...so did they listen to any of the other songs?

I rediscovered a great cd at work last night. Here and there I've mentioned that Steve Wariner is one of my favorite singers from the 1980s, even though a lot of his music isn't the more traditional stuff I like. His career had a brief resurgence of sorts in the late 1990s, as he wrote two No. 1 hits, Clint Black's "Nothin' But the Taillights" and "Garth Brooks' "Longneck Bottle," on which he also played acoustic guitar. He also had a surprise No. 1 hit as a singer with the Anita Cochran duet "What If I Said." Because of all this, Steve eventually got himself a record deal with Capitol Nashville in 1997 and "Holes In the Floor Of Heaven," the first single off his first Capitol album, Burnin' the Roadhouse Down, eventually went to No. 2.
Now, here's what I don't get. If you read the reviews at that Amazon link, most of them only mention that one big song. And I'm like, did you people even bother to listen to the rest of the cd? I daresay that was not only the best thing Steve Wariner has ever recorded, it was also arguably one of the best country albums of the 1990s, period. From the more guitar-driven country rock ("Road Trippin'"), and sultry love songs ("Love Me Like You Love Me"), to some good old heartbreak songs ("A Six Pack Ago," "Big Ol' Empty House") and even a little western swing in the title track — a duet with Garth Brooks — that was just an all-around GREAT cd, one I still can't recommend highly enough even more than a decade after its release. Granted, I liked "Holes In The Floor Of Heaven," but I still thought it was a shame that song overshadowed the other great material on that cd. Oh, well. As they say, there's no accounting for taste...