Brett James (album)

Brett James
Studio album by Brett James
Released	September 12, 1995 (1995-09-12)
Genre	Country
Length	37:59
Label	Career
Producer	Steve Bogard Mike Clute

Brett James is the only album of American country music singer-songwriter Brett James. It was released on September 12, 1995, via Arista Nashville's Career Records division. The singles "Female Bonding", "If I Could See Love" and "Worth the Fall" all entered the Hot Country Songs charts. ^[1]

Critical reception

A staff review from Allmusic gave Brett James three stars out of five, calling it "a hard-rocking set of original songs that owe a great debt to honky tonk and traditional country." ^[2] Richard McVey II of Country Standard Time described the album as "pretty much your standard country record with average material and average vocals that leads to an average review of an average artist." ^[3]

Track listing

• All songs written or co-written by Brett James; co-writers indicated in parentheses.

1. "Wake Up and Smell the Whiskey" (Dean Miller) – 2:52
2. "Many Tears Ago" (Hunter Armistead) – 3:53
3. "Worth the Fall" – 3:00
4. "She's Killin' Me" (Jennifer Kimball) – 4:04
5. "If I Could See Love" (Steve Bogard) – 3:02
6. "Female Bonding" – 3:18
7. "Dark Side of the Moon" – 4:12
8. "Just Like We Never Happened" – 3:28
9. "Thrill of the Chase" – 2:43
10. "The Way That You Love" – 3:50
11. "Enjoy the Ride" – 3:37

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US Country [1]	CAN Country [4]
1995	"Female Bonding"	60	89
	"If I Could See Love"	68	—
	"Worth the Fall"	73	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Personnel

Musicians

• Bruce Bouton – steel guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Rob Hajacos – fiddle
• Dann Huff – electric guitar
• Jeff King – electric guitar
• Chris Leuzinger – electric guitar
• Chris Rodriguez – background vocals
• Matt Rollings – piano
• John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
• Judson Spence – background vocals
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
• Dennis Wilson – background vocals
• Lonnie Wilson – drums
• Glenn Worf – bass guitar

Technical

• Steve Bogard – producer
• Mike Clute – producer, recording, mixing
• Glenn Meadows – mastering

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 204. ISBN   978-0-89820-177-2.
2. "Brett James review". Allmusic. Retrieved August 25, 2009.
3. McVey II, Richard. "Brett James review". Country Standard Time . Retrieved August 25, 2009.
4. "RPM Country Tracks for August 21, 1995". RPM . Archived from the original on June 27, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2011.