Countrified (Emerson Drive album)

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Countrified
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ReleasedSeptember 19, 2006
Genre Country
Length40:52
Label Midas
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Emerson Drive chronology
What If?
(2004)
Countrified
(2006)
Believe
(2009)
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Countrified is the fifth album by Canadian country music band Emerson Drive. It was released in 2006 as their first issue for the Midas Records label. In the U.S., the album produced three singles on the Hot Country Songs charts: "A Good Man", "Moments" (the band's first Number One hit), and "You Still Own Me". Two of the album's tracks are covers: "You Still Own Me" was previously a hit in Canada for Johnny Reid, and "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" is a cover of a song made famous by the Charlie Daniels Band.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "A Good Man" (Victoria Shaw, Adrienne Follesé, Keith Follesé) - 3:04
  2. "Testify" (Ronnie Rogers, Teddy Gentry, Josh Leo, Brad Mates) - 3:32
  3. "Moments" (Annie Tate, Sam Tate, Dave Berg) - 4:58
  4. "Sweet Natural Girl" (Kip Raines, Craig Wiseman, Jeffrey Steele) - 4:19
  5. "You Still Own Me" (Phillip Douglas, Noah Gordon, Johnny Reid) - 3:53
  6. "Lucky Man" (A. Tate, S. Tate, Berg) - 3:36
  7. "Everyday Woman" (Brian Maher, Jeremy Stover) - 3:22
  8. "Countrified Soul" (Rogers, Gentry, Leo, Mates) - 3:00
  9. "Painted Too Much of This Town" (Michael White, K. Follesé, Wade Kirby) - 3:47
  10. "A Boy Becomes a Man" (A. Follesé, K. Follesé, Mates, Danick Dupelle) - 3:25
  11. "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (Josh Crain, Fred Edwards, James Marshall, Charlie Daniels, Charles Hayward, William J. DiGregorio) - 3:56

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes. [2]

Emerson Drive
Additional musicians
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Charts

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