''Anne Murray'' is a studio album by Canadian country vocalist Anne Murray. It was released by SBK Records on August 6, 1996. It was Murray's last album of all original material. The album peaked at number 10 on the '' RPM'' Country Albums chart.

Track listing

Personnel

* Anne Murray – vocals, backing vocals (5, 11) * Doug Riley – acoustic piano (1-4, 6),

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

(1-4, 7, 8, 13),

Fender Rhodes The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...

(7) *

C.J. Vanston Cj (Jeffrey) Vanston is an American film composer, record producer, songwriter, and keyboardist, based in Hollywood, California. He was born in Denver, Colorado, the son of Bonnie L. Smith and Paul L. Vanston. Film credits * 1996 ''Waiting for Gu ...

– synthesizers (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13), Wurlitzer electric piano (5),

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

(5, 9, 11), acoustic piano (8, 11), keyboards (9) * Mark Goldenberg – electric tremolo guitar (1, 2), acoustic guitar (2, 4, 5, 8), electric baritone guitar (4, 5), electric guitar (5, 6, 9, 11),

baritone guitar The baritone guitar is a guitar with a longer scale length, typically a larger body, and heavier internal bracing, so it can be tuned to a lower pitch. Gretsch, Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, ESP Guitars, PRS Guitars, Music Man, Danelectro, Schec ...

(8),

lap steel guitar The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of playing a traditional ...

(8) * Bob Mann – acoustic guitar (1, 3, 6, 7, 12, 13), electric guitar (2, 3, 6, 7), electric guitar solo (4), acoustic guitar solo (10) * Mike "Pepe" Francis – electric guitar (2, 3, 6, 7, 13), acoustic guitar (10) * Bryan Adams – electric tremolo guitar (3), backing vocals (3) * Keith Scott – electric guitar solo (3) * Greg Leisz –

dobro Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally ...

(5),

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a Console steel guitar, console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all s ...

(6), electric guitar (9), lap steel guitar (11) * David Resnik – electric guitar (7, 8), Hawaiian slide guitar (13) * Johnny Lee Schell – electric guitar solo (7) * Jim Pirie – acoustic guitar (10) * James "Hutch" Hutchinson – bass (1-11, 13) * Ricky Fataar – drums (1-4, 6, 7, 8, 13) * Russ Kunkel – drums (5, 9, 11) * Luis Conte – percussion (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8), bongos (13),

shaker Shaker or Shakers may refer to: Religious groups * Shakers, a historically significant Christian sect * Indian Shakers, a smaller Christian denomination Objects and instruments * Shaker (musical instrument), an indirect struck idiophone * Cock ...

(13), surdo (13) * Brian Leonard – tambourine (1, 3, 13),

hand drum A hand drum is any type of drum that is typically played with the bare hand rather than a stick, mallet, hammer, or other type of beater. Types The following descriptions allude to traditional versions of the drums. Modern synthetic versions are ...

(13), tamborim (13) * Debra Dobkin – percussion (5, 9, 11) * Glen Clark –

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

(1), baritone harmonica (10) * The Texicali Horns (1, 13): ** David Wolford – baritone saxophone ** Joe Sublett – tenor saxophone ** Darrell Leonard – trumpet *

Shirley Eikhard Shirley Rose Eikhard (7 November 1955 – 15 December 2022) was a Canadian singer-songwriter. Although moderately successful in Canada as a performer in her own right, she had her greatest Canadian and international success as a songwriter for ...

– backing vocals (1, 7, 10) *

Don Neilson Don Neilson is a Canadian country music artist best known for three studio albums released through Epic Records in the 1990s. He charted twelve singles on the Canadian country music charts, of which the highest was "You're My Hometown", peaking ...

– backing vocals (1, 7) * Aaron Neville – vocals (2) *

Valerie Carter Valerie Gail Zakian Carter (February 5, 1953 – March 4, 2017) was an American singer. Biography Carter began her career singing in coffeehouses as a teenager, and eventually became one-third of the country-folk band Howdy Moon. Though they de ...

– backing vocals (5, 9, 11) * Willie Greene Jr. – backing vocals (5) * Dillon O'Brian – backing vocals (5, 9, 11) * Jann Arden – backing vocals (8) *

Dawn Langstroth Dawn Joanne Langstroth (born April 16, 1979) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and painter. Raised in Toronto, she has released two EPs, self-titled ''Dawn Langstroth'' and ''No Mercy,'' and released her debut album ''Highwire'' in 2009. Langstr ...

– backing vocals (8) Handclaps on "I Know Too Much" * Valerie Carter, Debra Dobkin, Mark Goldenberg, Willie Greene Jr., James "Hutch" Hutchinson, Russ Kunkel, Greg Leisz, Cynthia McReynolds, Anne Murray, Dillon O'Brian and C.J. Vanston Strings on "Highway, Highway" * Doug Riley – arrangements and conductor * Adele Armin, Richard Armin, Mari Barrard, Terrance Helmer, Ronald Mah, Young-Dae Park, Mark Skazanetsky, Vera Tarnowsky, Jim Wallemberg and Laura Wilcox – string players

Production

* Ed Cherney – producer, recording, mixing * Duane Seykora – recording * Shawn Edmonson – recording assistant * Tom Heron – recording assistant * Eric Ratz – recording assistant * Bob Salcedo – recording assistant * David Farrell – additional vocal engineer * Kevin Doyle – overdub recording * Olle Romo – overdub engineer * Tom Banghart – overdub recording assistant * Paul Offenbacher – overdub recording assistant * Robbes Stieglitz – overdub recording assistant * Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California) * James O'Mara – art direction, photography * Helios – layout design, cloud photography * Bruce Allen – management

Chart performance

References

{{Authority control 1996 albums Anne Murray albums EMI Records albums SBK Records albums