''Carried Along'' is the second album by American singer-songwriter Andrew Peterson, released in 2000.

Background

Peterson worked with Glenn Rosenstein, in the production of this album. Essential Records released the album on March 21, 2000.

Critical reception

Rating the album a four out of five at ''The Phantom Tollbooth'', Janet Friesen states, "Andrew Peterson's music moves like a breath of fresh air weaving acoustical patterns with guitars, strings, tin whistles, and hammer dulcimars." Catherine E. Francis, giving the album a nine out of ten for ''

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'', writes, "this set gives you 10 tracks of folk and country-tinged acoustic pop that is very easy on the ears." Awarding the album three stars from

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, Ashleigh Kittle says, "The project features a strong folk sound, at times blended with pop influences."

Track listing

Chart performance

Personnel

* Andrew Peterson – lead vocals, acoustic guitar (1–3, 7), 12-string acoustic guitar (4, 9),

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– acoustic piano (1, 6, 8),

Hammond B3 organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert, first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, sound was created ...

(1, 2, 4, 8, 9) * Gabe Scott – acoustic guitar (1–8, 10), backing vocals (1–8, 10),

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

(6),

hammered dulcimer The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-string instrument which consists of String (music), strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board (music), sound board. The hammered dulcimer is set bef ...

(9) *

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– electric guitars (1, 9) *

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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 in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. ...

(5, 7) *

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pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a console steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings, enabling more varied and complex music to be played than with other steel guitar designs. Like all steel guitars, it can play ...

(5, 7) * Aubrey Haynie – mandolin (10), violin (10) * Craig Young – bass guitar (1, 4, 5, 7–10) *

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– upright bass (2, 3, 6) *

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– drums (1, 4, 5, 9), percussion (8) * Ken Lewis – percussion (1–5, 7–10) * Sam Levine –

penny whistle The tin whistle, also known as the penny whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is a type of fipple flute, a class of instrument which also includes the recorder and Native American flute. A tin whistle player is called a whistl ...

(10) * John Catchings – cello (3, 4, 9, 10) * Jamie Peterson – backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 5, 7–10) * Aedan Peterson – laughter (10) Strings (Tracks 4 & 9) * Conni Ellisor – arrangements * Pamela Sixfin – contractor and concertmaster * Bob Mason – cello * Craig Nelson – double bass * Gary Vanosdale and Kristin Wilkinson – viola * David Angell, David Davidson, Lee Larrison, Cate Myer, Christian Teal, Alan Umstead and Karen Winklemann – violin

Production

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– executive producer * Cliff Young – executive producer * Glenn Rosenstein– producer *

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– engineer, mixing * Phil Cooper – assistant engineer * Bob Horn – assistant engineer * Thomas Johnson – assistant engineer * Ken Love – mastering at MasterMix (Nashville, Tennessee) * Michelle Kapp – design * Michael Wilson – photography * Aaron Tate – management

References

{{Authority control 2000 albums Andrew Peterson (musician) albums Essential Records (Christian) albums