No More Mr. Nice Guy (Steve Wariner album)

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No More Mr. Nice Guy
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 12, 1996 (1996-03-12)
Genre Country
Length42:17
Label Arista Nashville
Producer Steve Wariner
Steve Wariner chronology
Drive
(1994)
No More Mr. Nice Guy
(1996)
Burnin' the Roadhouse Down
(1998)

No More Mr. Nice Guy is an instrumental album released in 1996 by American country music artist Steve Wariner. His final album for Arista Records, it comprises twelve instrumental tracks. No singles were released from it, although "The Brickyard Boogie" was nominated for Best Country Instrumental at the Grammy Awards of 1997. [1] This song features former Pearl River member Derek George (who would later go on to found the band Williams Riley), former Boy Howdy member Jeffrey Steele, as well as Bryan White and Bryan Austin. Jimmy Olander, guitarist for Diamond Rio, is featured on the track "Hap Towne Breakdowne".

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.

Steve Wariner American country music singer

Steven Noel Wariner is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Initially a backing musician for Dottie West, Bob Luman, and Chet Atkins, he began recording as a solo artist in the late 1970s. He has released eighteen studio albums for multiple labels, including the Nashville divisions of RCA, MCA, Arista, and Capitol Records, along with his own SelecTone label. He has also charted more than fifty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which ten reached number one: "All Roads Lead to You", "Some Fools Never Learn", "You Can Dream of Me", "Life's Highway", "Small Town Girl", "The Weekend", "Lynda", "Where Did I Go Wrong", "I Got Dreams", and "What If I Said", a duet with Anita Cochran. Three of his studio albums have been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipping 500,000 copies in the United States.

Arista Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. The label was previously handled by Bertelsmann Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for Columbia Records. Until its demise in 2011, it was a major distributor and promoter of albums throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. Along with Columbia, RCA, and Epic, Arista is one of Sony's four flagship record labels.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Featured artist(s)Length
1."No More Mr. Nice Guy" Vince Gill and Nolan Ryan 4:04
2."Big Hero, Little Hero"Wariner Chet Atkins 4:34
3."Prelude / Practice Your Scales Somewhere Else"Wariner Mark O'Connor and Sam Bush 2:57
4."The Theme"
  • Wariner
  • Goodrum
Larry Carlton and Randy Goodrum2:57
5."Forever Loving You"Wariner 4:17
6."Next March"
  • Wariner
  • Goodrum
Béla Fleck 3:19
7."If You Can't Say Something Good"
Mac McAnally3:46
8."Hap Towne Breakdowne"
Carl Jackson, Mark O'Connor, and Jimmy Olander (of Diamond Rio)3:28
9."For Chester B"Wariner 1:50
10."The Brickyard Boogie"
  • Wariner
  • Ron Gannaway
Bryan White, Derek George, Bryan Austin, and Jeffrey Steele 3:29
11."Don't Call Me Ray"
Leo Kottke3:09
12."Guitar Talk"Wariner Lee Roy Parnell and Richie Sambora 3:46

Personnel

Chet Atkins American guitarist and record producer

Chester Burton Atkins, known as "Mr. Guitar" and "The Country Gentleman", was an American musician, occasional vocalist, songwriter, and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, Bob Ferguson and others, created the country music style that came to be known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country music's appeal to adult pop music fans. He was primarily known as a guitarist. He also played the mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and ukulele.

Electric guitar electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

Bryan Cuevas is an American country music artist, known professionally as Bryan Austin. Signed to Liberty Records' sister label Patriot Records in 1994, he released an album and two singles for the label. The first of these singles, "Radio Active", charted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

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