Big Hopes

Big Hopes
Studio album by Ty Herndon
Released	May 26, 1998 (1998-05-26)
Genre	Country
Length	40:50
Label	Epic
Producer	Byron Gallimore (tracks 1, 3-7) Doug Johnson (tracks 2, 8-11)
Ty Herndon chronology
Living in a Moment (1997) Big Hopes (1998) Steam (1999)
Singles from Big Hopes
"A Man Holdin' On (To a Woman Lettin' Go)" Released: March 23, 1998 "It Must Be Love" Released: August 10, 1998 "Hands of a Working Man" Released: January 4, 1999

Big Hopes is the third studio album by American country music artist Ty Herndon. It features the singles "A Man Holding On (To a Woman Lettin' Go)", "It Must Be Love", and "Hands of a Working Man". These songs peaked at #5, #1, and #5, respectively, on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. "It Must Be Love" was his third and final Number One on the country charts, while "Hands of a Working Man" was his last Top Ten.

Doug Virden and Drew Womack, then members of Sons of the Desert, serve as backing vocalists on other tracks, as they did on Herndon's previous album Living in a Moment. Blue Miller, formerly of Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band and later of the Gibson/Miller Band, also provides background vocals.

Thom Owens of Allmusic rated the album three stars out of five, saying that it "comes as close to MOR rock and pop as it does to country."^[1]