Notorious (Confederate Railroad album)
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Notorious is the second studio album released by the 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...

 band Confederate Railroad
Confederate Railroad
Confederate Railroad is an American country rock band founded in 1987 in Marietta, Georgia by Danny Shirley , Michael Lamb , Mark Dufresne , Chris McDaniel , Warren "Gates" Nichols and Wayne Secrest...

. It was released in 1994 by Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...

 Nashville. It peaked at #6 on the US country albums chart, and #13 on the Canadian country albums chart, and was certified platinum by the RIAA. "Summer In Dixie" became their first single to miss the top 40 in the United States.

"I Am Just a Rebel" was previously recorded by Billy Hill
Billy Hill (supergroup)
Billy Hill was an American country music group founded by Dennis Robbins , Bob DiPiero , and John Scott Sherrill , along with Reno Kling and Martin Parker . Before the group's foundation, Robbins had been a member of The Rockets...

 on their album of the same name, and "Redneck Romeo" was originally recorded by The Forester Sisters
The Forester Sisters
The Forester Sisters are an American country music vocal group consisting of sisters Kathy, June, Kim and Christy Forester. The quartet had commercial success in the 1980s, charting fifteen Top Tens on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, including the Number Ones "I Fell in Love Again Last...

 on 1992's I Got a Date.

Track listing

  1. "Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind
    Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind
    "Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind" is a song recorded by the country music band Confederate Railroad. It is the lead-off single released from their 1994 album Notorious. It peaked at #9 the United States, and #7 in Canada. It is their last top ten in the United States to date, while they'd have...

    " (Dave Gibson, Bernie Nelson) – 3:43
  2. "Summer in Dixie" (Gene Levine, John Robbin) – 3:01
  3. "I Am Just a Rebel" (Bob DiPiero
    Bob DiPiero
    Bob DiPiero is an American country music songwriter. He has written 15. U.S. Number 1 hits and countless top 20 hits for the likes of Tim McGraw, The Oak Ridge Boys, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Shenandoah, Neal McCoy, Highway 101, Restless Heart, Ricochet, John Anderson, Montgomery...

    , John Scott Sherrill
    John Scott Sherrill
    John Scott Sherrill is an American songwriter whose work is primarily in the field of country music. He has written songs for such artists as John Anderson, Brooks & Dunn, Jimmy Buffett , Johnny Lee, George Strait, Steve Wariner, Patty Loveless, Josh Turner, Waylon Jennings, Alison Krauss, Peter...

    , Dennis Robbins
    Dennis Robbins
    Dennis Robbins is an American musician who first made himself known as a guitarist in the band The Rockets. After his departure from The Rockets, he began a career in country music, recording two major-label albums and several singles of his own, in addition to writing hit singles for Shenandoah...

    ) – 3:49
  4. "Elvis and Andy
    Elvis and Andy
    "Elvis and Andy" is a single by American country music group Confederate Railroad. Released in 1994, it was the second single from the album Notorious. The song reached #20 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...

    " (Craig Wiseman
    Craig Wiseman
    Craig Michael Wiseman is an American country music songwriter. Active since the late 1980s as a songwriter, he has had his songs recorded by Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes, and several other acts....

    ) – 3:30
  5. "Notorious" (Pat Terry) – 4:09
  6. "Redneck Romeo" (Gibson, Wiseman) – 3:36
  7. "Hunger Pains" (Rory Michael Bourke
    Rory Michael Bourke
    Rory Michael Bourke is a country music songwriter born July 14, 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio.Bourke moved to Nashville in 1964 and worked for a period in the promotional department of Mercury Records....

    , Bucky Jones, Ronny Scaife) – 3:22
  8. "Roll the Dice" (Larry Boone
    Larry Boone
    Larry Eugene Boone is an American country music artist. Between 1985 and 1993, Boone recorded five major label studio albums, in addition to charting several singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts. His highest-charting single, "Don't Give Candy to a Stranger", reached #10 in 1988...

    , Paul Nelson) – 4:27
  9. "Move Over Madonna" (Wiseman, Troy Seals
    Troy Seals
    Troy Seals is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.He is a member of the prominent Seals family of musicians that includes, Jim Seals and Dan Seals and Brady Seals...

    ) – 3:28
  10. "Three Verses" (Fred Knoblock
    Fred Knoblock
    Fred Knoblock is an American country singer-songwriter.Prior to his solo career, Knoblock had been a member of Let's Eat, a 1970s rock band. Knoblock was signed to Scotti Brothers Records in 1980 when he released the song "Why Not Me", which he wrote along with Carson Whitsett...

    ) – 4:47

Confederate Railroad

  • Mark Dufresne - drums
  • Michael Lamb - guitar
    Guitar
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    , vocals
  • Chris McDaniel - keyboards
    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...

    , vocals
  • Gates Nichols - steel guitar
    Steel guitar
    Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...

    , vocals
  • Wayne Secrest - bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Danny Shirley - lead vocals, guitar

Additional musicians

  • 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
  • Barry Beckett - keyboards
  • Bruce Bouton - steel guitar, synthesizer
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

  • Gary Burr - 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,...

     - steel guitar
  • "Cowboy" Eddie Long - steel guitar
  • Phil Naish - keyboards
  • Russ Pahl - 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...

  • Suzie Ragsdale - background vocals
  • Tom Roady - percussion
  • Michael Rhodes - bass guitar
  • Brent Rowan - lead & rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...

  • Harry Stinson - background vocals
  • Billy Joe Walker, Jr. - 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...

  • Hurshel Wiginton - background vocals
  • Dennis Wilson - background vocals
  • Curtis Young - background vocals

Album

Chart (1994) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 6
U.S. Billboard 200 52
Canadian RPM Country Albums 13

Singles

Year Single Chart Positions
US Country
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...

CAN Country
1994 "Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind
Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind
"Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind" is a song recorded by the country music band Confederate Railroad. It is the lead-off single released from their 1994 album Notorious. It peaked at #9 the United States, and #7 in Canada. It is their last top ten in the United States to date, while they'd have...

"
9 7
"Elvis and Andy" 20 8
"Summer in Dixie" 55
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