''Reckless'' is the thirteenth studio album by American

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singer

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 reloc ...

. The album was released on April 29, 2016, by Nash Icon Records.

Background

The track "It Ain't Pretty", written by

Nicolle Galyon Nicolle Anne Galyon (born July 22, 1984) is a singer, songwriter, producer, record label executive, & publishing executive from Sterling, Kansas. She has written songs for Lady A, Miranda Lambert, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Dan + Shay, Flori ...

and

Eric Paslay Eric Thomas Paslay (born January 29, 1983) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He has released one album for EMI Nashville, which contains the hit singles "Friday Night", "Song About a Girl", and " She Don't Love You". In additio ...

, was previously recorded by

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for their 2013 album ''

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''.

Reception

The album debuted at No. 31 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart on its release, and No. 2 on the

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charts, selling 16,000 copies the first week. The album sold a further 5,000 copies the second week. The album has sold 35,400 copies in the US as of August 2016.

Track listing

Personnel

– lead vocals, backing vocals (4, 6-9) * Mike Rojas – acoustic piano (1-4, 6, 8, 9), synthesizers (1, 2), Hammond B3 organ (2, 5-9),

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 concept ...

(5), accordion (9) * Charlie Judge – synth pads (1), synthesizers (3), strings (3), programming (3, 5),

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

(5) * Jim Medlin – acoustic piano (10) * Nathan Chapman – programming (1, 3, 4, 9), acoustic guitar (1, 2, 5-9), mandolin (1, 5, 7), backing vocals (1, 4, 6, 7, 9), bass (2-6, 8, 9) *

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 (1-9), mandolin (3, 6),

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(4), acoustic guitar (5, 9) *

Danny Rader Danny Rader (born November 1, 1981) is a musician from Panama City, Florida. Born into a musical family, he began to play drums at age 2 and branched out into bass, guitar and piano in his early teens. Later he incorporated bouzouki, mandolin, b ...

– acoustic guitar (3, 4), mandolin (4) *

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 Bur ...

– steel guitar (1, 2, 7, 9), lap steel guitar (5), electric guitar (6) * Paul Franklin – steel guitar (5, 6, 8) * Michael Rhodes – bass (1, 7, 9) *

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 (1, 2, 7, 9), percussion (1, 9) * Nick Buda – drums (3, 4), percussion (4) *

Shannon Forrest Shannon Forrest (born August 22, 1973 in Easley, South Carolina) is an American drummer and percussionist known primarily for his session work. As a session drummer, he has contributed to the work of many well-known artists, and he is also a pr ...

– drums (5, 6, 8), percussion (5, 6, 8) *

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 ...

– cello (1), violin (1) * Carole Rabinowitz – cello (2) * Kristin Wilkinson – viola (2), string arrangements (2) * David Angell – violin (2) * David Davidson – violin (2) *

Sarah Buxton Sarah Jane Buxton (born July 3, 1980) is an American country music singer, formerly signed to the independent Lyric Street Records. Between 2006 and 2008, she issued three singles from an extended play titled '' Almost My Record'', in addition t ...

– backing vocals (1) * Carolyn Dawn Johnson – backing vocals (2) * Cherie Oakley – backing vocals (3) * Jason Sever – backing vocals (3, 4, 6, 9) *

Buddy Miller Steven Paul "Buddy" Miller (born September 6, 1952) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. Miller is married to and has recorded with singer-songwriter Julie Miller ...

– lead and backing vocals (5) * Stephanie Chapman – backing vocals (6) *

Keith Urban Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967) is an Australian-American musician, singer, guitarist and songwriter known for his work in country music. Recognized with four Grammy Awards, Urban also received fifteen Academy of Country Music Award ...

– lead and backing vocals (8)

Production

* Nathan Chapman – producer * Dann Huff – producer * Martina McBride – producer * Allison Jones – A&R * John McBride – recording, mixing (2, 4, 8-10) * Allen Ditto – additional recording, recording assistant * Ernesto Olivera – additional recording * Adam Chagnon – additional engineer (9) * Serbian Ghenea – mixing (1) * John Hanes – mix engineer (1) * Justin Niebank – mixing (3) *

Chris Lord-Alge Chris Lord-Alge is an American mix engineer. He is the brother of both Tom Lord-Alge and Jeff Lord-Alge, both of whom are also audio engineers. Chris and Tom are known for their abundant use of dynamic compression for molding mixes that play wel ...

– mixing (9) * Nik Karpen – mix assistant (9) * Sean Neff – digital editing (3, 7, 9) * Adam Ayan – mastering * Mike Griffith – production coordinator * Laurel Kittleson – production coordinator * Alicia Mathews – production coordinator * Sandi Spika Borchetta – art direction * Becky Reiser – art direction * Karinne Caulkins – graphic design * Joseph LIanes – photography * Courtney Kivela Robinson – wardrobe stylist * Melanie Shelley – hair, make-up Studios * Recorded at Blackbird Studios (Nashville, Tennessee). * Mixed at Blackbird Studios; Hound's Ear Studio (Franklin, Tennessee); MixStar Studios (Virginia Beach, Virginia); Mix LA (Los Angeles, California). * Mastered at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine).

Charts

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References

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