What Mattered Most

What Mattered Most is the debut album of American country music artist Ty Herndon. The album's title track, which was Herndon's debut single, reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts in mid-1995. Other singles from the album were, in order, "I Want My Goodbye Back", "Heart Half Empty", and "In Your Face". "Heart Half Empty", a duet with Stephanie Bentley, also served as the lead-off single to Bentley's debut album Hopechest.

The track "You Just Get One" was later recorded and released as a single by Jeff Wood from his 1997 debut album Between the Earth and the Stars. Additionally, "Summer was a Bummer" was later recorded by Wade Hayes on his 1998 album When the Wrong One Loves You Right. "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" is a cover of a single released by Jim Croce in 1972.

Track listing

1. "What Mattered Most" (Gary Burr, Vince Melamed) - 3:40
2. "Pretty Good Thing" (Walt Aldridge, Brad Crisler) - 2:51
3. "Summer Was a Bummer" (Hank Cochran, Dean Dillon) - 3:30
4. "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" (Jim Croce) - 3:16
5. "Heart Half Empty" (Burr, Desmond Child) - 4:55
• Duet with Stephanie Bentley
6. "I Want My Goodbye Back" (Pat Bunch, Doug Johnson, Dave Berg) - 3:24
7. "You Just Get One" (Vince Gill, Don Schlitz) - 3:35
8. "In Your Face" (Annette Cotter, Kim Tribble) - 2:16
9. "Love at 90 Miles an Hour" (Chris Knight, Sam Tate, Annie Tate) - 3:30
10. "Hat Full of Rain" (Kim Morrison, Ronnie Godfrey) - 4:11

Personnel

Production

• Jim Burnett - digital editing, assistant engineer
• Don Cobb - editing
• Paige Conners - production assistant
• Emory Gordy, Jr. - strings arranger (track 10)
• Bill Johnson - art direction
• Anthony Martin - assistant engineer
• Frank Ockenfels - photography
• Denny Purcell - mastering
• Ed Seay - engineer, mixing
• Rollow Welch - art direction

Charts

• Top Heatseekers - #1
• Billboard 200 - #68
• Top Country Albums - #9

References

• What Mattered Most at Allmusic
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