''Martina'' is the seventh studio album by American

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

artist

Martina McBride Martina Mariea McBride (née Schiff, born July 29, 1966) is an American country music singer-songwriter and record producer. She is known for her soprano singing range and her country pop material. McBride was born in Sharon, Kansas, and relocat ...

. It was released in September 2003 by

RCA Nashville RCA Nashville is an American country music record label based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is distributed by Sony Music Nashville which is part of Sony Music. Current artists *Kane Brown *Andrew Jannakos *Miranda Lambert * Niko Moon (RCA/River Ho ...

. It was a number one on the country album charts and number seven on the US album charts. The album produced four singles on the country charts: "

This One's for the Girls "This One's for the Girls" is a song written by Chris Lindsey, Hillary Lindsey, and Aimee Mayo and recorded by American country music singer Martina McBride. It was released in June 2003 as the first single from McBride’s album '' Martina''. The ...

" at #3, "

In My Daughter's Eyes "In My Daughter's Eyes" is a song written by James T. Slater and recorded by American country music singer Martina McBride. It was released in November 2003 as the second single from McBride's 2003 album '' Martina''. The song peaked at number 4 o ...

" at #4, "

How Far "How Far" is a song written by Ed Hill, Jamie O'Neal, and Shaye Smith and recorded by American country music singer Martina McBride. It was released in May 2004 as the third single from McBride's 2003 album '' Martina''. Content The protagonist ha ...

" at #12 and "

God's Will "God's Will" is a song written by Barry Dean and Tom Douglas and recorded by American country music artist Martina McBride. It was released in December 2004 as the fourth and final single from McBride's 2003 album '' Martina''. Music video Th ...

" at #16. "This One's for the Girls", which featured backing vocals from

Faith Hill Audrey Faith McGraw (; born September 21, 1967), known professionally as Faith Hill, is an American singer and actress. She is one of the most successful country music artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. Hill' ...

, Carolyn Dawn Johnson and McBride's two daughters, was also McBride's first and only Number One hit on the

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charts. The album was certified 2× Platinum by the

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Content

The album features a live concert version of the classic song " Over the Rainbow". Track 2, "She's a Butterfly", features

Big & Rich Big & Rich is an American country music duo composed of Big Kenny and John Rich, both of whom are songwriters, vocalists, and guitarists. Before the duo's foundation, Rich was bass guitarist in the country band Lonestar, while Kenny was a solo ...

on background vocals.

Ricky Skaggs Rickie Lee Skaggs (born July 18, 1954), known professionally as Ricky Skaggs, is an American neotraditional country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays fiddle, guitar, ma ...

plays mandolin and sings background vocals alongside his wife, Sharon White, on "Reluctant Daughter", which Skaggs also arranged. The track, "Wearing White", features

Vince Gill Vincent Grant Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American country music singer, songwriter and musician. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman of the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s and as a solo artist b ...

on backup vocals. A limited edition was also released exclusively through

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retail stores. This version featured a bonus track, "Show Me". The track can now also be found on '' Playlist: The Very Best of Martina McBride''.

Track listing

Personnel

As listed in liner notes. Musicians and Vocals * Martina McBride – lead vocals, backing vocals (2, 4), harmony vocals (3, 8, 10), arrangements (12) * John Hobbs – acoustic piano (1, 2, 8, 10, 11),

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 ...

(2-5, 7) * Tony Harrell – synthesizers (2),

Wurlitzer electric piano The Wurlitzer electronic piano is an electric piano manufactured and marketed by Wurlitzer from the mid-1950s to mid-1980s. Sound is generated by striking a metal reed with a hammer, which induces an electric current in a pickup. It is conceptua ...

(8) * Jeffrey Taylor –

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 ...

(6) * Jim Medlin – acoustic piano (9, 12) * B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar (1-5, 7, 8, 10, 11) *

Bryan Sutton Bryan Sutton is an American musician. Primarily known as a flatpicking acoustic guitar player, Sutton also plays mandolin, banjo, ukulele, and electric guitar. He also sings and writes songs. Biography Early career Sutton's grandfather and ...

– acoustic guitar (1, 6),

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 ...

(1) *

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 (2-5, 7, 8, 10, 11) * Marty Schiff – acoustic guitar (12) * J. T. Corenflos – electric guitar (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11) *

David Grissom David Grissom is an American guitarist who has played and toured with several of America's leading bands and recording artists. He is best known for his work with John Mellencamp. He has released four solo albums: ''Loud Music'', ''10,000 Feet ...

– electric guitar (2, 8, 10) *

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 ...

– electric guitar (3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11) *

Paul Worley Paul Worley (born February 16, 1950 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American record producer and session guitarist, known primarily for his work in country music. Formerly a vice president at Sony BMG, he later joined the staff of Warner Bros. Rec ...

– electric guitar (10) * Greg Foresman – electric guitar (12) *

– mandolin (6), backing vocals (6), arrangements (6) * Paul Franklin –

steel guitar A steel guitar ( haw, kīkākila) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conve ...

(1) *

Dan Dugmore Dan Dugmore is an American session musician known primarily for playing the pedal steel guitar Born in 1949, Dugmore was raised in Pasadena, California. Influenced by the Flying Burrito Brothers, he learned to play steel guitar after Flying B ...

