''Everybody Knows'' is the third studio album by Canadian

country music Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...

group

Prairie Oyster Prairie Oyster was a Canadian country music group from Toronto, Ontario. They were named Country Group or Duo of the year six times by both the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) and the Juno Awards. The band also won the Bud Country Fan ...

and was released on September 19, 1991, by

RCA Nashville RCA Nashville is an American country music record label based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is distributed by Sony Music Nashville which is part of Sony Music. Artists Current artists *Kane Brown * Corey Kent * Nate Smith * Morgan Wade Former art ...

. The album was named Album of the Year by the

Canadian Country Music Association The Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) was founded in 1976 as the Academy of Country Music Entertainment to organize, promote and develop a Canadian country music industry. The groundwork for the association began on June 3, 1973, when a gr ...

in 1992.

Track listing

# " Will I Do (Till the Real Thing Comes Along)" (Joan Besen) - 2:44 # "

One Precious Love "One Precious Love" is a song recorded by Canadian country music group Prairie Oyster. It was released in December 1991 as the second single from their third studio album, ''Everybody Knows (Prairie Oyster album), Everybody Knows''. It peaked at nu ...

" (Besen) - 2:10 # "Can't Say Goodbye" (Russell deCarle) - 2:54 # "

Am I That Easy to Forget "Am I That Easy to Forget" is a popular song written by country music singer Carl Belew with W.S. Stevenson and published in 1958. Belew recorded the song in Nashville on December 17, 1958, and released the single in March 1959, when it reac ...

" (

Carl Belew Carl Robert Belew (April 21, 1931 – October 31, 1990) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Belew was recorded for Decca, RCA Victor, and MCA in the 1950s through 1970s, charting 11 times on Hot Country Songs. He also wrote si ...

, W.S. Stevenson) - 2:40 # "Just for Old Times Sake" (Hank Hunter, Jack Keller) - 2:46 # " Everybody Knows" (Keith Glass,

Paul Kennerley Paul Kennerley (born 1948) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer working in the American contemporary country music industry. Biography Kennerley was born in Hoylake, Cheshire, England in 1948. In 1976, he was living in ...

) - 2:47 # "Here's to You" ( James House, Kostas) - 2:52 # " Did You Fall in Love with Me" (Besen) - 3:36 # "I Think That We Did Something" (Jack DeKeyser) - 3:19 # "Goodbye Lonesome (Hello, Baby Doll)" ( Lee Emerson) - 2:32

Personnel

*John P. Allen –

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, ...

fiddle A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Althou ...

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

, background vocals * Richard Bennett –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

, producer *Joan Besen –

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 ...

, background vocals *Russell de Carle –

electric bass 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 but with a longer neck and scale leng ...

, vocals *Dennis Delorme –

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 ...

*Keith Glass – acoustic guitar,

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

, vocals *

Josh Leo Josh Leo (born 1953 in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer active in Nashville, Tennessee. Leo was born in Des Moines, Iowa, but was raised in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1976, he moved to Chicago, Illinois ...

– guitar, producer *Bruce Moffett –

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 ...

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 ...

Production

*Mary Hamilton – art direction *Jeff Giedt – assistant *Steve Marcantonio – engineer, mixing *Denny Purcell – mastering *Señor McGuire – photography *Ed Stone – engineer *L. Stuart Young – assistant

Chart performance

References

{{Authority control 1991 albums Prairie Oyster albums RCA Records albums Albums produced by Josh Leo Albums recorded at Metalworks Studios Canadian Country Music Association Album of the Year albums