''Now or Never'' is the fourth studio album by Canadian
country music
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singer
Brett Kissel
Brett Kissel (born May 27, 1990) is a Canadian country singer. He has had four number-one hits on the Canadian country chart with " Airwaves", "Drink About Me", "A Few Good Stories", and " Make a Life, Not a Living".
Early life
Kissel was born ...
. It was released on January 1, 2020 via
Warner Music Canada
Warner Music Canada is the Canadian division of Warner Music Group. The label previously operated as WEA Music of Canada, Ltd. (French: ''WEA Musique du Canada, Ltée''), often shortened to WEA Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of WEA Internationa ...
. It won Album of the Year at the 2020
Canadian Country Music Association
The Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) was founded in 1976 as the Academy of Country Music Entertainment to organize, promote and develop a Canadian country music industry. The groundwork for the association began on June 3rd, 1973 when a gr ...
Awards.
Background
Kissel said "in previous years, previous albums, I didn’t have the courage to do a traditional country music on a project. Well, now we’ve recorded one. In previous years, I didn’t have the balls to record something so Pop/EDM because I was afraid of what people would think. Well, I’ve got one like that. All in all, I just wanted to destroy the box of what I thought was possible for a country record".
Content
"Now or Never" features eight tracks in total including Kissel's debut American single and #1 Canadian country hit "
Drink About Me". Kissel noted how he incorporated tracks of different styles between
traditional country
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Repertoire
The radio format specializes in hits from the 1950s through the early 1980s, and focus primarily on inno ...
,
Canadian country, and
pop country. Kissel stated that some songs found "a new direction" while others took him in "the direction of his roots", and that the album has "something for everybody".
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the CD booklet.
*Jess Baumung - photography
*Ben Bradley - drums
*Spencer Cheyne - engineering, gang vocals
*Spencer Clark - engineering
*Jim Cooley - mixing
*Ben Dartnell - photography
*
Emma-Lee Doty - background vocals
*Jacob Durrett - production, recording, engineering, programming, electric guitar, acoustic guitar,
bass guitar
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, drums,
banjo, background vocals
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Jordan Eberle
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- gang vocals
*Josh Gwilliam - engineering
*Mitch Jay -
steel guitar
*Mike Johnson - steel guitar
*Jeff King - electric guitar
*
Brett Kissel
Brett Kissel (born May 27, 1990) is a Canadian country singer. He has had four number-one hits on the Canadian country chart with " Airwaves", "Drink About Me", "A Few Good Stories", and " Make a Life, Not a Living".
Early life
Kissel was born ...
- lead vocals, production, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, background vocals, album artwork
*Cecilia Kissel - photography
*Karen Kosowski - engineering, recording, vocal production, programming, piano
*Justin Kudding - bass guitar, gang vocals
*Bart McKay - production, recording, mixing, engineering, programming, piano, symphony programming, gang vocals
*Matty McKay - engineering, vocal coaching, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals
*Marc Rogers - bass guitar
*Matt Rogers - background vocals
*Connor Scheffler - album artwork
*Ben Stennis - programming
*Matt Streuby - gang vocals
*
Chris Stevens - programming
*Christina Taylor - featured vocals on "I'm Not Him, I'm Not Her"
*Tyler Volrath - acoustic guitar,
fiddle,
mandolin, banjo
*Will Weatherly - programming
Charts
Awards and nominations
Release history
See also
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List of 2020 albums
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2020. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received sign ...
References
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2020 albums
Brett Kissel albums
Warner Music Group albums
Canadian Country Music Association Album of the Year albums