What I Deserve is the fourth studio album by Kelly Willis

Kelly Willis

Kelly Willis is an American country music singer-songwriter, whose music has been described as contemporary country, alternative country and new traditionalist.-Early life:...

, released more than six years after her self-titled album

Kelly Willis (album)

Kelly Willis is the self-titled third album from the Austin, Texas-based singer. There were a couple of minor Billboard hits in the #63 "Heaven's Just a Sin Away" and the #72 "Whatever Way the Wind Blows." Also of note is a duet with Kevin Welch, "That'll Be Me."Tony Brown produced the album, with...

. Willis's three previous efforts with her old label, MCA, while critically acclaimed, did not achieve much in sales. With the long lapse of time came a new style for Willis. The album was her highest on the Billboard country charts at #30, although it produced no charting singles. Two of the tracks were written by Willis's husband Bruce Robison

Bruce Robison

Bruce Robison is an Austin-based Texas country music singer-songwriter. Bruce and his brother, fellow singer-songwriter Charlie Robison, grew up in Bandera, Texas near San Antonio, and he currently resides in Austin, Texas...

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Track listing

1. "Take Me Down" (Gary Louris
   Gary Louris
   Gary Louris is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter of alternative country and pop music. He was a founding member of the Minneapolis-based band The Jayhawks, and their principal songwriter and vocalist after the departure of Mark Olson; he is often credited with the band's subsequent move from...
   
   , Kelly Willis) – 3:46
2. "What I Deserve" (Louris, Willis) – 4:20
3. "Heaven Bound" (Damon Bramblett) – 3:20
4. "Talk Like That" (Willis) – 3:09
5. "Not Forgotten You" (Bruce Robison
   Bruce Robison
   Bruce Robison is an Austin-based Texas country music singer-songwriter. Bruce and his brother, fellow singer-songwriter Charlie Robison, grew up in Bandera, Texas near San Antonio, and he currently resides in Austin, Texas...
   
   ) – 3:36
6. "Wrapped" (Bruce Robison) – 4:28
7. "Cradle of Love" (Paul Kelly) – 4:57
8. "Got a Feelin' for Ya" (Dan Penn
   Dan Penn
   Dan Penn is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and sometime guitar player who co-wrote many soul hits of the 1960s including "Dark End of the Street" and "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" and "Out of Left Field" & "Cry Like A Baby"...
   
   , Chuck Prophet
   Chuck Prophet
   Chuck Prophet is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. A Californian, Prophet first achieved notice in the American psychedelic/desert rock group Green on Red, with whom he toured and recorded in the 1980s...
   
   ) – 3:25
9. "Time Has Told Me" (Nick Drake
   Nick Drake
   Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Though he is best known for his sombre guitar based songs, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...
   
   ) – 4:37
10. "Fading Fast" (John Leventhal
    John Leventhal
    John Leventhal is a Grammy Award-winning musician, producer, songwriter, and recording engineer who has produced albums for Michelle Branch, Rosanne Cash, Marc Cohn, Shawn Colvin, Rodney Crowell, Jim Lauderdale, Joan Osborne, Loudon Wainwright, The Wreckers and many others...
    
    , Willis) – 2:54
11. "Happy with That" (Louris, Willis) – 3:34
12. "They're Blind" (Paul Westerberg
    Paul Westerberg
    Paul Westerberg is an American musician, best known as the former lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter of The Replacements, one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s. He launched a solo career after the dissolution of that band...
    
    ) – 4:37
13. "Not Long for This World" (Leventhal, Willis) – 3:28

Personnel

• Kelly Willis
  Kelly Willis
  Kelly Willis is an American country music singer-songwriter, whose music has been described as contemporary country, alternative country and new traditionalist.-Early life:...
  
   - vocals
• Chuck Prophet
  Chuck Prophet
  Chuck Prophet is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. A Californian, Prophet first achieved notice in the American psychedelic/desert rock group Green on Red, with whom he toured and recorded in the 1980s...
  
   - acoustic & electric guitars, background vocals
• Mark Spencer
  Mark Spencer (guitarist)
  Mark Spencer, is an American guitarist, steel guitarist, engineer, multi-instrumentalist, and musician currently based in Brooklyn, New York. An original member of seminal alt-country band Blood Oranges, he continues to work as an in-demand band member and sideman with a diverse range of new and...
  
   - acoustic & electric guitars
• John Dee Graham - electric & electric lap steel guitars
• Max Butler - electric guitar
• Lloyd Maines
  Lloyd Maines
  Lloyd Maines is an American Grammy Award-winning country music record producer, musician and songwriter. He was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas and is now based in Bulverde, Texas....
  
   - pedal steel guitar
• Amy Noelle Farris
  Amy Farris
  Amy Farris was an American fiddler, singer and songwriter. She toured or recorded with artists such as Dave Alvin, Exene Cervenka, Ray Price, Bruce Robison, Kelly Willis and Brian Wilson. Her 2004 solo album Anyway was released on Yep Roc Records...
  
   - mandolin, violin, background vocals
• Michael Ramos - piano, Hammond B-3 & Farfisa organs
• John Ludwick - bass, background vocals
• Michael Been
  Michael Been
  Michael Been was an American rock musician who achieved critical attention and rotation play on MTV in the 1980s with his band The Call. He later released an album of his solo work and toured with his son's band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. His song "Let the Day Begin" was the official campaign...
  
   - bass
• Larry Aberman, Rafael Gayol
  Rafael Gayol
  Rafael Bernardo Gayol is a drummer, percussionist, songwriter, singer and actor.Born in Mexico City and raised in Los Angeles, California, he has worked as a drummer/percussionist/vocalist recording and touring with such diverse artists as Leonard Cohen, Doll Congress, BoDeans, Sun 60, Charlie...
  
   - drums
• Dave McNair - percussion
• Bruce Robison
  Bruce Robison
  Bruce Robison is an Austin-based Texas country music singer-songwriter. Bruce and his brother, fellow singer-songwriter Charlie Robison, grew up in Bandera, Texas near San Antonio, and he currently resides in Austin, Texas...
  
  , Charlie Robison
  Charlie Robison
  Charles Fitzgerald "Charlie" Robison is an Texas Country singer/songwriter, who was raised in Bandera, Texas. His brother is singer/songwriter Bruce Robison...
  
  - background vocals

Chart performance

Chart (1999)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	30
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers	24