''Sounds So Good'' is the debut studio album by American country music artist Ashton Shepherd. The album was released on March 4, 2008, via MCA Nashville Records. The album has produced two singles: "

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", which reached number 20 on ''Billboard''

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, and the title track, which reached number 21. Shepherd wrote or co-wrote all but one of the tracks.

Track listing

Chart performance

Album

The album debuted and peaked at number 16 on the Top Country Albums chart, and number 90 on the ''Billboard'' 200 selling less than 10,000 copies in the United States.Katie Hasty
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Billboard.com, March 12, 2008.

Singles

Personnel

*Wyatt Beard – background vocals * Buddy Cannon –

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

, background vocals * Chad Cromwell –

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

* Dan Dugmore –

steel guitar A steel guitar ( haw, kīkākila) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conve ...

*Kevin "Swine" Grantt – bass guitar * Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar * John Jorgenson – electric guitar *Shelby Kennedy – background vocals *B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar,

12-string guitar A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in o ...

*Randy McCormick – piano,

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, Wurlitzer electric piano,

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

*Larry Paxton – bass guitar *Gary Prim – piano * John Wesley Ryles – background vocals *Scotty Sanders - steel guitar * Ashton Shepherd - lead vocals *Joe Spivey -

fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

* Scott Vestal -

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 ...

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– acoustic guitar

References

{{Authority control 2008 debut albums MCA Records albums Ashton Shepherd albums Albums produced by Buddy Cannon