Fried Green Tomatoes (Ricky Van Shelton album)

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Fried Green Tomatoes
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 23, 2000
Genre Country
Length42:14
Label Audium
Producer Steve Gibson; "The Decision" co-produced by Ricky Van Shelton [1]
Ricky Van Shelton chronology
16 Biggest Hits
(1999)
Fried Green Tomatoes
(2000)
Blue Christmas
(2000)

Fried Green Tomatoes is the ninth and final studio album by country music artist Ricky Van Shelton. Of the two singles released, "The Decision" charted at number 71 while "Call Me Crazy" failed to chart. This was his only release for the Audium label. "All I Have to Offer You Is Me" is a cover of a Charley Pride single. "I'm the One" was previously recorded by McBride & the Ride on their 1992 album Sacred Ground , which also includes a cover of "All I Have to Offer You Is Me".

Country music, also known as country and western, and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as American folk music and blues.

Ricky Van Shelton is an American former country music artist. Active between 1986 and 2006, he charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. This figure includes ten Number One hits: "Somebody Lied", "Life Turned Her That Way", 'Don't We All Have the Right", "I'll Leave This World Loving You", "From a Jack to a King", "Living Proof", "I've Cried My Last Tear for You", "Rockin' Years", "I Am a Simple Man", and "Keep It Between the Lines". Besides these, seven more of his singles have landed in the Top Ten on the same chart. He has also released nine studio albums, of which his first four have all been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Charley Pride American baseball player and country singer

Charley Frank Pride is an American singer, musician, guitarist, business owner, and former professional baseball player. His greatest musical success came in the early to mid-1970s, when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis Presley. During the peak years of his recording career (1966–87), he garnered 52 top-10 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, 30 of which made it to number one.

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Track listing

  1. "Call Me Crazy" (Brett Jones, Wendell Mobley) - 3:19
  2. "Foolish Pride" (Ernie Rowell, Mel Tillis, Jr.) - 3:37
  3. "I'm the One" (Terry McBride, Gary Nicholson) - 3:54
  4. "Somebody's Gonna Lose" (Larry Butler, Mark Sherrill) - 3:50
  5. "I Think I Like It Here" (Tom Shapiro, Chris Waters, Jimmy Yeary) - 3:18
  6. "You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Crazy)" (Joe Chambers, Bucky Jones) - 3:41
  7. "Who's Laughin' Now" (Tom Littlefield, Rick Rowell, Mel Tillis Jr.) - 3:00
  8. "All I Have to Offer You Is Me" (Dallas Frazier, A.L. "Doodle" Owens) - 3:21
  9. "From the Fryin' Pan" (Monty Criswell, Sam Gay) - 3:08
  10. "I Was Losing You" (Bruce Burch) - 3:21
  11. "Your One and Only" (Hillary Kanter, Even Stevens) - 2:59
  12. "The Decision" (Jerry Thompson, Ricky Van Shelton) - 4:46

Personnel

From Fried Green Tomatoes liner notes. [1]

Musicians

Shannon Forrest is an American drummer and percussionist known primarily for his session work. As a session drummer, he has contributed to the work of many well-known artists, and he is also a producer and engineer. He is the drummer of band Toto since 2015.

Brent Mason is a Nashville recording studio guitarist and songwriter performing primarily country music. Guitar World Magazine listed him as one of the "Top Ten Session Guitarists of All Time". Discovered and mentored by Chet Atkins, Mason by has been named "Guitarist of the Year" 12 times by the Academy of Country Music. In addition to releasing two instrumental studio albums, he holds several credits as a songwriter. He is a Grammy Award winner (2008) and a two-time winner of the CMA Award Musician of the Year. A line of "Brent Mason" guitar models has been marketed by two different guitar manufacturers.

Terry Lee McMillan was an American country musician who played harmonica and percussion. In 1973, he became a member of Eddy Raven's band in Nashville, and worked with Raven until 1974. He then started working with Chet Atkins playing harmonica with his touring show. Later, he toured with Jerry Reed and Jeannie C. Riley before becoming a very in-demand session musician. In the 1970s, he appeared on many albums including the recordings of Mickey Newbury and Gary Stewart.

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References

  1. 1 2 Fried Green Tomatoes (CD booklet). Ricky Van Shelton. Audium Records. 2000. 684038811625.CS1 maint: others (link)