''Ride'' is the second album by the American pop singer-songwriter, actor

Jamie Walters James Leland Walters Jr. (born June 13, 1969) is an American actor and singer, best known for his roles on ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' and '' The Heights'' and singing lead vocal on " How Do You Talk to an Angel". Career Walters was born in Bosto ...

. It was released on June 24, 1997, through

Atlantic Records Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over the course of its first two decades, starting from the release of its first recor ...

Track listing

Personnel

– lead vocals, guitars (tracks: 2 to 5, 10, 11) *

Steve Tyrell Steve Tyrell (born Stephen Louis Bilao III, December 19, 1944) is an American singer and record producer. He won a 2004 Grammy Award as the producer of the Rod Stewart studio album '' Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III''. He also h ...

– production, keyboards

Additional musicians

Michael Landau Michael Christopher Landau (born June 1, 1958) is an American musician, audio engineer, and record-producer. He is a session musician and guitarist who has played on many albums since the early 1980s with Boz Scaggs, Minoru Niihara, Joni Mitchel ...

– guitars (inc. solo on 2, 4 to 6, 10, 11) *

Tim Pierce Tim Pierce (born 1958 in Albuquerque) is an American session guitarist. He has worked for artists such as Joe Cocker, Crowded House, Goo Goo Dolls, Michael Jackson, Beth Hart, Roger Waters, Alice Cooper, Johnny Hallyday, Phil Collins, and th ...

– guitars * John Pierce – bass (track 1) *

Leland Sklar Leland Bruce Sklar (born May 28, 1947) is an American bassist and session musician. He rose to prominence as a member of James Taylor's backing band, which coalesced into a group in its own right, The Section, which supported so many of Asylu ...

– bass (tracks: 2, 3, 6 to 11) * Jack Daley – bass (tracks: 4, 5) *

Mike Finnigan Michael Kelly Finnigan (April 26, 1945 – August 11, 2021) was an American keyboard player and vocalist, his specialty being the B3 Hammond organ. Working primarily as a freelance studio musician and touring player, he played with a wide variet ...

– keyboards (tracks: 1, 3, 4), backing vocals (tracks: 5, 7, 10, 11) * Jim Cox – keyboards (tracks: 5, 6, 7, 9, 10) * Kevin Savigar – keyboards (tracks: 1, 2, 7, 9), drum programming (tracks: 3, 6, 9) * Alex Brown – backing vocals (tracks: 1, 5, 7) * Marlena Jeter – backing vocals (tracks: 1, 5, 7) * Mortonette Jenkins – backing vocals (tracks: 1, 5, 7) * Zach Throne – backing vocals (tracks: 2 to 4, 6, 8, 9) * Abe Laboriel Jr. – drums (tracks: 3, 6, 7) *

Gary Mallaber Gary Mallaber (born October 11, 1946, in Buffalo) is an American musician from Los Angeles, mostly known as a drummer, but plays percussion, vibraphone, and keyboards. In addition, he is a songwriter, arranger, composer, producer, engineer, a ...

– drums (tracks: 1, 10, 11) *

Russ Kunkel Russell Kunkel (born September 27, 1948) is an American drummer who has worked as a session musician with many popular artists, including Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett, Harry Chapin, Rita Coolidge, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Cass Elliot, Dan Fo ...

– drums (tracks: 2, 8, 9) *

Cindy Blackman Cindy Blackman (born November 18, 1959), known as Cindy Blackman Santana since she married guitarist Carlos Santana in 2010, is an American jazz and Rock music, rock drummer performing since the 80s. Blackman has recorded several jazz albums as ...

– drums (tracks: 4, 5)

Other personnel

* Paul Buckmaster – string arrangements, conductor * Thomas Bricker – artwork * Doug Sax, Nilesh Patel – mastering * Chris Lord-Alge, Barry Coffing, Jack Daley – mixing * Kevin Williamson – A&R * Andrea Forshee – album coordinator * Joe Fischer, Robbie McPherson, Stephanie Fink – production assistant * Tina Bilao, Jill Greenberg – photography

In popular culture

The song "Reckless" was performed by Walters on the season 6 episode of ''

Beverly Hills, 90210 ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' (often referred to as ''90210'') is an American teen drama television series created by Darren Star and produced by Aaron Spelling via his production company Spelling Television. The series ran for 10 seasons on Fo ...

'' called "Ray of Hope" in 1996. Walters returned to the show later that year and performed the song "The Great Escape" on the episode "Lost in Las Vegas" from season 7.

Tour

Walters toured the US and Europe in support of ''Ride''. The performances consisted of only Walters and Zach Throne on acoustic guitars. There were also some dates in Europe with a full band.

Notes

1997 albums Atlantic Records albums Jamie Walters albums {{1990s-pop-rock-album-stub