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{{Infobox album
| name       = Leave the Light On
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Jeff Bates]]
| cover      = leavethelighton.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = {{Start date|2006|04|11}}
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Country music|Country]]
| length     =
| label      = [[RCA Records Nashville|RCA Nashville]]
| producer   = [[Kenny Beard]], [[Blake Chancey]]
| prev_title = [[Rainbow Man]]
| prev_year  = 2003
| next_title = [[Jeff Bates (album)|Jeff Bates]]
| next_year  = 2008
}}{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1Score = {{rating|3.5|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r823824|pure_url=yes}} link]
|rev2=''[[Country Standard Time]]'' |rev2Score=favorable [http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=3007 link]}}
'''''Leave the Light On''''' is the second album by American [[country music]] artist [[Jeff Bates]]. Released on April 11, 2006 (see [[2006 in country music]]), it includes the singles "Long, Slow Kisses" (a re-recording of a song originally found on his debut album ''Rainbow Man''), "Good People", "No Shame" and "One Second Chance". Respectively, these reached numbers 17, 42, 45, and 59 on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' country charts. Also covered here is [[Billy "Crash" Craddock]]'s 1974 single "Rub It In".
==Track listing==
#"[[Long, Slow Kisses]]" (Jeff Bates, Gordon Bradberry, [[Ben Hayslip]]) – 3:10
#"[[Rub It In]]" ([[Layng Martine, Jr.]]) – 3:05
#"No Shame" (Bates, [[Kenny Beard]], [[Jimmy Yeary]]) – 3:02
#"Hands On Man" ([[Carson Chamberlain]], [[Mark D. Sanders]], [[Michael White (singer)|Michael White]]) – 2:50
#"Leave the Light On" (Beard, Yeary, Monty Criswell) – 3:28
#"That'll Get You Ten" (Wade Kirby, [[Eric Church]]) – 3:59
#"The Woman He Walked On" ([[Bob DiPiero]], Mitzi Dawn Jenkins, [[Tony Mullins]]) – 3:05
#"One Second Chance" (Arlis Albritton, [[Chris DuBois]], Dave Turnbull) – 3:44
#"Good People" ([[Tim James (country music songwriter)|Tim James]], [[Kendell Marvel]]) – 3:05
#"I Can't Write That" (Bates, Beard, [[Billy Yates (singer)|Billy Yates]]) – 3:55
#"What I Know" (Beard, [[Casey Beathard]]) – 3:05
#"Mama Was a Lot Like Jesus" ([[Rob Crosby]], [[Kelly Shiver]], Ray Stephenson) – 3:30
==Personnel==
*[[Jeff Bates]]- [[acoustic guitar]], [[electric guitar]], lead vocals
*Kenny Beard- background vocals
*[[Joe Chemay]]- [[bass guitar]]
*Perry Coleman- background vocals
*[[Chad Cromwell]]- [[drums]]
*[[Eric Darken]]- [[percussion]]
*Chip Davis- background vocals
*[[Dan Dugmore]]- [[pedal steel guitar]]
*[[David Grissom]]- electric guitar
*Tony Harrell- [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]]
*Wes Hightower- background vocals
*Mike Johnson- pedal steel guitar
*[[Kyle Lehning]]- keyboards
*Liana Manis- background vocals
*[[Brent Mason]]- electric guitar
*Scott Neubert- acoustic guitar
*Billy Panda- acoustic guitar
*Joe Spivey- [[fiddle]]
*Cindy Richardson-Walker- background vocals
*Dennis Wilson- background vocals
*Casey Wood- percussion
==Chart performance==
{| class="wikitable"
! Chart (2006)
! Peak<br />position
|-
| U.S. ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums
| align="center"| 12
|-
| U.S. ''Billboard'' 200
| align="center"| 62
|}
==External links==
*[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r823824|pure_url=yes}} ''Leave the Light On''] at [[Allmusic]]
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[[Category:2006 albums]]
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[[Category:RCA Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Blake Chancey]]