, and a tape found its way to producer Byron Gallimore, who signed her to DreamWorks Records Nashville. At the age of 15, she released her debut album, 'Heart Shaped World', using 12 of the 50-plus songs that Gallimore had her record, and its debut single was 'I Will Be There For You', reaching No. 28 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in 1999. In April 2000 she made her debut on the Grand Ole Opry, and by the end of the year she'd had two more Top 40 country singles in 'You Go First (Do You Wanna Kiss)' and 'Unbreakable Heart', although the fourth single, 'I Do Now', didn't fare as well. The album itself peaked at No. 24 on the Top Country Albums charts, and at the 2000 Academy of Country Music awards she won the award for Top New Female Vocalist. Her second album 'Who Am I' came out in 2001, and was described by a then 17-year old Andrews as a more mature effort than 'Heart Shaped World', because it focused more on the emotions that come with growing up. The lead single was the title track, and it became her only Number One (and only Top Ten) hit on the country music charts. The success of 'Who I Am' also earned her a nomination for the Horizon award at the 2001 Country Music Association awards, while the album itself received RIAA gold certification for sales of 500,000 copies only four weeks after its release. Her third studio album was released in 2003, and 'Now' featured more of an emphasis on ballads than her first two records. In late 2004 Andrews charted with a duet with Bret Michaels of the rock band Poison, entitled 'All I Ever Needed', for his solo album 'Freedom Of Sound', with the song being Michaels' only country hit. Shortly afterwards Andrews began work on her fourth studio album, tentatively titled 'Ain't That Life', and two taster singles were released, although 'The Marrying Kind' failed to chart, while 'Summer Girl' peaked at No. 46 in mid-2005. The album was all set to go when DreamWorks' recording division was dissolved, and all the albums in their pipeline were cancelled. In October 2008 she signed with Lyric Street Records' subsidiary imprint, Carolwood Records, and released the single 'Everything', which went to No. 45 in early 2009, but once again her album was pushed back and then cancelled when Carolwood Records closed, and she was the only artist not to be transferred to its parent label, Lyric Street. In November 2010 Geffen Records released a greatest hits album titled 'Icon', but that's the last that we've heard from Jessica Andrews, and so as it's bad enough having one album cancelled, let alone two, here is what would have been her fourth studio album 'Ain't That Life'.
Track listing
01 Ain't That Life
02 Ain't That Something
03 Bad Girl Blues
04 Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You
05 Forever To Go
06 I Need A Man
07 I'm Going Back
08 The Marrying Kind
09 Me
10 Poison's In The Sugar
11 Sing This City Home
12 Straight To The Bone
13 Summer Girl
14 Walking Out The Door
15 When We Get There
16 That's Who I Was
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