True Believer (Ronnie Milsap album)

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True Believer
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 7, 1993
RecordedGroundStar Laboratory (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre Country
Length43:12
Label Liberty
Producer Rob Galbraith
Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Milsap chronology
Greatest Hits, Vol. 3
(1991)
True Believer
(1993)
The Essential Ronnie Milsap
(1995)
Professional ratings
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True Believer is the twenty-first studio album by country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in 1993, his first for Liberty Records. The album produced two singles, the title track, which peaked at #30 on country charts and "I'm Playing for You," which did not chart.

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The album did not chart, his first to do so since his 1971 self-named debut album. Allmusic praised the title track, stating that the record would have been one "to reckon with" if the rest of the tracks "had the energy" of the title song.

Track listing

  1. "Desire" (Walt Aldridge, Jenny Yates) – 4:38
  2. "I'm Playing for You" (Lewis Anderson, Keith Stegall) – 4:17
  3. "Somebody's Gonna Get That Girl" (Marc Beeson, Joanie Chappel-Beeson, Sonny LeMaire) – 3:52
  4. "Better Off with the Blues" (Donnie Fritts, Delbert McClinton, Gary Nicholson) – 3:59
  5. "Hos Allen Sequé" – :41
  6. "True Believer" (John Hiatt) – 4:51
  7. "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 3:49
  8. "A Million Years Till Then" (Dennis Morgan, Keith Thomas) – 4:27
  9. "Desperate Man" (Dave Gibson) – 4:08
  10. "Civil War" (Carol Chase, Cindy Richardson) – 4:07
  11. "Please Jesus (Send My Baby Home to Me)" (Michael Stewart) – 4:23

Production

Personnel

Chart

Chart (1993)Peak
position
U.S. Top Country Albums -
U.S. Billboard 200 -

Singles

YearSong US Country
1993"True Believer"30
1993"I'm Playing for You"-

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