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and peaked at No. 24 on the ''

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chart. The album includes the singles "A Rose Is a Rose" and "The Bird Song."

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produced the album, except for "Ready to Fall" (featured on the On the Line soundtrack and in its theatrical trailer) and "This Is the Heartache" (produced by

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), and "The Bird Song", "You Get to Me", "But I Can't Let You Go", and "You" (produced by Robin Wiley).

Track listing

#"In Any Given Moment" (Daryl Burgess, Tia Sillers) – 4:11 #" A Rose Is a Rose" ( Dave Berg, Deanna Bryant, Sunny Russ) – 3:01 #"The Bird Song" (

Buzz Cason James E. "Buzz" Cason (born November 27, 1939 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States) is an American rock singer, songwriter, record producer, and author. He was a founding member of The Casuals, Nashville's first rock and roll band. Together ...

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) – 3:58 #"Ready to Fall" (

) – 3:38 #"A Beautiful Mess" ( Tony Martin,

Bob Regan Robert Joseph Regan is a Grammy nominated American country music songwriter. His chart credits include "Til Love Comes Again" by Reba McEntire, "Busy Man" by Billy Ray Cyrus, "Your Everything" by Keith Urban, "Soon" by Tanya Tucker, "Thinkin' A ...

) – 2:41 #"You Get to Me" (Steve Mandile, Robin Wiley) – 3:55 #"But I Can't Let You Go" (Wiley) – 4:26 #*featuring

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#"Slow Learner" ( Al Anderson, Regan) – 3:44 #"This Is the Heartache" (

Gary Harrison Gary Steven Harrison is an American songwriter. Harrison began his career in the 1970s, and has written over 300 major-label recorded songs, including several number one hits. His songwriting credits include: " Hey Cinderella" (recorded by Suzy ...

, Marx) – 4:18 #"Reach" (Marx,

) – 4:46 #"You" (

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) – 4:04 #"Places in Your Heart" (Marvin Morrow) – 3:51

Personnel

Eddie Bayers Eddie Bayers (born January 28, 1949) is an American session drummer who has played on 300 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for fourteen years, has three times won the Nashville Music ...

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* Tim Buppert - background vocals *

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electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

* Eric Darken -

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* Meredith Edwards - lead vocals * Paul Franklin -

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* Bruce Gaitsch -

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

* Aubrey Haynie -

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 ...

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* John Kelton -

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Steve Mandile - electric guitar * Marilyn Martin - background vocals *

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- electric guitar * Joey Miskulin -

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 ...

* Duncan Mullins - bass guitar *

- background vocals on "But I Can't Let You Go" *

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- slide guitar * Gary Prim -

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* Robin Wiley - background vocals * John Willis - acoustic guitar *

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- bass guitar * Jonathan Yudkin - fiddle

Chart performance

References

* ''Reach''at Allmusic {{Authority control 2001 debut albums Meredith Edwards (singer) albums Mercury Nashville albums Albums produced by Keith Stegall