Name: Sing: Chapter 1
Brand: Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corp
SKU: 760928
Availability: OutOfStock

Performer Notes

Personnel: Wynonna (background vocals); Don Potter (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, gut-string guitar, arch guitar, synthesizer); Bob Britt (electric guitar); Ilya Toshinsky (banjo); Fats Kaplan (fiddle, accordion); The Nashville String Machine (strings); Mark Selby (harmonica); Sam Levine (clarinet, baritone saxophone); Mark Douthit (tenor saxophone); Mike Haynes (trumpet); Prentiss Hobbs (trombone, bass trombone); Roy Agee (trombone); Gordon Mote (piano, organ, Wurlitzer organ); Mike Rojas (piano, organ); Bruce Dailey (piano); Nir "Z" Zidkyahu (drums, congas); Mike Maple, Eddie Bayers (drums); Brent Maher (percussion); Kerry Beatty, Jeremy Calloway, Jaimee Paul Shires, Brian Beatty, Larry Strickland, Maurice Carter, Vicki Hampton, Bekka Bramlett, Elicia Brown (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Justin Niebank.
Liner Note Author: Wynonna.
Recording information: East Iris Studios, Nashville, TN; Soundkitchen, Franklin, TN; The Blue Room Studios, Nashville, TN.
Photographer: Kristin Barlowe.
Arrangers: Don Potter; Bergen White.
SING, CHAPTER 1 is Wynonna's musical autobiography. Released to celebrate a quarter century in the music business (the Judds' first hit, "Why Not Me," hit the charts in 1984), SING, CHAPTER 1 features a full dozen standards hand-picked by Wynonna to signify different points in her musical life. Far from being merely a country album, the 12 tracks include R&B (Bill Withers's 1970s soul hit "Ain't No Sunshine"), Sun Records rockabilly (the oft-covered classic "I Hear You Knockin'"), Dusty Springfield-style pop (the Bacharach-David standard "Anyone Who Had A Heart"), and jazzy torch songs (the Nat King Cole classic "When I Fall In Love") along with Nashville nuggets like Hank Williams's "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." The production, by longtime collaborator Don Potter and current country hitmaker Brent Maher is bright and burnished enough to fit comfortably on contemporary country radio, but Wynonna's increasingly soulful, lived-in vocal style touches the heart throughout.