Cold Songs Top Ten: Too Cold At Home (#3)

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LIBERATION!!!!!! Yes, folks, I’m back at my regular seat at my favorite Tex-Mex restaurant, enjoying my chicken taco salad (CTS for short )!! Two years ago I was locked up in my house because of covid (back in the days when you had a mandatory 10-day quarantine). Hmm…I’ll make plans right now to stay home for Christmas 2024. Meanwhile, here’s a cool song with “cold” in the title. #3: Too Cold At Home - Mark Chesnutt Linda? NO. See the cowboy hat?? You won’t make it past the first note (which is on a steel guitar). Earlier in the countdown Ocean (@RebeccasFarm ) said she was looking for another song after I promised her another one about “cold love.” Here ‘tis! Tis song was written by Bobby Harden of the Harden Trio, which probably means nothing to anyone who’s not a country music fan. They had the 1966 hit “Tippy Toeing.” No sleeping little babies here; instead, a country song about what country music stereotypically does best. “It’s too hot to fish, too hot for golf, and too cold at home” is just a killer hook. And something you’ll only get in country music. I don’t know if it’s intentional or just my goofy mind, but it seems to me that Mark Chesnutt puts a little nod to the 1971 and 1972 Song of the Year, “Easy Loving,” in the way he holds the word easy in the song. Mark Chesnutt is still out there making music, but given that he was one of the neotraditionalists of the late 80s/early 90s you won’t find his music unless you look for it. Songs like this made him a star and endeared him to people like me who still like their country music country. Too Cold At Home Written by Bobby Harden Recorded by Mark Chesnutt From Too Cold At Home, 1990 A frosty mug of a cold one: