Erika Jo is the self-titled debut album of 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...

 singer Erika Jo

Erika Jo

Erika Jo Heriges , known simply by the stage name Erika Jo, is an American country music recording artist who was declared winner of the 2005 season of the Nashville Star television program. Eighteen years old at the time, Erika Jo is both the youngest person to win the competition and the first...

. It was released on June 14, 2005 by Universal South Records, following the artist's win on the 2005 season of Nashville Star

Nashville Star

Nashville Star is an American reality television program. It was transmitted during mid-2008 on NBC, following five seasons on USA Network. It premiered on March 8, 2003, and its five seasons on USA made it the longest-running competition series on cable television. In Canada, the show aired on CMT...

. Tim DuBois

Tim DuBois

Tim DuBois is a Nashville-based music executive. He attended Oklahoma State University and received a B.A. and M.A. in Accounting. He then entered into the music business and has taken part in multiple aspects of the industry including songwriting, record labels, management, and production...

 produced the album with Rick Giles and Sixwire

Sixwire

Sixwire is an American country music group from Nashville, Tennessee. The group is composed of Andy Childs , Robb Houston , John Howard , Steve Mandile , and Chuck Tilley . The band's name references the six strings on a guitar. Sixwire recorded one album for Warner Bros...

 member Steve Mandile on all tracks except "I Break Things", which he co-produced with Tony Brown

Tony Brown (record producer)

Tony Brown is an American country music record producer.He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina.Brown played piano for Elvis Presley. He toured with the TCB Band for much of Presley's final two years and was a part of the 1976 "Jungle Room" recording sessions at Graceland...

.

The album debuted at the number 5 spot on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Its lead-off single "I Break Things" made number 53 on the 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, while a cover of Jessi Colter

Jessi Colter

Jessi Colter is an American country music artist who is best known for her collaboration with her husband, country singer and songwriter Waylon Jennings and for her 1975 country-pop crossover hit "I'm Not Lisa"....

's "I'm Not Lisa

I'm Not Lisa

"I'm Not Lisa" is a country music song written and recorded by American country artist Jessi Colter. It was released as a single on January 16, 1975 by Capitol Records. "I'm Not Lisa" would become Colter's first major hit as a solo artist.-Content:...

" did not chart. The track "Love Is" was co-written by Katrina Elam

Katrina Elam

Katrina Ruth Elam is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Universal South Records in 2004, she released her self-titled debut album that year, charting in the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks with the #29 "No End in Sight" and the #59 "I Want a Cowboy"...

, who released her own rendition as a single in 2006 from her unreleased second album Turn Me Up.

Track listing

1. "I Break Things" (Monty Criswell, Wade Kirby) – 3:04
2. "Who You Are" (Aimee Mayo
   Aimee Mayo
   Aimee Mayo is an American songwriter, primarily known for writing country hits for artists such as Lonestar, Martina McBride, Sara Evans, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and Kellie Pickler. Mayo owns her own publishing company, Little Blue Typewriter Music.-Biography:Aimee Mayo grew up in Gadsden, Alabama...
   
   , Marv Green) – 3:25
3. "There Are No Accidents" (Tom Shapiro
   Tom Shapiro
   Tom Shapiro is an American songwriter and occasional record producer, known primarily for his work in country music. To date, he holds four Country Songwriter of the Year awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated, as well as the Songwriter of the Decade award from the Nashville Songwriters...
   
   , Mark Nesler
   Mark Nesler
   Mark Nesler is an American country music artist. Signed to Elektra Records as a recording artist in 1998, Nesler charted three singles on the U.S. Billboard country charts...
   
   , Tony Martin
   Tony Martin (songwriter)
   Tony Martin is a country music songwriter who has had twelve Number One hits as a songwriter. Among his compositions are "Third Rock from the Sun" by Joe Diffie and "Just to See You Smile" by Tim McGraw....
   
   ) – 3:40
4. "Go" (Jim Collins
   Jim Collins (singer)
   Jim Collins is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1985 and 1998, Collins released three studio albums. He also charted seven singles on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
   
   , Shaye Smith) – 3:35
5. "Strong Tonight" (Sunny Russ) – 3:40
6. "Good Day for Goodbye" (Chris Farren, Blair Daly
   Blair Daly
   Blair Daly is an American songwriter and producer. He was born and raised in the small, Cajun town of Opelousas, Louisiana. Blair moved straight out of high school to Nashville, Tennessee in 1990, to pursue a career in music...
   
   , Katrina Elam
   Katrina Elam
   Katrina Ruth Elam is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Universal South Records in 2004, she released her self-titled debut album that year, charting in the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks with the #29 "No End in Sight" and the #59 "I Want a Cowboy"...
   
   ) – 3:29
7. "Wish You Back to Me" (Janet Turner, Steve Mandile, Chad Turner) – 4:16
8. "They Say Love Is Blind" (Shane Teeters, Kerry Kurt Phillips, Rachel Proctor
   Rachel Proctor
   Rachel Christine Proctor is an American country music artist. Before signing to a record deal, she co-wrote Martina McBride's 2002 single "Where Would You Be". By 2003, Proctor had signed to BNA Records, releasing her debut single "Days Like This" that year...
   
   ) – 3:22
9. "Going 'Til You're Gone" (Dave Berg
   Dave Berg (songwriter)
   Dave Berg is an American country music songwriter. His credits include the Number One country hits "Somebody" by Reba McEntire, "If You're Going Through Hell " and "These Are My People" by Rodney Atkins, and "Moments" by Emerson Drive...
   
   , Marty Dodson) – 3:35
10. "Love Is" (Elam, Bonnie Baker) – 3:15
11. "I'm Not Lisa
    I'm Not Lisa
    "I'm Not Lisa" is a country music song written and recorded by American country artist Jessi Colter. It was released as a single on January 16, 1975 by Capitol Records. "I'm Not Lisa" would become Colter's first major hit as a solo artist.-Content:...
    
    " (Jessi Colter
    Jessi Colter
    Jessi Colter is an American country music artist who is best known for her collaboration with her husband, country singer and songwriter Waylon Jennings and for her 1975 country-pop crossover hit "I'm Not Lisa"....
    
    ) – 3:23

Musicians

Compiled from liner notes.

• Eddie Bayers
  Eddie Bayers
  Eddie Bayers is an American session drummer who has played on 150 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for eight straight years, and has three times won the Nashville Music Awards 'Drummer of the Year'...
  
   — drums
• Thom Flora — background vocals
• Paul Franklin
  Paul Franklin (musician)
  Paul Franklin is an American multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his work as a steel guitarist. He began his career in the 1970s as a member of Barbara Mandrell's road band; in addition he toured with Mel Tillis and Jerry Reed. He has since become a prolific session musician in Nashville,...
  
   — pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, Dobro
• Steve Gibson — acoustic guitar
• Aubrey Haynie
  Aubrey Haynie
  Aubrey Haynie is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle and mandolin. In his career, he has recorded three studio albums for the Sugar Hill Records label, all three of which contained mostly songs that he wrote himself...
  
   — fiddle, mandolin
• Wes Hightower — background vocals
• John Barlow Jarvis — piano
• Steve Mandile — acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Brent Mason
  Brent Mason
  Brent Mason is an American session guitarist and occasional songwriter. He is known primarily for his work in the field of country music. In addition to releasing two instrumental studio albums, he holds several credits as a songwriter...
  
   — electric guitar
• Steve Nathan — keyboards, Hammond B-3 organ
• Larry Paxton — bass guitar
• Jimmie Lee Sloas — bass guitar
• Harry Stinson — background vocals
• Russell Terrell — background vocals
• Chuck Tilley — percussion

Chart performance

Chart (2005)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	5
U.S. Billboard 200	27