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Corn Fed is the title of an album released in 2006 by American country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Shannon Brown
Shannon Brown (musician)
Shannon Leigh Brown is an American country music singer from Spirit Lake, Iowa. Although she has recorded three albums on various labels, only one of these — 2006's Corn Fed — was released. In her career, she has charted four singles on the Billboard country charts, with her highest-charting...

. Although she had recorded two major-label albums previously, Corn Fed was the only one to be physically released. The album's title track peaked at #47 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 charts in early 2006, while the second single ("Pearls") failed to chart.

John Rich
John Rich (musician)
John Rich is an American country music singer-songwriter. From 1992 to 1998, he was a member of the country music band Lonestar, in which he played bass guitar and alternated with Richie McDonald as lead vocalist...

 of Big & Rich
Big & Rich
Big & Rich is an American country music duo composed of Big Kenny and John Rich. Both members alternate as lead vocalists and play rhythm guitar...

 produced the album. He previously recorded the track "She Brings the Lightning Down" on his 1999 debut album Underneath the Same Moon
Underneath the Same Moon
Underneath the Same Moon is an album recorded by John Rich. The album was recorded in 1999, after Rich left from the country group Lonestar and before he joined Big Kenny in the duo Big & Rich...

. The track "Why" was also recorded by Jason Aldean
Jason Aldean
Jason Aldine Williams is an American country music singer, known professionally as Jason Aldean. Since 2005, Aldean has recorded for Broken Bow Records, an independent record label for which he has released four albums and twelve singles...

 on his 2005 self-titled debut album
Jason Aldean (album)
-Album:-Singles:-Certifications:-External links:*[ Jason Aldean] at Allmusic...

, from which it was released as a single in late 2005.

Track listing

  1. "AM Radio" – 0:20
    • track consists of AM radio noises
  2. "Corn Fed" (Shannon Brown, John Rich
    John Rich (musician)
    John Rich is an American country music singer-songwriter. From 1992 to 1998, he was a member of the country music band Lonestar, in which he played bass guitar and alternated with Richie McDonald as lead vocalist...

    , Vicky McGehee) – 3:17
  3. "Big Man" (Brown, Rich, McGehee) – 2:51
  4. "High Horses" (Julian Bunetta, Blair Daly, Rich) – 3:55
  5. "Turn to Me" (McGehee, Rich, Gretchen Wilson
    Gretchen Wilson
    Gretchen Frances Wilson is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party...

    ) – 3:54
  6. "Can I Get an Amen" (Brown, Daly, Troy Verges
    Troy Verges
    Troy Verges is an American country music songwriter. His credits include the singles "Who I Am" by Jessica Andrews, "Blessed" by Martina McBride and "Wasted", all of which went to number one on the country music charts...

    ) – 4:07
  7. "Something Good" (Brown, Billy Crain, Tammy Hyler) – 4:27
  8. "Good Ole Days" (Daly, Rich, Shane Mack
    Shane McAnally
    Shane McAnally , is an American country music artist. He signed to Curb Records in 1999 and released a self-titled debut album the following year...

    ) – 3:31
  9. "I Love 'Em All" (Brown, Rich, McGehee) – 3:00
  10. "Why
    Why (Jason Aldean song)
    "Why" is a country music song written by Rodney Clawson, Vicky McGehee, and Big & Rich's John Rich, and recorded by country music artist Jason Aldean...

    " (Rodney Clawson, McGehee, Rich) – 5:00
  11. "Pearls" (Brown, Hyler, Shaye Smith) – 3:18
  12. "She Brings the Lightning Down" (McGehee, Rich) – 3:26
  13. "Small Town Girl" (Brown, Phillip B. White) – 4:18

Personnel

  • Brian Barnett – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Wyatt Beard – background vocals
  • Dennis Burnside – piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

    , Hammond organ
    Hammond organ
    The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...

    , keyboard
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

  • Perry Coleman – background vocals
  • Wes Hightower – background vocals
  • Mike Johnson – Dobro
    Dobro
    Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...

    , pedal steel guitar
    Pedal steel guitar
    The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to "fret" or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it also uses pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence the name "pedal"...

    , lap steel guitar
    Lap steel guitar
    The lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar, an instrument derived from and similar to the guitar. The player changes pitch by pressing a metal or glass bar against the strings instead of by pressing strings against the fingerboard....

  • Matt Pierson – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Ethan Pilzer
    Jolie & The Wanted
    Jolie & the Wanted was an American country music band composed of Jolie Edwards , Phil Symonds , Jonathan Trebing , Steve King , Ethan Pilzer and Andy Hull...

     – bass guitar
  • John Rich
    John Rich (musician)
    John Rich is an American country music singer-songwriter. From 1992 to 1998, he was a member of the country music band Lonestar, in which he played bass guitar and alternated with Richie McDonald as lead vocalist...

     – acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

    , background vocals
  • Mike Rojas – piano, keyboards
  • Jason Sellers
    Jason Sellers
    Jason Sellers is an American country music artist. After several years of touring the United States in his family's band, Sellers joined the road band of Ricky Skaggs. By 1997, he was signed to a recording contract with BNA Records, for whom he recorded two studio albums: 1997's I'm Your Man and...

     – background vocals
  • Adam Shoenfeld – electric guitar
  • Jonathan Yudkin – Dobro, fiddle
    Fiddle
    The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...

    , mandolin
    Mandolin
    A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

    , violin
    Violin
    The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

    , viola
    Viola
    The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

    , cello
    Cello
    The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...


Chart performance

Chart (2006) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 34
U.S. Billboard 200 163
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers 6
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