''Amarillo Sky'' is the fifth studio album released by American country music trio

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. It was their first and only album after the reunion of the band's three original members (lead vocalist/bass guitarist Terry McBride, drummer Billy Thomas and guitarist Ray Herndon). The album produced three singles in "Anything That Touches You", "Squeeze Box" (originally recorded by

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) and the title track. While "Anything That Touches You" peaked at #50 on the ''

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'' country charts, the latter two singles failed to chart. The title track was later recorded by

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on his self-titled debut album, from which it was released as a single in 2006. "Hasta Luego" was previously recorded by David Ball under the title "Hasta Luego, My Love" on his 1999 album ''

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''.

Track listing

#" Amarillo Sky" ( Kenny Alphin,

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, Bart Pursley) – 3:23 #"Sure Feels Like It" (Steve Bogard,

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, Terry McBride) – 3:26 #"Anything That Touches You" (Bogard, Green, McBride) – 3:59 #"You Take My Heart There" (Green, McBride) – 3:30 #"Leave Her With Me" (McBride,

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) – 3:46 #"Yours" (McBride, Ray Herndon, Billy Thomas, Gary Nicholson) – 3:42 #" Squeeze Box" (

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) – 2:57 #"Why Not Colorado" (

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, Anna Wilson) – 3:26 #"Hasta Luego" (

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, McBride) – 3:14 #"When Somebody Loves You" (Herndon, McBride, Thomas, Nicholson) – 4:56

Personnel

McBride & the Ride

*Ray Herndon -

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, ...

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, high-strung guitar,

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, fretted

Dobro Dobro () is an American brand of resonator guitars 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 originally a gui ...

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*Terry McBride -

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...

, background vocals *Billy Thomas -

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

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, background vocals

Additional musicians

*David Angell -

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Ron Block Ronald Franklin Block (born July 30, 1964) is an American banjo player, guitarist, and singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the bluegrass band Alison Krauss & Union Station. He has won 14 Grammy Awards, 6 International Bluegrass Music ...

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*John Catchings -

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*Eric Darken - percussion *David Davidson - violin *

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* Paul Franklin - steel guitar *Jim Hoke -

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 incl ...

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*Gary Morse - steel guitar *

Matt Rollings Matt Rollings is a Grammy Award-winning American composer, keyboard player and record producer. Known mainly for playing in Lyle Lovett's Large Band, Rollings has worked with many artists, not all country. Rollings won the 'Best Traditional Pop ...

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

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, keyboard sitar *Kristin Wilkinson -

viola The viola ( , () ) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. Violas are slightly larger than violins, and have a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the ...

, violin

References

{{Authority control 2002 albums Dualtone Records albums McBride & the Ride albums Albums produced by Matt Rollings