– steel guitar (2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11), 12-string guitar (4) * Wayne Dahl –

(12) *

Glenn Worf Glenn Worf is an American bassist known mainly for his work as a session musician. He has recorded with many major country music acts and also tours with Mark Knopfler. Early life and education Worf was born in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Madis ...

– bass guitar (1, 2, 8, 10) *

Jimmie Lee Sloas Jimmie Lee Sloas is an American session musician, producer, and songwriter, who plays bass guitar. History Jimmie Lee Sloas, born in Ashland, Kentucky, grew up in Fairborn, Ohio and Isonville, Kentucky. His father, Dave, was a member of the p ...

– bass guitar (3, 4, 5, 7, 11) * Mark Fain –

upright bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

(6) * Glenn Snow – bass guitar (12) * David Huff – drum programming (1, 3, 4, 5, 7), percussion (1), "big" drum (2) *

Lonnie Wilson Lonnie Wilson is an American drummer, songwriter, and record producer, known primarily for his work in country music. Born in Monroe, Louisiana, Wilson was originally the lead singer of the band Bandana, which charted ten singles on the Hot C ...

– drums (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11) *

Matt Chamberlain Matthew Chamberlain (born April 17, 1967) is an American session musician, drummer, producer and songwriter. Biography Life and career Chamberlain was born in San Pedro, California on April 17, 1967. He began learning how to play the drums ...

– drums (2, 8, 10) * Greg Herrington – drums (12) * Tom Roady – percussion (1, 2, 10) *

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 A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

(1), mandolin solo (1), cello (2), viola (2), violin (2) *

Stuart Duncan Stuart Duncan (born April 14, 1964) is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and banjo. Life Duncan was born in Quantico, Virginia, and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school band. He ...

– fiddle (6, 7) * John Mock – penny whistle (1) *

Hillary Lindsey Hillary Lee Lindsey is an American singer-songwriter. She has written songs with or for a number of artists including Michelle Branch, Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Shakira, Lady A, Gary Allan, Sara Evans, Carrie Underwood, Kellie Pickler, Bon ...

– backing vocals (1, 4) *

Big Kenny William Kenneth Alphin (born November 1, 1963), best known by his stage name Big Kenny, is an American country music singer. He and John Rich comprise the duo Big & Rich, who recorded four studio albums and charted fifteen singles on the '' Bill ...

– backing vocals (2) * John Rich – backing vocals (2) * Wes Hightower – backing vocals (3, 10) *

– backing vocals (4) * Carolyn Dawn Johnson – backing vocals (4) *

Aimee Mayo Aimee Mayo is a Grammy Award-nominated songwriter from Gadsden, Alabama. Biography Aimee Mayo grew up in Gadsden, Alabama. She moved to Nashville when she was 17. She was signed as a songwriter with BMG There she met her husband Chris while she ...

– backing vocals (4) * Delaney McBride – backing vocals (4) * Emma McBride – backing vocals (4) * Sharon White – backing vocals (6) *

– backing vocals (7) * Bob Bailey – backing vocals (8) * Kim Fleming – backing vocals (8) * Vicki Hampton – backing vocals (8) * Troy Johnson – backing vocals (10)

The Nashville String Machine Nashville String Machine is a musical collective comprising session musicians, based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Members of the group have been credited on records dating from 1972 to the present, although the group was formally formed ...

(Tracks 3, 5, 9 & 11) * Chris McDonald – arrangements and conductor (3, 5, 11) * Don Hart – arrangements and conductor (9) * Eberhard Ramm – music copyist * Bob Mason, Margaret Mason, Carole Neuen-Rabinowitz and Felix Wang – cello * Jack Jezirio and Craig Nelson – double bass * Monisa Angell, Jim Grosjean, Gary Vanosdale and Kristin Wilkinson – viola * David Angell, Janet Askey, David Davidson, Conni Ellisor, Carl Gorodetzky, Lee Larrison, Cate Myer, Pamela Sixfin, Chris Teal, Alan Umstead, Cathy Umstead and Karen Winkelmann – violin

Production

* Martina McBride – producer * Paul Worley – producer * Clarke Schleicher – recording (1-5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12), mixing (4, 6), string recording (9) * Brent King – recording (6) *

Vance Powell Vance Powell is an American six-time Grammy Award winning record producer, engineer and mixer. His credits include Phish, Chris Stapleton, Jack White, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, The White Stripes, Arctic Monke ...

– overdub engineer, vocal engineer, recording assistant (1-5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12), recording (9) * Erik Hellerman – recording assistant (1-5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12) * Lee Groitschz – recording assistant (6) * Melissa Mattey – recording assistant (9) * John McBride – mixing (1, 2, 3, 5, 7–12), management * Jeremy Cottrell – mix assistant * Adam Ayan – mastering * Paige Conners – production coordinator * Astrid May – art direction * S. Wade Hunt – art direction * Andrew Eccles – photography * Mary Beth Felts – make-up * Claudia Fowler – wardrobe stylist * Earl Cox – hair stylist * Bruce Allen – management Studios * Recorded at The Money Pit, Blackbird Studio and Paragon Studios (Nashville, Tennessee); Skaggs Place Studios (Hendersonville, Tennessee). * Mixed at Blackbird Studio * Mastered at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine).

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

{{Authority control 2003 albums Martina McBride albums RCA Records albums Albums produced by Paul Worley