Additional Information about Man with a Memory by Joe Nichols (CD, Jul-2002, Universal Distribution)
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| Track listing | |
| 1. Impossible, The 2. Joe's Place 3. Brokenheartsville 4. She Only Smokes When She Drinks 5. Everything's a Thing 6. That Would Be Her 7. Cool to Be a Fool 8. Can't Hold a Halo to You 9. You Can't Break the Fall 10. You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet 11. Life Don't Have to Mean Nothin' at All 12. Man With a Memory |
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| Details | |
| Contributing artists: | Jerry Douglas, Vinnie Colaiuta, Vince Gill, Bryan Sutton, Aubrey Haynie |
| Producer: | Brent Rowan |
| Distributor: | Universal Distribution |
| Recording type: | Studio |
| Recording mode: | Stereo |
| SPAR Code: | n/a |
| Album notes | |
| Personnel includes: Joe Nichols (vocals); Brent Rowan (acoustic & electric guitars, tiple); Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitar, mandolin); Dan Dugmore (steel guitar); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Chris Thile (mandolin); Aubrey Haynie (fiddle); Tim Lauer (accordion, Wurlitzer piano, Fender Rhodes piano, harmonium, organ, Mellotron, keyboards); Gordon Mote (piano); David Hungate (bass); Shannon Forrest, Vinnie Colaiuta (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); Harry Stinson, Vince Gill, Wes Hightower (background vocals). "Brokenheartsville" was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. Personnel: Joe Nichols (background vocals); Brent Rowan (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, baritone guitar, gut-string guitar, tiple, background vocals); Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, mandolin); Dan Dugmore, John Hughey, Tommy White (steel guitar); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Chris Thile (mandolin); Aubrey Haynie (fiddle); Tim Lauer (accordion, Fender Rhodes piano, harmonium, Wurlitzer organ, Mellotron, keyboards); Gordon Mote (piano); Shane Keister (Wurlitzer organ); Shannon Forrest, Vinnie Colaiuta (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); Harry Stinson, Vince Gill, Wes Hightower, Liana Manis (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Ed Seay. Recording information: Cool Tools Audio, Nashville, TN; EMI Studios, Nashville, TN; Ocean Way Studios, Nashville, TN; OmniSound Studios, Nashville, TN; Tin Ear Studios, Nashville, TN; Tree Studios, Nashville, TN. If you think that photogenic young country singer Joe Nichols looks more like a Calvin Klein model than a honky-tonk warrior, just count your blessings that he doesn't feel bound to don an ill-fitting cowboy hat in the vain quest for the kind of phony image purveyed by far too many of his peers. Similarly, MAN WITH A MEMORY finds Nichols unafraid of sounding contemporary without completely abandoning his country roots. There's no hokey, half-assed western swing number tossed in here for "authenticity;" instead, the songs seamlessly blend rock, pop, and country in a manner that finds Nichols sounding equally at home with all three. That said, he does possess enough of a sense of history to pay homage to country legend Tom T. Hall by covering "Life Don't Have to Mean Nothin' at All." And it's no shameful thing when a Hall song turns out to be one of the best on anybody's album. |
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| Editorial reviews | |
| ...Blue-collar meditations on love, loss, and the crapshoot of life... - Rating: B Entertainment Weekly (20020802) |
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