''Countrified'' is the fifth studio album by Canadian
country music
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band
Emerson Drive. It was released in
2006
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January
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as their first issue for the
Midas Records label. In the U.S., the album produced three singles on the
Hot Country Songs
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charts: "A Good Man", "Moments" (the band's first Number One hit), and "You Still Own Me". Two of the album's tracks are covers: "You Still Own Me" was previously a hit in Canada for
Johnny Reid
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, and "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" is a cover of a song made famous by the
Charlie Daniels Band
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.
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from liner notes.
;Emerson Drive
*Patrick Bourque - bass guitar
*Danick Dupelle - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals
*Brad Mates - lead vocals
*Mike Melancon - drums
*David Pichette - fiddle, mandolin
*Dale Wallace - piano, keyboards, organ, background vocals
;Additional musicians
*Dave Hoffner - strings (track 3)
*
Gordon Mote
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- strings (track 7)
;Technical
*Brad Allen - producer (on tracks 1, 4, 5, 9, 10)
*Keith Follesé - producer (on tracks 1, 4, 5, 9, 10)
*Ben Fowler - mixing (track 11)
*
Teddy Gentry - producer (all tracks except 1, 4, 5, 9, 10)
*
Josh Leo - producer (all tracks except 1, 4, 5, 9, 10)
*Justin Niebank - mixing (except track 11)
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
2006 albums
Emerson Drive albums
Albums produced by Josh Leo
Midas Records Nashville albums
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