What You Leave Behind (album)

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What You Leave Behind
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 12, 2000 (2000-09-12)
Genre Country
Label Columbia
Producer Ron Chancey, Blake Chancey, David Malloy
Ricochet chronology
Blink of an Eye
(1997)
What You Leave Behind
(2000)
The Live Album

(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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What You Leave Behind is the third studio album by the American country music band Ricochet. It was released in 2000 on Columbia Records.

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 folk music and blues.

Ricochet is an American country music band from Oklahoma. The band was founded in 1993 by brothers Jeff Bryant and Junior Bryant, along with Heath Wright, Greg Cook, Teddy Carr, and Eddie Kilgallon, After several years of playing throughout the Southern United States, Ricochet was signed to a recording contract with Columbia Records in 1995. Their self-titled debut album produced three straight Top Ten hits on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, including the Number One single "Daddy's Money"; the album was also certified gold in the United States.

Columbia Records American record label; currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony. It was founded in 1887, evolving from the American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business, and the second major company to produce records. From 1961 to 1990, Columbia recordings were released outside North America under the name CBS Records to avoid confusion with EMI's Columbia Graphophone Company. Columbia is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels, alongside former longtime rival RCA Records, as well as Arista Records and Epic Records.

Contents

The album, originally titled What a Ride, was to have been released in 1998, and although three singles from the original album ("Honky Tonk Baby", "Can't Stop Thinkin' 'bout That" and a cover of Steve Young's "Seven Bridges Road") were all released from the original album, all three failed to make Top 40. "Honky Tonk Baby" and "Can't Stop Thinkin' 'Bout That" did not make the final cut, although "You Beat All I've Ever Seen", the final track on this album, is the B-side of "Can't Stop Thinkin' 'Bout That". "Do I Love You Enough" was released in 2000, peaking at #45 on the US country charts, followed by "She's Gone", the band's last chart single, at #48. In between "Seven Bridges Road" and "Do I Love You Enough", drummer Jeff Bryant and steel guitarist Teddy Carr both left the band as well. Also covered on the album is "Why You Been Gone So Long", previously a hit in 1969 for Johnny Darrell.

Steve Young was an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist, known for his song "Seven Bridges Road". He was a pioneer of the country rock, Americana, and alternative country sounds, and also a vital force behind the "outlaw movement" that gave support to the careers of Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams, Jr. and more. Young was also featured in the 1975 Outlaw Country documentary Heartworn Highways. He was the subject of the song "The All Golden" by Van Dyke Parks. Young's first album, Rock Salt & Nails, on A&M, featured Gram Parsons, Gene Clark, and other musicians from the 1969 musical community in Southern California.

"Seven Bridges Road" is a song written by American musician Steve Young, recorded in 1969 for his Rock Salt & Nails album. It has since been covered by many artists, the best-known version being a five-part harmony arrangement by English musician Iain Matthews recorded by the American rock band Eagles in 1980.

Johnny Darrell Country musician

Johnny Darrell was an American country music artist. Darrell was born in Hopewell, Alabama but grew up in Marietta, Georgia. After a stint in the army, he moved to Nashville and began managing a Holiday Inn near Music Row when he was discovered by Kelso Herstin, a producer working for United Artists, on the recommendation of Bobby Bare. In his recording career, Darrell established a trend of introducing "lyrically adventurous" songs that later became major hits for other artists.

Track listing

  1. "She's Gone" (Michael Dulaney, Jeffrey Steele, John Hobbs) – 3:10
  2. "Do I Love You Enough" (Richard Fagan, Lisa Palas) – 2:59
  3. "What You Leave Behind" (Dulaney, Neil Thrasher, Heath Wright) – 3:32
  4. "I Can't Believe You Let Her Go" (Stephony Smith, Craig Wiseman) – 3:27
  5. "Baby Hold On" (Eddie Kilgallon, Deryl Dodd) – 3:40
  6. "Seven Bridges Road" (Steve Young) – 3:06
  7. "Why You Been Gone So Long" (Mickey Newbury) – 3:00
  8. "Fall of the Year" (Tom Paden, Lenny Wallace) – 3:10
  9. "Love Is a Serious Thing" (Thrasher, Jack Sundrud) – 3:24
  10. "You Beat All I've Ever Seen" (Steve Bogard, Greg Cook, Jeff Stevens) – 3:39

Musicians

Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

Keyboard instrument class of musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings.

Eric A. Darken is an American percussionist, composer, and programmer.

Chart performance

Chart (2000)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums71

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