On the Front Line (Dan Seals album)

On the Front Line
Studio album by Dan Seals
Released	1986
Studio	Morningstar Sound Studio (Hendersonville, Tennessee); GroundStar Studios (Nashville, Tennessee).
Genre	Country
Label	EMI America
Producer	Kyle Lehning
Dan Seals chronology
Won't Be Blue Anymore (1985) On the Front Line (1986) The Best (1987)

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On The Front Line is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Dan Seals. It reached #12 on the Top Country Albums chart. "You Still Move Me", "I Will Be There", and "Three Time Loser" were all number one singles.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Out on the Front Line"	Dan Seals	4:38
2.	"Three Time Loser"	Seals	3:04
3.	"Loves Have Been Woven from Fewer Threads Than These"	Bucky Jones, Gary Nicholson, Kevin Welch	3:18
4.	"It's Gonna Be Easy Now"	Seals	3:11
5.	"Guitar Man Out of Control"	Seals	3:36
6.	"I Will Be There"	Tom Snow, Jennifer Kimball	3:49
7.	"You Still Move Me"	Seals	5:07
8.	"While I'm Here"	Rory Bourke, Mike Reid	3:34
9.	"I'm Still Strung Out on You"	Wendy Waldman, Seals	3:34
10.	"Lullaby"	Seals, Rafe Van Hoy	3:00

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes. ^[1]

• Dan Seals – lead vocals, backing vocals (1-5, 7, 9), acoustic guitar (2, 4), saxophone (5)
• Shane Keister – keyboards (1, 2, 3, 5, 7), synth intro (7)
• Mike Lawler – synthesizers (1, 4, 7), da-da-dums (6)
• Jay Spell – keyboards (1, 4, 5)
• Skip Sorrell – Synclavier (2)
• Dennis Burnside – keyboards (6, 8, 9)
• Mike Reid – synthesizers (8), backing vocals (8)
• Kenny Bell – acoustic guitar (1, 4, 5), electric rhythm guitar (5)
• Larry Byrom – electric guitar (1, 4)
• Steve Gibson – electric guitar (1, 4, 9), electric guitar solo (8), acoustic guitar (9)
• Joe Stanley – electric guitar (1, 2, 5)
• Bobby Thompson – acoustic guitar (1, 4), electric rhythm guitar (5)
• John Porter McMeans – electric guitar (3)
• Billy Joe Walker Jr. – electric guitar (3, 5, 7)
• Rafe Van Hoy – acoustic guitar (3, 10)
• Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar (6, 9)
• Greg Jennings – electric guitar (6-9)
• Doyle Grisham – steel guitar (1, 3, 7, 9)
• Mark "Hoser" Hawthorne – steel guitar (2, 5)
• Jerry Douglas – dobro (4, 5, 9), lap steel guitar (6)
• Mark O'Connor – fiddle (4, 9, 10), mandolin (10)
• David Schnaufer – dulcimer (10)
• Mike Brignardello – bass guitar (1, 3-6, 8, 9)
• David Hungate – bass guitar (2)
• Bob Wray – bass guitar (7)
• Larrie Londin – drums (1, 4, 5, 7), LinnDrum programming (2)
• Kyle Lehning – LinnDrum programming (2)
• Eddie Bayers – drums (3)
• James Stroud – drums (6, 8, 9)
• Farrell Morris – percussion (1, 4, 8)
• Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson – harmonica (4)
• Jim Horn – saxophone (5)
• Lisa Silver – backing vocals (5, 7, 9)
• Diane Tidwell – backing vocals (5, 7, 9)
• Dennis Wilson – backing vocals (5, 7, 9)
• Kathie Baillie – backing vocals (6)
• Michael Bonagura – backing vocals (6)
• Alan LeBouf – backing vocals (6)
• Bruce Dees – backing vocals (8)
• Emmylou Harris – lead vocals (10)

Production

• Kyle Lehning – producer, mixing, engineer (2, 3, 7, 10)
• Randy Gardner – engineer
• Ben Harris – engineer (1, 4, 5)
• Kirt Odle – mixing, engineer (3, 6-9)
• Joseph Bogan – engineer (6, 8, 9)
• Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
• Mark Tucker – photography
• Henry Marquez – art direction
• Michael Hodgson – design
• Tony Gottlieb – management

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1986)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	12

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
		US Country	CAN Country
1986	"You Still Move Me"	1	1
1987	"I Will Be There"	1	1
	"Three Time Loser"	1	1

References

1. On the Front Line (CD booklet). Dan Seals. EMI America. 1986. PW-17231.