Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Jo Dee Messina, Tim McGraw (vocals); John D. Willis, Biff Watson, Larry Byrom (acoustic guitar); Brent Mason, B. James Lowery, Michael Landau (electric guitar); Byron Gallimore (electric 12-string guitar); Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Aubrey Haynie (fiddle, octave fiddle); S. Kirk Johnson, Steven R. Conn (accordion); Steve Nathan (keyboards); Mike Brignardello (bass); Lonnie Wilson (drums); Kim Parent, Ralph Friedrichson, Curtis E. Young, Gene Miller, Lisa Bevill, John W. Ryles, Chris Rodriguez (background vocals). | | Recorded at Ocean Way, Nashville, Tennessee. | | "That's The Way" was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. | | "Bring On The Rain" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals. | | Personnel: Larry Byrom, Biff Watson, John D. Willis (acoustic guitar); Michael Landau (electric guitar, bass guitar); Brent Mason (electric guitar); Byron Gallimore (electric 12-string guitar); Paul Franklin (steel guitar, drums); Aubrey Haynie (fiddle); Steve Nathan (keyboards); Lonnie Wilson (drums); Gene Miller, Kim Parent, Lisa Bevill (background vocals). | | Photographer: Ron Davis. | | BURN, Jo Dee Messina's follow-up to her breakthrough CD I'M ALRIGHT fairly bursts with joyful energy. Unsurprisingly, considering that in the two years between the CDs, Messina pulled herself out of bankruptcy and found both record-breaking chart success and love. If you're looking for heartbreak here, you're in the wrong place. Nearly every track on BURN is celebratory and upbeat, both lyrically and musically. | | In song after song, Messina exhorts her fans to seize the moment ("Dare to Dream," "These Are the Days"), better their situations ("Angelene"), give themselves over to love ("If Not You," "Closer"), or believe that things will get better ("Downtime," "That's the Way"). Messina's powerful alto has never sounded better, and Tim McGraw's impeccable, acoustic guitar-heavy production rocks without being too slick. McGraw pops up as a guest vocalist on the CD's mesmerizing, stripped-down closing track, "Bring On the Rain," a song about--what else--triumphing over life's adversities. But the CD's centerpiece is the title track, which sets a delicate, poetic lyric against a passionate, power-ballad chorus. Messina's relentless exuberance makes BURN a love letter from a survivor who made it through--and wants you to join her. |
Producer: Tim McGraw; Byron Gallimore |
Engineer: Erik Lutkins; David Bryant; Dennis Davis; Matt Silva; Mike Dy; Chad Brown; Greg Fogie; Jeffrey "Woody" Woodruff; Julian King; Rich Hanson; Ricky Cobble; Ronnie Rivera; Woody Woodruff; Steve Kaplan |
Musical Guests | | Tim McGraw |
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