''Rebel Heart'' is the third 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
Dan Seals
Danny Wayland Seals (February 8, 1948 – March 25, 2009) was an American musician. The younger brother of Seals and Crofts member Jim Seals, he first gained fame as one half of the soft rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley, who charted ...
, released in 1983 through
Liberty Records. The album marks the departure from his established
soft rock sound and became a more country sound. It was also his first album to appear on the charts, reaching #40 on the
Top Country Albums
Top Country Albums is a chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine in the United States. The 50-position chart lists the most popular country music albums in the country, calculated weekly by Broadcast Data Systems based on physical sales ...
chart. He achieved his first top ten single with the song "God Must Be a Cowboy".
The other singles released from the album were "Everybody's Dream Girl" (#18), "After You" (#28), and "You Really Go for the Heart" (#37).
Track listing
Personnel
* Dan Seals – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar
*
Shane Keister
Shane Keister is an American musician. He is known for his work as a studio musician, writer, arranger and producer. He plays synthesizer, piano, Hammond B3, Synclavier, Fairlight CMI, Fender Rhodes, and others.
History
Keister was born in Huntin ...
– keyboards, synthesizers
*
Bobby Ogdin
Robert Ford Ogdin (born September, 1945) is a Nashville-based recording session pianist. He is best known as a member of Elvis Presley's TCB band. He performed on 20 of Presley's recordings and accompanied him on 45 live shows until Presleys' deat ...
– keyboards
*
Bobby Thompson – acoustic guitar
* Rafe Van Hoy – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
* Steve Gibson – electric guitar
*
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
* John Porter McMeans – electric guitar
* Fred Newell – electric guitar
*
Reggie Young – electric guitar
* Doyle Grisham –
steel guitar
*
David Hungate – bass
* Jack Williams – bass
*
Larrie Londin
Ralph Gallant (October 15, 1943 − August 24, 1992), better known by the stage name Larrie Londin, was an American drummer and session musician. According to journalist James Byron Fox, "If not the best known, Larrie is one of the most liste ...
– drums
*
James Stroud
James Stroud is an American musician and record producer who works in pop, rock, R&B, soul, disco, and country music. He played with the Malaco Rhythm Section for Malaco Records. In the 1990s, he was the president of Giant Records (a subsidiar ...
– drums
*
Buddy Spicher –
fiddle
* Sherri Huffman – backing vocals (5)
* Lisa Silver – backing vocals (5)
* Diane Tidwell – backing vocals (5)
Production
* Kyle Lehning – producer, overdubbing, mixing
* Joseph Bogan – recording
* John Eberle – recording, mastering
* Russ Martin – assistant engineer
* Kirt Odle – assistant engineer, overdub assistant, mix assistant
* Henry Marquez – art direction
* Amy Nagasawa – design
* Jennifer Griffiths – photography
Studios
* Recorded at Emerald Sound Studios (Nashville, Tennessee).
* Overdubbed and Mixed at Morningstar Sound Studio (Hendersonville, Tennessee).
* Mastered at Nashville Record Productions (Nashville, Tennessee).
Chart performance
Album
Singles
References
Dan Seals albums
1983 albums
Liberty Records albums
Albums produced by Kyle Lehning
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