''I'm Already There'' is the fifth studio album released by

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band

Lonestar Lonestar (formerly known as Texassee) is an American country music group from Nashville, Tennessee. The group consists of Drew Womack (lead vocals, acoustic guitar), Michael Britt (lead guitar, background vocals), Dean Sams (keyboards, acousti ...

. Released in 2001 on

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(see 2001 in country music), the album was certified

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by the

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for sales of one million copies. Serving as singles from this album were the title track (which spent six weeks at Number One on the

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charts) "Not a Day Goes By" (#3 on Hot Country Songs), "With Me" (#10), and "Unusually Unusual" (#12).

Track listing

All tracks produced by

Dann Huff Dann Lee Huff (born November 15, 1960) is an American record producer and songwriter. For his work as a producer in the country music genre, he has won several awards, including the ''Musician of the Year'' award in 2001, 2004, and 2016 at the Co ...

Personnel

Lonestar *

Richie McDonald Richard Vance McDonald (born February 6, 1962) is an American country music singer and songwriter. From 1998 until his departure in 2007, he was the lead singer of the group Lonestar, which recorded seven studio albums on BNA Records during his t ...

– lead vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar * Dean Sams – keyboards, acoustic guitar,

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, backing vocals * Michael Britt – electric guitars, acoustic guitar, backing vocals * Keech Rainwater –

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

, drums, percussion Additional musicians * Tim Akers –

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

, keyboards *

Matt Rollings Matt Rollings is a Grammy Award-winning American composer, keyboard player and record producer. Known mainly for playing in Lyle Lovett's Large Band, Rollings has worked with many artists, not all country. Matt won the 'Best Traditional Pop Voca ...

–

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 ...

, acoustic piano, keyboards *

– electric guitars * Jerry McPherson – electric guitars * B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar *

Biff Watson Fletcher Bangs "Biff" Watson is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer. His musicianship has been a part of recording sessions for many artists. Biography Early years Raised in Chatham, Virginia, Watson learned how to play guitar at a ...

– acoustic guitar * Paul Franklin –

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Mike Brignardello Giant is an American melodic rock band that was formed in 1987. The band originally consisted of founding members Dann Huff (lead vocals and guitar) and Alan Pasqua (keyboard), and had Dann's brother David Huff on drums and Mike Brignardello on ...

– bass guitar *

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– drums *

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– drums * Wayne Killius – drum programming *

Eric Darken Eric A. Darken is an American percussionist, composer, and programmer. Biography Drawing inspiration from his grandfather, a band leader. Darken began playing drums at age 12, and played timpani and mallets in high school. Darken attended ...

– percussion *

Larry Franklin The Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal involved Lawrence Franklin passing classified documents regarding United States policy towards Iran to Israel. Franklin, a former United States Department of Defense employee, pleaded guilty to several espi ...

–

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– fiddle *

Jonathan Yudkin Jonathan Yudkin is an American multi-instrumentalist who is a proficient player of banjo, violin, mandolin, and other stringed instruments. He is a Nashville-based session musician, record producer, arranger, and band leader. Biography Growin ...

– fiddle, cello,

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– strings * Ronn Huff – string arrangements and conductor * Robbie Cheuvront – backing vocals Production * Dann Huff – producer * Darrell Franklin – A&R direction * Jeff Balding – recording, mixing * Jed Hackett – mix assistant * David Bryant – recording assistant * Mark Capps – recording assistant * Allen Ditto – recording assistant * Greg Fogie – recording assistant * Mark Hagen – recording assistant * Ken Hertz – recording assistant * Mike Konshak – recording assistant * Jason Piske – recording assistant * Christopher Rowe – digital editing * Shawn Simpson – digital editing *

Doug Sax Doug Lionel Sax (April 26, 1936 – April 2, 2015) was an American mastering engineer from Los Angeles, California. He mastered three of The Doors' albums, including their 1967 debut; six of Pink Floyd's albums, including ''The Wall''; Ray Charles ...

– mastering * Robert Hadley – mastering * The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California) – mastering location * Mike "Frog" Griffith – production coordinator * Robert Sebree – photography * Jennifer Kemp – wardrobe stylist * Holly Ballard – grooming * Cassie Roark – grooming * Melissa Schleicher – grooming

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

{{Authority control 2001 albums Lonestar albums BNA Records albums Albums produced by Dann Huff