Personnel: Mark Selby, Richard Rodney Bennett (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Brent Maher (acoustic guitar, percussion, background vocals); Glenn Worf (acoustic guitar); Dan Dugmore (dobro); Jim Hoke (autoharp, pennywhistle, harmonica, accordion); Fats Kaplin, Tammy Rogers (violin, fiddle); The Nashville String Machine (strings); Sam Levine (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Roy Agee (trombone); Gordon Mote (piano, organ); John Jarvis (piano); Tim Lauer (organ); Vicki Hampton, Louis Dean Nunley (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Charles Yingling; Brent Maher.
Recording information: The Blue Room Studios, Nashville, TN.
Album number three for Scottish-born, Nashville-based singer/songwriter Johnny Reid helped cement the Canadian country star's place in the worldwide music community. On DANCE WITH ME, Reid radiates confidence, sounding a lot like a country Rod Stewart. The affable singer hits all the right notes from the very first track, the moving "A Woman Like You." The jangle pop tune swirls with silky steel guitar, harmonica, and a heart-fluttering backbone. On the hot rod-swift "Hey-O," Reid puts the pedal to the floor and burns a bit of rubber. With a songwriting style that lands somewhere between Don Henley and Garth Brooks, Reid manages to avoid the cheeseball feel that hampers a lot of 21st century country releases. Boots will be stomping at Reid's live shows when his band kicks into the honky tonk-influenced "Old Flame" and the blues-rock-tinted "Keep Workin' on Me."
