''Bering Strait'' is the self-titled debut studio album by Russian
country music band
Bering Strait. It was released on January 14, 2003, via Universal South Records, now known as
Show Dog-Universal Music.
Music videos were produced for "When Going Home", "Jagged Edge of a Broken Heart" and the 2002 Grammy Award nominee "Bearing Straight". Ultimately, "Bearing Straight" was aired on national television as a country music video, whereas "Jagged Edge" was aired on the
Great American Country video music cable channel and distributed as a digital file on the CD album itself. "When Going Home" was never publicly distributed.
Track listing
#"What Is It About You" (Brian Dean Maher,
Billy Montana
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,
Helen Darling) – 3:53
#"Tell Me Tonight" (Ilya Toshinsky,
Kevin Welch,
Brent Maher) – 3:53
#"I Could Be Persuaded" (Tony Marty, Brenton Roberts) – 2:50
#"When Going Home" (George Teren, Stephanie Lewis) – 4:08
#"I'm Not Missing You" (Maher, Jenai) – 4:26
#"I Could Use a Hero" (Jenai, Montana) – 4:22
#"The Trouble with Love" (Candy Parton,
Mary Ann Kennedy,
Pam Rose) – 3:44
#"
Jagged Edge of a Broken Heart
"Jagged Edge of a Broken Heart" is a song written by Walker Igleheart and Mike Joyce. It was originally recorded and released as a single by American country artist Gail Davies.
The song was originally recorded in June 1984 at the "Emerald Sound ...
" (Walker Ingleheart, Mike Joyce) – 3:58
#"Only This Love" (Toshinsky,
Mike Reid, Maher) – 3:33
#"Bearing Straight" (instrumental) (Toshinsky, Lydia Salnikova, Sasha Ostrovsky, Sergei Passov) – 5:52
#"Porushka-Paranya" (traditional) – 2:41
#"Like a Child" (Live) (
Bob DiPiero,
Carolyn Dawn Johnson
Carolyn Dawn Johnson (born April 30, 1971) is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter. Johnson co-wrote Chely Wright's 1999 single, "Single White Female," which reached number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in Sep ...
) – 3:46
Personnel
From ''Bering Strait'' liner notes.
;Bering Strait
* Alexander Arzamastsev - drums, percussion
* Natasha Borzilova - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
* Sergey "Spooky" Olkhovsky - bass guitar
* Sergei Passov - mandolin, fiddle
* Lydia Salnikova - keyboards, background vocals, second lead vocals on "I Could Use a Hero" and "Porushka-Paranya"
* Sasha Ostrovsky - steel guitar, lap steel guitar,
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 ...
* Ilya Toshinsky - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, background vocals
;Additional musicians
*
Eddie Bayers -
drum programming, percussion
*Spencer Campbell - bass overdubs
*
Vince Gill - background vocals on "When Going Home"
;Technical
*
Tony Brown - producer ("When Going Home" only)
*
Stan Cornelius - producer ("I Could Be Persuaded" and "Porushka-Paranya"), executive producer
* Ken Love - mastering
* Brent Maher - producer (all tracks), recording, mixing
Charts
References
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2003 albums
Bering Strait (band) albums
Show Dog-Universal Music albums
Albums produced by Brent Maher
Albums produced by Tony Brown (record producer)