Trick Pony (album)
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Trick Pony is the eponymous debut from the American country music
group Trick Pony
, released in 2001 on Warner Bros. Records
Nashville. The album produced three singles in "Pour Me", "On a Night Like This", and "Just What I Do", which respectively reached #12, #4, and #13 on the Billboard
Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs
) charts. "Just What I Do" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for "Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals". Also included is a cover of Johnny Cash
's "Big River", here covered with Cash and Waylon Jennings
.
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...
group Trick Pony
Trick Pony
Trick Pony was an American country music group. It was formed in 1996 by Keith Burns , Ira Dean , and Heidi Newfield . The group recorded three studio albums: Trick Pony, On a Mission and R.I.D.E., released in 2001, 2002 and 2005, respectively...
, released in 2001 on Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...
Nashville. The album produced three singles in "Pour Me", "On a Night Like This", and "Just What I Do", which respectively reached #12, #4, and #13 on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now 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. "Just What I Do" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for "Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals". Also included is a cover of Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
's "Big River", here covered with Cash and Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...
.
Track listing
- "Pour Me" (Rory Waters Beighley, Sammy Harp Wedlock, Keith Burns, Ira Dean, Heidi NewfieldHeidi NewfieldHeidi Newfield is an American country music artist. She was lead singer, rhythm guitarist and harmonica player for the group Trick Pony, alongside Keith Burns and Ira Dean from 1996 until 2006, when she left in pursuit of a solo career...
) – 2:49 - "Party of One" (Karen Staley, Dean, Doug Kahan) – 3:17
- "Big RiverBig River (Johnny Cash song)"Big River" is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash. Released as a single by Sun Records in 1958, it went as high as #4 on the Billboard country music charts and stayed on the charts for 14 weeks...
" (Johnny CashJohnny CashJohn R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
) – 3:34- feat. Johnny Cash and Waylon JenningsWaylon JenningsWaylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...
- feat. Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings
- "Every Other Memory" (Staley, Dean, Kahan) – 3:49
- "More Like Me" (Burns, Dean, Newfield) – 3:22
- "Just What I Do" (Burns, Dean) – 3:22
- "Stay in This Moment" (Lewis Anderson, George Teren) – 3:32
- "On a Night Like ThisOn a Night Like This (Trick Pony song)"On a Night like This" is the title of a song written by Doug Kahan and Karen Staley, and recorded by American country music group Trick Pony. Released in April 2001, it was the second single from the album Trick Pony...
" (Staley, Kahan) – 3:30 - "One in a Row" (Burns, Dean) – 2:58
- "Now Would Be the Time" (Burns, Dean) – 4:27
- "Can't Say That on the Radio" (Dawna Bradford, Burns) – 3:39
- "Spent" (David Lee MurphyDavid Lee MurphyDavid Lee Murphy is an American country music artist. Signed to MCA Nashville Records in 1994, Murphy made his first appearance on the Billboard country charts that year with "Just Once", a song from the soundtrack to the 1994 film 8 Seconds. A year later, Murphy's debut album Out with a Bang was...
, Kim Tribble) – 2:42 - "Not Hidden Track" – 2:37
Trick Pony
- Keith Burns - acoustic guitar, vocals
- Ira Dean - upright bass, bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, percussion, vocals - Heidi NewfieldHeidi NewfieldHeidi Newfield is an American country music artist. She was lead singer, rhythm guitarist and harmonica player for the group Trick Pony, alongside Keith Burns and Ira Dean from 1996 until 2006, when she left in pursuit of a solo career...
- vocals, harmonicaHarmonicaThe harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
, acoustic guitarAcoustic guitarAn 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...
Additional Musicians
- Kenny Aronoff - drums
- Daniel Blank - fiddleFiddleThe 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...
- Pat Buchanan - electric guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
- Shannon Forrest - drums
- Larry FranklinLarry FranklinLawrence Anthony Franklin is a former U.S. Air Force Reserve colonel who has pleaded guilty to passing information about U.S. policy towards Iran to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee , the foremost pro-Israel lobbying organization in the U.S, while he was working for the Defense...
- fiddle - Aubrey HaynieAubrey HaynieAubrey 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 - John Hobbs - keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA 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...
- John JorgensonJohn JorgensonJohn Jorgenson is a US musician. Although best known for his guitar work with bands such as the Desert Rose Band and The Hellecasters, Jorgenson is also proficient in the mandolin, mandocello, Dobro, pedal steel, piano, upright bass, clarinet, bassoon and saxophone...
- electric guitar - Steve Nathan - keyboards
- Brian Nelson - percussion
- Jimmy Nichols - keyboards
- Russ Paul - electric guitar, steel guitarSteel guitarSteel 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...
- Tom Roady - percussion
- Brad Ruthven - electric guitar
- Michael Spriggs - acoustic guitar
Chart performance
Chart (2001) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 12 |
U.S. Billboard 200 | 91 |