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. It was released on January 8, 1991 via Arista Nashville. The album includes the singles "Love Will Bring Her Around", "She's a Natural", "Still Burnin' for You", and "Working Woman".

Critical reception

Giving it a "C", Alanna Nash of ''

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Track listing

Personnel

* Jeff Boggs -

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* Rick Bowles - background vocals * Dennis Burnside -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

* Gary Burr - background vocals * Carol Chase - background vocals *

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, ...

, lead vocals, background vocals * Paul Franklin - bandora, pedabro * Greg Jennings -

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

, hi-string guitar * Scott Kinsey -

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Mike Lawler -

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

* Terry McMillan -

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* The Leonard Moon Singers - background vocals * Jonell Mosser - background vocals * Mike Severs - electric guitar,

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

* Pat Severs -

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, background vocals * Willie Weeks - bass guitar

Chart performance

Album

Singles

References

{{Authority control 1990 debut albums Arista Records albums Rob Crosby albums Albums produced by Scott Hendricks