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group Trick Pony. It is the group's only recording for the Asylum-Curb label. The album's name is an abbreviation for "Rebellious Individuals Delivering Entertainment". This album includes the singles "The Bride", "It's a Heartache", and "Ain't Wastin' Good Whiskey on You". Two of the tracks on this album are cover songs: "It's a Heartache" is a cover of a pop standard which has been recorded by

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and

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, whose version was a Top Ten hit on both the

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and country charts in 1978, while "Señorita" was previously recorded by

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on their 2004 self-titled album.

Track listing

#"Ain't Wastin' Good Whiskey on You" ( Wally Wilson, Buck Moore) – 2:58 #*

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and Darryl Worley #"What's Not to Love" ( Kim Tribble, Ira Dean, David Lee Murphy) – 2:43 #*

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#" It's a Heartache" (

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, Steve Wolfe) – 3:27 #"When I Fall" ( Billy Dean, Keith Burns) – 3:06 #"I Didn't" (Steven J. Williams, Sherrié Austin, Will Rambeaux) – 3:23 #" The Bride" (Lee Ann Burgess, Darryl Burgess,

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) – 3:00 #"Sad City" (Burns, Mark Oliverius) – 3:32 #"Stand in the Middle of Texas" ( Matraca Berg,

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) – 3:49 #"Señorita" (Joey Garza, Henry Garza, Ringo Garza) – 3:07 #"Hillbilly Rich" ( Anthony Smith, I. Dean) – 3:04 #"Once a Cowboy" (

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, Jeffrey Steele, Shane Minor) – 3:48 #"Cry, Cry, Cry" (Steele, I. Dean) – 2:42 #"I Can Live with That" (Murphy, Tribble, I. Dean) – 4:18 #"Maryann's Song" ( Heidi Newfield, Todd Woolsey) – 3:38

Personnel

Trick Pony

*Keith Burns -

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, vocals *Ira Dean -

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and s ...

, acoustic guitar, vocals * Heidi Newfield -

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica in ...

, vocals

Additional musicians

*Larry Beaird - acoustic guitar * Richard Bennett - acoustic guitar,

*Jim "Moose" Brown - keyboards, organ,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

*Steve Bryant - bass guitar *Pat Buchanan -

dobro Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was origin ...

, electric guitar *

- background vocals on "Ain't Wastin' Good Whiskey on You" * J.T. Corenflos - electric guitar *

- background vocals on "Ain't Wastin' Good Whiskey on You" *Chris Dunn -

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrat ...

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drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks ...

*Larry Franklin - fiddle * Paul Franklin -

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all steel guitars, it can ...

lap steel guitar The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of playing a traditional ...

*Owen Hale - drums *

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- fiddle *Tommy Harden - drums *Johnny Hiland - electric guitar *Jim Horn - baritone saxophone *Bill Hullet - acoustic guitar *Mike Johnson - pedal steel guitar *

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- electric guitar *Troy Lancaster - electric guitar *Chris Leuzinger - electric guitar *Sam Levine -

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

*Branford Marsalis - tenor saxophone *

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- drums *Greg Morrow - drums *Gordon Mote - keyboards, organ, piano,

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*Steve Nathan - organ *

- electric guitar on "What Not to Love" *Billy Panda - acoustic guitar *Steve Patrick -

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...

* Darius Rucker - background vocals on "Sad City" *Milton Sledge - drums *Anthony L. Smith -

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

*Joe Spivey - fiddle *Michael Spriggs - acoustic guitar *Bobby Terry - electric guitar *

- background vocals on "Ain't Wastin' Good Whiskey on You" *

- background vocals on "Ain't Wastin' Good Whiskey on You" *John Willis - banjo, electric guitar * Darryl Worley - background vocals on "Ain't Wastin' Good Whiskey on You"

Charts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ride 2005 albums Trick Pony albums Asylum-Curb Records albums